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.