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.