Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Friday, Nov. 1:

1. Have your Literature Circle Role completed and word-processed so you are ready to start your Literature Circle discussions tomorrow.

2. Your Revision Paragraph for your Connections Essay is due on Monday, but I will take it tomorrow as well if it is done.  Please do the revised paragraph on a separate page, underline your changes and title it with "Paragraph #__" and staple your essay underneath the revision.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Fri. Nov.1:

C Block: Cans, Cans, and more Cans.  You are doing great work filling that box.  Let's all try for a little bit more!

1. Be working on your Literature Circle role tonight, both ideas of exploration and for writing up in your LC document. Your last day with your Expert Group is tomorrow.  Make it matter:Make it good.  Write-ups are due on Monday when you start the Literature Circle. Please have two- word-processed.

2. You will be Rewriting one of your Body Paragraphs from you Plato-Benet Essay.  Your Topic Sentence, concrete, examples and discussion, integrated quotes and Concluding Sentence will be improved.  Due: November 12. Staple your Revision on top of the original essay.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Oct.31:

1. You are working on your Literature Circle role, making sure that you are including the important aspects of the plot, characters, conflict, theme, satire, vocabulary, imagery etc. Remember this is a novel that forces us to look at our own culture, attitudes, values, ethics, education, evironment, corporate culture, ability to express, stratification of society, politics..............................................................

Come with ideas for your role to share with your expert group and to write up.  You all need a teaching plan for each question, each research/connection item, each passage, and each word.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework Wed. Oct. 30:

1. "Programs and Services for the Homeless" should be done no later than tomorrow.  You should have 7 or 8 of these with a short or longer paragraph describing what each of them do for the homeless. I will be checking this tomorrow.

2. Keep working on your Literature Circle Role in whatever way you need to.  I will check on your progress tomorrow. We will start Literature Circle #1 on Friday.

3. Remember that on Friday, your revised paragraph from your "Connection to Nature" essay is due.  This will be one of your Body Paragraphs redone and improved.  You are to underline every change you make. Please word-process, 12pt ft. TNR, and double-spaced.  You are to have the original essay stapled underneath.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Wed. Oct. 30:

1. Your Programs and Services section of your Homelessness Document should be finalized by tomorrow. Have 7 or 8 that are written up with some detail.  Each one should be clear to any reader what that program, service, or agency does to help the homeless. See yesterday's blog entry, also.

2. Keep working on your Literature Circle Role, both at home and in class in your Expert Groups.  We will start the LC on Friday.

3. Also due Friday is your revised paragraph from your "Connection to Nature." word-pro, 12pt font,TNR, double-spaced, changes underlined. Title: Paragraph #    Revision for "Connection to Nature" Essay

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Wed. Oct. 29:

1. Finish reading to p. 104 of Feed and start developing your Literature Circle role, by bringing some ideas with you tomorrow. Work in your Expert Groups tomorrow and Thursday to finalize your LC Roles. 

Also a reminder that we are collecting canned food for the Richmond Food Bank.  Let's contribute more!

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Tues 29th:

1. Read to the end of Page 72 tonight.  As you read, jot down or use tabs to indicate places you want to reread and possible use for your Literature Circle roles.

2. Keep a good Glossary in your Novel Study section for this novel.  Get it started.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Tues. Oct. 29:

1. Improve the "Programs and Services" section of your Homeless Document.  You should have 7 or 8 of them that are best or well-established in the Lower Mainland and who service a lot of homeless.  They should each have a developed paragraph that explains all that they do.  For Wednesday

2. Think about ideas for your Literature Role that you will be working on in your Expert Groups tomorrow.

3. For Friday: take your weakest paragraph in your "Connections to Nature" and rewrite/revise it.  Word-process as usual and underline everything you change.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Mon. Oct. 28:

1. Read the first 28 pages of the novel Feed (yes, I increased it). Jot down passages you find worthing of reflecting on as you go. They can be anything: see the Handout for Dialectical  Journals.

2. Write three entries in your Dialectical Journal following the format in the handout. Each entry should have a different type of response for the list in (5) on the Handout. You are certainly allowed to have more than 60 words.

3. Those who did not do Wednesday night's reflection on technology, please complete this also, this weekend. See Wednesday's the entry in the blog for information.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Monday, Oct. 28:

1. Finish your Research Document and bring it with you on Monday. Make sure you have done a thorough job of the Programs and Services for the homeless, as these will be important for the novel study.

2. Read the first 10 chapters of Theories of Relativity. Jot some notes down, and/or questions as you go that are interesting or that you think are important. 

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Thurs. Oct. 24:

1. In your Reflection Log, in your binder, write a sincere and thoughtful personal reflection - with real examples from your life - on the following questions, in a multi-paragraph form: 

• How prevalent is technology in your life today?

• Could you live without it?

• Would you like more of it in your life?  What kind?

• Do you ever resist it?

**Make sure you have examples and discuss them in a formal, thoughtful way. 

Also, we need to start our Canned Food Drive.  Please bring some cans tomorrow and into next week.  We have until Thursday.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Thurs. Oct. 24:

1. Be working on your Homelessness Research at home tonight. Tomorrow we will be in the Library Computer Lab again, but you need to be finished by the end of the block tomorrow.

I will also introduce the Literature Circle roles to you tomorrow in the Lab and I will need 20 minutes to do that; so you will have only 45 minutes to finish your research.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Wed. Oct. 23:

1. Read over the information that you added to your document today, and make sure you have made a summary for each section. We will finish our research tomorrow.

2. Write a Personal Reflection on one or two of the areas you researched today.

• What did you learn that you didn't know before?

• Why is this important?

• What does it make you feel?

• Does it alter your worldview in any way at all? How?

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Wed. Oct. 23:

1. Finish your First Draft, preferably on a Word document so that you can revise, reformat, etc. Bring this with you to hand in before you write your essay in class.

2. Your Acceptable Outline is also necessary for writing this essay and should follow the format I gave you.  

3. C Block may write through lunch break and D Block may write to 3:30.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Tues. Oct. 22:

1. You should have a working Thesis Statement for me to look at tomorrow, and have a working outline of your first draft.  You will need to have a fully-formed draft by Wednesday, even if it is not what you are writing word-for-word, or idea-by-idea on Wednesday. 

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Tues. Oct. 22:

1. In your Reflection Log in your binder, write about your worldview of homeless people (several sentences that explain the world view) and what you would do to deal with this problem in society. Give several examples. Multi- paragraphs.  

You may write this on a Word document, print it and put it in your Reflection Log, or write by hand in your Reflection Log.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Monday, Oct. 21:

1. You are working on a thesis statement, ideas, paragraphs,  etc., for your Synthesis Essay.  Remember, you do not have to do the preparation in a linear fashion.  You can start anywhere in the process, as long as you end up with a proper essay that answers the question and has well-developed ideas and discussion. 

You should have a Thesis Statement to show me on Monday.

You are also to have a First Draft of your essay with you on Wednesday when you write the essay in class. This essay will be written from an outline that you have made, and the full draft will be put in my basket before you write, for a completion mark.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Monday, Oct. 21:

1.  You are reading the four newspaper articles, looking up difficult vocabulary and adding them to your glossary, and responding to the facts and ideas in them in your Reflection Log. I expect at least two well-developed personal and thoughtful responses in the form of paragraphs.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for tomorrow, Oct. 18:

1. Your are finishing your Final Draft of your "Connection to Nature Essay."  This is handed in to my In Basket by itself.  Have all your other drafts stapled together with the draft # on each, and they will be handed in next.

Make sure you read your Final Draft over several times before you print it off.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for tonight, tomorrow, the weekend to Tuesday:

1. Read yesterday's homework entry.  Continue with the upgrade of your Chart for the Allegory and the Short Story.  

2. Make sure you are also making a list and definitions for the vocabulary you were given in last Friday's lecture.

3. Be working on the Synthesis Essay which is due in outline form by Tuesday.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for tonight and Thursday;

1. Your homework for the next two nights is to do your final draft of "My Connection with Nature" essay. It will come in on Friday, the final draft handed in separately, and all the other drafts stapled together and handed in.

2. Please hand in your "A Christmas Memory" imagery paragraphs tomorrow if you have not done so already.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework today through to Monday:

1. You are upgrading, improving, consolidating all your notes etc. to improve your 1)Allegory of the Cave Chart: surface and underlying meanings, and 2) your Allegory of the Cave/ The Waters of Babylon chart. Use the texts, class notes, lecture notes and make it a chart you can use for the rest of the semester. 

Tomorrow I will return your work, update portfolios and start a new unit (that will need your insights on your chart(s).

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Wed. Oct. 16:

1. Make sure to bring your "Connection With Nature"  essay, fully developed, tomorrow.  We will be doing a final edit.

I did receive the emails some of you sent me and will print them off tomorrow morning when I am back.  See you then!

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Wed. Oct 16:

1.  I hope you succeeded in bringing together Plato's Allegory and Benet's short story.  There are so many possibilities this synthesis of the two texts.We will share it all tomorrow in class. 

2. I will also be giving back all your work to that we can update your portfolios.

See you then!

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Tues. Oct. 15:

1. You are redoing your "Allegory of the Cave" Chart.  Make sure you are thorough in your explanations and that you are using the vocabulary you were exposed to on Friday. Left side: surface story  Right side: interpretation- using your notes from today and others you want to include.

2. Tun your finished Chart over and apply the "Allegory of the Cave" to "By the Waters of Babylon."  On the left hand side will be the main plot, characters and analysis of the Allegory, and on the right side of the chart will be thoughtful points of synthesis with the short story.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Next Week:

1. Finish your 3 paragraphs on the imagery in "A Christmas Memory."  These should be word-processed, single-spaced on a single page with a heading and spaces between each paragraph.

2. "My Connection With Nature" essay should be revised, double-spaced etc. for our last peer-edit on Wednesday. The final draft is due next Friday with all the drafts stapled underneath.

HAVE A GREAT LONG WEEKEND, EVERYONE!

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for October 11:

1. Revise and rewrite your 3 Imagery paragraphs from "A Christmas Memory" if you need to.

2. Always be working on your "Connection with Nature Reflection," making sure you are including imagery in your Body Paragraphs.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Fri. Oct 11:

1. Please read yesterday's blog for all the questions you need to be considering for an understanding of Plato's Allegory.  

2. Tonight you should be interpreting, step by step, the liberated prisoners experience going outside into the sun.  Your metaphorical interpretation should be will developed as you explain what each of the stages are.  Write it up in several bullets: not just the plot, but its meaning!

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Thursday, Oct. 10:

1. Rewrite your Introductory Paragraph for your "Connections" essay and bring it.

2. Finish your 3 paragraphs on 3 images in "A Christmas Memory." Each should be word-processed, single-spaced, and processed on the same page for your Elements of Literature section.  Make sure you have spaces between each paragraph, so they are nicely spaced on the page.

Tomorrow you will be working on the Body Paragraphs of your "Connections" essay to improve your examples and include imagery.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Thursday, Oct. 10:

1. We will finish the Presentations tomorrow, but your work tonight is to revisit your "Allegory of the Cave" tonight and start improving it.  You need to look at those prisoners and what they teach us.  How do they behave, what does it do to them?  What is this shadow world and how does it reflect how we live? Who are the puppeters in our world?  What does this allegory show about human nature and our ability to "see" the truth around us? What does the prisoner who escapes endure?  What is the process by which he can finally "see"? There are several steps: what are they?  What does this tell us about how we learn?  What is the response of the other prisoners when he returns to enlighten them?  Why do they respond this way?

This is an allegory that shows us some very unflattering aspects of human beings.  Do we like the truth?  How do we know the truth?  What is it to be educated?  What do most people prefer to live in: the cave or the light? Is it better to acknowledge one's ignorance or pretend we know things we don't?  Which person as the edge: the one who admits it or the one who think they know the truth?  

What does the allegory promote as of guide for living a truer life?

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Wed. Oct. 9:

1. "Dead Man Talking" performances will be conducted tomorrow.  Know your material and your character.

2. Start reviewing your understanding of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave."  I will be making up a test and writing assignment for next week.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Wed. Oct. 9:

1. Rewrite your Introductory Paragraph for your "Connection to Nature" essay.  Please double-space, and you can do it in pencil.  Make sure your Thesis Statement is the clear, strong, true statement it needs to be.

2. You may work on your first body paragraph rewrite if you wish.  Tomorrow, in class, I would like you to finish your imagery work for "A Christmas Memory."  This might help you use imagery in your essay.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Tues. October 8:

You are working on revising and rehearsing your dramatic presentation of  "Dead Man Talking".  You have one more block to rehearse. 

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Tues. October 8:

1. Your "Connection to Nature" essay is due tomorrow in its first draft form.  It is double-spaced, 12 point font, Times New Roman.  

• It has an interesting Introduction that introduces the topic and sets up your Thesis Statement.  This thesis statement is developed in each of your body paragraph. 4- 5 sentences.

• Each of your body paragraphs has a Topic Sentence that develops a point in your Thesis.  Each body paragraph has two developed examples that describe and discuss what you have introduced in your Topic Sentence.  These are concrete examples that capture the interest of the reader with the details. Your Body Paragraphs are larger paragraphs that the Introduction or the Conclusion.

  Your Concluding Paragraph begins with the Thesis Reworded, and looks beyond where you are now. 4 or 5 sentences.

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MS. TYRE'S ENGLISH 9 HOMEWORK FOR MON. OCT. 7:

1. You are working on "Your Connection to Nature" Reflection. You should be making sure that your examples in your body paragraphs are descriptive- that is, that you SHOW them with some detail.  This draft is due on Tuesday.

2. Make excellent notes and exemplars from today's class that you can use throughout the semester.  Try word-processing them so they are good resources for you to refer to.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework due Monday/Tuesday:

1. You are writing your script for "Dead Man Talking", rehearsing and revising.  Don't be satisfied with your first draft. You need to practice your performance to revise well.  Monday will be a rehearsal block.  Make sure you show insight into the other texts we have worked with and that you are getting to the important ideas of these texts in your "conversation."

MS. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Friday, Oct. 4:

1. Your rewrites (including all drafts) for "Living With Nature" and Nature not as cute, cuddly as it seems" are due tomorrow.

2. You should also be working on your Reflection on your connection to nature, for Tuesday.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Friday, Oct. 4:

1. You are working on your script "Dead Man Talking."  Work together as much as you can tonight and come with ideas for working in class tomorrow.  This dramatic presentation will take place on Monday.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for tomorrow, Oct. 3:

1. "By the Waters of Babylon": You are to complete questions to the end of question 22.  All of your answers are written in complete sentences that are developed with examples from the text. 

2. Be thinking of theme and character, and come with ideas for Question 23. 

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework-Today Oct. 2nd:

1. Your main work is to revise/rewrite your "Personal Reflection on My Connection to Nature" essay. This is due on Tuesday of next week.

2. Rewrite your "Nature not as cute, cuddly as it seems" paragraph for Thursday or Friday.  Hand in all drafts.

3. Rewrite your "Living With Nature" paragraph if you scored 4 or less on your 2nd Draft. Hand in all drafts.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Wed. Oct. 2:

1. You should also have your first draft of the your paragraph "Nature not as cut, cuddly as it seems."

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Oct. 2:

1. Second Draft of "Personal Reflection on My Connection to Nature Essay." Be working to improve your essay elements: thesis statement, more developed body paragraphs and conclusion.  This is to be your Homework for the next several days, and will come in on Tuesday for editing.

2. Article: "Obscure endangered plants, animals need better protection."  Write a thesis statement for this article in one sentence.  It should be  clear about the Who/ What/ and Why. We will go over this tomorrow.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Wed. Oct. 2:

1. Work on your questions for "By the Waters of Babylon" to the end of question 14. 

2. Any outstanding work is also due tomorrow - "Many Workmen" and "Babylon" both drafts 1 and 2 for both.