English 9 Homework for Friday, Jan. 22:

See you all tomorrow for a dramatic end of the Semester.  Know your stuff!

English 10 Homework for Thursday/Friday:

You are working on your Portfolio Analysis of the work you have done this semester. You are to examine the 4 areas at the top of the Handout, and apply each of them to each area of writing: areas a-f. All 6 areas should be well-developed. You will need to write in paragraphs, and some areas will need more that one or two paragraphs. You must include examples and reflect on your work. 

Then you must so The Summation. Read your Handout.

You will work on this tonight; and bring your portfolio tomorrow so that you can work on it in class.  It is due on Friday morning.

You might want to word-process your work.

English 9 Homework for Thursday, Jan. 21:

1. Romeo and Juliet Scene: Be working on the writing of your script, and also the Introduction of the scene. Your placement of the new scene must make it clear to the audience why it is important, and you must practice it enough to convince us that it is a worthy addition to the play. You should begin your performance by making the context clear.

You will have tomorrow to finish your script and to rehearse, and Thursday night. 

English 9 Homework for Wednesday, Jan. 20:

1. Romeo and Juliet: You should be working on writing your two minute script. Remember, it must emphasize one of the play's central themes; and it must be inserted in a way that makes sense. 

English 10 Homework for Wednesday, Jan. 20:

1. Complete the multiple choice and the synthesis essay, for "Crow Lake" and "Life Through His Eyes." This is due tomorrow.

English10 Homework for Tuesday, Jan 19:

1. Read the poem, "Marcus Millsap: School Day Afternoon", and do the multiple choice.

2. Read the short story, "Crow Lake" and do the multiple choice. Come with this work tomorrow.

English 9 Homework for Tuesday, Jan. 19:

1. Romeo and Juliet: Please finish all the questions for Act V for tomorrow (no lates). Do them well by developing your answers, and integrate "quotes" into your answers.

English 10 Homework for Monday, Jan. 18:

1. Provincial Prompt: People must adapt to a changing world. Remember that you can include both personal and global examples. 

English 9 Homework for Monday, Jan. 18:

1. Romeo and Juliet: Finish all the questions to the end of Act 5, scene 3, line 17- Define the word, "obsequies."

English 10 Homework for Friday, Jan. 15:

1. Provincial Practice: Work on your outline for the synthesis essay. Bring it (and the exam) tomorrow. You will have 1 hour and 20 minutes to write it.

English 9 Homework for Thursday, Jan. 14:

1. Romeo and Juliet: 

A. Juliet's Soliloquy in Act 4, scene 3. You are to write this soliloquy in modern English. There is a lot of imagery. Be thorough. Be neat!

B. Any outstanding work must come in tomorrow, also.

 

English 9 Homework for Wednesday, Jan. 13:

1. Romeo and Juliet: Complete the questions for all of Act Three...and Act Four to line 88 on page 219. Answer in full sentences and develop your answers, by integrating a quote in each of your answers. 

Example: Juliet has clearly broken her relationship with her Nurse when she declares that Nurse and "my bosom henceforth shall be twain"(Act 3, 5, 240).

Act Four Questions: Scene 1:  

1. Why is Paris at Friar Laurence's cell? 

2. What does Paris think Juliet's tears are about? Are they? Explain. 

 3. Discuss the dramatic irony of Paris and Juliet's meeting. What is the nature of their conversation? 

4. What are all the horrible things Juliet threatens to do if she is forced to marry Paris?

 

English 9 Homework for Tuesday, Jan. 12:

1. Romeo and Juliet - Act 3: Do all the questions to the end of Act 3, scene 3. You are to write in full sentences and develop your answers. These are due at the beginning of the block.

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, Jan. 12:

1. Prompt: Imagination can help create a better world.  This essay is due at the end of the block, Tuesday. I am giving you more time, because I am expecting an well-developed, intelligent use of your semester's resources.

English 10 Homework for Monday, Jan. 11:

1. Prompt Essay: Imagination can help create a better world.

This is a prompt that could incorporate a lot of the work you have done this semester: the ideas and themes in Plato's, and other's allegories, to the Federal Election and a new Prime Minister with new ideas, to the dreams and failures of Orwell's animals, to the modern Ozymandias, whose brutal war is destroying Syria and forcing his people to flee for their lives, creating a sea of refugees who drown or languish in camps, or who survive and imagine a safer shore where they can live a better life in a better world world...........Imagine....

You have some good resources from your work this semester that you could use - among others.

B Block: Start your outline or your essay this weekend, bring it to class Monday, and have it finished by and the end of the block.  

C Block: Because you further behind, your essay will be due at the end of the day Tuesday.

English 9 Homework for Monday, Jan. 11:

1. Romeo and Juliet: 

A. Questions: You are to complete all questions to the end of Act 3, scene 2, line 32.

B. Juliet's Soliloquy "Gallop apace." You are to rewrite this soliloquy in modern English so anyone can understand it. Be thorough and use a dictionary for words you don't know and need to change. Also, you must look up mythological references, knowing who and what they are, so you can incorporate them with understanding in modern English.

The format for this assignment is a soliloquy, so it looks like Juliet's. Word process it.

**Do not use Shakespeare Navigator or you will not get marks for it. Work it out on your own, in your own words.

It is due Monday at the beginning of the block. 

English 9 Homework for Friday, Jan. 8:

1. Romeo and Juliet:

A: Figurative Language: by Thursday-no lates.

B: Act 2, scene 4 questions: due Friday morning.

C: Read Act 2, scene 5 and scene 6: Read these two scenes in your book AND in read these two scenes in Shakespeare Navigator. Then do all the questions.

English 9 Homework for Thursday, Jan. 7th:

1. Romeo and Juliet: A) You are to have finished your Figurative Language assignment. Hand it in tomorrow at the beginning of the block. It should be organized, well-developed and neat.

B) You are to have finished all the questions to the end of Act 2, scene 3. Make sure that your answers to the questions incorporate the question so that it makes sense when you read it. I will be checking it tomorrow.

C) Act 2, scene 4: Go online to Shakespeare Navigator to help you understand Act 2, scene 4 to line 95. Take notes and be prepared to explain. 

Tomorrow we will finish Act 2.

English 9 Homework for Wednesday, Jan. 6:

1. Romeo and Juliet: Finish the questions for Act 2, scene 2. Be thorough and use some quotes.

 2. Finish the Figurative Language work for the Balcony Scene. Make your explanations clear and develop your answers with integrated quotations.  

For example: When Romeo says that there is "more peril" in Juliet's eyes than twenty Capulet swords, he is expressing how beautiful she is and how much he is falling in love with with her, despite the dangers.

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, Jan. 5:

1. If you did not hand in your Dialectical Journal today, it is due at 8:20am tomorrow.

English 9 Homework for Tuesday, Jan. 4:

1. Romeo and Juliet: Do the two questions for Act 2, scene 1, and Act 2, scene 2, questions 1 to 7. 

Read this very carefully, using the script and the glossary, and writing the answers. Do your best.