English 11 Homework to January, Tuesday, the Third:

Read, Research and Respond: 

1. "Of Cannibals, Kings and Culture: The Problem of Ethnocentricity." After reading the article carefully and thoroughly (more than once), and after your discussion in class, and writing down examples. You are to respond to the article in a thoughtful way, using contemporary examples from our world to add to Montaigne's analysis.

2. You are to read Michel de Montaigne: On Cannibals (1580). Read it a few times, look up words you don't know and respond to his analysis, in an intelligent, thorough,  personal and worldly response. 

Develop your ideas, by showing specific examples, and ones beyond the obvious, by looking into ancient history and up to modern times.  Go Global: look at many examples.

You are to understand what ethnocentricity  does to groups and individuals and civilizations. 

 

 

English 10 Homework for Tues/Wed/Thurs:

1. Synthesis Essay Outline: you are to create your "Acceptable Outline" for your Synthesis Essay that begins on Tuesday.

2. From Tuesday to Thursday, you are writing your Synthesis Essay.

*Follow the Outline Handout: make sure you include "integrated quotes"in your work. These should be important quotes that help the reader understand the ideas better.  You will integrate them into your paragraphs when you write the essay. 

Always check your work before you hand it in each day.

Integration:  is using the words from the text: but you must start building the sentence first, then you can integrate the words from the text into your sentence.

Below are words from the text, only

"We Americans," he said, "are interested only in the consumption of our products" (Feed, 290). 

To integrate you must do something like this:

Violet's father thinks Titus is a jerk because,  "We Americans," he said, "are only interested in the consumption of our products." 

 

English 11 Homework for Tuesday, Dec. 13:

1. Personal Poem: D Block: Your Personal Poem is due Tuesday at 8:20 am. Name, Block, Date, on top right hand corner. 

B Block: You Personal Poem is due at 3:00 pm.

This poem must be word-processed and follow the criteria I had on the board. 

Have others in the class give you some feedback before you finalize your poem.  

2. Sentence Practice: All students in B and D Block that I gave "Sentence Practice Handouts" to, these are due first day back from Christmas Break - January 2. 

English 10 Homework for Monday, Dec. 9 and Onward to the Synthesis Essay:

1. Feed: You have finished your Literature Circles and now need to look back on all the texts that we have used. Feed and all the other texts will be the content of your Feed Synthesis Essay.

You now need to start considering the ideas for synthesis for the your essay. You are to revisit all the four texts from this semester this weekend,  and come on Monday with ideas of synthesis. These should be in bullet form. You will share your bullets within your group first, and then your group will share them with the class. These will help the whole class on Monday, so that you all have a lot of good ideas for your synthesis essay. 

On Monday night, you should develop your  thesis statement, and write up your Acceptable Outline of your essay. 

On Tues., Wed., and Thursday you will write your essay.

English 11 Homework for Thursday and Friday Dec. 8: and onward to Wednesday.

Please bring items for the Food Bank Box tomorrow and over the next week. 

1. You are working on your Personal Poem: it is best to be writing for feeling, as E. E. Cummings says: You are yourself, a feeling being, and there is no-one like you. 

That is what writing poetry asks of you: to express you. Think of the things you know about yourself, or not: the things you can change, or the things you can't yet. 

Think back on the poems we've read. Is there something in them that reverberates for you.  Or/and look at the other aspects that you are developing, wishing, hoping... how you are changing in so many ways... Read Dusenbery's poem: and show yourself in your very own poem of your self.  

Put your phone down, go for a walk, marvel at being alive, and your uniqueness.

English 11 Homework for Tuesday: 

Read the poem "I carried with Me Poems", several times, so you understand that it is a personal poem, full of images and reflection.

1. Be working on your version of "I Carried With Me Poems," starting with the same first line:  "I carried with me poems, poems which spewed out of everything." Use images and details from your own experience ,  your knowledge and understanding of you and the world.

This is not due tomorrow. It takes time: but be thinking and working on it, the images, the ideas, etc.  This is a personal poem.

This is a your poem about you.

English 10 Homework for Wed-Friday:

1. Literature Circle Groups: You need to finish your Roles for tomorrow.  Add another one that deals with the ending, and what the novel is meant to make us understand, or to look beyond.  It is the major themes. There is a lot there.

2. You are to bring a copy of your LC Role for me, as well.

English 11 Homework for Friday to Tuesday, December 6:

1. Friday to Tuesday: 

A. Do the a. Response on page 170. You are to do both "I Wrote a Poem" and "How Beautifully Useless." 

You are to read them as many times as you need to and "expand upon what you think the author is suggesting about the nature of poetry." Write it up and share it with your group.

B. Do your own "Response" for b, and c. Read the poems several times each.  Develop your ideas.

C. Read "I Carried With Me Poems" several times. 

C. Sentence by Sentence Revisions of "Climbing Lessons" and "Directions" are due on Tuesday, next week.

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, 6th: 

Your Literature Circles will begin on Wednesday.

1. Be reading to the end of FEED by the end of Friday's class so that you are ready to create an exceptional LC Role. 

Over the Weekend, you need to finish developing questions: not ones that have definite or concrete answers, but that inspire discussion and challenge the group to consider a number of options.  

You should also be discussing how the novel and the real world are in alignment or differ.

English 10 Homework Monday, Nov. 28 (and beyond):

**1. Over this Weekend you are to work on the Four Key Questions That Matter. You will be reflecting on each of the four questions. Each question requires you to write a personal, thoughtful, truthful paragraph, with personal examples.  Develop each paragraph enough, but don't over do it.

I recommend you do assignment on your computer so you can edit as you write, and do a good job.  This is due this coming Monday, 28th.

**2. Finish reading Feed by the end of the evening, Wednesday. As you are reading write down ideas/quotes, passages, etc. for your LC Roles. 

**This last LC Role will cover pages 139 to the end of the novel. From Thursday to Monday, of next week, you are in Expert Groups developing your LC roles.  

On the Tuesday, December 6, you are in your LC Groups with your Roles developed and ready to go. 

 

English 11 Homework for Friday to Monday: Nov. 28:

English 11 B Block: Please bring items for our Annual Christmas Food Bank Drive. Richmond has more people in need than ever before: so be please be generous!........AND, WE CAN WIN THIS!

1. Synthesis Essay: you are finalizing your ideas, creating your bullets and building your outline for your synthesis essay for "Climbing Lessons" and "Directions."

On Monday you will bring your Acceptable Outline, and the two poems. Your Acceptable Outline should also have the Quotations you will use, listed, so you can integrate them into your essay.

I expect you, when you are writing the essay in class, that you have an Introductory Paragraph that introduces each poem clearly and efficiently, and a thesis statement that expresses the synthesis.  I am expecting 3 developed Body Paragraphs, and a Concluding Paragraph that knits it all together.

English 11 Homework for Wednesday, Nov. 22:

1. Be working on your bullets of Synthesis for "Climbing Lessons" and "Directions." Come with your ideas so you can share them with the class tomorrow.

English 10 Homework for Wednesday, Nov. 23:

1. You are to finish your "Technology and Society" essay tonight.  This is your final draft that I will mark. This essay includes the ideas in the articles, "Screen Time with Nature" and "Addiction to Technology." 

Make sure to underline your Thesis Statement; the main idea of the essay.

Please word-process in 12 pt. font, Times New Roman, and double space.  

Tomorrow you will continue reading to page 220 in the novel. 

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, Nov. 22:

1. Rewrite of "Addiction to Technology Real, Potentially Deadly: Psychiatrist," and "Kids Need To Offset "Screen Time" with "Nature Time." I will give you until Wednesday if you need it, so you can ask questions and get more clarification.

Use proper essay structure as you have before, discussing the two articles and what they are showing about teenagers and technology - and about nature's benefits. You must be include personal examples. 

Follow the capitalization.  Also introduce the two articles in the Introduction so that it makes sense to anyone. 

Remember, this is synthesis essay where you are writing about these two texts, and yourself, developing personal examples. The assignment is to be word-processed in a 12 pt. font, double-spaced.

Tomorrow you will finish the Lit Circle, if you haven't already,  and begin reading the next section.

English 11 Homework for Tuesday. Nov. 21:

1. Climbing Lessons: Do a S.I.F.T. of this poems. Develop your work.

2. Blank Verse vs. Free Verse: be able to explain the difference between the two, using examples.

English 11 Homework for Monday, Nov. 21:

1. Sentence by Sentence Revision of Huxley/Pedestrian essay.

2. S.I.F.T: for "Directions."

English 10 Homework for Monday, Nov. 21: Due Monday.

1. Read "Addiction to Technology real, potentially deadly: psychiatrist." Read it carefully and more than once. Look up words you do not know and add to your Glossary for next week.

2. Then read "Kids need to offset "screen time" with "nature time," and do the same process.

3. Now you are to write a personal reflection on these two texts, examining yourself , particularly the time you spend with your technology: what you do with it, and how it affects you. Then you are to consider the time you spend in nature, what you do in it,  and its effect on you.  

This discussion is a thoughtful reflection of yourself in these two aspects. You must show examples and develop them. You can make some reference to examples in Feed, but not too much. This is a self-reflection, with real life examples, reflecting on yourself, and what the authors are saying about the culture and attitudes of our times, particularly with your time with technology and nature. 

You must be personal, you must have developed examples from your life experience, and discussion.

This is an essay: 4 to 5 paragraphs, well-developed and real.  Due Monday.

English 11 Homework for Thursday, Nov. 17:

1. "The Tyger" and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" revision is due Thursday. This is a rewrite of the essay. Your analysis and your written expression should show improvement.  

Please underline all the changes you make.  If you revise your essay totally, you do not need to underline it.  You all must staple the original essay underneath the revised one. 

2. The Sentence-by-Sentence Revision of "Huxley" and "The Pedestrian" is due on Monday. The revision process is the same as last one you did.

3. In class tomorrow, you will be working on your S.I.F.T. for "Directions" and "Climbing Lessons," making points of synthesis for them. 

English 10 Homework for Thursday, 16th:

**We do have $7 for each of the 3 boxes. So we are "good to go" for 3 boxes.

1. Feed: Today and this evening you are finalizing your LC Role. Thursday you will be in your Literature Circle Groups for the first two roles: Discussion Director and Vocabulary Enricher.  Develop each of your Roles thoroughly and intelligently: make your conversation intelligent, also, looking deeply into the Feed's culture, the environment, the education system and the government etc. Of course you will be connecting it all to our real world, discussing and showing how the world of the novel is eerily similar, and not similar, to our world and civilization. 

Your LC Roles should be well developed and inspire intelligent analysis of the novel and our world. 

You must have a copy of your Role for yourself, and one for me!

English 11 Homework for Tuesday, Nov. 15:

1. "The Tyger"/"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud": Improve your analysis of the two poems and the Synthesis Essay, improving as much as you can. Due Thursday.

2. Revisions for Pedestrian/ Huxley Synthesis are due on Monday, the 21st. These are Sentence by Sentence revisions. 

3. Read the poem "Directions" and add to your Glossary section of your Binder, all the words you don't know. Also identify the literary devices in the poem and in the multiple choice questions. Keep them in your notes.

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, 15th: 

**Please bring items for the Christmas Child Box. These are due Thursday, and we want to donate 3 boxes. You have a handout that suggests items for the box. Please donate over the next 3 days. We could add a few more dollars, also.  

1. Feed: You are in Expert Groups on Monday to Wednesday to finalize your Roles. Develop these together!

Work this evening and come with more ideas etc. for your Expert Groups.

English 11 Homework for Thursday to Monday, Nov. 10 - 14.

B and D Blocks: Please hand in the two short stories tomorrow if you haven't, already.

B Block: Your Essay must be finished by the end of lunch.

D Block: You will finish today, or tomorrow by 3pm. No later.

1. Poetry Assignment: Start tonight and continue your work tomorrow in class.

Read the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth several times, so you start to understand it. Look up words you don't know.

Use the S.I.F.T. technique Handout to analyze the poem. Do all the questions thoroughly, using examples and integrated quotes from the poem. Write in proper sentences and develop you answers as best you can.

Do the same process with the second poem, "The Tyger" by William Blake.

Synthesis Short Essay: Write a three or four paragraph essay: Introduction, 1 or 2 body paragraphs, and a conclusion, discussing the themes of the poems, their similarities and/or differences. 

Make sure you understand what a theme is.

English 11 Homework for Tuesday through Wednesday Nov. 9:

*There is no formal Homework today, but you could be thinking, developing, and improving some of your ideas in your head.  

*You will have finished your essay by the end of the block, Wednesday. You should give yourself time to proof read your essay carefully, before you hand it in. Underline your Thesis Statement. 

Your citations should be in the following format:    (P, 23).     (H, 17).

*Your essay can be more than 5 paragraphs! However, you need not make such long paragraphs, but re-paragraph as you need to, using a transition. 

*No "you" or "I" or "me"

*You may use  terms like "we" and "our" if you are referring to our times, or our culture, or our future, or our attitudes, etc.  Make your work make sense. Certainly in the Concluding Paragraph you will need to use these terms to conclude the essay.

English 10 Homework for Wednesday, Nov. 9:

1. Feed-Literature Circle Roles: Be developing and finishing your Literature Circle Roles for tomorrow's class. 

Your work is Word-Processed!

***Bring 2 copies of your developed roles: one for you, and one for me. You will finish this short Literature Circle tomorrow. So be ready to go.

 

English 10 Homework for Monday, Nov. 7:

1. Feed: Read the first 40 pages of the novel. Do not go any further.

2. Do not read it quickly - read it carefully!

3. Start thinking about your Role as you read, and jot down one or two possible ideas for your Literature Circle role.  Look at the format of the role so you understand what you need to do: this is just for practice.

**On Monday, you will get into Expert Groups to start developing your Literature Circle role: I'll be there to help start,  so you understand what you have to do.

English 11 Homework for Friday - Monday Nov. 7:

**Outline is the same as the Handout for the Jade Peony.  However, remember, you can develop your essay beyond the 5 Paragraph Essay.

1. Synthesis Essay: 

Ray Bradbury's and Brian Fawcett's short stories, "The Pedestrian" and "The Huxley Satellite Dish," show societies in the process of devolution. 

The Essay Question:

How does the process of these devolving societies, particularly their genesis (meaning origin), their culture, and the social outcomes, teach us about our own society and times.  

*"The Pedestrian" society is already devolved, but you infer the genesis of it yourself.  

This essay will require you to know your two texts very well: you will be analyzing both stories using examples from the texts, comparing and contrasting them - then applying that analysis to our own times and culture. 

Your thesis must be clear and concise. It is the answer to the question.  

Friday and Weekend:  **You should be working on your areas of synthesis, and organizing how you will use them in your essay. This is a lot of thinking and finding examples in the stories and in the real world.  

You should be attempting to improve your written expression as well.  You must use your Personal Edit Checklist when you write your essay on Monday and Tuesday, to ensure you are writing well.

English 10 Homework for Friday, Nov. 4:

1. Tidy up the notes you took today in class: organization is essential.

2. Read the poem I gave you at the end of class, today.   

Don't go online; work it out for yourself, and grapple with the ideas and the emotions in this poem. Look up words you don't know.

You should have your own feelings and interpretation of this poem. Write down whatever you feel and think about certain lines or images. Explain the tone of the poem, as well, and what the author wants us to feel and to understand.  Develop your response, and be prepared to share it tomorrow.

English 10 Homework for Thursday, Nov. 3:

1. Please bring your "Plato and Me" Essay to class tomorrow: they should have come in with your Revisions, so you can put them in your Portfolios.

2. For "Corporation" information and understanding, go to the following website:

debatewise.org/debates/139-corporations-are-a-threat-to-democracy-and-society

Read it and take notes for tomorrow"s class. Be prepared to explain a corporation's rights, and the problems with those rights.

Define the term:  dehumanization

English 11 Homework for Thursday, Nov. 3:

1. Synthesis of "The Pedestrian" and "The Huxley Satellite Dish." You are to continue working on this synthesis tonight, and also try to create 2 or 3 Synthesis questions for the Essay. You need to understand the two texts well, in order to develop the main question of the Essay.  But start developing one or two questions, and come with them tomorrow.

English 10 Homework for Wed. November 2:

1. Those of you who did not do the Revisions as  I asked you to, have them done and in my Basket by 8:20 tomorrow morning.

2. I want you to reflect on the two quotes on the overhead.  

A: It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he or she cannot use words to move and idea from on point to another, his or her education is incomplete.

B. To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

3. a. Know what a Corporation is, and how it functions. Show examples.

b. Discuss second quote B, above and include a thoughtful personal response.

English 11 Homework for Wednesday, Nov. 2:

1. Please redo your Personal Edit Checklist if you did not do it as I asked. I would prefer it at the end of today (Tues) or no later than 8:20 am tomorrow.

2. Be working on your Synthesis of "The Pedestrian" and "The Huxley Satellite Dish."

You should have a number of intelligent comparisons and differences. These will help you develop the main themes of the stories.

English 11 Homework for Tuesday, Nov. 1st:

1. Personal Edit Checklist: Please come with 2 copies, following my instructions for setting it up.

2. Glossary: I will check your completed Glossary tomorrow.

3.  Tomorrow you will be developing your synthesis of the two stories.

4. You should also be identifying important imagery.

English 10 Homework for Tues. Nov. 1st:

1. "Allegory of the Cave" Revisions: Sentence by Sentence Revisions are due on Tuesday, in my basket at the beginning of the Block.

Please use the Revision style that we put on the board.  

2.I have already done these for you. You do not need to do them again. Plato/Babylon Synthesis Presentation documents are due in my Basket at the beginning of the Block. Each person in the group must have a photocopy to put in your Portfolio by tomorrow. 

3. In Class work Tuesday: a) Define Satire and  Irony b) List important human values we all believe are important c) Corporate Culture: define and examples d) Dehumanization: definition and examples e) Science Fiction: definition-example.

English 11 Homework for Monday, Oct. 31st:

1. Read the two short stories: "The Pedestrian" and "The Huxley Satellite Dish." Read them both, two times.  (Do not read under the line in "The Huxley Satellite Dish.")

2. Look up words you don't know. Make a list of them in your Glossary section of your Binder.

3. Bring your Handout of the Personal Edit Checklist. Monday you will create your own Personal Edit Checklist from the work you have done that is in your Portfolios. 

English 11 Homework for Wednesday the 26th:

1. Be ready to present your Synthesis Presentation of "The Lottery" and "Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police."

All your organized notes will come in to me at the end of your Presentation.

All Revisions are due no later than 8:15 am tomorrow.

 

Make sure I have 

English 10 Homework for Tues., Wed., Thursday:

1. You are in groups to work on a synthesis presentation. On Monday you should be practicing your presentation, finalizing your ideas and practicing your oral delivery. 

This is an organized, intelligent, illuminating examination of human nature that is revealed in these two texts: The Allegory of the Cave and "By the Waters of Babylon." 

**In this synthesis you are to bring in a variety of examples from the real world, from literature, from contemporary events, etc. 

These two texts teach us important things about human nature, and how we should live. Be prepared to discuss them and show them.  

You should use also use some of the Elements of Literature to help you organize your presentation, such as - Theme, plot, character, imagery, fore-shadowing, irony, point of view, and tone.

Every one in your group must contribute and present.  

**You will hand in your organized notes etc. from the Presentation.

English 11 Homework for Wednesday, to Monday -  Oct. Monday the 24th

**Hand in Essay Revisions on Monday, 24th at the beginning of class.

1. Your Essay Revisions follow the Sentence-by-Sentence Revision Structure handout I gave you. 

2. Also, improve by rewriting, one of your Body Paragraphs -  the one that needs the most revising. These two revisions are due Monday the 24th.

3. Oral presentation of the Synthesis of "The Lottery" and "Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police": Read both of these stories carefully and more than once, and do the questions I have assigned, below.

**Read "Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police" by Martin Gansberg. Read it a couple of times.  Then work on the questions 3a, 2a, 4a + b, 5, 7a, 8a +b

 Make sure you have done the Lottery Questions I assigned, earlier.

** Prepare a presentation of synthesis for these two stories. Part of Monday is to practice your presentation; then we can begin one or two of them later in the block. We will complete the presentations on Tuesday, Oct. 25.

You must know the short story and the article well; and you must be able to show what they tell us about human nature.  Don't hesitate to bring in the contemporary world to help you make your important points.

You will hand in your organized notes to me after your presentation.

 

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, Oct. 18:

Your completed Essay, "Plato and Me" is due on Tuesday at the beginning of the class, in my IN Basket.

The Essay is word-processed. 

Please Underline the Thesis, each Topic Sentence of your Body Paragraphs, each Concluding Paragraph of your Body Paragraphs, and your Thesis Reworded in your Concluding Paragraph. 

English 11 Homework for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: 

**On Thursday you may work on you essays after school until 4:30pm. 

**I will be in class at 7:30am on Friday.

**The fully completed essay is due at 3PM on Friday. Please hand in the novel before you leave.

1. The Jade Peony Essay: You need to be working on the content of your essay - your ideas, integration of quotes, etc. for your In-Class Essay. 

You should have a copy of your Outline at home, and you must have your novel, so you can be thinking about, and developing the content of your paragraphs. Take the time to develop and improve while you have the time. 

Many of you need to rewrite your Thesis Statements, as they do not answer the question.

English 11 Homework for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday:

1. The Jade Peony Essay: You need to be working on the content of your essay - your ideas, integration of quotes, etc. for your In-Class Essay. 

You should have a copy of your Outline at home, and your novel, so you can be thinking about, and developing the content of your paragraphs. Take the time to develop and improve while you have the time. 

Many of you need to rewrite your Thesis Statements, as they do not answer the question.

English 10 Homework for Wednesday, Oct. 12:

1. "Plato and Me"Essay: a) You are completing the Introductory Paragraph. Your Thesis Statement, the last sentence of your Introduction, must declare who you are in the Allegory - and why. It is the Main Idea of the essay. It must be thoughtful, truthful, and well-written.

2. Also, in bullet form, please create the Topic Sentence for each of your three Body Paragraphs. This will require you to know how you are going to develop the rest of the essay.

If you have the time, you can start creating bullets for the ideas of your Body Paragraphs. 

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, Oct. 11:

1. Plato and Me: You are working to complete your Introductory Paragraph this weekend. This means that you must have your Introduction, including the Thesis, completed. I will be looking at these on Tuesday.

You should also have the Three Body Paragraphs developed in point form, at least.

You may also, if you want, start developing your ideas for the Conclusion.

English 11 Homework for Tuesday,  Oct. 11:

1. Jade Peony Essay: You are to build your Essay Outline by Tuesday and bring it to class. You must decide the two characters you will be analyzing: comparing, contrasting and connecting.

You must understand the Question before you start writing - because the Answer to the question is your Thesis Statement. You need to take time to make your decisions about the essay before you start arranging it on your Acceptable outline. 

The format for an analytical essay is to create a Introductory Paragraph that introduces the novel and author and then develops the topic that leads to the Thesis Statement - which is the answer to the the question and the main idea of the entire essay that you will develop. This, alone, will require rereading, analyzing, and making important decisions, before you start the rest of the essay. Make it clearly asserted, and make sure it makes an argument. The Thesis is the argument you will develop in your essay.

The three Body Paragraphs are where the analysis is developed, where the discussion and examples are. You are to integrate some quotes in each of your Body Paragraphs that help you in your analysis. These body paragraphs are well-developed.  Remember, you are to write so that a stranger can understand it.  The story line, characters etc must be applied to anyone can understand the essay.

The Concluding Paragraph (4-6) sentences, restates the Thesis, with clarity, and the last few sentences connect the discussion to the real world  - and what we learn from it all.  It should be an important understanding of what the story shows that applies to us all  (Theme).

**You are to come on Tuesday with a full Acceptable Outline of your essay following the Outline handout I give you. You will be writing the essay from that outline in class over two or three days.

English 10 Homework for Friday, Oct. 7:

1. You are working on your assignment, Plato and Me: Who Am I in the Allegory. You need to bring the work that you have begun, and continue working on it in class.  

It is best that you do not start writing the essay right away, except for the Introduction. You can introduce the Allegory and declare who you are in it and why, if you are ready to do it.

What you need to be doing is reflecting on who you really are in the Allegory, why you are, and have a number of examples that you can develop in your essay.

Think about it all carefully, write down your ideas carefully and truthfully, to really understand who you are in the Allegory - then start writing in the proper structure of an essay.  

I will be advising you as you are developing the essay.

English 10 Homework for Thursday, Oct. 6:

1. "By the Waters of Babylon": Finish all the questions for this short story. Develop your answers so they make sense to our neighbour, Paul.  Due tomorrow.

2. Research where and when the phrase "by the waters of Babylon" came from. 

3. What is a theme? What is the theme of "By the Waters of Babylon?" Go online and bring your answers tomorrow.

English 11 Homework for Wednesday the 5th to Tuesday the 11th:

1. The Jade Peony: Read, carefully, the last section of the novel over the next few days, as you will be preparing for an In-Class Essay next Tuesday. 

You should be taking notes/and jotting down page numbers as you read, for the important aspects of the story that you will need to come back to. You should also be writing down direct references from the text that you may want to integrate into your essay.  I expect you to use integrated references - important ones.  

I will be giving you a number of handouts for Essay structure, Outline, etc. for the weekend. 

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, Oct. 4:

A. Integrate each of the following quotes for Paul: this requires you to create a sentence and integrate the quote into it so that it is a proper sentence. 

ie. After Paul jumps in front of the train, he realizes "with merciless clearness" everything he has lost.

1."to live his dream"  

2. "Dissatisfied and unhappy" 

3. "Horrible yellow wallpaper"  

4. "Colourless mass of everyday existence"

Also for tomorrow:

B. Do the first 10 questions for "By the Waters of Babylon." Bring these to tomorrows class.

C. Try to get some work done for your "Plato and Me."Bring what you have with you tomorrow.

English 11 Homework for Tuesday, Oct. 4:

1. The Jade Peony: You are to finalize your roles for tomorrow's Literature Circle Groups.  You must have 2 copies: one for you and one for me. 

English 10 Homework for Monday, Oct. 3:

1. Plato and You: Your homework over the weekend is to continue to reflect on yourself as a prisoner in Plato's Cave...examining your condition as an individual who is learning about the world and yourself in it.

What is the truth? Who are you? How chained are you?  What "Light" do you understand? Who do you want to be in the allegory? Why?  How do you find Enlightenment? What does it take to become a person with conviction, and who can see the truth.  

Set up 3 body paragraphs and start to develop each one. Decide what each Body Paragraph will focus on. It is personal,  therefore it requires personal examples and clear examples and explanations. However you must include Plato and his allegory in the process.

I will be checking your progress on this Monday, and frequently after that.

"By the Waters of Babylon" will be done in-class.

 

English 11 Homework for Monday, Oct. 3rd : 

1. The Jade Peony: You are working on creating your Expert roles for Jung-Sum, Second Brother. 

We will have only 3 roles this time: Summarizer, Questioner and Connector. Some of you will be buddied-up.

Start creating your Roles over the weekend and finalize it by the end of Monday's class. Some of you may be able to start your Lit Circle later in the block on Monday. 

Also, do the Part Two Questions for Jung-Sum that I handed out.  Use them as you read, and write down you answers.

English 10 Homework for Thursday, Sept. 28:

1. Plato Cave and You: You are reflecting on yourself as a prisoner in Plato's Cave, examining your condition as an individual who is learning about the world and yourself in it. 

What is truth? Who are you, and how chained are you? 

What "light" do you understand? 

Where in this allegory do you want to be in? Why? 

How do you find enlightenment? What does it take to become a person with conviction, and who can see the truth?

English 11 Homework for Thursday, Sept. 29:

1. The Jade Peony: You are starting the second section of the novel: Jung-Sum, Second Brother.

Do the research on turtles in Chinese culture, and on yin/yang and sun/moon. 

2. Start reading Chapter 4 and work on the questions as you go.

English 10 Homework for Wednesday, Sept. 28:

1. Plato and You: You are reflecting on your place Plato's Allegory.  You need to be thinking of who you are in the allegory and why.  You need to know the allegory well, then consider the situations, plot, and attitudes of the prisoners and Puppeteers to yourself, and your world. This is a difficult assignment, as you have to go deep into self-reflection, into your past, present and future. 

Ultimately, you will be writing a essay answering the question. But you need time to start examining yourself to the Allegory and building your understanding of your place in it.

Start doing this tonight and come with your work tomorrow.  We will begin  a short story tomorrow as well. 

English 11 Homework for Wednesday, Sept. 28:

1. The Jade Peony : Literature Circles.  You will continue with your roles today, and finish tomorrow by the end of the block.  Please be sure that you are contributing to the conversation and taking good notes.

We will be starting on Jung-Sum, second brother after tomorrow. 

 

English 11 Homework for Tuesday, Sept. 27:

1. Blocks C & D: Please bring the last page of your Overviews, if you haven't already.

2. The Jade Peony: You are working through your Literature Circle Roles over the next few days. I would like you to be finished by the end of the Block on Wednesday.  You should be taking notes as you go through your Roles so you have a sufficient understanding of the story, the characters, and the themes in this first section of the novel.

English 9 Homework for Tuesday, Sept. 27:

1. Who Am I in Plato's Allegory?:  This assignment is a considerable reflection on yourself. Reread Plato's allegory again, as many times as you feel you need to, and start reflecting on who you are in this allegory and why. This assignment will take some time, so start reflecting, thinking, making some notes. You will continue tomorrow in class.  However, this assignment will take some time, so we will also be working on other texts, in between times. 

 

English 10 Homework for Monday, 26th:

Please have your Overviews in by Monday.

1. Allegory of the Cave: Finish all the Symbols work, developing you answers well, so anyone can understand them. Make it neat and tidy as well as develped.

2. In completing your Symbols work, attempt to integrate some direct references (quotes) into your work you are doing this weekend.

For example:

ie. The prisoner "is reluctantly dragged up a steep and rugged ascent," but suffers in the light of truth.  He is in terrible pain, afraid and confused.  However, after considerable time adjusting to the real world, "he will be able to see the sun" and learn reality.

English 11 Homework for Thursday to Monday, Sept. 22-26:

Please have your Overviews in by Monday.  

1. Literature Circles for The Jade Peony: 

You will be working to  finalize your Role for Monday. So you will start the Lit Groups on Monday. 

 This weekend you are working to  finalize your Role that you will begin in your Literature Circle Groups on Monday: word-process your Role, developing  all aspects so you have an excellent document to work with. It is a document that has all the content, explanations, details etc. that you need to do the role - and for me to assess it - and it is organized. Print two copies-one for me and one for you. Do this before you come to class.

Be ready for Monday's class. 

Please have your Overviews in by Monday.

**Also, know what an inference is and have 3 examples to share tomorrow. 

English 11 Homework for Thursday, Sept. 22:

1. Literature Circles for The Jade Peony: 

You are finalizing your Role tonight: word- process your Role, developing  all aspects so you have an excellent document work with.  Print two copies- one for me and one for you. 

Be ready for tomorrow.

English 11 Homework for Wednesday and Thursday:

Please have you Parent Information in by Thursday.

1. You are working on finalizing your Literature Circle Role in your Expert Groups. You have tomorrow to finish these. Thursday we our working in our Literature Circles. 

Each of you must have two copies of your Expert Role, one for you, and one for me to mark. This is a very developed document that you need to conduct your Role.

English 10 Homework for Wed/Thurs:

1. Have your parents read the Overview and fill in the last page. They should photocopy the last page so they have my information, than they should fill in the last page and you return it to me. I would like these by Monday at the latest.

2. Please revise the "Many Workmen" paragraph by Thursday. Please rewrite (word process) the paragraph, developing the ideas, organization, and written expression to make it better.  You are to staple the Second Draft on top of the First one. Make sure you have improved it. You are writing for a "stranger", someone who does not know the poem. It must make sense.

3. Do questions on Plato's Allegory: A-G. For question G, have three developed examples that you will share with the class. Develop those examples.

4. Also consider question H. Come with an example or two.

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, Sept. 20:

Parent Information: I will give you the handout tomorrow. Please have your parent photocopy the last page so they have my information, then return the original filled in by your parents for me - by Thursday. 

1. Allegory of the Cave: Please finish the "Questions to discuss after reading" to the end of F.  

Incorporate the question in your answers so they make sense to anyone. Develop your answers. And please use examples from the real world to help make things clear.

English 11 Homework for Monday, Tues, Wed:

Parent Information: Please have your parent photocopy the last page of the Overvies so they have my information; then return the original filled in by your parents for me - by Thursday.

1. The Jade Peony: You are working in your Expert Groups until the end of the day Wednesday. Follow the instructions on your Lit Circle Role.  You will start your Literature Groups on Thursday.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, you are in your Expert Groups, developing an engaging role for your Literature Group. 

In your Expert Groups you work together to create a lesson Plan as organized on the Handout. Be thorough in your write- up (including answers), so that you have a plan to teach it; but you do not share the answers with your Lit Circle: you make them do the work you have developed.  

English 10 Homework for Monday, Sept. 19:

1. Write your final draft of "Many Workmen".

a. Word process your final paragraph. Take your time and do it well. Don't print until it is perfect. 

b. Please use a 12 point font, and Times New Roman. 

c. Double space your paragraph, and indent the first line with the TAB key.

d. Attach all your other drafts underneath your final draft. Staple it and hand it in on Monday.

2. The Allegory of the Cave by Plato: 

a. Reread Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"by going online and reading a few versions of it so that you understand it. There are a lot of versions on-line, and some good visuals to help you understand it. 

b. On Monday you will write a paragraph explaining the Allegory. 

 

English 11 Homework for Friday-Monday: Sept. 16 to 19: 

1.   Take your Overview home so your parents can take all the information down, particularly the Expectations and the last page. They are to fill in the last page and send it back to me - by Thursday.

1. The Jade Peony - B and D blocks: Finish reading Part One of the novel and start developing ideas for your Literature Circle group over the weekend. You should come with your ideas on Monday, where you will be working to create your Expert Groups.

English 10 Homework for Thursday, Sept. 15:

1. S.I.F.T: Finish the S.I.F.T for "Many Workmen" by tomorrow.

S-Speaker/Subject/Story can be completed.

I- Imagery can also be completed. 

F-1. Type of poem can be completed. Develop your answer.

T-Theme can be completed as well. Answer each of the questions (3).  

Then write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) explaining the poem. Do the paragraph on a separate piece of paper, and bring it with you tomorrow.

 

English 11 Homework for Thursday, Sept. 15:

1. The Jade Peony: Start reading the novel, and as you start delving into the story, consider ideas for your Literature Role. 

English 10 Homework for Wednesday, Sept. 14:

1. Many Workmen: Do the questions for S. in the S.I.F.T.:  speaker, subject and story.

2. Have a definition of Imagery and 3 examples. 

3. Print out a good sheet of Tone words.

English 11 Homework for Wednesday, 14th:

1. Finish your Research Questions for The Jade Peony, 1-16 for tomorrow. You will share your work in groups before we start the novel.

English 11 Homework for Wednesday, English September 14:

1. Be working on completing the 16 questions for "Chinese Community Diverse and Spreading" by Wednesday.

2. Tomorrow bring your 8 dividers so we can set up our Portfolios.

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, September 13:

1. Be working on completing a) Paragraph explanation of the poem, "Many Workmen."  Also, create another scenario similar to "Many Workmen," that also shows human hubris. 

2. Please have your dividers with you tomorrow, Tuesday, so we can set up our Portfolios.

English 10 Homework for Monday, September 12:

1. Have 8 Dividers by Tuesday.

English 11 Homework for Monday, September 12:

1. Question/Research: What makes Wayson Choy worthy of writing a novel about Chinese Canadians? This will be a developed paragraph or two. This requires his background etc.

2. Do the research questions 1 - 10. You will need to write each question down, then answer each question in a reasonably developed paragraph (2-5 sentences- or more). This requires you to research each question carefully. 

3. Binder Dividers (8) are due on Tuesday.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 and 11 Homework for Friday, September 9:

1. Finish the Student Information Handout for tomorrow if you haven't already. Bring it to class.

2. 8 Binder dividers for English Binder by Tuesday.

English 12 : I forgot to give you your Portfolios!

Please drop by this week, anytime, to pick them up.

 

English 12 for Monday, June 20:

1. Portfolios updated

2. Composition Topics: Handout

3. Tips for Writing

4. Exam Rules

and a walk, if there is time.

English 11: Monday, June 20:

1. Collect all handouts

2. Portfolio Updated

3. Ariel and Prospero's goodbye.

4. Marks posted.

English 9: Monday, June 20:

1. We will finish the movie.

2. Then each group at their table will create a quiz on the movie to give the class. 

English 9:

1. Friday: We will continue watching R & J

2. We will update our Portfolios on Monday so that you can take them home.

English 11 Homework for tonight and tomorrow: 

1. You are writing the script of Prospero's and Ariel's goodbyes to each other. This is a dialogue between the two of them, that shows the depth and breath of their relationship; therefore, the tone is not flippant. 

This is a creative assignment that will show your understanding of Prospero's and Ariel's time and work together, and expressing their leave-taking in a Shakespearean way. 

The length should be half a page, to two-thirds of a page, single-paced, 12 point font. You will present it.

English 12 Homework for Wednesday-Friday, June 15:

1. The Tempest: You are working on three  analyses of the Epilogue to present on Friday.  

2. Alicia and Emma: please come with all of the Handouts I gave you over the course. We are collecting them.

3. On Friday I will give you two English 12 exams to practice. We will go over them on Monday.

 

English 9 Homework for Wednesday, June 15:

1. You are to have completed and handed in, all of your Act 1 to Act 5 questions. They are neat and organized and handed in tomorrow, Wednesday. No lates.

2. Please bring all the Handouts I have given you. I will collect them. 

3. Wednesday we begin watching the Zefferelli movie version of Romeo and Juliet. 

English 11 Homework for Thursday, Friday and Monday

1. Thursday and Friday: In your groups you are presenting three interpretations of the Epilogue in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Make sure the interpretations have differences so that you can discuss them. Be sure to have a clear understanding of the "Existential" one.

2. If there is time left on Friday, I will have you collect all the handouts I have given you; other wise, I will collect them on Monday.

3. Also on Monday, together, we will write Prospero's and Ariel's goodbye.

English 12 Homework for Tuesday, June 14:

1. Please return Brave New World. And bring all your handouts in your Binder.

2. The Tempest: Read to the end of the play and prepare to share the following: 

a) How does Prospero deal with Trincolo and Stephano?

b) How does Prospero deal with Gonzalo and Alonzo?

c) How does Prospero deal with Caliban.  

d) What has Caliban learned, and what do you think Caliban will do?  

e) How does the relationship between Prospero and Ariel end? Why to do you think Shakespeare left it this way?

Due Wednesday: Read the Epilogue and search 2 or 3 analyses of Prospero/Shakespeare's final lines. Be prepared to discuss.

 

English 9 Homework for Monday, June 13:

1. Chart: get your Chart up to date by Monday.  It is neat, organized, thorough and readable. 

2. You should have all your Act 1-5 questions completed to the end of Act 5, scene 3, line 212. 

Each of your answers should be 2 -4 sentences,  and should incorporate an integrated quote or two where it helps understanding.

 

English 11 and 12 Homework for Next Week:

1. The Tempest: Finish Act 5 presentations.  Please hand in your Presentation Notes.

2. The Tempest: Epilogue analysis. (research)

3. The Tempest: Prospero and Ariel don't say goodbye.  Write it and present it.

4. Collect all Handouts.

5. Portfolios Updated.

6. Advice for the next class.

 

English 9 Homework for Wednesday, June 8:

1. Chart: Keep it up to date each day

2. Act 4: Finish the questions for Act 4, scenes i, ii, and iii.  You are writing in sentences, and every question should have more than one sentence to be clear.  You are also to integrate a piece of the text into your answers.  One integration per answer is fine. 

English 11 & 12 Homework for Wednesday, June 8:

1. The Tempest: everyone pre-reads for the next class, and you can even have questions for the presenters.

2. You also need to take good notes.

English 9 Homework for Tuesday, June 7:

1. Romeo and Juliet: All Act 3 questions are due tomorrow at 8:20 am. Your answers must be well-developed and thoughtful. 

2. CHART: Your chart should be completed to where we left off. You are on the Falling Action.

English 11 and 12 Homework for Tuesday, June 7:

1. The Tempest: Everyone keeps good notes from the class, and everyone is to preread the next Act and scene for the next day.  You can also ask questions of the group that is presenting.

I will have a pop-quiz from time to time. These will be a question for a short paragraph.

English 9 Homework for Monday, June 6:

1. Romeo and Juliet: Do all the questions in Act 3 to where we left off: Scene 1, 2, 3.

*You are to develop your answers: one sentence answers are not enough. *You should be writing in paragraphs (2-4 sentences: whatever is required to answer the question well), *you should be clear, and *you should be thorough. 

I also expect you to and integrate quotes into some of these paragraphs.

English 11 and 12 for Monday, June 6:

1. You all need to be be working with your group on the Acts and Scenes you will be presenting over the next two weeks. 

You need to study your Act, and scene. Go online to understand it well, and prepare to discuss and work with the class.  

I will play the CD of your scene first, and your group will do the rest.  

I suggest you engage the class by having questions and other commentary to ensure they understand the plot, themes etc. The class should have time for questions also. 

I also suggest you keep the time of your presentation to 45 minutes. I will play the CD, you will do the rest, and this should take approximately and hour in total to do.

On Monday we will begin with Act 2, scene 2. 

English 9 Homework for Friday, June 3:

1. CHART - Rising Action: Tomorrow, I will be checking your bullets on your chart on the Rising Action of the play. You need it to be up to date, and it should be neat, and in proper structure. Get it ready.

2. Questions for Act 3, scene 1: Do the few question that we covered before we left off. Your answers should be full sentences, often more than one, and try integrating a quote or two where you can.

English 11 and 12 Homework for Friday, June 3:

1. Research Thomas More's treatise "Utopia." Compare Gonzalo's ideals in Act 2, scene 1, lines 143 to 152 and lines 155 to 160, and 167 to 170. 

Process: 

A. In your own words, and in bullet form, write out all of Gonzalo's ideals, in your own words and explain.

B. Read some excerpts and analysis of Thomas More's commonwealth "Utopia."  Create a list of several bullets.

C. Compare these two sets of ideals for living. Several bullets.

D. Then, in another set of bullets, contrast those with Antonio's and Sebastian's ideals. Be neat and be thorough.

English 9 Homework due by Thursday:

1. Finish all the questions for Act 2, scene 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Develop your answers, use some quotes from the text, and care about neatness.

2. Work on developing your "Structure in a Shakespearean Play" Chart. You need to be neat and carefully chart the main action from the beginning to the end of Act 2. There are 5 more Acts, so be careful to give enough room for it all. You are seated in the groups that I set up yesterday. 

*You are working at your table quietly and doing your own work.  

English 12 and 11 Homework from Monday to Thursday, June 2nd:

Done:already For Monday: You are to have 1) your Introductory Paragraph, including your Thesis Statement completed 2) have written out all the points (in bullet form) that you will include in your essay, 3) have written out all the quotes your will integrate into your essay, from the play, using Shakespeare Navigator,  4) and the quotes you will use from the articles.  

**Monday to Thursday:You are writing your essay Monday to Thursday.  It is due at the BEGINNING of your block on  Thursday.  

**Print your essay in the Library or at home before you come to class.

1.5 spacing, 12 pt. ft. Times New Roman, Indent paragraphs.

Return the articles into the IN BASKET, and  The Tempest texts on top of the box.

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Done Last Friday's Instructions: You should have a working Thesis Statement for me to look at. This Thesis applies your understanding of Montaigne's and Etinson's articles about ethnocentricity to "The Tempest", specifically to Prospero and Caliban's relationship. Remember what a Thesis is: it is the main idea, or contention, that directs your entire essay. It is what you are showing, proving.  It must be important, true,  and well-written.  You may want to build your Introductory Paragraph in full. Your Thesis is the last sentence (or two) of your Introduction.

Number your paragraphs on your articles so you can cite your integrated quotes properly, and cite your quotes from the script. 

ie. Caliban declares that the "island's mine, by Sycorax my mother," and therefore, he should not be imprisoned and enslaved by Prospero (Act 1, Scene 2, line 331).

ie. Michel de Montaigne is impressed by the natives of New World, as they "are still ruled by natural laws" and live "in a state of purity" ("On Cannibals", paragraph 2).

1. Apply Michel de Montaigne's essay "On Cannibals," and Adam Etinson's article "Of Cannibals, Kings and Culture: The Problem of Ethnocentricity" to Prospero and Caliban's relationship, in Act 1, Scene 2, lines 305 to "So, slave; hence! (Exit Caliban).

This will be an essay, word-processed, 12 pt. ft., Times New Roman, double-spaced, 2 pages (or a bit more).

**You must include a Glossary of all the words you had to look up and used in your essay.

You need to understand the two Articles very well, and the section of the text in "The Tempest," in order to do this well. So reread these sections of the text in the play, and the two Articles, as many times as you need to understand them and use them.

English 9 Homework for Friday,  May 26:

You will be presenting your Balcony Scenes Friday. You should practice at home as well.

1. Romeo and Juliet: Read Act 2 , scene 2, pages 87 - 97.  This is the famous"Balcony Scene." Use Shakespeare Navigator, and your own understanding to rewrite these lines, so they are in more modern English. 

You should not just use Shakespeare Navigator to help you, but also put your own words and expressions in that update the language, but also keep the script true to the characters thoughts, feeling and plot.  You can cut down the length, but keep their passion and the story line.