English 12 Homework for Monday, April 10:  

Please do a Sentence by Sentence Revision of your "Romantic Paintings" essay if you got less than 9/12.  This is due Tuesday. 

1. Read and complete the questions for Chapters 1 to the end of Chapter 3.  Develop your answers so they make sense to you.  

2. Make sure to read carefully Victor's reasons for pursuing science (Chapter 2, p. 38 to end of p. 41), particularly beginning "I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood....  

**Look up words you don't know, and set up a Glossary of Terms that you will add to as you read. See setup below.

Word: Definition - and you would be smart to put it in a sentence

English 10 Homework for Friday through to next Thursday to April 18th:

1. You should be finishing all the work we have been doing, getting ready to read,  To Kill a Mockingbird Bird.  

**The culmination of this unit is an essay: this is a 5 paragraph essay where you reflect on what you have learned about this period in American History, what you think and feel about it all, and how it is still important and relevant today - and into the future. What kind of citizen do you want to be?

Give examples that are relevant, both from the in the past, and today. 

You will be writing this essay in class, from the 10th to the 18th.  

Your Outline is in the following structure:

7 bullets :  each bullet has 7 words                       

*You must use the personal "I" at appropriate places; but don't overuse it. 

*I also expect you to integrate some relevant quotes into your essay from some of the texts. You may have a list of "quotes", but remember, they are not full sentences. The "quotes must be on your outline, in order.

The style for the citations is P- for Rosa Parks, O-for Obama, D-for "I Have a Dream", and S-for Strange Fruit.

Your Homework over this period of time is to read To Kill a Mockingbird.  I will assign the homework daily.

English 12 Homework for Thursday, 20th:

1. Read "Walton's Letters" carefully, to the end of page 29. Look up words you don't know. 

2. Block C: Synthesis: Prometheus Myth with the Epigraph. This is a paragraph (half a page of a bit more, 1.5 spacing.

English 12 Homework for Wednesday, April 5th:

1. Read the Myth of Prometheus, carefully and more than once. Write a paragraph explaining the Myth; what does it tell about humans.

2. Read Mary Shelley's Epigraph on the first page: Did I request thee, Maker.......synthesize the Prometheus Myth with the Epigraph.

3. Read Mary Shelley's "Author's Introduction" vii (7).

    

English 10 Homework: Wednesday and Thursday:

1. Wednesday Vocabulary for "I Have a Dream": Finish the vocabulary list - what you put on your phones - to the end of the speech.

2. Thursday Class: Work on Literary Devices in "I Have a Dream".

 

 

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, 4th:

1. Finish your research of Rosa Parks, NAACP, and the Civil Rights Movement. We will do presentations.

2. Develop a reasonably developed Biography of Martin Luther King: his time period, his work, his ideas, his life, his death - and his legacy!

Your groups will present your work to the class.

English 12 Homework for Tuesday the 4th:

1. Please read the Handout on Prometheus, the Greek myth of the creation of Man. Read it carefully, look up words you don't know, and be prepared to talk about it tomorrow.