MARKS CUT OFF IS WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16TH. NO LATE ASSSIGNMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THIS DATE. YOU HAVE HAD ALL SEMESTER TO CATCH UP AND WE NOW NEED TO FOCUS ON PREPARING FOR THE FINAL.
JAN 9- Due TOMORROW: Three for One Creative Writing Assignment
1. FAIRYTALE MISERY
2. VOICES IN THE HEAD - a combination of second level dialogue and descriptive writing
3. Photo Story and Leads
MECHANICS FINAL ON MONDAY
DEC 13 - Prepare an outline for an inclass essay on the following topic: Discuss the change in Lady Macbeth. Paragraph one will be the before portrait. Paragraph two will be the after portrait.
DEC 11 - Complete one page description of witches - with dialogue. Review punctuation rules before you submit.
DEC 4 - Complete Act II questions
NOV 16 - Revise your poetry response: "Dulce. . " Ensure quotations are properly integrated and that wordiness and vague language are eliminated.
NOV 15 - Word story
NOV 14 - Dulce et Decorum poetry response
NOV 9 - Poetry test on Tuesday
OCT 30 - SHOW DON'T TELL description of the character in the picture below. Your goal is to describe the character's features, but to keep it realistic, you will have to place the character in a situation. 8-15 sentences.
OCT 25 - Read " Download Young Goodman Brown Text"
OCT 23 - Read " Download Suffer the Little Children" and answer Download the Questions
OCT 17 - All five descriptive paragraphs will be collected tomorrow:
Show Don't Tell: A Cold Night or a Bad Storm
Show Don't Tell: S/he was Sad
Extended metaphor
Snow White personification
TS Eliot Juxtaposition: Emotion in an unusual setting.
OCT 15 - 6-8 sentences - An extended metaphor on Sadness is like a cold night or bad storm.
OCT 10 - Complete combining with participles worksheet
- Download Download PARTICIPLES LESSON 1
- Read Brave New World excerpt
OCT 7 - 10-15 Sentence Descriptive Paragraph Download The bad storm thesaurus /
Download The Night was cold thesaurus
OCT 3 - 200-300 word literary response: Describe Miss Brill.
- RUN ON QUIZ TOMORROW - Complete the text.
OCT 1 - Read MISS BRILL by Katherine Mansfield
SEPT 27 - Fragments quiz tomorrow be sure to complete Mechanics chapter in Bare Essentials
SEPT 26 - Read Kogawa's "Grinnning and Happy' and answer the assigned questions.
SEPT 25 -DUE FRIDAY - Revised copy of "Things are not always as they seem"
SEPT 19 - Enjoy your weekend.
SEPT 12
Complete the sheet on Propaganda Examples
SEPT. 7th
Read "How to Say Nothing in 500 Words" and briefly explain the key ideas of each section in your own words.
