river oaks [english]

Art Survey Your Ch 11 exam is Friday. You can print the notes , but you may use only your own for the test. English II Your Macbeth exam is on Tuesday. Homework is due Friday for Acts III and IV, and Act V is due Monday. Please answer ALL of the questions following the text, using complete sentences and citing from the text. English IV Your synthesis essay on advertising will be written in class on Friday and Monday. Please share as "lastname-ad synthesis." Your final vocabulary quiz (P-W) will be on Monday. Also, please bring a commercial print magazine to class Monday (on any school-appropriate subject).

English II Read Act II and answer the following: CC and #1-8 on p362. Honors students, your test on the outside reading is next Thursday.

English II Quiz on Act One of Macbeth on Thursday. English IV Writing an in-class analysis of either "American Needs Its Nerds" or the mock press release from The Onion .

English II Read Act One of Macbeth and answer the questions that follow: CC, #1-6 (346). English IV Read and annotate the handout(s) for Tuesday. Art Survey Exam Tuesday on Chapter 10.2-10.3 .

English II Honors students, be prepared to turn in or recite your sonnet on Monday. Again, I would suggest memorizing one from the textbook. For Thursday, read the section on Elizabethan Theater and Shakespeare (p314-23). We will have a quiz on Friday. English IV You will begin writing an analysis essay on one of the following on Thursday: "The Real New York Giants" or "On Fasting and Football." The goal of the assignment is to write a 500-word analysis of the author's use of rhetorical strategies to achieve his purpose for the article. The essay is due Friday, printed, by the end of class. Please share as "lastname-football". Fine Arts Your test on Chapter 10 (10.2-10.3) will be on Tuesday. The homework for 10.2 is due Thursday, and the 10.3 homework is due Friday.

Your final draft of the Profile Assignment is due (printed) at the end of class Friday. We will have a peer review session Thursday in class.   Profile Essay Checklist Attention getting introduction Clear thesis (includes main idea) Suggestion of organization Transitions between paragraphs Good paragraph development Two or three defining characteristics Use of quotes (at least one per par.) Good use of sensory details Connection to your life Conclusion Finally, correct college-level English

Your exam on 10.1 will be Friday. The notes are online , and the review will be on Thursday.

English II We are starting the Renaissance Period this week, and you should read the introduction to reinforce the notes. We will be talking about Shakespeare next week, but first we will talk about early Renaissance poetry . Your first assignments follow: For Thursday: Read "My Lute Awakes" (284) and "On Monsieur's Departure" (286) Answer #1-5 on 285 Answer CC and #2-5, 7 on 287 We will also talk about Wyatt's translation/adaptation of a Petrarchan sonnet, " Whoso List to Hunt " ( annotated here ). Then, we will discuss the two "pastoral" poems in your book (289-93). For Friday: Read 295-96 on the sonnet form Read the sonnets from Spenser and Shakespeare (297-306) The notes are already linked Answer #1-3 on 298, CC and #2-4, 5 on 300 Answer #1-3 on 303, #1-3 on 304, CC and #2-4 on 306