ENGLISH 11 HOMEWORK

Welcome to English 11!

DUE Sept. 9
  • Sign up for English 11 NEWS FLASH
  • Read blue department policy sheet and get signed
  • Read 1-37 in Of Mice and Men
  • Update your reading packets and complete vocabulary
DUE Sept. 13
  • Read 38-65 in Of Mice and Men
  • Update your reading packets and complete the next chunk of vocabulary
DUE Sept. 15
  • Finish Of Mice and Men
  • Complete your reading packets and complete the next chunk of vocabulary
QUIZ Sept. 19
  • Review book, notes, vocabulary.  This will include multiple choice, short answer and essay.
DUE Sept. 21
  • Read "A Dream Deferred" and connect to Of Mice and Men.  (Handout is in ENGLISH 11 HANDOUTS)
DUE Sept. 23
  • Typed Life List and paragraph due next class.  CRAFT this paragraph.
DUE Sept. 27
  • Respond to the handout given in class (Who is Joe McCarthy/ Edward R. Murrow?)
DUE Oct. 3
  • Respond to the handout given in class (Go to www.progressive.org/ 3 paragraphs)
  • DIRECTIONS:  Visit www.progressive.org/mccarthy and read several accounts of alleged civil liberties infringements.  Find one that particularly strikes you and to which you can find an alternative account of the SAME incident.  Cite and summarize both in separate paragraphs.  Come to a conclusion.   Is history repeating itself?  You be the judge.  
  •  LENGTH:  1 page, single spaced, including citations.

  • Pick up Crucible packet and update characters based on in-class reading
DUE Oct. 5
  • Finish reading Act I of The Crucible.
  • Update packets with character notes.
  • Master 1st chunk of 10 words.
DUE Oct. 7
  • Read Act II of The Crucible
  • Update packets with character notes.
  • Master 2nd chunk of 10 words.
Crucible Act 1-2 Quiz with vocabulary October 14.


DUE Oct. 24
  • Master 3rd chunk of 10 words
  • Complete your assigned paragraph from the packet.  If you can save this to a jump drive it will streamline our activity/ presentation.
DUE Oct. 26 (CRUCIBLE FINAL w/ in-class writing)
  • Study
  • Master the last of the vocabulary
DUE Oct. 28
  • Read and reflect on the handout received in class today (Tuesday's with Morrie aphorisms).
  • Choose the aphorism that resonates with you the most--the one that you know in your heart to be true.
  • Compose a paragraph that identifies the aphorism, puts it in other word, identifies your position, and supports your position using your own, specific observations.
  • 1 solid page.
*Homework through November 14th is on the Tuesday's with Morrie Reading Calendar (in handouts).

TUESDAY'S WITH MORRIE 
FINAL RESPONSE

ATTENTION:

I was very pleased with how you all used class time to write today (Wednesday).  While I feel like most of you were far enough along to get it "done" for Friday, I'm not feeling like it will be "finished" (as in a finished/ polished example of your finest work).  Therefore, I am giving you an additional work period Friday and have booked the library so that this can be typed/ finished/ polished.   This project will be due, typed Tuesday, November 22.

If you have a jump drive, bring it
If you don't have one and can swing it, get one
If you can bring your rough draft on your jump drive, do it
If you don't have Microsoft Word at home, save as an .rtf (rich text document...this format "translates" between programs)

DUE Nov. 29
  • Introduction and Body paragraph to "lens essay
  • Lens: "Death is best faced with a clean conscience" 
DUE Dec. 1
  • Read each of the assigned Emily Dickinson poems 3 times (seriously...they're not long, and they're dense).
  • Neatly compose 2 questions for each poem

DUE Dec. 5
  • Be prepared to orally present your assigned poem in class.
DUE Dec. 7
  • "If you were coming in the Fall" and "Because I could not Stop for Death" need to present
  • Study for QUIZ (this will cover all assigned poems presented in class and the biographical background)
  • QUIZ is still on!
DUE Dec. 15
  • Emily Dickinson paper is due, typed with MLA
DUE Dec. 23

  • Study Latin Roots in packet for Latin Roots quiz
  • Finished Roots Project
DEATH OF A SALESMAN

DUE Jan. 6
  • Master vocabulary listed under Willy and Linda in packet.
  • Read poem in packet.
  • Answer in a concise paragraph how you think success should be measured.
DUE Jan. 12
  • Finish Reading Act I
  • Complete vocabulary in the packet
DUE Jan. 17

  • Finish Reading DOAS
DUE Jan. 19
  • In a well developed paragraph with a topic sentence and bottom of a bun...use a literary term (underline it) to explain how the following three things help to develop characters in this play—saccharine, vitamins and the “refrigerator with the biggest ad.”


*REMINDER

English 11 Midterm is Jan 24, 8:00 AM in the English Hallway