Archived Homework

Assignments for January 2018

Week 16

Mon

01/01

New Year's Day

No Students

Tues

01/02

Grammar DOL

Vocab 8a Deno/Conno

Writer's Workshop: The Scarlet Letter Essay Review for top priorities of the essay: Answer, Argue, Support

Answer: In full and with a focus

Argue: Main idea and elements of comp

Support: Paraphrasing specific scenes, mean and matter with ONE rhetorical element

Original Ideas

• Buy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain for book check Monday 1/08.

• Using your last in-class essay, you will rewrite the main elements of composition to ensure you are responsive to main priorities of the essay.  Due Friday, 1/05.  So

  • Write on the handout from class.

  • Skip lines between body paragraphs

  • Attach original essay on back.

Elements to rewrite:

Intro

  -Uni-T

  -Linking Statement

  -Thesis

 

BP1

  -Topic sentence with main idea and ONE topic

  - Lead-in with main idea

  -Specific reference to text

  -Mean - analysis of the scene/main idea

  -Matter - analysis of your point as it relates to

   novel, main idea.  Invoke rhetoric (ONE) and

   explain

 

BP2

Same as above but with a transition before the Topic sentence

 

Conclusion

  -Specific to General

  -Revisited Uni-T or hook convention

  -Revisited/reimagined claim

Weds

01/03

Grammar DOL

Practice CAASP test hardcopy

• Buy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain for book check Monday 1/08.

• Rewritten elements of the essay due Friday 1/05

Thurs

01/04

Grammar DOL

Review Practice CAASP test.  Take notes, identify priorities, develop strategies.

• Buy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain for book check Monday 1/08.

• Study for Vocab 8a Quiz (see Quizlet)

• Make sure you bring your iPad for tomorrow's Fall Benchmark Assessment on Illuminate.

• Rewritten elements of the essay due Friday 1/05

Fri

01/05

Grammar DOL

Vocabulary 8a Quiz

Mock CAASP test on Illuminate

• Buy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain for book check Monday 1/08.

Rewritten elements of the essay.  Please make sure this is on the form provided to you in class.

Week 17

Mon

01/08

Minimum Day 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain book check

Grammar DOL

Vocab 9a Deno/Conno

Review Illuminate Benchmark Results

Review Scarlet Letter Mult Choice

Ken Burns: American Lives - Mark Twain

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in HW Packet

  • Chapters 1-24 by  1/17

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/24

  • Chapters 37-43 by 1/29

• Before you read each chapter, preview the questions in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF.

• Immediately after each reading session, complete these questions following the protocols outlined in the rubric on the first page of the homework packet.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain book che

Tues

01/09

Grammar DOL 

Ken Burns: American Lives - Mark Twain

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in HW Packet

  • Chapters 1-24 by  1/17

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/24

  • Chapters 37-43 by 1/29

• Before you read each chapter, preview the questions in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF.

• Immediately after each reading session, complete these questions following the protocols outlined in the rubric on the first page of the homework packet.

Weds

01/10

Grammar DOL 

Ken Burns: American Lives - Mark Twain

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in HW Packet

  • Chapters 1-24 by  1/17

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/24

  • Chapters 37-43 by 1/29

• Before you read each chapter, preview the questions in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF.

• Immediately after each reading session, complete these questions following the protocols outlined in the rubric on the first page of the homework packet.

Thurs

01/11

Grammar DOL 

Ken Burns: American Lives - Mark Twain 

• Study for Vocab 9a Quiz (see Quizlet)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in HW Packet

  • Chapters 1-24 by  1/17

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/24

  • Chapters 37-43 by 1/29

• Before you read each chapter, preview the questions in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF.

• Immediately after each reading session, complete these questions following the protocols outlined in the rubric on the first page of the homework packet.

Fri

01/12

Grammar DOL 

Vocab 9a Quiz

The relevance of biography: After watching the documentary on Mark Twain, note patterns, perspective, bias, motifs, and symbols that emerge in Twain's life.  Apply this understanding to his use of the troubling word.

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in HW Packet

  • Chapters 1-24 by  1/17

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/24

  • Chapters 37-43 by 1/29

• Before you read each chapter, preview the questions in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF.

• Immediately after each reading session, complete these questions following the protocols outlined in the rubric on the first page of the homework packet.

• Spring Registration on Wednesday - bring questions.

Week 18

Mon

01/15

Martin Luther King Day

No Students

• Spring Registration on Wednesday - bring questions.

Tues

01/16

Vocab 10a Deno/Conno

Continue to set biographical background: Ken Burn's American Lives: Mark Twain

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in HW Packet

  • Chapters 1-24 by  1/17

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/24

  • Chapters 37-43 by 1/29

• Before you read each chapter, preview the questions in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF.

• Immediately after each reading session, complete these questions following the protocols outlined in the rubric on the first page of the homework packet.

• Spring Registration TOMORROW - bring questions.

Weds

01/17

Spring Registration

The Word: Keith Olberman and Melissa Harris Perry on Censorship and the challenges of art.

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in HW Packet

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/24

  • Chapters 37-43 by 1/29

• Before you read each chapter, preview the questions in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF.

• Immediately after each reading session, complete these questions following the protocols outlined in the rubric on the first page of the homework packet.

Chapters 1-24

Thurs

01/18

Historical context: Realism

• Study for Vocab 10a Quiz (see Quizlet)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in HW Packet

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/24

  • Chapters 37-43 by 1/29

• Before you read each chapter, preview the questions in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF.

• Immediately after each reading session, complete these questions following the protocols outlined in the rubric on the first page of the homework packet.

Fri

01/19

Vocab 10a Quiz

Romanticism: preceding period.

Introduce Transcendentalism ppt

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet)

• Before you read each chapter, preview the questions in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF.

• Immediately after each reading session, complete these questions following the protocols outlined in the rubric on the first page of the homework packet.

• Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

Week 19

Mon

01/22

Regular Schedule

More context

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet)

• Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

Tues

01/23

Finals Schedule

0 Period

And still more context (Transcendentalism is trippy)

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet)

• Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

Weds

01/24

Finals Schedule

Period 1: 7:45-9:45

Snack 9:45-9:58

Period 2 10:05-12:05

• Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

Chapters 25-36

Thurs

01/25

Finals Schedule

Period 3: 7:45-9:45

Snack 9:45-9:58

Period 4 10:05-12:05

• Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

Fri

01/26

Finals Schedule

Period 5: 7:45-9:45

Snack 9:45-9:58

Period 6 10:05-12:05

• Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

Week 1 (20)

Mon

01/29

Minimum Day 

Vocabulary 1b Deno/Conno

Read the philosophical metaphor "I Become a Transparent Eyeball" (textbook pg. 225)

•  Reader's Response: From "I Become a Transparent Eyeball" (textbook pg. 225).  What is Transcendental about the work.  Pick one line and align to One of the four basic premises of Transcendentalism.  Remember to include all elements of the Reader's Response (see past efforts for guidance).  Due Wednesday 1/31

• Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

• Don't forget your iPad tomorrow.  We will be taking another Illuminate practice test for CAASP testing.

Tues

01/30

Ms. G out for full day meeting

Illuminate practice test for CAASP

• Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

Weds

01/31

Review Pillars of Rhetoric (Analysis Packet, page 8)

Transcendentalism in the concrete world:

"Man Thinking"

• Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

Thurs

02/01

Read "Man Thinking" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (textbook page 227)

Identify considerations for the rhetorical form: speech.  Identify audience, purpose, persuasion.

• Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)

• Reader's Response: "Man Thinking" (textbook page 227).  Consider the central metaphor of the work.  Select one rhetorical element that supports this metaphor.  Remember to include all elements of the Reader's Response (see past efforts for guidance).  Due Monday 2/05.   Let's reschedule for next week.

• Study for Vocabulary 1b (See Quizlet)

Fri

02/02

"Why I Left the Woods" (textbook pg. 232) 

• Answer questions in the Transcendentalism Homework Packet as we read. (Word) or (PDF)