Periods 1 & 3
Take notes using the Study guide on the following link:
STUDY GUIDE
FYI: I STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT YOU WORK WITH A PARTNER OR GROUP OF PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THINGS BETTER. WHAT YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN MAY BE WHAT THEY REMEMBER, BUT ALSO TRY TO MAKE SURE TO VERIFY ANY ANSWERS YOU GET.
I will give extra credit for anyone that makes a list of nagging or unanswered questions you may have. This will give us an opportunity to discuss unanswered questions and allow for me to really help you guys do better on the exam.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Homework for Monday June 15th
Period 1 and 3
Type up reading responses/critiques for:
Supermarket in California,
I am waiting and
The Hobo story by Frelinghetti.
Read through Howl and highlight any words that are unfamiliar. Look up at least half of them.
Type up reading responses/critiques for:
Supermarket in California,
I am waiting and
The Hobo story by Frelinghetti.
Read through Howl and highlight any words that are unfamiliar. Look up at least half of them.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
check back at 5:30
Period 1
Review your Robert Frost packet. You will have a quiz on it.
Read webpage and take notes on the the following link and view the pictures at the bottom of the page (click on the blue numbers)
Period 3
Read the Prufrock Summary and write a response that tells me your reaction to reading the "answers" or the summary of the poem. Do you agree or disagree? Were some of your original thoughts the same as the ones in the summary? etc.
Review your Robert Frost packet. You will have a quiz on it.
Review your Robert Frost packet. You will have a quiz on it.
Read webpage and take notes on the the following link and view the pictures at the bottom of the page (click on the blue numbers)
Period 3
Read the Prufrock Summary and write a response that tells me your reaction to reading the "answers" or the summary of the poem. Do you agree or disagree? Were some of your original thoughts the same as the ones in the summary? etc.
Review your Robert Frost packet. You will have a quiz on it.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Homework 6/9/09
Period 1
Write your reaction to reading the J. Alfred Prufrock Summary packet
Tell me what you think of the poem now that you read the summary. Did you agree or disagree with the analysis? How does this analysis change or influence your perception of Literature Analysis and English?
Period 3
Read and highlight the introduction information on Robert Frost and Complete the Highlighted sections (questions) of the Robert Frost packet.
Write your reaction to reading the J. Alfred Prufrock Summary packet
Tell me what you think of the poem now that you read the summary. Did you agree or disagree with the analysis? How does this analysis change or influence your perception of Literature Analysis and English?
Period 3
Read and highlight the introduction information on Robert Frost and Complete the Highlighted sections (questions) of the Robert Frost packet.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Homework 6/9/09
Period 1
Finish filling out the sheet we started in class.
Finish scene 3
FOR SCENE 3 AND COVER PAGE INFORMATION LOOK AT JUNE 4TH ENTRY
Period 3
finish scene 3
Reread "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Write Prufrock characteristics based on the lines.
Finish filling out the sheet we started in class.
Finish scene 3
FOR SCENE 3 AND COVER PAGE INFORMATION LOOK AT JUNE 4TH ENTRY
Period 3
finish scene 3
Reread "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Write Prufrock characteristics based on the lines.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Homework 6/4/09
Playwright's Final
COVER LETTER:Please include a brief letter about yourself and WHY you chose to write this play. What does it mean to you? Also let Playwrights know if you would like a final evaluation of your piece.
PREPARE FINAL DRAFT:
Title PageCover letterScene 1,2, & 3
Edit! Look at your word choices, format, specific details and stage directions. Read your play out loud. Does it make sense? Will it be performable for our actors?
I'm very excited to read your final pieces guys!
COVER LETTER:Please include a brief letter about yourself and WHY you chose to write this play. What does it mean to you? Also let Playwrights know if you would like a final evaluation of your piece.
PREPARE FINAL DRAFT:
Title PageCover letterScene 1,2, & 3
Edit! Look at your word choices, format, specific details and stage directions. Read your play out loud. Does it make sense? Will it be performable for our actors?
I'm very excited to read your final pieces guys!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
SCENE 3
COMPLETING YOUR PLAY:
As of now, you should have a SCENE 1 and SCENE 2 composed of your play. If for whatever reason you do not- FINISH THEM AND SCENE 3 by Thursday the 4th. This means, that your Final Draft of your 3-scene play should be completed by this class. You may e-mail me, as always at mcalmos@yahoo.com if you would like me to edit or give suggestions to your work thus far. For those of you how have not completed Scene 1 and 2 I would STRONGLY suggest sending me these before class on Thursday so I can give you notes.
As far as structure is concerned, this is what should be turned in on Thursday. I will dock points accordingly if the assignment is not complete:
Title Page.
Scene 1 (Complete with At Rise/ list of characters)
Scene 2 (Also with at rise/ list of characters)
Scene 3 (Once again, at rise/ list of characters)
This MUST be typed.
What should occur in Scene 3: The completion of the climax. Did your main character overcome their obstacle’s? If so, how? If not, why not? Give the audience the understanding of what this character went through in this story. Have they learned anything? Is life going to be ok? Once again, this is YOUR story. You have the ability to make it what you want out of it.
Finally, this is your last chance. This was not20an assignment based on the finish product, you were of course graded in each class, but the finished product is worth the most points, so if you complete it with all of the elements that were REQUIRED to go into the piece, you can gain major points here.
Please utilize me, and ask for help if you need it.
mcalmos@yahoo.com
As of now, you should have a SCENE 1 and SCENE 2 composed of your play. If for whatever reason you do not- FINISH THEM AND SCENE 3 by Thursday the 4th. This means, that your Final Draft of your 3-scene play should be completed by this class. You may e-mail me, as always at mcalmos@yahoo.com if you would like me to edit or give suggestions to your work thus far. For those of you how have not completed Scene 1 and 2 I would STRONGLY suggest sending me these before class on Thursday so I can give you notes.
As far as structure is concerned, this is what should be turned in on Thursday. I will dock points accordingly if the assignment is not complete:
Title Page.
Scene 1 (Complete with At Rise/ list of characters)
Scene 2 (Also with at rise/ list of characters)
Scene 3 (Once again, at rise/ list of characters)
This MUST be typed.
What should occur in Scene 3: The completion of the climax. Did your main character overcome their obstacle’s? If so, how? If not, why not? Give the audience the understanding of what this character went through in this story. Have they learned anything? Is life going to be ok? Once again, this is YOUR story. You have the ability to make it what you want out of it.
Finally, this is your last chance. This was not20an assignment based on the finish product, you were of course graded in each class, but the finished product is worth the most points, so if you complete it with all of the elements that were REQUIRED to go into the piece, you can gain major points here.
Please utilize me, and ask for help if you need it.
mcalmos@yahoo.com
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Homeword 6/2/09
Period 1
In the Robert Frost packet:
In the Robert Frost packet:
1. Read pages 996-1001 & highlight & answer all 4 questions on 1001
2. Read "Out out" & answer questions 1-4 on p. 1005
Period 3
Write 1/2 page on the Soldier Quickwrite
In the "Why Soldiers Wont Talk" read 1088, 1090-1091 and answer questions 1-5 on pg 1093
Monday, June 1, 2009
Homework 6/1/09
Period 1
Period 3
1. Write Scene 2 for playwrights.
2. Read p. 618 and be ready to email me what Hemingway’s main point is.
- Read pp. 581-583 in the textbook and take at least ¾ pg. notes on important/memorable parts of the reading.
- Read “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and answer margin questions.
- Write Scene 2 for playwrights.
Period 3
1. Write Scene 2 for playwrights.
2. Read p. 618 and be ready to email me what Hemingway’s main point is.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Homework 5/28/09
Period 1
Read the John Steinbeck packet "Why soldiers wont talk" and write a thoughtful paragraph telling me how it relates to "A Soldier's Home" and how both main ideas are related or help to explain some of the common ideas of Modernism.
Study for Vocab Quiz on Monday
Period 3
Read "A Soldier's Home" on pg. 611 and answer questions 1-8
Read the John Steinbeck packet "Why soldiers wont talk" and write a thoughtful paragraph telling me how it relates to "A Soldier's Home" and how both main ideas are related or help to explain some of the common ideas of Modernism.
Study for Vocab Quiz on Monday
Period 3
Read "A Soldier's Home" on pg. 611 and answer questions 1-8
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Homework 5/27/09
Period 1
Read pg 611 in the Holt Literature book
Write a response to it. Tell me how you think it was Modernist.
Period 3
Read the Modernist handout and highlight important stuff
Fill in the notes handout using the textbook
Read pg 611 in the Holt Literature book
Write a response to it. Tell me how you think it was Modernist.
Period 3
Read the Modernist handout and highlight important stuff
Fill in the notes handout using the textbook
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Homework 5/26/09
Period 1
Read the Modernism handout and highlight
Read the assigned pages on the Modernism Notes packet and fill in the appropriate sections.
Period 3
Be ready for a Realism Quiz on everything we've covered on Realism.
Read the Modernism handout and highlight
Read the assigned pages on the Modernism Notes packet and fill in the appropriate sections.
Period 3
Be ready for a Realism Quiz on everything we've covered on Realism.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Homework 5/20/09
Period 1
View the Modernism powerpoint and answer questions on Worksheet.
Period 3
Choose one of the stories that we have read so far (Story of the Old Ram, Minister’s Housekeeper, Life on the Mississippi and the Yellow Wall Paper) and create some kind of visually artistic representation of it. It could be a photograph montage, drawing, painting, sculpture, magazine collage, scratch art, video, finger painting, 3D model or a diorama (a scene, often in miniature, reproduced in three dimensions by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a painted background.)
DUE FRIDAY
View the Modernism powerpoint and answer questions on Worksheet.
Period 3
Choose one of the stories that we have read so far (Story of the Old Ram, Minister’s Housekeeper, Life on the Mississippi and the Yellow Wall Paper) and create some kind of visually artistic representation of it. It could be a photograph montage, drawing, painting, sculpture, magazine collage, scratch art, video, finger painting, 3D model or a diorama (a scene, often in miniature, reproduced in three dimensions by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a painted background.)
DUE FRIDAY
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Homework 5/ 19/09
Period 1
Realism Project Due Tomorrow
Period 3
Study for Yellow Wall Paper reading quiz and Big vocab quiz. Wks. 17,18,20,21,24
Realism Project Due Tomorrow
Period 3
Study for Yellow Wall Paper reading quiz and Big vocab quiz. Wks. 17,18,20,21,24
Monday, May 18, 2009
Homework 5/18/09
Period 1
Finish 1st Scene for Playwrights project
Realism Project
Choose one of the stories that we have read so far (Story of the Old Ram, Experiment in Misery,
Minister’s Housekeeper, Life on the Mississippi and the Yellow Wall Paper) and create some kind of visually artistic representation of it. It could be a photograph montage, drawing, painting, sculpture, magazine collage, scratch art, video, finger painting, 3D model or a diorama (a scene, often in miniature, reproduced in three dimensions by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a painted background.
Period 3
Study for Big Vocab Quiz
Finish 1st Scene for Playwrights project
Realism Project
Choose one of the stories that we have read so far (Story of the Old Ram, Experiment in Misery,
Minister’s Housekeeper, Life on the Mississippi and the Yellow Wall Paper) and create some kind of visually artistic representation of it. It could be a photograph montage, drawing, painting, sculpture, magazine collage, scratch art, video, finger painting, 3D model or a diorama (a scene, often in miniature, reproduced in three dimensions by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a painted background.
Period 3
Study for Big Vocab Quiz
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Homework for Monday May 18th
My sincerest apologies for not posting sooner, but I also did now wish to ambush anyone with quizzes. Here's what's happening Monday.
Period 1
Study for Vocab Quiz 29
Period 3
Read the Yellow Wallpaper
You will have a reading quiz on it.
Period 1
Study for Vocab Quiz 29
Period 3
Read the Yellow Wallpaper
You will have a reading quiz on it.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Homework 5/11/09
Period 1
Post Vocab Sentences
Complete the playwrights outline sheet
Period 3
Read "The Story of the Old Ram" and write a paragraph describing what you like the most about it. How do you feel about the Ram? Did you like the way the Ram is portrayed in the story?
Complete the Playwrights outline for your play
Post Vocab Sentences
Complete the playwrights outline sheet
Period 3
Read "The Story of the Old Ram" and write a paragraph describing what you like the most about it. How do you feel about the Ram? Did you like the way the Ram is portrayed in the story?
Complete the Playwrights outline for your play
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Homework 5/8/09
Period 1
Study for vocab quiz
Read the yellow wallpaper
View the Realism II powerpoint and answer questions on worksheet
Period 3
View Realism powerpoint in order to answer the questions on worksheet. You should probably print or write down the questions on the worksheet link first and then view the powerpoint.
Study for vocab quiz
Read the yellow wallpaper
View the Realism II powerpoint and answer questions on worksheet
Period 3
View Realism powerpoint in order to answer the questions on worksheet. You should probably print or write down the questions on the worksheet link first and then view the powerpoint.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Homework 5/7/09
Period 1
Review the regionalism and Mark Twain style sheet for a reading Quiz on Friday
Answer the questions in the connect to life section in the "Life on the Mississippi" packet and read the story.
Period 3
Review the regionalism and Mark Twain style sheet for a reading Quiz on Friday
Answer the questions in the connect to life section in the "Life on the Mississippi" packet and read the story.
Period 3
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