Honors Oral Assignment

Rubric

Works List

English 3 Vocabulary Week 16

The following words are all taken from the final chapter of Catch-22.

01. effervescent
02. odious
03. exopthalmic
04. distraught
05. requisition
06. elation
07. avidly
08. vulturous
09. insubordination
10. disrepute
11. caustic
12. indignation
13. respite
14. amiability
15. vegetate
16. wistfully
17. resignation
18. capitulation
19. protuberant
20. acquiescent

Of Mice and Men Study Guide "Big Questions"

are here.

English 3 Vocabulary Week 15

The following words are from Catch-22 and are labeled by chapter number.

01. ineptitude (3)
02. unctuous (4)
03. benignant (4)
04. magnanimously (4)
05. affinity (5)
06. cantilevered (5)
07. affable (5)
08. entreating (5)
09. cacophonous (5)
10. inebriated (6)
11. plummeted (6)
12. innocuously (6)
13. pandemonium (6)
14. portentously (6)
15. gawking (6)
16. rancor (6)
17. deferentially (7)
18. requisitioned (7)
19. crestfallen (7)
20. consternation (7)

The Week in English: Week 14

English 3:
5/10: Journals; The Week in English; Complete Aphorism Study; Film cont.; Vocab Assignment
5/11: Journals; Their Eyes Study Guide
5/14: Journals; Book Quiz; Vocabulary Quiz; Intro to Postmodernism; Catch-22 1-5 study guide

The Week in English: Week 13

English IV

5/3: Journals; The Week in English; Vietnam Film Quiz; Vietnam Web Quest; Vocab Assignment
5/4: Journals; Resume Writing

English 3:

5/3: Journals; The Week; Vocab Assignment
5/4: Hurston Links
5/5: Language in Hurston

The Week in English: Week 12

English 3:
04/26: Vocabulary Assignment

The Week in English: Week 11

English III:

4/19: Journals; The Week in English; Letter of Intent Composition; Mark Twain Web Quest (Answer Parts 1, 2, 4 on a separate paper); Vocabulary Assignment

English 3:
4/19: Journals; The Week in English; Motif in Gatsby; Vocabulary Assignment
4/22: Journals Due; Unit Test IV (Study Guide)

The Week in English: Week 10

English 3:

4/12: Journals; The Week in English; Vocabulary Assignment
4/13:
4/14:
4/15: Journals Due

The Week in English: Week 9

English 3: Vocabulary Homework

The Week in English: Week 8

English 3

3/22: Journals; The Week; Humor Techniques in Twain; "The Celebrated;" Vocab Assignment
3/23
3/24
3/25: Test 3 (Review)

The Week in English: Week 7

English 3:

3/15: Journals; The Week in English; Emily Dickinson Study Guide; Vocabulary Homework

The Week in English: Week 6

English III

English 3

3/8: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz; The Week in English; Neo-Classicism v. Romanticism; Look at Irony; Vocabulary Assignment (so yes, let's use the Civil Disobedience words)
HW: Read "The Fall of the House of Usher"

The Week in English: Week 5

English III:
3/1: Journals; The Week in English; Transcendentalism Study; Vocab Assignmen

English 3:
3/1: Journals; Test Review; "Nature"/"Self-Reliance" Study; Vocabulary Assignment
3/4: Journals Due; Poe Film Quiz; Crucible Study Guide

English IV:
3/1: Journals; Announcement Quiz; Sir Gawain cont.; Morte D'Arthur Study; Vocab Assignment

The Week in English: Week 4

English III

2/21:
2/22:
2/23:
2/24: Journals Due; Notecards Due; "Fall of the House of Usher" film and quiz
HW: Read pp. 393-398; Outline and First Paragraph of Research Paper Due 3/4
2/25: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz Week 4; Intro to Transcendentalism; TRANSCENDENTALISM WEBQUEST HERE

English 3
2/22: Journals; The Week in English; The Crucible film conclusion; Vocabulary Assignment
HW: Read the Revolution Packet here or here.
2/23: Journals; Research Assignment
2/24: Journals; SAT Practice; Revolutionary Materials Study
HW: Emerson online here.
2/25: Journals Due; Reading Quiz; Revolution Commentary cont.; Transcendentalism webquest here
HW: Self-Reliance

The Week in English: Week 3

English III

2/15: Journals; The Week in English; Complete MLA Study Guide; Work on Notecards; Vocab Assignment
HW: Read pp. 272-281; Complete Vocab Homework
2/16: Journals; Vocab Check; Vocab Review; Fireside Poet Study
HW: COMPLETE NOTECARDS (40) FOR INITIAL CHECK
2/17: Journals; Intro to Edgar Allan Poe Film and Quiz
HW: Read "The Masque of the Red Death"
2/18: Journals Due; Reading Quiz; "Masque" study
HW: Read "The Cask of Amontillado"
2/19: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz Week 3; "Cask" study

English 3:

2/15: Journals; The Week in English; Introduction to the Salem Witch Trials; Research; Vocabulary Assignment Week 3
HW: Read Act II of The Crucible

English IV

02/15: Journals; Announcement Quiz; The Week in English; Canterbury Tales Web Quest; Vocabulary Assignment
HW: Vocabulary Homework; Read pp. 96-99

Note Card Format

The front of your card should contain the information with an MLA-style in-text citation. Either a direct quote or a paraphrase must contain the in-text (or parenthetical citation). Example:

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The polypton "is used frequently in aphorisms,
probablybecause it is rarely recognized as a figure
at all" (Quinn 74).
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The back of your card should contain the MLA works-cited style entry. So, for the book above, the back of the note card should look like this:

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Quinn, Arthur. Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn
A Phrase. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith,
1982. Print.

1
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Number your sources so you do not have to repeatedly copy the same works-cited style entry over and over again. Each subsequent card made from the Quinn book need only list "1" on the back.

How do I cite internet pages? How do I cite magazines? How do I cite interviews?

English III

2/8 - Journals; College Information Assembly in the Auditorium; Vocabulary Assignment
HW: Vocabulary Homework; Read pp. 256-263
2/9 - Journals; Vocabulary Check; Vocabulary Review; Tone Study in The Crisis; List the Grievances in The Declaration
HW: Read pp. 264-268; Finish listing grievances
2/10: Journals; Mood Study in "The Devil and Tom Walker"; Test Review Study Game
HW: Study for Test
02/11: Journals Due; Unit Test I
HW: Read pp. 272-279
02/12: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz Week 2; MLA Laptop Lesson; Work on Notecards
HW: Work on Notecards


English 3

2/8: Journals; The Week in English; Tracing Symbols in TSL; Vocabulary Assignment
2/11: Journals Due; Unit Test I (To shorten this test, I will cut five ID's and add a brief commentary)

English IV

The Scarlet Letter Test Guide

is here.

Honors English 3 Soundtrack Assignment

In this group project, working with groups of three or four, you will create a soundtrack based on the novel and scenes in The Scarlet Letter. This project will require you to select songs that you feel match up well with either the characters, events or thematic ideas of the novel. Your group should decide how you will tackle the assignment, but there are some ground rules to follow, as well as some formatting aspects to address.

n Your soundtrack should be composed of ten songs. A copy of the lyrics is required, even if you are burning a CD for this. CD burning is not required, but it does add a nice element to this, since it is musical.

n You must include an analysis of each song and how it fits with a scene, character or theme of the novel. Direct analysis and detail from the text will be needed to support your ideas, but you need not write a new novel or graduate thesis in order for this to work.

n Give your “product” an attractive cover. If you are doing a CD, the label/liner notes need to have some kind of illustration, title and track list. The lyrics and analysis should be turned in separately, but do not have to have an illustrated cover if a CD is turned in. If a CD is NOT turned in, then the analysis/lyrcs and a list of songs should be turned in WITH a title page that is illustrated.

The product should be solid, consistent, and clear in its analysis and understanding of the story. Effort is also a factor, and you should pay careful attention to the construction, song selection and presentation of the material. The analysis is also key, so please don’t forget to be selective, thorough and solid in your analysis and defense of your song selection and description. Good luck and have fun! This project will count as TWO homework/quiz grades and will be due on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10th. You may need to work on this outside of class, so make sure you all set aside some time to work on it out of school.

The Week In English: Week 1

English III:
01/25: Journals; The Week in English; Puritanism Review; Bradstreet Study; Puritan Poetry Writing Assignment; Vocabulary Assignment
HW: Read pp. 100-106; Vocabulary Week 1
01/26: Journals; Vocabulary Check; Reading Quiz; Vocabulary Review
01/27: Journals; SAT Practice; Aphorism Study
01/28: Journals Due; Reading Quiz; Equiano Study Guide; Intro to Graduation Project/Research Paper
HW: Read pp. 168-174
01/29: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz Week 1; U.S. Revolution Historical Background;

English 3:
01/25: Journals; The Week in English; Puritan Poetry Review; Bradstreet Commentary; TSL Custom House Review; Vocabulary Assignment
01/27: Journals; SAT Practice; Symbols/Motifs/Themes; Bookjive questions 1-4

The Week In English: Week 17

English IV:

1/4: Journals; The Week in English; Introduction to Poetry (Again); Poetry of Ben Jonson; Poetry Responses
HW: Read pp. 458-465
1/5: Journals; Quiz; Carpe Diem Poetry; Poetry Responses
HW: Read pp. 664-671
1/6: Journals; Last Quiz of the Semester; Burns Translation; Poetry Responses
HW: Read pp. 678-682
1/7: Journals Due; Intro to Romanticism; Blake Independent Study
HW: Read pp. 728-729; 754-756
1/8: Coleridge Study; Letter Writing

English 3:
1/4: Journals; Post-Modernist Poetry Day #55; Oral Presentation Assignment
HW: Read Catch-22 ch. 31-35
1/5: Journals
HW: Read Catch-22 ch. 36-40
1/6: Journals
HW: Read Catch-22 ch. 41-42
1/7: