Assignments for April 25 - 29, 2011

Students will be taking the TAKS test this week. Freshmen will test Thursday and Friday; juniors will test Wednesday - Friday. The school schedule will change only for Thursday and Friday. Please refer to the EHS main site for more information regarding schedule changes.

My hall duty this week will be on Tuesday morning. I will not be available before school either Monday or Tuesday morning for tutoring.

Pre-AP English I -

• Read and discuss Act II of Romeo & Juliet



• Independent reading style analysis assignment due Monday, April 25th



• View Acts I and II of the 1968 Franco Zeffirelli version of Romeo & Juliet


• Independent reading one-pager due Friday, April 29th

Dual Credit 1302 -

• Students should have scheduled research paper conferences already.



• We will continue working with research papers and annotated bibliographies this week.



• TAKS testing Wednesday - Friday. Do your best!!!

Assignments for April 18 - 22, 2011

No tutoring on Monday, April 18th due to an after-school meeting.

Pre-AP English I -

• Complete Act I readings and study questions


• Test covering Act I


• Begin reading Act II


• Homage to Shakespeare this Friday--Projects due on that date (see assignment page distributed in class)


• Independent style analysis project moved to Monday, April 25th (see examples distributed in class)

Dual Credit 1302 -

• View part I of Oedipus


• The Scarlet Letter critical scholarly article discussion


• All research sources due IN CLASS on Wednesday, April 20th


• Research paper conferences must be scheduled for April 19th - May 2nd (remember, 9th-grade tutoring takes place on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons)


• Revise annotated bibliography


• Revise poetry explications

Focu Poems for Dual Credit Poetry Test

"Eagle Poem" (638) "A Work of Artifice" (785) "The Bells" (870)" "The Geese" (957) "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (972) "I Hear America Singing" (1191)

For the Week of April 4 - 8, 2011

I'm sorry the blog is not updated this week. As many of you already know, it was blocked by our district technology office for some reason. I've just discovered that it is now back up and running. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused any of you, but this technical difficulty was beyond my control.

Pre-AP English I-

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  Students completed the STAAR test on Monday and Tuesday


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  Review of Shakespeare's background information (Renaissance England, Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, Elizabethan theater)


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  First summative exam administered on Friday, April 8th


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  Reminder: Shakespeare's birthday project, April 22nd


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  Independent reading stylistic analysis due April 22nd

Dual Credit 1302

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  Students worked on and presented poetry explication lessons in class


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  Annotated bibliographies due Friday, April 8th


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  Reminder: The Scarlet Letter article discussions are on April 18th


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  Research Paper Draft Conferences: April 18th - May 2nd


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  Final Research Paper: May 13th


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  The Scarlet Letter project: May 7th

Assignments for March 28 - April 1, 2011

Pre-AP English I -

• Discuss expectations for the independent reading project


• Introduce Elizabethan/Renaissance theater


• Learn about Shakespeare's background and writings


• Complete background test

Dual Credit 1302 -

• Discuss expectations for the Scarlet Letter novel project


• Prepare poetry explication lessons regarding Dickinson, Frost, Hughes, and Plath


• Begin presenting poetry lessons on Friday

Assignments for March 21 - 25, 2011

This is the last week of this nine-weeks term.

I will probably be absent on Friday.

All grade/late work concerns need to be handled before then.

Pre-AP English I -

• Discuss Animal Farm as an allegory
• Review persuasive appeals in Animal Farm
• Nine-weeks exam on Thursday
• Pamphlets due by Wednesday
• Coming up: Romeo & Juliet

Dual Credit 1302 -

• Introduction to library databases on Monday
• Review literary analysis paragraphs in class on Tuesday
• Discussion of poems in first three chapters of poetry unit
• Remember: Research topics must be approved prior to starting research. Unapproved topics will earn a 0 on the research paper. Get topics in quickly!

Assignments for March 7 - 11, 2011

**Because I will be in a parent conference, there will be no tutoring Monday after school.

***It has not yet certain whether or not I will be in school on Thursday. Please check with me Wednesday to find out if I will be in school for tutoring on Thursday.

Pre-AP English I -

• Students will finish reading Animal Farm, 2 chapters per evening
• Reading check quizzes will be administered daily
• Students will begin preparing and publishing an objective newspaper article and a persuasive pamphlet in response to portions of Animal Farm
• Students will note and discuss propaganda techniques illustrated through Animal Farm
• Students will work on grammatical elements commonly found in the research papers

Dual Credit 1302

• Students will discuss the research process, focusing on the annotated bibliography and noted and source cards
• Students should independently read chapters 32-36 in the Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers
• Students will discuss the different types of plagiarism and how to avoid them
• Students will begin explicating poems in class