Mythology chapter 15 Odyssey (you do not need to complete the questions)

"Rules of the Game"

"The Scarlet Ibis"

"The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind"

Mythology:

(Pyramus and Thisbe and Pygmalion and Galatea)

Part Three: The Great Heroes Before the Trojan War

Chapter 9 Perseus, Chapter 10 Theseus, Chapter 11 Hercules,

Chapter 12 Atalanta

Read and Know pages 426-434 in your textbook.

Due: the House on Mango Street Section Three Stories--two quotes and commentary for each vignette.

Bring in your portfolio materials.

Mythology:

Part Two: Stories of Love and Adventure:

Chapter 5 Cupid and Psyche, Chapter 6 Eight Brief Tales of Lovers

Print out a hard copy and submit to Turnitin.com

Mythology: Part One: Chapters 3-4

Print out a hard copy and submit to Turnitin.com

Mythology: Part One: Chapters 1-2

To Kill a Mockingbird Enrichment Project Choices (see handout)

 

"The Displaced Person" by Flannery O'Connor: http://faculty.gordonstate.edu/lsanders-senu/The%20Displaced%20Person.pdf

"The Enemy" by Pearl S. Buck: http://tlc.cet.ac.il/ShowItem.aspx?ItemID=36ccb108-d73c-4db3-ad15-4112881f0c74&lang=EN

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner: http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/creating/downloads/A_Rose_for_Emily.pdf

Watch film: 12 Angry Men directed by Sydney Lumet  

"Dreams and "dream Differed" (Textbook)

"In School Days" by John Greenleaf Whittier: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174755 

Due: To Kill a Mockingbird project

Mythology Introduction

due: "the Most Dangerous Game" page 211. Complete worksheet that you were given last week. See me if you need help.

Due: The Gettysburg Address worksheet

Mythology:

Part Four: The Heroes of the Trojan War

Chapter 13 The Trojan War, Chapter 14 The Fall of Troy

To Kill a Mockingbird- Justice, Equality, Diversity, and Tolerance

 

 

Essential Questions: (print out)

• What, indeed, is “justice”?
• Is liberty and justice for all attainable?
• Should people sacrifice freedom in the interest of security?
• How do we balance liberty and equality?
• When does government have the right to restrict the freedoms of people?
• What are the responsibilities of the individual in regard to issues of social justice?
• In real life, does one person always receive the same treatment as another?
• What causes differences between one person’s justice and another’s injustice?
• Does justice apply equally to the rich and the poor? To the white and non-white? To the socially prominent and the social outcast? To the male and the female? To the adult and the child?
• Where do we draw our lines concerning with whom we deal justly and with whom we do not?
• Should we change the way our society deals with all citizens?
• Can literature be a vehicle for social change?

 

due: Finish To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird final

due chapters 22-24 of To Kill a Mockingbird

Literary Device #3 due. Submit to Turnitin.com. Print a hard copy.

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 16 due. Know the answers to the questions.

Chapter 16

1. What “subtle change” does Scout notice in her father?
2. What sort of person is Dolphus Raymond?
3. How does Reverend Sykes help the children see and hear the trial? How effective is the method he uses?
4. Comment on Judge Taylor's attitude to his job. Does he take the trial seriously or not?

 

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 14 and 15 reading and questions due

Chapter 14

1. What do we learn from Dill's account of his running away?
2. Why does Alexandra think Atticus should dismiss Calpurnia? How does  Atticus respond to the suggestion?
3. Why is Scout pleased when Jem fights her back? Why is she less pleased when he tells Atticus about Dill?
4. Comment on Dill's revelation in the last paragraph of chapter 14.

Chapter 15

1. What is the “nightmare” that now descends upon the children?
2. What was (and is) the Ku Klux Klan? What do you think of Atticus’s comment about it?
3. How does Jem react when Atticus tells him to go home, and why?
4. What persuades the lynching-party to give up their attempt on Tom's life?
5. Comment on the way Scout affects events without realizing it at the time.

to Kill a Mockingbird chapter 13 reading and questions due

Chapter 13

1. Why does Aunt Alexandra come to stay with Atticus and his family? What is she like?
2. Read the first two things Alexandra says when she comes to the Finch house. Are these typical of her or not?
3. Alexandra thinks Scout is “dull” (not clever). Why does she think this, and is she right? Are all adults good at knowing how clever young people are?
4. How does Aunt Alexandra involve herself in Maycomb's social life?
5. Comment on Aunt Alexandra's ideas about breeding and family. Why does Atticus tell them to forget it? Who is right, do you think?

Read To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 12

Latin Roots Unit 5 quiz

Read To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapters 10 and 11

Due: from "A White House Diary" by Lady Bird Johnson pages 104-111. Don't forget to review "Voice" and "Author's Purpose".

Read To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapters 8 and 9

Complete the worksheet for "the Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant

Read To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 6 and 7

To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 4 and 5 due

Latin Roots Unit 4 quiz

Read "the Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant pg. 332

 

To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 1 due. Do not complete the questions. We will do this in class. Do complete the vocabulary lists 1-3.

Latin Roots Unit 3 quiz

Textbook: "the Girl Who Can" by Ama Ata Aidoo pgs. 86-92 answer questions #1-5 on page 92. Use text support for # 4 and # 5.

Don't forget your Pay It Forward Activity! Two paragraphs. Answer A-F and expand on section E for paragraph two.

Due: Textbook pages 74-79. Be prepared to answer the questions in class.

Latin Roots Unit 2 quiz

Due: Intro paragraph rewrite Of Mice and Men essay

Topics:

 

Prepare questions from Of Mice and Men for Socratic Seminar

Literary device #1 due (bring hardcopy). Print receipt from Turnitin.com

Do not submit on google classroom.

Latin roots unit 1 quiz

See attached file for literary device information

Of Mice and Men

Advanced Placement in English Literature

and Composition Teaching Unit

Study Guide

Student Copy

 

Chapter Six

1. Compare the beginning of Chapter Six with the beginning of the novel. Explain why Steinbeck would begin this chapter in the same way that he began the first?

 

2. On pages 99 and 100, Steinbeck uses an image of nature to comment on the action at the ranch. Describe the image and explain its connection to the themes in the novel.

 

3. What delusion does Lennie experience as he is waiting for George? Why do you think he remembers this experience?

 

4. When George finds Lennie, what does Lennie expect him to do? How does George respond?

 

5. How does the reader know that Lennie does not realize that he has done something wrong?

 

6. How is the fact that George tells Lennie the story of the farm significant?

 

7. The story of the ranch seems to embody the main theme of the novel. What does Steinbeck emphasize through the dream of the ranch?

 

8. How does George’s responsibility in killing Lennie parallel the situation between Candy and his dog?

 

9. What is George trying to accomplish by shooting Lennie before the other men come to do it?

10.      Who ultimately understands what happened between Lennie and George? Why are the other men unable to understand?

11. Explain the significance of the final statement in the novel.

Due: of Mice and Men chapter 5

Complete chapter 4 reading Of Mice and Men. Complete questions for worksheet handed out in class.

Of Mice and Men chapter three reading notes. Answer questions 1-6.

Of Mice and Men chapter 2 Study Guide questions:

#'s 1, 9,10, 11, 13, 14 17 and 18. Don't forget complete sentences, text support. Use "writing bible" for reference.

Literary Terms test today.

Due: Of Mice and Men Study Guide Questions: complete #'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11 (Leave out the question "How is George's statement ironic given the time period in which the novel is set?) 12, 13, 15,16 and 18.. Complete sentences. Use text support is question calls for it.

Due: Of Mice and Men chapter 1

My Antonia Summer Reading Test

Due: "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen page 9

Download and bring in a copy of "The Writing Bible". If you need me to print you out a copy, please let me know before school on Monday.

Complete ten literary devices for My Antonia identifying context and commentary. Do not forget to follow the model we worked on in class today.

Directions: Analyze the following quotes by identifying the context of the quote AND the concept the author uses (characterization, theme, imagery, personification, symbolism, etc.) and its purpose. Context and concept should be in a separate paragraph for each quote analysis

 

 

1. “During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had known long ago and whom both of us admired. More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood.” (Introduction, page 5)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. “We went with Mr. Shimerda back to the dugout, where grandmother was waiting for me. Before I got into the wagon, he took a book out of his pocket, opened it, and showed me a page with two alphabets, one English and the other Bohemian. He placed this book in my grandmother’s hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said with an earnestness which I shall never forget, ‘Te-e-ach, te-each my An-tonia!’” (Book I, chapter 3, page 26)

Due: Literary terms: definitions and examples

Literary Thesis Essay Graphic Organizer: Please download and bring a clean copy to class. I will provide you a copy if you let me know ahead of time.

"Popcorn" writing due. Create a personal reminiscence or write a day in the life of a kernel. Three quarters of a page to a page in length.

Syllabus signed

Supplies: covered textbook, notebook, dividers (5), paper, planner

 

Academic Vocab quiz: know terms and definitions

Due: Writing an Objective Summary. One paragraph of a fairy tale utilizing the steps we worked on today in class.