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English 10 Honors (Period 4 & 6) Assignments
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- 2013 Fall
- 2014 Spring
- Department
- English
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- C-5
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Course Overview: This course offers students challenging experiences with genre-based American Literature. Students will read and respond to historically or culturally significant American Literature in a manner consistent with advanced levels of expectations and performance.
The central purpose of this course is to allow students the opportunity to read and respond to historically and culturally significant works of American literature and produce evidence of comprehension by conducting in-depth analyses of recurrent patterns and themes which reflect the evolution of the American voice.
Students will be given the opportunity to complete integrated tasks individually and in groups through a variety of authentic assessments. As an honors level class, students are expected to perform at a consistently high level in reading, writing, speaking and presentation. The English 10 Honors course meets the current California State Standards for grade 10 and the school-to-work guidelines (i.e. SCANS report.)
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Creative Writing Option (you have an additional day if you choose this)
Write your own “quest” story. Be sure to include all of the aspects of a quest that Wright includes in his adventure to get groceries.
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Charting Archetypes Option
Create a chart that identifies the archetypes used in Wright’s story.
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Read Ch.13-19 of The Catcher in the Rye
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Research Paper due
Turn it in online and bring a hard copy to class
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Read Ch.1-5 of The Catcher in the Rye
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Research Paper Outline
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Read "A Noiseless Flash" and answer Qs #6, 9, and the Writing (only 1 paragraph response necessary)
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Revise 2 of the example paragraphs on the tone WS
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Read Ch.5-6
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Read Ch.4
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Read Ch.3 of The Great Gatsby
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Read The Great Gatsby Ch.2
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Explore the Roaring 20's simulation. There will likely be a quiz on the content of the simulation.
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Read "Hills Like White Elephants" and answer the reading questions.
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Annotate and interpret Frost's "Out, Out -"
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Read the Robert Frost bio on pg.716-717 and "The Mending Wall" on pg.727-728.
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Open Mind activity
1) Illustrate images & symbols used in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
2) Include quotes and cite line numbers for the lines you used which contain the quotes. These can either be incorporated into your illustration or listed on the back.
3) Write an interpretation of these images and how they contribute to the author's message.
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Read e.e.cummings poems on pg.602-603 Pay attention to the poems' unusual syntax
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Read Marianne Moore's "Poetry" and Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"
Be prepared to answer questions about what each of these authors sees as the purpose of poetry.
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Read "A Pair of Silk Stockings" & "Now and then America"
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Editorial Critique
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Read "The Lowest Animal" (pg.469) and answer the yellow-boxed questions
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Read "Love is a Fallacy"
Identify each fallacy used in the story and the exact example used.
For each fallacy, write your own example.
Ex. Dicto Simpliciter - "Dicto Simpliciter means an argument based on an unqualified generalization. For example: Exercise is good. Therefore everybody should exercise."
[your original example here]
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Evaluating an Argument. Find an example of persuasion and analyze it by answering the questions on the worksheet.
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Read "To Build a Fire"
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Write one well-focused paragraph in which you compare and contrast the basic attitudes and beliefs of the Romantic writers with those of the realist writers. Focus on one particular aspect of these styles, for example, the topics explored, characteristics of plot, the philosophical and social influences, the characters, the tone, etc.
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Realism Notes
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Huck Finn discussion board posts completed
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Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (see Reading Timeline for pacing guide)
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Read "O Captain! My Captain!" and analyze using the 6-Step Guide
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- Read Longfellow poems & annotate 1 of them
- Read Whitman bio & "I Hear America Singing"
- Read Dickinson bio & "Apparently with no surprise"
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Read Emerson's "Nature" and "Self-Reliance"
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Read the Umami article, listen to the podcast (it's short) and answer the reading questions
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Read "The Pit and the Pendulum" pg.257-268
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Read "The Minister's Black Veil" pgs. 239-249
Answer the yellow-boxed reading questions & Literary Response questions # 8, 9, 12
Answer the yellow-boxed reading questions & Literary Response questions # 8, 9, 12
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Read "The Devil and Tom Walker"
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Finish reading your assigned article and be prepared to share notes with your group.
Links to the articles can be found on the class wiki
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1) Read the "Harlem" by Langston Hughes. This poem is alluded to in the title of the play you are about to read and is likely closely tied to important themes in the play. Don't immediately look at the annotations and analysis provided. Read it once just for enjoyment, then again to try and understand its meaning yourself; afterwards, take a look at the analysis provided.
2) Make a connection with the text. You don't need to write anything, but be prepared to share your impression of the poem and how the poem could relate to you and/or others.
The text can be found here:
http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Langston-hughes-harlem-lyrics
2) Make a connection with the text. You don't need to write anything, but be prepared to share your impression of the poem and how the poem could relate to you and/or others.
The text can be found here:
http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Langston-hughes-harlem-lyrics
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Read Native American Literature pg. 23-25 and identify examples of archetypes used in those stories. Be prepared to share your answers and to give other examples of the archetypes you identified.
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Complete the "Practice and Review" WS for Franklin's autobiography and "Poor Richard's Almanack"
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Parallelism and Loaded Words:
Read from "The Autobiography: The Declaration of Independence" in your Holt Textbook (pg.97-103) and answer questions 5 & 6 on pg.104
Read from "The Autobiography: The Declaration of Independence" in your Holt Textbook (pg.97-103) and answer questions 5 & 6 on pg.104
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Illustrate a metaphor or image from Edwards' sermon "Sinners in the hands of an angry God". Include the quote from which the metaphor or image is found and write one paragraph explaining how this image supports the author's message.
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Parallelism WS
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Read "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" (pgs.45-48) and answer the yellow-boxed reading questions.
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Read the introduction to Ch. 1, Encounters and Foundations to 1800, in the Holt textbook. Complete the attached notes. Notes can be bullet points of important ideas from each section.
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Signed class syllabus
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TSL Syntax WS (just identify 3 significant pieces of syntax and explain their purpose)