Semester 2 Assignments
AssignmentSSR Book Blog Due
Read the article, "Holden, 50, Still Catches." Write a brief reflection on the article: what are your thoughts on the author's point of view? What is he saying and do you think it's relevant? Catcher in the Rye Culminating Project. Topics from our brainstorming today: Beat Generation Authors: Hawthorn, Steinbeck, Poe, Dickinsen, Hemingway, Faulkner, Whitman, Frederick Douglass Slave Narratives Blues War literature LGBT literature McCarthy era/Red Scare Native American Literature Immigrant Literature Texts: Book of Mormon, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Scarlet Letter, Women authors Feminist lit Graphic Novels Ralph Ellison Contemporary LIterature Journals will be collected Catcher in the Rye in class essay Final Draft of Coming of Age Narrative due Full First Draft of Coming of Age Personal Narrative Read Chapters 26-27: QUIZ????????? Turn In Mind Maps Complete Part II of Allusions handout Read to the end of ch. 24 Complete Mind Maps Vocab Quiz Complete Part 1 of the Allusions Worksheet Read 17-20 of Catcher and take notes on your assigned signpost. Be ready to complete mind maps on Tuesday on your assigned chapter. Vocabulary and Blog this week Download and print the first two pages of the Allusions Worksheet, or have it available on a device. Read up to page 87, chapters 8-12 and: Write down three significant things that happen or are revealed in each chapter and a related quote with page number. Read up to the end of Ch. 7 Read and annotate Salinger article. At the end write a paragraph response to the article: what stood out? What did you learn about Salinger that might illuminate the novel? What about Salinger is significant for us to know? Read Chapters 1+2 of Catcher in the Rye Rhetorical Precis due typed in MLA format Vocabulary Quiz Complete the Do/Say Chart for the Zora Neale Hurston essay INCLUDING the author's claim on the bottom. Answer questions posted in the right hand column. Read and annotate "Miss Cynthie" in our Harlem Renaissance Packets. Make sure to bring in Harlem Renaissance Packets on Monday, 4/8 Gatsby Culminating Project Project Proposals Final Project + Artist's statement Character Analysis Chart "My Hometown" mentor writing assignment. Finish Chapter 8 for Thursday In class essay based on social class/mobility articles AND The Great Gatsby Socratic Seminar Assignments: 1. Read and Annotate all articles 2. Complete and write up Interviews 3. Complete Supplementary Text Organizer 4. Prepare notes for Socratic Seminar on Questions handout Quiz on Thursday - Ch. 7 and possibly other parts + Social Class articles Finish Chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby Social Class/Mobility Interview Project Read and annotate Ehrenreich's afterward. Read and annotate the Ehrenreich article. Answer the question: What is Ehrenreich saying about social class and social mobility? Be detailed in your response. Complete the TEPAC chart (see below) and rewrite into a clean paragraph editing for grammar and conventions. Vocab Quiz on Friday and SSR There is a blog this week! Reading about Social Class:NY Times article, "Shadowy Lines That Still Divide" 1. Complete the Do/Say Chart (add analysis of last section of article: A Rags to Riches Faith) 2. Complete bottom section: What is the author's central idea/theme? Explain your thinking. 3. On the TEPAC Analytical Paragraph Chart, write a response (topic sentence/claim) to the question: What is the author saying about class? 4. Find evidence from the text to support your claim and fill in the first box on the chart under "Evidence." Re-read chapter 6: identify three significant moments/quotes/descriptions and explain why they are significant Write a paragraph giving evidence for your journal assertion Finish reading Ch. 6 Continue Character Analysis work using model Socratic Seminar Preparation and Notes Finish reading Chapter 5 Character Analyses will be collected. Notes for Chapters 1-4 should be completed. Remember to take good, complete, clear and thoughtful notes. Be sure to review the guiding questions on the first page of the chart. Blog, weeks of 2/11 and 2/18 Have character analysis for Chapters 1-4 done Select one of the themes we identified in class and write one paragraph exploring how that theme is developing in the first three chapters. Be sure to include evidence using quotes, paraphrasing and/or brief summaries. Re-read Ch. 1 and 2 and complete Character Tracking for those chapters. Begin thinking about theme and evidence for Fitzgerald's views on the American Dream. Poem: American Dream, Inauguration, Community Theme Read Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby Finish Chapter 1 Character Analysis Finish Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby Blog and Vocabulary this week Inauguration Poem Questions - choose two to answer Guided notes - Modernism Powerpoint Researching the Context of The Great Gatsby Gatsby Vocabulary - 1st 10 words in Quizlet Read and annotate Matthew Bruccoli preface to The Great Gatsby AND answers to questions discussed in class Blog Independent Sentence Corrections |
Due DateTuesday 5/28 (first comment)
Monday 5/20 Topic due Monday 5/20 Presentations on 5/28, 5/30, 5/31 Tues 5/21 Tues 5/21 Friday 5/17 Tues 5/14 Mon 5/13 Mon 5/13 Tues 5/14 Thurs 5/9 Friday 5/10 Friday 5/10 Monday 5/6 Tuesday 5/7 Week of 4/29 Tuesday, 4/30 Monday, 4/29 Thursday 4/25 Monday 4/22 Friday 4/19 Tuesday 4/16 Friday 4/12 Tuesday, 4/9 Thursday, 3/28 Tuesday, 4/9 Thursday, 3/21 Friday, 3/22 Thursday, 3/14 Friday, 3/15 Tuesday, 3/11 Thursday, 3/7 Thursday, 3/7 Questions due 3/7 Full notes/analysis due 3/12 Tuesday, 3/5 Monday, 3/4 Monday, 3/4 Friday, 3/1 Wed, 2/26 and Fri 2/28 Thursday, 2/27 Monday, 2/25 Friday, 2/22 Thursday, 2/21 Tuesday, 2/19 Tuesday, 219 Thursday, 2/14 1st comment by Fri 2/15 2nd comment by Wed 2/20 Tuesday 2/12 Thursday, 2/7 Tuesday, 2/4 Friday, 2/1 Thursday 1/31 Tuesday, 1/29 Vocabulary Quiz: Friday 2/1 Blog: Wed + Fri Monday, 1/28 Monday, 1/28 Tuesday, 1/22 Quiz Friday, 1/18 Tuesday, 1/15 1st comment: Wed 1/16 2nd comment: Fri 1/18 Thursday, 1/10 |
Assignment Handouts and ResourcesArticle link: http://partners.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/specials/salinger-holden.html The Project assignment and the American Literary Time Periods handout from the beginning of the year is in handouts and resources. Works Cited information, including a sample, is at the purdue owl site: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/11/ Link to the digital content portal to access EBSCO is: http://digitalcontent.sdcoe.net/ Link to Berkely guide to evaluating websites: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html Pecha Kucha Presentation Style Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGaCLWaZLI4 You can also just search for Pecha Kucha to find many examples of presentations. Rough draft must be attached. My narrative can be found under handouts/resources. My edits are displayed in the file. EMAIL ME IN ADVANCE and/or Ask on Monday IF YOU NEED HELP!!!!! Prompt is on handouts/resources page file can be found under "Handouts and Resources" There will likely be a quiz next week which can replace the quiz from this week. The article can be found at: time.com http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1960265,00.html Click for Rhetorical Precis worksheet Today's Meet discussion of essay: http://msgottlieb.weebly.com/todays-meet-transcripts.html Do you think Hurston is effective? Why? Identify Logos, Pathos and Ethos for each section. Project details are in a file under "handouts and resources." For scrapbook makers: please do not purchase unnecessary scrap book stuff from Michael's etc. Your grade will be enhanced with home-made items. This is the chart on which you have been tracking your character throughout the novel. Assignment file is under "Handouts and Resources." Be prepared to discuss and answer questions. You will be can have articles and The Great Gatsby while writing. No notes! Prompt is now under "Handouts and Resources" Graphic Organizers and Interview Assignment are under "Handouts and Resources" Digital versions of some of the articles: "Up from the Holler: Living in Two Worlds, at Home in Neither" "Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" The packet with five short articles, "We Were Poor, but I Didn't Know It," "At the Top of the Bottom in the Segregated South," "From the Bronx to Cornell," "Downwardly Mobile in Birmingham," and "My Nanny was a Dreadful Snob" can be found at: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/learning/newssummaries/12class-essays_LN.html Assignment is in Handouts and Resources page. Not digitally available The article can be found at: http://www.ems.ucsb.edu/people/rightmire/ling2/Nickel-and-Dimed_excerpt.pdf Your paragraph will include the topic sentence from the top of the chart and the writing from the bottom four boxes (evidence, paraphrase, analysis and concluding statement). Make sure to properly cite your evidence. I do not have digital copies of the charts. The article can be found at: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/national/class/OVERVIEW-FINAL.html?_r=0 We will complete the TEPAC Chart in class. In your journals, you wrote about what you thought Gatsby and Daisy should do now that they have found each other, based on what we know about the characters and the era. Extend your journal by writing a paragraph in which you give evidence from the text and you knowledge about the 20s to support your claim. Socratic Seminar Handouts including questions and procedures are under "handouts and resources" Character Analysis Tracking handout is under "handouts" Theme topics from class discussion: materialism, regret/longing for a "do-over", public versus private persona, American Dream, social class, etc. Character Analysis Tracking handout is under "handouts" Write a poem of any format illustrating your feelings and thoughts on the U.S., your community and/or the American Dream. A successful poem is well thought out and shows clear effort. Poems must be typed. See handouts for Character Analysis See Vocabulary and Blog pages on this site Richard Blanco's Inauguration Poem: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/today-richard-blanco-poem-read-barack-obama-inauguration/story?id=18274653 Find the questions under "handouts and resources" Find the guided notes and Modernism Powerpoint under "handouts and resources" Be ready to share your learning with fellow students. You are expected to turn in notes on your topic, including answers to the questions posed. Link to assignment page: msgottlieb.weebly.com/finding-context-the-great-gatsby.html See Vocabulary page on this site. Link to text. Questions can be found on the daily agenda in Handouts and Resources. See Blog on this site. Sentence Correction Handout (not available digitally) |
Semester 1
Optional Huckleberry Finn Extension Assignment
Attached are optional assignments for students who want to further demonstrate understanding of The Adventures of Huckeberry Finn. Successful completion of this assignment will earn students 25 points in the Writing Category. Due date and submission information is in the assignment.
Attached are optional assignments for students who want to further demonstrate understanding of The Adventures of Huckeberry Finn. Successful completion of this assignment will earn students 25 points in the Writing Category. Due date and submission information is in the assignment.
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Calendar adjustment
For Friday, 12/14, Read to end of Chapter 36.
Finish novel before Final.
Study Guide for Final:
For Friday, 12/14, Read to end of Chapter 36.
Finish novel before Final.
Study Guide for Final:
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| final_review_semester_1.pptx |
Download the reading and essay assignment calendar for the rest of the semester below. Other assignments may be added.
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Due Friday, 12/7
1. Complete first draft of essay INCLUDING Works Cited page.
2. Two double entry journal entries. Find quotes focused on Satire.
1. Complete first draft of essay INCLUDING Works Cited page.
2. Two double entry journal entries. Find quotes focused on Satire.
Due Thursday, 12/6
1. Read up to end of ch. 26
2. Integrating Quotes Practice
1. Read up to end of ch. 26
2. Integrating Quotes Practice
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Due Tuesday, 12/4
Two paragraphs and a working thesis for your Definition Essay. Your two paragraphs may be an introduction and a body paragraph or two body paragraphs.
Due Monday, 12/3
Read up to end of Chapter 20
Two paragraphs and a working thesis for your Definition Essay. Your two paragraphs may be an introduction and a body paragraph or two body paragraphs.
Due Monday, 12/3
Read up to end of Chapter 20
Due Friday, 11/30
1. Two Double Entry Journals per week
2. Find, print and annotate two articles about your word. Choose sources wisely.
1. Two Double Entry Journals per week
2. Find, print and annotate two articles about your word. Choose sources wisely.
Due Thursday, 11/29
1. Read to end of Chapter 19, continue annotating.
2. Choose the word for your essay. Write a paragraph about the word including the dictionary definition.
You can download the Essay assignment right below. Does not include samples and mentor texts that were handed out in class.
1. Read to end of Chapter 19, continue annotating.
2. Choose the word for your essay. Write a paragraph about the word including the dictionary definition.
You can download the Essay assignment right below. Does not include samples and mentor texts that were handed out in class.
| the_definition_essay_3.docx |
HW over break - due Monday, 11/26
Read up to the end of Chapter 15. Continue annotating.
Six (6) entries for your double entry journals. That's a total of six quotes with responses.
Double Entry Journal instructions/guidelines are here:
Read up to the end of Chapter 15. Continue annotating.
Six (6) entries for your double entry journals. That's a total of six quotes with responses.
Double Entry Journal instructions/guidelines are here:
| doubleentryjournalshuckfinn.docx |
Due Friday 11/16
Read and annotate chapters 6 & 7. Complete notes and questions for Mark Twain biography.
Read and annotate chapters 6 & 7. Complete notes and questions for Mark Twain biography.
Due Thursday 11/15/12
Read up to page 22, the end of chapter 5, of Huckleberry Finn. On line texts and audio versions can be found on the Handouts and Resources page under "Texts" on the right hand side.
Read up to page 22, the end of chapter 5, of Huckleberry Finn. On line texts and audio versions can be found on the Handouts and Resources page under "Texts" on the right hand side.
Due Tuesday 11/13/12
Research for Socratic Seminar on the Controversies of Huckleberry Finn and the use and history of a racial epithet.
You can find the assignment and Socratic seminar protocol and rubric here:
Research for Socratic Seminar on the Controversies of Huckleberry Finn and the use and history of a racial epithet.
You can find the assignment and Socratic seminar protocol and rubric here:
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Tuesday 11/6
Turn in your Dark Romanticism packet, annotated, and with completed notes/questions. For the questions, write in full sentences and with evidence of thought. The packet can be found under "Handouts".
There is a blog this week. Post comments by Wednesday (responding to the story) and Friday (responding to another student's comment).
Turn in your Dark Romanticism packet, annotated, and with completed notes/questions. For the questions, write in full sentences and with evidence of thought. The packet can be found under "Handouts".
There is a blog this week. Post comments by Wednesday (responding to the story) and Friday (responding to another student's comment).
Monday 11/5
Complete the Poetry Analysis Graphic Organizer for "Ulalume." It is fine to google the poem and research various interpetations.
Finish annotating the Dark Romanticism packet.
On Monday, be prepared to discuss the poem and Young Goodman Brown.
Complete the Poetry Analysis Graphic Organizer for "Ulalume." It is fine to google the poem and research various interpetations.
Finish annotating the Dark Romanticism packet.
On Monday, be prepared to discuss the poem and Young Goodman Brown.
Friday 11/2
Write a paragraph establishing the setting of a spooky story. Using the first paragraph of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, use descriptive language and imagery to create a dark romantic mood.
Write a paragraph establishing the setting of a spooky story. Using the first paragraph of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, use descriptive language and imagery to create a dark romantic mood.
Tuesday, 10/23
Unit test: Romanticism and Transcendentalism
Unit test: Romanticism and Transcendentalism
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Due Friday, 10/19
Protest Letter using Rhetorical Appeals
Assignment Prompt:
Protest Letter using Rhetorical Appeals
Assignment Prompt:
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Due Tuesday, 10/16
Finish reading the Jon Krakauer article about Chris McCandless, "Death of an Innocent" and chart the article for transcendental beliefs as we did in class. You can find the article here: http://chugachpics.tripod.com/mccandless.html
Finish reading the Jon Krakauer article about Chris McCandless, "Death of an Innocent" and chart the article for transcendental beliefs as we did in class. You can find the article here: http://chugachpics.tripod.com/mccandless.html
Due Monday, 10/15
Write a thesis statement based on the position you took in your journals. Make sure to include the topic+argument+reasons. The PowerPoint I used today for this has been added on to the daily agenda PowerPoint which can be found under "Resources".
Write a thesis statement based on the position you took in your journals. Make sure to include the topic+argument+reasons. The PowerPoint I used today for this has been added on to the daily agenda PowerPoint which can be found under "Resources".
Due Friday 10/12
Rhetorical Findings and Questions for "Civil Disobedience" The document is here:
Rhetorical Findings and Questions for "Civil Disobedience" The document is here:
| civildisobediencequestions.docx |
Due Wednesday 10/10
Nature writing assignment:
Nature writing assignment:
| nature_writing_assignmentgottlieb.docx |
Due Thursday 10/4
Annotate the excerpt of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" for Rhetorical Appeals. The powerpoint review of rhetoric is under resources.
Annotate the excerpt of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" for Rhetorical Appeals. The powerpoint review of rhetoric is under resources.
Due Tuesday 9/25
Do a first read of your assigned excerpt and identify two unfamiliar vocabulary words. For each word, indicate what you first think the word means from the context, and then look up the word and write down the definition.
Do a first read of your assigned excerpt and identify two unfamiliar vocabulary words. For each word, indicate what you first think the word means from the context, and then look up the word and write down the definition.
Due Thursday/Friday 9/27 and 28
Group presentation on your assigned excerpt:
Group presentation on your assigned excerpt:
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Example: Ms. Gottlieb's Walden Presentation
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Due Friday 9/21
Annotate the introduction to Henry David Thoreau.
Annotate the introduction to Henry David Thoreau.
Due Thursday 9/20
Ten things about Emerson and the excerpt we read from Nature.
1 complex question you had while reading
5 things that were sursprising or new
2 things you can make a connection to (from your life, media, pop-culture, literature, etc.)
2 things you found interesting
Ten things about Emerson and the excerpt we read from Nature.
1 complex question you had while reading
5 things that were sursprising or new
2 things you can make a connection to (from your life, media, pop-culture, literature, etc.)
2 things you found interesting
Due Thursday 9/13
Completed Guided Notes Handout on Transcendentalism
Completed Guided Notes Handout on Transcendentalism
Due Friday 9/7
Complete paraphrase of your assigned stanza of Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life." Complete all questions on the back. Be prepared to present your stanza.
Complete paraphrase of your assigned stanza of Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life." Complete all questions on the back. Be prepared to present your stanza.
| a_psalm_of_life_revised.doc |
Thursday 8/30:
Homework:
From the notes you took while listening to each other's poems write an email response to the following questions:
What did you learn about each other?
What about this activity/assignment carries over to other writing assignments/learning?
Send your homework to me in an email: rgottlieb@coronadousd.net
Due Thursday 8/30
Age Poems Assignment: Submit both poems and be prepared to share one with the class.
Homework:
From the notes you took while listening to each other's poems write an email response to the following questions:
What did you learn about each other?
What about this activity/assignment carries over to other writing assignments/learning?
Send your homework to me in an email: rgottlieb@coronadousd.net
Due Thursday 8/30
Age Poems Assignment: Submit both poems and be prepared to share one with the class.
| age_poems_assignment_rgversion.docx |
