Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Enjoy your holiday break and stay safe. There is no homework until next year! Hooray!

Don't forget your textbooks when we get back, and wait to clean out your binder until then. Happy Holidays.

Monday, 12/17/12

Composition
If you need to turn anything in or fix anything up, TUESDAY is the last day to do so.
Bring the following to the final:
-VPP Crossword Review (both sides!)
-Final review sheet #1 and sheet #2
-pens
-pencils
-paper
-"The Tale-Tell Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
-any extra bathroom passes you have

English H I

If you need to turn anything in or fix anything up, TUESDAY is the last day to do so.
Bring the following to the final:
-any  notes, copies, stories, etc you'd like to use
-the final exam sheet
-VPP Crossword Review (both sides!)
-pens
-paper
-any extra bathroom passes you have

English H II

If you need to turn anything in or fix anything up, TUESDAY is the last day to do so.
Bring the following to the final:
-pens
-paper
-a one-sided note sheet of handwritten notes that you'd like to use
-the final exam sheet
-any extra bathroom passes you have

Friday, 12/14/12

Composition
1. Complete Final Review 1 and Final Review 2 - due on the day of the final.
2. Study your vocabulary words! Lessons 1-9.

English H I
1. Prepare for your Final Exam.
2. Finish putting together your literary device note packet.

English H II
1. Fill out the Aeneid sheet (due Monday).
2. Take your Utopia High School brainstorm and write it up in paragraph form. You don't need to make a poster or do any of the other complicated stuff on the project sheet -- we ran out of time for that stuff. Turn it in some time next week.
3. Allegory of the Cave Skits will be performed on Monday!

Wednesday, 12/12/12 (!)

Composition
1. Finish reading "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes in your Reader, and finish the part 1 and part 2 questions.

English H I
1. Finish your "A Time I Took The Road Not Taken..." reflection on your notes.
2. Finish the Irony Essay. Due on Friday.
3. "The Scarlet Ibis" - read and answer 7 of the questions from the sides of the pages in the Interactive Reader book.

English H II
1. Utopia High School project - work on it.
3. Finish reading the next Republic selection on The Forms and Allegory of the Cave and the comic passed out in class.

Monday, 12/10/12

Composition
1. Get the LMU FIELD TRIP PERMISSION SLIP SIGNED if you haven't turned it in already!! Return before school tomorrow to Mr. Power.
2. Work on your Characterization Narrative Standards Task. Due on Tues/Weds.
3. Read Flowers for Algernon and answer the part 1 questions, unless you are in first period and you need to complete the part 2 questions. 

English H I
1. Get the LMU FIELD TRIP PERMISSION SLIP SIGNED if you haven't turned it in already!! Return before school tomorrow to Mr. Power.
2. Work on the Irony Essay -- complete the CMs on your organizer packet. Due on Friday.
3. "The Scarlet Ibis" - read and answer 7 of the questions from the sides of the pages in the Interactive Reader book (do the first half of this assignment).

English H II
1. Keep brainstorming for your Utopia High School project.
3. Finish reading and annotating the next Republic selection on The State.

3. Finish your Republic justice essay, due Wednesday. 

Click here for the Useful English Words sheet with all those helpful essay words we discussed in class.

Friday, 12/7/12

Composition
1. Get the LMU FIELD TRIP PERMISSION SLIP SIGNED!! Return on MONDAY.
2. Work on your Characterization Narrative Standards Task. Due on Tues/Weds.
3. First period read Flowers for Algernon part 2 and answer the part 2 questions. Here are the part 1 questions. Fourth and Fifth period need to have their narrator/pov/perspective notes finished and the Girl or Dog 1st person story written.

English H I
1. Get the LMU FIELD TRIP PERMISSION SLIP SIGNED!! Return on MONDAY.
2. Work on the Irony Essay -- complete the CMs on your organizer packet. We'll finish writing everything into paragraphs on Monday.

English H II
1. Write the introduction for your Republic Justice Essay. The prompt is officially as follows:
Would you rather live the rest of your life as a wholly unjust person who is seen as totally just, or a wholly just person who is seen as totally unjust? In giving your answer, explain how arguments from Plato's Republic form your answer.
2. Keep brainstorming for your Utopia High School project.
3. Read and annotate the next Republic selection on The State, pages 30-33.

Tuesday-Wednesday, 12/04-05/12

Composition
1. Characterization narrative rough draft.
2. VPP9 exercise II and study! Be ready for the test.

English H I
1. VPP9 stuff.
2. Write a paragraph explaining the themes of the two ironic stories we read in class - "Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry and "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant. Use at least two CDs in your answer, and use correct MLA format. Use the standard 8-sentence paragraph (like the body paragraph of an essay).

English H II
1. VPP9 - exercises II-V.
2. Write a personal response keeping what we've read in The Republic in mind:
Which, of the examples presented by Polemarchus in book II of The Republic, would you choose for yourself for the rest of your life: To be the wholly unjust person who is seen as totally just by everyone else, or the wholly just person who is seen as totally unjust by everyone else?
Assume that, either way, you will go to heaven when you die. Also keep in mind that by "everyone else," that includes significant others, parents, family, and friends.

Monday, 12/03/12

Composition
1. Characterization chart sheet (back side of character sketch sheet) - bring tomorrow so we can work on it!

English H I
1. Irony article notes.
2. Bring your new typed verse for Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic" -- the verse should be at least five lines and must be ironic (check your notes for the definition of ironic). You can earn extra points if it rhymes. If you want to see the "Ironic" song again, you can read the lyrics by clicking here.

English H II
1. Read the second selection from The Republic on The Just and Unjust Man and annotate as you read. Be ready to have a Socratic Seminar tomorrow.