Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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.
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.
Friday, March 16, 2012
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:
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.
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:
- The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
- Crime & Punishement by Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
- The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged, but not adapted) by Alexandre Dumas*
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe*
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.
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.
Monday, March 12, 2012
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.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
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.
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.
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.
Friday, March 2, 2012
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.
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.
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.
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