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.

English 12 Homework for Monday, March 6:

1. Read "Progress" by Alan Lightman, as many times as you need to.   

a) Look up words that you don't know. Put them in your Glossary... and learn to use them.

b) Write a developed paragraph explaining the what the word "Progress" means to you. Include examples in your work. 1.5 pages, 1.5 spacing.

c )Look up the story lines of the "The Island of Dr. Moreau," "Frankenstein," "Waldon," and "White Noise," that are referred to in the article. Know the plots and characters-  and identify the common theme in them.

d )Prepare a brief rebuttal to one of the arguments Lightman offers in support of his thesis. **Use a concrete fact or personal experience to make your rebuttal more convincing.

English 12 Homework for Friday, 3rd:

1. Man and His Environment: Looking back on what we have talked about, what we have read, and what we have viewed, start to blend the ideas together in a thematic way.  

"Manufactured Landscapes" shows Nature and Man at odds with each other. Man's technology and its problems, have continued to transform Nature. We have many examples in this documentary.

Edward O. Wilson has also warned us of the "harm" we are doing to our planet in "the generations to come." 

We have looked at the decline of species, and what is, or is not, being done about it.

Tonight create bullets of synthesis of all that we have done in this unit so far,  showing how Earth is being damaged by our attitudes, our ignorance, and other reasons.  

Develop your work/ideas with examples, and bring them tomorrow.

English 10 Homework for Friday, March 3:

1. Read the poem "Gracious Goodness" by Marge Piercy several times, so you understand it.  In your own words answer the following questions:

a. Look up words you do not know. Word: definition. There will be a quiz.

b. In your own words, write a developed paragraph explaining what the poem about. This should be approximately 5-8 sentences, well written.

c. In a few good sentences - identify and discuss the theme of the poem?  Look up "theme" if you need to, in order to do this well.

English 12 Homework for Thursday, March 2:

1. Research: Oil consumption in North America and in the world. A) Has oil consumption changed in the last 20 years? B) How much? Give some details.

2. What new forms of energy are being used in the energy sector? How much of these are being used? How will these new energy sources change the world - or not?

3. What do Trudeau and Trump want to do about energy consumption?

4. What themes about nature are being developed in "Manufactured Landscapes"? Write a thoughtful, developed paragraph.