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.