English 2 Honors (Period 5) Assignments
- Instructor
- Mrs. Grace Lim-Hays
- Term
- Spring 2018
- Department
- English
- Description
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Throughout the year, the students will develop professional and critical thinking skills as they learn the required language arts standards. The class applies Design-Based Learning’s methodology to deliver an integrated language arts curriculum called Community Building. By solving real life challenges set in the context of an imaginary community, the students’ writing, reading, vocabulary, discussions, and research have relevance.
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Final Essay due. Submit to turnitin.com. Print doc and receipt. Include drafts edited by peer.
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Draft of Essay for your assigned theme.
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Read from Drive by Daniel Pink and respond to attached questions.
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Proposals for project due for approval.
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Read Dial vs. Digital (attached file)
Complete worksheet.
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" 283
1. What inference can be made about the influence of technology on the inhabitants? How did it make them vulnerable to destruction? What abilities could their technology have diminished in them? Discuss at least 2 textual evidence.
2. How is Teasdale's poem appropriate for the theme and mood of this story? Support with evidence from both pieces.
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Read "The Initiation" and respond to the Analysis questions attached. Please submit responses to turnitin.com and print.
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Finalized Essay Night. Submit to turnitin.com, print doc. and receipt. Attach drafts, outline and proof of editing.
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Charlotte Delbo account of Auschwitz
1. Compare Delbo's account with Wiesel's. What do they have similar? Different?
2. What do both of their accounts help us to understand about the experience of going to Auschwitz and the Holocaust?
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Lit Device Night due. Submit the essay to turnitin.com, print doc and receipt. Attach the typed chart. (See attached directions and example.)
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Read or listen to Holocaust Survivor Stories
Explore at least 2 survivor stories.
“Auschwitz Remembrance Is Tinged With Tension Over Poland's Holocaust Speech Law”
a. What is Poland’s Holocaust Speech Law?
b. Why did the government create this law?
c. What are the concerns raised by this law?
How would it affect Poland? The victims?
Is this a just law? Why? (Develop with several reasons. )
a. What is Poland’s Holocaust Speech Law?
b. Why did the government create this law?
c. What are the concerns raised by this law?
How would it affect Poland? The victims?
Is this a just law? Why? (Develop with several reasons. )
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Read Ch. 1 Night (p.3-22).
Do related vocabulary and add 2 entries to Lit. Device Chart for Ch.1. Be prepared to explain the lit device you selected and its significance during class discussion.
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Summary and Analysis of "Us vs. Them". Download the file.
Type in MLA and submit to turnitin.com. Print doc and receipt. Attached annotated article.
1. Read and annotate the article. Number the paragraphs.
1. Read and annotate the article. Number the paragraphs.
2. Descriptive Outline:
3. Summarize the article to cover the basic parts identified in the outline.
4. Evaluate/analyze the effects of rhetorical devices (ethos, pathos, logos) in the article. Which device was most influential? Which least? How did the photos which accompany the article affect its impact and meaning?
5. One paragraph analysis of the article’s significance:
• Why is the article important? Significant to the world? Our country? People?
• What larger issue does it raise?
• How does it relate to a concept in the literature we have read?
• How does it relate to and speak to other issues?
• What does it suggest about people, life, society? (Insights and concepts)
• Why is the article important? Significant to the world? Our country? People?
• What larger issue does it raise?
• How does it relate to a concept in the literature we have read?
• How does it relate to and speak to other issues?
• What does it suggest about people, life, society? (Insights and concepts)
6. Bibliography of the news source in MLA (use easybib.com or the MLA guide)
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Print, annotate, and read "Why Do We See So Many Things as ‘Us vs. Them’?" (pdf attached, but look into the magazine's website which has great pictures critical to expressing the ideas.)
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Read Coretta Scott King's memoir and watch the video to respond to attached questions.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7osV2_kTT0
1. Interview: According to Dr. King, how must one defy an unjust law? What must one be willing to accept? Why?
1. Interview: According to Dr. King, how must one defy an unjust law? What must one be willing to accept? Why?
2. Letter from Birmingham Jail:
a. How is a just law distinguishable from an unjust law?
b. What are examples he gives of lawful actions that were also unjust?
c. Why would it be true that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”? What does this mean?
3. What is an example of a lawful action in our present society that you feel is unjust? Explain why.
a. How is a just law distinguishable from an unjust law?
b. What are examples he gives of lawful actions that were also unjust?
c. Why would it be true that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”? What does this mean?
3. What is an example of a lawful action in our present society that you feel is unjust? Explain why.
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Final Persuasive Essay to Creon. Submit to turnitin.com. Print doc. and receipt. Attach edited draft.
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Draft Persuasive Essay to Creon. Please print and bring to class.
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Summary and Analysis of "Tribalism of Truth" (Toxic Political Conversations). Submit to turnitin.com , print doc and receipt. Attach annotated article and outline.
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Print and read "Toxic Political Conversations". Annotate key ideas and examples to be ready to discuss the article.
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Full draft of team's essay for Moral Society. Indicate who did which section.
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Print "Your Elastic Mind". Number the paragraphs. Read and annotate the article's ideas and evidence.
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Finalized Article Analysis, Summary and Reflection submitted to turnitin.com. Print doc and receipt. Attach annotated article.
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Article Evaluation due.
Make sure you have reserved your article on the shared Article Confirmation page for your department.
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Literary Device for F451. Select a quote from F451 and develop into a Lit. Device. Please type and submit to turnitin.com. Print doc and receipt. Attach your chart to the packet.
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Reading Test F451 Pt.II
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Revision Argument Essay Gun Control:
1. submit to turnitin.com, print doc and receipt.
2. Highlight changes.
3. Annotate/describe changes in margins (can be done by hand).
4. Attach previous draft packet to back.
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Vocab log due/Vocab and reading test Pt. I F451.
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Vocab Test F451/Voc Log due.
10 Closed/review questions due F451 Pt.I
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Final Argument Essay (with typed Works Cited and Outline) due. Submit to turnitin.com, print doc and receipt. Attach edited drafts and rubric.
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Full Draft of Gun Control Argument Essay. Type and print.
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Organizer/outline of Argument Essay (gun control). Please download to Drive and fill-out the file. Cite sources parenthetically (even when you paraphrase). Print and bring to class.
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Evaluate and Analyze your valid article. Article should be printed and annotated.
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Summary and Evaluation (Rhetorical Analysis) of "More Guns..." due. Submit to turnitin.com, print document and receipt. Attach Descriptive Outline.
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Descriptive Outline "More Guns..."
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Print and read "More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows". Annotate evidence and main ideas as you read.