HN English 10 - Ismene & The Choral Interludes

For homework over the weekend, you should answer the following two questions using the metaphoric information provided in the Choral Interludes on pages 136 and 142:

1. Why does Ismene live?  Explain based on the interludes.
2. How is the curse lifted?  Explain based on the interludes. 

You should use specific examples to prove your answers.

Your Antigone test will be on Wednesday, April 4.

Over the weekend, you should also be reading your independent reading novel.  Distributed in class yesterday were assignment sheets for your independent reading project.  It will be due on Tuesday, April 24 at the beginning of class.  Your characterization quotation chart template can be found HERE.  We will have an in-class conferencing day on Friday, April 20.

Your books are due the Monday we return from spring break and you will be responsible for a reading quiz specific to your novel (as discussed in class, know characters, plot, main themes and conflicts). 

English 9 - Odysseus' Story Continues Some More

FIRST PERIOD:  You should finish reading along with the audiofile of Book X of The Odyssey.  You need to answer the corresponding study guide questions on a separate sheet of paper and in complete sentences.

FOURTH PERIOD:  You should finish reading along with the audiofile of Book IX of The Odyssey.  You are only reading pages 169 to 181, so you need to follow along with your packet.  You should answer study guide questions 2-22 on the Book IX study guide on a separate sheet of paper and in complete sentences. 

HN English 10 - Antigone Conclusion

Read the final scene of Antigone tonight.  As you read, fill in the blanks on the final scene comprehension check sheet distributed in class (and under the previous link).  You should also be sure to answer the final question regarding the final lines of the Chorus. 

Study for your vocabulary quiz.

Your Antigone test will be on Wednesday, April 4.

Distributed in class today were assignment sheets for your independent reading project.  It will be due on Tuesday, April 24 at the beginning of class.  Your characterization quotation chart template can be found HERE.  We will have an in-class conferencing day on Friday, April 20. 

Your books are due the Monday we return from spring break and you will be responsible for a reading quiz specific to your novel (as discussed in class, know characters, plot, main themes and conflicts). 

English 9 - Odysseus' Story Continues

ALL CLASSES:  Study for your vocabulary quiz tomorrow.  It will be the last one before spring break.

FIRST PERIOD: Finish reading and listening along to Book IX, pages 178 to 187.  Answer study guide questions 1, 18-30 in complete sentences and on a separate sheet of paper.  I will collect them tomorrow.

FOURTH PERIOD:  Finish reading and listening along to Book V.  Answer all the study guide questions on a separate sheet of paper and in complete sentences.   I will collect them tomorrow.

English 9 - The Odyssey

ALL CLASSES:  Late notecards are due tomorrow. 

Retakes for failures on Words to Know Vocabulary 2 Quiz, Odyssey Vocabulary 1 Quiz, and Mistakes You Should No Longer Make Quiz are between now and next Thursday (before Spring Break).  I will average the two grades together if it benefits you. 

Independent reading books will be due on Monday, April 16 (the Monday after Spring Break).  

FIRST PERIOD:  Continue reading and listening along to Book IX, pages 169 to 178 (omit the pages specified on the audiotext).  Answer study guide questions 2-17 in complete sentences and on a separate sheet of paper.  Be prepared for a reading check tomorrow.  We will also compile our Odyssey portfolios, so if you are bringing in a notebook or folder for extra credit, do so by tomorrow.

Odyssey Part I Test will be on Wednesday, March 4.

FOURTH PERIOD:  Those of you who did not finish your crossword puzzles, they need to be completed for homework.  You should also, using your notes from class and your Book II Study Guide (summary on the back), complete the half sheet of paper that is the Books II-IV Note Check.

Odyssey Part I Test will be on Thursday, March 5. 

HN English 10 - Antigone Curses & Prophecies (Background & Scene VI)

Complete the following assignment on the same page that you answered the two Interlude V questions from class. 

Read Scene VI.  Expect a reading check (as usual).

For both the background information and the information from Scene VI, you should list the following (be specific):

• 3 curses that have occurred to the city of Thebes: 2 prior, 1 current
• what is the curse?  what is going on when the curse is occurring?
• 2 prophecies that are relevant to this myth: 1 delivered twice, 1 current prophecy
• to whom?  what is it?
• 3 attempts to avoid a given prophecy:2 prior, 1 current (Creon at the end of the scene)
• who is trying to avoid it?  how do they try to avoid it?
• 2 previous results of trying to avoid a prophecy
• who did it?  what did they try to do?

HN English 10 - Antigone Interlude IV, Scene V

Tomorrow is Wednesday.  Your vocabulary notecards are due. 

You should read pages 147 (the bottom) to 151 in your packet.  Prepare for a reading check.

On a sheet of paper that I reserve the right to collect, you should do the following two things:

1. Summarize the Choral Interlude in seven words or less, focusing on the main idea.  I can do it in three.  Make it a sentence, but make it short and direct.
2. Using specific examples throughout the play, identify the qualities that Antigone and Creon separately posses that would potentially qualify them for the title of "tragic hero."  You may create a chart, a paragraph, or a list, but I should see specific examples to support your arguments. 

English 9 - The Odyssey & Notecards!

ALL CLASSES:  Vocabulary notecards are due tomorrow, as they are every Wednesday. 

FIRST PERIOD:  You need to finish reading/ listening along to Book V and answer ALL the study guide questions on a separate sheet of paper and in complete sentences.

FOURTH PERIOD:  You need to finish answering the Book II study guide questions.  Separate sheet of paper.  Complete sentences. 

HN English 10 - Antigone Interlude II, Scene III

Read Antigone Interlude II and Scene III (pages 135-142).  You should answer the study guide questions as you go along, as they will be where your reading check will come from.  You should also be prepared to answer the following question:  What is the relationship between Interlude II and the scene that follows, especially focusing on the second to last stanza of the interlude ("Great honor is given...")?

Those of you who didn't finish the ethos, pathos, logos activity from class should finish it to turn in on Monday. 

Independent reading novels due in several weeks, but a power read may not be a good idea for these, so start now.

English 9 - The Odyssey Continuation

FIRST PERIOD: Read (and listen to) the assigned section of Book II, pages 23 to 26 (end before Eurymachus speaks).  You should answer the study guide questions and fill out the reading chart.  You will need to use the study guide questions on your reading check on Monday, and you will hand in your reading chart for a grade. 

FOURTH PERIOD:   Listen to and read along with pages 7-14 in your Odyssey Book I packet (stop after Athena flies away).  You should answer study guide questions 17-26 as you go along, as there will be a reading check on Monday.  Also due on Monday is the reading chart for this section.

HN English 10 - Antigone Scene I, Interlude I

Read Scenes I and the Choral Interlude I in your Antigone packet.  Answer the study guide questions.  You will have a reading check tomorrow.  Prep yourself.

English 9 - The Odyssey Book I Beginning

ALL CLASSES:  Late notecards due tomorrow for half credit.

FIRST PERIOD: You should read / listen along to pages 3-10 of Book I of The Odyssey (the packet handed out in class).  Use the tips at the top of your study guide and on the front of your packet to help tackle this text.

Answer ALL the study guide questions as you go along-- you may answer them on the same sheet or on a separate sheet, but you need to have some record of the answers in order to check your comprehension.

FOURTH PERIOD:  You should read/ listen along to pages 3-6 of Book I of The Odyssey (the packet handed out in class).  I STRONGLY recommend that even if you have not been using the audiotexts before that you use them at least at the beginning of this story.  Figuring out HOW to read The Odyssey is half the battle. 

Answer 1-14, and 20 a-c the study guide questions as you go along-- you should answer on a separate sheet, but you do not need to have complete sentences.

HN English 10 - Creation & Flood Story Review + Independent Reading Selection

You will have a double-weighted quiz on Tuesday on the four creation and flood stories we have read over the past week: the Genesis stories (creation & flood), the Popol Vuh, the Ovid packet, and the Rig Veda creation poem.  This weekend, since you have no formal homework, you should review characters, archetypes, and the answers to those focus questions for each story in order to prepare you for the quiz. 

On Tuesday, you also should have book in hand OR proof of book in hand for your independent reading assignment/project.  Students may choose between the following five novels:

1. The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
2. Crime & Punishement by Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
3. The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged, but not adapted) by Alexandre Dumas*
4. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
5. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe*

Starred novels are available in the school library library for checkout.  The other two should be available at local used bookstores, Amazon, or local libraries. 

Books need to be finished by Monday, April 16 (the Monday after Spring Break).  A project will be assigned next week to go along with the novel.  Other coursework will go on simultaneously, so plan ahead. 

English 9 - Mythology & Independent Reading Project

Your mythology project was due today (Friday).  If you did not 1) bring your required notes or 2) bring your project at all, you may turn them in Monday for a deduction of points.  We will begin presenting next week.  Late projects will receive a 20 point deduction from the total on Monday, as you have been given two additional days to complete your project. 

We have been "telling" the three myths that go along with the events surrounding and during the Trojan War.  If you have missed any of the three myths (the Apple of Discord, the Oath of Tyndareus, or The Trojan War), you should get them from a classmate or from your teacher-- they will be on your mythology quiz, which will be on Tuesday.

The mythology quiz will consist of terms, characters, and stories that we read over the course of this unit.  A study guide was created in class on Wednesday and the quiz itself will be on Tuesday, March 20.  Students should be aware that this is a double quiz grade, so they should study the appropriate material. 

New independent reading selections were made this week.  Students should read approximately 20 pages in their books this weekend.  Books should be memoir, biography, or autobiography, 200 pages minimum (or otherwise approved by teacher), appropriate, and not read or assigned for another class. 

HN English 10 - Ovid's Ages of Man

Complete the reading that goes along with Ovid's Metamorphoses, "The Four Ages" and "Giants" part of the packet.  Answer the study guide questions that go along with the Creation section and then the handout that you received in class that contains the graphic organizer for the section. 

English 9 - Theseus Epic Hero Cycle

You should complete the Theseus Epic Hero Cycle Worksheet handed out in class on Friday.  Use specific examples from the story. 

HN English 10 - Genesis & Book Thief Project Reminder

If you did not complete the five creation story focus questions (including notes for clarification) during class today, you should do so for homework regarding the Genesis Creation story we read in class today. 

Your The Book Thief motif project and paper are due tomorrow.  I will take projects late for ten points off the total grade each day late.  Late starts as soon as class begins.  All absences (as per class policy) should be accompanied by a sick or funeral note in order to not lose points for a late project.  This policy was announced at the beginning of the semester.

 No notecards (no vocab), but you will need to have the board terms memorized by Friday: chaos, binary & purpose of binaries, deity, pantheon, and mono & polytheistic. 

English 9 - Theseus (begin) and Assorted Other Loose Ends

Your vocabulary notecards are due tomorrow.  As usual.

Your independent reading project and paper are also due tomorrow.  You've had lighter to no homework over the past week in order to accommodate this project as well as chunks of time in class, so no legitimate excuses.  I will take projects late for ten points off the total grade each day late.  Late starts as soon as class begins.  All absences (as per class policy) should be accompanied by a sick or funeral note in order to not lose points for a late project.  This was announced at the beginning of the semester. 

You should finish reading pages 145 to the top of 150 in your Theseus packet.  Fill in the mythological characteristics chart as it pertains to the intro and "A Voice from the Sea" section.  You should answer the study guide questions (separate sheet) or take handwritten notes to use on the reading check at the beginning of class tomorrow. 

HN English 10 - The Book Thief TEST & Project

Your Motif-Centered paper and project is due on Wednesday.  If you need magazines, you can most certainly borrow/have them from the stash I have in my room. 

Your test is on Monday.  Study guides were handed out in class today and should be used to study for the test. 

English 9 - Mythology & Independent Reading Project

All classes:  Your Independent Reading Novel Project is due on Wednesday, March 7 at the beginning of class.  Assignments were handed out in class on Wednesday (as stated several weeks ago) and will be your only other test grade on this six weeks. 

Also, if you have not made up your Short Story Test, you have Monday.  Lingering missing vocabulary quizzes also need to be taken care of because the first six week grading period ends on Wednesday. 

First Period:  Finish theoi.com assignment from class if you did not.  Work on your project.

Fourth Period:  If you barely got started on your Mythweb.com assignment, you should have at least two done by Monday.  Work on your project. 

There are several of you who have many absences over the past week:  Make-up work from due Wednesday was notecards and "Echo & Narcissus" study guide questions and due Thursday were the "Prometheus" and "Pandora" study guide questions.  Both sets of questions can be found at the end of their respective packets.