river oaks [english]

Seniors Your Profile Essays are due Tuesday , but your book essay has been moved to Wednesday because of baseball and tennis. Your letters are due then, as well. And don't forget to bring your materials for the memory book to work on in class. Juniors Please finish Part Two of Nineteen Eighty-Four and questions for Tuesday . Sophomores Please have Part One of Fahrenheit 451 read by Wednesday . We will be discussing the book in class all week.

Seniors Your typed rough draft of the "Profile" essay is due tomorrow. We will have a peer review day.  Also, please remember the following deadlines: In-Class AP Reading Essay - Tuesday, May 1st  Final draft of "Profile" essay  - due Tuesday, May 1st Letter to Future Self (in self-addressed envelope) - due Wednesday, May 2nd Memory Book assignment - due Friday, May 4th Juniors Read Part Two of 1984 and complete questions for homework credit (see if you don't have them). Questions are due on Monday. Expect a quiz. Sophomores Read "A Noiseless Flash" (Hersey) tonight, and bring your copy of Fahrenheit 451 to class tomorrow.

Read 1072-74 & 1088-93, and answer the following questions on 1093 for homework credit: comp check and #3-6. Remember to purchase a copy of Fahrenheit 451 by this Friday.

Sophomores  Please purchase a copy of Fahrenheit 451 if you have not already. We will read some selections from the textbook first and then begin the novel this weekend. Juniors Continue to read Part Two of Nineteen Eighty-Four . We are having a comprehension quiz on Monday.

As noted in class, the assessment essay for your dual enrollment course is a profile of a fellow student. Below is the assignment as it appears on ULM's Moodle site for Freshman Composition (with additions by me): Interviews will take place on Thursday, April 26th Rough Draft due on Friday, April 27th Final Draft due on Tuesday, May 1st Our upcoming essay will strengthen your writing skills while building a sense of community in our classroom. On our interview day, I will put you into groups, and you will interview one group member. Your goal is to write a profile of your interviewee. In that profile, you will show readers what is unique/special/meaningful about this person. You will also give a good sense of his or her personality/body language/attitude/etc. We will look at several examples of profile writing in class. You might also look at newspaper and magazine articles that introduce semi-famous people (up-and-coming actors, college athletes, newly drafted a...

Seniors Make sure you have turned in BOTH essays - the revision and the in-class analysis. Have a good weekend. Juniors Read the rest of Part One of Nineteen Eighty-Four . Get a copy of the questions and answer them this weekend for 20 points - pass/fail - won't count against you. Reading and going over those questions will prepare you for a quiz on Monday. Sophomores Finish Old Man and the Sea this weekend. We will have a test on the book and the vocabulary on Tuesday.

Seniors First, you should be working on your revision, due Friday with original attached. Second, remember to bring both annotated articles to class tomorrow. We will create thesis statements and outlines in class and, if you bring them, we can also look at your revised drafts. Juniors Read through Chapter V of Section One in 1984 . Be prepared for a reading quiz. Sophomores Be prepared for a quiz on the first two sections of readings in Old Man and the Sea . Continue reading to p84.

Juniors Homework is optional for the remainder of the year.  It will not count against you; however, if you do it, it WILL raise your grade. Your choice. Bring your copy of 1984 to class tomorrow. Sophomores Read through p28 in Old Man and The Sea for tomorrow. Expect a reading reading quiz every day this week. I will pass out vocabulary tomorrow in class. Seniors Your revision is due on Friday. You must attach the handwritten original to pass.  We will continue to prepare for the AP this week. No books necessary.

Seniors Finish AP Test #5 for tomorrow and turn in the answers on a separate sheet of paper for homework credit.  We will continue to go over the answers in class. Juniors Tomorrow we will be preparing for the ACT on the 14th. Please have both the English and the Reading sections completed when you come to class.  Remember too that over the break you need to purchase a copy of Orwell's 1984 . Sophomores I will be introducing Old Man and The Sea tomorrow in class, as well as giving some general information and advice about the ACT. Come back from the break with your book.

Seniors I will pass out in-class essays tomorrow in class to be revised by Thursday.  We will also go over the answers for AP test #4, and I will pass out AP test #5. Juniors Read the section on T.S. Eliot (p1060-74), and we will discuss tomorrow in class. Also, work through the ACT English and Reading practice tests to be discussed in class over the course of this next week. Exam on  Wednesday . Sophomores Questions on "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" due Exam on Wednesday ACT prep on Thursday

Seniors We will go over the answers to AP test #4 and then write the essay on television.  The prompt to prepare for is as follows: Citing at least three of the included essays (pp766-87), write an essay explaining whether you view television as beneficial or detrimental to society. You may choose either side or qualify your opinion, but as always your thesis must be supported with clear evidence and logical reasoning. Juniors Read "The Duchess and the Jeweller" by Woolf and be prepared for a comprehension quiz on Monday. We will also discuss Eliot and prepare for the ACT. Yes, I am still grading research papers. Sophomores Read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by Eliot and prepare for your Modernism   Exam   on Wednesday.

Seniors Read the article "TV Makes You Smarter" in your book and answer the analysis questions at the end (#1-5). Juniors Read "Araby" by Joyce, answer the questions at the end (CC and #2-5), and be ready for a quiz. Sophomores Read the Intro to Modernism and the section on Robert Frost. Be ready to discuss poem tomorrow in class. Also, be ready to write.

Seniors You are writing your comparison/contrast essay tomorrow in class. The topic is one issue central to the Republican primary - i.e. energy, taxes, education, or health care. The best way to prepare is to make a two-columned chart, lining up specific point of comparison. For example, if you were comparing the platforms of Romney and Santorum on education, then you might focus on their opinion of "No Child Left Behind," or school choice (or vouchers), or religion in school. Your essay should include specifics from their plans, and your sources must be attached. Juniors Read pages 982-86 if you have not done so already. For tomorrow, please read the following and answer questions: William Butler Yeats (p988-92) "The Second Coming" (#1-3), and "Sailing to Byzantium" (#2-5) W.H. Auden (p1076-81) "Musee des Beaux Arts" (#1-4), and "The Unknown Citizen" (#2-5) Sophomores Read "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" by Zora N...

Some of you will be able to vote in Saturday's primary, and of course the general presidential election will be held in the fall. So this week we are discussing the Republican candidates. The paper at the end of the week will be a comparison of the candidates' positions on a central issue. Your homework is to gather evidence, printing out the candidates' positions from their websites. We will discuss/debate in class. Republican Candidates: Mitt Romney Rick Santorum Newt Gingrich Ron Paul Of course, any of these candidates would be running against Barack Obama in the general election.

Juniors Please read the following Victorian poems and answer the questions that follow: Matthew Arnold - "Dover Beach" (#1-4) Thomas Hardy - "The Man He Killed" (#1-3), "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" (#1-4), "The Convergence of the Twain" (#2-3) A.E. Housman - "When I Was One-and-Twenty" (#1-4), "To An Athlete Dying Young" (#2-3) Sophomores Read the section on "A New Cultural Identity: The Harlem Renaissance" and the works of Langston Hughes (916-927) and answer the following questions: #1-3 on 925 #1-3 on 926 " Harlem " #2-5 on 928 " The Weary Blues " #6 write a paragraph using specific examples from the text Rhapsodies in Black - Art of the Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance   - from John Carroll University

For homework, answer the following questions: "Chicago" by Sandburg - p826 #1-4 "Lucinda Matlock" by Masters - p828 #2-5 "Richard Cory" by Robinson - p831 #1-5 "Miniver Cheevy" by Robinson - p833 #2-5 FYI, the book I mentioned in class is Devil in the White City , by Erik Larsen.

You have three handouts this week, all with accompanying homework:  "Mark of the Beast," by Rudyard Kipling, #2-8 "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell, CC #2-6 "Once Upon a Time" by Nadine Gordimer, #2-6 We will continue to discuss colonial literature this week and have a quiz on ALL THREE stories on Friday, including the vocabulary (words to know).

We are fast approaching the end of the third quarter. Everyone needs to check grades and make sure you have turned everything in. It is your responsibility to make up work you miss when out for sports, appointments, or for any other reason. All grades are due Friday, so that means I must have all late work by Thursday.

ALL Honors students will be writing independent reading essays on MONDAY, March 12th. Sophomores You have an EXAM on Friday on Women's Literature (Unit 5: Part 1), including the following works and their authors: "A Wagner Matinee" (689) Historical Background (742) Poetry of Emily Dickinson (746-61) "The Yellow Wallpaper" (765) "The Story of an Hour" (783) "Seventeen Syllables" (788) "I Stand Here Ironing" (806) Juniors You have a QUIZ on Friday on the "Introduction to the Victorian Period" and Tennyson. Seniors Your QUIZ on the last section of AP rhetorical terms is next week.  Study them .

Have a great break, everyone!