English 10 (Period 6) Assignments
- Instructor
- Katie Frank
- Term
- Fall 2014
- Department
- English Language Arts
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- Finish neatly handwriting or typing (in MLA format) your literary analysis essay. Please staple your blue essay outline, draft #1, and self-assessed rubric to your revised final. This is worth 50 points!!!!
- During finals week you will take the quarter 4 Benchmark Test on Tuesday and will complete an in-class mini-project (see doc below) during the final period on Wednesday or Thursday.
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- Finish writing your introduction paragraph.
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- Complete the literary analysis essay outline to prepare for the in-class essay writing on Monday.
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- We have finished the novel! If you were behind on your reading or dialectical journals use the break to catch up. When we return you'll be writing a synthesis essay comparing the novel to another text.
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- If you were absent please read Chapter 5 in OMM pages 84-98. There will be a Chapters 4-5 quiz on Tuesday.
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Here is a direct link to the survey:http://www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2014/
Survey Takers need to:
- Select which survey to take (student)
- Enter the zip code for their school (90260)
- Select that school from the list (Lawndale HS)
- And enter the Secret Word: CVUHSD2014.
The survey is about 30 questions and takes about 15-20 minutes to complete.
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- Finish reading through chapter 2 page 37 of Of Mice and Men. Also complete the three quotes and commentary in your dialectical journal. You should have quotes for both chapters 1 and 2 (six quotes total) when we return from break.
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- Finishing reading and annotating the three-pages of the "Asch Experiment" article. Do ten annotations, identify the main idea about conformity, and summarize how the experiment worked and its results.
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- If you were absent we did a full PAPA square on "My First Conk" and watched a PBS documentary called Frontline: A Class Divided. You can watch the film on the link below (it's five chapters long and plays straight through) and answer the questions in the attached document.
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- If you were absent from class read and annotate "My First Conk" by Malcolm X in the article packet and do a complete PAPA square.
- Your cliques map is due on Monday (20 points).
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- Finish annotating and PAPAing the Dennis Avner article.
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- Complete a PAPA square on an advertisement, commercial, or non-fiction article of your choice.
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- Bring your revised draft (use the revision and editing tool handout!) to the Media Center lab to type tomorrow.
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- Finish outlining your four-paragraph essay for the in-class writing on Wednesday.
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- Finish the short story pages 163-169.
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- If you were absent you need to read and annotate Chapters 11-12 pages 159-163 in "H. Sugar".
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- Finish your annotations through page 129 of Chapter 5.
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- Read the article "How to Read a Book". You will be quizzed on the information (again). If you earned a perfect quiz score today, you are except from the second quiz.
- If you were absent please catch up on the reading of Henry Sugar chapter 2 pages 104-111.
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- If you were absent read the first two chapters of the short story "The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar" through page 111. See the link to a pdf below if you don't have your story packet.
- Read the attached essay "How to Read a Book" below:
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- Complete the Lit Elements worksheet for the short story "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket".
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- We read the short story, "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket" in class. If you were absent please read pages 118-134 in your real or online textbook. For homework you need to complete the character trading card for Tom Benecke.
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- Complete the Literary Elements chart for "The Monkey's Paw". If you lost you handout click below.
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- Finish the plot diagram for the cartoon "The Grasshopper and the Ants". See the link below to watch it again.
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- Finish reading "Nothing Good Gets Away" and complete ten Active Reading Strategy annotations.
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- Have your parent/guardian sign the class policy form and return to Ms. Frank.
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- Complete Nothing to Envy Book Report Packet (class points) to prepare for the tenth grade book quiz.
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- Your letter is due Monday, August 25th.
- Buy a college ruled notebook for class.
- Finish reading/review Nothing to Envy for the grade-level quiz next Wednesday, August 28th.