Rewrite your Of Mice and Men essay.  The essay must be typed and double spaced. Correct not only the mistakes I noted on the essay but also  look at the rubric.  I spent much time considering your essay when filling in the rubric.  Look at the areas of the rubric where you scored low and make the necessary corrections. Turn in the new typed version with the handwritten on stapled behind it.

Print out the To Kill a Mockingbird essay prompts and bring to class on Monday.

To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide and Reading Schedule

 

Chapters 1-7 due November 9th

Chapters 8-14 due November 16th

Chapters 15-21 due November 23th

Chapters 22-31 due November 30th

 

Your essay prompts (by period) for your essay on Friday are attached.  You must prepare for both prompts.  On Friday I will decide which prompt you will answer in your essay.  You must bring to class on Friday two notes cards, one for each prompt.  The cards must have the following information on them.

 

1.  Your name

2.  Theme

3. Topic sentence for first body paragraph

4.  Two quotes to support the topic sentence

5.  Topic sentence for second body paragraph

6.  Two quote to support the topic sentence

 

In addition you must prewrite your intro paragraph for each prompt.  It must have your name, date, period, and theme at the topic of the page.  The intro must be double spaced using dark blue or black ink.  Leave a one inch right margin.

Select a quote from chapter 3 in Of Mice and Men to use in a Lit Device assignment. The quote you choose must NOT be related to a study guide question.   Analyze the quote as you have been taught to do.  Present your analysis in the proper Lit Device format.  I have attached a copy of a Lit Device.  Follow this example for the proper format.  Remember you are NOT to write the connection paragraph.  This assignment is not complete until you submit it to turnitin.com AND you give me a print out.  Turnitin.com will time out at 11:59 p.m. on October 11th.

Finish reading chapter 2 in Of Mice and Men and answer the study guide questions.

Read chapter 3.  You do NOT need to answer the study guide questions for chapter 3.

Print out and bring to class the attached study guide for Of Mice and Men.

Bring Of Mice and Men to class.

Write a context and a concept paragraph for the following quote.  The quote appers in Book 5, chapter 1 and the paragraph begins "We sat down and watched them."  You do NOT need to put the paragraphs on two sheets of paper.  Allow yourself just 20 minutes for this assignment because that will be good practice for the test you will take next week.  Remember next week you will need to write a total of six paragraphs in 75 minutes.

 

“Some hens and ducks had crept through the hedge and were pecking at the fallen apples.  The drakes were handsome fellows, with pinkish gray bodies, their heads and necks covered with iridescent green feathers which grew close and full, changing to blue like a peacock’s neck.  Antonia said they always reminded her of soldiers—some uniform she had seen in the old country, when she was a child” (254).  Cather, My Antonia

Your context paragraph is due along with your concept paragraph for the quote you are analyzing.

Sample concept paragraph is attached.  Write a concept paragraph as discussed in class using one of the quotes from "Plainswoman."  Also, a copy of the quotes is attached.  You may not analyze quote #1.

Write a body paragraph that describes Nora at the end of the story.  Your paragraph should be eight sentences in length (TS, CD, CM, CM, CD, CM, CM, CS).  You, of course, may weave your sentences as we discussed in class.  Remember to use literary present tense.  You must NOT use contractions or have run-on sentences or fragments; those are big NO-NO's!  

 

You will find attached the example paragraph I showed you in class that describes Nora at the beginning of the story.  This is an example of good writing.  Do I expect that your paragraph will reach this level?  It would be wonderful if it did, but this is your first paragraph!  My expectations for you are high but not unreasonable.

9H Lit Terms Test.  Attached is a list of the terms you need to know for the test.  The list includes VERY limited definitions.  You are better off using the definitions on the handouts you were given.

Mythology chapters 3 & 4 due including study guide.  Be prepared for a quiz.

Write the second chunk for the paragraph we are writing about Nora at the beginning of the story.  That means you MUST write a lead in to the essential part of the quote and two sentences of commentary.  You should have three sentences written when you are done.  The following is the quote you will use.  Remember to determine the essential part.   Do not use the entire quote.

 

 

"Nora had been thinking of New England when Pleny came in –of the piano and the gentle darkness of her mother’s eyes, of frost on the small windowpanes, and the hearth fires, of holidays and the swish of sleighs, of men with businesslike faces and women who drank tea and read poetry, of deep substantial beds and the way the hills and the sea prescribed an area, making it intimate, and the way the towns folded into the hills. She was thinking of home and comfort, and then Pleny walked in; the dust trailed around his ankles, and the smell of cattle seemed to cling to his boots. A thousand miles of cattle and plains and work and hurt were clung like webs in his face" (1).

Read the mythology introduction and chapter one and chapter two and answer the study guide questions.  

Test on My Antonia

Copy the topic sentence I gave you for the first body paragraph of the "Plainswoman" essay on a new sheet of paper.  Then write a lead in to the following quote.  Do NOT use the entire quote.  Use only the essential part of the quote as we practiced in class.  When you are done you will have two sentences on one sheet of paper to turn in to me.  These are the first two sentences of your first body paragrph.  Please double space your work.

 

"She hadn't told him that she was sure she had a child within her.  She felt that she must keep her secret from this wild place, because if it were only spoken, the elements might ride like a stampede against her, hurting her and her child" (7).

Read the short story "Plainswoman" and be prepared for discussion on Tuesday.