Archived Homework

Assignments for January 2019

Week 17

Mon

01/07

Vocab 9a Deno/Conno

Final meditation on The Scarlet Letter

• Buy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain for book check Monday 1/14.

Tues

01/08

Vocab 9a Deno/Conno - finish 3, 4 and 5

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 1/14.

Weds

01/09

Spring Registration with the counselors.

• Buy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain for book check Monday 1/14.

• 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, 1/11.  So

  • Write on a separate piece of paper.

  • Skip lines between body paragraphs

  • Attach original essay on back.

Thurs

01/10

Writer's Workshop

-Do/What = main idea and distinct answer/focus area (not everything/one thing)

-Thesis

Intro

• Buy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain for book check Monday 1/14.

• 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 Monday 1/14.  So

  • Write on a separate piece of paper.

  • 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

    -TLQ - with focus on topic

    -Mean - analysis of the scene/topic

    -Matter - analysis of your point as it relates to

     novel, topic.  Invoke rhetoric (ONE) and

     explain

  - concluding sentence: return to topic and main idea

   

  BP2

   -Topic sentence with main idea and ONE topic

    -TLQ - with focus on topic

    -Mean - analysis of the scene/topic

    -Matter - analysis of your point as it relates to

     novel, topic.  Invoke rhetoric (ONE) and

     explain

  - concluding sentence: return to topic and main idea

   

  Conclusion

    -Specific to General

    -Revisited Uni-T or hook convention

    -Revisited/reimagined claim

   

• Study for Vocab 9a Quiz (see Quizlet)

Fri

01/11

Vocab 9a Quiz

Continue Writer's Workshop with The Scarlet Letter essay.

• Buy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain for book check Monday 1/14.
• 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 Monday 1/14.

Week 18

Mon

01/14

Minimum Day 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain book check

Vocab 10a Deno/Conno

Review Scarlet Letter Mult Choice

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

  • Chapters 1-24 by  1/21

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/28

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

• 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.

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet).  See also Porter's Synonym List to help with the 20 or so synonym sets on the final.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain book check

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

Tues

01/15

Set context for the reading

Ken Burns: American Lives - Mark Twain

Take note on patterns, perspective, bias, motifs, and symbols that emerge in Twain's life. 

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

  • Chapters 1-24 by  1/21

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/28

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

• 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.

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet)

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet).  See also Porter's Synonym List to help with the 20 or so synonym sets on the final.

Weds

01/16

Set context for the reading

Ken Burns: American Lives - Mark Twain

Take note on patterns, perspective, bias, motifs, and symbols that emerge in Twain's life.   

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

  • Chapters 1-24 by  1/21

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/28

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

• 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.

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet)

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet).  See also Porter's Synonym List to help with the 20 or so synonym sets on the final.

Thurs

01/17

Set context for the reading

Ken Burns: American Lives - Mark Twain

Take note on patterns, perspective, bias, motifs, and symbols that emerge in Twain's life.   

• Study for Vocab 9a Quiz (see Quizlet)

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

  • Chapters 1-24 by  1/21

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/28

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

• 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.

• Study for Vocab 10a Quiz (see Quizlet)

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet)

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet).  See also Porter's Synonym List to help with the 20 or so synonym sets on the final.

Fri

01/18

Vocab 10a Quiz

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

11 HW October18

Historical context: Realism

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  1/21

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/28

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

• 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.

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet)

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet).  See also Porter's Synonym List to help with the 20 or so synonym sets on the final.

Week 19

Mon

01/21

Martin Luther King Day

No Students

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in Homework Packet.  Word or PDF

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/28

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

Chapters 1-24 by  1/21

Tues

01/22

Finals Schedule

0 Period

And still more context (Transcendentalism is trippy)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in Homework Packet.  Word or PDF

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/28

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

Weds

01/23

Finals Schedule

Period 1: 7:45-9:45

Snack 9:45-9:58

Period 2 10:05-12:05

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in Homework Packet.  Word or PDF

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/28

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

Thurs

01/24

Finals Schedule

Period 3: 7:45-9:45

Snack 9:45-9:58

Period 4 10:05-12:05

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in Homework Packet.  Word or PDF

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/28

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

Fri

01/25

Finals Schedule

Period 5: 7:45-9:45

Snack 9:45-9:58

Period 6 10:05-12:05

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in Homework Packet.  Word or PDF

  • Chapters 25-36 by 1/28

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

Week 1 (20)

Mon

01/28

Pass back finals essay and review:

Audience

Purpose

Composition

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in Homework Packet.  Word or PDF

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

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

• There is no reading packet for this unit.

Tues

01/29

Setting context: Romanticism

• Study for Vocabulary Final (See Quizlet)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in Homework Packet.  Word or PDF

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

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

• There is no reading packet for this unit.

Weds

01/30

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in Homework Packet.  Word or PDF

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

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

• There is no reading packet for this unit.

Chapters 25-36

Thurs

01/31

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in Homework Packet.  Word or PDF

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

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

• There is no reading packet for this unit

Fri

02/01

Review Pillars of Rhetoric (Analysis Packet, page 8)

Transcendentalism in the concrete world:

"A Nonconformist"

"Traveling"

 "Reliance on Property"

"Man Thinking"

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Reading Schedule and answer questions in Homework Packet.  Word or PDF

  • Chapters 37-43 by 2/01

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

• There is no reading packet for this unit

•  Reader's Response: From "I Become a Transparent Eyeball" (textbook pg. 225).  What is Transcendental about the work.  Pick one piece of evidence from the work 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 Monday 2/04.