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

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

Literary Devices and Vocabulary Documents are due.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Tuesday and Wednesday: Due Thursday

1. Literary Devices and Vocabulary Documents: You should be adding to these Documents regularly. See format below:

Device: 1) explain and 2) an example in a sentence.

Word : 1) definition that is appropriate for the context it was found in and 2) Use it in a sentence.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Wed. Jan. 22:

1. Eulogy: be practicing/ rewriting etc. for your performances tomorrow and Thursday.

** Please have one clean copy of your script to hand in to me,  in 12 point font,  Times New Roman, double-spaced.

 

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Tues. Jan. 21:

1. Eulogy Preparation: make sure you are improving your content and performace. Tomorrow is your last class for practice and we will draw for the order.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Tues. Jan. 21 - and the rest of the week:

1. Poetry Handout:  Read carefully, and more than once, each poem in the package, then do the multiple choice on a piece of paper. Hand in the poems and the multiple choice answers to the IN basket at the beginning of the block.

2. Literary Devices and Vocabulary Document: You should be adding to these Documents regularly.  I will be asking for these on Thursday.

3. Tomorrow you are going to start a Synthesis Essay. You will read the texts and do the multiple choice.  On Wednesday you will finish the essay in class.

4. Thursday you will be writing a Personal Narrative from I prompt I give you at the beginning of the block. You will finish it by the end of the block.

5. Friday: I will be going over the procedure for the Provincial Exam, tips etc. Portforlios will be returned - and SEE 6 about Handouts.

6. All Handouts: I will be collecting all the handouts that I have given you. Please have them all in your binders so that I can collect them this week.

 

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Monday, Jan. 20:

You are to work on your Romeo and Juliet Eulogy. You should be ready to rehearse your script on Monday and Tuesday, as you will find a lot of rewriting will be necessary. Keep in touch with your partner to get your draft of your script so you can start practicing the ways you will say your lines etc.

 

Ms. Tyre's Block D and C English 10 Homework for Monday, January 20:

First, read the Synthesis Essay I returned to you so you have some idea what elements you need to improve.

1. D Block: Do the multiple choice and the Synthesis Essay for the texts "Like the Sun" and "Living With Autism."  Give yourself 2 hours for the reading and writing, as this is a little more than you will have on the Provincial Exam.  Do the muliple-choice on your own paper first, then write the essay underneath. Double space your writing.

D block: Remember that the multiple choice for "Like the Sun" is out of order. Look for page 11 and 12 after page 20. 

2. C Block: You are to do the same as D Block with your exam, doing the multiple choice and the  Synthesis Essay for "The Lanyard" and "City Mourns Death of Legendary Icon 'Honest Ed' Mirvish." (note the punctuation on the 2nd for the title.)

Both D and C: Do not write on the exam or leave it lying around - or make a mess of it in any way. You must bring the exam and your essay Monday.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Fri. Jan. 17:

1. Personal Narrative Essay #2: Work on your Outline for your essay that you are writing tomorrow.  Follow the same criteria for this outline as I gave you for the last one. You will find this on the Jan. 13 blog entry.  Look for the Jan 13 blog on the right of this screen and click on the Jan. 13 entry. It will come up.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Fri- Mon. Jan. 20:

1. You are working on your Eulogy Assignment with your partner for the next four days.  Please be ready Monday for rehearsals and rewriting etc.  We will start our performances on Wednesday.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Thursday, Jan. 16:

1. Eulogy: Read the Eulogy Handout carefully a few times and start working on ideas for your presentation.  Also think about who you want to write and present this eulogy with.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Thursday, Jan. 16:

1. Personal Narrative #2: Be working on your ideas and your outline for this second essay. You will write it this Friday. Try to improve

2. Literary Devices Document and Vocabulary Document: the first document is the poetic devices and figurative language that you need to identify and learn.  The Vocabulary Document should be a collection of words, not literary concepts, that are new to you and that you consider to be useful in your analytical writing. Keep up with these and review them.  Also, add to your Literary Devices document from the Handout I gave you today. Find examples online for each of these literary devises over the next several days.

English 10: in addition to the homework below, make sure you are continuing to build a Literary Devices Document and Vocabulary Document. These devices and vocabulary are from our readings and anywhere else you want. I will be calling these in next week.

See below for the other Homework.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Wed. Jan. 15:

1) Personal Narrative Essay #1: Consider the comments from your Editor on your first narrative and try to improve these things on your second.  

1) Personal Narrative Essay #2:  You have chosen your second prompt for your second personal narrative.  You should be working on an outline. It does not need to be ready for tomorrow. But be working on it.

2)Tomorrow you will be writing the synthesis essay from  Provincial Exam texts you read today. This is a compare and contrast question. You will have the whole block.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Wed. Jan. 15:

All ongoing Romeo and Juliet work is due. Please do your own printing unless you have broken machinery. 

1) Romeo and Juliet Tragedy Plotline: it is on the large format paper, either very neatly printed or word-processed, thorough but not excessive, Act and scenes identified. The Exposition is what begins the play, the initiating incident is the important moment that launches the Rising Action to the Climax - and the Climax is the turning point in the play that sets the Falling Action and the final Catastrophe. Make it all clear.

2) Romeo and Juliet Reflection Logs: Please have these stapled together in the order in which they were written, with a Title of the Assignment (or Question) on each and the date it was written.

3)Romeo and Juliet Act 1-Act 5 Questions:  All questions are answered and make sense to the reader. Include questions and answers or questions incorporated in the answers. 

4)Romeo and Juliet Figurative Language Document: This document consists of a series of "phrases or lines" from the play that are cited as (Act 3, scene 2, 15-16) and are fully explained in a sentence or two.  A stranger should be able to make sense of them. These examples should be from throughout the script, not just one part of it. You should have a variety of figurative language and other literary devices. This should be word-processed, ideally.

Example: In the beginning of Act 2, scene 2, Romeo uses a metaphor to describe Juliet as "the sun" as she looks out from her balcony. He also uses personification when he declares her to be so beautiful that the moon is "envious" (Act 2, scene 2, 3-4).

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Tues. Jan. 14:

1. You should be keeping up to date on your Romeo and Juliet work to where we left off today: 1)Reflection Logs  2)Act, scene questions  3)Tragedy Plotline, and  4) Figurative Language Document. 

Tomorrow we will finish the play.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Tues. Jan. 14:

1. Peer-Editing Narrative Essay: You are to Peer-Edit another's Narrative Essay following the format in the handout "Editing Narrative Essays."  Please follow the all the instructions and format and use a separate piece of paper (or 2) to make your comments. Make your comments thoughtful (critical) and thorough. Follow the numbers and letters of my format, and be neat.  The final section 5, Proofreading, is done last and directly on the the essay.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Monday, Jan. 13:

1. Act, scene Questions:  keep up to date with these. If you have not been doing this, catch up this weekend. 

2. Tragedy Plotline: this large paper format should be up to date as well to where we left off Friday.  It should be VERY neat, readable and thorough. Be up to date by Monday.

3. Figurative Language:  You should have identified and added other figurative language (like metaphors, similes and other imagery, allusion, dramatic irony etc., and add it to the Figurative Language Document you are building.  This should be an organized document that has Act and Scene Headings, the line(s) written out fully, and the lines clearly explained.  By Monday.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Monday, Jan. 13:

1. Personal Narrative #1: You are working on your Outline for this in-class writing assignment. Use the Handouts to help you understand the process and ingredients needed to do this well, especially descriptive details.

Your Outline can be a Freytag pyramid on large paper, with plot points (fragmented sentences) for rising and falling action, or you can use our regular format for each paragraph. Each bullet is a fragmented (incomplete sentence). Do not write out full sentences on your Outline. Your Outline is in point form only. 

If you are using the regular Outline format, number each paragraph,  and have write 3 - 6 bullets (fragmented sentences) to remind you of the main ideas in each paragraph.  Remember, you paragraph as often as you need to. Example: 

Introductory Para: 3 bullets written in point form.

BP #1,#2,#3,#4,#5 etc: 3 - 5 bullets in each paragraph point form.

Concluding Paragraph: 3 bullets written in point form. 

Remember you show the reader what is happening. The description is essential to the narrative.

 

 

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Fri. Jan.10:

1. Ongoing: Literary Devices and Vocabulary Documents. You should continue on building your two documents.  As we read Provinicial poems and stories, and do the multiple choice sections, be adding to these Documents so you can learn them and review them before the Provincial Exam. See the previous Blog for the format.

2. Outline for Personal Narrative Essay #1: Start building your outline for your first Narrative essay.  You should start with an introduction that includes your prompt and consider using a story map to organize your ideas. Bring what you have done tomorrow and you can have some time to work on it.

We will also read a section of a Provincial Exam.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Thurs. Jan. 9:

1. Update your Tragedy Plotline.

2.  Finish your Act 3 questions.

3.  Add to your Figurative Language. Find a few, but important imagery and explain them. Make sure you include the Act, scene, and line numbers for each.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Thurs. Jan. 9:

1. Literary Devices Document: Start a document of Literary Devices so that you can review and study these before the Provincial Exam. Use the following format:

ALLUSION: 1) write a definition and 2)have a clear example or two

2. Vocabulary Document: Start a document of vocabulary that comes up in our readings in the next two weeks. Like the document above, 1) start with the word 2) give a definition and 3)use it in a sentence. I will be looking at these throughout the next two weeks.

3. Personal Narrative Essay #1: Start working on your ideas for this first Narrative Essay.  I will ask to see it Monday.

 

 

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Wed. Jan. 8:

1. "Ballplayer": Read the poem "Ballplayer" several times, and do the multiple choice (not on the handout, but on your own paper).  Look up all terms and vocabulary that you do not know in the multiple choice and write them down on a page with definitions. You will be tested on these.

2. "Fast Break": Do the same with this poem: read it several times and do the multiple choice, looking up and defining the terms and vocabulary you need to, in order to complete the work.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Wed. Jan. 8:

1. Romeo and Juliet Paragraph Due: Have your well-developed paragraph analyzing the events and outcomes in Act 3, scene 1. Use proper paragraph structure, and all the other criteria in yesterday's blog.

2. Ongoing Romeo and Juliet work: 

• 1) Tragedy Plotline should be up-to-date each day.  

  2) Your Figurative Language rewrite should be complete for Act 2, scene 2.  You will be adding to this from Act 3, 2.

  3) Act-scene Questions up to date daily. Be sure that you are keeping up to date every day on you questions.  Make sure your notes are organized and complete.

  
  

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Wed. Jan. 8:

1. Write a well-developed paragraph analyzing the events and the outcome in Act 3, scene 1.  This means having an interpretation of the characters - what they do, why they do them, and the results.

Word-processed, double-spaces, well-developed ideas that are intelligent, that are written in clear writing that flows in a logical order, and includes concrete examples.  Follow proper paragraph format (Handout).  Your paragraph should be 2/3 to 3/4 of a page in the usual font and spacing.  Do not use first person.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Tues. Jan. 7:

1. You will complete your TKMB essay tomorrow.

C and D Blocks can come in at 7:30am tomorrow.

D Block will have priority for Lunch Break tomorrow. C Block needs to finish by the end of their block.