English 3 IB (Period 1) Assignments
- Instructors
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- Fall 2018
- Department
- English
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Language A1 is designed for academically talented 11th grade students who intend to prepare for entrance into competitive colleges and universities. It is a first year of the two-year International Baccalaureate Language Program. This course focuses on the study language and the dialogue that occurs between the writer and his/her craft using American and World Literature. Throughout the thematic organization of the course, students will examine literary genres, style, and narrative techniques in depth, noting the similar and unique approaches to human concerns across cultures
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Due: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Discover your version of an "Ars Poetica" poem. Provide a two-three sentence summary as to why you chose this poem. Research the author. Bring a hard copy to class.
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Annotate and Analyze "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen (see attached copy).
Bring a hard copy to Friday's class.
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Due: Emily Dickinson Poetry mark-up
"There is no frigate like a book"
"I felt a funeral in my brain"
"Much madness is divinest sense"
- Identify and look up vocabulary you don't know
- Identify literary devices
- know and identify slant rhyme
- two sentence summary (main idea/theme)
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Due: "the Mirror" by Sylvia Plath
After marking up literary devices, answer the following questions:
- Who is the speaker of the poem? What is the central purpose of the poem, and by what means is it achieved?
- In what ways in the mirrors like and unlike a person (stanza 1)? In what ways is it like a lake (stanza 2)?
- What is the meaning of the last two lines?
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Due: Into the Wild essay. Turnitin.com 8:00 am
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Due: IOP outline. Google Classroom at 10:00 a.m.
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Due: Othello Commentary # 4 due on Turnitin.com at 8:00 a.m.
Print out a hard copy and bring to class.
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Mark up #6 The Individual Oral Presentation packet pages 107-126 (not an empty threat Teddy:)
Be prepared to work on outline in class. Bring texts: Othello, Into the Wild, and The Great Gatsby
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Due: Review Othello Act V and study guide I gave you Friday.
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Due: Othello Act IV (print out attached questions and bring to class)
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Due: Othello commentary 1
Turnitin.com by 11:59 pm
Bring a hard copy to class on Wednesday.
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Review Othello Act I scene iii
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Due: Into the Wild Rhetorical Analysis writing prompt.
Due: Turnitin.com by 9:10 a.m. (Please tell Ruth)
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Know the definitions of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Due: Othello Research
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Due: Annotate Into the Wild Analysis Notes
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Into the Wild Review Questions
See Google Classroom: due Sunday, September 16th at 11:59 p.m.
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Due: The Great Gatsby: review chapter 9
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English 3 Literary Terms Test
Due: The Great Gatsby: prepare for discussion of chapters 7 and 8. You will need to reference quotes and provide commentary in-class.
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Due: The Great Gatsby chapter 6 Interpreting Meanings Questions: #4, 5 and #7. Use text support. You may type or write out the answers. Bring to class.
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Your ONLY homework is to organize your literary terms in your folder.
You're welcome:)
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Due: The Great Gatsby chapter four interpreting meaning questions #6-10.Write in complete sentences and include text support when applicable. Use MLA format for citation. Submit to Turnitin.com by 11:59 WEDNESDAY evening. Bring a hard copy of the questions/answers to class with you on Thursday.
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Due: "Talk the Talk" definitions, examples and handouts due (13 of each--please hole punch)
If you need me to make you copies, have handouts ready for me on Tuesday.
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Talk the Talk--three (3) Literary Devices due. Make enough copies for the class
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Due: The Great Gatsby chapter 2 commentary. Submit to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m.
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Due: Review "Talk the Talk" guidelines
Complete the Great Gatsby Interpreting Meanings #5-9 questions. Use complete sentences and text support.
Bring copy of Literary Terms 11th.doc and Talk the Talk IB 2018.pdf
2018 Literary Terms 11th Grade.pdf will be used as a reference. Print a copy if possible--if not, see me and I will have one for you.
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10th grade Literary Terms quiz
Be very prepared to discuss The Great Gatsby. Remember: synthesize, analyze, text support.
Complete comparison/contrast for "A Worn Path" video/story analysis
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Due: Collage (see me if you need card-stock). You will need 10-15 images, a "key" or explanation on the back and your name clearly written (or typed) on the front.
Bring "A Rose for Emily" to class
Bring "A Worn Path"
Bring The Great Gatsby
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Due: Read and annotate "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner.
Be prepared for English 1 Literary Terms quiz.
I am checking supplies
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"A Worn Path" Phoenix Jackson character analysis
One paragraph (TS, 4 chunk paragraph CD-CM, CS)
Topic sentence
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Integrate (preferable) or paraphrase text.
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3-4 chunk paragraph of Phoenix. Typed in MLA
Due tonight at 11:59 pm on Turn it in.com
Bring The Great Gatsby to class
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Print/Study Literary Devices for 9th and 10th grade. Prepare for quiz Monday (9th grade terms)
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Complete 3/4 of "A Worn Path" Study Guide on Google Classroom. Use text support and demonstrate close reading. You will have 15 minutes to complete study guide in class on Wednesday. Remember what we discussed in class: think outside the box, what is the author's intent (How does Welty develop the complexity of Phoenix Jackson's character?). What do you notice about the contrasting images? What are some of the literal and figurative meanings that you derive from work?
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Download summer reading assignments to TurnitIn.com (code is on syllabus--see attached--you will need your own password). Read and annotate "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty. I will give you a copy in class. If you are absent, please print attached copy and bring to class Wednesday.
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Please bring hard copies of your RRS for The Great Gatsby and Into the Wild. We will set up your Turnitin.com account in class and you will submit your works that evening. You are also expected to have downloaded, read and margin noted, highlighted and commented on the Transcendentalism readings (Thoreau and Emerson) that were listed on the WHS Summer Reading Website.The Annotation Instructions/Suggestions handout is helpful (see attached)