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Little Brother Presentations 2016

Sophomores Your exam will be on Tuesday, February 2nd. Read the selections from Gulliver's Travels for tomorrow, and answer the questions following Lilliput, including the vocabulary. The vocab will be on next week's test, as well. Seniors Your presentations are DUE before class tomorrow. I plan on getting there early and creating a public folder. Please don't forget to share your Slides with me. There will be a 10 point late penalty for those that don't get it done by 8:00. In other words, go ahead and share it! All changes between now and then will be saved.

Sophomores You should have a handout on Alexander Pope (soccer folks can pick one up by the door). Please "Essay on Man" in your handout and answer #1-7 on p525 for Tuesday Read "Rape of the Lock" in your handout, and answer #1-8 on p533 for Wednesday Seniors For Wednesday, bring at least ONE credible source related to your topic , printed out before class. This is a homework grade. We will work on presentations in class and continue discussion on Thursday.

Seniors Your next 100-point assignment is to produce a slide presentation using Google Slides . Your topics should be related to the book Little Brother , whether generated in class discussion or mentioned in the book's bibliography. Your presentations will be made public to your class on Friday. You must include a title page, at least six content pages (with both images and text), and a citation page. Specifically, you must follow the formatting and content guidelines outlined in the assignment: Tech Presentation . Each student will be investigating a different topic, so that we can all learn more about some of the people/technology/ideas presented by Doctorow.

Seniors Quiz tomorrow on Little Brother chapters 4-8. We will write in class on Friday. Sophomores Quiz Friday on Pepys, DeFoe, and Non-fiction (including The Spectator ). Your exam will be Friday of next week. Answer the following for Thursday: CC, 2-5 on p552 Vocab A and B on p553

Sophomores Answer the questions following the excerpt from Paradise Lost : CC, 2-6, and 8. Quiz on Friday. Seniors Read the first three chapters of Little Brother . FYI, here is an article explaining gait recognition research (conducted at Georgia Tech). In addition, please access the following Google Doc so it will be on your drive (in recent docs): Little Brother Vocab . There are several vocabulary terms to define (just follow the directions on the document), and it should help you with overall comprehension as you read the book. Although you will not turn this in, it will serve as a study guide for your exam, which will include over half of these terms. Also, I have linked a study guide to the novel (note that this is not my original file).

Sophomores Your homework tonight is to read the following poems by John Milton and to answer the questions at the end of the selections: " How Soon Hath Time " (#1-3 on 477) " When I Consider How My Light Is Spent " (CC and #1-3, 5 on 470) Seniors Have your copy of Little Brother on Wednesday.

Seniors, your essay this week is a summary of the article we've been discussing: "Education Is Not The Answer." By now, you should know what the title really means. Start your summary by introducing the article (and author) and stating the thesis or main idea. Then proceed to each paragraph, summarizing as you go. The end result will be no more than 1/2 the length of the original, or about 500 words. For suggestions on summary, please refer to the following from the University of Washington: How To Write a Summary . As a basic strategy, make sure you are summarizing rather than paraphrasing - or re-wording. I want to make sure you understand the basic concepts presented in the article, and that is best measured through summary. Include the main ideas only, quoting only when absolutely necessary to maintain the specific language of the author (or person being quoted), and quoting word or phrases only , not entire sentences.

Seniors Please buy a copy of Little Brother  (Doctorow) by Wednesday, January 13th. The book is available from the author for free download . Of course, you would have to print out the text in order to bring it to class. This week, we are going to consider an essay on education in the age of technology: Education Is Not The Answer (Part 1) . I'll distribute copies tomorrow in class, or you can print your own Google Doc version . Next week we will discuss privacy issues -- cameras, drones, wiretaps, Snowden , Anonymous , and Wikileaks -- and net neutrality. Come prepared to discuss. Sophomores Please read the two Bacon essays: " Of Studies " and " Of Marriage and Single Life " for Wednesday. For Thursday, please read " Song " and " The Flea " - both by Donne. The last three readings from Donne are on pages 451-56, and the associated homework is below (due Friday): #1-4 on p453 #1-3 on p454 #2-4 on p456 Finally, on Frida...

Sophomores Expect notes and a quiz on Friday. Seniors  The second semester of senior English is focused on technology, current events and fiction. We will continue to write argument, analysis and synthesis essays, and AP students will prepare for the multiple-choice section of the exam. It should be noted that all DE students must go through the process of enrolling in (and paying for) their classes at ULM. Also, only those that received a "C" or higher can take ENG 1002. Everyone should already be enrolled from December, and I should receive rosters soon.