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April 27, 2009

English 91

English 91


Monday, May 5

1.  Parallel reading presentations.

2.  Check unit 15 voc. unit.

Tuesday, May 6

1.  Unit 15 voc. quiz (# 2 pencil).

2.  Parallel reading presentations.

Wednesday, May 6

1.  R & D TO.

2.  Answer 1-7, p. 1037.

Thursday, May 7

1.  R & D  TO.

2.  Answer 1-1-7, p. 1046

Friday, May 8

1.  T O test.

Monday, May 11

1.  Assignreview voc. unit 13-15; unit due May 14; quiz May 15.

2.  Begin in class essay.

Tuesday-Friday, May 12-15

1.  In class essay.

Monday,Tuesday, May 18,19

1.  Exam review (required, even if you are exempting the exam).

Wednesday, May 20

1.  Exam.


English 121 May 4-14

English 121

 

Monday-Wednesday, May 4-6

  1. Read pp. 1238-1244; pp. 1272-1282; 1164-1170.

 

Thursday, May 7

  1. Quiz on Naipaiel, Desair, and Spark.
  2. Read pp. 1078-1084.

 

Friday, May 8

  1. Read Sillitoe, pp. 1078-1084;

 

Monday, May 11

  1. Read Bowen, pp. 1032-1038.
  2. Quiz on Bowen and Sillitoe.

 

Tuesday, May 12

  1. Test on TIOBE.

 

Wednesday, May 13

  1. Exam review.

 

Thursday, May 14

Final exam.

April 17, 2009

English 121 -April 27-May 1

English 121

 

Monday, April 20

  1. Unit 15 voc. (# 2 pencil).
  2. R & D Doris Lessing; lit. pp. 1116-1122 (lit. bk).

 

Tuesday, April 21

  1. Assign voc. Review unit 13-15; unit due April 30; quiz May 1.
  2. R & D Joseph Conrad;  lit. pp. 1134-1146 (lit. bk).

 

Wednesday, April 22

  1. Discuss frequently misused words.

 

Thursday, April 23

  1. R & D Woolf; lit.  pp. 1158-1163.

 

Friday, April 24

  1. R & D D.H. Lawrence; lit. pp. 1176-1189.

 

Monday, April 27

1.  R & D  Graham Greene; lit. pp. 1190-1194.

 

Tuesday, April 28

  1. TTOTS test (# 2 pencil).
  2.  

Wednesday, April 29

Yearbook Day/Senior Picnic

 

Thursday, April 30

1.  Check voc. Unit 13-15.

2.  R & D  Hughes; lit. pp. 1213-1220.

 

Friday, May 1

  1. Assign The Importance of Being Earnest; due May 12.
  2. R & D Nadine Gordimer; lit. pp. 1250-1254.

 

 

April 13, 2009

English 91 April 13- April 23

English 91

 

Monday, Tuesday, April 13, 14

  1. Finish R & J essay in writing lab.
  2. Assign unit 14 voc; unit due April 20; quiz April 21.

 

Wednesday, April 15

  1. Begin The Odyssey (lit. bk).
  2. Answer 1-7, p. 985.

 

Thursday, Friday, April 16, 17.

  1. R & D The Odyssey (lit. bk).

 

Monday, April 20

  1. Check unit 14 voc.
  2. R & D TO.

 

Tuesday, April 21

  1. Unit 14 voc. Quiz (# 2 pencil).
  2. R & D TO.

 

Wednesday, April 22

  1. Discuss restrictive-non-restrictive elements (grammar bk).

 

Thursday, Friday, April 23 24

  1. Assign unit 15 voc; unit due May 4; quiz May 5.
  2. R & D TO.

 

March 30, 2009

English 121 March 30

English 121

Monday, March 30

  1. Unit 13 voc. quiz.
  2. Begin in class essay; 500 words, in ink, one side of the paper only
  3. Students may choose to do an optional assignment to replace any low quiz or homework grade.  They may attend Writers’ Night at Walton  in the theater at 6:45, listen attentively without talking, texting, or other inappropriate audience behavior, stay the entire performance, and fill out an evaluation of the program; or they may read and explication one of 7 poems by the featured poet and not attend the performance.  The evaluations and explications are due ATBOTP Friday, April 3.

Tuesday, Wednesday, March 31, April 1

  1. In class essay.

Thursday, April 2

  1. Check unit 14 voc.
  2. Essay due ATEOTP.

Friday, April 3

  1. Unit 14 voc. quiz.

Monday, April 13

  1. R & D  Twentieth Century poetry (lit. bk).
  2. Essay corrections due Friday, April 17.

Tuesday, April 14

  1. Assign unit 15 voc; unit due April 17; quiz April 20.
  2. R & D Twentieth Century poetry (lit. bk).

Wednesday, April 15

  1. Grammar (workbook).

Thursday, April 16

  1. Create an original Victorian-Twentieth Century test; 40 questions, in ink or typed, one side of the paper only; due ATBOTP April 17.

Friday, April 17

  1. Check unit 15 voc; quiz Monday.
  2. Test on Victorian and Modern Periods.

March 23, 2009

Eng. 121 March 23

British Literature 121

Monday, March 23, 2009

  1. R & D Browning (lit. bk).

Tuesday, March 24

  1. R & D Hopkins and Housman (lit. bk).

Wednesday, March 25

  1. Check unit 13 voc.
  2. Assign The Turn of the Screw (James). Due April 28.
  3.  R & D Rimbaud (lit. bk).

Thursday, March 26

  1. Unit 13 voc. quiz (# 2 pencil).
  2. Assign unit 14 voc; unit due April 2; quiz April 3.
  3. R & D Modern poetry (lit. bk).

Friday, March 27

1.  Mrs. Dalloway test (# 2 pencil)

March 19, 2009

English 91 Discussion Question

What is the significance of fate in Romeo and Juliet?

March 11, 2009

English 91 (March 16-April 3)

English 91

Monday, March 16

  1. Assign review voc. unit 10-12; unit due March 23; quiz March 24.
  2. R & D R & J (lit.bk 
  3.   Answer online discussion question; due March 23

Tuesday, March 17

  1. Parallel reading choice and signed parent statement due ATBOTP.
  2. R & D R & J (lit.bk)

Wednesday, March 18

  1. Discuss agreement (grammar bk).

Thursday, Friday, March 18, 19

  1. R & D R & J (lit.bk).

Monday, March 23

  1. Review voc. unit 10-12 due ATBOTP.
  2. R & D R & J (lit.bk).

Tuesday, March 24

  1. Review voc. unit 10-12 quiz (# 2 pencil).
  2. R & D R & J (lit. bk).

Wednesday, March 25

  1. Assign voc. unit 13; unit due April1; quiz April2.
  2. R & D R & J (lit. bk).

Thursday, Friday, March 26, 27

  1. R & D R & J (lit.bk).

Monday, March 30

  1. Create a 50 question R & J test (in ink or typed, MLA heading); due ATBOTP April 1.
  2. Begin in class, documented R & J essay.

Tuesday, March 31

  1. R & J test (# 2 pencil).

Wednesday, April 1

  1. Original test due ATBOTP.
  2. Write in class essay.

Thursday, April 2

  1. Check unit 13 voc.
  2. Write in class essay.

Friday, April 3

1.  Essay due ATEOTP.

March 08, 2009

Eng.91 Parallel Reading Project

English 92 Parallel Reading Project

Due on or Before May 1, 2009

Choose a novel, play, or nonfiction work from the following list and ask one of your parents or another adult to read that work with you. You will take an essay test of the work on May 1 and give a presentation of the work on May 4.The lexile scores (reading difficulty) are listed by the works that have scores available.  Your lexile score(reading ability) from eighth grade is listed before your CRT score.  If you attended a Georgia public school last year, I can look up your lexile score if you do not have it.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Haddon);novel; strong language; the narrator is boy with Asperger syndrome, who is a mathematical savant, has a photographic memory, and is extremely observant and objectively reports what the other characters say (profane language) and do.

Our Town(Wilder);  play; won he Pulitzer Prize in 1938; reveals the lives of characters in a small town.

The Lord of the Flies( Golding);lexile 770; allegorical novel of boys stranded on an island; violent plot.

Cyrano de Bergerac ( Rostand);  play; based on a historical Frenchman with a large nose.

The Color of Water ( McBride); Lexile 1240;  nonfiction; a Black man’s story of his white mother.

The Scarlet Pimpernel( Orczy); adventure novel set during the French Revolution; precursor of spy fiction and superhero genre.

Never Cry Wolf (Mowat); 1330 lexile; nonfiction (but later discovered to be more fiction than research); humorous story of a man who researches wolves in Canada.

Lost Horizon ( Hilton); 1060 lexile; fantasy novel about a group of travelers who find a utopian society in the Himalayan Mountains.

Jane Eyre (Bronte); 840 lexile; classic romance novel; on e of the most famous British novels of all time.

A Separate Peace (Knowles); 1110 lexile; a novel about the friendship of two boys in a boarding school during World War II.

Ella Minnow Pea (Dunn); a satirical epistolary novel about censorship and totalitarianism.

You will complete the following assignments on the work before May 1:

1.  Do bookcards.  You may write these on index cards or a sheet of paper ( in ink or typed) and turn these in up until May 1.  You may not turn in the bookcards after May 1. Book cards include title, author's name and background, genre, setting, characters, themes, explanation unique literary devices (satire, epistle, etc), plot summary, annotated bibliography of at least three sources, significant quote, and personal reaction.

2.  Create a 50 item test, with answer key on the work.  You must include matching, multiple choice, and true-false questions, but you may have other sections as well. This must be turned in by May 1.

3.  You must create an evaluation form of at least 20 questions on the work to be filled out by the adult who read the novel and turn this form in by May 1.

4.  You must give a two to four minute presentation on your work, with at least one visual. You will present May 4.

5.  You will take an essay test on your novel May 1.

6.  You will write an in-class essay on this work May 7 and 8.

March 02, 2009

March 2

English 121

Monday, March 2

1.Correct unit 12 voc.

2.  Return essays; corrections due March 6.

3.  R & D Byron and Shelley (lit. bk).

Tuesday, March 3

1.  Unit 12 voc. quiz (# 2).

2.  R & D Shelley and Keats(lit.bk).

Wednesday, March 4

1.  Read lit. pp. 778-786.  Write 5 quiz questions for each selections (10 questions total). (lit. bk).

2.  Read MD.

Thursday, March 5

1.  Create a 50 question test of the 17th and 18th Centuries and Romantic Periods test, including literary period characteristics, authors, works, quotes, and literary terms; due March 9.

Friday, March 6

1.  Read lit. pp. 768-770; answer 1-6, p. 770 (lit. bk).

2.  Essay corrections die ATBOTP.

Monday, March 9

1.  Assignreview voc. unit 10-12; unit due March 16; quiz March 17.

2.  Assign in-class essay.

3.  Original test due ATBOTP.

Tuesday, March 10

1.  Test ( # 2 pencil).

2.  In-class essay.

Wednesday, March 11

1.  Grammar (grammar wkbk).

Thursday, March 12

1.  In-class essay.

Friday, March 13

1.  In-class essay.

Monday, March 16

1.  Check voc. unit 10-12.

2.  Begin Victorian Period (lit. bk).

Tuesday, March 17

1.  R & D Victorian Period (lit. bk).

2.  Unit 10-12 voc. quiz (# 2 pencil).

Wednesday, March 18

1.  Grammar (wkbk).

Thursday, March 19

1.  R & D Victorian Period.

Friday, March 20

1.  Assign unit 13 voc; unit due March 25; quiz March 26

2.  R & D Victorians (lit. bk).

3.  Mrs. Dalloway test March 27.