Gatsby Links

Here are some helpful links for our Gatsby unit.

1.  Reading Schedule
2.  Study Guide
3.  "Rise of the Colored Empires" article -- helps you answer question #8 on the study guide.

RESEARCH SURVEY TO TAKE THURSDAY

Links for Gatsby Research

Here are some links you will need for Gatsby research:

(you will need to sign in to your school Google account before accessing these documents)

1.  2nd Hour Choosing a Topic Page

2.  6th Hour Choosing a Topic Page
3.  Groups for Project
4.  Project Instructions
5.  Annotated Bibliography Format
6.  Annotated Bibliography Checklist (how to get an A)
7.  Presentation Checklist:  Be ready to present Tuesday 4/15

Week of March 24th

Hope you had a good spring break!

This week we are finishing up our short story unit with a Flannery O'Connor story called "The Life You Save May Be Your Own."

Here is the schedule:

Monday:  Close read first few pages of story, discuss
Tuesday: Read "The Life You Save" and complete annotations
Wednesday: Socratic Seminar
Thursday: Test Review
Friday: Short Story Test, Creative assignment due to turnitin.com by midnight

Helpful Links:

1.  Full text of story with introduction (also on page 973 of the red textbook)
2.  Close Read
3.  Annotations for Seminar

Week of March 10th Assignments

You should have turned in your Death of a Salesman essay to turnitin.com on Friday--be sure to turn in your self-graded rubric into the box by Monday.

Assignments this Week:

Read "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell (full text here)

• Complete this assignment (double-entry journal and study guide questions)

Read "The Waltz" by Dorothy Parker (full text here)

• Complete this assignment (study guide questions)
• Creative writing part of the assignment is due Friday, March 28th

E-mail me if you have any questions and have a great spring break!

Links to Week of March 3rd Assignments

Remember: final drafts of the Death of a Salesman essay are due Friday to turnitin.com.  Be sure to grade yourself on the rubric and turn the paper into me by Monday, March 10.

You are welcome to send me drafts to look over up through Thursday.  I will send them back with notes on how you can improve them.

This week we will be reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Links:

1.  The story and supplemental readings with notes
2.  Study Guide

Test and Book Project Week

If you didn't finish the rough draft of your Death of a Salesman essay, be sure to turn that in as soon as possible.  If you were gone any days from Wednesday-Friday of last week, you get one or two extra days to turn it in for full credit.

Helpful links for the essay:
1.  Essay Packet
2.  Shaping Sheet

This week, we will be reviewing for the test on Monday and Tuesday, taking the test Wednesday, and presenting book projects on Thursday and Friday.

Remember: book projects should be in your hand at the beginning of class Thursday or e-mailed and shared with me before you walk in if you want full credit.

Helpful links:
1.  Test Review 
2.  Visual Book Project Assignment

Death of a Salesman Packets Due Monday

Use this link to the full text to work on your study guide; we will read the requiem together Monday as well.

Tentative schedule for next week:

Monday: 
-Read the requiem and discuss the play
-Prep for the Socratic seminar (assignment link here)

Tuesday:
-Socratic seminar

Wednesday-Friday:
-Prewriting for essay (essay packet here)
-Rough Draft
-Reading time on Friday 2/21
-Quiz over apostrophes on Friday (notes here, PPT for it here)

Grades So Far and Upcoming Due Dates

We have a few assignments listed in the gradebook so far.  They are as follows:

Minor:
1.  Reflective Letter
2.  Act I Questions pp. 1-23 (see packet for questions)
3.  Act I Questions pp. 24-51(see packet for questions)

Major:
1.  Technical Essay Rough Draft (link to packet)
2.  Technical Essay Final Draft
3.  Comma Splices Quiz
4.  Technical Presentation

Next week (Feb 3-7), we will finish our presentations, continue reading Death of a Salesman, and then have a reading day on Friday.  Be sure to have your book finalized that day as you will not be able to change it after Feb. 7th.

Upcoming Due Dates:
1.  Act II Questions (most likely due Monday or Tuesday, Feb 10th or 11th) (see packet for questions)
2.  Book Reading Days (Feb 7th and 21st)
3.  Book Project (Feb 27th)
4.  Various Grammar Quizzes

Death of a Salesman Full Text

Quick note:

If you miss class or need to finish an assignment, check out the link to the text of the play here.

Week(s) of January 6-17

Hi English 11 students!

Last week you were introduced to our first writing assignment, the technical essay.  You also turned in a letter to me worth 15 points and completed some prewriting notes worth 10.

This week, you will be turning in your rough drafts of the essay (10 major assessment points) and then we will be starting Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Here is the schedule for this week:

Monday 13th:
Last day in lab--rough draft due electronically by midnight or printed out by 3:30PM

Tuesday 14th:
Intro to Miller and Death of a Salesman, receive packet for unit

Wednesday 15th:
Choose parts and read pp 1-23 aloud in class

Thursday 16th:
Continue reading 1-23

Friday 17th:
Finish reading if necessary, complete questions, discuss *questions due by end of hour (13 pts)*

Upcoming assignments/activities: close reads, ACT grammar practice, independent reading project, final draft of tech writing assignment

Helpful Links:

1.  Technical Writing packet
2.  Death of a Salesman Packet