Monday, May 12, 2008
English 10 Semester Exam
The semester exam for sophomores will be a comprehensive test on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Monday, March 10, 2008
English 10 Assignment for Week of March 10
Read and take notes on the introduction to Genre Fiction (1118).
Read and take notes on figurative language (1119).
Read and take notes on author and all other "Before You Read" information (1120-1121).
Read "A Sound of Thunder," answering the purple and blue questions as you read.
Read and take notes on figurative language (1119).
Read and take notes on author and all other "Before You Read" information (1120-1121).
Read "A Sound of Thunder," answering the purple and blue questions as you read.
Friday, February 29, 2008
PLATO Poetry Test Reminder
This is a reminder to review for the PLATO poetry lesson test that will be administered Monday, March 3.
The half-day for students has been changed from Monday to Wednesday.
I have planned Writing Roadmap sessions for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
The location of the Writing Roadmap sessions will be announced Monday. If the computer lab is unavailable, students will rotate four at a time using the computers in our classroom while others are completing work from a SAS in School lesson or a lesson from the literature text.
In addition, students need to plan to use the TCA Coach on-line ACT preparation program several times during the next few weeks. I will give you all necessary information if you have not used the program previously.
Only the TCA Coach sessions are available from students' homes; Writing Roadmap sessions must be completed at school. Daily grades are taken for all computer sessions.
The half-day for students has been changed from Monday to Wednesday.
I have planned Writing Roadmap sessions for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
The location of the Writing Roadmap sessions will be announced Monday. If the computer lab is unavailable, students will rotate four at a time using the computers in our classroom while others are completing work from a SAS in School lesson or a lesson from the literature text.
In addition, students need to plan to use the TCA Coach on-line ACT preparation program several times during the next few weeks. I will give you all necessary information if you have not used the program previously.
Only the TCA Coach sessions are available from students' homes; Writing Roadmap sessions must be completed at school. Daily grades are taken for all computer sessions.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
PLATO Poetry Notes Study Guide
Study Guide
Poetry Test (PLATO)
The answers to this study guide can be found in the assessments and tutorials.
1. How is poetry different from prose?
2. Know when words rhyme. Look at some examples from the lesson and be able to determine if a few lines of poetry rhyme.
3. Know the definition of rhyme scheme.
4. Know the definition of free verse. Look at some examples from the lesson and be able to determine if a few lines of poetry are free verse or rhymed verse.
5. Know the rhyme scheme of a limerick and recognize a limerick.
6. Know how to mark the rhyme scheme of a poem. It is easy!
7. Be able to recognize an example of the following: alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, and simile.
8. Know the marking (accented and unaccented syllables) of the following metric feet: anapestic, dactylic, iambic, spondaic, and trochaic.
9. Know some symbols for old age in the symbolism lesson.
10. Look closely at “The Bean Eaters” questions for extra credit.
Poetry Test (PLATO)
The answers to this study guide can be found in the assessments and tutorials.
1. How is poetry different from prose?
2. Know when words rhyme. Look at some examples from the lesson and be able to determine if a few lines of poetry rhyme.
3. Know the definition of rhyme scheme.
4. Know the definition of free verse. Look at some examples from the lesson and be able to determine if a few lines of poetry are free verse or rhymed verse.
5. Know the rhyme scheme of a limerick and recognize a limerick.
6. Know how to mark the rhyme scheme of a poem. It is easy!
7. Be able to recognize an example of the following: alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, and simile.
8. Know the marking (accented and unaccented syllables) of the following metric feet: anapestic, dactylic, iambic, spondaic, and trochaic.
9. Know some symbols for old age in the symbolism lesson.
10. Look closely at “The Bean Eaters” questions for extra credit.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Current Assignment
We are workiing on the poetry module in PLATO Curriculum Pathways Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
You also have notes due on poetry from your textbook.
Friday, we will be working in our classroom from your textbooks.
You also have notes due on poetry from your textbook.
Friday, we will be working in our classroom from your textbooks.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Tests This Week
Tuesday "Winter Night" by Kaye Boyle
Wednesday Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Thursday or Friday Writing component of WESTEST
Wednesday Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Thursday or Friday Writing component of WESTEST
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Looking Ahead to the WESTEST
Below are some terms you must define as they apply to literature. Use the glossary of literary terms and index in your literature text as a first source; then, search a literary term dictionary on the Internet in order to find a reliable definition:
dramatic irony, stock character, peripeteia, foil, anagnorisis (recognition), unities, protagonist, antagonist, catharsis, hamartia, tragic hero, Freytag's pyramid, hubris
You will find that some of the terms relate specifically to Freytag's pyramid.
A good link is http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Freytag.pdf
This assignment is NOT DUE RIGHT NOW, but some of you want to be prepared for the WESTEST.
dramatic irony, stock character, peripeteia, foil, anagnorisis (recognition), unities, protagonist, antagonist, catharsis, hamartia, tragic hero, Freytag's pyramid, hubris
You will find that some of the terms relate specifically to Freytag's pyramid.
A good link is http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Freytag.pdf
This assignment is NOT DUE RIGHT NOW, but some of you want to be prepared for the WESTEST.
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