Tuesday-Wednesday, 11/29-30/11

ELAS
1. No homework.

Composition
1. VPP9 quiz makeups (20X each).
2. VPP9 exercise II (Sentence Completion).
3. MLA sheet - A, B, C example sentences.
4. Write your new verse for the song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette.
See the lyrics here.
See the music video here.

English H
1. Symbolism/Irony essay: Introduction and CDs. See texts below.
2. VPP9 ex. III & IV (also quiz makeups, 20x each).

Irony:
"Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
"The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty
"Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs

Symbolism:
"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles Schulz
"Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
"How to Eat a Guava" by Esmerelda Santiago

Monday, 11/28/11

ELAS
1. Finish the tutorial questions sheet.

Composition
1. Complete the work for VPP9: Notes, word pictures, flashcards, and exercise I (Words in Context).
2. Make sure you are caught up in all of your Standards Tasks.

***Click here to download the VPP word picture sheet***

English H
1. Complete the work for VPP9: Notes, word pictures, flashcards, and exercises I-II.
2. Start bringing Of Mice and Men instead of Mythology to class every day.

Tuesday, 11/22/11

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

ELAS
1. IR - three entries, three days. All on one Cornell note page. Your choice of habit for each one, but each habit should be different.

Composition
1. Fix up and work on any standards tasks that are not yet passing.
2. Have a restful break!

English H
1. Finish your "Red Death" notes: Do the summary tying together the "Red Death" song, the "Illusion of Safety," the symbolism in the story, and the theme in the story.
2. Have a restful break!

Monday, 11/21/11

ELAS
1. Finish reading "A Vendetta" by Guy de Maupassant and do 10+ annotations. Remember that the annotation types are as follows (you need two of each):
1. 8 Habits
2. Literary Devices (English Comp class stuff)
3. Repetition
4. Vocab
5. Customs/History

Composition
1. Fill out the final box on your trial sheet (if you didn't finish in class) and discuss how the trial went and your reactions to the verdict on a sheet of paper that you will attach to your trial sheet.

English H
1. Finish reading "Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe.
2. Write down (on today's notes) information about your group's symbol:
-What literal information is there on your symbol in the story? (get CDs)
-What might it symbolize?

Friday, 11/18/11

ELAS
1. Read your IR book for 15 minutes each day. :)

Composition
1. Prepare for the Montresor TRIAL! Fill out your trial sheet and be ready for Monday.

English H
1. Write about a time you took the "Road Less Traveled By" (the "Road Not Taken") in your life. Did it make "all the difference?" (see the poem at the bottom of this entry).
2. Do the TMNT quiz make-ups. The prompts are below:

1. Kenny is a good student.
2. The more money one has, the more problems one has.
3. Money.
4. People should be frugal with their money.
5. War tears apart families.
6. Do not judge someone based on their outward appearance.
7. Judgment.
8. There is often a disparity between how someone looks on the outside and how they truly are on the inside.


"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost (1920)


TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.


I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Thursday, 11/17/11

ELAS
1. IR book: Read 10+ pages and add to your summary sheet. We will do one more tomorrow and have four total.

Composition
1. Flowers For Algernon typed Progress Report journal entry from another character's point of view - first person limited unreliable narrator. TYPED. Your options are as follows:
Pt. 1
Progress Report Mar 10 – Dr. Strauss’s or Dr. Nemur’s POV
Progress Report Mar 25 – from Joe Carp’s or Frank Reilly’s POV
Progress Report Apr 3 – from Joe Carp’s or Frank Reilly’s POV
Progress Report Apr 9 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Progress Report Apr 15 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Progress Report Apr 28 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Pt. 2
Progress Report May 15 – from Dr. Strauss’s POV
Progress Report July 10 – from Mrs. Flynn’s POV
Progress Report July 25 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Progress Report July 27 – from Joe Carp’s or Frank Reilly’s POV
Progress Report July 28 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV

English H
1. Take notes on the Symbolism article in the packet.
2. TMNT (Topic/Moral/Neither/Theme) quiz make-up.

Tuesday-Wednesday, 11/15-16/11

ELAS
1. Finish chapter 8 of The Hunger Games and do 10+ annotations.

Composition
1. Finish Flowers For Algernon (part 2) and the FFA questions.
2. Do the Progress Report journal from another character's point of view (first person limited unreliable. See the choices below: Make sure you type it and reference at least 3-4 events from the text.
Pt. 1
Progress Report Mar 10 – Dr. Strauss’s or Dr. Nemur’s POV
Progress Report Mar 25 – from Joe Carp’s or Frank Reilly’s POV
Progress Report Apr 3 – from Joe Carp’s or Frank Reilly’s POV
Progress Report Apr 9 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Progress Report Apr 15 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Progress Report Apr 28 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Pt. 2
Progress Report May 15 – from Dr. Strauss’s POV
Progress Report July 10 – from Mrs. Flynn’s POV
Progress Report July 25 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV
Progress Report July 27 – from Joe Carp’s or Frank Reilly’s POV
Progress Report July 28 – from Miss Kinnian’s POV


English H
1. Finish your myth essay final draft.
2. Finish the theme notes.
3. Do a little mini-poster on your topic given in class. It should have the topic, a moral relating to that topic, and a theme relating to that topic.

Monday, 11/14/11

ELAS
1. Finish organizing your binder.
2. Complete the Tutorial Tuesday question sheet.
3. Finish reading chapter 7 of The Hunger Games and annotate it, using the 8 habits and new vocabulary.

Composition
1. Read Flowers For Algernon part one (up to page 82).
2. Answer as many questions on the FFA question sheet as you can.

English H
1. Complete the rough draft of your myth essay.
2. Complete the foreshadowing and irony chart.

Thursday, 11/10/11

ELAS
1. Write conscience and conscious 10 times each on your spelling words list.
2. Read chapter 7 of The Hunger Games and annotate it, using the sheet we went over in class.

Composition
1. In class we read the article on point of view and narrator on page 24 of the class reader. Take notes on it, and then, on a separate piece of paper, write the mini-story on that page (about the saxophone player) over again...do it in first person limited unreliable point of view from the point of view of either the dog or the girl in the window.
2. Finish your characterization narrative final draft. Be sure to follow Mr. Power's suggestions and to fix the dialogue in the narrative.

English H
1. Write a new verse to the Alanis Morisette song "Ironic" (go here to see the lyrics and here to see the video).
2. Read "Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry on page 142 of the reading workbook.
3. Get the CDs (concrete details) for your mythology essay. Write them into the essay organizer sheet, and be sure to put them in MLA format.

Tuesday-Wednesday, 11/08-09/11

ELAS
1. Write 10 sentences for each of your spelling list F words.

Composition
1. VPP8 quiz makeups and exercise II (sentence completion).
1. Finish the foreshadowing boxes sheet.

English H
1. VPP8 quiz makeups and exercises III-IV.
2. Finish your essay intro.
3. Read "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty.
4. Read "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant.

Monday, 11/07/11

ELAS
1. Finish the tutorial questions sheet.
2. Finish the (late) annotation of The Hunger Games chapter 6 if you haven't already done so.

Composition
1. VPP8 flashcards and exercise I, Words in Context.
2. Finish the "Beware of the Dog" continuation paragraph.
3. Finish the "The Landlady" questions (see below)
1. Where is Billy coming from, and what is he trying to find in the town of Bath?
2. What are three things Billy sees that attracts him to the Bed and Breakfast place?
3. What is the first strange thing Billy notices about the landlady?
4. What is another strange thing that the landlady says or does (CD)?
5. Billy thinks he recognizes the names of the two young men in the guest book (Mulholland and Temple). Where does he think he remembers them from?
6. How does the landlady say the two young men were alike?
7. Where does the landlady say the two young men still are? What happened to the landlady’s pets?
8. What does the tea taste like?
9. What do you think will happen to Billy Weaver?
10. Copy two CDs of foreshadowing from the story.


English H
1. VPP8 flashcards and exercises I-II
2. Write your Greek Mythological Allusion Poem.
3. Finish the MLA practice sheet. You can also read the whale article here and watch the video here.

Friday, 11/04/11

ELAS
1. The Hunger Games - finish reading chapter 6, and finish annotating the text.

Composition
1. VPP8 word picture.
2. Characterization narrative typed draft due Monday.

English H
1. VPP8 word picture.
2. Start thinking of a poem you will write using Greek mythological allusions.

Thursday, 11/03/11

I apologize to all parents and students who were unable to see Tuesday's and yesterday's blog entry: I was still feeling sick and was not able to update the website.

ELAS
1. Binder check tomorrow...be prepaaaaaared!

Composition
1. VPP7 -- study for the test tomorrow and have the packet ready.
2. Characterization narrative (standards tasks!) typed drafts are due Monday or tomorrow for extra credit.
3. Finish the foreshadowing notes if you haven't already done so.

Here are the questions for "The Landlady" from the projector:
1. Where is Billy coming from, and what is he trying to find in the town of Bath?
2. What are three things Billy sees that attracts him to the Bed and Breakfast place?
3. What is the first strange thing Billy notices about the landlady?
4. What is another strange thing that the landlady says or does (CD)?
5. Billy thinks he recognizes the names of the two young men in the guest book (Mulholland and Temple). Where does he think he remembers them from?
6. How does the landlady say the two young men were alike?
7. Where does the landlady say the two young men still are? What happened to the landlady’s pets?
8. What does the tea taste like?
9. What do you think will happen to Billy Weaver?
10. Copy two CDs of foreshadowing from the story.


English H
1. VPP7 -- study for the test tomorrow and have the packet ready.
2. Finish the myth packet if you haven't already done so.