river oaks [english]

Seniors You are writing a synthesis paper this week on advertising. Packets are by my door if you didn't get one. Read the packet for Tuesday, and we will discuss. The paper will be written in class on Friday. A secondary assignment involving advertising will be due for homework on Wednesday : Bring an effective print ad to class - can be printed from the internet or copied from a magazine Sophomores We are discussing Macbeth this week and next. Instruction will be on contextual notes primarily, and you should expect reading quizzes throughout. The first quiz (on Shakespeare's biography and the Elizabethan theater) is Wednesday, Dec 2nd . First, however, we must get everyone's sonnets. If you do not bring (or recite) your sonnet on Monday, please be prepared to do so Tuesday or Wednesday at the beginning of class.

Seniors Your profile essays are due by end of classes Thursday. Remember that the focus of this essay is a "profile" of your parent, not a biography. Focus on specific, sensory details of the interview (including body language and tone), and include a description of them then and now . Please see the following for specific guidelines and questions: Profile Essay Assignment Parent Interview Questions   Sophomores Your exam on lyric poetry in the renaissance is Tuesday . Please study your notes, and re-read the selections in your handouts. We will review in class, but the following will be included: lyric poetry - pastoral poetry, sonnets, and scansion (analyzing meter) poems by Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh, Christopher Marlowe poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare Petrarchan, Spenserian, and Shakespearean sonnet forms The Faerie Queen , Amoretti, and Sonnets  For Thursday , you have TWO choices - to recite (or write down) one of Sh

Seniors Read and annotate the piece from John M. Barry for tomorrow: from The Great Influenza . We will write an analysis essay this week. Also, now that you have a list of questions, you need to conduct your interview. If you need a copy of those questions, please see me. We will write those essays in class next Monday and Tuesday. Sophomores Please read the introduction to the Renaissance (p274-81) and be prepared to take a quiz tomorrow based on the reading and the notes. Honors students, don't forget about your second quarter books! Again, here is your English II-Honors Reading List.

Seniors On Friday, you will write your "This I Believe" essays in class. See the prompt here . Also, look ahead to next week when we will write the Profile Essays - based on the interview with a parent/guardian - depending on the schedule. Also, at some point soon, we will work on another Analysis Essay - this one from an AP prompt, as well. Sophomores Tomorrow is the day of your quiz on Margery Kempe (251-7), medieval theater (258-9), and ballads (192-8). Your homework is to answer the questions on p198 (CC and #2-5).

Seniors This week, you are revising the "This I Believe" synthesis from August. Make sure you keep the original file by copying into a new document named "lastname-believe2" and sharing that with me. You will have time to revise in class, and the final revisions are due by the end of classes on Thursday. Revisions should be 600-750 words. For homework Friday, please PRINT or write a short (150-200 words) narrative explaining your revisions. Don't forget the 2nd vocabulary quiz on Thursday (euphemism - oxymoron). And on Friday, you will all write your own " This I Believe " essays. Sophomores Answer the questions on p256: comprehension check, #2-6. Quiz FRIDAY on "Book of Margery Kempe," medieval theater, and ballads.