Engish 3 (Period per 5) Assignments

Final exam covering Asher Lev, Grammar: identifying clauses and phrases and editing mistakes, vocabulary (on quizlet), examples of figurative language: metaphor, simile, hyperbole, irony, allusion, personification, catalog
Understudies: bring 3 questions for each attorney on separate papers and costume details; actors: bring an appropriate dark-colored costume and know your character; attorneys: bring a written opening and closing statement and decide which one of you is questioning whom and think of possible questions. Dress as an attorney would.

Costumes, questions, opening and closing statements ready for the trial.

Chapter Journals due today. Final Asher Lev writing. Bring your book.

Book finished; trial on Friday

Have read Ch 13; title and annotate.

Late start: Have read chs 11 and 12. Title, annotate, focus on character

Have read ch 10.

Have read ch 9.

Quiz Through ch 8 ; bring books. Title, annotate, focus on assigned character.

All students who have not read their autobiographical incidents must do so today; bring 2 copies and 25 response cards

You should have read, titled, and annotated ch 7 by today. Be ready for a reading quiz.

You should have read, titled, and annotated ch 6 by today. Be ready for a reading quiz.

You should have read, titled, and annotated ch 5 by today. Be ready for a reading quiz.

Be sure you have read, titled, annotated chapter 4. Quiz 3-4 today.

All students will submit Asher Lev Vocabulary packets.
Bring 2 copies of incident and some index cards and read aloud on Monday: Keita, Kimberly, Kevin, Paul, Alana, Lupe, Jamie, Andrew, Oliver, Macklen (per 1); Fanny, Cheyenne, Mohamed, Klaus, Jackson, Justin Ryan, William and Warren.

Read, annotate, and title chapter 3 by today.

Finiah ch 2; Ch 1 and 2 quiz.

Be sure you have read thru p. 68 by today. Annotate for prosecution, defense, paintings, characterization, the window. Finish chapter 2 by Thursday. Print a progress report from Power School and have signed by parents for 4/3 points.

Career reseach due with rubric attached underneath; also bring source information.

Enjoy your mother; a few of you will bring 2 copies of incident and some index cards and read aloud on Monday: Keita, Mojan, Trenton, Brandon, Kimberly, Stephanie, Amanda, Kevin (per1); Cheyenne, Lisa, Liannna, Daphne, Keenwei, Fanny, Cynthia, Catherine (per.5)

Finish writing original sentences for the Asher Lev vocabulary. Begin each with an adverb clause and make the sentences about the literature we have read this year. Bring your plan for career research to class. Note: we will complete one page of vocab sentences per night.

Jot down facts about career you will discuss: positives, negatives, plan for first-hand knowledge. Bring to class on Monday.
Manny, Ande, Dylan, Ohminique,Jeff, Shane, Alfred, Brian, Bradley, Catherine, Cynthia: Bring 2 copies of incident and index cards; be ready to read.

BRING MY NAME IS ASHER LEV; plan for career paragraphs due Monday. Revise autobiographical essay to be read on successive Mondays.

Rough draft of autobiographical incident.

Completed poetry project.

3-word poem

Find a modern song that has a common theme with a poem we have read. Print the lyrics; write a paragraph pointing out lines from each that illustrate similarities and differences.
Poets we have read: Emily Dickinson; Walt Whitman (Interactive Reader); "Richard Cory" (Robinson); Edgar Lee Masters epitaphs, "Chicago," (Sandburg), "The Road Not Taken" Frost, browsing of Langston Hughes, and other black poets.

Any piece for the poetry project, another rough draft. Bring the grammar text.

Any assignment from the poetry portfolio project.

Write a rough draft intro to the Gatsby essay.

Write a poetic page modeled after Langston Hughes's "Go Home and Write a Page Tonight"

Bring SSR book, ORGANIZED binder, grammar book, and Gatsby.

Editing Tests 3 and 4; One side of Gatsby handout. study for final: per 1 final is Friday; period 5 is Thursday.

Final Review: editing Tests 1 and 2
Quotation Search:
3 areas where Gatsby is better than other character or dream (one side only)

Gatsby is better than Daisy (Tom, Jordan) because he is more____________, ____________, and ____________; Fitzgerald suggests that what makes people great is their ______________________.

Grammar Quiz: Sentence combining. Study for final exam.

Grammar Quiz: Sentence combining.

QUIZ Gatsby Vocab Chs 1-6; words are on quizlet.

Write a letter from Nick to Daisy at the end of the novel using 6 vocab words from chs 7-9.

Finish Great Gatsby. Write a paragraph response How has the way the story ends made you feel? Make it clear you know the story. explain the last sentence of the novel.

Finish the book and respond to how the ending makes you feel. Also explain what you think the last sentence means.

Read Chapter 8. Quiz 1-8 on Monday.

Finish Ch 7. Then based on the end of the chapter and what Nick observes write a paragraph explaining why Nick believes there is no hope for Gatsby to have Daisy now. Use pen or type and doublespace.

Ch 6 Quiz The Great Gatsby

Take-home quiz: "The lovers: who loves whom more?"

Quiz Chapter 5 The Great Gatsby; Rough draft
City Poem is due.

CAHSEE Testing in the auditorium at 8:00 a.m. DRESS WARM!!!!!!!!! Bring pencils and something to work on when done. Report there Wednesday at 8:00 as well.

Quiz Chapter 4 The Great Gatsby

Quiz Chapter 3 The Great Gatsby

Read thru p.55 of THE GREAT GATSBY; Quiz Wednesday over ch 3.
Signed progress report.

All presentations will be completed and presented.

Quiz Chapter 2 Great Gatsby

Project is due and to be presented today. Even if partner may be absent your portion is due today.

Your copy of Great Gatsby must be in class today. Also bring notebook and SSR book daily.

Work on research project due 2/21. Working on this project is nightly homework. Bring SSR book and grammar book.

Meet in the library.

In pen or typed create your own free verse epitaph. the title is your name and you will use 1st person describing your life. Google Edward Lee Masters or some models. Have fun with it.

Review Romanticism and Romantic poems: Open Book/open note Test: Wed, 2/8. Bring SSR book

Complete the Romanticism, local color, realism worksheet. Answer questions thoughtfully in pen.

A Final Product of the 1 Definition of Poetry line assigned. Written out quote, drawing and 2-3 sentences explanation.

Read and respond in Interactive Reader to 3 Dickinson poems pp. 210-214. Star the one you like best and write down what you think it means..

Bring signed class rules. Quiz over essay structure.