Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for the Winter Break: Due Monday, Jan. 6.

I am here in class tomorrow to look at your Thesis Statements or help in other ways. I expect you to come to class after activities in the Gym.  

1. TKMB Outline: You should be working on this essay outline over the Winter Break. 

Your Thesis Statement should define what your theme is and what we learn by it.  Think about the following to help you write your Thesis: How does the novel define and show the following:

1. What is real courage according to this story?  What isn't? What can real courage teach us?

2. According the to story, what is real education? And what do we learn from it that we can't in a classroom?


3. Growing up is a lot of different things and processes. What/Who forms us? What is it to grow up? What are the benefits, for individuals and society?

4. What is the impact of prejudice on individuals and society? How does it hurt everyone, including those with the attitude.

You are to use your Acceptable Handout Outline to create your outline and you are to include a full sentence Concluding Sentence at the end of each of your Body Paragraphs. 

Each Topic Sentence of your Body Paragraphs must have a quote (direct reference) integrated into the Topic Sentence that will be the director of your paragraph discussion.  Therefore, each quote must help you develop the Thesis-Theme.

You are to write a proper Concluding Paragraph with a Thesis Reworded and an interesting look at how your theme might be important to us in our time or the future.

 

 

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Mon. Jan. 6:

1. Romeo and Juliet Tragedy Plotline: have your plotline up to date to the last scene we have done. Unless you are a very neat printer, I would suggest you word-process your work in 12 pt. ft. and cut and paste your work to the large plotline on your large piece of paper.

2. Act 2, scene 2 Figurative Language: Revise/Rewrite all your entries for this assignment, making them better that your 1st drafts.  Word-Process them and put them in your Binder.

3. Act-scene Questions:  Finish all these questions to where we left off in the script.  Your answers should be in full sentences, and as many as you need to answer the questions well.  If you want to incorporate quotations in your work, please do so.  Remember to cite those direct references at the end of the sentence it is in.  ie  (3, 2, 15-16).

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Thurs. Dec. 19:

1. Rewrites of paragraphs are due tomorrow. Please staple your original underneath your Revision, and underline all the changes you made on your Revision.  If you changed most of your paragraph you do not need to underline, but make it clear that you have done a full rewrite.

2. Come with your Figurative Language work for Act 2, scene 2. See yesterday's blog entry for the details.

3. Also, complete the questions for Act 2 for tomorrow also.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for Thurs. Dec. 19:

D Block: Try to bring a few more items for the Food Bank.

1. Be working on your Theme Essay Outline. You should have a Thesis Statement and have chosen your quotations.  Tomorrow I will go over the format with you and show you an exemplar.  

Your Thesis Statement is the what your theme shows about human nature. The quotations/references you choose are ones that help you develop that thesis: one for each paragraph.

D Block:  Try to bring a few more items for the Canned Food Drive for the Food Bank by Friday.  Thank you.

Ms. Tyre's English 10 Homework for the next two days:

1. Be working on your TKMB Essay Outline: On Thursday you will be creating an outline for your Theme Essay for To Kill a Mockingbird. You will need to show how an important theme is developed and what truth it shows about human nature. Do do this you need to identify 3-5 direct references (quotes) from the novel that will help you develop the theme, that you will incorporate into your body paragraphs.  Your Introduction and Conclusion do not require these references in them.  Your thesis statement is a declaration of the theme and what it reveals about human nature.

Ms. Tyre's English 9 Homework for Thurs. Dec. 18:

1. Rewrite your Better Parent paragraph if you scored under 5/6. Make sure you are using proper paragraph structure and good sentence structures. It should be 2/3 of a page, double-spaced.

2. Romeo and Juliet: Figurative Language work for Act 2, scene2: You are to identify and discuss the figurative language in each of the 10 lines you wrote down from the board, from Act 2, scene 2.  After each line, in a short paragraph, identify the speaker and the literary device(s) in the line (metaphor, simile, personification, apostrophe, allusion, irony, oxymoron or paradox, etc. ) and discuss/explain its meaning.

This is all due on Thursday.