English 12: You are working on your Bibliotherapy Assignment.  

DONE: The 3 Texts you are using for your Bibliotherapy is due Wednesday-Today. This is a summary/overview of each text.

**You are working on your own, developing your analysis, your thoughtful attempt to give the Creature some reason to live and find solace in a world that does not want him.  

**Each of the three texts you choose to help him with, must be developed, sufficiently, to move him enough to want to live - to have a positive impact on him - and the reader.  This is analysis!  Your choices of texts and the how you use them are to make him want to live.

These short but well-written analytical essays are 2 thirds of a page, each,  single-spaced, and with indented paragraphs. They will be written in class.

Your structure is as follows: You will have a concise (short) Introduction, 2 Body Paragraphs that are sufficient, not long and rambling, but sharp, well-written and to the point, and with a short Conclusion.

You may have an outline of 5 bullets of 8 words for each essay AND a maximum of 2 integrated quotes. Quotes are optional.

The First Analysis (short essay) is to be written  Monday, June 5th. Changing Sorrows of Werter to your chosen text.

The Second Analysis is to be written on Friday, June 9th - changing "Paradise Lost" to your chosen text.

The Third and final analysis is written on Tuesday, June 13th - changing Volney's Ruins of Empires to your chosen text.

Also see below for proper style of texts:

Novels Titles are underlined 

"Poem titles" are in quotes.

Non-Fiction is underlined. 

 

English 10: To Kill a Mockingbird Presentations to Friday, June 16:

1. You should be reading TKMB Chapters 19 to 24, taking notes and working with your group to develop your Presentations.

*Done: 2. Tomorrow we will finish Group Presentations of Chapters 13-18: B Block-Matthew's Group and D Block-Alan's Group. 

*Done: Chapters 13-18: Due Monday, 29th of May.

Chapters 19-24: Due Wednesday, 7th of June.

Chapters 25-31: Due Friday, 16th of June.

1. On Wednesday to Friday  you will work in your groups to develop your Group Presentations, where you will develop the following: Themes, Important Passages, Important Quotes, Character Analyses, and a Symbol for that section. 

You will have 10 minutes for the whole presentation.

In each group, each speaker has an important part to contribute to the presentation. Your ideas, verbal expression, including volume, body comportment, attitude, and time management are all important when addressing the class: and of course, your Analysis.

I will give the group a holistic mark for your presentation.

Your work will be word-processed, 12 pt. font, Times New Roman. Each person in the group will have a written document of their section of the Presentation that will be handed in to me when the group is finished.

**Each group will present three times over the course of the Assignment.

English 10 Homework for Thursday to Monday, May 15:

1. TKMB: Keep working through Chapters 9, 10, 11 and 12. You should be developing your four themes: developing Quotes, Passages, and Character Analysis for these Chapters.

You should not have more than 2, or at most, 3 Quotes, Passages and Character Analysis for each of these shorter chunks. 

PLEASE TAKE NOTE:!!!!!!

Your Document for Chapters 9-12 can now be 4 pages - both sides of two pieces of paper - 12 pt. font. 

English 12 Homework for Thursday to Monday, May 15:

** Read "The hype about texting." Write a well-developed paragraph on the question and do the Multiple Choice.

**Please hand in your "Walton's Letters" for credit by Thursday.  Some of you have not handed in your "Walton's Letters" 1-4. Please bring them in on Monday.

 1. Frankenstein: Be working on Chapter 23 and 24.

2. Also be considering the texts you will choose   for the Final Assignment: Bibliotherapy. 

You need to be working on this over the next few weeks, choosing your 3 texts carefully, and developing a well-considered reason for them.  

You will need to explain why Volney's Ruins of Empires, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Goethe's The Sorrows of Werter are inadequate and dangerous readings for the Creature in his  situation:  then, with emotional, thoughtful and intellectual understanding of the Creature's situation, find three appropriate readings that will give him a reason to carry on with his life with some degree of dignity, and resignation, in order to bear his loneliness. 

English 10 Homework for this week, that is  due Monday, May 8:

The work for Chapters 1-8 are due on Monday.

You are working on TKMB work: see below.

A. You are first reading the assigned Chapters 1-8, carefully, and taking notes that you need to in order to develop your understanding.

For these assigned Chapters, only, you are to follow the process that is on the Board. You are developing the Themes of Education, Courage, Prejudice, and Family.  You are to do the following:

A. Collect important "quotes," from the novel that you feel are important, and for each,  explain why they are.  2- 4 for each chunk. 

B. Collect passages - longer chunks - that you feel are important, and explain why they are.      2-4.

C. Character Analysis: There are important/essential characters that you need to understand, to analyze, and to explain their importance to the story.  

 D. THEN: Later in the process you will create a thoughtful and creative symbol for each theme that is important, and that is clearly explained. 

E. And you will connect the themes to the world using examples that are personal local and global.

I will monitor your progress daily. 

Stay on top of the work, and work with your group, so you are sharing the load.

Always ask questions in class when you have them, so that everyone can benefit by them and  develop their work.