English 10 Homework for Friday to Monday: April 9-13:

1. Read Chapters 1 - 3. For each chapter, do the following:

a)"The Facts" questions in your head and/or in your notes. 

b)All "Focus on Thinking" questions, each written in short paragraphs (2-5) sentences. These require interpretation/analysis.

c) Know your vocabulary, writing out the words and definitions you need to. Keep these with your Chapter work, so you have the words in your notes, and can refer to them easily, and understand the story better.

d) Imagery page: Make a one page document for Imagery, and format it on a full page, word-processed with examples for each type of image.  Show it to me on Monday.

e) Do the same as above for Metaphor. 

We will set up Theme Groups on Monday.

English 10 Homework for Thursday, April 9:

1. Novel Study: Finish reading Chapter 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird.  Read it carefully, and look up words you do not know and write them in your glossary with definitions.

Find 3 examples of Imagery in this chapter. Imagery is vivid, lively description that appeals to one or more of our 5 senses and explain each one: an image can be a sound image, a touch image, a visual image, a taste image or an olfactory (smell) image.  

English 11 Homework for Thurs. April 9:

1. Be working on your Essay Revisions: they are due Friday. I will be away, but I will pick them up at the end of the day. If they are not there, it will be a zero.

2. Read the handout "Mary Shelley and Romanticism."  a) Read it carefully (look up words you do not know), and take notes on the elements of Romantic-Gothic novels from this Handout.  b) Know the time period of this literary era and the authors that Mary Shelley knew and was inspired by. c) Find some of the titles of their stories and a short synopsis of them.

 

English 11 Homework for tomorrow, Wed. 8th:

1. Personal Edit Checklists due: Jim Huang, Alan Zhen, Iris Li, Michelle Leung. 

2. Essay Revisions: Your Synthesis essay revisions are due this coming Friday at 8:20am.  I would like both blocks to hand them in by 8:20

3. Presentations Write-ups: "Prometheus in Art" due tomorrow. You require the following: 

a) a full written page of interpretation, in 1.5 or double-spacing.

b) Group Presentation: Please read the Handout on my Presentation Criteria. I will do this at the beginning of the block tomorrow, also.

English 10 Homework for tomorrow, Wed. April 7th:

D Block: Please hand in your Revisions before you go to your first block. Thank You!!

B Block can do the same if you choose to.

B Block will come to class before going to the Library for a short survey. 

1. Synthesis Revision Due:  

Whether you are doing a) the Sentence-by-Sentence, and the Body Paragraph, OR b) the Full Rewrite you must underline everything that you change.

The Full Rewrite and the Body Paragraph must be double-spaced. 

The Body Paragraph revision does not require you to stype up the original. Just underline the changes on the new one.

The Sentence-by-Sentence revisions must follow my Handout.

Please look at the following notes and put them in your TKMB notes:

2. Civil Rights Movement - Print this paragraph out and put it in your notes: It began officially when the NAACP was formed in 1909, and continued throughout the 20th century (and is now 106 years old) where many positive and negative things occurred: segregation, lynchings, bombings, the Harlem Renaissance, Rosa Parks' defiance leading to the Bus Boycott in 1955, "Little Rock" and the first African-Americans to enroll in a all-white high school, under armed guard in 1957, Martin Luther King's speech at the Washington Monument in 1963, Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1965 giving African-Americans full rights under the law, ending segregation, then the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968,... and the continuing racial divide that still makes life for black Americans much harsher than other groups. 

 

English 11 Homework for Wed/Thurs/Tuesday:

**Please look at the last two paragraphs at the end of this Blog Entry.

1. Essay Revisions: Your essay revisions are due next Friday.  You are to do a sentence-by-sentence revision of your whole essay, and do a thorough rewrite of your weakest body paragraph. This rewrite should include DEV, CON,....etc. Follow the format of the last revision you did.

2. "Prometheus" interpretation, paragraph and presentation due next Wednesday. Each of you in your groups will work to do the following:

a) understand the Prometheus Myth from all the handouts I have given you. 

b) Write a full page interpretation of the artist's illustrated myth you were given.

c) Present your interpretation of this illustrated-artistic rendition of Prometheus that your group was given. This interpretation will require your understanding of the myth, but, more importantly, how the painter has interpreted this myth. You must consider every aspect/element of the painting: the setting, the central character - his physical condition, his attitude, emotion, the physical environment, the atmosphere, the colours etc. You must come to an interpretation of your illustrated Prometheus.

*Those of you who have two illustrations, do an interpretation of one, and then synthesize them (compare-contrast) using all the elements of interpretation in the guide above. 

Important: Your presentation is not about reading your paragraph, but speaking and explaining to the class your interpretation of the myth as it is rendered by the artist. 

I suggest that you have your paragraph finished, by Tuesday, at least in a good first draft that you can improve by Wednesday Presentation. Your work on Tuesday should be practicing for your Presentation: figure out and practice who is speaking and when, your oral delivery, your physical stance, and your formal expession:  polished in all ways.  

English 10 Homework for Wednesday, today and Thursday through to Wednesday, the 8th:

1. Due Wednesday, the 8th: "The Doll's House" and "The Stolen Party" revisions. 

a) You are to do a sentence-by-sentence revision for the whole essay, and improve your weakest body paragraph by rewriting it. You should be improving DEV, CON, W, ORG, and all other areas of your writing that you need to. Follow my marking symbols. 

b) If you have talked to me and been approved to do a complete rewrite of the essay, you may.  Make sure you have my permission. This, too, is due on Wednesday.

2) Finish your Synthesis Chart for the 4 articles. It should be neat and well-developed, and is not due until Wednesday.

 

 

2. Look at yesterday's blog for the instructions on the 4 articles and the synthesis, that is due tomorrow.