English 11-1 Assignments

Please use the below link to connect your Google Classroom account to your Realize Account.

For your Final, you will be creating a music project and presenting it to the class individually. Will start presenting on May 26th and continue through the day of the Final. 

In a Google Slides Presentation, you will identify and analyze 10 songs that represent you. Each song needs at least 2-3 sentences explaining why you chose those songs and an embedded example of the song from youtube. Additionally, you will choose one particular song you like and dedicate a slide to do a TPCASTT analysis of it. View the attached directions and examples from previous years for guidance.

Create a One-Pager on a Poster Paper and present to class starting on May 26. Take a picture of your One-Pager and attach here.

We will be focusing on reflecting on stories we've read in this semester and writing a 2-3 page narrative in response.

You will write a fictional narrative addressing this question:

“How do stressful situations often reveal the best and worst in people?”

I've attached a more detailed prompt explanation.

I've also attached resources from our textbook on what Narratives are, a few examples of them from different levels, and the rubric I am using to assess them.

Please use the attached Narrative Google Doc to type your essay.

This is Due May 27th

Answer these questions in preparation for a Socratic Seminar this week on Friday. 

Fill this out after your in-class discussion

Take a picture and submit by Friday Night

How was your Spring Break?

Essential Question: What is the relationship between literature and place? What have you learned about the relationship between literature and place by reading this story?

Essential Question: What is the relationship between literature and place? What have you learned about the relationship between literature and place by reading this story?

On the PDF version of the text on in your physical textbook, work on page 429. Work on a separate sheet of paper and turn in by Friday after your quiz. 

Read A Literature of Place by Barry Lopez on Savas Realize or on page 462 of your textbook. Answer the questions with your group. Be prepared to discuss this text with the whole class. Share the document with your group.  Make a copy and turn in individually by Friday. 

At least 3 passages of setting from the whole book. 

Please finish on your own. 

Please do this on the paper you received in class. If you're joining us at a distance, take a picture and upload it before the deadline. 

Answer these questions on paper and bring your answers on Friday. 

Discuss the questions as a group and post your answers individually by Friday. Please work on this day to day and not all at once on Friday.

Work with your group. Look at the pages listed on the attachment. Work on the passages together. Make a copy and turn in your own docs by Friday.

If you are absent the day of the Socratic Seminar (Thursday), please complete the questions in a Google Doc and submit digitally.

On your own, read Chapter 4 and answer the study guide questions attached

With a partner, go over Ch. 5 again and look for words and phrases that sound particularly poetic, descriptive, etc.  Put them on a physical sheet of paper and create a poem using words and phrases from the chapter. Use a poster or printer blank paper, take a picture of it, and have each student submit by midnight this Friday. 

In approximately one intelligent paragraph of writing, analyze the differences between the book andthe various different film adaptations of the story.  Comment on each movie’s textual accuracy, and evaluate whether the changes from book to movie improve the story. 

This is due at the end of the day tomorrow (We’re just doing two movies this time….)

Read Chapter 2 and work on these questions individually as you read. Quiz on chapters 2-3 will be on Friday.

Work with your group to complete this Graphic Organizer. You may create your own physical paper, create your own google doc and attach it, or any other option approved by me.

Compare and contrast the movies' party scene. Which is closest to the book? Which do you like? Explain your ideas. 

Use at least 3 sources for your essay about Fear. One is your own experience, one is the Crucible, and the last one is your choice.  More so than the Cancel Culture Project, finding a good academic source is crucial part of this essay.  There are several good stories about fear in our textbook. They can be accessed through the physical textbook or through the browse feature on Saavas Realize.

Please place links to your sources in the notes section of each slide where you got the info from. 


We will present this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week.  Part 2 of your final will be an individual essay.

Review Act 3 on your own and complete a Flipgrid video in response to what happens in the reading. Your response should be a combination of summary and analysis. See the attachment for more ideas on what to include in your video. This will be due Sunday.

Answer questions on a separate piece of paper or Google Doc.. You must answer the questions
in a way that gives you a BINGO! This is independent work.

With a small group or a partner, annotate the passages on the google slide. Everyone turn in their own copy. 

Take a picture and submit on Google Classroom

Read the Dramatic Exposition introduction to the Crucible in class and complete cornell notes while you read.  


Essential Question: What connections can be made between the Puritan Society and the Red Scare Era.

This is option 2 for your Narrative Presentation

If you do want to read your essay to the class, you may choose an alternative presentation option. Here is one option:

In a Google Slides Presentation, you will identify and analyze 10 songs that represent you. Each song needs at least 2-3 sentences explaining why you chose those songs and an embedded example of the song from youtube. Additionally, you will choose one particular song you like and dedicate a slide to do a TPCASTT analysis of it. View the attached directions and examples from previous years for guidance.

Attach a Blank Doc or your essay here so that I can score you.


Students should annotate their written narrative in preparation for the oral presentation, marking
the important elements (anecdotes, dialogue, and sensory language) as well as details that describe why they are unique individuals.

The effectiveness of an oral narrative relies on how the speaker establishes credibility with his or her audience. If a speaker comes across as confident and authoritative, it will be easier for the audience

This week, we will be reading to selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson on individualism.  We are going to repeat our Partner Work on finding a poem within the selections. Read and Highlight the poem as a whole class then discuss with your group how to construct your group poem. 

Meet with your groups after reading the Emerson selections and discuss the moments you highlighted. Have a discussion and note what you discussed on the attached document.  Have one group member turn it in with everyone's name. Have a speaker ready to present. 

Partner Work

Project

Please complete the following close look at I'm Nobody on your home during class. This is due by midnight tonight.

Discuss It This poem, read by its author at President Barack Obama’s 2013 inaugural, praises America as a society of individuals. How do the details of the poem present individual
Americans? What connections among individuals does Blanco see?

View the question of the day by selecting the Slides presentation and viewing today's day of the week. Open the google Journal Week 1 Google Doc and add your entry.


Entries should be about a paragraph (5 sentences) long.  Entries for the entire week will be due on Friday night of the same week.