7/8th Grade due MOnday

YOUR FINAL, POLISHED AND PRINTED ESSAYS! DOn't forget to staple the new versions to your old drafts, and include your work cited page! :)

7/8th grade homework due Monday

Please consider revising the work you've done so far (reference the workshop notes and classwork feedback you have gotten on your first two paragraphs to make corrections). Due Monday: your introduction paragraph and three main body paragraphs (you finished your second main body in class today). Enjoy the three day weekend!

9/10th Grade homework due Thursday

Please read actively act 4, scenes 5 and 6. Those of you who did not ask questions at the start of class today (Tuesday) will be asked to ask questions at the start of class on Thursday, so come prepared with questions from your reading. Also, please write down a rough thesis-- what are you interested in writing your final essay on? (Clapton, we finished act 4.1,2 and 3 in class, but we SKIPPED scene four, so you should do so as well-- also, I have a list of possible essay topics/questions on the play if you'd like that to help you generate your thesis. Just swing by in the morning, if so).

7/8 homework due Wednesday

Please make corrections to your introductory paragraph and write the draft of your first main body paragraph. Email me with any questions or problems. :)

7/8th Grade homework due Monday

Please type and print the draft of your introductory paragraph for _Lord of the Flies_. Remeber to introduce: 1) The author 2) the Work 3) your thesis argument (and discuss any important topics that are important) 4) your essay plan (your three topic ideas). Print these before class for full credit, please. Email me with any questions or problems.

9/10th Homework due Tuesday

Please read actively (noting all questions) act 3.2 and 3.3 in _Hamlet_.

7/8th grade due Friday

Please read Richard Connell's short story, "The Most Dangerous Game" and be thinking, as you read, of the similarities or differences in his presentation of humanity and human nature as compared to William Golding's in _The Lord of the Flies_. Here is the link for the short story, in case you forgot your packet: http://fiction.eserver.org/short/the_most_dangerous_game.html

9/10Th homework due Thursday

It's Shakespeare day! Bring whatever goodies you'd like to share with the class (I'll take care of the cake in honor of Willie's 447th birthday!), dress appropriately, be prepared to recite from memory the opening lines of the silioque you've selected, find your favorite POETIC insult and please read pages 97-107 in act two, scene two.

7/8th grade homework due Wed.

Please fill out the "thesis argument" worksheet as best as you can, determining a thesis statement and three supporing ideas. Bring the worksheet to class on Wed.

7/8th grade homework due Monday

Please compose three poems (of any length). To submit them, they must be typed, with your name on it (though you may submit them officially as "anonymous"). Remember, you will earn extra credit for the class if you choose to submit them to Bruce for consideration in the school poetry magazine).

9/10th due Tuedsay

Please read actively act 1.5 and act 2.1. Mark all questions or trouble spots to prepare for a reading quiz (you'll have as much time as you need to ask ALL the questions you have about every little line). Great job in class today!

7/8th due Friday

Just have your permission slip signed (or commented upon) and return it to class on Friday! That's it! You guys did a GREAT job teaching on Wednesday and deserve a night of homework off! :)

9/10th due Tuesday

Please read in the Hamlet text three sections in the introduction: page xiv to page xLii. Note down what interests you and be prepared to share with the class in class.

7/8th Grade homwork due Wed.

Please read chapter eleven actively! ONly two more chapters to go!!!

7/8th due Wed.

Please read chapter 9 actively! It's short! :)

9/10th

Please read to page 118 (you DO NOT need to read actively).

7/8th due Friday

Please read chapter seven! :) (doesn't have to be actively)

9/10th homework over Spring Break

Please read to the bottom of page 85 by Thursday's class (you've got two weeks to complete this!). :)

7/8th homework over Spring Break

Please read chapter six! :)

9/10th due Thursday

Consider revising your essays that I handed back today! Also, please read actively pages 33-45 in Ivan Denisovich.

7/8th grade homework due Wednesday

Please finish reading chapter five (actively!) and be prepared for a reading quiz. Clearly, some of you may have had a chance to complete this chapter in class, in which case your homework is to adjust to day light savings changes! (And, review the chapter before class to prepare for the reading quiz)

7/8th grade homework due Monday

Please study for your vocabulary quiz (lists from chapters one through five). Also, bring your reading book to class on Monday.

9/10th homework due Tuesday

Please read actively the beginning of Solzhenitsyn's novella, _One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich_, pages 3 through the bottom of page 33.

7/8th grade homework due Friday

Please read all of chapter four, and read it actively (meaning, mark ONE important thing per page in your book). If this takes you longer than an hour, feel free to email me and let me know.

9/10th due homework

On Thursday, you will all have the entire period to craft your inclass essay. After working on it with me and your classmates for 45 minutes today, it is my hope that you feel strongly about a thesis and an approach. Remember to bring your outline to class with you, as well as your materials (books and stories that you need) and your computer, if you'd like to type it. Please email me with any questions well before Wednesday night.

7/8th grade homework due Wednesday

1) Please read chapter three and complete the blue worksheet of questions. 2) Prepare for your vocabulary quiz NEXT monday by reviewing the memory tricks and notecards you created.

9/10th grade homework due Tuesday

1) Please complete Gogol's "The Overcoat," and as you do, be sure to be thinking about what common elements or thematic moves Gogol enacts that Dostoevsky and Tolstoy do as well (this will help prepare you for your essay next week). 2) Please make grammar corrections to the quiz from class today and 3) Please polish off your Short Non-Fiction essay (I'll be returning corrections to you in school on Friday (tomorrow).

7/8th Homework due Friday

Please complete chapter two actively in _Lord of the Flies_. (Actively means that you must note, in your book, important plot developments or characteristics as they develop. I suggest noting or marking, also, confusing spots or rises in tension. Please aim to mark at least two spots per page. I will check this on Friday).

9/10th grade homework due Thursday

1) Please read the first half of Gogol's "The Overcoat," to page 760. 2) We will also have a grammar "quiz"-- you will simply need to identify the commas that already exist in the paragraph (though I may give you one or two blank sentences-- without commas-- where you will need to find only the "D" commas that are missing).

9/10th grade homework due Tuesday

Vocabulary quiz on all of your notecards and completed draft of your personal essay is due (three to five pages). Proof read your personal essay for comma errors carefully and be sure that your story reveals something about yourself.

7/8th grade homework due Wednesday

Please complete the worksheet for Chapter one (in complete sentences).

7/8th Grade homework due Monday

Please read chapter one in _Lord of the Flies_ carefully. We started this in class, but be sure to follow up on our discussions: be thinking, as you read, about the way the boys are described (who "fits" in with nature; who doesn't)? Also, consider the way the jungle is pictured. Follow the imagery carefully, as we'll be drawing a map on Monday of the Island.

9/10th Due Tuesday

Please read Tolstoy, pages 117-150 for Tuesday, actively (though you don't have to mark more than one or two important things per page).

7/8th grade homework for Friday

Third main body paragraph due.

9/10th Grade due Thursday

Review vocabulary, and read through section three in "The Death of Ivan Iylch."

7/8th homework due Wednesday

Please complete the second, main-body paragraph for your five paragraph essay. We began this in class today, and many of you have completed the draft for this assignment, but please email me with any questions. On Wednesday, I expect you to have, printed out, your two paragraphs (on the same document). We'll work then on Introductory and Conclusion paragraphs.

7/8th homework due Monday

Please choose ONE of the topics for _Old Man and the Sea_ that you developed in the essay outlines either in Wednesday or Friday's classes. (Don't make the mistake of using the thesis from those outlines. Instead, choose from one of the three main body topic ideas you generated) You will then need to write a paragraph (just one, though this paragraph will eventually be combined with others to make a five paragraph essay). Your paragraph should start with the topic you devised have have one, two or three quotations as supporting evidence (which will need to be introduced and analyzed as needed). Your quotation amount depends on what my expectations of you are at this moment. Please email me with any questions.

9/10th Homework due Tuesday

Please read sections one and two in the short story, "The Death of Ivan Ilych." If you were absent on Thursday, you will need to pick up a copy of this text from my desk (you may do so, even if I'm not there). Please remember, the short story starts halfway through the physical book, so don't make the mistake of reading from page one. Email me if you have any questions.

7/8th homework due Friday

Please finish the book, _The Old Man and the Sea_. You may relax a little in the "active reading" area, since there are 20 pages left to complete. Now I just ask that you mark the BIGGEST or seeminly most important parts/events that happen every two pages. Please let me know via email before class if you are unable to complete this assignment (if it takes you more than 40 minutes), at which point, I will certainly excuse you from completing it.

9/10 Grade homework due Thursday

Homework due Thursday:

1)Add five more words to your envelop—(for a total of 25, at least) and memorize all 25. You will be quizzed on Thursday.

2)Please write a one to two page essay (can be one paragraph, or you can have more main body paragraphs, as you see fit)

Assignment:

Closely analyze Dostoevsky’s use of DIRECT and INDIRECT characterization in chapter seven. Based upon his use of direct description and indirect description of Raskolnikov, please create a claim that answers the following question: Does Dostoevsky blame Raskolnikov for his actions? (In other words, does the direct and indirect characterization paint Raskolnikov as an exculpable or blameworthy character?)

Be sure to have several pieces of evidence to support your claim… and CLOSE READ the quotations you give!

7/8th grade homework due Wednesday

Please read actively pages 83-the bottom of 98. Also, for those of you who did not turn in the reading questions due Monday, you may turn those in by Wednesday for partial credit.

7/8th Grade homework due Monday

-- Please answer the questions from the worksheet passed out in class about pages 73-83 in _The Old Man and the Sea_ in complete sentences.

9/10th homework due Tuesday

1) Vocabulary words! Learn your "envelope" full of vocabulary words before class starts, and please use the method of approach that I modelled in class today-- it works! (Make two groups as you move through the words, three at a time. Your groups should be "vault" words," (words you've locked into memory, or feel you have), and the words that you don't have memorized by heart yet).

2) Please read actively chapter six in _Crime and Punishment_.

7/8th grade homework due Wednesday

Please complete a total of three pages (double-spaced if you write on the computer; single-spaced if you are hand writting) of your orriginal short story that we began in class together today. Remember, this story in itself must have a title that is an ALLUSION to _The Old Man and the Sea_ (your title may be formated such as: _The Young ___ and the _______). Stories must also have a clear conflict that you are able to identify, as well as a theme/lesson that you can explain on Wednesday as well.

7/8th grade homework due Monday

Finish the paragraphs we started in class on Monday! If you turned your work in already, you have NO HOMEWORK! Enjoy!

9/10th Due Tuesday

Please actively read chapters 3, 4 and 5 (several finished chapter three in class today). Also, for the two of you who were absent today, please make arrangements with me to make up the inclass essay and test that you missed today. I hope you're both doing well!

7/8th Grade homework due Friday

Please read actively pages 62-73, paying close attention to how Hemmingway creates tension and conflict (internal and external).

7/8th grade homework due Wednesday

Please read actively pages 51-62-- paying close attention to any allusions you may find along the way.

7/8th grade homework due Monday

In class, you selected a topic sentence that was generated by you or a peer in discussion. For homework over the weekend, I would like you prove your topic by developing a paragraph argument, complete with evidence, analysis and a conclusion sentence. Please bring these formal writing assignments printed out to class on Monday.

9/10th grade homework due Tuesday

Please read actively _Crime and PUnishment_, the first two chapters. I understand this reading is dense, and I am anticipating it should take you around two hours to complete. Please let me know before class if this reading has taken you more than 2 hours and 15 minutes to complete.

7/8th Homework due on Friday

Please read actively in _The Old Man and the Sea_ from pages 41 to 51 (I will be checking your active reading for a homework "check." In order to get a perfect score, I would average at least one or two "notes" per page. Also, remember to place a question mark in the margins if you have a question about ANYTHING in that passage... you'll earn extra credit for identifying what you don't know!).

9/10th Homework Due Thursday

Please read Lermontov's "The Dispute," and "The Sail" and answer the two pages of questions about these poems in the poetry packet.

7/8th Grade homework due Wednesday

7/8th: First and foremost, please enjoy the Monday holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Remember to spend some time reflecting on the state of our nation, our world, and envision yourself as a positive force for change. How can you support brotherhood? The homework due in class is: please read actively pages 30 through 40 in _The Old Man and the Sea_. It is very likely that you will have a readin quiz over these pages, so read carefully.

9/10th grade homework due Tuesday

Please read Martin Luther King Jr.'s essay entitled, "An Experiment on Love," and write a five paragraph essay where you argue whether or not MLK's philosophies align or differ from Romanticism as we have been introduced to the genre in Russian Literature. Please don't be concerned about creating a memorable intro or conclusion. Those can be just one or two sentences, if you'd like. I'm more interested to see you carefully identify three elements of Romanticism and argue whether or not MLK's essay embodies them or not. You will earn full credit for this homework assignment if you turn in a well-thought out draft with all the formal elements of a main body paragraph (topics, evidence, analysis).

7/8th grade homework due on Friday

Please complete your paragraph arguing an answer to the following question: What do the dreams of the old man suggest about him (the dreams are covered on pages 24 and 25 of _Old Man and The Sea_.)

7/8th Homework Due Wednesday

Please read ACTIVELY pages 21-29. Play close attention to the symbolism Hemmingway creates when he writes about Santiago's dream at night, and prepare yourself mentally to write your thoughts down in an organized paragraph when we meet on Wednesday.

7/8 grade homework due Monday

Please read Hemmingway's _Old Man and the Sea_, pages 9-20, actively (which means noting at least two to three important facts or characteristics per page in your book).

9/10th Grade homework due Tuesday

Please 1) review as much information about the literary device, "Synecdoche," as you can find on Wikipedia and other related research sites (since this concept will help us frame our investigation into Russian Literature). Please also bring ONE other example of a synecdotal relationship, besides those covered in class. 2) Please close read Alexandre Pushkin's two poems, "The Poison Tree," and "The Bird," as well as answer the assigned questions on the worksheet handed out in class. (**Rhys, feel free to email me about any of this, since you were not in class yesterday. I have placed the materials you need to complete this assignment in the TURN IN slot for your class.)