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Your revised schedule - due to the blackout pep rally and playoff game - means that everything will be delayed by a weekend: Seniors - writing essay on Monday - this weekend, gather evidence from the text, and plan Sophomores - quiz on Renaissance poets (part one) on Monday Here's a creepy story for Halloween, from American horror master H.P.Lovecraft:  The Call of Cthulhu .

Seniors Read the essays by Gitlin and Broder, and answer questions on pages 157-58 and 160. You are writing your Education essays in class, and you will be required to cite from at least THREE of the sources in the book. Sophomores Your take-home Intro to the Renaissance quiz is due tomorrow, and your Renaissance Poets quiz is in class tomorrow. We will start Macbeth next week.

Seniors Read pages 150-164 in Language of Composition , and answer questions on pages 153 and 155. Use complete sentences, and cite examples from the text. You are preparing for an essay on education in the United States. For some perspective on the problem, see this infographic on Illiteracy in America . Sophomores You have a take-home quiz on the Renaissance period (due Friday), and your homework for tonight is to answer questions #1-3 on 303, #1-3 on 304, and #2-4 on 306. The questions and discussion are in preparation for a quiz on Friday on the following: Sir Thomas Wyatt - " Whoso List to Hunt " and "My Lute, Awake!" Elizabeth I - "On Monsieur's Departure" Christopher Marlowe - "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" Sir Walter Raleigh - "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" Edmund Spenser - Sonnets 30 and 75 from Amoretti , The Faerie Queene William Shakespeare - Sonnets 29, 116, and 130 from Sonnets The sonnet fo

Seniors Read the essays/selections in your textbook on pages 74-85. Sophomores Read the Introduction to the Renaissance in your book, along with the selections on pages 283-94. Expect a quiz in the next couple of days.

Seniors Your resumes are due tomorrow, and you will write the profile essays in class Thursday. Your vocabulary quiz is on Friday. Sophomores Your exam on Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales is Thursday. Here's a printable crossword puzzle to help you review the pilgrims, which you can turn in for points on Thursday. Again, here is the PPT file on Chaucer covered in class:  Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

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As mentioned in class, ULM's profile essay  is the required assessment essay for all English 1001 students. We will write the essay as a class, focusing on a parent or guardian when he/she was a senior in high school (or equivalent). The  profile essay  is due on Friday, with a rough draft written in class on Thursday . The essay should be around 750 words in length, formatted according to MLA guidelines. For a copy of the printed assignment, click here. Your essay should focus on specific aspects of your subject's character, description, personality, advice or accomplishments. You are NOT to write a biography, or list of life events. Your goal is to point out what is unique about your subject, through descriptive language and dialogue, so that the reader can "see" him/her clearly. Some use of direct quotes is required, so make you take accurate notes during the interview. We will discuss possible questions in class. Although based on a slightly different prompt,

Mrs. Burkett and Mrs. Malone have asked that each of you create an academic resume, so we will be doing it as a class. I've attached a template for you, as well as an article from Time  outlining the five most common mistakes, and we have discussed both in class. Remember that the purpose for this resume is to provide teachers and others with information for letters of recommendation, and to inform scholarship and admissions committees of your academic accomplishments. You can tailor the resume's "purpose" or "profile" to fit the recipients' individual needs later. Generally speaking, include at least the following: academic achievements, including GPA and ACT composite scores extra-curricular participation, including sports, spirit groups and clubs awards and honors, including A-HEC, regional/state literary rallies, National Honor Society leadership positions, especially student council or HOBY work experience, especially as it relates to your

Sophomores Honors students: read your books. Everyone: memorize the first 18 lines of the "Prologue." Also, you have questions from "Wife of Bath's Tale" -- Reading Check, #2-4 from the online version .

You all wrote an ACT essay today on multi-tasking, so I thought I'd share some information with you. You are not required to read this article or to take the test, but it may offer some perspective. Please note that your essay today is not graded on the basis of your opinion, but rather the way you expressed your opinion. That said, the following may change your mind: "You'll Never Learn!"  by Annie Murphy Hall ( Slate Magazine ) GateKeeper Task for SuperTaskers

Tonight, your homework is to answer questions following " Pardoner's Tale " (Comp Check, 2-5) and to read " Wife of Bath's Tale ." I will give you some questions over the weekend, and your honors exam on outside readings will be on Monday. As stated in class, this is an open book essay exam , and you are expected to USE the book in your answers. Your Prologue recitations will take place on Tuesday, and your exam on Chaucer and the Tales will be Thursday, October 23rd : Thursday - Pardoner's Tale Friday - Wife of Bath's Tale Monday - Honors Exam (outside readings) Tuesday - Recitations ( first 18 lines in ME ) Wednesday - MAIS cheer/dance - review day Thursday - Exam on Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales I will introduce the Renaissance Period next Friday, and we will start reading Macbeth  the following week.

Sophomores Your honors essays will be written in class on Friday, October 17th. I will give you the prompt at the beginning of class, so come with your book prepared to write. In class on Thursday, we will discuss " The Pardoner's Tale ." Please read before you come to class. Seniors Your next rhetorical terms quiz will be next Friday, October 24th. This Friday, you are writing an essay in class. We will discuss the prompt on Thursday.

Sophomores , I gave you a PSAT study booklet to work on over the long weekend. We will cover sections 1 and 3 (Critical Reading #1-48) on Tuesday, but you are of course encouraged to work through the entire test in preparation for the PSAT on Wednesday, October 15th. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper to turn in for homework credit. College Board, who writes the exam, has some great preparation materials online. Practice now for the real thing next year! Everyone , here are the latest official practice tests from ACT and College Board: ACT Practice Exam SAT Practice Exam Also, don't forget about the practice questions available at ACT's site.

Seniors Your revisions are due tomorrow. Please bring the workshop draft with comments and attach it to your revision. Also, you will have a vocabulary quiz on the first 20 rhetorical terms (A-D). Sophomores You have a quiz next week on the "The General Prologue." I've attached the notes here , and you have homework questions from the book: Comp Check and #2-5 on p137. Your quiz tomorrow is on the introduction to the tales, along with biographical information from the text. This quiz will be open book. Your recitations (1st 18 lines in ME) are now due at the end of next week. You will have PSAT homework over the long weekend, which we will go over on Tuesday, and honors students have essays due Wednesday, October 15th.

Mrs. Burkett and Mrs. Malone have talked to you (and your parents) about creating a resume of your high school academic careers. This should include your contact information, overall grade point average, athletics, organizations, academic competitions, clubs and extra-curricular activities. The following example organizes by categories instead of grade level and includes a description of the responsibilities and accomplishments in each area: Sample Resume

Seniors Your homework for tonight is to complete exercises #1 and #3 on 170-172. Your essay for this week is a revision of one of the following: Drinking Age Debate Print Advertising Analysis JFK Inauguration Analysis Please re-visit the original assignments for each of these essays before deciding on which one to revise. Print out and bring that essay on Wednesday.  Your first vocabulary quiz on Friday is on rhetorical terms A-D (20 terms total). Sophomores We are discussing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales this week. Tonight, please read the introductory material and begin reading the "General Prologue," starting on 107: Part One (Knight-Franklin) Part Two (Guildsmen-End) You should also start working on memorizing the first eighteen lines of the "General Prologue" in Middle English. There are several videos online that may help, and I will of course help you in class. For now, here is a copy of the text (with audio) . The recitation will

Your job today is to write an essay of around 500 words analyzing the rhetoric of John F. Kennedy's inaugural address. Your essay should consider the many rhetorical strategies Kennedy employs to achieve his purpose and to reach his various audiences: figurative language, emotionally-charged diction, parallelism, allusion, alliteration, sentence variety and length, and logical appeals, to name a few. Organize your evidence into clearly developed paragraphs in support of a thesis. Remember, too, that an analysis is NOT merely a summary of the text, but rather a detailed and focused look at some specific element of the text. You will be writing BY HAND today, just like JFK did in preparation for his speech.