Outside Reading for 4th Term

You may choose a novel by an author from this list:




F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Amy Tan
Ray Bradbury
William Faulkner
Maya Angelou
Tony Hillerman
Willa Cather
Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind
Olive Ann Burns: Cold, Sassy Tree
Sandra Cisneros: House on Mango Street
Victor Martinez: Parrot in the Oven




Please keep in my your own family standards, and pick something you feel comfortable reading.

Term 4 Calendar

Mrs. Loveless                                                                  4^th Term                                                               Honors/IB English 11

	A March 19 Begin Inherit the Wind, Begin citation journal of significant quotes with responses	B March 20 Begin Inherit the Wind, Begin citation journal of significant quotes with responses	A  March 21 Vocabulary, Inherit, 5 quotes and responses	B March 22 Vocabulary, Inherit, 5 quotes and responses
A March 25 Inherit, 5 quotes, responses, Root Words	B March 26 Inherit, 5 quotes, responses, Root Words	A March 27 Inherit, 5 quotes, responses,  Intro #1 stamped, Root Words	B March 28 Inherit, 5 quotes, responses,  Intro #1 stamped, Root Words	A March 29 Inherit, 5 quotes, responses,      Intro #2 stamped, Root Words
Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break
B April 8 Inherit, 5 quotes, responses,      Intro #2 stamped, Root Words	A April 9 Inherit, Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly,    Intro #3 stamped, Root Words, vocab test	B April 10   Inherit, Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly,   Intro #3 stamped, Root Words, vocab test	A  April 11 Inherit the Wind Final/Book Card Due, turn in quotes, Intro to Great Gatsby	B April 12  Inherit the Wind Final/Book Card Due, turn in quotes,Intro to Great Gatsby
A April 15  Have read ch. 1 & 2 Gatsby, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped	B April 16 Have read ch. 1 & 2 Gatsby, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped	A April 17   Have read ch. 3-4 Gatsby, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped	B April 18 Have read ch. 3-4 Gatsby, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped	A April 19  Have read ch. 5-6, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped
B April 22 Have read ch. 5-6, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped	A April 23  Have read ch. 7-8, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped	B April 24  Have read ch. 7-8, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped	A April 25 Have read chapter 9, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped	B April 26 Have read chapter 9, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped
A April 29 Gatsby vocab test, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in class activity	B April 30 Gatsby vocab test, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in class activity	A May 1 The Great Gatsby Final, Book Card Due, turn in quote cards	B May 2 The Great Gatsby Final, Book Card Due, turn in quote cards	B May 3 Root Words Review for Test, Write-up of “Prufrock” experience due
B May 6 Root Words Review for Test, Write-up of “Prufrock” experience due	A May 7 Root Words Test A Short Story in class	B May 8 Root Words Test A Short Story in class	A May 9  Parade of American Authors, Bring a Poem to Share and explicate	B May 10 Parade of American Authors, Bring a Poem to Share and explicate,
A May 13  William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, A Short Story	B May 14 William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, A Short Story	A May 15 Gwendolyn Brooks, “Every Day Use” Alice Walker, Hemingway	B May 16 Gwendolyn Brooks, “Every Day Use” Alice Walker, Hemingway	A May 17 Personal Narrative
B May 20  Personal Narrative	A May 21 Bring a 6 word short story, Outside Reading Due!	B May 22  Bring a 6 word short story Outside Reading Due!	A May 23 Personal Narrative due	B May 24 Personal Narrative due Last day for late work
Memorial Day No School	A May 28 Sharing Personal Narratives	B May 29 Sharing PN, Test Day	A May 30 Test Day	A/B May 31

Major Points for 4^th Term:     Reading quizzes:  around 300 points                              Outside Reading American 20^th Century Novel:  100 points

Root Words Worksheet:  60 points                                Finals for Inherit, Gatsby: 200 points

Root Words Final:  100 points                                         Citations and Responses for both:  300 points

Book Cards for both:  200 points                                    Prufrock explication:  50 points

Three intros:  50/50/100                                                 Six-word Short Story and poem:  50 points

Vocabulary tests:  100 points                                          Personal Narrative:  100 points

 

 

 

Roots

WORD ELEMENTS (ROOTS, PREFIXES, SUFFIXES)

Examples of words                                  Guess at meaning

1.  a, an
2.  ab
3.  ambul
4.  ante
5.  anti, ant
6.  audi
7.  auto
8.  be
9.  bene
10.  cede, ceed, cess
11.  chron
12.  cide, cis
13.  circum
14.  clud, clus, claus
15.  con, com
16.  contra, counter
17.  cred
18.  cycl
19.  de
20.  dei, div

 

21.  demo
22.  dia
23.  dict
24.  dis:        dys:
25.  duc, duct
26.  dyn, dyna
27.  ecto
28.  endo
29.  equi
30.  e, ex
31.  extra, exter
32.  flu, flux
33.  flect, flex
34.  graph, gram
35.  hetero
36.  homo
37.  hyper
38.  hypo
39.  in, im
40.  infra
41.  inter, intro
42.  intra
43.  jac, ject
44.  mal
45. mega
46.  meso

 

47.   meta
48.  meter
49.  micro
50.  mis
51.  mit, miss
52.  morph
53.  multi
54.  neo
55.  non
56.  omni
57.  para
58.  per
59.  peri
60.  phon
61.  phot
62. port
63.  re
64.  retro
65.  scrib, script
66.  sect. sec
67.  semi
68.  spect
69.  sub
70.  super, supra
71.  syn
72.  tele
73.  theo, the
74.  therm, thermo

 

75.  tract
76.  un
77.  veh, vect
78.  vert, vers
79.  vita
80.  mono, uni, bi, di,  tri, quat, quad, quint, penta, hex, ses, sex, sept, oct, non, dec, cent, mill, kilo, mega, giga, tera, milli, micro, nano, pico, femto