Review the following audiobook file of "The Yellow Wallpaper"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYIBJ9YXDJk

To Kill A Mockingbird: We have all read up to Chapter 15. Continue reading 2 Chapters per day. There may be pop quizzes during any class. So make sure to not fall behind of the reading schedule.

Two class days to do the corrections for the reading responses 1 and 2. Therefore they are due on Monday.

Homework Assignment:

Reading Comprehension: "Legal Alien" by Pat Mora 

Due: Thursday, April 27

Answer the following questions. Typed or legible handwritten responses are both acceptable.


1.       What is the subject of the text?
2.       Describe the character(s) in the text.
3.       What is the setting?
4.       Write the definitions of the hyphenated words.
5.       What do you see as the conflict in the text?
6.       How do you think the title is a metaphor?


Next Reading.... "The Legend" by Garret Hongo

Creative Writing Assignment - You Are Boo Radley
Due: Monday, April 24

You have now been exposed to the Radley family and some of their background story. You have become familiar with the exploits of the children around the Radley house.

Imagine that you are Boo Radley at the end of Chapter 8. Write a diary entry in his voice of what is happening from Boo’s point of view. Be sure to mention specific meetings between you (Boo) and Scout, Jem, and Dill. You will need to make inferences about Boo’s way of expressing himself. Keep in mind his background.

Finish watching "The Joy Luck Club" and turn in the Post-Viewing  Homework by April 28,2017.

You can find the movie at:  https://gomovies.to/

If you weren't able to find "Death of a Salesman" here is the link:

Death of a Salesman

Link to the Great Depression

Audiovisual link to More about the Great Depression

Link to Audio of Virginia Convention speech by Patrick Henry
https://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/giveme.cfm

Watch these two short clips to get a better understanding of the context in which MLK Jr. wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0lD37bq8YI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCxE6i_SzoQ

Homework reminder: The Crucible Worksheets for ACT III due Monday

Quiz: The Crucible Act III on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9TH

Homework:

DUE MONDAY: Finish Reading "What is an American" by Crevecoeur (pg. 289) and choose 20 unfamiliar words and write sentences using them.

DUE THURSDAY: Finish making 2nd round of edits to your comparison paper.


Extra Credit: Read "The Dark Side of Crevecoeur's Letters'..." Write a summary AND explain how it helped you to better understand Crevecoeur's "What is an American"

Reading Assignment

Finish reading What is an American? by Michel Guillaume Jean d'Crevecoeur (pg. 69-71) by Thursday 12/1

Study Guide for Midterm #2

1. Review The Crucible focus on Act I, II and the first half of Act III

2. Research your selected historical event that relates to the events in The Crucible (choose from the list on the handout that I gave you in class last week).

3. Make a detailed outline or rough draft of  a compare and contrast essay for #2 above.

4. Find and make notes of examples of Fear, Risk, Compromise, and Bravery from The Crucible

5. Make an outline or rough draft of an argument that Fear, Risk, Compromise, and Bravery are themes in The Crucible. Think about these themes from a social and political point of view.

There will be a Quiz Friday, Nov. 4 on Act I of the Crucible

Outline for essays due Thursday, Nov 10

There will be a Quiz tomorrow (Friday) on the Prologue of Act I The Crucible.


HINT:  When you're re-reading take note of the setting, characters, descriptions, and the Author's opinion of the characters and events (remember he wrote the play over a hundred years after the actual events occurred) and the themes "Group vs Individual" and "Freedom vs. Order"

Quiz Monday

There will be a Quiz on Monday covering words #21-40 from your vocabulary list for Act I of The Crucible.

Know the definitions and how to use them appropriately and aptly in a sentence.

Watch the following history.com video about the historical background of the Salem Witch Trials.

There will be some questions from the video on the quiz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdX1vK03hRw

Quiz on Thursday

There will be a Quiz on Thursday covering the first 20 words from your vocabulary list for Act I of The Crucible.

Know the definitions and how to use them appropriately and aptly in a sentence.

Watch the following history.com video about the historical background of the Salem Witch Trials.

There will be some questions from the video on the quiz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdX1vK03hRw

Homework Due Monday

Bring printout (paper copy) of your homework to class or email before Monday.


What to do :

1) Take notes on the Crucible (pg. 166-170). Demonstrate your reading comprehension. It is often helpful to think of a story as episodic, or not just being one big story but having related parts or episodes.

Some helpful questions to consider when you are taking notes.

Setting:        Where did the episode happen?
                    When did the episode happen?
Characters:  Who was the episode about?                  
                    Who were the people in the episode?                     
                    Who was the most important person in the episode?
Problem:      Did the people have a problem?                  
                    What was the big problem that episode was about?
Action:        What did the people do to solve the problem?                     
                    What were the important things that happened in the episode?
Resolution:  How did the people solve the problem?                     
                    How did the episode end?
Theme:       What lesson could we learn from the episode?
                   What tied the episode together?
                   Was there an overarching message?



                      

2) Create a personal vocabulary list and write definitions for them. Attach the vocabulary list  as a separate section to the end of your  notes.

Helpful Notes on the Midterm

Be able to identify and explain examples of the following from our readings:

Figurative language (non-literal meanings) for: metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and metonymy

Themes - a subject, topic, or "takeaway"

Motifs - a distinctive or repeated idea

Symbols - an object representing something else; perhaps something deeper and more important or a material object representing something immaterial

Make your own associations/connections between texts

Make sure to review unfamiliar words from the texts we have read

Good Luck!