Honors English 10 (Period Per. 6) Assignments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Read classic book and mark (with post-its) sections that stand out for use of language/style, and imagery/symbolism. Next quick write: THURSDAY. 

 

 

 

1. Roots 21-22

2. Vocabulary 8 PowerPoint

3. Shakespeare quotation, printed in landscape view in large "Shakespearean" font and cited correctly.

4. Choose classic book: bring to class on Wednesday, 4/22

1. Prepare for Night test: review study guides, add theme post-its to your companion book.

2. Work on I-Search (due Wednesday, April 15 for Period 5 and Thursday, April 16 for Periods 2,4,6.

 

 

I-Search: Regular body paragraph 1 OR 2--REVISED FOR QUOTE INTEGRATION, AS DISCUSSED IN CLASS, WITH ALL SOURCES CITED IN MLA FORMAT, AS DISCUSSED IN CLASS.

Write your next I-Search body paragraph. Refer to class handout for correct format of in-text MLA citations.

Theme post-it check next week. Have 3-5 post-its in your companion book with brief notes about common themes you've seen in between your chosen book and Night thus far.

 

 

Night intro, both Assignment #1 and Assignment #2. Submit reflection to turnitin.com and print the first page of the Text Only Report to turn in along with a hard copy of your assignment.

Video URLs:

http://www.ushmm.org/learn/introduction-to-the-holocaust/path-to-nazi-genocide (START AT 12:22) WARNING: GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING IMAGES

Go to YouTube. Search "Israel Arbeiter Visits Auschwitz." It is the first one that appears.

First Body Paragraph--remember, this is different from subsequent body paragraphs. Use the guide/checklist on the first page of your packet ("Writing the I-Search Paper").

2.) I-Search opening paragraph--be sure to review the example in your packet.

You already did Roots 19-20, but it is shown on the calendar as an assignment today!

 

Research 5:  Any kind of source you want! Need TWO sources and ONE page of notes. Hint: Online periodical sources from SIRS are probably your best bet!

 

For Research 6, assigned on Thursday: This will be a PRINT periodical. Mrs. Jaroch will talk about this in class - just a warning to start looking NOW.

Vocabulary 6:  Make flash cards and study for the test. You need to know which terms fall within certain categories, such as “fallacies of causality” are post hoc ergo propter hoc and third cause, and “fallacies that assume the conclusion” are alleged certainty, begging the question, complex question, and circular reasoning. BTW, circular reasoning is very hard to understand – remember it is the only inductive fallacy that is expressed as a syllogism, so when you see a three-line syllogism on the test, you will know that example is circular reasoning.

 

Vocabulary 7 Powerpoint:  Email to Mrs. Jaroch at   [email protected].

Need six slides: title slide, definition slide, TWO slides with examples of the term, Yes-No-Why slide, and Sources slide. If the email comes back as undeliverable, tell Mrs. Jaroch, and she will tell you when her email is set up. 

 

Research 4:  The assignment is to find ONE PRINT BOOK as a source, and take a half page of notes. This will be difficult – you must make a trip to the library! You may not find a book exactly on your topic, so you may need to be creative in your research. For example, the yearly Almanacs have statistics you may be able to use. You may be able to find information in a regular encyclopedia, or in a specialty encyclopedia or dictionary such as a medical encyclopedia. Rather than finding CURRENT information on your topic in a book, you should be looking for past information, background, or history.  

 

MLA Citations Test:  Study for the test! You will be tested on MLA citations for:

 

1. a print book

2. a print periodical

3. an online periodical

4. two database articles (SIRS and CQ Researcher)

5. two websites 

 

Remember that every comma, every period, every colon, every set of quote marks, etc. must be in their proper places! All lines in an entry after the first line must be indented! 

Business Letter Rewrite:  Address every comment and correction in red ink on your original letter! Submit to Turnitin under I-Search Business Letter Revision 1, and print the O.R.  In class you need the following:

 

1.  Hard copy of rewritten business letter

2.  New O.R.

3.  Graded business letter

4.  Email address of recipient (the paper was returned to you)

 

Evaluating Research Worksheet:  Brainstorm possible sources - as many as you can!

I-Search Research #2:  For this research, you need to find two articles from online periodicals. That means two different articles from a newspaper or magazine, that is found online. Then take one full page of notes (and write comments) in your research journal.

 

For example, you can find Time Magazine online at time.com, or U.S. News and World Report at usnews.com. Notice I am italicizing the magazine names and website names because that's what you do in the MLA citations.

 

You can find Scientific American at scientificamerican.com. Probably the best way to find online periodical sources, however, is through a subscription database like SIRS. I was helping a student find articles last night, and found them from multiple periodicals, such as Sports Illustrated, Occupational Outlook Quarterly, the Los Angeles Times, and the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

 

I gave you the SIRS address, user name, and password in class - use them!

l-Search Personal Profile:  Computer generate with proper heading. Follow the format, and make sure you answer all the questions as I want them worded! Submit to Turnitin under I-Search Personal Profile, but do not print the O.R.

 

Vocabulary 6 Courtroom Skit:  Script must be typed, with proper heading. Using the information from the "Deductive and inductive Arguments" hand-out, create a skit set in a courtroom in which your assigned term is used to be persuasive. The device can be used by the judge, one of the attorneys, or the defendant. You must have at least one prop. Type the definition of your term at the bottom so you can read it and explain it to the class.

 

See the vocabulary list below with all the definitions, and a sample courtroom skit.

Vocabulary 5:  Make flash cards and study for the test on Wednesday. Your flash cards should have the definition for each term, and possibly an example. You will not need to know how to spell the terms for the test; you will be given a word bank.

 

You must know the definitions, must be able to recognize an example of the term, and must know:

 

sound argument =  affirming the antecedent and denying the consequent

unsound argument =  denying the antecedent and affirming the consequent

 

The two unsound argument above also fall within the category of "fallacy." The other two fallacies on this list are the fallacy of equivocation, and the fallacy of division.

 

Remember also that just because an argument is sound, that does not guarantee that the conclusion will be true. By the same token, just because an argument is unsound, that does not guarantee that the conclusion will be false. 

 

Word Roots 16:  Complete the list.

Information for Business Letter Recipient:  Type up the following information, with a proper heading, and print to bring to class:

 

1.  Full name of business letter recipient (such as Linda Brown, not just Ms Brown)

 

2.  Person's job title (such as guitar teacher, Director of Marketing, etc.)

 

3.  Name of person's company (such as South Pasadena Police Department, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, etc., or perhaps "self employed")

 

4.  Email address OR, if you cannot get it, then find the street address of the person's company

 

If you cannot find an email address or a street address for the person, YOU MAY NOT CHOOSE HIM/HER FOR YOUR LETTER RECIPIENT.

 

Developing Questions for Your Research:  We started on this hand-out in class on Thursday. Your task is to come up with 25 strong, relevant questions regarding your main research question. Take another look at my Oxford examples. Share your research question with your parents, because they may be able to help you!

Roots 13-14 Test:  Make flash cards and study for the Roots 13-14 test.

 

Return Books and Check Out Book: Take the quote tags out of your True Diary and Alchemist books, and return them to the library. ALSO, check out the Dover Thrift Edition copy of Antigone and write your name in it immediately! Bring to class on Thursday.

Ancient Greek Theatre PowerPoint:  Make sure you follow directions on the hand-out scrupulously. If you have misplaced the hand-out (shame on you), then email me to request another. The six-to-ten slides requirement means content slides - does not include the title and sources slides. You are getting your information from your research, which is in your possession. Email your PowerPoint to me by the time your class begins on Tuesday.

 

Socratic Seminar Reflection:  Read the prompt carefully. You are responding to one of the twelve discussion topics, regarding author's message/s, and including a quote from each book (two quotes, properly integrated and punctuated!). You may write in the first person, since this is a personal reflection! Proper heading, double-spaced, correct title, submitted to Turnitin, original document and Turnitin O.R. printed, AND make sure you have your notes you took during the seminar to turn in with the reflection.

 

Vocabulary 5 PowerPoint:  Take all information from the hand-out on "Deductive and Inductive Reasoning" except for those who have been assigned "fallacy" and "equivocation" - those people should get their definitions from m-w.com.

 

Should have six slides:

 

1. Title slide

2.  Definition slide (do not need part of speech)

3.  Example slide with TWO examples

4.  Another example slide with TWO examples

5.  Yes-No-Why slide

6.  Sources slide

Word Roots: Complete lists 13-14.

 

Alchemist Test:  Study for the Alchemist test! Here is what you will need to know:

 

1.  In the "Ten Years On" section, what Coelho says is a Personal Legend.

2.  The four obstacles.

3.  What Melchizedek says is the world's greatest lie.

4.  According to the fourth obstacle, why Santiago was frightened when he realized he could buy a boat ticket to Africa if he sold just one sheep.

5.  How the "principal of favorability" works.

6.  What Urim and Thummim are, and how they are used.

7.  The story and message of the boy in the castle.

8.  The three changes in his own attitude that Santiago anticipates after his money is stolen in the marketplace in Tangier.   

9.  What maktub means, and what the crystal merchant means when he says he will never go to Mecca and Santiago will never again buy sheep.

10. What the literal and metaphorical meanings of alchemy are.

11. Explaining the quote about how books and the caravan are the same in some respects.

12. What the Soul of the World and the Language of the World are.

13. What the advantage and disadvantage is of knowing the future.

14. What the alchemist means when he tells Santiago he must not give up even though he HAS come far.

15. The alchemist's reply when Santiago says "My heart is a traitor."

16. What happened in the plot after Santiago arrived at the pyramids, contributing to the circular structure of the novel.

17. A message of the novel. Must not be a theme, but an author's message.

 

Ancient Greek Theatre Research:  First make sure you know which of the four categories of research have been assigned to you, according to your last name (the list of assignments is on the back side of the hand-out). Then find three sources of information, covering all three aspects of your topic (if you have been assigned topic 1, 2, or 4, or both if you are researching Golden Age and Hellenistic periods of theatre). Either copy and paste information into a Word document and PRINT, or just PRINT directly from online the relevant pages or sections from your sources, then highlight the needed information for your research. Make sure you have the source information printed on each page so you can find the source again when you create your PowerPoint!

 

Follow directions on Socratic Seminar hand-out:

 

Find a quote in True Diary for EACH of the 12 topics shown on the hand-out - that means 12 QUOTES. Each quote must be marked with a Post-It or other tag that is paper-clipped to the page. Make sure the paper tag or Post-It is labeled with the topic, such as loyalty, guilt, etc. Make sure you bring your book to class!

 

This is your only homework - you do NOT need to mark quotes in your Alchemist book yet.

Word Roots 9-10 Test:  Make flash cards and study for Roots 9-10 test.

 

Vocabulary 4 PowerPoint:  EMAIL POWERPOINT TO ME BY THE TIME YOUR CLASS STARTS! Following is the format. See note below on videos.

 

   Slide 1:  title slide  

   Slide 2:  definition of term

   Slide 3:  function of term 

   Slides 4 & 5:  examples of term in use (2 examples on 2 slides = 4 examples)*

   Slide 6:  Yes-No-Why

   Slide 7:  Sources

 

* Make sure your examples are persuasive in nature.

 

For your backgrounds, choose images that create a theme relevant to your examples. Make sure text is in a colored text box if the words going over the images are hard to read. No puppies, kittens, cupcakes, or tropical beaches for your images theme this time unless they are relevant to your examples.

 

Videos:  You may embed a YouTube video in your PowerPoint on one of the Examples slides if you can find one that supports your term's use and/or meaning. However, we will not have the time to watch long videos, so choose the 30 seconds or so of your video that is most relevant to your term, and on that slide write in where I should start the video, such as "Start at 1:41." 

Word Roots:  Complete List 12.

 

Alchemist:  Read and complete study guide for pp 116-167. Last guide!

 

Make sure  you address every correction and comment on your graded essay.

 

Remember that the rewrite must still fit within the word count: no fewer than 495 words, and no more than 505 words. If you make all the changes and your word count has gone over the maximum, you must edit carefully to make the essay fit!

 

Submit to Turnitin under College Personal Statement Revision 1, and print the Text Only Originality Report. Also print a copy of your rewritten essay. Make sure the font prints at 12 pt.

 

In class you must have:  1) Your original graded essay packet,  2) your rewritten essay, and  3) your new O.R.

Vocabulary 3 Rhetorical Terms:  Make flash cards and study for the test on Monday. Must know spelling of words, definitions, functions, and be able to recognize a sample of the rhetorical device in a sentence.

 

Suggest you work on your College Personal Statement rewrite, also. The due date is Wednesday, October 29.

Alchemist:  Read pp 87-116 and complete the study guide. Remember to submit to Turnitin.

 

Word Roots 11:  Complete list 11.

Author's Message/Tone Analysis 2:  Read over your hand-out titled "Exercises in Identifying and Analyzing Tone in Order to Identify Author's Message," and also take a good look at your first author's message analysis to see where you need to improve. Then write your second analysis on your assigned section (proper heading, Times New Roman 12 pt., 1" margins, double-spaced), submit to Turnitin, and print both your document AND your Turnitin O.R.

 

Word Roots 10:  Complete list 10.

True Diary Test:  Study for the second test on pp 118-230 - you have three study guides to read over! You should remember what score you earned on the first test, so either study just as hard as the first time, or if you did not score well, then study more.

 

Roots 7-8: Complete the lists. This is a calendar change!

 

 

Work on College Personal Statement:  It is not due until Thursday, October 2, but I suggest you work on it over the weekend and get a rough draft written, then come back to it on Wednesday.

Word Roots 5-6: Make flash cards and study for the test on Friday.

 

Tone Shift Analysis:  Read hand-out thoroughly. Do practice analysis on "The Scarlet Ibis" excerpt. Then write your analysis of your assigned passage, print your document (that has proper heading, is in Times New Roman 12 pt., double spaced, and 1" margins) AND submit to Turnitin and print the Text Only Report. The rubric for the analysis is below. This is a writing assignment and is worth 90 points, so give the task your full attention!

 

 

George Clooney: He starts off joking, then becomes serious when he talks about the Hollywood entertainment community. His last sentence, when he refers to being "out of touch," is a form of verbal irony, but he is being serious, not sarcastic. The tone shift appears in the last short paragraph. You can probably find his speech on YouTube, which will help, also!

Charlton Heston: He is an actor (died in 2008) who was a big supporter of the National Rifle Association. In the excerpt he is speaking at a meeting to confirm that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, but is asking his audience to not feel sorry for him. The tone shift begins in the paragraph that begins "For now..."

German magazine article: In this German propaganda article published when the tide of WWII was beginning to turn against the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan), the Germans are defending their failure to hold Rome against the Allies (U.S., U.K., France, Russia, etc.). It is ironic that they claim they retreated because they did not want the Italian works of art destroyed in a fight, but this didn't seem to bother them when they bombed England. The tone shift appears when the article uses the words "...the noble German gesture."

Nikki Giovanni: Giovanni is a female professor at Virginia Tech, giving a pep talk to the student body at a memorial ceremony. The tone shift appears in the third paragraph. You can see her speech on YouTube.

Plato: This is a tough one - read closely. Plato is speaking to a court in defense of the charge against Socrates, in which Plato is also being accused in some way. The point of this speech excerpt is that Plato is saying he is going to speak honestly. He claims he is not an eloquent speaker (but that is understatement because he was an acclaimed orator), but will defend himself to the best of his ability. There are several subtle tones shifts in this passage, but the main one appears when Plato says "For I am more than seventy years of age..."

Richard Nixon: In this resignation speech, the tone shift appears in the paragraph that begins "American needs..." You can probably find this speech on YouTube.

Word Roots 3-4: Make flash cards and study for test on Monday.

 

Vocabulary 2 TV Commercial Skit:  You are turning in your typed script, and your prop. Make sure your script has the definition of your term at the bottom - you will present that information in class. Attached below is a sample of a television commercial skit for a rhetorical term. Note it is very short - a television commercial is usually 15 to 30 seconds. In your script, try to include several examples of how your assigned rhetorical term is used in rhetoric, and highlight or underline the lines that illustrate your term. 

 

College Personal Statement Opening Paragraph:  Read the instructions and the examples on the hand-out carefully.

 

Your opening must be computer generated in MLA, double-spaced, and contain  1) a hook (which must be one of the ten hook choices on the hand-out titled "Writing a Good Essay Opening and Closing"),  2) either part of your narrative or a brief description about it, and  3) possibly your message about a life lesson you learned, or a reference to the lesson. Remember that this first paragraph must seize the reader's attention and compel that person to read more!

 

THEN you must include the first sentence of your next paragraph (which contains  your narrative). This sentence is either the transition to the narrative, or perhaps the transition would have appeared at the end of the opening paragraph.

 

Do not use Mrs. K.'s examples as a template for your own paragraph; in other words, I do not want to see anyone beginning their essay with:  "How many twelve-year-olds can play violin for three hours without stopping? Interestingly, I did." or "Feeling like Taylor Swift, but writing with a much-chewed pencil on college-ruled paper instead of on blank sheet music paper with a Sharpie, I wrote song lyrics as fast as I could...." Last year, several people actually copied my openings almost exactly - do not do this!

CHANGE IN THE CALENDAR! The Vocabulary 1 test has been moved to Thursday, Sept. 18, and the due date for the Vocabulary 2 skit has been moved to Monday, Sept. 22.

 

Vocabulary 1 Test:  Make flash cards of the Voc. 1 literary devices, and study for the test. Each flash card should have the word spelled correctly on one side, and the definition and function on the other side. You will be tested on spelling, definitions, functions, and identifying an example of each device. Make sure you have your flash cards in class - they are worth 20 points, and if you do not have your flash cards, you cannot make them up - you just take a zero.

 

True Diary:  Read pp 159-196 and complete the study guide.

 

Vocabulary 2 TV Commercial Skit: You are being given six whole days to complete this assignment, due Monday. Read the instructions and view the rubric for a skit in the hand-out with instructions on Vocabulary presentations.

 

This list, and the next three lists, are all on rhetorical devices for use in persuasive speech. First look up the definition for your rhetorical term online. In a search engine, type in "rhetorical terms," and you will see lots of sources. I suggest you visit at least two sources and read their definitions and examples so you get a strong idea of how your device works.

 

Second, type up the script for a television commercial skit in which you use the rhetorical device to persuade your audience to purchase the product you are selling, or buy the service, or vote for the candidate, or donate to a good cause, or take heed of your public service announcement. Your commercial can be like any commercial you might see on TV. At the bottom of your script, type up the definition of your word to tell the class.

 

Third, you must have a prop. Bring a good one or MAKE a good one. For example, if you are selling shampoo, take a shampoo bottle and make a label on the computer to tape around the bottle, or just sell Suave shampoo. 

 

In the past students have come up with funny products, so I encourage you to do the same. For example, someone had an "Anti-Homework Spray" you could spray in your teacher's face (they took a regular spray bottle and made a label for it), and last year some boys asked for donations to "Kimmy K.'s Animal Shelter." Then the rest of the year the kids called me Kimmy K.

 

CHANGE IN THE CALENDAR! You do not need to make flash cards and study for the Voc. 1 test - we haven't done the presentations yet!

 

Word Roots:  Complete lists 3 and 4.

 

College Personal Statement Ideas:  Read over the instructions carefully on the hand-out titled "Developing an Idea for the UC Personal Statement," even though I quickly went over them in class. Then, viewing what I marked on your Personal Profile, choose at least TWO topics I marked to develop ideas for the essay. However, you need THREE DIFFERENT ideas for your essay, so your third idea can be one not mentioned on your Profile, OR your third idea can be from your Profile. Note that you can choose the same prompt for all three ideas, or use one of one of the prompts, and two of the other.

 

Make sure you exactly follow the format shown on my two examples. Print your completed document to turn in, and submit your finished document to Turnitin under Personal Statement Ideas AND print the Text Only Report. ALSO, submit your Personal Profile to Turnitin under Personal Statement Profile, but you do not need to print the O.R. 

True Diary: Read and complete the study guide for pp 118-158.

 

Study for True Diary test on pp 1-117:  You have your first three study guides for pp 1-117 - study the questions and answers to prepare for the test on Thursday. Every question on the test appears on one of the three study guides. 

 

Here are some sample questions:

 

1.  What does Junior say is the value of a drawing, or pictorial graphic? 

2.  Name one fact you learned about the real Spokane Indian Reservation.

3.  Junior is shocked and dismayed when he discovers that his Wellpinit geometry book had once belonged to his own mother. What disturbed him about this?

4.  In describing Reardan, a face-smacking irony suddenly jumps off the page. What is extremely ironic about Reardan? Identify it, and explain why it is ironic.

5.  Tell what literary device this is:  "I stood there and waited for the rocks to replace my bones and blood."

You can see that all these questions are from the study guides, so if you know all the answers on the study guides, you will earn an 'A' on the test! 

Tone Analysis 2:  You are writing a tone analysis on your NEW assigned section:

 

If you analyzed Sojourner Truth's speech for Analysis 1, you are now analyzing Steve Jobs' speech.

 

If you analyzed Steve Jobs' speech for Analysis 1, you are now analyzing Elie Wiesel's speech.

 

If you analyzed Elie Wiesel's speech for Analysis 1, you are now analyzing Sojourner Truth's speech.

 

Remember to read the rubric on the Tone Analysis 2 hand-out, and double space, set the font to Times New Roman 12 pt., and PRINT BOTH THE ANALYSIS FROM YOUR WORD DOCUMENT, AND THE TEXT ONLY ORIGINALITY REPORT AFTER YOU SUBMIT TO TURNITIN.

 

College Personal Statement Personal Profile:  Follow my directions carefully. You do not need to double-space your answers to the profile questions, but double space between answers. For each of your answers, begin with a short, underlined identification of the answer, as I did on my sample answers. Print the document to bring to class, of course.

Tone Analysis: Read your assigned text in the "Identifying and Analyzing Tone Analysis 2" packet. Write a tone analysis with:

 

1.  A topic sentence that identifies the speaker and the situation. Examples: "In Elie Wiesel's speech at the dedication of a Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, his tones were...." or "In Sojourner Truth's speech to a women's convention in 1851, her tones were....").

 

2.  Identification of two complementary tones, expressed as adjectives. Examples: discouraged and pessimistic or spirited and anticipatory.

 

3.  Support for the tones, thereby extending your analysis. Use quotes, or fragments of quotes. Make sure you integrate quotes into sentences - quotes cannot stand alone. So do not write:  Junior is very upset when Oscar died. "After Oscar died, I was so depressed that I thought about crawling into a hold and disappearing forever."

Instead, write:  Junior is very upset when Oscar died. He said, "After Oscar died....etc."

 

4.  End with a sentence extending the tone analysis into another area of literature analysis. Since these speeches are not from novels, however, or stories, you would not discuss plot or characterization. However, you could say that the tones contribute to a theme of the speech (which you would identify as I did in the Mark Twain analysis), or an author's message (which is similar to theme), or identify a conflict.

 

5.  Please put your key words of analysis in bold-face italics, which I did on the Mark Twain analysis.

 

6.  Remember to submit your analysis to Turnitin and print the Text Only Report, and also print a hard copy of your analysis (not from Turnitin, but from your Word document). See a screen shot of the Text Only Report (also called the O.R.) attached, below.

 

Word Roots Lists 1 and 2:  Make flash cards with definitions of roots and a sample word for each root, then STUDY the flash cards to memorize the information so you can earn 100% on the test on Monday. You do not need to know the root origin, or the definition of your sample word.

True Diary:  Read and complete study guide for pages 82-117.

 

Word Roots Lists 1 and 2:  These lists are common prefixes. Find word origin for each prefix (such as Latin, Greek, Old French, etc.), the definition for each prefix, and find a sample word for each prefix with its definition, as shown in the two examples in List 1 (two words are shown for  a-  and  be-  just because there are two definitions for each of those prefixes). Each row is word 4 points: one point for the prefix origin, one point for the prefix definition, and two points for the sample word and definition.

True Diary:  Read and complete study guide for pages 44-81.

 

Vocabulary 1 PowerPoint:  Find definitions in the "What You Need to Know About Analyzing Literature Based on the Classic Story Structure" packet in the Writing section of your notebook. EMAIL YOUR POWERPOINT TO MRS. K. by the time your class starts: [email protected].

True Diary:  Read pp 1-43 and complete the study guide with thoughtful, complete answers!

 

Study for Syllabus Test:  Take the little practice test at the end of the class syllabus, and look over your answers to the Scavenger Hunt. Read the entire syllabus packet!