English 12 Homework over the Winter Break:

This work is due on the day we get back to school. This is practice for the Provincial Exams.

1. Synthesis Essay: "The Horses" and   "Vegetable Gardens on Mars." 

You are to read the texts carefully and then write a Synthesis Essay on the following prompt: Would the speaker in "The Horses" by Edwin Muir,  support the technological developments in Denise Deveau's article, "Vegetable Gardens on Mars?"

This essay is an analysis of the two texts, and is NOT in the First Person point of view. The Synthesis Essay must have an Introduction of three to five sentences, three body paragraphs of around 5-8 sentences each, which develops the synthesis,  and a 4-5/6 sentence Conclusion, that concludes the Essay in an logical and appropriate way.

English 12 Homework due Tuesday to Thursday:

1. Oryx and Crake Presentations: These are group presentations of 15 to 20 minutes in length. You are to identify the major Themes of the story, and then apply them to our REAL world.

Atwood has written the end of mankind - a very gloomy one.  

Your job is to grapple with this dark ending - by showing how we are already entering into her imagined world. You will need to reference the novel, frequently, and the world we live in.  

You will need to search online for excellent scientific sites that will help you understand the era we have entered, and the possible outcomes.  

Your presentation will include your understanding of the novel, but, more importantly, what you have learned about the era we are entering in this century. 

Show what you have learned, but also what you see in your future, having looked at excellent scientific sites, and considering the world as it is,... and beyond into our possible future.

Your conclusion should be bring it all together, looking at our times, and into the future.  

English 11 Homework for to January 8th:

1. The Jade Peony:  Complete questions for Chapter to Chapter 14.

2. Literature Circles: You will be working in your Lit Circles from Monday to Thursday, this  week. 

3. The Break: You will read and complete Chapter Questions 11 - 15.

You will be working with your Table Groups on line to finish all of these assignments, and to hand them in on the Monday we come back.

We will discuss the novel when we get back.

English 12 Homework: Oryx and Crake: for Tuesday the 12th and onward.......

A Block:   Let's fill up the box for the Canned Food Drive!  Bring cans and other appropriate items for those in need.  Merry Christmas!

Oryx and Crake:  You are to have read the novel by the end of the day Thursday.

Themes and questions in Oryx and Crake:

1. This is a story of how language and the humanities make us human. Discuss and show.

2. Be prepared to discuss in class, Jimmy's thoughts, Page 316 - that "there was no longer any comfort in the words. There was nothing in them. It no longer delighted Jimmy to possess these small collections of letters that other people had forgotten about." Discuss, explain, and give examples.

3. How has the unchecked pursuit of scientific progress in this story dehumanized humankind? Give several examples. Add a few more examples from our world.

4. The decline of the language arts, and the displacement of literature by consumer and entertainment cultures creates superficial, flat people who are unable to evoke deeper human feelings or ideas. Discuss and show with real life examples.

**Read carefully, think about what is happening, take notes, come with discussion questions, and your ideas, and be prepared to share with the class. 

What are the moral questions in Oryx and Crake?  

**Show how these questions are already in play in our times.

You will work with your group to present your  understanding of the text and the major issues it shows, including in our times. NEXT WEEK.

5.  The Essay Prompt: 

  Atwood shows us that mankind has not learned

           enough of the ways of the world,

                and this ignorance will not

                      guide us to shelter.

          Without learning who we are in nature,

          We are just a miracle that leaps from

                      
                      Tower   to    Tower

                                       
                                                    and 

                                             amounts        
                                                                                                           to 
                                                          nothing.

You will come with your Essay Outline on January 8th and begin writing. You will have three days to finish.

English 11 Homework for Monday, 11th:

1. The Jade Peony: You will continue in your Literary groups discussing and learning  through each of your Roles. You do not have to rush through this process. Listen, contribute, questions, etc.  Make it through.

2. This weekend you read to the end of Chapter 8, and did questions 6 to 7. 

3. You are now reading Chapters 8 and 9.

English 12 Homework for Tuesday, the Fifth to Thursday the 7th.

1. You are preparing to begin your Synthesis Essay of "Dover Beach" and Oryx and Crake.

You will begin writing Tuesday and work through Wednesday and Thursday with your approved Outline. 

You may come in to class at the lunch break and I will give you a half hour after school. However, be prepared to have a lot of people in the room.

English 12 Homework due tomorrow 29th:

You are working on your ideas of synthesis for the Synthesis Essay, "Oryx and Crake" and "Dover Beach." You must show how these two texts have many literary and other important elements in common: plots, settings, characters, conflicts - both inner and outer, moods, motives, purpose, narrators. In other words, how is the story exposing essential truths about humanity and it's progress and in both texts. 

The Synthesis Essay begins Tuesday the 5th of December and finishes Thursday the 7th of December. 

You will finish reading Oryx and Crake by the 20th of December.

English 12 Homework for tomorrow and Wednesday, the 21st: 

**Some of you have not handed in your Dialectical Journals.  You must have them in by 8:20 am tomorrow (Thursday) or you will not get credit.

1. Have your Dialectical Journals, 5-7, handed in by Wednesday.

2. The work for "Dover Beach" is due Monday,   27th.

3. Read the poem,"Dover Beach," as many times as you need to. A poem must be read several times. Read it well, look up words that you don't know, and create a glossary of terms. Also do the vocabulary list at the top of the Handout.

4. Finish all the questions for "Dover Beach." Use the Handouts . Do the SIFT and the Questions.

Develop your answers - and integrate quotes where it makes sense to.  

**Identify Literary Devices where you should for understanding and clarity.

English 12 Homework due Thursday to Tuesday.

1. Read to the end of Chapter 7.

2. Finish Dialectical Journal #3, from Chapters 5-7.  Start taking notes and building ideas for the next Dialectical Journal. 

English 11 Homework for The Jade Peony:

1. The Jade Peony: You are working in your Groups, starting with Summarizer, and working through all the Roles, in order, 1 - 5. 

Everyone is on task, adding their ideas, discussing, and learning with the group. 

English 12 Homework for November 14:

1. Oryx and Crake: Read all of 5: pages 115 to 134.

Read carefully, look up words, write notes that you need to....and be prepared to share your ideas. 

English 11 Homework for this week:

Bring your novel everyday, as you will be working with it.

Read Chapter One of The Jade Peony by tomorrow. 

In class you will discuss the questions as a group, then do the questions individually.

**English 12 Class work and Homework for this week and next due Tuesday, November 14th.

1. You are working everyday on your Dialectical Journals for Oryx and Crake. You are working to the end of Chapter 6 -  Rakunks, to end of Brainfrizz.

You must identify the procedure you are using for each entry and develop your ideas.

2. You must also develop a Vocabulary List for this novel that will help you understand things and to use in your writing. 

3. Go to the Online Magazine- INSIDE ECOLOGY, and read and take a few notes on Britt Wray's short book review: Rise of the Necrofauna,  for future use. It is short.

4. Read the Handout :"Jurassic Park Dream Moves Closer." Also read the National Post article: Science is inching closer to bringing species back from extinction - but the rise of necrofauna has risks. Take notes!!

English 12 Work for Oryx and Crake for Thursday to Monday:

1. Read to the end of Downpour.

2. Do 3 Dialectical Journal Entries: use the style of the Sample Dialectical Journal entry for   your entries.  Develop your Journals! 

You do not have to have an Entry for each Chapter, but you do have to make good choices of Entries. And, you can have two Entries from a Chapter: it is all up to you. But develop your Journals!

You are the Reader !!! and you are the Learner

3. Vocabulary quiz on Monday.

Oryx and Crake: English 12: BLOCKS A &C:

Both classes will read the novel online at home, and the books will be shared in class for discussion and other work by both blocks.

**ALWAYS LOOK UP WORDS YOU DON"T KNOW! and be prepared to share your work.

English 12: Blocks  A and C - Dialectical Journals: 

Starting Wednesday, you will be reading the novel using the online book at home, and the Novel in class.  You do not take the Novel home, but go on the link below, when you are at home. 

Nov. 1: You are to read the first 3 Chapters tonight: Do not go further in the reading - but start developing your first "Dialectical Entry." 

Look at the Handout I gave for Dialectical Journal Entries for setup, style, and development. 

http://docs.ivymindacademy.com/EBooks/oryx_crake.pdf

Ultimately you will be sharing and discussing with the class; therefore your expression, ideas etc. should be clear. 

English 11 Homework for Tuesday to Monday, November the 6th:

1. You are to work with your group, reading and analyzing the poems, and ultimately creating a synthesis of these poems. 

2. Your group will be presenting your poems of synthesis on Monday, November 6.   

So, you need to know your poems, the areas of synthesis, and be able to present with understanding and clarity.  

Take the time do read them well. Be on task at all times.

3. After a thorough understanding of each of the poems you will ultimately write a Synthesis Essay that shows your understanding of the Chinese experience, from the early 20th century and beyond. 

You must integrate some of the lines of poetry into your essay to show their experience.

English 12 Homework for Tuesday, October 31:

1. Look at the many covers of Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake: look for this novel online. Get a sense of the story and ideas from the covers. 

What is a crake? and what is an oryx? 

Reread Swift's and Woolf's paragraphs that Atwood included in the setup.  Look carefully and play a bit with them, combining all of this, and have some interesting synthesis of ideas to share with the class, tomorrow.

English 12 Homework: for this Weekend:

Read carefully the following instructions:

1. Read the paragraph by Jonathan Swift, who wrote Gulliver's Travels.

2. Read the paragraph by Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse.

3. For each writer do the following: 

* write a decent paragraph about who each author is

*when they lived

*what they cared about in their lives and in the world - and therefore what they wrote about.

*give examples and excerpts of their ideas and writings*

*why are these writers important.  

*Bring some interesting things to learn and   share with others. 

English 11 Homework - Wednesday to Monday.

1. In your groups, write a engaging biography of Wayson Choy.

2. "The Sun": Do the questions on the "Immigration Cartoon" tomorrow in class.

3. The Chinese Community over time: Do the questions on the handout : "Chinese Community Diverse and Spreading," in order to understand the reasons the Chinese came to Canada, particularly in the 20th Century.  In your groups, answer the questions 1 to 16. Go online, and use a variety of appropriate resources. This should be finished by


4. Please have your Sentence by Sentence Revision of "The Pedestrian" and "The Destructors" by tomorrow.

English 11 Homework:  

1. Sentence by Sentence Revision of "The Pedestrian", "The Smile" and "The Destructors."

This is due on Friday.

English 12 Homework for Monday onward, is to do a sentence by sentence revision of your Synthesis Essay. Number each sentence on the original, and then revise each sentence on your computer. 

We will start it on Monday and finish by Thursday. Those of you who have the text make sure to bring it to school on Monday.

Finish "Two Fish, One Morning," due Thursday. 

English 11 Homework for the Weekend and into next week:

1. Any outstanding work that you have not finished that was due Friday, must come in on Monday.

2. Synthesis Essay: you are working on your Synthesis Essay: "The Destructors" and "The Pedestrian."

You are to be working on the bullets of Synthesis you will use to write your Essay.

Follow the handout, "Creating an Essay Outline" that I gave you, to build your Outline.  

You will have Monday to finalize this Outline, and then you will write Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

English 12 Homework for Tuesday/Wednesday, Thursday, October 12th: and beyond........

You will be creating your Outline for your Synthesis that you will begin Tuesday and finish on Thursday at the end of class.

1. Read carefully and more than once, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara and "Repent, Harlequin" Said the Ticktockman.":  Look up words, places, etc. that you don't know.

2. Do the Questions 1-5 on the back page.

3. Start working on the Elements of Literature in this story: Character, Antagonist, Atmosphere, Conflict (internal and external), Contrast, Description, the Foil, Foreshadowing, Irony, Mood, and any others that you can add. You are not using all of these elements, but you need to know what ones you will be developing by Monday.

You are developing your understanding of the elements in this story, in all aspects, then deciding on the essential elements for your essay.

4. These become your Bullets of Synthesis, the most important ideas in each story: both differences and similarities.  

I will give you time to do this. You will have from the 13th to the 19th. The essay will be taken in on Thursday at the end of the block. 

You may work together until Monday, then be working on your own on this Synthesis Essay.

You have an Outline format: you will be integrating some quotes into your paragraphs, ones that are worthy of helping develop important ideas and understanding. You will use transitions between paragraphs and build a Concluding Paragraph. 

Your Concluding Paragraph will be approximately 5 sentences in total, and will make an inspired conclusion about these stories that are true about life. 

English 12 Homework for Tuesday, 10th:

1. "Repent, Harlequin": You are to complete the Questions on the board. Develop you answers in full sentences, and as many sentences as you need.

2. You are to read the Short Story, more than once,  and look up words you don't know. Start a document in your notes for these words, so that you learn them, and can use them.

3. Questions: Do all of the Questions on the board -  and, all the questions on the Handout of questions for the "Ticktockman" that I gave you. Develop your answers, and integrate quotes from the text where it enhances understanding.

This is all due on Tuesday.

English 12 Homework for A and C Blocks: for Friday, 6th:

1. Be prepared to present your bullets of Synthesis.

Done: C Block: Assess which character, the speaker in "The Water Diviner," or Joe Wolfchild in "Dream Wheels," displays a greater degree of self-confidence, and why.

Done: A Block: Assess which passage, "In Search of Eeels" or "In November," best illustrates the theme of change over time. 

You will be writing an Essay on Monday. Over the Weekend, get your 

English 11 Homework for Friday to Wednesday, Oct. 11:

1. Synthesis Essay Revision of "The Pedestrian" and "The Smile."

Integration: You are to revise every sentence that you have an error in. This includes fixing your integration of quotes. You are to highlight each revision with a highlighter.

Use the "Integration of Quotes" document I gave for the proper style of integration.

2.You are also to revise every sentence that has any other errors. Underline each revised sentence.

3. Presentations for Synthesis of "The Pedestrian", "The Smile", and "The Destructors." Due Wednesday and Thursday.

4. You will be presenting on Wednesday and Thursday in your groups, using bullets of synthesis.

5 .Then you will be writing the Synthesis Essay.
This will begin Friday...then into next week.

English 12 Homework for Tuesday/Wednesday, October 10:

1. "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara:  Read this short story at least once, preferably twice. Look up words, places, etc. that you don't know.

2. Do the Questions 1-5 on the back page.

3. Start working on Elements of Literature in this story: Character, Antagonist, Atmosphere, Conflict (internal and external), Contrast, Description, the Foil, Foreshadowing, Irony, Mood, and any others that you can add.

You should be developing your understanding of the elements in this story. 

4. You will be working on Bullets of Synthesis of the two stories: "Repent, Harlequin," Said the Ticktockman" and "The Lesson."  

I will give you time to do this: two more days! Use the Handout on the Elements of Literature to help you, and work with your Group. 

It will culminate in a Synthesis Essay.

English 12 Homework due Monday, October 2nd:

1. Both Block A and Block C are to write the Composition section of the Provincial Exam.

Block C: January 2016: Facing obstacles is a part of life.

This is a personal response with an Introduction, 2 body paragraphs, and a conclusion.

Block A: January 2014: People who are significant to us can make a difference in our lives.

This is a personal response with an Introduction, 2 body paragraphs, and a conclusion.

English 12 Homework for Monday,  25th:

1. Essay: We Are Evolving But Are We Progressing? 

You are to have a Outline for this essay by Monday. I will approve your Outline before you  begin writing.  You will have Monday and Tuesday to complete your essay.  This will be written in pencil, in class, on paper I give you.   

English 12 Homework : A and C Blocks.

Please hand back to me all the Provincial Exams I have given you. And pick up your Portfolios before the end of next week. 

A. You are writing the Synthesis Essay tonight at home. It is due at the beginning of class.

B. Tomorrow in Class you will be writing the Composition.

 

1. Return all Frankenstein Texts  by tomorrow- Thursday.

2. Return all other handouts you have from this course, from the beginning to Bibliotherapy etc. 

C and A Block: Shmily, Marcus, Ivan,  Haoji: Nathan, Adelaide, Charles, Yennifer, Sam, Nick, Nicole,  Angell, Denise, Terry - you owe me many other texts. 

2. "Climbing Lessons": Read and do Multiple Choice, and write the Paragraph for  "Climbing Lessons."

3. Read "William Parry and the Arctic Archipelago," and do the multiple choice. Also read "The Navigator of New York" and the multiple choice.  Do the synthesis questions on Page 14: 22 and 23.  

Be prepared to write the Synthesis Essay tomorrow in class. See page 15 for the question. 

You may come with bullets:  

* 5 words

* 5 words

* 5 words

* 5 words

English 12: You are working on your Bibliotherapy Assignment.  

DONE: The 3 Texts you are using for your Bibliotherapy is due Wednesday-Today. This is a summary/overview of each text.

**You are working on your own, developing your analysis, your thoughtful attempt to give the Creature some reason to live and find solace in a world that does not want him.  

**Each of the three texts you choose to help him with, must be developed, sufficiently, to move him enough to want to live - to have a positive impact on him - and the reader.  This is analysis!  Your choices of texts and the how you use them are to make him want to live.

These short but well-written analytical essays are 2 thirds of a page, each,  single-spaced, and with indented paragraphs. They will be written in class.

Your structure is as follows: You will have a concise (short) Introduction, 2 Body Paragraphs that are sufficient, not long and rambling, but sharp, well-written and to the point, and with a short Conclusion.

You may have an outline of 5 bullets of 8 words for each essay AND a maximum of 2 integrated quotes. Quotes are optional.

The First Analysis (short essay) is to be written  Monday, June 5th. Changing Sorrows of Werter to your chosen text.

The Second Analysis is to be written on Friday, June 9th - changing "Paradise Lost" to your chosen text.

The Third and final analysis is written on Tuesday, June 13th - changing Volney's Ruins of Empires to your chosen text.

Also see below for proper style of texts:

Novels Titles are underlined 

"Poem titles" are in quotes.

Non-Fiction is underlined. 

 

English 10: To Kill a Mockingbird Presentations to Friday, June 16:

1. You should be reading TKMB Chapters 19 to 24, taking notes and working with your group to develop your Presentations.

*Done: 2. Tomorrow we will finish Group Presentations of Chapters 13-18: B Block-Matthew's Group and D Block-Alan's Group. 

*Done: Chapters 13-18: Due Monday, 29th of May.

Chapters 19-24: Due Wednesday, 7th of June.

Chapters 25-31: Due Friday, 16th of June.

1. On Wednesday to Friday  you will work in your groups to develop your Group Presentations, where you will develop the following: Themes, Important Passages, Important Quotes, Character Analyses, and a Symbol for that section. 

You will have 10 minutes for the whole presentation.

In each group, each speaker has an important part to contribute to the presentation. Your ideas, verbal expression, including volume, body comportment, attitude, and time management are all important when addressing the class: and of course, your Analysis.

I will give the group a holistic mark for your presentation.

Your work will be word-processed, 12 pt. font, Times New Roman. Each person in the group will have a written document of their section of the Presentation that will be handed in to me when the group is finished.

**Each group will present three times over the course of the Assignment.

English 10 Homework for Thursday to Monday, May 15:

1. TKMB: Keep working through Chapters 9, 10, 11 and 12. You should be developing your four themes: developing Quotes, Passages, and Character Analysis for these Chapters.

You should not have more than 2, or at most, 3 Quotes, Passages and Character Analysis for each of these shorter chunks. 

PLEASE TAKE NOTE:!!!!!!

Your Document for Chapters 9-12 can now be 4 pages - both sides of two pieces of paper - 12 pt. font. 

English 12 Homework for Thursday to Monday, May 15:

** Read "The hype about texting." Write a well-developed paragraph on the question and do the Multiple Choice.

**Please hand in your "Walton's Letters" for credit by Thursday.  Some of you have not handed in your "Walton's Letters" 1-4. Please bring them in on Monday.

 1. Frankenstein: Be working on Chapter 23 and 24.

2. Also be considering the texts you will choose   for the Final Assignment: Bibliotherapy. 

You need to be working on this over the next few weeks, choosing your 3 texts carefully, and developing a well-considered reason for them.  

You will need to explain why Volney's Ruins of Empires, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Goethe's The Sorrows of Werter are inadequate and dangerous readings for the Creature in his  situation:  then, with emotional, thoughtful and intellectual understanding of the Creature's situation, find three appropriate readings that will give him a reason to carry on with his life with some degree of dignity, and resignation, in order to bear his loneliness. 

English 10 Homework for this week, that is  due Monday, May 8:

The work for Chapters 1-8 are due on Monday.

You are working on TKMB work: see below.

A. You are first reading the assigned Chapters 1-8, carefully, and taking notes that you need to in order to develop your understanding.

For these assigned Chapters, only, you are to follow the process that is on the Board. You are developing the Themes of Education, Courage, Prejudice, and Family.  You are to do the following:

A. Collect important "quotes," from the novel that you feel are important, and for each,  explain why they are.  2- 4 for each chunk. 

B. Collect passages - longer chunks - that you feel are important, and explain why they are.      2-4.

C. Character Analysis: There are important/essential characters that you need to understand, to analyze, and to explain their importance to the story.  

 D. THEN: Later in the process you will create a thoughtful and creative symbol for each theme that is important, and that is clearly explained. 

E. And you will connect the themes to the world using examples that are personal local and global.

I will monitor your progress daily. 

Stay on top of the work, and work with your group, so you are sharing the load.

Always ask questions in class when you have them, so that everyone can benefit by them and  develop their work.

 

 

English 12 Homework for the week:

You should have given me sentence by sentence Revisions if you had less than 9 on your Frank/Mariner synthesis. They are due tomorrow, if you haven't handed them in already.

1. Frankenstein: You are to continue reading and working on the questions for Chapters 21 and onward:

2. Also, be reading and working on the Overviews of each of the three texts that the Creature reads: 1. Milton's Paradise Lost, 2. Volney's Ruins of Empires and 3. Sorrows of Werter. 

You need to know these texts well in order to understand what the Creature learned from them, the emotional affect on him, and how they impacted him.

 

English 12 Homework for Wednesday, April 25:

1. Be working on your Frankenstein work; you should be working to finish to the end of Chapter 13. 

Be sure to be adding your understanding to your Themes.  You should be developing your themes as you work through the novel. 

ENGLISH 12 HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY, APRIL  25:

Please bring your $5 for the play next week! 

**Create a list of themes and keep it beside you as you read.

1. DO CHAPTER 11 and 12 QUESTIONS. DEVELOP YOUR ANSWERS WITH EXAMPLES. LOOK UP CONCEPTS AND EXPLAIN THEM.

*PATHOS

*PANDEMONIUM 

*ROUSSEAU AND "NOBLE SAVAGE"

 

English 10 Homework for Thursday, 26th:

1. Be working on your Sentence by Sentence Revisions that are due on Thursday. I will not take any lates on these revisions.

2.  New Set up for: To Kill a Mockingbird: You are to start a new setup for this Novel Study. Please do the following: Set up 4 Theme Documents (pages):  Courage, Prejudice, Education, and Family. Do this for Wednesday.

Develop each of these Themes on the separate paper as you read the novel.

For each Theme, do the following: 

Collect "quotes" from the novel that you feel are important and explain why they are.

Collect passages and explain their importance.

Character Analysis: There are many characters that you need to understand and to explain their importance to the story.

Create an illustration that embodies each theme: It must be symbolic.

Connect each Theme to the world, using examples that are personal, local and global.

Find examples of "Mockingbirds" in our world and explain why they are.

 

 

 

English 12 Homework for Monday, April 24:

1. Frankenstein: Complete all of Chapter 10 for Monday.  For Question 1, do an analysis of the poem "Mutability" and how it develops our understanding.

English 10 Homework for next week:

1. Sentence by Sentence Revisions of your "American History" essay, is due next Thursday. 

2. To Kill a Mockingbird: You each have a Theme that you will be developing as you read the novel - and that you will be discussing in your Novel Groups. 

This weekend: Re-read Chapters 1- 5 and develop your Theme Document for these Chapters. 

You will word-process an organized, thoughtful document for Chapters 1-5, that you will share with your group. This document should have Questions to stimulate discussion, words to understand, and other important points of discussion so that your group learns.  

Word Process all your work, print it out and bring it to class every day, as you will start your first Theme Group sharing,  starting Tuesday. This will give you a little more time to get ready, and I can have a look at your Theme work and give you feed back for this first time.

English 12 Homework for Friday, April 20th:

1. Frankenstein: 

A. You should be continuing to develop bullets of synthesis for  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein.

B. Finish Chapter 9 work for Friday.

 

English 10 Homework for Friday, April 21:

1. To Kill an Mockingbird: Read Chapter 5 carefully. Do all the "The Facts" and the first three questions for "Focus on Thinking."

Develop your answers so a stranger can understand them. 

Words and Language: learn the words you don't know. You should be continually developing your Glossary section in your Binder.

English 12 Homework for Thursday, 20th:

1. You should be working on the Chapter questions from 1 to 8 of Frankenstein. 

a. Chapter 7: Come with an interpretation of "my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave."

b. Chapter 8: Be prepared to share your understanding and interpretation of  the following:

1. The poem by William Blake: "The Garden of Love." 

AND 

2. Question 2: Victor alludes to the character of Satan - in John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost. Go online and find an overview of this epic poem. Bring it with you to class tomorrow. 

Develop all your answers, and  look up words you don't know.

Be prepared to discuss Romantic elements and the Romantic sensibilities in the poems.

English 10 Homework for Thursday, April 20:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird: Read Chapter 4 carefully and look up words you don't know.

Spend some time with the vocabulary in this novel. I will give you a vocabulary test Thursday, that will include words from Chapter 1-4.

Your Glossary: you should have created a Glossary in your Binder. Each word you write down should include the following: 

The Word: identify it as a verb, noun, adjective, or adverb.

The Definition: Use the word in a sentence that makes sense.

English 10 Homework due Wednesday, April 19:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird: Chapter 1-3.

A) Always do The Facts questions for general understanding. These do not have to more than a sentence.  

B) Do all the Focus on Thinking questions in Chapter 1.  These require short paragraphs: and be clear!

C) Always learn some words in the Words and Language sections, so you build your vocabulary as you read the novel. Use them sometimes in your writing.

**Chapter 2: Focus on Thinking: Do the first 2 questions.

**Chapter 3: Focus on Thinking: Do the first 2 questions.

 

English 12 Homework for Wednesday, April 18:

1. Rime/Frank synthesis: have your group ready to share your bullets of synthesis for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Frankenstein". 

You will be presenting your ideas tomorrow.

This is an ongoing synthesis that we will look at as we go through the novel.

English 12 Homework for Tuesday to Friday:

1. Tonight read the Romantic Age poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,"by Samuel Coleridge -  the full text to get a sense of it.

2. Now, read it a second time, using the the Prose Summary. This will help you understand it better.  

3. On Wednesday and Thursday share your ideas and your understanding with the class. This will begin an ongoing discussion and document showing elements of synthesis in the plots of "Frankenstein"and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." We will chart this as we continue the novel. 

Tonight you are reading the poem. Tomorrow you can start your document.

English 10 Homework for Wednesday,

1. TKMB: Chapter 1: This is a difficult Chapter, as everyone is introduced, the setting is established, and the history of the family is developed.  Have an atlas on hand or on line to help you with the settings.

The first 2.5 pages is the Finch family history - to the middle of Page 5. Look up words and places you don't know.

Continue reading and taking notes on the next paragraph, starting "Maycomb was an old town." Read this section, which is a description of the town of Maycomb, to "the summer that Dill came." 

You need to look up words you don't know, and you need to write them down and define them. Start that process.

English 10 Homework due Tuesday, April 11:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Read the Title of the novel, only, and answer the following  questions the best you can: 

a. What is a mockingbird?

b. What are the implications of the title? (look up the word if you don't know it.)

c. What kind of predictions can you make about the novel?  Make two predictions.

English 12 Homework for Tuesday, April 11:

Overview of the Process of studying this novel:

1.Your Homework is to be read as assigned, and look up words you don't know to add to your Glossary. This is ongoing, daily.

2. In class: you are discussing the novel with your group. Today you are discussing Chapters 1-3.  This essential daily discussion with your Literature Circle group includes: 

a. Going over the Questions together, so you are understanding the plot, characters, and the Gothic aspects of the novel.

b. You are developing the THEMES that are emerging in the novel. Set up Themes Pages for each Theme.

c. Looking up words and creating a Glossary of Terms. 

d. Your are synthesizing the elements of the plot and other elements to the texts we have read.

Homework for Monday Evening:

1. Catch up with any of the work you need to.

2. Read Chapter 4, do the questions, add to your Vocabulary document, and be prepared to share your understanding and ideas, tomorrow.

English 12 Homework for Monday, April 10:  

Please do a Sentence by Sentence Revision of your "Romantic Paintings" essay if you got less than 9/12.  This is due Tuesday. 

1. Read and complete the questions for Chapters 1 to the end of Chapter 3.  Develop your answers so they make sense to you.  

2. Make sure to read carefully Victor's reasons for pursuing science (Chapter 2, p. 38 to end of p. 41), particularly beginning "I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood....  

**Look up words you don't know, and set up a Glossary of Terms that you will add to as you read. See setup below.

Word: Definition - and you would be smart to put it in a sentence

English 10 Homework for Friday through to next Thursday to April 18th:

1. You should be finishing all the work we have been doing, getting ready to read,  To Kill a Mockingbird Bird.  

**The culmination of this unit is an essay: this is a 5 paragraph essay where you reflect on what you have learned about this period in American History, what you think and feel about it all, and how it is still important and relevant today - and into the future. What kind of citizen do you want to be?

Give examples that are relevant, both from the in the past, and today. 

You will be writing this essay in class, from the 10th to the 18th.  

Your Outline is in the following structure:

7 bullets :  each bullet has 7 words                       

*You must use the personal "I" at appropriate places; but don't overuse it. 

*I also expect you to integrate some relevant quotes into your essay from some of the texts. You may have a list of "quotes", but remember, they are not full sentences. The "quotes must be on your outline, in order.

The style for the citations is P- for Rosa Parks, O-for Obama, D-for "I Have a Dream", and S-for Strange Fruit.

Your Homework over this period of time is to read To Kill a Mockingbird.  I will assign the homework daily.

English 12 Homework for Thursday, 20th:

1. Read "Walton's Letters" carefully, to the end of page 29. Look up words you don't know. 

2. Block C: Synthesis: Prometheus Myth with the Epigraph. This is a paragraph (half a page of a bit more, 1.5 spacing.

English 12 Homework for Wednesday, April 5th:

1. Read the Myth of Prometheus, carefully and more than once. Write a paragraph explaining the Myth; what does it tell about humans.

2. Read Mary Shelley's Epigraph on the first page: Did I request thee, Maker.......synthesize the Prometheus Myth with the Epigraph.

3. Read Mary Shelley's "Author's Introduction" vii (7).

    

English 10 Homework: Wednesday and Thursday:

1. Wednesday Vocabulary for "I Have a Dream": Finish the vocabulary list - what you put on your phones - to the end of the speech.

2. Thursday Class: Work on Literary Devices in "I Have a Dream".

 

 

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, 4th:

1. Finish your research of Rosa Parks, NAACP, and the Civil Rights Movement. We will do presentations.

2. Develop a reasonably developed Biography of Martin Luther King: his time period, his work, his ideas, his life, his death - and his legacy!

Your groups will present your work to the class.

English 12 Homework for Tuesday the 4th:

1. Please read the Handout on Prometheus, the Greek myth of the creation of Man. Read it carefully, look up words you don't know, and be prepared to talk about it tomorrow.

English 10 Homework due Monday, April 3:

1. Finish "Questions on the Background of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee."

2. Begin the Research on the Era of Slavery to 1937. Do all of the following:

1. Civil Rights Movement: I and II. 

2. Segregation in the US: 1881-1937 - A to G. 

3. Southern Belle/Lady.

4. The Great Depression - W5 - Who, What, When, Where, Why. Concrete examples where it is necessary.

In all cases develop your answers so a stranger could understand it all.

    

English 12 Homework for Thursday and Friday:

1. Thursday and Friday you will be writing a short essay of Synthesis of 2 very different Romantic Paintings, one of the paintings you must not have used in your class presentation.  

This will not be a long-winded essay, but a efficient, well-written analysis, with an Introduction, 2 Body Paragraphs and Conclusion.

2. You may have a document/outline of 7 bullets, each no longer than a line.  It looks like this:

* 7 words (no full sentences)

* 7 words (no full sentences)

* 7 words (no full sentences)  

+ four more

Each of your Body Paragraphs must include both paintings. Each paragraph is a synthesis of your two paintings.

You will have tomorrow's class, Friday's class, and Monday as well.

 

English 10 Homework for Thursday 30th:

1. Complete Questions 5 to 9 for tomorrow. Develop your answers so they make sense to a stranger (the guy next door). 

2. Please catch up on any other work you need to.

English 12 Homework for Tonight to Thursday.

1. Chose two very different Paintings from the Romantic Age and show the poets and writers concerns, desires, sensibilities, etc. This is due at the end of the block Thursday.  

2. Each of you will present to the class in a short presentation that explains your piece 

English 10 Homework for Wednesday, March 29:

1. Write a short Biography of Langston Hughes.

2. Finish your S.I.F.T. for "Dreams."

3. Do the first 4 Questions on the background of "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.

English 12 Homework for Tuesday, 28: 

Any outstanding work that was due today, make sure it is in my basket tomorrow.

1. Come with a general understanding of the John Milton's epic poem, "Paradise Lost." Find a good overview of it and the main themes of the poem. This epic poem is an important one for the Romantic Age poets and their concerns. Know the important Poets of the era.

2. Keep working on the Romantic Age materials, the concerns of the Romantic Age, Gothic Fiction, Nature, Romantic Hero. 

3. Tomorrow come with a list your favourite Romantic age paintings, so we can look at them on the overhead, together. 

English 10 Homework due March 28:

Any Homework that you did not do over the Break, is due Tuesday tomorrow morning at 8:20am in my In Basket. Below is the homework you should have done. 

Below is that Homework that is due tomorrow:

1. Poetry: Read and do the Multiple Choice questions for "Follower," "Water Picture," "The Blizzard" and "The Lonely Land." 

You need to read a poem several times to understand it well.  You also need to look up words that you don't know.  Take your time, reread, and understand - and you will do better.

2. Short Stories and Synthesis: A) Read the short story "Lawrence Lemieux Lifesaver" and do the Multiple Choice. B) Then read "Raymond's Run" and do the Multiple Choice. C) Then work on ideas/bullets of synthesis in the two stories.  These should show how the stories have differences and similarities in them.  Make a list of these differences and similarities. D)Using your synthesis of ideas, write a developed essay showing the similarities and differences. 

Your essay structure requires an : Introduction  that introduces the two stories and the Thesis Statement, the main point/synthesis of the stories. You must have a minimum of two Body Paragraphs, each of them showing Synthesis, and a Concluding Paragraph, that states the Thesis, again, and ends on the important theme of it all.  

I would prefer you Word Process your work in Times New Roman, 12 point font, and 1.5 or 2 spacing. 

Today we will go over the synthesis. Tomorrow, Tuesday, 28th we will go over the multiple choice for the Short Stories and poems.

 

 

 

ENGLISH 12 HOMEWORK: DUE MARCH 27:

1. You are working on the "Romantic Age" materials. Be ready!

2. Also, go online and get "Coles Notes" explanation of John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost."

Have a great Break! Get outdoors and play with Nature. 

English 12 Homework for Thursday, 9th:

1. Reread "Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene" by Roy Scranton, and "Humanity Only Has Around 1,000 Years Left on Earth, Stephen Hawking Predicts."

Come to class tomorrow with several bullets of synthesis, both similarities and differences. Develop each one. You will present these to the class.

English 12 Homework for Wednesday, March 8:

1. Organize your Binder: Make sure you have your Anthropocene materials in you binder, and any other materials you need to put in it.

2. Go on youtube to watch and listen to Roy Scranton, and others, on the Anthropocene, and the future, generally.

English 10 Homework for Thursday, March 8:

1. S. I. F. T: Following the instructions on the Handout, develop your SIFT. Develop your answers and include examples, in each part of the SIFT, so that anyone can read it and understand it. 

2. Finish your Sentence by Sentence Revision for Thursday.

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, March 7:

1. Shakespeare Sonnet 18: You are to read the poem several times to attempt to understand it. Look up words you don't know. Get a feel for what the speaker is feeling about his lady love.

2. Then write it in your own modern words, keeping the tone, the feelings, and the theme of the speaker. Do it well.

3. Practice a few integrations

Tomorrow we will do a S.I.F.T  in class. 

I will also give back your essays.

 

English 12 Homework for Tuesday, Mar. 7:

1. Research: go online to understand the idea of the "Anthropocene".  Go to several sites, take a lot of notes, and understand the concept of it, and the controversy of it.  Have details, particularly, some of the people who are promoting the idea, why they are, and what benefits to mankind it may have. 

Check out youtube, TED Talks...

English 10 Homework for Monday, March 6:

1. Read the poem "To Have Succeeded." Read it as many times as you need to, in order to  understand it.

2. Define words you don't know. Add them to your Glossary in your Binder and learn them.

3. Do the multiple choice on separate paper. Look up terms in the MC that you don't know.

4. In 3 to 4 sentences, express the common theme of these two poems. Word Process, 12 pt. font, TNR.

5. Write a developed paragraph, 2/3rds to three quarters of a page, writing about something that you have done to help somebody. Write your best! Word-process it for Monday's class.