English 3,4 CL (Period 1) Assignments

As you requested.....here is the book talk rubric and the book review criteria.

Your book trailer is your final project and it is due today! It must be uploaded to SchoolTube by 7am this morning.

Your book trailer must be uploaded to School Tube by 7am today.

Today is the first day to sign up for a book talk. Sign up in class if you will be ready to present today.

We're starting our independent reading unit today. Be sure to have your independent reading book (your choice!) and single subject notebook...we'll be creating our "independent reading notebooks" today.

Your Night/Hotel Rwanda essay is due today.

Lesson 9 vocabulary quiz today.....be prepared to turn in your practice sheet, too.

Finish reading Night by today....there will likely be a quiz! Also, be sure you have completed the graphic organizer to accompany chapters 6-9.

All revisions are due today! Be sure to staple your original copy to the newly revised one.

Have chapter 4 (p 45-62) read in Night. There is likely to be a quiz...
Make sure you are adding to your theme tracking chart.

Have chapter 3 read in Night and respond to the attached questions.

Have chapter one read in Night and complete the study questions.

Come to class today prepared with your dialectical journal with 10 quotes, as well as your found poem composed of those quotes. You will need to be prepared to create a group found poem based on the individual poem you created.

Vocabulary lesson 8 practice sheet due. Be ready for the vocab quiz, too. Most importantly, the final draft of your Macbeth persuasive is due. Please make sure it is typed and double spaced.

Your Macbeth motif collage is due today.

Finish the questions for Act V, scene V titled "Tomorrow and tomorrow..." Be prepared to turn in the questions at the beginning of class.

Finish annotating Act III, Scene ii. Read Act III, Scene iii.

FINAL TODAY! Use the attached study guide to help you prepare.

Be sure you have read Act I, scene 4 in Macbeth and complete the handout titled "Decisions, Decisions."

Root vocab lesson 6 quiz today.

Your independent reading project (IRP) is due today. Be prepared to present to your classmates in small groups. Make sure that you have read all instructions and requirements carefully!

If you are revising your essay, it's due today! Be sure to include your original essay and rubric.

Author's perspective analysis about "The Metamorphosis" is due today. Must be typed and DOUBLE SPACED!

Be sure to have a draft of at least the first two paragraphs of your paper in class today.

Vocabulary Lesson 5 packet is due today. Be prepared for the quiz!

Be sure you have completed reading part II of "The Metamorphosis." There will likely be a reading quiz today!

Today is the last day to sumit a revision of your LOTF theme analysis paper. Be sure to attach the original essay and rubric to the revised draft.

Finish up the "Author's Perspective" packet and be prepared to hand it in.

Use the week off to read in your IRP book. The January 13 deadline will be here before you know it! Be sure to reference the instruction packet to ensure that you are completing all parts of the assignment.

**Also, if you are choosing to re-do your LOTF reading responses (because of unfortunate plagarism issues), these are due today.

Your lesson 4 vocabulary packet is due today. Be prepared for the vocab quiz.

Your LOTF theme analysis paper is due today. You will also be handing in your dialectical journal.

Your lesson 3 root vocab packet is due today. Be prepared for the quiz!

Here's "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson.

Video game project due. Be sure to use the rubric to check your work!

Test today covering: symbolism, theme, character interactions/motivation, and conflict.

Lord of the Flies reading responses (9 total) due today.

Have chapter 12 (the final chapter) read in LOTF. Complete a reading response for chapters 11 and 12 combined.

Also....don't forget to have your parent sign your progress report.

Have chapter 11 read in LOTF. Complete a reading response for chapters 11 and 12 combined.

Have chapter 9 and 10 read in LOTF. Complete a reading response for chapters 9 and 10 combined.

Have chapter 8 read in LOTF. Complete a reading response for chapters 7 and 8 combined.

Have chapter 7 read in LOTF. Complete a reading response for chapters 7 and 8 combined.

Have chapter 6 read in LOTF. Complete a reading response. See the attached updated reading calendar.

Finish reading chapter 5 in LOTF and complete a reading response.

Read chapter three in Lord of the Flies and complete a reading response. Don't forget to keep adding to your dialectical journal, as well.

Didactic literature project due today. See attached for assignment and rubric.

Read chapter two in Lord of the Flies and complete a reading response.

Read chapter one in Lord of the Flies and complete a reading response.

Use the prompt below to write a strong introduction paragraph. Be sure your paragraph has a hook, transition/thumbnail summary, and clear thesis statement. Please either type your paragraph or write it neatly in ink.

Folk tales such as "The Fisherman and the Jinee," often have a didactic purpose: to teach the reader a moral lesson. What is the moral lesson or universal truth being revealed in this tale?

Your stamp sheet and accompanying assignments are due today. Be sure that you are organized and ready to hand everything in at the beginning of class.

Your Gilgamesh introduction paragraph is due today. Be sure you go over the checklist before you hand it in! You will also be handing in the "Topic, Theme, Thesis" chart.

If you didn't finish the questions that accompany "King Midas and the Golden Touch" on Thursday, complete your responses and be prepared to hand them in today.

Complete the "Apply the Skills" worksheet that accompanies the Rumi poems in your textbook. If you do not have the worksheet, it is pages 40-41 in the "Reader's Notebook" (the paperback book that you received with your textbook).

Bring your textbook all week.

Please have your IRP book selected and with you in class today.

Be sure to bring your textbook today!

Vocab. quiz today! Be prepared to turn in your vocabulary packet, as well.

Gilgamesh Theatre presentations today.

Be sure you have read the Bible version of "The Story of the Flood" (p44-50 in your textbook). There will likely be a reading quiz....

You WILL NEED your textbook in class today.

Vocabulary quiz today! Be prepared to turn in your practice packet, too.

Complete your list of the 5 elements of the quest and how it relates to "Gilgamesh."

Finish the questions that go along with "The Story of the Flood" and "The Return" (p.25-32).

Critical Rreading #5 (p.32)
Literary Analysis #1-4 (p.33)

Be sure to have your textbook with you today!

If you need to finish up the group discussion questions from book 6 and 7, the text of "Gilgamesh" is attached here. It is not the same translation we have been reading in class. Chapter 3 (beginning on page 12) is what will match up with books 6 and 7 that we read in class Tuesday.

If you brought home your Gilgamesh puzzle, be sure you are prepared to turn it in today!

Compose a half page response (either typed or written in ink) to the following question:

What is the relationship between "The Allegory of the Cave" and education?

Parent "homework" is due today! If your parent is choosing to write about you in "A million words or less," please remind them to either email it to me at [email protected] or send it with you.

Be sure to have your original worldview quote "display ready":
-typed or written in ink
-on a half sheet of paper