Welcome to Mainland!
September 2008
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1: Labor Day No School |
2 No School |
3 No School |
4 Introduction
to English I Honors B HW: Summer Reading Packet collected tomorrow; Short Story test tomorrow; ICB or WIWPR test
on Monday bring a #2 pencil both days |
5 Short Story
summer reading test HW: ICB or WIWPR
test on Monday (review the novel); bring a #2 pencil |
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8 In Cold Blood or When I Was Puerto Rican summer reading
test HW: Sign up for turnitin.com; send a document
that says "hi." Mod 2 Class Id: 2396118 Mod 6 Class Id: 2396121 Mod 8 Class Id: 2396124 |
9 MOD 8: IN WRITING LAB Mods 2 and 6: Grammar: pages 80 – 83
HW Mods 2 & 6: finish CW; TEST MONDAY |
10 MOD 6: IN WRITING LAB Mods 2 and 8: Grammar: pages 84 – 87
HW Mods 2 & 8: finish CW; TEST MONDAY |
11 Grammar: pages 88 – 94
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12 MOD 2 IN WRITING LAB Mods 6 and 8: Complete Practice Test HW: complete practice
test; check your answers here: answer key TEST MONDAY |
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15 TEST: Run-ons and Fragments HW: read “Rice and Rose Bowl Blues” page 5 |
16 Really Quick Review: “Rice and Rose Bowl
Blues” Review: Theme page 6 “Girls Can We Educate We Dads?”
page 7 Terminology Covered: alliteration, vernacular, 1st
person speaker (poet vs. speaker/ persona) HW: Write your own poem dealing with gender roles and/or stereotypes; you
poem should contain one example of alliteration and some dialog. |
17 “Old Age Sticks” page 8 Begin notes on sonnets Terminology: sonnet,
Shakespearean Sonnet, couplet, rhyme scheme |
18 “I Think I Should Have” page 9 “Delight in Disorder” page 10 Terminology: simile,
repetition, hyperbole, Petrarchian (Italian) Sonnet HW: Read and annotate “Meet Virginia”
page 10 |
19 Open-Ended Question page 11 HW: finish open-ended question, if nec. If you forget how to properly document poetry, click HERE. |
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22 “Amoretti LXXV” page 12 Sonnet 18” (finish for HW, if nec) page 13 Terminology: personification,
iambic pentameter, metaphor, heroic couplet, blank verse HW: finish CW, if nec. |
23 “Sonnet 130” page 15 Open-ended question (finish for
HW, if nec.) page 14 HW: finish open-ended question, if nec. (page 14) If you forget how to properly document poetry, click HERE. |
24 Find examples for literary
devices page 18 Assign final project, due
Monday in class (written portion also due on turnitin.com) pages 16 – 17 HW: final project, due Monday in class (written portion also due on
turnitin.com) pages 16 – 17 If you forget how to properly document poetry, click HERE. |
25 Intro: What Is Prose, Fiction
vs. Non-Fiction, and The Essay page 20 Literary Term Review: Plot,
Internal vs. External Conflict page Literary Term Review:
Characterization – excerpt “ The Necklace” pages 22 – 26 Literary Term Review: Direct
vs. Indirect Characterization pages 26 – 27 HW: final project, due Monday in class (written portion also due on
turnitin.com) pages 16 – 17 If you forget how to properly document poetry, click HERE. |
26 Literary Term Review: Setting
page 28 Literary Term: Imagery –
excerpt “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant” pages 28 – 29 Vocabulary for “Marigolds”
pages 30 - 32 HW: final project, due Monday in class (written portion also due on
turnitin.com) pages 16 – 17 If you forget how to properly document poetry, click HERE. |
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29 Actively Read “Marigolds” pages
33 – 39 and answer questions pages 39 - 41 HW: finish any incomplete classwork;
“Marigolds” quiz (including vocabulary) on Wednesday; vocab review |
30 No School |
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