Period 3 Honors English 7 Assignments

Please continue taking notes on your selected leader. You should be working on your storyboard which will be due March 8.

 

Reading Logs should be signed by a parent or guardian and turned in to me tomorrow.

Complete notes on film clips for INVICTUS

Read 30 minutes

Final copy of essay due. Remember to share it with me at [email protected]

and please bring in a printed copy as well.

 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Continue working on revisions of your essay. Be sure it has a solid thesis statement that will be the backbone of your essay.

Rough draft due 2/13

Essay prompt is on p.207 

Text-dependent questions, (1-5) for the poem, "To a Dying Athlete" pp. 200-202.

Independent reading

 

Please be ready to turn in  ALL completed notes from the novel, Tangerine at the end of class.

Signed reading logs are due as well.

Continue your reading and plan on being done by the end of the period Friday. If you have already finished, please make sure your notes are complete and detailed.

Continue reading Tangerine and taking double-entry notes.

Get reading log signed.

Review your notes and the text of Part One. Do not reread part one! Rather skim.

Write a basic LIST of main events in the order they occurred. Remember that you can work with another student online if it helps.

Read and Log 8 entries by next Thursday 

Read through Sept.11 in Tangerine.

After completing p. 174 (Characterization Chart) in class, write an explanation of how Paul Fisher and Mrs. Fisher are similar and different. Base your explanation on the details you noted on the chart.

Be sure to :

1. Start with a topic sentence of comparison.

2. Cite evidence--details, examples, quotations--from  the text to support your ideas.

Include details about the characters' differences and similarities.

After completing pp 172-173 in class, write a multi-paragraph piece  that explains how flashbacks and foreshadowing affect the plot of Tangerine. Use evidence from the text to support your thinking.

 

Read an independent novel for 30 minutes.

Write and revise a literary analysis paragraph using textual evidence and subordinate clauses (pp170-171)

In the vocabulary section of your notebook, please write definitions for each of the words on p. 160. 

1. subordinate           6. mood

2. perspective           7. flashback

3. interpret                 8. foreshadowing

4. imagery                 9. allusion             

5. motif

 

 

Essential Questions p. 162

Research Book Titles p. 340

After reading description of each title--write a few words about each.

Open and read the attached file for directions on how to continue preparing for our graded classroom discussion on the topic of violent video games and  whether or not they should be banned.

See attached file.

Reread "America, the Not So Beautiful" pp.126-128

Complete TDQ P. 128-129 (1-5) 

Be ready to discuss America's obsession with throwing things away!

Read 30 minutes.

Work On rough draft for Expository Essay

Get reading log signed

Expository writing to compare and contrast. Page 118 Springboard Text

Read 30 minutes

Read 30 minutes

Text-dependent pp 116-117 (1-6)

Read 30 minutes

Springboard pp. 106-108. Use 2 self-selected websites. Be thorough in your responses. 

Read 30 minutes.

Read and log 30 minutes

Page 101 Expository Writing Prompt

Read and log 30 minutes

Using the Expository Writing Prompt on p. 97 of your Springboard textbook, write a response explaining how the advertisement you identified in question 4 tries to influence its target audience . 

Be sure to:

1. Introduce and develop your topic with relevant details and examples from the advertisement.

2. Use transitions, the precise language of advertising techniques, and formal style.

3. Include a concluding statement that supports your explanation.

Get Reading Log signed

Read 30 minutes

Write 5 research questions(p. 93)

1. Read and log 30 minutes

2. Scan Unit 2 Table of Contents --find one WOW activity that seems interesting and one WHOA activity that seems challenging. On the space below the table of contents write about your choices and why you chose them.

3. Make revisions to your writing piece you shared in groups today.

 

 

 

Read and Log 30 minutes

P. 82 SpringBoard Essential Questions #1,2

Rewrite one part of your story to take it from general to specific.

Remember the scene from The Outsiders!

Read 30 minutes

Write vocab/definitions in your notebook. ( p. 80, Unit 2)

Signed reading logs--full credit

unsigned but completed reading logs --partial credit

 

Read 30 min

 

Completed myths due when you walk in the door.

 

Bring Composition Notebooks to be collected for Writers Workshop

Clean, revised draft with illustrations ready for peer evaluation. 

Final copies due Friday!

Read 30 minutes

Clean, revised copy of Myth

Gather illustrations (cite links)

Read 30 minutes

Read 30 minutes

Get Reading Log signed

Complete your original myth draft

Get parent signature on Reading Log

Read 30 minutes

"Missing/Wanted" poster p. 63 #4

Springboard p. 61

Read 30 minutes--add to reading log

Read 30 minutes

P.56 Expository Writing Prompt

Complete Text-dependent questions 1-4 on page 53-54. 

Read the rest of the myth, "Phaethon" tonight.

You may count those minutes on your reading log.

Signed /updated Reading Log

Revised Narrative and all pages of revision, reflection and editing due 

Read 30 minutes

p. 40 Reflecting about your writing

Read 30 minutes

Bring all revisions and reflections to class, Monday. Be prepared to discuss /read what you have done up to this point with your writing group.

 

Read 30 minutes each day.

Read 30 minutes

Get Reading Log signed

Revise your draft--add sensory detail and figurative language to the middle part of your writing

Read pp 32-33 in SpringBoard, underline or highlight sensory details in the text.

Read 30 minutes

Read 30 minutes

Revise the lead of your narrative using either the reaction, dialogue or action techniques from pages 30-31 of your Spring Board text.

Read 30 minutes

Complete your revision/writing reflection plan

Reading logs signed/Read 30 minutes

Page 28 Spring Board textbook

1.-Preparing to write (complete all 3 tips)

2.Review My Choices graphic organizer and bring to class

3. Choose topic you will write on.

 

 

Read 30 minutes

Complete the draft you started in class today.

Narrative Writing Prompt:

Think about all the choices you can make in a school day. Brainstorm some of the choices you make at school and the consequences you face as a result.

Using your brainstorm, think of a specific time you had to make a choice at school. Write a short, personal narrative with an incident, response and reflection.

Be sure to: 

 

 

Read 30 minutes each day.

Read 30 minutes

Get reading log signed/bring to class tomorrow

pp.24-25 (5-7)

Read 30 minutes and log 

Label text pp 20-22

1=incident     2=narrator's response

p. 24 (1-4) TDQ

Read 30 minutes

Parent signature on reading log

Text-dependent questions p. 18 (1-5)

P. 13 Springboard questions 7 & 8

diction---author's denotative/connotative use of words

Theme= message about life or human nature.

What is the theme for each of the poems we read?

 

Add to your "My Choices" web. Write out the consequences for each of the Big Choices you included on your web.

 

Independent reading 30 minutes

After rereading the poems, "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "Choices" by Nikki Giovanni, complete the text-dependent questions on p. 12 of the SPRINGBOARD text book.

 

Independent reading 30 minutes--add to your reading log