Junior and Senior Assignments for the Week of November 2-5, 2015

Seniors

Monday- Students will add to their 3000 word short story.  Students will analyze the picture of Major League Baseball Brawl and answer coinciding questions, which reflect cause and effect structure.

Tuesday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure.  Then students will work on their 3,000 word short story for the remainder of the class.

Wednesday- Students will add to their 3000 word short story.  Students will read Norman Cousins, Who Killed Benny Paret? And answer both Purpose and Audience Questions as well as Style and Structure Questions.

Thursday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure. Students will compare the two sculptures “The Kiss” and “Love” and answer questions about them reinforcing text structure. 

Juniors

Monday- Students will add to their 3000 word short story. Students will watch the various satire projects in class and then work on their short story.

Tuesday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure. Students will then work on their 3,000 word short story in class.

Wednesday- Students will add to their 3000 word short story.  Students will then watch a short YouTube video regarding irony and take notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaTOR5bEq00

Students will then write two examples for each type of irony discussed.

Thursday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure. Students will read the short story Harrison Bergeron; concomitantly, taking notes on the various types of irony within the plot.   

Junior and Senior Assignments for the week of October 26-29, 2015

Seniors

Monday- Students will add to their 3000 word short story.  Students will then take notes on a YouTube presentation regarding organizational structures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ukrz4MBmpY&index=5&list=PLV_eW9tSxewfmUaN4qIyPLIToP6S7m-Aj. Students will then view the painting of Café Fortune Teller by Mary Hoover Aiken and write a description of the painting starting with the image of the artist and moving near to far or far to near. Students will also answer two comprehension questions that coincide with the portrait. 

Tuesday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure.  Students will read Ann Hodgman’s essay, No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch” and answer the style and structure questions that coincide.

Wednesday- Students will add to their 3000 word short story. Students will analyze the picture of Major League Baseball Brawl and answer coinciding questions, which reflect cause and effect structure. 

Thursday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure. Students will read Norman Cousins, Who Killed Benny Paret? And answer both Purpose and Audience Questions as well as Style and Structure Questions.

Juniors

Monday- Students will add to their 3000 word short story. Students will watch a video and take brief notes on satire. Students will then write their own 200 word satire and share with their classmates. 

Tuesday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure. Students will be assigned a project entitled, “Making My Own Satire,” and begin planning and creating such project.

Wednesday- Students will add to their 3000 word short story.  Students will continue working on their Satire Project.

Thursday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure. Satire Projects will be presented. Students will then watch a short YouTube video regarding irony and take notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaTOR5bEq00

Students will then write two examples for each type of irony discussed.

Junior and Senior Assignments for the Week of October 5-7, 2015

Seniors

Monday- Students will respond to the journal prompt by writing a minimum of 200 words.  Students will write new second quarter objectives and essential questions.  Students will use technology to answer questions in cooperative groups.

Tuesday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure.  The teacher will briefly review the rhetorical and literary features of theme, mood, tone, figurative language, irony, and allusion @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIhFJWVnsNw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaTOR5bEq00 . The students will take notes accordingly. Then students will annotate, “Letter to John Bright” for theme, mood, tone, figurative language, irony, and allusion, and rhetoric. Students will then answer questions that correspond with the text with a minimum of three sentences and the incorporation of in-text citations.

Wednesday- Students will respond to the journal prompt by writing a minimum of 200 words. The students will annotate Jefferson Davis “African Church Speech” for theme, mood, tone, figurative language, irony, and allusion, and rhetoric. Students will then answer questions that correspond with the text with a minimum of three sentences and the incorporation of in-text citations.

Thursday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure. Students will take a formative assessment requiring the analysis of US seminal text for theme, purpose, rhetoric, and literary elements.

Juniors

Monday- Students will respond to the journal prompt by writing a minimum of 200 words.  Students will write new second quarter objectives and essential questions.  Students will use technology to answer questions in cooperative groups.

Tuesday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure. The teacher will play a short video explain determining word meanings at Figuring Out What A Word Means by Shmoop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccr28gxk35Y. Students will annotate Federalist Papers No. 10 for textual evidence that will help you explain Madison’s use of the word “Faction.” Students must find at least three separate pieces of textual evidence to support their claim/thesis.

Wednesday- Students will respond to the journal prompt by writing a minimum of 200 words.  Students will utilize the annotation from the previous day to construct a five paragraph essay noting the definition of the word “Faction” in the Federalist Papers No. 10, and incorporating textual evidence to support their claim.

Thursday- Students will be given 10-15 minutes silent reading time for pleasure.  Students will take a formative assessment in which they determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term, or terms, over the course of a text.