English 10 Homework for Tuesday, 6th: 

Your Literature Circles will begin on Wednesday.

1. Be reading to the end of FEED by the end of Friday's class so that you are ready to create an exceptional LC Role. 

Over the Weekend, you need to finish developing questions: not ones that have definite or concrete answers, but that inspire discussion and challenge the group to consider a number of options.  

You should also be discussing how the novel and the real world are in alignment or differ.

English 10 Homework Monday, Nov. 28 (and beyond):

**1. Over this Weekend you are to work on the Four Key Questions That Matter. You will be reflecting on each of the four questions. Each question requires you to write a personal, thoughtful, truthful paragraph, with personal examples.  Develop each paragraph enough, but don't over do it.

I recommend you do assignment on your computer so you can edit as you write, and do a good job.  This is due this coming Monday, 28th.

**2. Finish reading Feed by the end of the evening, Wednesday. As you are reading write down ideas/quotes, passages, etc. for your LC Roles. 

**This last LC Role will cover pages 139 to the end of the novel. From Thursday to Monday, of next week, you are in Expert Groups developing your LC roles.  

On the Tuesday, December 6, you are in your LC Groups with your Roles developed and ready to go. 

 

English 11 Homework for Friday to Monday: Nov. 28:

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1. Synthesis Essay: you are finalizing your ideas, creating your bullets and building your outline for your synthesis essay for "Climbing Lessons" and "Directions."

On Monday you will bring your Acceptable Outline, and the two poems. Your Acceptable Outline should also have the Quotations you will use, listed, so you can integrate them into your essay.

I expect you, when you are writing the essay in class, that you have an Introductory Paragraph that introduces each poem clearly and efficiently, and a thesis statement that expresses the synthesis.  I am expecting 3 developed Body Paragraphs, and a Concluding Paragraph that knits it all together.

English 11 Homework for Wednesday, Nov. 22:

1. Be working on your bullets of Synthesis for "Climbing Lessons" and "Directions." Come with your ideas so you can share them with the class tomorrow.

English 10 Homework for Wednesday, Nov. 23:

1. You are to finish your "Technology and Society" essay tonight.  This is your final draft that I will mark. This essay includes the ideas in the articles, "Screen Time with Nature" and "Addiction to Technology." 

Make sure to underline your Thesis Statement; the main idea of the essay.

Please word-process in 12 pt. font, Times New Roman, and double space.  

Tomorrow you will continue reading to page 220 in the novel. 

English 10 Homework for Tuesday, Nov. 22:

1. Rewrite of "Addiction to Technology Real, Potentially Deadly: Psychiatrist," and "Kids Need To Offset "Screen Time" with "Nature Time." I will give you until Wednesday if you need it, so you can ask questions and get more clarification.

Use proper essay structure as you have before, discussing the two articles and what they are showing about teenagers and technology - and about nature's benefits. You must be include personal examples. 

Follow the capitalization.  Also introduce the two articles in the Introduction so that it makes sense to anyone. 

Remember, this is synthesis essay where you are writing about these two texts, and yourself, developing personal examples. The assignment is to be word-processed in a 12 pt. font, double-spaced.

Tomorrow you will finish the Lit Circle, if you haven't already,  and begin reading the next section.

English 11 Homework for Tuesday. Nov. 21:

1. Climbing Lessons: Do a S.I.F.T. of this poems. Develop your work.

2. Blank Verse vs. Free Verse: be able to explain the difference between the two, using examples.