English 10 Homework for Friday-Mon. Nov.9:

1. Animal Farm: Your Literature Circle Roles are due Monday, when you will be in your Lit-Circle groups.  You are focusing on the last part of the novel, BUT you are also looking at the whole novel and the Big Ideas that Orwell wants us to understand about how societies flourish or fail.

English 9 Homework for Thurs/Fri: Nov. 5-6:

1. The House of the Scorpion: You are working in your Expert Groups to create your Literature Circle Roles.  You will be in your Lit-Circle groups on Monday to begin. Make sure to word-process your role for Monday, AND HAVE TWO COPIES: ONE FOR YOU and ONE FOR ME.

English 10 Homework for Thursday, Nov. 5:

1. Animal Farm: You should be working on your LC roles Wed. and Thurs. These roles should cover the last chapters of the novel, but also the whole novel and its ideas.   

You are not to use Sparks Notes and the Russian Revolution. The novel is about much more than one historical event - it is about how societies govern and why they succeed or don't. And at the heart of it all is human nature!

You can certainly look at contemporary examples in the world, but you must use them carefully and synthesize with the novel. 

Have a look at the news on Trudeau's swearing in as the new Prime Minister of Canada.

English 10 Homework for Wednesday, Nov. 4:

1. Animal Farm: Finish reading the novel and do all of the Chapter Questions today.  Tomorrow you will be in your Expert Groups to create a very good Literature Circle Role.

English 9 Homework for Thursday, Nov. 5:

1. The House of the Scorpion:  Have all of this section of the novel read, to page 143 (Chapter 14), and the Chapter Questions completed.

English 9 Homework for Tuesday, Nov. 3:

1. The House of the Scorpion: Finish Chapters 8-10 and all the questions, for tomorrow. 

2. ROS Group: I'll see you tomorrow at 8am.

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, Nov. 2:

1. Animal Farm: Please read Chapters 7-10 and do all of the questions in the package.  Please have this all done by the end of the block on Wednesday. You should be working in your Expert Groups discussing the questions and answers, then writing your own original answers. Your answers should be developed.