Term 4

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

	A March 28	B March 29 Calendar, Begin Inherit the Wind, Begin citation journal of significant quotes with responses	A  March 30	B March 31 Vocabulary, Inherit, 5-6 quotes and responses
Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break
A April 10	B April 11 Inherit, 5-6 quotes, responses, Root Words	A April 12	B April 13 Inherit, 5-6 quotes, responses,  Intro #1 stamped, Root Words	A April 14
B April 17 Inherit, 5-6 quotes, responses,      Intro #2 stamped, Root Words	A April 18	B April 19   Inherit, Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly,     Intro #3 stamped, Root Words, vocab test	A  April	B April 2120 Inherit the Wind Final/Book Card Due, Intro to Great Gatsby
A April 24	B April 25 Have read ch. 1 & 2 Gatsby, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped	A April 26	B April 27 Have read ch. 3-4 Gatsby, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped	A April 28
B  May 1 Have read ch. 5-6, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped	A May	B May 32  Have read ch. 7-8, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped	A May 4	B May 5 Have read chapter 9, 3 quotes, 3 cards, 3 full side responses, stamped
A May 8	B May 9 Gatsby vocab test, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in class activity	A May 10	B May 11 The Great Gatsby Final, Book Card Due	A May 12
B May 15 Root Words Review for Test, Write-up of “Prufrock” experience due	A May 16	B May 17 Root Words Test A Short Story in class	A May 18	B May 19 Parade of American Authors, Bring a Poem to Share and explicate,
A May 22	B May 23 William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, A Short Story	A May 24	May 25 Gwendolyn Brooks, “Every Day Use” Alice Walker, Hemingway	A May 26
May 29  Memorial Day	B May 30Bring a 6 word short story	A May 31	B Jun 1 Poetry Explication Final	June 2  A/B day

Major Points for 4^th Term:                                               Reading quizzes:  around 300 points

Root Words Worksheet:  60 points                                Finals for Inherit, Gatsby, Poetry:  300 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:  50 points

Vocabulary tests:  100 points                                          Bring a Poem:  50 points

 

 

Term 3 Calendar

January 16 MLK	1-17 Teacher Prep Day	1-18 A	1-19 B Term 3 Overview, Calendar, Presentations, Discuss ACT, Discuss most banned book in America, Study vocab		1-20 A
1-23  B ACT practice Vocab Quiz DH Begin Huck Finn Get new HF vocab	1-24 A	1-25 B HF quiz on 1-4 Motifs ACT prep	1-26 A		1-27 B Baseline ACT Practice Test  50 points Quiz on 5-8 Room 226, meet in 505 first
1-30 A	1-31 B Quiz on 9-12 Vocab #1 quiz	FEB 1 A	FEB 2 B Quiz on 13-16		FEB 3 A
FEB 6 B Quiz on 17-19 Proposal due today! Teach past participles	FEB 7 A	FEB 8 B Quiz on 20-23 Review Comma Rules	FEB 9 A		FEB 10 B 5th floor lab MOCK ACT TEST 50 pts Quiz on 24-26 Vocab #2,meet in 505 first
FEB 13 A	FEB 14 B Quiz on 27-30 Library: Thesis statement due at the end of the period:  50  Library points.  Meet in 505 first	FEB 15 A	FEB 16 B   Comma Rules Test 100 points Quiz on 31-33 past participles		FEB 17 A
FEB 20 Presidents Day	FEB 21 B Quiz on 34-37 Vocab #2 quiz	FEB 22 A	FEB 23 B comma quiz Quiz on 38-41 Read: the rest of Huck Finn Outline due MOCK ACT test 5th floor lab 42-end quiz,   Blending quotations in correctly, Verbs to use in analysis Sentence variety		FEB 24 A
FEB 27 B Huck Finn Paper Due: 200 points  Must be significantly different from presentation, if HF is used Vocabulary #2 Quiz	Feb 28 A /B day ACT !  The Real Thing!	March  1 A	March 2 B Huck Finn Final Test Discuss presentations/critiquing		March 3 A
March 6 B   Work Day Meet in Library	March 7 A	March 8 B	March 9 A		March 10 B Presentations/Critiquing (5)  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors
3-13 A	3-45 B Presentations/Critique (3)    Individual for IB, pairs for Hon	3-15 A	3-16 B  Presentations/Critiquing (5)    Individual for IB, pairs for Honors		3-17 A LAST DAY FOR ANY LATE WORK
3-20 B Presentations/Critiquing (5)  )  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors	3-21 A	3-22 B Presentations/Critiquing (5)  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors	3-23 A	March 24 B Presentations/Critiquing (4)

Literature Choices for IB presentations:  The Crucible, The John and Abigail Adams Letters, The Scarlet Letter.  Honors students may also choose The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Doll’s House.

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Huck Finn Paper

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Research/Literary Analysis Paper


DUE: February 27, 2017
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. Include 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.

Guidelines

100 points

Memorized Poem: Due: On the day you signed up on the door, last day January 3, 2017


100 points
Poetry Collection/Explication Guidelines: Due January 5, 2017

　
After reading several poems, you must select at least ten different poems by at least seven different poets to include in this collection. You may not use poems we have discussed in class, but you may use other poems by poets we have discussed in class.
Copy each poem into your collection. Be sure to include the title and the poet’s name.
You must annotate, using circles, arrows, whatever, to mark and label the poetic devices the poet used in each poem. Be thorough, as you will be deducted for glaring omissions.
You will then write (by that, I mean type) a paragraph for each poem, explicating each one. Look for a "door" into the poem. Is there a point of tension? Is there a shift at some point? You may discuss such as symbols, tone, allusions, alliteration, assonance, rhyme scheme, meter, rhythm, and any other poetic devices used, but be sure to say what those devices DO for the poem. Don’t just note their presence. That’s what the annotations were for. Make meaning. Consider the title. Consider meaning. Make a claim, and back it up. You can do this.


100 points
Original Poetry Booklet Guidelines: Due January 9

You will create ten original poems, using at least seven different forms we’ve learned about in class.
Three, and only three poems may rhyme. At least one poem must rhyme.
Use examples of every poetic device we’ve learned about. (Obviously, you can’t use them all on one poem, but over the course of this assignment, you should utilize each device at least once.)
Look back at some of our poetry experiences in class. Some can be worked up into fine poem.
You need to make an attractive cover, so that the likelihood that you will end up saving this booklet and showing it to your grandchildren is increased.
Please make every attempt to avoid clichés, those over-used, worn out expressions that we’ve all heard before. They have lost their luster, and they will detract from your poem, rather than enhance it. I’m looking for fresh perspectives, unique metaphors, the originality that only you can bring to this assignment. While I’m sure it would be very easy to get away with plagiarizing these poems, I would hope that your honor and your own sense of self would prevent that. Impress me. But more important than that, impress yourself.

Help!

Help!! I’m stuck! I can’t think of anything to write about. I have nothing to say. I don’t wanna do this dumb assignment. I’m no poet. This is not fun!



If you ever feel like that, here are just a few ideas that may spark your creativity:

1. Make a long list of yellow things, blue, green.... Now substitute one of these words for the kind of yellow you are describing in a poem. For instance: pond scum green, new leaf green, August sky blue, cotton candy pink, green, the color of a six day old bruise, bumble bee yellow,

spider black, eyes that are fall-into-blue, coat closet black, corn silk yellow,

2. Make a long list of opposite, like black/white, good/evil, weak/strong, angel/devil, bold/timid,

innocent/experienced, flawed/perfect, fat/thin, cold/hot, smart/dumb, soft/hard, beloved/hated, young/old, slick/hick, joy/pain,

3. Select a few key words that you may want to include in a poem. Now find all the rhyming words you can for each word. (I do this by writing an alphabet at the top of my page.) Then, come up with a verse that has rhythm, rhyme and meter.

4. Sit out in nature for 15-20. Write down your observations. Listen. Feel. Hear. Look. Smell. Taste. Touch. Be detailed in your descriptions.

5. Scale it down. Study one square inch of dirt or floor or wall or ceiling or skin or scalp or chalkboard or sky or animal or water or tile or hair or desk or mirror or fabric or paper or anything. Record your thoughts.

6. Go to the Deseret Industries. Buy an old article of clothing. Put it on and write about who used to own it. Tell their story in but a few, well-chosen words.

7. Read some poetry by other poets than yourself.

8. Think about the extremes in your life: the most afraid you’ve ever been, the most excited, the most physical pain you’ve ever experienced, the most peaceful, the most fun, the most daring thing you’ve ever done, the most rotten thing, the most noble thing you’ve ever done. These extremes can prompt poetry.

9. Record your dreams. Keep a notebook by your bed.

10. Write as if you were someone else, something else, an old person, a baby, a person of another race, religion, height, weight, or possibly an inanimate object.

11. Use crayons to write your poetry. The colors you choose can be telling. You may even end up revising things as a result of the colors. They may inspire new thoughts.

12. Wake up early in the morning, before anyone else is up. Go into the yard, or some other quiet spot. Record the beginning of a day, or the end of one.

13. Take a bus ride and write about the characters you see, what they look like, where they might be going, make up a past, present, and future for them.

14. Splash cold water on your face. Try to put words to that sensation of shock.

15. Listen to music that is TOTALLY not your type.

16. Go for a walk.

17. Take your writing notebook to a new place. Create five columns, one for each of your five senses. Record what your eyes, ears, skin, tongue, nose tells you to record.

18. Write about your earliest recollection of life.

19. Write about a pet peeve.

20. Go to an art gallery. Allow yourself to become inspired by something you see.

21. Read poetry aloud. Feel the sounds of the words as they are formed using your lips and teeth and tongue and nose.

22. Write without stopping. Write without looking at what you’ve written. Write until your hand hurts.

23. Write about the weather.

24. Write about love. Write about envy. Write about loss. Write about seemingly insignificant details.

25. Listen. Listen to the sounds we hear everyday. Try to come up with a way to spell the words that sound like those sounds. For instance, how would you spell the sound a kiss makes?

26. Write a list of action verbs, juicy words, delicious words that move, have life, not dreary, boring words.

27. Do a spoof on a well-known poem, nursery rhyme, or fairy tale.

28. Use the following prompts:

I let go of anger.....

Right before I fall asleep, when....

I dreamed....

"This is just to say..."

My shadow knows...

My real name is...

I will be...

I remember...

29. Make lists:

Things under my bed, things I have not quite learned, things I wish my parents knew, things I wish my English teacher would do, things I would take with me if my house were on fire, things even my best friend doesn’t know about me, hours in my life I wish I could have back, why we love popcorn, reasons not to try at school, or life, or math, things I’m proud of but shouldn’t be, things my big brother inflicted upon me, qualities my grandmother thinks I possess, secrets I kept, what I would do with a cloak of invisibility, list what’s in the fridge right now? Cute tricks I performed as a child, Things I learned in junior high, what my shadow knows how to do, reasons why I adore English, places my mother used to drag me...