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. 

English 9 - Research

All students need to catch up on their research.  As of Friday, 3 sourcecards and 18 notecards taken from those sourcecards were due.  If you have done 0 or fewer than the required number, be advised: you're setting yourself up for failure.  All 5 sourcecards and 35 notecards (minimum) will be due on Wednesday, May 16 and you have put yourself massively behind.  The research project will be handed out next week and without your research, you are also setting yourself up for a 0 on a project.  Not a good idea if you intend on passing this course...

Extra credit projects are also due on Wednesday.

Odyssey Voc 3 and R&J Voc 1 retakes are due by next Friday, May 18. 

HN English 10 - Siddhartha (The End)

Finish Siddhartha over the weekend.  As far as I know, that is all. 

English 9 - The Odyssey Part II Completion & Review

Students who have been absent should complete Books XXIII & XXIV Study Guides to complete all reading assignments for The Odyssey.  You can read along with the audiofile, same as for all books of The Odyssey. 

The Odyssey Part II (Books XIII-XXIV) Test will be on Tuesday, May 8.  A study guide was handed out yesterday in class.  In preparation for the test and for a grade, you will make character review cards.  A plastic bag and 28 colored notecards were handed out in class.  You were instructed to write each of the 28 characters on the review sheet on the unlined side of the card.  On the back (lined) side, you should write 1) who the character is, 2) why they are important to this part of The Odyssey, and 3) at least one epithet for that character.  On the front with the character's name, you should have at least one illustration that goes along with them or their contribution to this part of The Odyssey.  While all of them will be due on Tuesday before the test, 14/28 will be due COMPLETE on Monday.  I will check.  We already did one together in class, so that's 13 for you to complete.

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 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 - 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 - 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. 

HN English 10 - The Book Thief Start

You need to complete your notes on the background terms distributed in class today. 

You should also read page 3-18 in The Book Thief, also known as Prologue and Part I. 

Reading check on Monday, with the terms from Friday as fair game.

English 9 - Allusions in Song Lyrics Homework

For homework, you need to find 10 allusions from songs other than the ones on the practice sheet in class.  Basic rules:  for each allusion, you need to provide 1) the lyric (and surrounding lyrics if they need to be provided to make sense), 2) the song title in quotation marks, 3) artist, and 4) what is the song alluding to.

You may use two allusions from one song, but no more. If your song has bad words (aka words that would get you in trouble in my class), use the star method: ****** for  the offending word. 

Example:
1) "With them moves like Jagger/ I've got the moves like Jagger"
2)  "Moves Like Jagger"
3)  Maroon 5
4)  The song is alluding to Mick Jagger, the lead singer of The Rolling Stones who is known for shaking his hips on stage.