English 11 Homework for the next few weeks:

Mike, Jane, Terrina: Return your novels, please.

1. Values Document: You should be working on this daily, as it will require you to examine and reflect on the values you are building in your life. This is a serious examination of yourself as a moral character. 

We have read many texts, both fiction and non-fiction: poetry, novels, short stories, articles, and psychology. In all of these texts, people are deciding to behave, develop, change (or not) according to the environments they are living in and the forces and the people they must grapple with. Look at all these again, take your portfolio home and start seriously considering, how you want to be as a character in the world.  What values will guide you?  What values guide you now? Do you follow them?  Do they show in how you treat others, yourself, the environment? How would you compare yourself with some of the situations and characters we have met and considered in this course?  How are you similar or different?  How will you affect the world?

How will you grapple with a world in trouble, when times get difficult?  Who will you be, how will you respond and why?

Look at yourself now, and how you are learning and changing; what do you want and how will you achieve those dreams. How will your desires and choices affect others and the world.  

What does it mean to be a "moral citizen"? 

You will begin this essay in class on Thursday and Friday.  You may bring a section of an "acceptable outline" for this: The Introduction (6 x 6) and a body paragraph or two (6 x 8) for each BP.