Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 20, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will work on the Rats Saw God RAFT project. The projects will be presented on Monday and Tuesday. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 19, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will work on the Rats Saw God RAFT project. The projects will be presented next Monday and Tuesday. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 18, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will choose partners and their Rats Saw God RAFT project. The projects will be presented next Monday and Tuesday. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: November 18, 2009 |
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"If life gives us rocks, it's our choice whether to build a bridge or a wall."
Unknown |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing
November 17, 2009 |
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1. Students will review verbals and avoiding dangling modifiers.
2. Students will complete a class exercise on correctly punctuating different types of sentences. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: November 17, 2009 |
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| "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: November 16, 2009 |
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1. Students will take a pretest on sp/vocab. list #11.
2. Students will complete sp/vocab. quiz #10.
3. Students will submit the take home Rats Saw God test.
Spelling/Vocabulary List #11
1.provident
2.pious
3.skeptical
4.ardent
5.benign
6.celestial
7.complacent
8.culpable
9.incipient
10.fallacy
11.fluctuation
12.indolence
13.inference
14.retribution
15.subterfuge
16.temerity
17.utility
18.veracity
19.atrocious
20.belligerent
21.incorrigible
22.insidious
23.morose
24.nefarious
25.pernicious |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: November 16, 2009 |
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"The great value of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
James Truslow Adams |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: November 13, 2009 |
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1. Students will work on the Rats Saw God take home test. The handwritten rough draft and typed copy will be collected on Monday, November 16th.
2. Students will study for Monday's spelling/vocabulary quiz. |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: November 12, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will finish reading Rats Saw God and begin working on the handwritten rough draft of the take home test. The handwritten rough draft and typed copy will be collected on Monday, November 16th. |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: November 11, 2009 |
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| 1. Silent reading--Students will continue reading and taking notes on Rats Saw God. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: November 9, 2009 |
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1.Students will take a pretest on List #11. Students will define and study for next week's quiz.
2. Students will complete Sp./Vocab. Quiz #9
List #10
1.intermittent
2.monotonous
3.credible
4.venial
5.gluttony
6.hypocrisy
7.perversity
8.rancor
9.ingenious
10.intrepid
11.laconic
12.ostensible
13.sanguine
14.ubiquitous
15.derision
16.levity
17.flippancy
18.disparage
19.reciprocate
20.reconcile
21.repudiate
22.vindicate
23.altruistic
24.inadvertent
25.predilection |
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Literature and Writing
November 6, 2009 |
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1. As a class, the students will discuss and take notes on the characters, plot and themes of Rats Saw God.
2. Using the book,students are to prepare a list of symbols and their meanings. |
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Literature and Writing
November 5, 2009 |
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| 1. As a class, students will discuss and take notes on the characters, plot and themes of pages 1-100 of Rats Saw God. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary
November 4, 2009 |
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1.Students will complete Sp./Vocab. Quiz #9.
2. Students will review answers for the Monday's CAPT exercise. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: November 2, 2009 |
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1. Students will take the pretest on List #10.
2. Students will complete the CAPT nonfiction exercise.
3. Students will take Sp./Vocab. Quiz #9 on Wendesday. |
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Rats Saw God (homework)
Due Date: October 30, 2009 |
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1. Students will discuss lists as a class with a volunteer recorder.
2. Students will sign for the book and read pages 1-80 by next Thursday. |
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Rats Saw God
October 29, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will work in small groups to prepare two lists, one of issues that affect teens and the other of issues that affect parents; they will also provide a list of resources, strategies and/or remedies for each list. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 28, 2009 |
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| "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Edison |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing
October 28, 2009 |
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1. The students will correct the homework assignment in class.
2. Review dictional demons:
accept/except, affect/effect, then/than, between/among, formally/formerly, and illusion/allusion. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 27, 2009 |
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| "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." Henry Ford |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 27, 2009 |
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1. Students will complete "Let's Write Well" exercise.
2. Students will complete an additional exercise for homework. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: October 26, 2009 |
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1. Students will take the pretest on sp./vocab. list #8--see Oct.19th for list.
2. Students will take sp/vocab. quiz#8 on words from lists 1-7. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 26, 2009 |
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| "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." Grandma Moses |
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Literature and writing (homework)
Due Date: October 23, 2009 |
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| In A221, students will work on essay revisions. |
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Literature and writing (homework)
Due Date: October 22, 2009 |
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| In A221, students will work on essay revisions. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 21, 2009 |
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| "Hear the meaning within the word." Wm. Shakespeare |
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Grammar and Mechanics (homework)
Due Date: October 21, 2009 |
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1.Students will complete a Correcting Dangling Modifier exercise. If more time is needed, the exercise will be completed as homework.
2.Tomorrow, students will work in the computer room on essay revisions. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 20, 2009 |
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"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain |
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Grammar and Mechanics
October 20, 2009 |
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1. Students will review rules of the comma, semicolon, colon and apostrophe.
2. Students will complete a Substitution Exercise.
3. Students will submit their book reports. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 19, 2009 |
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenges and controversy."
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: October 19, 2009 |
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I. List #8
1.epitaph
2.interment
3.abstain
4.ascertain
5.cajole
6.concede
7.condescend
8.deprecate
9.dissipate
10.elicit
11.emaciate
12.exasperate
13.altercation
14.alteration
15.apparition
16.barrage
17.duplicity
18.facade
19.galvanize
20.iterate
21.ostracize
22.prevaricate
23.scrutinize
24.vacillate
25.venerate
26.vitiate
Students are to define and study.
II. Instead of taking the weekly sp./vocab, quiz, students will review words and their definitions using notecards. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 16, 2009 |
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| 1.Students will work on their book reports. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 15, 2009 |
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1. Students will work on the analysis of "Paul's Case" or their book report. The book report will be collected on Monday, October 19th.
2. Students will submit their quote journals. |
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Grammar and Mechanics (homework)
Due Date: October 14, 2009 |
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1. Students will complete an exercise on identifying gerunds and gerund phrases.
2. If time is left, the class will discuss "Paul's Case." The analysis will be collected on Friday, October 16th. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 14, 2009 |
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"Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors."
Confucius |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: October 13, 2009 |
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1. Students will take a the pretest on List #7.
1.formidable
2.inexorable
3.inscrutable
4.lugubrious
5.melancholy
6.meticulous
7.morbid
8.opportune
9.precipitous
10.precocious
11.pugnacious
12.punctilious
13.stringent
14.allege
15.bequeath
16.embezzle
17.indict
18.infringe
19.fiscal
20.lucrative
21.mercenary
22.dirge
23.perjure
24.dirge
25.valiant
1. Students will take Sp./Vocab. Quiz #6
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Grammar and Mechanics (homework)
Due Date: October 13, 2009 |
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1. Students will correct the exercise on identifying participles and participial phrases.
2. Students will complete and correct in class the writing exercise on punctuation that had been scheduled for last week.
2. If time is left, the class will briefly discuss "Paul's Case." The analysis will be collected on Friday, October 16th. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 13, 2009 |
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| "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." Anne Frank |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 9, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will work on their book reports. The report is due on or before Monday, October 19, 2009. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 8, 2009 |
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1. In small groups of four, students will discuss and take notes on "Paul's Case." The analysis will be collected on Thursday, October 15, 2009
2. Students must bring in their book for their book report. Friday's class will be book report reading and/or writing day. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 7, 2009 |
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| "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." Bishop Desmond Tutu |
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Grammar and Mechanics
October 7, 2009 |
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1.Using the white board and a written exercise, students will review punctuation of Simple, Compound, Complex and Compound/Complex Sentences.
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 6, 2009 |
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| "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become." Buddha |
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Grammar and Mechanics
October 6, 2009 |
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| 1. Students will review identifying verbals and varying sentence beginnings. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 6, 2009 |
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| 1.Students will read, take notes and analyze "Paul's Case." The analysis will be collected on Friday. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: October 5, 2009 |
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"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: October 5, 2009 |
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Students will take a pretest on sp/vocab. list#6:
1. denizen
2.despot
3.impunity
4.opulence
5.posterity
6.proximity
7.reminiscence
8.vengeance
9.adroit
10.impromptu
11.mediocre
12.prodigious
13.prosaic
14.spontaneous
15.subtle
16.transient
17.virile
18.austere
19.avid
20.capricious
21.competent
22.deficient
23.demure
24.adequate
25.grotesque
2. Students will complete sp/vocab. quiz #5. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 2, 2009 |
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1. In groups of four, students will discuss and take notes on"Paul's Case."
The analysis will be collected next Thursday, October 8, 2009. |
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Literature and Writing (homework)
Due Date: October 1, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit the analysis of "The Necklace."
2. Students will read "Paul's Case." For homework, students will research the author, Willa Cather. The analysis will be collected next Thursday, October 8, 2009. |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing (homework)
Due Date: September 30, 2009 |
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1. Students will review punctuating different types of sentences.
2. Students will work on varying sentence beginning exercises. Emphasis will be placed on verbals.
3. Students will review corrected analysis of "The Cask of Amontillado." Students will submit a revised, retyped analysis by Wednesday, October 6, 2009. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 30, 2009 |
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| "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: September 29, 2009 |
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1. Students will take a pretest on Sp./Vocab. List #5. For homework, they will define and study the words for next week's quiz.
2. Students will complete Sp./Vocab. Quiz #4.
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 29, 2009 |
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| "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." David Henry Thoreau |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 25, 2009 |
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| 1. The class will discuss "The Necklace." The analysis will be collected next Thursday, October 1st. |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 24, 2009 |
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1. Students will read "The Necklace." The analysis will be collected next Thursday, October 1st.
2. Students will research the author. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 23, 2009 |
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"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."
Anonymous |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing
September 23, 2009 |
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1.The class will correct the exercise on identifying Simple, Compound, Complex and Compound/Complex Sentences.
2. Students will take notes on verbals and complete a board exercise.
3. Students will submit the analysis of "The Cask of Amontillado." |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 22, 2009 |
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| "The best way out is always through." Robert Frost |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: September 22, 2009 |
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1. Students will take Spelling/Vocabulary Quiz #3.
2. Students will copy Sp./Vocab.List #4 from the board; there will not be a pretest.
Spelling/Vocabulary List #4
1.indignation
2. insolence
3.recompense
4. rendezvous
5.repose
6. succor
7.nadir
8. zenith
9. remonstrate
10. requite
11. surmount
12. terminate
13. vaunt
14. vilify
15. traverse
16. menial
17. negligent
18. obstinate
19.precarious
20. predatory
21. sundry
22. acquiesce
23. allude
24. console
25. corroborate |
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Summer Reading Part #2 (homework)
Due Date: September 21, 2009 |
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1. Students will complete the summer reading writing exercise.
2. Students will submit the analysis of "The Cask of Amontillado" on Wednesday, September 23rd. |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 18, 2009 |
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1. Summer Reading writing exercise.
2. Students are reminded that the analysis of "The Necklace" will be collected next Thursday, September 24th. |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 17, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit the analysis of "The Cask of Amontillado."
2. Students will read "The Necklace." The analysis will be submitted next Thursday, September 24th. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 16, 2009 |
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Quote #8
"Everyone must row with the oars he has." English Proverb |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing (homework)
Due Date: September 16, 2009 |
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1. Students will complete an exercise on identifying and punctuating Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences.
2. Students will complete exercises on punctuating the Compound/Complex Sentence.
3. For homework, students will review their notes, complete their Quote Journal and proofread the final draft of the analysis of "The Cask of Amontillado." |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 15, 2009 |
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Quote #7
"A book is like a garden carried in a pocket."
Chinese Proverb |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing (homework)
Due Date: September 15, 2009 |
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1. The class we briefly review Pronoun Case and Verb Tenses.
2. Students will complete an exercise on distinguishing between phrases and clauses and punctuating Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences.
3. For homework, students should study their notes and complete their analysis of The Cask of Amontillado which will be collected on Thursday, September 17th. |
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Grammar and Mechanics of Writing (homework)
Due Date: September 15, 2009 |
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1. Students will review Pronoun Case and Verb Tenses.
2. Students will complete an exercise on distinguishing between phrases and clauses and an exercise on puctuating Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences.
3. Students will be given the corrected analysis of "The Devil and Daniel Webster" for further revision and retyping. All revised essays are to be resubmitted within seven school days. |
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Quote Journal
September 14, 2009 |
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Quote #6
"As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us."
Chinua Achebe |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: September 14, 2009 |
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1.Students will take the pretest on sp./vocab. list #3. Students should define and study for next week's quiz.
2. Students will take Sp./Vocab. Quiz #2. |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 11, 2009 |
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1. The class will discuss and take notes on "The Cask of Amontillado." The analysis will be collected on Wednesday, September 16th.
2. Students will submit the revised, retyped introductory essay.
3. Students are reminded to study for Monday's spelling/vocabulary quiz #2. |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 10, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit the analysis of "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
2. Students will read and take notes on "The Cask of Amontillado," be prepared to discuss the story tomorrow, and submit the analysis on Wednesday, September 16th.
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Grammar/Mechanics of Writing
September 9, 2009 |
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1. Students will take notes and complete an exercise on verb tenses and pronoun case.
2. Review of common errors in writing: then/than, affect/effect, accept/except, allot/a lot and all right.
3. Students are to submit the analysis of "The Devil and Daniel Webster" tomorrow, Thursday, September 10th. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 9, 2009 |
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| "No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." William Blake |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 8, 2009 |
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| "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome." Samuel Johnson |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: September 8, 2009 |
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1. Students will take a pretest on sp./vocab.list#2.
Students are to define and study these words and review list #1 for next week's sp./vocab. quiz.
2. Students will take sp./vocab. quiz #1.
3. Students will receive their corrected introductory essay to be revised and retyped by Friday, September 11th.
Sp/Vocabulary List #2
1. dexterity 2. discretion 3. elation 4. copious
5. eminent 6. imminent 7. frugal 8. languid
9. lurid 10. nocturnal 11. oblique 12. obnoxious
13. officious 14. vehement 15. vindictive 16. acute
17. vociferous 18. zealous 19. implicit 20. explicit
21. inane 22. incessant 23. incognito 24. infernal 25. laudable |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 4, 2009 |
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1.As a class, we will finish our analysis of "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
2.Students are reminded that: 1.the essay will be collected on Tuesday, and 2. the students will have a spelling/vocabulary quiz #1 on Tuesday. |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: September 3, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit their Quote Journals.
2. As a class, we will discuss and take notes on analyzing a work of literature.
3. As a class, students will take notes on "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and use them for their analysis of the story. A handwritten rough draft (as well as other rough drafts) must be stapled to the back of the final typed essay which will be collected on Tuesday, September 8th. |
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Writing
September 2, 2009 |
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1. As a class, we will correct the diagnostic test of writing skills. We will use the results as a starting point.
2.Students will take notes on distinguishing between phrases and clauses and pronoun case. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 2, 2009 |
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| Quote #3--"To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue." proverb |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: September 1, 2009 |
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| Quote #2--"There is a great distance between said and done." Puerto Rican Proverb |
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Writing
September 1, 2009 |
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Students will complete the diagnostic test of writing skills.
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Writing
August 31, 2009 |
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| Students will begin taking the diagnostic test of writing skills. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: August 31, 2009 |
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1.Students will take a pretest on List#1. Students will define and study the words for next week's quiz. Because Monday is a holiday, the students will take the quiz on Tuesday, September 8th.
Sp./Vocabulary List #1
1. jargon 2. labyrinth 3. zephyr 4. feign 5. regale
6. salvage 7. brevity 8. censure 9. deluge 10.candid 11. brusque 12. dour 13. droll 14. wary
15. furtive 16. hoary 17. motley 18. pensive
19. placid 20. plaintive 21. plausible 22. potent
23. pungent 24. wanton 25. guile |
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Literature (homework)
Due Date: August 31, 2009 |
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On Friday, students were given the short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
Students must be prepared to discuss the story on Thursday. As a reminder, they were also told to research the author and define the following words: 1.allegory 2.allusion 3.motif 4.symbol and 5.theme. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: August 31, 2009 |
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Students should have their quote journals w/the directions written on the inside cover: Explain the significance of the quote. What does it say about people in general? In what ways does it remind you of people you have known or experiences you have had? Be specific, and cite examples.
Quote#1--"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." Indira Ghandi |
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End of the (homework)
Due Date: June 12, 2009 |
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| Students will write an assessment of what worked and what did not work for them this year. They will discuss their effort, where they have improved and still need improvement, etc. This will be typed and submitted on Monday, June 22, 2009. |
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Review for Final Exam
June 11, 2009 |
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| Continue review. |
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Review for Final Exam (homework)
Due Date: June 10, 2009 |
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| The class will review varying sentence beginnings and punctuating different types of sentences. |
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Brave New World
June 9, 2009 |
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1.Final class discussion
2.Students will return books.
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Spelling Words For Final Exam (homework)
Due Date: June 9, 2009 |
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Review For Final Exam (homework)
Due Date: June 8, 2009 |
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| Students will receive a list of 50 sp./vocab. words; 25 will be on the exam to be matched with definitions. |
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Sp./Vocab. #6 Quiz
June 8, 2009 |
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1. Students will complete quiz#6.
2. Students will review previous lists to prepare for the final exam. |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: May 29, 2009 |
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| Groups will work on Brave New World Chapts. 16-18 questions. |
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Brave New World Chapts. 16-18 (homework)
Due Date: May 28, 2009 |
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| Groups will work on Brave New World Chapts. 16-18 questions. |
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Brave New World Chapts. 16-18 (homework)
Due Date: May 27, 2009 |
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1. How do you feel about Mustapha Mond? Do you agree with Mond that people would prefer happiness to truth and beauty? Explain and be specific.
2. John says to Mustapha Mond, "Nothing costs enough here." What does he mean? Do you agree that things for which we pay with a part of ourselves are more valuable than those which come easily? Explain and be specific.
3. Why does Huxley not permit the Savage to go to the island with Bernard and Helmholtz? Explain.
4. What do you think of the Savage's own Shakespearean tragedy? Are we meant to identify him as a tragic hero? If not, does the book have a hero? Explain.
5.I expect a short 1 and
1/2 to 2 page essay from each student as an answer for the following question: "Is virtue possible without temptations?"
These answers will be collected on Monday, June 1, 2009. |
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Sp/Vocabulary List #6 Roots (homework)
Due Date: May 26, 2009 |
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1.-here- -hes- =to stick, to cling--adhere, coherent, inherent, cohesive
2.-ject- =to hurl, cast, throw--dejected, abject, conjecture, trajectory, projectile
3. -mit- -miss-= to send--emit, transmit, omission, emissary
4.-pend- -pense- =to hang, weigh--expenditure, impending, compensate, propensity, recompense
5.-tract- =to drag, draw-attract, abstraction, protract, intractable, contract
Students are to define and study for next week's sp./vocab. quiz. |
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Sp./Vocab. Quiz #5
May 26, 2009 |
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| Students will complete Sp./Vocab. Quiz #5. |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: May 21, 2009 |
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1. Students will work in groups. The comprehension questions for Brave New World Chapters 13-16 will be collected on Friday, May 22nd.
2. Students should remember to study for Tuesday's Sp./Vocab. Quiz #5. |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: May 20, 2009 |
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| Students will work in small groups. Students should note that an individual essay must also be included with the comprehension answers. |
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International Culture Day
May 19, 2009 |
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| Students will go to C107 for Mr. Thomas' students' Powerpoint presentations. |
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Brave New World Groups 13-16 (homework)
Due Date: May 19, 2009 |
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1. Alyssa, Kei, Tina, Matt Dinnan
2. Ivana, Trinity, Sara, Matt McPhail
3. Kevin, Emily Orser, Amber, Koji
4. Emily Carlisle, Taryn, Tiffany, Alex, Keisha
5. Abbey, Rebecca, Alex, Ray
6. Leroy, Krzysztof, Gian, Mareesa |
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Sp./Vocab. List #5 Roots (homework)
Due Date: May 18, 2009 |
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1.-nym- name--pseudonym, anonymous, acronyn
2.-sequ- -secu- follow--sequence, consequence, consecutive
3.-doc- -doctin- -dox- teacher, teaching, opinion --docile, indoctrinate, orthodox
4.-vi- -via- road--devious, obvious, obviate, trivial
5.-rog- ask, say, declare--interrogate, abrogate, derogatory
6,-pet- seek, attack--petulant, impetus, impetuous
7.-anim- life, spirit--animosity, pusillanimous, magnanimous, animate, inanimate.
Define and study all five lists for Tuesday's (May 26th) Sp./Vocab. Quiz. |
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Brave New World Chapts. 13-16 (homework)
Due Date: May 18, 2009 |
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Sp./Vocab. Quiz # 3 (homework)
Due Date: May 15, 2009 |
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1. Students will complete Sp./Vocab. #3 Quiz.
2. Students will read Chapts. 13-15 silently. Students will work in newly formed groups on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.(See attached document.)
3. Students will submit the typed answers on Thursday, May 21, 2009. |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: May 14, 2009 |
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1. Students will discuss Chapts. 10-12 of Brave New World.
2. Students will complete a correcting errors in usage, spelling and mechanics exercise. |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: May 13, 2009 |
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| 1.Students will continue to work in groups to answer Brave New World Chapts. 10-12 comprehension questions. Students will submit the typed answers tomorrow. |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: May 12, 2009 |
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| Students will work in groups to complete Chapts. 10-12 of Brave New World. |
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Sp./Vocab.#4 //Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: May 11, 2009 |
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1. Students will define Sp./Vocab.#4 and study Lists 1-3 for this week's quiz which will be taken on Friday, May 15, 2009.
2. Students will work in assigned groups on Comprehension Quests. Chapters 10-12 of Brave New World. |
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Review: Sentence Puctuation
May 8, 2009 |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: May 7, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit the answers for Chapts. 7-9.
2. The class will discuss and answer any questions regarding Chapts. 7-9.
3. Students will read Chapters 10-12. The comprehension questions will be collected next Thursday, May 14, 2009.
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: May 6, 2009 |
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| Students will work in assigned groups on Chapters 7-9 of Brave New World. |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: May 5, 2009 |
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Students will work on Chapts. 7-9 of Brave New World in groups:
1.Ray, Alex, Rebecca and Emily Orser
2.Ivana, Krzysztof, Emily Carlisle, and Tiffany
3.Taryn, Mareesa, Abbey, and Koji
4.Gian, Kevin, Matt Dinnan, and Amber
5.Kei, Leroy, Matt McPhail, and Tasiya
6. Alyssa, Sara, Trinity and Tina |
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Sp./Vocab. List #3 Roots (homework)
Due Date: May 4, 2009 |
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I. List #3
1.-gamy- marriage--monogamy, polygamy, misogamy
bigamy
2.-pod- -ped- foot--podiatrist, impediment, pedestal, pedestrian
3.-vera- -verit- truth--veracity, veritable, incontrovertible, verify
4.-vor-eat--herbivorous, carnivorous, omnivorous, voracious
5.-voc- -voke- to call--vocation, evoke, provoke
6.-cis- -cide- to cut, to kill- incision, homicide, precision, regicide
7.-mut- change--immutable, mutation, permutation
Students are to define and study for next week's spelling/vocabulary quiz.
II. Spelling/Vocab. Quiz #2 |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: May 1, 2009 |
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1.Students will work on Chapters 7-9 Brave New World comprehension questions.
2. Students should remember to study Spelling/Vocabulary Lists 1 and 2 for Monday's quiz. |
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Brave New World
April 30, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit the comprehension questions for Chapters 4-6.
2. Students will discuss Chapters 4-6. |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: April 29, 2009 |
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Students will complete the following comprehension questions for Chapters 7-9:
1. What aspects of the Savage Reservation, Malpais, shock Lenina? Why do you think Huxley chose an American Indian reservation as the example of an earlier civilization? Explain. What would have been the effect on the reader if Huxley had chosen to preserve an example of a twentieth-century Western civilization? Do you sympathize with Lenina's disgust at what she sees? Explain.
2. In talking to Lenina, Linda says that she used to say to the savages, "Civilization is Sterilization." What does she mean? Is this slogan ironic? Explain.
3. Has John's (the Savage) heredity or environment had the greater effect on his life? Why? Why has Linda not been able to keep alive the culture of his heredity?
4. "If one's different, one's bound to be lonely." (Chapt.8 P.92) Why is it true for Bernard and John? Is it true for all people? In what kind of a society is it more likely to be true? Explain.
Submit on Thursday, May 7, 2009.
Students will finish working on Chapters 4-6 comprehension questions. |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: April 28, 2009 |
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| Students will work on Chapts. 4-6 Brave New World comprehension questions. Although students will submit group answers, note that question #3 requires a poem from each member of each group. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary List #2 (homework)
Due Date: April 27, 2009 |
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1. Students will complete Sp./Vocab. Quiz #1.
2. Students will copy and define list #2.
3. Students will work on Brave New World comprehension questions.
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: April 24, 2009 |
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Students will answer the following Chapters 4-6 comprehension questions.
1. Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are both set apart from other people, but for different reasons. What reasons are given for the antisocial behavior of each? Do you think their relationship is based on true sympathy of feelings? Explain.
2. What do you think is the purpose of religion in this preconditioned world?
3. Bernard considers electromagnetic golf a waste of time and Lenina replies, "Then what's time for?" (p.59) Consider contemporary labor-saving devices. For what are we saving time? Create a poem that begins, "It's a waste of time to..."
4. Foreshadowing is the prefiguring of a later event by an earlier event in the novel. How is Bernard's interview with the director an example of foreshadowing? Explain.
This comprehension exercise will be collected on Thursday, April 30, 2009.
Students are to read Chapters 7-9 by Wednesday, April 29, 2009.
Reminder: Students are to study M.P.#4 Sp./Vocab. List#1 for Monday's quiz. |
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Brave New World
April 23, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit Brave New World Chapters 1-3 comprehension questions.
2. Students will discuss Chapters 1-6. |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: April 22, 2009 |
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| Students will work on comprehension questions. |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: April 21, 2009 |
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1. Students will work on comprehension questions.
2. Students will read Chapters 4-6 by Thursday, April 23, 2009. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary List #1 M.P.#4--Roots (homework)
Due Date: April 20, 2009 |
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1-pan- all--panacea, pandemic, panoply, panorama, pantheism, pandemonium
2.-loqu- -loc- speak--loquacious, circumlocution, colloquy, obloquy, elocution
3.-path- feeling--apathy, antipathy, empathy, pathology
4.-gen- birth--eugenics, genocide, genesis
5.-greg- gather, to flock--gregarious, egregious, congregate
6.-sequ- -secut- follow--sequential, consecutive, inconsequential
Students are to define and study for next Monday's quiz. |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: April 20, 2009 |
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Students are to complete the comprehension questions for Chapters 1-3.
1. The book opens with a description of the fertilizing room in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. Compare the description of the fertilizing room with a description using lush fertile images of Dylan Thomas' "Fern Hill" or Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring." Irony is an event or an effect opposite to that which could be expected. What is the irony in Huxley's description? Choose another topic and treat it two ways, directly and ironically. Suggestions: school, church, man, woman, spring, city.
Questions 2-4 can be completed individually or in small groups of 3 or 4 students only.
2."Community,Identity, Stability"is the World State's motto. What devices are revealed in the first three chapters for achieving these goals? Given our society today, if science perfected extrauterine birth, what purposes of humanity would be served? What are the drawbacks?
3. In these opening chapters Huxley quickly describes a social order and a system of values. What is the religion? What words and concepts are obscene? What kind of entertainment exists? What values prevail in male-female relationships? What are the pastimes of childhood? What kind of personality and what physical qualities are valued? Are any of these values similar to yours?
4. Of all the characters introduced do you sympathize with some more than others? Why? Lenina is described as a "pneumatic." What does this mean in and out of context? Could it be ironic? Could you compare Henry Foster and Bernard Marx with anyone you know? Explain.
The answers will be collected on Thursday, April 23, 2009. |
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Introd. Brave New World Essay (homework)
Due Date: April 20, 2009 |
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Brave New World (homework)
Due Date: April 9, 2009 |
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1. Students are to read Chapters 1-3.
2. Students are to write a 2-3 page essay describing the perfect world that they would like to create. They should consider solutions for problems of housing, food, education, medical care, race relations, rules, etc. Due Monday, April 20, 2009. |
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Brave New World Introduction (homework)
Due Date: April 8, 2009 |
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1. Students will finish small-group and class discussions.
2. Students will sign for books.
3. Students will define the following words before reading Chapters 1-3:
1.pallid
2.ova
3.morula
4.indefatigable
5.inculcate
6.surreptitious
7 furtive
8.soliloquy
9.gametes
10.lupus
11.sibilant
12.boskage
13. effusive
14. sententiously
15. callow
16.prodigious
17. deferential
18. rudimentary
19. chypre
20. pneumatic
21. geniality
22. tremulous
23. viviparous
24. indissolubly
25. maudlin
26. axiomatic
27. soma |
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M.P.#4 Brave New World Introduction
April 7, 2009 |
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Students will form small groups(3-4)to formulate answers for the following questions:
1.What is conformity? (List some ways students at HHS conform.)
2. What behaviors make people at HHS "outcasts"?
3. Would you rather be thought of as a conformist or nonconformist? Why?
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End of Marking Period 3
April 6, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit their Critique or Summary.
2. Students will finish watching Homeless to Harvard. |
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Peer Review of Essays
April 3, 2009 |
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| Students will review and critique students' Analysis essay. |
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Macbeth (homework)
Due Date: April 2, 2009 |
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1.Students will read, discuss and take notes on Act V scs. i-v.
2.Students will read Act V scs. vi-viii (pgs.181-191)on their own and complete the comprehension questions which will be collected tomorrow.
3. Reminder: Students asked and received an extension for the last expository essay--the Critique--which will be collected on Monday, April 6, 2009. |
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Macbeth (homework)
Due Date: April 1, 2009 |
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1.Students will finish reading, discussing and taking notes on Act IV sc. iii.
2. Students will be given Act V comprehension questions which will be collected on Friday, April 3, 2009. |
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Macbeth
March 31, 2009 |
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| Students will read, discuss and take notes on Act IV sc.ii and the beginning of sc.iii (pages 139-146). |
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Macbeth
March 30, 2009 |
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| Students will finish Act III sc. vi and Act IV sc.i. |
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Macbeth (homework)
Due Date: March 27, 2009 |
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1.Students will read, discuss and take notes on Act III scs.v and vi.
2. Students will complete the comprehensions questions on Act III and submit on Tuesday, March 31, 2009. |
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Macbeth (homework)
Due Date: March 26, 2009 |
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1. Students will submit the comprehension questions on Macbeth Act II.
2. Students will read, discuss and take notes on Act III sc.iv. |
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Macbeth Act III
March 25, 2009 |
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| Students will read, discuss and take notes on Act III scs. ii and iii. |
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Macbeth Act III
March 24, 2009 |
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| Students will read, discuss and take notes on Act III sc.i. |
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Peer Review of Essays (homework)
Due Date: March 23, 2009 |
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1.Students will continue critiquing Essays #2 and #3.
2. Students will submit the Analysis Essay. |
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Macbeth Act II (homework)
Due Date: March 23, 2009 |
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| Students will complete the comprehension questions on Act II of Macbeth. They will be collected on Thursday, March 26, 2009. |
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Peer Review of Descriptive Essays
March 20, 2009 |
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| Students will critique sample essays. |
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Daily Quotation (homework)
Due Date: March 19, 2009 |
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| "Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones." Seneca |
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Macbeth (homework)
Due Date: March 19, 2009 |
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1. Students will read and discuss Act II sc. iv. The comprehension questions will be collected on Wednesday, March 15, 2009.
2. Students will submit Macbeth Act I questions today.
3. As a reminder, students will submit their analysis essay on Monday, March 23rd. |
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Daily Quote (homework)
Due Date: March 18, 2009 |
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| "The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it." Michelangelo |
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Macbeth
March 18, 2009 |
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| Students will read and discuss Act II sc.iii of Macbeth. |
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Daily Quote (homework)
Due Date: March 17, 2009 |
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| "Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." Alexander Graham Bell |
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Macbeth
March 17, 2009 |
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| Students will read and discuss Act II scs. i and ii of Macbeth. |
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Daily Quote (homework)
Due Date: March 16, 2009 |
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"Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want."
Jim Rohn |
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Sp./Vocab, Prefixes (homework)
Due Date: March 16, 2009 |
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1.circum-around--circumlocution, circumnavigate, circumference
2.peri-around--periphery, pericardium,peripheral
3.sym-,syn-with, together--sympathy, symposium, synonym,
4.ambi-both--ambidextrous, ambiguous
5.epi-on, over--epigraph, epithet, epilogue
6.pan-all--pandemic, pandemonium, panorama
7.-omni-all--omniscient, omnivorous, omnipotent |
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Macbeth (homework)
Due Date: March 16, 2009 |
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| Students will finish reading and discussing Act I of Macbeth. The comprehension questions will be submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009. |
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CAPT
March 13, 2009 |
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March 12, 2009 |
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CAPT
March 11, 2009 |
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March 10, 2009 |
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Literature--Macbeth (homework)
Due Date: March 9, 2009 |
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Due to last week's snow storm, we did not have class. See February 2, 2009 for assignments.
Students will submit their Descriptive Essay. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary
March 9, 2009 |
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| Due to last week's snow storm, we did not have class. See March 2, 2009 for this week's list. |
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Expository Writing Unit
March 6, 2009 |
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1. Students are to submit the Macbeth Act I comprehension questions.
2. Students will receive their corrected Process Essays. As a class, we will review two corrected papers (note that the students' names will not on the papers). |
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CAPT
March 5, 2009 |
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CAPT
March 4, 2009 |
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March 3, 2009 |
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Sp./Vocab. -Prefixes (homework)
Due Date: March 2, 2009 |
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1.dys-bad--dysentery, dyspepsis, dystrophy
2.a-not, without--amoral, amorphous, anomaly, atheism, atrophy, atypical
3. sym- syn- with--symposium, synonym, synthesis,
4. exo-out, outside--exogamy, exogenous, exotic
5. endo-within--endogamy, endogenous, endoskeleton
6. neo-new--neophyte, Neolithic
7. micro-small-microscopic, microcosm
8. macro-large--macroscopic, macrocosm
9. un-not--unwarranted, unmanageable, unfeigned
10. re-again--retract, reiterate, retort |
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Macbeth Act I scs.iv-vii (homework)
Due Date: March 2, 2009 |
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1.Students will read and discuss Act I scs.iv-vii aloud in class.
2. Students will receive the Act I comprehension questions which will be collected on Friday, March 6, 2009. Click on Document #1 for the questions. |
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Expository Writing Unit (homework)
Due Date: March 2, 2009 |
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| Reminder: The Description Essay will be collected next Monday, March 9th. |
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Macbeth
February 27, 2009 |
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Macbeth Act II scs. i and ii to be read aloud in class.
Homework: Students are to read Act II sc.iii and be prepared to reread and discuss on Monday, March 2, 2009. |
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Quote Journal #15 (homework)
Due Date: February 26, 2009 |
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#15
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
Muhammad Ali |
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Macbeth/Expository Writing Unit (homework)
Due Date: February 26, 2009 |
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1. Students will work on comprehension questions for Macbeth Act I in class. The typed answers will be collected tomorrow at the beginning of class.
2. Remind students about next week's Descriptive Essay. |
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Macbeth (homework)
Due Date: February 25, 2009 |
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1. Macbeth Act I--students will take notes. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 25, 2009 |
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#14
"In the End we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 24, 2009 |
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#13
"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Macbeth
February 24, 2009 |
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1. Collect Process Essay.
2. Mrs. Canalori and students will provide an overview of the American Studies Program.
3.Macbeth Act I--students will take notes. |
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Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 23, 2009 |
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#12
We must become the change we want to see."
Mahatma Gandhi |
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Sp./Vocab. Prefixes (homework)
Due Date: February 23, 2009 |
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1. contra-against--contrand, contradict, contravene
2.matr-mother--maternal, matrilineal, maternity, matricide
3. patr-father--paternal, patrilineal, paternity, patricide (parricide)
4.soro-sister--sororal, sorority, sororocide
5. frat-brother--fraternal, fraternity, fratricide
6. co-, col, com-, con-, cor-with, together--coordinate, collaborate, commute, configuration, corroborate, correlate
7. trans-across--translate, transcend, transcontinental |
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Macbeth
February 23, 2009 |
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Homework/Macbeth (homework)
Due Date: February 13, 2009 |
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1. Students are to submit the Daily Quote Journal.
2. (10 minute review of possible Process Essay topics)
3. Students will read, discuss and take notes on Act I sc. v.
4. Homework: Students will read Act I scs. vi-vii (6 pages) and coplete the Act I comprehension questions.
Due Monday, February 23, 2009 |
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Daily Quote Journal
February 12, 2009 |
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| "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." Grandma Moses |
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Sentence Combining
February 12, 2009 |
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| Students will work on and complete the sentence combining exercise. Vary sentence types, beginnings and lengths. The assignment will be collected at the end of the class. |
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Daily Quote Journal
February 11, 2009 |
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"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?"
Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
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Macbeth (homework)
Due Date: February 11, 2009 |
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1. The class will finish Act I sc.iii and read and discuss Act I sc.iv.
2. Students will be given the Expository Writing Assignment sheet that includes an outline and due date for each essay. |
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Macbeth (homework)
Due Date: February 10, 2009 |
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Students will volunteer and/or be assigned parts to read Act I scs. i-ii and the beginning of iii. The class will discuss and take notes on the scenes.
Homework: Students will finish reading Act I sc.iii for homework. The class will reread and discuss this scene tomorrow. |
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Daily Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 10, 2009 |
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| "If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking." Buddhist Proverb |
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Daily Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 9, 2009 |
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| "Things are only impossible until they are not." Jean-Luc Picard |
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Literature-Macbeth
February 6, 2009 |
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| With assigned roles, students will read, discuss and take notes on Act I sc.iii of Macbeth. |
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Literature-Macbeth (homework)
Due Date: February 6, 2009 |
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| Students will read and be prepared to discuss Act I sc.iv of Macbeth on Monday, February 9, 2009. |
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Literature-Macbeth
February 5, 2009 |
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| Students will be assigned roles and will read, discuss and take notes on Act I scs.i and ii of Macbeth. |
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Daily Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 5, 2009 |
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| "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Daily Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 4, 2009 |
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| "Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." Thomas Jefferson |
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Literature-Macbeth
February 4, 2009 |
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Discuss general plot and show the short HBO film.
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Daily Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 3, 2009 |
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| "You are what you think about all day long." Robert Schuller |
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Literature--Macbeth
February 3, 2009 |
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| Anticipatory Set: Students will take notes on the vocabulary, themes and history of the play. |
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Daily Quote Journal (homework)
Due Date: February 2, 2009 |
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| "When you are desperate for success, the forces of nature will conspire with you to succeed." Anonymous |
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Spelling/Vocabulary -Prefixes (homework)
Due Date: February 2, 2009 |
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Although you will not have sp./vocab. quizzes throughout M.P.#3, you should still study and review all words to help build your vocabulary.
1.ante- before--antecedent, antediluvian, antedate, antebellum
2.post- after--posterity, posthumous, postdate
3.sur- on, over--surmount, surname, surreptitious
4.epi- on, over--epicenter, epidermis
5.sub- under, below--subterranean, subterfuge, subliminal
6.bene- good--beneficial, benevolent, benefactor
7.mal- bad--malice, malevolent, malefactor
8.eu- good--eulogy, euphony, euphemism, euthanasia
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Sentence Combining (homework)
Due Date: February 2, 2009 |
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| Collect Sentence Combining exercise: "Hanging." |
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Spelling/Vocabulary-Prefixes (homework)
Due Date: February 2, 2009 |
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1. ad-to--adhere, adjacent, advent, adversary
2. ab-from, away--abdicate, abduct, abhor
3. miso-hate, hatred of--misogamy, misogyny, misanthropist
4. phil-love, love of--philanderer, philosophy, philanthropist
5. pro-for, in favor of--provocative, prologue, procrastinate
6.anti-against--antidote, antithesis, antipathy
7.inter-betwee--interstate, intervene, interlocutor, intercept
8.intra-within--intravenous, intrastate
9.ex- exo- out--exhume, expire, exogamy |
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Sentence Combining
January 30, 2009 |
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Sentence combining exercise with emphasis on:
1. clarity, 2. coherence, 3. emphasis, and 4. conciseness.
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Daily Quote Journal
January 30, 2009 |
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| Submit Daily Quote Journal. |
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Daily Quote# 3
January 29, 2009 |
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| "The most proverbial weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." Ferdinand Foch |
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Sentence Combining Activity
January 28, 2009 |
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Directions: Combine the following sentences into three, two or even just one clear and coherent sentence. In the process of combining, omit repetitive words and phrases (such as "She was) but keep all of the original details.
1. She was our Latin teacher.
2. We were in high school.
3. She was tiny.
4. She was a birdlike woman.
5. She was swarthy.
6. She had dark eyes.
7. Her eyes were sparkling.
8. Her hair was gray. |
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Daily Quote #2
January 28, 2009 |
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| "Good is not good where better is expected." Thomas Fuller |
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Sp./vocabulary-Prefixes
January 27, 2009 |
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You will need to know the prefixes as well as the words, but there will not be weekly sp./vocab. quizzes this marking period. More time is needed on writing --mechanics, grammar and application.
1.uni-/mono-one--unison, unilateral, monologue, monotonous
2.bi-/du-two--bilingual, dual, duplicity
3.tri-three--tripod, triennial
4.quad-/tetr-/four--quadrilateral, tetrarch
5. quint-/pent-five--quintessential, quintet, pentagon
6.sex-/hex-six--sexagenarian, hexagon
7.sept./hept-seven--septuagenarian, heptagon
8.octa-octo-eight--octagenarian, octet
9.nov-non-/enne-nine--novena, nonagon, nonagenarian, ennead
10.-deci-/deca-ten--decimate, decibel, decade |
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Daily Quote #1 M.P.#3
January 27, 2009 |
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"Begin with the end in mind." Stephen Carey
The directions for the daily quote are as they have been: Explain the significance of the quote. What does it remind you of people you have known or experienced? Explain. |
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A Tale Of Two Cities
January 13, 2009 |
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Essay: Examine the theme of resurrection in the novel. Which characters are brought back to life and how? Is there any situation from which resurrection is impossible?
Double space, use size 12 font, and Times New Roman type. Staple a handwritten rough draft to the back of the typed essay. Write to impress; this will be the only collected copy. 3-5 pages |
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A Tale Of Two Cities
January 9, 2009 |
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| Exam |
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A Tale of Two Cities
January 6, 2009 |
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| Book III--Chapters 1-15 notes due. |
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A Tale of Two Cities
December 19, 2008 |
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| Chapters 16-24 of Book II Notes are due. |
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Quote Journal
December 18, 2008 |
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| "The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." Florence Shinn |
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Quote Journal
December 17, 2008 |
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"Be kind for every9one you meet it fighting a battle."
Plato |
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Quote Journal
December 16, 2008 |
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| You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." Abraham Lincoln |
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A Tale of Two Cities
December 16, 2008 |
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| Chapters 5- 15 Notes are due. |
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Spelling/Vocabulary (homework)
Due Date: December 31, 1969 |
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1. Students will take Spelling/Vocabulary Quiz #3.
2. Students will copy Sp./Vocab. List #4 from the board; there will not be a pretest. |
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