Honors English 10: World Lit (Period 4) Assignments

Puppet Show Script Due. It must be complete, but it doesn't need to be perfect yet. 

Outline for Parts 1 and 2 due to google classroom and turnitin.com.

Reading Response #1

1. Begin your trickster research at the library or online. Work on notecards. Read your book!

 

2. Consider the following quotation that was said in reference to Petrarch, the "father of the sonnet". Then, bring in lyrics from a song (digital or printed) that embodies the definition of "truest love" as provided below. Be prepared to share with the class. 

 

Personal narrative: Family, Culture, Food, Identity, Tradition due. 1 page, hard copy, with a drawing or image. The drawing can be on another sheet of paper. 

 

1/2 period Work Day for vocabulary notebook.

IRB Reading Response #3 in class. 

Finish questions #1-4 for "Lunch" and questions #1, 2, and 4 for "The Fourth of July." Read Douglass' famous speech (link below) with a similar title and be prepared to summarize it in class. What connections do you see? What is Douglass' purpose? Why might Lorde have chosen a similar title for her essay? 

 

IRB Reading Response #2: pp. 51-100. Bring book with passages marked. 

1. Read trickster novel.

2. Matching quiz: sonnet terms. 

Submit final draft of narrative essay; instructions on google classroom.

 

Read IRB.

Submit your first draft to turnitin (the same one you already submitted to classroom). 

First draft of personal narrative essay due to google classroom. Model it after Carson, Momaday, Solzhenitsyn, or Wiesel: expository/descriptive; reflective (with a connection to the universal); or persuasive. Write your purpose statement at the top of your draft. 

 

Reading Response #1 (in-class assignment). Bring your book with marked passages. 

Finish reading the essays by Solzhenitsyn and Wiesel and answer the questions:

p. 686, #1, 3, 4, 5

p. 688, # 2, 3, 4, 5

Return your LC book and check out/order your new independent reading book: narrative nonfiction. Bring book (digital or hard copy) to class. May not be a biography or a memoir. 

1. Complete the reading questions for Rachel Carson's essay The Marginal World, if needed:

#1, 2, 3 on p. 666

#6, 7, 8 on p. 667

Prepare outline and find quotations for your in-class analytical essay on your LC novel. 

Literature Circle #5

Lit Circle #4

Revised analytical paragraph from TFA due after you conference with me. 

Read and complete role sheet to prepare for LC #2. 

Literature Circle #1 is today. Read the pages in Kite Runner or Joy Luck Club as decided by your group, and complete your role sheet thoughtfully and thoroughly. 

TFA analytical essay final draft due. 4-5 paragraphs. Submit to google and turnitin.com.

Finish TFA: read ch. 18-25.

TFA: Read ch. 12-18.

TFA: Read Ch. 7-11 (pp. 52-110). 

TFA: Read ch. 1-6.

Read Achebe's obituary (on google classroom).

1. Read Classics in Context and take notes on the questions. 

2. Complete the terms section on your TFA handout.

Finish reading the True Diary !

Final Exam Vocabulary Review

Vocab 3 Test on Monday!

 

Night assignment #2. Submit on google classroom with assignment #1. See google doc on google classroom. 

1. NIGHT assignment #1 due. See handout.

2. Work on Antigone screenplay (Due Thursday).

ANTIGONE TEST

1. Study for Antigone test. Play Kahoot! again: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/8b9eebf6-93e7-45d0-be9e-300aebea4a00 And see study guide: Antigone Test Study Guide

2. Return your free choice book to the library if needed and browse for historical fiction. We will also go to the library as a class. 

Antigone adaptation trailer:

Irony review video: 

 

1. Finish irony handouts in packet, if needed.

2. Brainstorm ideas for Antigone screenplay project.

3. Begin studying SAT word list #2. 

 

1. Lesson 1 Vocabulary Quiz: matching and fill-in-the-blank (with word bank). 

2. Work on your independent reading project. 

3. Bring headphones to class next week.

4. Take a selfie and print it out: you reading your free-choice book in your favorite reading spot! Filters ok; color if possible. 

Complete reflection for Grading Period #1, if needed:

1. Complete and submit Antigone Journal #2 (sc. iii and iv) to turnitin.com by 10:00 a.m.

2. Finish Lesson 1 vocabulary sentences for words #21-25 and submit THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT (WORDS 1-25) to turnitin.com by 10:00 a.m.

 

1. Vocabulary notebook, words #11-20.

2. Finish parallelism worksheet (part 1).

SAT Vocabulary List, Lesson 1, words #1-10 in vocabulary "notebook":

1. Definition.

2. Original sentence that reveals the meaning of the word. Topic: your life.

3. Synonyms

4. Antonyms

5. Visual memory cue/image.

 

 

Read your free-choice book for 15 minutes a night. 

 

Answer the following questions in complete sentences on a google doc, based on Antigone, pp. 773-775.

A) What conflict in the play is beginning to take shape?

B) Who is the protagonist? Who is the antagonist? How do you know?

C) Summarize Antigone's personality.

D) Why does Antigone want to bury her brother?

1. Read free-choice book for 15 minutes a night.

2. Antigone:

Read pp. 768-769 in your textbook.

Read pp. 5-6 in your Antigone packet and complete p. 7.

IN CLASS WORK. If you were absent: View the videos and take notes on the background and history of Greek theater. Afterwards, we will organize notes in groups in the form of Thinking Maps. 

History of Theater Part 1:

 

Part 2:

 

What is tragedy and how/when did it develop?

Who were the playwrights? 

Sophocles is credited with . . .

Oedipus Rex is often called. . . 

 

Bring free-choice book to class every day. 

1. Study terms #1-11 (ending with style)

2. Read free-choice book and bring to class each day. 

1. Study terms #1-5 for quiz retake (unless you scored 100%)

2. Next class: library for free-choice reading project.

Study terms #1-5 for definitions quiz.

Join our class on turnitin.com.

1. Finish the pre-writing/fishbowl handout that we started in class.

2. Bring Born a Crime. 

1. Signed syllabus page.

2. Baby photo with caption, name on back.