English 2 Regular (Period 2) 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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"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 Dial vs. Digital (attached file)
Complete worksheet.
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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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Type-up Lit Device chart. Submit to turnitin.com. Print doc. and receipt.
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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 Night Ch. 4. Add entries of Lit. Device chart. Add to vocabulary chart.
Study vocab for upcoming test.
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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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Full draft of team's essay for Moral Society. Indicate who did which section.
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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: Print article, annotate the evidence, complete and print evaluation form.
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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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Reading Test F451 Pt.II
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F451 Questions due. Submit to turnitin.com, print doc and receipt to submit. Attach edited drafts (please organize).
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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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Type your response to analysis question about Montag (C) and how F451 society came to hate books (D). Print and bring to class.
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Type paragraph about Mildred. Print it and have it ready in class. (Sorry, no chrome cart this day, so bring your printed copy!)
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Clarisse paragraph (3 chunks). Print and bring to class.
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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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Questions for "Mass Murder and Powerful Firearms" article.
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Comparing Articles: "Mass Murder and Powerful Firearms" and "Second Amendment"