English 10 Homework for Friday and Over the Weekend for Monday, Nov. 3:

1. Feed: You are reading Feed to page 95 by Monday at the latest.  You are to work on your Literature Circle (LC) role and bring what you have to your Expert Group on Monday. Bring your novel and your writing ideas.  You will have Monday's block to help each other finalize your role.  This role will be organized and word-processed for Tuesday.  Print 2 copies. One for you and one for me.

2. Synthesis Chart Friday: You are working to finish the chart, ideally by the end of the day, Friday.  However, if you are not finished you must take it home and complete it, then hand it in on Monday. 

English 11 Homework for Thurs-Tuesday, Nov. 4:

1. Reading F451: Part One: You should be reading every day and gathering ideas for your Literature Circle Role. You should be finished reading to p. 68 by the end of this week.  Read carefully, take notes, etc. 

2. Synthesis Essay Revision: You are to rewrite two Body Paragraphs of your "Destructors" and "Smile" essay.  First, is you need to, revise your Thesis Statement in your Introduction, then you are to improve the structure, content (ideas), integration, citation, TS and CS of these two paragraphs. Please underline all the changes.  Please word-process it. Staple the original essay underneath your Revision.

3. Literature Circle #1: Be working on your LC Role Thursday and Friday in your Expert Groups, and over the weekend at home.  You could also form a group online.  Bring your LC work with you on Monday so your can work and finalize your role in your Expert Groups for Tuesday's class.  

Your LC Role follows the instructions I have written on your LC Role Handout.  Read your role carefully.  **You must have a word-processed, organized document, with fully-fleshed out questions, information and teaching plans - whatever is necessary to encourage discussion, and not just tell your group members your ideas.   Please print 2 copies of your LC Role: one for you and me. 

4. F451: Part One Work to page 68 only: Word-Processed

#1. The Hearth: is a developed paragraph with examples and integration. See Handout.

#2. Character Profile of Montage and his "double-self". This is written in paragraph(s). See Handout for more detail.

#3. Social Criticism: pp. 28-31.  This is in paragraph(s) also.  Read the question carefully.

#4. Poetic Prose: Find 6 -10 powerful descriptions in Part One, and explain the devices used and explain.  See the example below:

Reference: p. 3 : "With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, ... his hands were ... some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies ... to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history." 

Bradbury uses metaphor to describe Montag's burning down of a house. His hose is "A great python" killing its prey -  a house filled with books. Montag is the "amazing conductor" who, with his hose of kerosene, creates this  "symphony" of fire to destroy the books, the history of human thought. Bradbury extends the metaphor, describing how their scorched black pages are "flapping pigeon-winged" in the air, then dying on the lawn.

English 10 Homework for Thurs. Oct. 30:

1. Feed: you are reading to page 95 by the end of the week. Be writing ideas down as you read to get ideas for your LC role.  You will be working on your role over the weekend and coming together in Expert Groups to finalize these roles on Monday.

2. Be working on your Synthesis Chart for the poems and short stories, in class.

3. Please hand in 

English 11 Homework for Wed. and Beyond:

1. Essay Revision Due Tuesday, Nov. 4 : You will be working on your "The Smile" and "The Destructors" synthesis essay. Choose two of your Body Paragraphs for a substantial revision. Word Process your work, double-space, underline your changes and staple the original underneath.

2. Fahrenheit 451: Read to page 31 to "Good-bye..."  by tomorrow.   Stop reading occasionally to take notes or jot down ideas for your Literature Circle Role.

3. Tomorrow you will be in Expert Groups to work on your roles.

English 10 Homework for Wed. October 29:

1. You are reading your novel, Feed, to page 95, by the end of the week - Friday.  You are then working on your Literature Circle role over the weekend.  On Monday you will go into Expert Groups to look over your roles and improve them for Tuesday's Lit Circle.

2. In class you are working on your Synthesis Chart for the poems and Short Stories we have read.

English 11 Homework for Tuesday, Oct. 28th:

1. For those who did not complete the Homework from Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, due today, please have all of it in order to hand in tomorrow at the beginning of the block.

Make sure that everything is titled and that you start with Wednesday's homework and end with yesterday's. It is neat, organized, developed and thoughtful. 

2. Research: Find 3 books that have been censored in North American (USA and Canada) and Britain and Australia: in other words,  the English speaking world.  Write a short summary of why they were censored.

English 10 Homework for Tuesday to Friday, Oct. 28 to Oct. 31:

1. Reading Feed: You are reading your novel, Feed, to page 95 by Monday, Nov. 3.  While you are reading you should be noting ideas for your Literature Circle Role.

English 11 Homework for Monday, Oct. 27:

1. Review the Connotation work you did yesterday. Then respond to the following prompt: "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."

Write a 350 word response to this idea in your Reflection Log (you may word-process if you want). Consider, particularly, who "they" could be and the connotation of "ruled paper"  and "writing the other way." What is the author of this sentence encouraging us to do?

2. Look for the connotation of the word "hearth." Bring your notes on this.

3. Look at the myths and legends of "salamanders" and create a set of notes on this as well.

4. Look up the concept "allusion" and write the explanation down.  Find 3 examples of allusion and make notes.  

Now look up and define or explain a) Tower of Babel  b) who are Millay, Whitman, Faulkner, Benjamin Franklin, Dante, Swift, Marcus Aurelius, Little Black Sambo, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Explain the who, what, when, where, why (W5) of this quote: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." Bring your notes.

 

English 10 Homework for Monday, Oct. 27:

1. "By the Waters of Babylon" work: Please finish this work by Monday and bring it with you.

2. Novel Study: Feed :  Read the Epigraph by W. H. Auden a few times to get a sense of it. Then find an analysis online that explains these lines from his poem. Write a proper paragraph on the meaning of this section of the poem.

3. Novel Study: Feed:  Read to the end of page 28.  Write some comments and/or questions that you want to bring up for discussion in class.

 

English 11 Homework to do tonight: Please bring it with you tomorrow and have it neat and organized for handing in.

A. Connotation:  what is this literary concept? Be able to explain connotation by finding and analyzing two or three examples. Use the internet to help you explain the concept and to find examples. Start with the one below.

"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost.  Read it several times, and do the two questions below.

1. The meaning of this poem rests largely on the connotations of the two nouns in the title. What are these connotations?

2. What other words in the poem are associated with fire? Which are associated with ice? What are the associations? 

B. Now find another poem that uses connotation and explain the poem and its  connotations clearly.

English 10 Homework to be completed by the end of the block Thurs. Oct. 23: You may bring your computers, or write by hand. Be working on this tonight.

1. Finish all questions for "By the Waters of Babylon." Remember that you are writing for a stranger who does not know the story. Be sure to use your "Criteria for Evaluating Analytical Paragraphs" in the Writing section of your binder.

Q26: Read your Theme Handout and develop your answer well. This is a developed answer that requires you to refer to the story and explain what truth it tells us about being human, showing it through John. (about half a page, double-spaced)

Q27: The question about the John's character is a developed paragraph that requires strong examples and explanation. 2/3 of a page or a little more, double-spaced.

Q29: Babylon: Use your notes and handout on "What does Babylon represent about mankind?" 3-5 sentences.

Q30: Irony: review irony before you answer this question.  2 - 3 sentences will suffice. 

Q28: Do not do this question. Deleted.

Personal Edit Checklists: please bring your Personal Edit Checklist for my approval if you have not done it yet; and for those who have, print 2 or 3 for your Binder.

English 11 Homework for Wed. October 22:

1. Acceptable Outline for Synthesis essay: finalize your outline following the criteria, and word-process it. Bring it with you.  This is all you will have with you tomorrow and Thursday - so do a great job of it!

English 10 Homework for Wed. October 22:

1. "By the Waters of Babylon": Complete questions 12 to 20 for this short story. Please develop your answers: care about your writing, particularly your vocabulary and your sentence structure. Attempt to integrate "direct references" from the story in some of your answers.

2. Personal Edit Checklist: Please redo your edit checklist if I have indicated. Follow the exemplar, and bring it tomorrow for approval.

 If I have approved your checklist, please print off 2 or 3 copies for your binder (Writing section).

English 11 Homework for Tuesday, Oct. 21:

1. "Acceptable Outline" for Synthesis Essay of "The Destructors" and "The Smile".  You can be working on your Outline tonight and also in-class tomorrow. You need to have a very clear idea of what you are doing with this essay in order to do the outline.  So, be working on your ideas in the essay, the references you will use, the order you will format it in, etc.  

*Please look at the weaknesses in your other written assignments, and include the relevant Marking Symbols on your outline to remind you to edit for those problems before you hand it in.

I expect you to have your Outline completed by the end of class tomorrow.

I will be at school at 7:30 am tomorrow and an hour after school.

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, Oct. 21:

1. Personal Edit Checklist: Word-process your personal edit checklist, following the exemplar I showed you in class.  Print it out and bring it to class tomorrow.

2. "By the Waters of Babylon": Revise the first 11 questions, making sure you have answered them well with full sentence answers, as many sentences as the question requires, and integrate a quote if it helps to show something important. Bring these to class tomorrow. I will be checking them.

English 11 Homework for Monday, Oct. 20:

1. Work on your ideas for the Synthesis Essay: "The Smile" and "The Destructors."  Come with your organized notes.

On Monday you will write an outline following my criteria, and write it in-class on Tues. and Wednesday.

Those on the Grade 8 Retreat will write at 7:30 am on Monday and Tuesday, and in class.

English 10 Homework for Mon. Oct. 20:

1. Read "By the Waters of Babylon": Read it twice, carefully.  Look up words that you don't know and write them and a definition in your Glossary.

2. Read "Who is Babylon"? to get a sense of how this ancient Biblical city is perceived by history.  Be prepared to talk about it.

3. Do questions 1-11 as best you can. Write in proper sentences and develop your answers where you need to.

English 11 Homework for Friday, Oct. 17:

1. "The Smile" essay is due.  Please read your essay over several times before you print it. Make sure to double-space it, underline your Thesis (last sentence of your Introduction), and underlines Topic Sentences of your Body Paragraphs and Concluding sentences of your Body Paragraphs, and your Thesis Reworded- the first sentence of your Conclusion. Universalize the rest of your Conclusion.

Please staple your first draft underneath your 2nd.

2. "The Destructors/The Smile" synthesis work: Bring all of this work with you tomorrow.

English 10 Homework for Friday, Oct. 17:

1. "Many Workmen" : Revise this allegorical poem one more time. Word-process it and space it at 1.5 or 2. Underline all your changes. Staple your other two drafts underneath and identify your three drafts as 1, 2 and 3 (the latest). This is due in my basket tomorrow at the beginning of the block.

2. "Allegory of the Cave": Bring your 1st draft and the allegory with you tomorrow so you can revise it in class tomorrow.

English 11 Homework for Thurs. 16th and Fri. 17th:

1. "The Destructors": You should have all the questions completed for this short story.  They should be well-developed ideas. Bring all your work tomorrow on this story and "The Smile."

2. "The Smile" essay is due on Friday, 12pt. ft., double-spaced, and underlined Thesis, Topic and Concluding Sentences of Body Paragraphs and Thesis Reworded.  The Conclusion paragraph has a Thesis Reworded in the first sentence and "universalizes" the theme to the real world.

English 10 Homework for Thurs. Oct. 16:

1. Paragraph or Two: In a proper paragraph structure, explain Plato's "Allegory of the Cave." You should clearly show your understanding of its surface and underlying (or deep) meaning. Therefore, the main characters should be clear to the reader, the plot, and what Plato wants us to understand by it, what truth about human life it teaches us, and how we must live if we are to be truly enlightened.

English 11 Class Work and Homework for Tues. Oct. 14-15:

1. "Jurassic Conservation" precis due: Keep this in your binder for today.

2. "The Smile" Essay: Due tomorrow for editing.

3. Tuesday's Class Work: Read "The Destructors" in Story and Structure. Read it twice as you will understand it better.  Working together at your tables do questions 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.  You may discuss your ideas together, but you must write your own notes in your own binder. I will be looking at these. 

English 10 Work in class Tues. Oct. 14:

1. Homework due today: Keep your four "April 2026" paragraphs and your "Many Workman" paragraph in your binder for now. I will collect them tomorrow.

2. Today's In-Class Work: Plato's "Allegory of the Cave": Read this allegory very carefully 2 or 3 times. At your tables, work with your group carefully to understand and explain the underlying meaning. Use your definition of allegory to help you. Go paragraph by paragraph. Each of you must take your own notes.

Bring all your notes with you tomorrow.

English 10 Work in class on Friday due Tuesday, Oct. 14:

1. Read yesterday's blog also: Today in class you are working on your "Many Workmen" paragraph which you will hand in on Tuesday, word-processed, 12 pt. font, Calibri or TNR. Please staple the original draft underneath.

2. Also due on Tuesday are the four paragraphs for "April 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains."

If you finish your "Many Workmen"draft during the block, tale a copy of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" handout, and carefully read it a few times.  You will find it somewhat difficult, but we will be working with it next week. 

English 11 Homework for Tues. Oct. 14:

1. Friday's Class: Read the short story, "The Smile" carefully a couple of times, then write a short essay, one and a half pages, Times New Roman, 12 point font, discussing the values these characters possess. Include the leaders, the general population (the mob), and Tom. 

Use both direct references in the form of integrated quotes, and indirect references from the story. Cite your references at the end of your sentences, using the paragraph number only.  Example: (17).  

*This essay is due Wednesday, Oct. 15 for editing. 

*Your "Jurassic Conservation" precis is due Tuesday. Oct. 14, with your original stapled underneath.

See you next week!

*Read yesterday's blog carefully and start thinking about it.

English 11 Homework for Fri. Oct. 10:

Values Document: Set up a document on your computer where you can reflect on values as we proceed through the course. 

This reflection-examination is personal, but it is also  worldly, requiring you to look back, look forward, look out at the world and start examining yourself as a moral character in it.  

What values do you possess now: both positive and negative? Why? Give examples. Who do you want to become: not in the sense of your occupation, but as living, feeling, human who is going to develop and change and have an impact on others and yourself?  How are you going to grapple with the world? What values will guide you to become who you become and, therefore, how you treat others.

You may make reference to any of the ideas, texts, discussions we have in class, if it helps you describe, explain etc.

This is a complex and revealing exercise. I will ask you to show it to me on occasion to ensure that you are developing it, and following the criteria, but you will not be sharing it with anyone else.

Get started!  We can talk about it and glean ideas as we proceed through the course.

 

English 10 Homework for Tues. Oct. 14:

1. "April 2026": your 4 paragraphs are due on Tuesday the 14th . Please read yesterday's blog for details. Everything is word-processed, 1.5 spacing, 12 pt. ft. using TNR or Calibri. Leave 3 spaces between paragraphs.

2. The Allegory: your second draft of "Many Workmen" is also due on Tuesday. Please staple your first draft underneath the second. The reason for the change of date is due to the number of students away on a field trip tomorrow. You may work on your second draft in class tomorrow.

English 11 Homework for Thurs. Oct. 9:

1. Reread "The Huxley Satellite Dish" by Brian Fawcett.  Do questions 1, 2 and write up an extended definition of "culture" that includes examples. 

2. Rewrite of "Jurassic Conservation" precis for Tuesday, October 14. Staple the original underneath.

English 10 Homework: Thurs-Fri-Mon. Oct. 9- 14:

1. Due Tuesday: Your"April 2026" 4 paragraphs, need to be improved/developed. Please word-process your work. Use the proper fonts, and you may single space each paragraph, but leave space between each paragraph. Hand them in at the beginning of class Tuesday.

2. Due Tomorrow: First Draft of your analysis of the allegory "Many Workmen." Write a paragraph showing your understanding of the allegory, both the surface narrative, and the underlying or deeper meaning. You must make direct references to the poem, use quotations marks when you do so.  This is due tomorrow.  Please word-process your work, and double-space this draft.

When you integrate a part of the poem into your sentence, it must keep proper sentence structure. 

ie. The "huge ball of masonry" represents... 

 

 

      

English 11 Homework for Wed. Oct. 8:

1. You are working on comparing and contrasting the articles, "Jurassic Conservation," and "Should Science Bring Extinct Creatures Back to Life."

a) Tone: choose 2 or 3 words for the tone in each article.  Explain them.

b) Then find concrete examples in each article to support your choices. 

c) Examine other differences and similaries in these two articles: the ideas, the science, for example.

Bring your work with you tomorrow.

 

English 10 Homework for Wed. Oct. 8th:

1. Questions for "April 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains."  

a) Question 4: Write a paragraph on "What is Bradbury's attitude toward the family and its values?" 4-6 sentences.

b) Question 5: Write a paragraph on "What similarities might our society have with the family's values?" Have at least five examples and explain them.

c) Question 6: Write a short paragraph, 3-5 sentences, discussing the theme of Bradbury's short story.

d) Question 7: Write a paragraph showing two examples of irony in the story.  One is Teasdale's poem in the story.

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, Oct. 7:

1. Finish your 7 questions for "There Will Come Soft Rains." 

You should be working on a) values of the family  b) similarities to our values  c) Themes   d) two examples of (situational irony in the story.  Look up examples of situational irony on the internet.

Tomorrow you will be presenting your work.

English 11 Homework for Tues. Oct. 7:

1. "Jurassic Conservation" precis is due tomorrow at the beginning of the block.  Always look over your work before you print it out.  

Please have a title, ie. Precis for "Jurassic Conservation."  

Please double-space your work.

English 11 Homework for Monday, Oct. 6:

1. Revision of synthesis essay: "The Horses" and "Vegetable Gardens on Mars." Revise as much as you need to (revisit the Oct. 1st entry).  Also, underline all your changes on your word-processed revision.  Staple your original underneath the Revision.

2. Know that on Tuesday, your precis of "Jurassic Conservation" is due.

English 10 Homework for Monday, Oct. 6:

1. Please print out the document at the following address: http://quizlet.com/15475808/grade-10-english-provincial-examinable-terms-devices

These are Grade 10 Examinable Terms for the Provincial Exam.  It is 7 or 8 pages. Please put it in your Elements of Literature section of your binder.

2. Your "Personal Reflection on the Environment" is due at the beginning of class, Monday. This is a word-processed multi-paragraph assignment. It is your thoughts, ideas, concerns, about the subject, using references/examples from the  readings and visuals we have studied. It is a sincere, thoughtful, personal response to it all.  Please use Times New Roman or Calibri, 12 point font, and use 1.5 to 2 spacing. Please do not add extra spaces between paragraphs, but simply indent when you re-paragraph.

The expression "I think" is overused and should be eliminated or reduced in your writing. Say what you feel and think, of course, but repetitive terms like this one can reduce the effect of your writing.

For Example:

weak: I think that Burtynsky's film, "Manufactured Landscapes,"is a powerful way of showing our rampant consumption and throwaway culture.

stronger: Burtynsky's visuals in "Manufactured Landscapes" are fascinating and disturbing, in showing how our rampant consumption and our throwaway culture, leaves the environment, and those who live in it, poisoned. 

use imagery( vivid description) : I contribute to the mountains of e-waste that is shipped to China and left to leach industrial toxins into the earth. The beaming children who played in these hills of toxic waste, in one scene, made me feel... 

Think about: What do you do with your waste? How do you contribute to all this.  What are doing or not doing in your part of the planet .... make connections with your life, and in other ways.

Please bring all your "April 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains"materials with you, Monday. We will work on them in class.

 

English 10 Homework for Fri. Oct. 3 and beyond:

1. Due Monday: Personal Reflection of Global Warming, the Pacific Garbage Patch, "Manufactured Landscapes," and all other environmental work we have done so far. 

Please look at the last two Blog Entries for instruction.

This is your only homework right now. 

**Our work with "Soft Rains" is being done in class.

English 11 Homework for Thurs. Oct. 2 to Tues. Oct. 7.

1. Due Friday: Final Revision of Precis of "Arks Can't Save Aardvarks."

2. Due Friday: "Jurassic Conservation?" You should have Question 1, "Analyzing the Content" completed.  You must do all 3 bullets. Also complete Questions 4 and 5 under "Structure and Style." You can work on Questions 6 and 7 in-class tomorrow. All work is done in full sentences.

Also get your Glossary going ! Use the format I gave you today. Then keep it up to date.

3. Due Monday: Revision of your synthesis essay: "The Horses" and "Vegetable Gardens on Mars."  Please read the instruction on the Oct. 1 Blog and follow those instructions. Also use 12 pt. ft, Times New Roman, 1.5 spacing.

4. Due Tuesday: Precis of "Jurassic Conservation."

English 11 Homework Oct. 1st and Beyond:

1. Tonight's homework is to write a Precis of "Arks Can't Save Aardvarks."  A Precis is a summary of the main and/or important points. It should not exceed 1 page double-spaced, 12pt font, Times New Roman.This is due tomorrow.

1. Revision of the synthesis essay: "The Horses" and "Vegetable Gardens on Mars." You all need to revise this short essay by improving your Introduction, Thesis, organization of ideas, the use of direct references from the texts - properly integrated into your sentences, citations, and the concluding paragraph that should universalize the ideas, not summarize. 

This is not due until Monday, October 6.  Please word-process, double-space, and underline or highlight your changes.  Please staple your original paragraph behind you revised one.

English 10 Homework Tonight and Thurs:

1. Please look at yesterday's entry for instructions.  Remember, this is a personal (1st Person) piece of writing where you are reflecting on Global Warming, Pacific Garbage Patch, "Manufactured Landscapes" and readings etc.   It should have an Introduction and Conclusion, and well-developed paragraphs of thoughtful content that is your own original response to the research you have been doing, including the discussions we have had, and the visuals you have seen. You are not writing to tell me what you researched, but to respond, personally, to what you are learning. What do you feel, think, hope, wish, what are the possibilities, what else do you know about all this and what will you do in your future?  These are just ideas.  It is your personal response to all of what we have looked at, to date.

 It is due at the end of your block on Friday. 

Each body paragraph requires a Topic Sentence and a Concluding Sentence. A body paragraph should have one central topic with sufficient discussion of the topic.  Eight sentences approximately.  If it goes to long, simply re-paragraph, making it clear that you are continuing the topic you are on.  

Ask questions in class tomorrow if you need to.