I am the Expert

“I am the Expert” Due: On the day established on the calendar Your oral presentation should be no longer than 3 minutes. Time yourself before you come to class. Possible Your Points Score 1. Show good eye contact with the audience. Don’t read off your report. Use a 3X5 card with notes to prompt you. 10 2. Sound enthusiastic about your topic. Don’t drone on and on. Show that you are excited about your area of expertise. Speak loudly and clearly. 10 3. Demonstration portion should be visually interesting. Show the audience the steps involved with the process or bring things that represent your area of expertise. 10 4. Sound as though you have actually practiced your presentation. You want a smooth performance without stammering, without “uhs” and “ums” and “you knows.” 10 5. You want to be sure to have prepared enough information. Remember, you are the expert. Be sure to study up. Know your stuff. Be prepared for any questions that students my have. 10 TOTAL 50 Your written report, about two typed pages in length, Times New Roman, size 14 font, needs to be turned in at the beginning of the period on the day you give you presentation. YOU MAY NOT USE IT IN YOUR PRESENTATION. You may use one 3 x 5 cards. The following includes some suggestions that you may want to use in your report: Tell how you became involved in your area of expertise. Include some of the history. What tools and/or equipment are necessary? Do you have a role model who is involved in this interest? What steps are involved? What do you predict as to the future popularity of this interest? What kinds of skills have you developed as a result of your interest in this hobby that have helped you in others areas of your life? Do you enjoy helping others learn about it? How does it make you feel? Why do you think you are interested in it? When, where, and with whom do you like to do this?1. This paper is typed, two pages, Times New Roman, 14 font, neat, and tidy. 10 2. This paper has an appropriate attention getting device. 10 3. A lot of who, where, why, when, what, and how questions are answered. 5 4. This paper is geared to its audience. 5 5. Good grammar, usage, and spelling are evident in this paper 10 6. Paragraphs contain only sentences that belong. 5 7. There is a thesis statement. Yes, even in an informal paper such as this one. 10 8. Sentence structure is varied. 5 9. There is a clear conclusion. 10 10. I learned something from this paper. 5 Total 75

Summer Reading Assignment

May 11, 2015 Dear Future Junior Honors English Students: As the school year is coming to a close, it is almost time to start thinking about summer. Picture yourself in the backyard hammock. The birds are singing. You are sipping a lemonade, and you are reading a great book. My hope for you is that you have already selected a few good books that are on your personal line-up, waiting on your nightstand, ready to offer you a vicarious adventure. By way of assignment, I would like to offer you the opportunity to read a really good book. It is not long, but it will keep your newly acquired analysis skills sharp. Please read The Chosen by Chaim Potok, and do the following activities: 1. Make a vocabulary list of at least twenty words from the book. Include definitions. Choose words that you think will provide a bit of a challenge to you and other classmates. Then create a brief vocabulary quiz, using all the words from your list. 2. For each chapter, select two lines that you think are particularly meaningful. They may speak to character or offer other insight about the story. Briefly tell why you think each line is significant. 3. Type a one page journal response to the book when you have finished it. You may include what you believe to be the theme of the book, your response to passages that were particularly powerful to you, and any possible personal connections you had with any of the characters or the events of the story. Please double space, and use 14 font, Times New Roman. Please avoid any Sparknotes-type website. I would not want to rob you of your own experience with the text. This is very important. If you are unsure about plot, or you have questions about characters, you may discuss the matter with another student or family member, but do not go to the web. I look forward to having a wonderful year next year. I’ve already heard good things about you—collectively, that is, and I am anxious to meet you. Make it a great summer! Sincerely, Mrs. Loveless Junior Honor English Teacher

le 28 avril

Bounjour!  Here is a list of your tasks to do today.  Please do them in order.  Stay busy.  Stay in French.

 

1.        http://frenchfair.byu.edu/information/2015-results/

Nous avons gagné plus que je pensais!

2.       http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/office/

Etudier le vocabulaire.

 

3.        

4.        Décrivez cinq personnes que vous connaissez avec  les cheveux différents.

5.       http://www.jeux-geographiques.com/jeux-en-ligne-Jeu-Villes-de-France-_pageid39.html

 

Tu es le plus intelligent de la classe?  Record your highest score.

 

6.       http://free-french-quiz.com/

Take these quizzes

Rubric for Huck Paper

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Research/Literary Analysis Paper


DUE: March 4 for B day classes, March 6 for A day classes
200 points

Late papers will receive half the credit they would have otherwise received, and probably half the comments from me.

Please familiarize yourself with this rubric, as your grade will be derived from it.

Name____________________________________________ Period_____ Date turned in______

1. Title page with name, date, teacher’s name, title, class, and period	5
2. Typed, double spaced, no spaces between paragraphs, Times New Roman font. I can’t accept a paper that is not typed.	5
3. Introduction has an attention-getting device that is appropriate for this type of scholarly paper.	10
4. Thesis statement is well-crafted, thoughtful, and gives the reader a road map of your paper. No laundry list thesis statements. Think "over-arching."	20
5. Paper is well-organized. Topic sentences are clear, mini-thesis statements for each paragraph. All sentence belong in their paragraphs. Transitions are used to guide the reader gently to the next idea. Paper should be around four pages long.	10
6. Sentence structure is sound and varied.	5
7. Paper contains few or no mechanical errors, such as punctuation, spelling, grammar, and usage.	10
8. Strong conclusion ties all the information into a nice package. Your thesis is proven. (No new information in conclusion.)	10
9. Work Cited page is flawless. You are required to use four sources. including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn itself. One must be a book source. One may be a blog. Refer to: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/	40
10. This paper has accurate parenthetical documentation throughout. Refer to: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/	40
11. Ideas are fresh, insightful, convincing, and strongly supported by compelling evidence. Your citations from other authors merely act as support to your own ideas. A good paper is not just a string of quotations.	10
12. Writing style should be a pleasure to read–-graceful, uncluttered, vivid. A good writer makes a paper easy for the reader to read. Quotations are woven into the text gracefully.	15
13. Writer shows he/she is aware of the audience. Scholarly language is appropriate for a paper such as this. A well developed counter-claim is offered, where appropriate.	15
14. Include this rubric, filled out with the scores you believe you will receive.	5
15. Extra credit option: Read your paper aloud to a parent
Total:	200

This paper must be significantly different from your oral presentation. If you are in doubt, clear it with me well in advance.

IDEAS AND TOPICS FOR YOUR HUCK FINN LITERARY ANALYSIS PAPER




You must still provide your own well-crafted thesis statement.





1. The overall American critical reaction to the publishing of The Adventures of Huck Finn in 1885 was summed up in one word: "trash". Louisa May Alcott (author of Little Women and Little Men) said, "If Mr. Clemens cannot think of anything better to tell our pure-minded lads and lassies, he had better stop writing for them." The Public Library Committee of Concord, Massachusetts excluded the book as "a dangerous moral influence on the young." Defend or refute the position that the novel is indeed "trash" with evidence from the text to support your claim.

2. Discuss historical revisionism and whether Huck Finn should be part of a high school curriculum. You may include 2011's revised edition of the book, which replaced the word "nigger" for "slave."

3. One critic says that the novel shows the conflict between our national faith in democracy and our inheritance of prejudice. He also says it shows the conflict between our love for freedom and our love for conformity.

4. A persona is an alternate name and personality uses for many different reasons. Discuss the many personas used in the novel.

5. Huckleberry Finn has been called the "Great American Novel." However, it is one of the most frequently banned book in the United States. Discuss why this masterpiece is banned mostly in Christian academies and in some institutions that are predominantly African-American.

6. This novel is a satire on human weaknesses. What human traits does he satirize? Give examples for each. What is the power of satire?

7. What does Twain admire in a man and of what is he contemptuous?

8. Select five characters that Twain does not admire in Huck Finn. Give the specific traits that each possesses that makes him or her not an admirable person. Select five characters that Twain does admire. Give the specific traits that each possesses that makes him or her admirable.

9. Discuss the role of religion in the novel.

10. Think about the characters in the novel who are middle to upper class in comparison to the lower class folks. What was Mark Twain saying about "social classes" in the novel?



11. How is does the river act as a spine for this book? What else could it symbolize?

12. Ernest Hemingway said, "All of American Literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
13. Is Huck the American Hero?



14. The names that an author gives his/her characters is often more significant than one might initially understand. Is this the case with Mark Twain?

15. What is Twain saying about America in this novel? What is he saying about Europe?

16. How is humor used? What can satire do? How do some of the dark themes compare with the humorous parts?

17. Respect for rule of law/ conscience

18. Honesty

19. Lonesomeness

20. Man in the Natural World

21. Foolishness and folly

22. Superstition

23. What role do drugs and alcohol play in the book?

24. What constitutes a family in Huck Finn?

25. Huck is young. America is young. What is Twain saying about youth and growing up/growing old?

26. Innocence vs experience

27. Jim as Huck’s true father

28. What is Twain saying about religion?

29. Freedom

30. Friendship

31. Compare Jim and Pap.

32. Why is the setting of this book important?

33. Think of a single scene in the book that stands out to you and relate it to the book as a whole.

34. Think of a single citation in the book that stands out to you and relate it to the book as a whole.

35. Think of a recurring motif or symbol in the book and relate it to the book as a whole.

36. Discuss Twain’s use of dialect.

37. William Dean Howells said that Twain was the Lincoln of our literature. How so?

38. Huck is the most honest of American heroes.



　

ACT Prep: Past Participles

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Term 3 2015

Third Term Calendar            Honors/IB English 11          2015        Mrs. Loveless  

MLK	1-19 No School	1-21 A Huck Finn Intro, new vocab, ACT talk	1-22 B Huck Finn Intro, new vocab, ACT talk	1-23 A Doll’s House Book Card due: 100 pts, Doll’s Final HF quiz 1-4
1-26 B  Doll’s House Book Card due: 100 pts, Doll’s Final HF quiz 1-4	1-27 A Mock ACT#1 50 pts 5th floor lab HF quiz 5-7	1-28 B Mock ACT #1 50 pts. 7th per. Tech center 8th per. 5th floor lab, HF quiz 5-7	1-29 HF quiz 9-12	1-30 B HF quiz 9-12
2-2 A Vocab Quiz HF quiz 13-16 New Vocab SAGE TESTING	2-3 B Vocab Quiz HF quiz 13-16 New Vocab SAGE TESTING	2-4 A HF quiz 17-19   SAGE TESTING	2-5 B A HF quiz 17-19   SAGE TESTING	2-6 A HF quiz20-23 quiz, Proposal Due today! Past Participles
2-9 B HF quiz 20-23, Proposal Due today! Past Participles	2-10 A Mock ACT #2 5th floor lab Vocab quiz HF quiz 24-26	2-11 B Mock ACT #2 3rd floor lab Vocab quiz HF quiz 24-26	2-12 A HF quiz 27-30, Quiz on past participles, some library time	2-13 B HF quiz 27-30, Quiz on past participles, some library time
PRESIDENTS DAY NO SCHOOL	2-17 A HF quiz 31-33, Root Words	2-18 B HF quiz 31-33, Root Words	2-19 A HF 34-37 Some library time	2-20 B HF 34-37 Some library time
2-23 A HF quiz 38-41 Outline due	2-24 B HF quiz 38-41 Outline due	2-25 A Mock ACT #3 5th floor lab	2-26 B Mock ACT #3 3rd floor lab	2-27 A HF quiz 42 to the end, Weaving quotations, verbs in analysis, sentence variety
3-2 B quiz 42 to the end, Weaving quotations, verbs in analysis, sentence variety	3-3 A/B    ACT TEST!	3-4 A Huck Finn Papers due:  200 points Root Words Quiz ACT acc’ting sheets due	3-5 B Huck Finn Papers due:  200 points Root Words Quiz ACT acc’ting sheets due	3-6 A Huck Finn Final Test discuss presentations, critiquing
3-9 B Huck Finn Final Test, discuss presentations, critiquing	3-10 A P/C (3)	3-11 B P/C (5)	3-12 A P/C (5) HF book card due	3-13 B P/C (5) HF book card due
3-16 A P/C (5)	3-17 B P/C (3)	3-18 A P/C (5)	3-19 B P/C (5	3-20 A P/C (5) Last day I will consider any late work.
3-23 B P/C (5)	INHERIT THE WIND	INHERIT THE WIND	INHERIT THE WIND	INHERIT THE WIND

·         Literature choices for IB presentations:  The Crucible, The John and Abigail Adams Letters, The Scarlet Letter

·         Honors students may choose from:  The Crucible, The John and Abigail Adams Letters, The Scarlet Letter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Doll’s House.