Welcome to Honors English 11 with Mrs. Gregory

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't forget extra credit activity after school on Thursday, May 28th!

 

Calendar for The Things They Carried (to the end of the year):  ttc09.doc

 

REVISION to AILD Assignment Calendar:

Thursday, May 14th: quiz on 156-205

Monday, May 18th: Quiz 0n 206-end

Wednesday, May 20th: TEST Review

Friday, May 22: TEST on AILD

Study guide: 

• There will be a section of short answer (5 questions)
• There will be a section on objecive correlative (pick 3 of 5))
• There will be quote identifications (pick 10 of 15)
• There will be a section where you'll have to compare and contrast the style and themes of the book with two poems of the same era.
• There will be three quotes on cubism, from which you will select ONE to write an essay response.

 

Extra Credit Opportunity

Thursday, May 28, 2009

2:15-3:45 pm

Schola

 

• View documentary To Render a Life, which will enrich understanding of 1930s and contemporary rural American life
• Relates to characters in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
• Extra credit will be a “free” 100 superquiz (3-counter) grade
• To receive the extra credit, you must sign in to the schola when you arrive
• To receive  extra credit, you must stay for the entire documentary
• Anyone who misbehaves, sleeps, or is otherwise inattentive will be asked to leave

 

 

Modernism Intro: 

IF  YOU  ARE  NOT  HERE  ON  TUESDAY, APRIL  28th PLEASE:

 

1. View the POWERPOINT for intro to Modernism/Cubism

2. Print off a syllabus for the reading of As I  Lay Dying (Read first day's assignment by Thurs))

3. View Cubism webquest... You do NOT  have to write any answers

4. Print a copy of cubist narrative handout

5. Read first homework assignment

 

honorsintro.ppt          Cubismwebquest.doc         AILD 2009.doc         Cubist narrative.doc

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paideia Rules and Scoring Guide grouppaideia.doc

 

 

Focus Areas to consider when preparing for the first Black Boy quiz: Black Boy Reading Guide.doc

 

If you were absent on Friday, March 27th (or attending Leadership Workshop), look below test prep info for makeup work- your take-home quiz.

 

To PREPARE for TEST on Huck Finn on Tuesday, March 31:

 

BRING YOUR BOOK because you WILL be allowed to use it.

• You will be asked to pick two of six topics about which you will write short essays.
• At least one of the topics will be one of the focus areas on which you took notes in class the day we introduced the book (bildungsroman, elliptical/cyclical structure, satire of Southern code, picaresque).
• If you were absent that day (or have lost your notes) a bare skeleton of ths notes is below:           Huck Notes.doc
• If I were you, what I would do to prepare is to pick at least one of thse topics and attach sticky notes or page flags in the book where you see evidence of that focus area.

 

Make-up take home quiz for absent/activity students on Friday, March 27th:

• You MAY use the book to do this.
• Consider that Chapters 30 to the end were the ones Twain added after he had  not worked on the book for awhile. Critics continue to argue about whether or not this final section "fits" with the rest of the book or "works" as an ending to bring the book to a close.
• YOUR job is to write for about 30-40 minutes and TAKE A SIDE on this issue.  Explain whether you think the ending fits/works OR does not, and why.  You MAY point out some aspects that support the other side of the issue, but you MUST clearly state which side you support overall.
• Be sure to use textual support, either in the form of quotes, page numbers, or references to certain incidents.
• Areas to consider when formulate your response might be (though they are not limited to) things like plot, theme, tone, language style, dialect of characters, character motivation, character development, or things that are unresolved in the story.

 

 

MONDAY MARCH 23rd... we will have a COMBINED QUIZ for Chapters 1-18 and 19-25... reading is the SAME, it's just the quizzes that are "re-paced."

 

 

Calendar for March and April:   realismsyllabus09.doc

 

 

Online SOL practice test: Take the interactive test and either print the last page (with your score on it) to turn in on Wednesday, Feb. 25th, or cut and paste the score portion and print that.

 

http://www.iq.poquoson.org/2005vasol/eocwri/eocwri05.htm

 

 

 

REMINDER:  After School on Thursday, Feb., I will be re-showing the first hour of The Last of the Mohicans for those  who were absent on Monday or confused about their assignment.  You may also stay that day to make up Tuesday's quiz.

 

COURSE EXPECTATIONS   newhonorsexpexts0809.doc 

 

LINK to VA SOLS for English Grades 9-12:  http://www.doe.virginia.gov/go/Sols/2002/ELP-Stds9-12.pdf

 

Romanticism/Transcendentalism Calendar : Feb. 16- March 3  honorscalendar.doc

 

If you were absent on Feb. 16th, you need to:

1. MAKE up Romanticism Quiz

2. View first portion of The Last of The Mohicans on after school make-up day

3. Obtain a copy of the viewing guide questions to turn in  Mohicansdiscussguide.doc

 

Last of the Mohicans Character Names:

Nathaniel (Natty) Bumppo (also known as Deerslayer, Hawkeye, Pathfinder, Long Rifle): our hero; adopted Mohican

Uncas: Natty’s Mohican brother

Chingachgook: Natty’s Mohican father

Cora Munro

Alice Munro

Colonel Munro, their father; also known as “the Gray Hair;” 

Major Duncan Heyward, British officer

General Webb, British officer

Magua, Native American

General Montcalm, French general

John and Alexandra Cameron and children, wilderness family and friend of the Mohicans

Jack Winthrop, civilian militia leader

Sachem, leader of the Huron Indians

 

 

February 12th:

In class: Notes on Romanticism:    powercopy.doc   (had to save as Word doc b/c Powerpoint too big to load)

 

 

BE PREPARED FOR NOTES QUIZ ON MONDAY

 

REVISED SCHEDULE:  You may NOW CHOOSE whether to turn your project in as a paper or a movie.  Papers due Fri, Feb. 6 and Movies due (uploaded to class site on sharepoint) by Tuesday, Feb. 10th.  (You MAY due both for extra credit, but you will need to meet the due dates for any one to be accepted.)

 

 

 

 HELP WITH CITING SOURCES   http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/