English 11 Homework for Thursday to Monday, Nov. 10 - 14.

B and D Blocks: Please hand in the two short stories tomorrow if you haven't, already.

B Block: Your Essay must be finished by the end of lunch.

D Block: You will finish today, or tomorrow by 3pm. No later.

1. Poetry Assignment: Start tonight and continue your work tomorrow in class.

Read the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth several times, so you start to understand it. Look up words you don't know.

Use the S.I.F.T. technique Handout to analyze the poem. Do all the questions thoroughly, using examples and integrated quotes from the poem. Write in proper sentences and develop you answers as best you can.

Do the same process with the second poem, "The Tyger" by William Blake.

Synthesis Short Essay: Write a three or four paragraph essay: Introduction, 1 or 2 body paragraphs, and a conclusion, discussing the themes of the poems, their similarities and/or differences. 

Make sure you understand what a theme is.