Honors English 11 (2016-2017) - blocks 1 and 6
Notebook Check #5: June 17 April 14 - ORB reflection #3 Gatsby prompts: date and complete all reflections in your spiral notebook – you do not need to copy down the prompts prompt #1: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. This is the last line of The Great Gatsby and, perhaps, one of the most famous lines in American literature. What do you think it means? What do you think it tells us about the book you are about to read? How does this idea play out in your own life? prompt #2: Write about a time when you felt like an outsider in an uncomfortable way. prompt #3: Early on in the book, Nick states that “reserving judgments it a matter of infinite hope” (2). What does he mean? Do you agree or disagree? Why? also.. Write a paragraph about the topic you have been focusing on as you read. What have you noticed? At this halfway point in the book, what do you think is the significance of this topic with respect to a central idea in the book. 6/6 - 3 paragraphs on Williams college essays 6/12 & 6/13 - personal essay, freewrites 6/14 - 16 - college essay rhetorical framework notes and peer editing rhetorical triangle Assignments Due 6/21 - supplemental essay question assignment on google drive Due 6/14 - nine completed personal essay freewrites in your spiral notebook (see above notebook list for details) Monday, June 5: link for in class assignment: www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/your-money/standout-college-application-essays.html?_r=0 Read the article and the college essays in the article linked above. In your spiral notebook, do a SOAPS (speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject) analysis of two of the essays. Pay special attention to speaker and purpose. How is the author presenting themself? What is the author hoping to convey or accomplish? Due Tuesday, June 6 at 10PM on turnitin.com - The Great Gatsby essay You will have time to work on this essay in class on Wednesday and Thursday Due Tuesday, May 30 - finish The Great Gatsby Voc for week of May 1 definitions, parts of speech, AND sentences due on Tuesday, May 2 and quiz on May 5 connotation denotation analogy persona anaphora archaic diction juxtaposition metaphor oxymoron synecdoche Ad Exercise #2 - commercials - due at the start of class on Friday, April 28 Voc Quiz - 4/28 - You will NOT have a word bank for this quiz. Due Wednesday, 4/26 - definitions and parts of speech for these words repudiate allege validate concede dispute assertion vested interest exigence refutation anecdote invective proponent polemic Voc quiz - 4/14 - You will NOT have a word bank for this quiz.
Due April 12 - ad inventory sheet Advertising unit - exercise #1: print ads : this handout includes the list of all the terms and definitions Voc Quiz - April 7 - logical fallacies
Research Paper / Synthesis exercise - description and deadlines
Due Monday, March 20 - completed step 2 from your synthesis exercise Lit Circle Final Project: Analysis due 3/10 at 10PM on turnitin.com and text due in class on 10/13 due in class on 2/28 - finish the classical oration assignment from class The Things They Carried writing assignment completed draft in your shared folder due at the start of class on Friday, Feb 2 finished essay on turnitin by 10PM on Tuesday, Feb 7 (if you do the creative writing option, put the story and the analysis into one document) For Tuesday, Jan 17 - read the remaining five stories listed on your rhetorical analysis sheet and complete you notes For Monday, Jan 9 - read "The Things They Carried," "On a Rainy River," and "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" and complete notes on your rhetorical analysis sheet "How to Tell a True War Story" - essay - Due January 11 by 10PM on turnitin.com "How to Tell a True War Story" - film notes A Visit from the Goon Squad essay Due at 10 PM on turnitin.com on Wednesday, Dec 14 - finished essay Due at the start of class on Friday, Dec 9 - finished draft Due at the start of class on Monday, Dec 5 - one-page proposal A Visit From the Goon Squad Story Web Assignment As you read Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize winning work of fiction, A Visit From the Goon Squad, you will be begin to wonder whether it is a novel or a collection of linked stories. The short answer is that it is both. Our challenge as we read this creatively composed to text is to find the big story, while, at the same time, we embrace the small stories along the way. To this end, you need to take extra steps to keep track of all the action as we dart non-chronologically from character to character, and it is especially important to notice the web of connections that link the different stories. Your task is to create a visual map of the book as you read. For each of the thirteen chapters, note the title and number, the narrator, the setting (when is just as important as where in this book), the broad plot events of the chapter, and a memorable moment or line from the chapter. Put a circle around this information for each chapter. Once you start to notice the relationships between the people and events from chapter to chapter, draw lines to connect the stories and explain the connections on the line. Update the story web as you read the book. Your entry on the story web is due on the same day that the corresponding reading assignment is due. You will turn in your completed story web for a grade at the end of the book, but I will check to make sure that you are keeping it updated along the way. Reading Schedule On days that chapters are due, be prepared for reading check quizzes, reflections, comprehension questions, and group discussions. We will have some in class time to read, but you should plan to read for approximately 30 minutes per night for the next two weeks. You may use your bookmark notes for all quizzes. Chapter Due Dates 11/10 – chapter 1 11/14 – chapters 2 and 3 11/15 – chapters 4 and 5 11/17 – chapters 6 and 7 11/18 – chapters 8 and 9 11/21 – chapters 10 and 11 11/22 – chapters 12 and 13 Discussion Leaders You will be in charge of leading a class discussion for one chapter of A Visit From the Goon Squad. On the day that your chapter is due, you will:
Due Wednesday, 11/9 Your task: plan, implement, and document your own experience with transcendentalism. •identify one SMALL thing that you could do in the next few days that would satisfy your transcendentalist houseguest. •do it •write a SHORT (two pages, max) account of this experience. What inspired it? Make specific connections to the particular author with whom you are engaging. What did you do? How did it go? Will this experience in any way influence your actions moving forward? Friday, 11/4 - In Class Essay on Transcendentalism unit - make sure that you have completed for your notes and analysis packet and that you bring it to class on Friday Due Tuesday, 11/1 - read Weasel essay Due Wednesday, 10/26 - look at the memoir comments on turnitin.com and then make sure that your two paragraph analysis of your memoir in your log (described below) is complete. Log entry: memoir – rhetorical analysis paragraph #1: Introduce and discuss the rhetorical framework for your memoir. Describe the rhetorical situation (occasion, context, and purpose) as well as the elements of a rhetorical triangle (speaker, audience, topic) as they pertain to your memoir. paragraph #2: Describe the specific choices that you made in your memoir that allowed you to establish and support the framework you identified in paragraph one. Be specific. Due Monday, 10/17 - finished memoir on turnitin.com by 10PM Friday, 10/14 - vocab quiz on 16 roots and corresponding words Due Wednesday, 10/12 in class - completed memoir draft in shared folder Due Tuesday, 10/11 in class - completed vocab sheet (first eight roots) Due Thursday, 10/6 at 2:30PM on turnitin.com - Longreads response #3 Due Monday, 9/26 in class - rhetorical situation and triangle for Einstein letter Due Friday, 9/23 in class - finished "Superman and Me" story Due Thursday, 9/22 at 2:30 on turnitin.com - Longreads #1 Go to the Longreads website and click on “The Top 5 Longreads of the Week.” Select one of the five articles listed below to read. Once you have finished reading the article, write a three-paragraph response paper.
Due Monday, 9/19 - summer reading essay Due Wednesday, 9/14 - summer reading essay proposal Due Monday, Sept 12 - 30 Minutes with Ta-Nehisi Coates Due Thursday, September 8 - two pages max on turnitin.com Read and briefly summarize the argument and supporting evidence in the “Crap Detecting” chapter in Neil Postman’s 1971 book, Teaching as a Subversive Activity. Limit your summary to one paragraph but make sure that you cover the whole chapter. Next, react to this argument. Are Postman’s concerns and ideas more or less relevant today than they were in 1971? Be sure to include your reaction to Postman’s discussion of “future shock” or Korzbski’s map/territory metaphor. Finally, Postman begins and ends the chapter by introducing – if not necessary answering – the question, “What is the necessary business of the school?” (15). Attempt to answer this question, using your own experiences but never straying too far from Postman’s text. Due Wednesday, September 7 - signed slip from syllabus Due Tuesday, September 6 - summer reading |