Skip to main content

Homework

Sophomores
You are writing your paper in class tomorrow. Please bring your book, marked for content.  The essay itself should be around 500 words in length, formatted according to MLA.

Seniors
Your job for tonight is to locate and print a source on the topic of illegal immigration. The question you will answer in your paper on Thursday is the following:
"What is the best solution to the problem of illegal immigration?"  
Possibilities include (but are not limited to) increased border security, increased crackdown on unlawful employment, deportation, laws like Arizona's that make it easier for INS to find illegals, improved and/or quicker path towards naturalization, and amnesty for tax-paying illegal residents. You could focus your research on statistics, stereotyping/profiling, existing laws, proposed laws (i.e. Dream Act), or a candidate's platform, for example.

Popular posts from this blog

Juniors ~ Restoration Period

For more on the Restoration Period, go to the homepage for the Norton Anthology of English Literature . Click on the picture below to go to Wikipedia's page on Hogarth's Marriage a-la-mode :
Read more

Seniors ~ Three (Small) Writing Assignments

As you work on your memory books this week and next, you should also be working on the end-of-year writing assignments.  I've given you a handout (if you were on class): A letter to your future self -- imagine yourself four years from now...where will you be, and what will you be doing?  Is it what you planned?  What do you hope to remember about NOW?  What's important?  Address your future self in a letter (standard form), and enclose it in a self-address envelope.  I won't read it, but I do need to know you've done it, so don't seal it. A reflective paragraph that will serve as the introduction to your memory book.  What is your overall impression of your high school years?  What do you want to remember most? Finally, write a poem about your senior class.  The form and tone of the poem is up to you: funny, serious or sad; rhyming couplets, ballad, or free verse.  However you write it, though, please take it seriously.  A copy of this poem should go in your memory ...
Read more

Homework

Seniors Your exam is on Thursday, and your final essay is on Friday. I'll talk more about the essay in class tomorrow. Also, the senior auction project lacks one more important detail - your memories! We will spend a bit of time tomorrow in class writing down some of your fondest memories of your senior year, and the rest of your time at RO.  Sophomores Read "Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey," and complete the questions at the end of the selection in your book. As always, please use complete sentences and cite frequently from the text.
Read more