All Classes-- Final Grades

English 9 grades are posted, both for the final six weeks and for the semester.  Semester breakdowns can be found in the "Fourth Term" grading period.  Students who need to retake the EOC will have updated grades once retake scores are in (and the exam grade will be the higher of the two).  Remember, if you have not passed the EOC, you are required to come to remediation on Thursday and retesting on Friday.

HN English 10 grades will be posted by noon tomorrow, Thursday.  This includes exam scores.  Any work you would like to pick up will also be available at that time.  I will hold onto all graded work until next Wednesday (6/13) and then it will be recycled.

HN English 10 - All Quiet: The End

Finish reading All Quiet on the Western Front tonight.  You should come to class with an answer to the following question prepared regarding the author's purpose and the conclusion of the novel: 

• Why do you think the author ends the book this way?
• Is it sympathy?  Is it a cop out?  
• How might it relate to his statement of purpose at the beginning of the novel? 

English 9 - Romeo & Juliet Literary Terms

All classes should review their literary term definitions, especially pun, allusion, alliteration, metaphor, simile, and personification.  You will have a term check tomorrow that will have examples of these literary terms from Romeo & Juliet.  You will have to identify them without using your notes.

FIRST PERIOD:  Students should finish the study guide questions assigned for Act II, scene iii (2-9) and collecting one specific example of each of the following literary terms from Act II, scenes ii-iii: metaphor, simile, personification, pun, alliteration.  Extra credit will be given for allusion and foreshadowing. 

FOURTH PERIOD:  Students should answer study guide questions assigned for Act II, scene ii (2, 5-12). 

Separate sheet of paper, complete sentences for all study guide questions. 

Research Project assignments were given out today.  If you have not finished your research notecards (due last Friday: 5 sourcecards, 35 notecards), you will have an opportunity to turn them in along with the rest of your project on Wednesday, May 30. 

HN English 10 - All Quiet Chapter 10 & Poems

For homework tonight, you should read both "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "Flanders Field," answering the four questions provided with each poem. 

You should also complete Chapter 10 in All Quiet on the Western Front. 

You got back your final two vocabulary quizzes of the semester today: All Quiet Voc List 2 & 3.  You have until next Tuesday, May 29 to retake either of those quizzes if you failed with an actual F. 

Your All Quiet test will also be next Tuesday.  A basic study guide was distributed in class today. 

English 9 - Romeo & Juliet Continued

ALL CLASSES:  Tomorrow is Wednesday.  Notecards.

FIRST PERIOD:  Answer study guide questions 4-11 from Act II, scene ii. 

FOURTH PERIOD: Answer study guide questions 1-4 and 7-8 from Act I, scene v.

Separate sheet of paper, complete sentences. 

HN English 10 - Research Notecards DUE

All research notecards are due tomorrow for a quiz grade: 5 (min) sourcecards and 40 (min) notecards, all following the format we went over in class. 

Chapter 10 of All Quiet on the Western Front, as per your reading schedule, is due on Wednesday. 

We picked up Night books from the library today, so you may begin that whenever you like, but it is due next Wednesday, the day after your All Quiet test. 

English 9 - Romeo & Juliet Act I

First Period: Finish reading Act I, scenes iii-v and answering the selected study guide questions (iii: 2-6b, 7-8; iv: 2-4, "6"; v: 1-4, 7-9).  You will have a reading check tomorrow and we will go over important quotations, so bring your notes.

Fourth Period:  Finish reading Act I, scenes ii-iv and answering the selected study guide questions (ii: all; iii: 2-6b, 7-8; iv: 2-5 on the new study guide). 

All classes may use the Librivox audio recording if they wish: scroll down for Act I. 

HN English 10 - All Quiet Symbolism

You should interpret the potential symbolic meaning of the following images in Paul's daydream on page 119-20:

1. monk's cemetery in the cloister garden
2. Stations of the Cross (look this general reference up for cultural literacy and this assignment)
3. the poplar avenue
4. the uniform and the rifle

Remember that symbolism doesn't have to be remote and "deep"-- it can be simple or representative (hence the "symbol" in symbolism).  Some symbols in this passage are more complex than others.

Chapter 7 is due on Friday.  

English 9 - R&J: Act I, scene i

All late vocabulary notecards should be turned in tomorrow for half credit.

Students should finish reading Act I, scene i of Romeo & Juliet and answer the corresponding study guide questions (omitting #9).  As always, all study guide questions should be answered in complete sentences and on a separate sheet of paper.  This link connects to the No Fear Shakespeare online edition, although I announced in class that any students lacking internet access should stop by after second period to pick up a paper copy.  Not all of those students did so. 

Research notecards are due on Friday instead of Thursday, so prepare yourself. 

HN English 10 - All Quiet 4-5 & First Sourcecard

As per the reading schedule, you should have Chapters 4 and 5 read by Monday.  Expect a reading check. 

You should also complete your first green soucecard (as discussed in class).  It needs to be reliable (based on the parameters discussed in class) and an article-style source.  I will collect them on Monday.