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. 

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. 

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.