Summer Reading For Future Junior Honors Students

April 23, 2013



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 night stand,

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 development or offer other insight about the story. Briefly tell why you think each

line is significant.

3. Type a one half 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

Term 4 Calendar 2014

		April 2 B SAGE Prep Embrace the Ambiguity	April 3 A Inherit the Wind vocab, Start play	April 3 B Inherit the Wind vocab, Start play
April 7 A Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards, Inherit	April 8 B Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards, Inherit	April 9 A Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards, Inherit Due: Huck Finn BOOK CARD 100 pts	April 10 B Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards, Inherit Due: Huck Finn BOOK CARD 100 pts	April 11 A Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 Due: Intro #1
April 14 B Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards, Inherit Due: Intro #1	April 15 A Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards, Inherit Due: Intro #2	April 16 B Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards, Inherit Due: Intro #2	April 17 A Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards, Inherit Vocab Quiz Due: Intro #3	April 18 B Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards, Inherit Vocab Quiz Due: Intro #3
April 21 A Inherit Final Due: All 3x5 cards with quotes and justifications (18)	April 22 B Inherit Final Due: All 3x5 cards with quotes and justifications (18)	April 23 A Begin Great Gatsby Root Words Due: Best intro for fine-toothed grading 100 pts	April 24 B Begin Great Gatsby Root Words Due: Best intro for fine-toothed grading 100 pts	April 25 A Come having read ch1 and 2 before class Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards Roots
April 28 B Come having read GG ch1 and 2 before class Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards Roots	April 29 A Come having read GG ch 3 and 4 before class Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards Roots	April 30 B Come having read GG ch 3 and 4 before class Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards Roots	May 1 A Come having read GG ch 5 and 6 before class Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards Test: Root Words 100 pt	May 2 B Come having read GG ch 5 and 6 before class Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards Test: Root Words100 pts
May 5 A SAGE testing, meet in room 804 Reading assignment: GG thru ch 7 Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards	May 6 B SAGE testing, meet in 5th floor lab Reading assignment: GG thru ch 7 Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards	May 7 A SAGE testing, meet in room 804 Reading assignment: GG thru ch 8 Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards	May 8 B SAGE testing, meet in 5th floor lab Reading assignment: GG thru ch 8 Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards	May 9 A SAGE testing, meet in room 804 Reading assignment: GG thru ch 9 Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards
May 12 B SAGE testing, meet in 5th floor lab Reading assignment: GG thru ch 9 Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards	May 13 A Come having finish The Great Gatsby Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards	May 14 B Come having finish The Great Gatsby Due: 3 significant quotes on three 3x5 cards	May 15A Final on GG, bring all your cards, with quotes and justifications	May 16 B Final on GG, bring all your cards, with quotes and justifications
May 19 A 20th Century American Poetry Review Poetry Vocab "Prufrock" T. S. Eliot	May 20 B 20th Century American Poetry Review Poetry Vocab"Prufrock" T. S. Eliot	May 21A Langston Hughes/Gwendolyn Brookes Explicate in pairs/then solo	May 22 B Langston Hughes/Gwendolyn Brookes Explicate in pairs/then solo	May 23 A Frost/William Carlos Williams Six word Short Story Hemingway IN CLASS: Poetry Explication
May 26 Memorial Day No School	May 27 B Frost/William Carlos Williams Six word Short Story Hemingway IN CLASS: Poetry Explication	May 28 A Due: Your Six word Short Story Your advice for next year's juniors about how to explicate poetry is due today.	May 29 B Due: Your Six word Short Story Your advice for next year's juniors about how to explicate poetry is due today.	May 30 a/b

Here's a good website that will help you as you embed your quotations into the text of your papers.

http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/quotes.htm

Rubric for Research/Literary Analysis Paper

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Research/Literary Analysis Paper

DUE: March 11 for A day classes, March 12 for B day classes

235 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, 14 font, no spaces between paragraphs, Times New Roman font.  I can’t accept a paper that is not typed.  (Three pages minimum, and of course, you will be docked far more than ten points if you come up short.)	10
3.  Introduction has an attention-getting device that is appropriate for this type of scholarly paper.	15
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 evident.	20
6.  Sentence structure is sound and varied.	10
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.)	15
9.  Work Cited page is flawless.  Refer to: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ A minimum of three sources	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 and interesting.  Research is obvious.  You have not merely written off the top of your head, rather you have studied and pondered.  You have come up with ideas that are sound and logical.	25
12.  Meaningful quotations are woven seamlessly into your own sentences.  Set up the quote.  If you can paraphrase, paraphrase.  If, however, the citation you found is oh-so-wonderful as is, by all means, cite it in all its splendor.	25
TOTAL	235

Practice the SAGE test

Go to this link:
http://sageportal.org

Go in as a guest.

You need to do this.

If you were absent in class the day we watched the following video clips, you need to watch them at home.  I need a half page written response to the first one.  After you view the second one, make a T square on your paper, and write the main arguments of both professors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9-qee1m9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EiL1h25rLY

Term 3 Calendar

January 20 MLK	1-21 Teacher Prep Day	1-22 A  Review protocol, Intro: ACT, Twain Quotes Intro: Huck Finn Draw from hat for presentation date. New vocabulary	1-23 B Review protocol, Intro: ACT, Twain Quotes Intro: Huck Finn Draw from hat for presentation date. New vocabulary	1-24 A  Mock ACT test #1, 50 pts HF quiz 1-4 50 pts Doll’s House Book Card Due: 100 points Motif Groups
1-27 B A  Mock ACT test #1, 50 pts HF quiz 1-4 50 pts Doll’s House Book Card due: 100 points Motif Groups	1-28 A HF quiz 5-8, Three ACT quizlets, 30 pts  Motif Groups	1-29 B  HF quiz 5-8, three ACT quizlets, 30 points Motif Groups	1-30 A  HF quiz 9-12, three ACT quizlets, 30 pts, Motif Groups	1-31 B  HF quiz 9-12,  ACT quizlets, 30 pts Motif Groups
2-3 A  HF quiz 13-16, three ACT quizlets, Motif Groups	2-4 B HF quiz 13-16,  three ACT quizlets Motif Groups	2-5 A  HF quiz 17-19, three ACT quizlets, Past Particples/prep for time writing	FEB 6 B HF quiz 17-19, three ACT quizlets, Past Participles/ prep for timed writing	FEB 7 A  HF quiz 20-23, Junior Timed Writing, 5th floor lab
FEB 10 B HF quiz 20-23, Junior Timed Writing, 5th floor lab	FEB 11 A  HF quiz 24-26, three ACT quizlets, Quotation Marks	FEB 12 B   HF quiz 24-26, three ACT quizlets, Quotation Marks	FEB 13 A  HF quiz 27-30, Mock ACT test #2 Parallel Structure	FEB 14 B HF quiz 27-30 Mock ACT test #2 Parallel Structure
FEB 17 Presidents Day	FEB 18 A HF quiz 31-33, past participle quiz, 50 points Motif Groups	FEB 19 B   HF quiz 31-33, past participle quiz, 50 points Motif Groups	FEB 20 A HF 34-37, comma rules, MOCK ACT TEST, 50 points	FEB 21 B HF 34-37, comma rules, MOCK ACT TEST, 50 points
FEB 24 A HF quiz 38-41, comma quiz,	FEB 25 B  HF quiz 38-41, comma quiz,	FEB 26 A HF 42-end quiz,  Vocab Quiz Thesis statement due at the end of the period:  50  Library points:  40	FEB 27 B HF 42-end quiz,  Vocab Quiz Thesis statement due at the end of the period:  50  Library points:  40	FEB 28 A Outline due Blending quotations in correctly, Verbs to use in analysis Mock ACT test #3
MARCH 3 B  Outline due Blending quotations in correctly, Verbs to use in analysis Mock ACT test #3	MARCH 4 ACT test for juniors.  Everyone else stays home.   A/B day	MARCH 5 A  Huck Finn Final Test   Sentence variety	MARCH 6 B Huck Finn Final Test   Sentence variety	3-7 A  MLA Memorized Mark Twain Quote Due:  30 points
3-10 B  MLA Memorized Mark Twain Quote Due:  30 points	3-11 A  Huck Finn Paper Due:  200 points I will model the presentation.	3-12 B Huck Finn Paper Due: 200 points I will model the presentation.	3-13 A  Presentations/ Critiquing (5)  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors	3-14 B Presentations/Critiquing (5)  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors
3-17 A Presentations/ Critiquing (5)  )  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors	3-18 B Presentations/ Critiquing (3)  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors	3-19 A Presentations/ Critiquing (5)  )  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors THIS IS THE LAST DAY I WILL ACCEPT LATE WORK!	3-20 B Presentations/Critiquing (5)  Individual for IB, pairs for Honors THIS IS THE LAST DAY I WILL ACCEPT LATE WORK!	3-21 A  Presentations/Critiquing (5)    Individual for IB, pairs for Honors
3-24 B Presentations/ Critiquing (5)    Individual for IB, pairs for Honors	3-25 A Presentations/ Critiquing (3)	3-26 B Presentations/ Critiquing (5)	3-27 A  See the message on March 19, 20 about late work.     L	Spring Break

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