Honors English 10
Upcoming Assignments
due 6/6 - "Walk to the Jetty" map due 5/31 - proposal for presentation finish Persepolis by 5/25 Research Project Packet due dates (details for all assignments in packet) due 5/4: annotated bibliography due 5/9: part one presentation and ORB reflection #1 5/11: ORB reflection #2 due at the start of class: 5/13: detailed outline and opening paragraph(s) to claim - HARD COPY 5/18: ORB reflection #3 5/20: finish your ORB due at start of class on 5/24: completed rough draft 5/27: final paper on turnitin.com 6/1 and 6/2: presentations Things Fall Apart essay 4/26 - due in class: hard copy of outline and opening paragraph 4/29 - due in shared folder at start of class: completed rough draft 5/3 - due on turnitin.com by 8AM: final paper due Tuesday - complete synthesis packet exercise through and including step TEN. due Monday - turn in completed Things Fall Apart blue book due Wednesday: complete synthesis packet exercises through and including step FIVE. Voc - Week of 4/4: Definitions and sentences due Wed; quiz on Fri assent consensual consensus desensitize dissent insensate nonsensical presentiment sensual sentient Things Fall Apart: reading schedule and blue book questions Reflection questions are due in class the same day as the reading assignments are due. due Tuesday, March 29 - chaps 1-6 due Fri, 4/1 - chaps 7-10 due Tues, 4/5 - chaps 11-16 due Fri, 4/8 - chaps 17-25 Voc - Week of 3/28: Definitions and sentences due Wed; quiz on Fri grad/gress: step undergraduate progressive degrade regress digress transgress egress centigrade aggressor biodegradable Voc Quiz - Friday, March 25 1. Adversary: An enemy or opponent. 2. Avert: To turn away. 3. Revert: To return to a former habit, practice, belief, or condition. 4. Convert: To cause something to change form. 5. Pervert: A person who ignores society’s morals. 6. Subvert: To undermine or corrupt a set of principles or laws. 7. Introvert: A shy person 8. Extrovert: An outgoing person. 9. Divert: To turn aside from a path or course. 10. Inadvertently: Unintentional Due Friday, March 18 - read pages 17-20 in your poetry packet and complete all three assignments listed on the bottom of page 20. Use at least three new terms from pages 4 and 5 of the packet in your explications. If you are unsure of how to work these terms into sentences, look at examples online. For the first assignment, use one of the poems in the packet. Submit to turnitin.com. Monday, March 14 - ORB character presentations and finish your ORB analysis exercise, if necessary Due Thursday, March 10 - draft of your ORB sonnet Due Wednesday, March 9 - vocabulary sentences with examples. Use definitions in poetry packet: cadence connotation denotation diction eye rhyme free verse onomatopoeia rhyme scheme scansion slant rhyme Due Tuesday, March 8 - finish your ORB, in class writing assignment Due Thursday, March 3 - corrections to Othello essay. Correct everything that I marked. Corrections must be properly formatted, as per the writing guide example, and stapled to the graded copy of your essay. Due Wednesday, March 2 - vocabulary sentences with examples - ballad to euphony from poetry packet. Look up actual examples to use in your sentences. Due Tuesday, March 1 - 50% of Brit Lit ORB, in class writing assignment Due Friday, Feb 26 - Othello final project, parts one and two -part one: due in class - must have hard copies, everything ready to present -part two: if you are writing the essay, post it to turnitin.com by the end of the day on Friday. If you are presenting a speech, you must do it in class. Due Tuesday, Feb 23 - read approx 50 pages of your British Lit ORB and bring your book to class Due Friday, Feb 12 at 4PM - Othello mini-research paper on turnitin.com Due Tuesday, February 9 - corrections to open response #2 and optional open response paragraph #3 Due Tuesday, February 2 - Othello open response paragraph #2 from Act 3 study questions Due Friday, Jan 29 - finish 3.4 and review all of Act 3 (we will start in class) Due Thursday, Jan 28 - finish 3.3 (we will start in class) Due Wednesday, Jan 27 - read 3.1 and 3.2 Due Tuesday, Jan 26 - finish 2.3 (we will start in class) Due Monday, January 25 - Paragraph-long analysis of a speech from Othello and turn in notes from the in class speech analysis exercise Friday, January 15 - quiz on Othello vocab #2 Due Tuesday, January 12 - Othello vocab #2 (scroll to pages 3 and 4 of document) Due Monday, January 11 - Collection ORB final paper Friday, January 8 - quiz on Othello vocab #1 Due Wednesday, January 6 - Othello vocab #1 Monday, Dec 21 - voc quiz: ab and nom/nym Collection ORB Assignment Lahiri Essay Assignment Due Wednesday, Dec 9 - completed Lahiri essay in turnitin.com Also due Wed, 12/9 - must have started reading your collection ORB Due Monday, Dec 7 - draft of Lahiri essay in shared folder Also due Monday, Dec 7 - must have selected and have a copy of your collection ORB Due Wednesday, Dec 2 - Outline and claim for Lahiri essay Lahiri short stories*: for Monday, 11/23 - "The Third and Final Continent" for Friday, 11/20 - "This Blessed House" for Thursday, 11/19 - "Interpreter of Maladies" for Wednesday, 11/18 - "A Temporary Matter" *If any of these links does not work, google the title of the story and look for the pdf online. All four stories are from Lahiri's 1999 collection, Interpreter of Maladies. Due Thursday, 11/19 - 20 - Lit circle book speeches Due Friday, Nov 13 - finish your lit circle book Due Thursday, Nov 12 - completed vocab sheet (gen) Due Tuesday, Nov 10 - finish Lit Circle book open response paragraph #2 Due Wednesday, Nov 4 - Lit Circle book open response paragraph #1 - topic determined by your group Due Tuesday, Nov 3 - Eight typed corrections from your Kite Runner essay with the graded essay. Follow the instructions on page 2-3 in your writing guide but HIGHLIGHT or CIRCLE the spot(s) where you made corrections instead of underlining them Due in your notebook on Monday, Nov 2 - In class reading and writing - Lit Circle book and Longreads articles Friday, Oct 30 - quiz on WCC (affect/effect; incite/insight; click/clique; weather/whether; less/fewer) and comma rules from last week Literature Circle instructions and assignments The Kite Runner essay assignment due Monday, 10/26 - final paper (hard copy and turnitin.com) due Wed, 10/21 - completed rough draft (in shared folder) due Monday, 10/19- opening paragraph (hard copy) Due in class on Friday, October 16 - one paragraph - typed, double-spaced, should not contain DQs. How does Khalid Hosseini use your character to develop an important idea in his novel, The Kite Runner? due 10/14 - finish TKR due 10/13 - Kite Runner open response paragraph #2 due 10/8 - 6 corrections from essay due 10/7 - p. 173-272 of TKR due 10/5 - Kite Runner open response paragraph #1 due 10/2 - read p. 80 - 172 of TKR due 9/30 - Persuasive Writing Unit Final Project due 9/28 - read p. 1-79 of The Kite Runner due 9/25 - a least five slides of a Jennifer Egan style story in your shared folder due 9/24 - two-page draft of DFW style essay Grammar and Voc topics - rhetorical strategies, technical voc (below), and writing rules to date (1A, 1B, 1D, 1J, 1M, 2K, 2L, 3-FW, 5A, 5C, 5E, 6A, 6C, 6D, 6F, 6G, 6L) due Wednesday, 9/23 - voc sentences with examples (list #4 from alliteration -> denotation) due Tuesday, 9/22 - two page draft of DFW essay due Monday, September 21 on turnitin.com - Hybrid Essay due Wed, Sep 16 - draft of two articles based on the Blow/Hayward structural elements. due Friday, Sep 11 - writing guide paragraph quiz (rewritten opening paragraph of your summer reading essay) due Tuesday, September 8 - read and mark up intro writing unit, packet one - what does the text say? - what does the text do? due Wednesday, September 3: summer reading due Friday, September 5: introductory letter and info sheet |
USEFUL DOCUMENTS AND INFO
turnitin class code: 10732298, password: mounties Syllabus Writing Guide Technical Vocabulary Lists and Packet Writing Rubric - Analytical Essays /uploads/2/5/1/2/25120838/general_rubric_for_analytical_essay_rts.docx Writing Rubric - Other Papers /uploads/2/5/1/2/25120838/rubric_-_not_claim_based_analytical_essays.doc Blank Open Response Paragraph Template /uploads/2/5/1/2/25120838/blank_or_paragraph_template.doc Grammar and Mechanics (from earlier weeks)
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