two good books are pictured here. You can do a search on the Borders or Barnes and Noble websites to peruse Biography or Autobiography titles.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
If you are starting to think about your OR...
two good books are pictured here. You can do a search on the Borders or Barnes and Noble websites to peruse Biography or Autobiography titles.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
SECOND SEMESTER...Intersession Homework
Intersession Homework:
ALL sophomores in English 2 (Both my class and Mr. Hecht's class) will be required to read Acts 1 and 2 of Macbeth during intersession. I'll post the study guide on the website during Finals Week. There will be a Macbeth quiz at the start of second semester AND with each subsequent act that we read.
Due 2-2-10 Active Read Macbeth ACTS 1 and 2 - Complete Study Guide (Typed). No Late work will be accepted. Prepare for a quiz to be given day 1.
AN OPTION...
You can get your OR approved by me (Autobiography or Biography) and start it over intersession (Rubric on Website). If you wait that's ok...the OR MUST be approved by 2-10-10 and will be due 3-26-10.
ALL sophomores in English 2 (Both my class and Mr. Hecht's class) will be required to read Acts 1 and 2 of Macbeth during intersession. I'll post the study guide on the website during Finals Week. There will be a Macbeth quiz at the start of second semester AND with each subsequent act that we read.
Due 2-2-10 Active Read Macbeth ACTS 1 and 2 - Complete Study Guide (Typed). No Late work will be accepted. Prepare for a quiz to be given day 1.
AN OPTION...
You can get your OR approved by me (Autobiography or Biography) and start it over intersession (Rubric on Website). If you wait that's ok...the OR MUST be approved by 2-10-10 and will be due 3-26-10.
Finals are ALMOST here
Monday we'll take our Brave New World Essay portion of our final in class. Tuesday will be the multiple choice questions and essays that cover all books from the semester.
The final is worth 190 points. Each Multiple Choice Question (100) is worth a 1/2 a point = 50 points. The BNW essays total 60 points and the essay on Tuesday totals 80 points.
ROOMS:
Block 3 - 210
Block 4 - 215
Block 5 - with me in room 322
The final on Tuesday 12-15-09 starts at 8:30 and lasts till 10. Those students given extended time must walk to my room with the proctor. They can continue working in room 322 under my supervision.
The final is worth 190 points. Each Multiple Choice Question (100) is worth a 1/2 a point = 50 points. The BNW essays total 60 points and the essay on Tuesday totals 80 points.
ROOMS:
Block 3 - 210
Block 4 - 215
Block 5 - with me in room 322
The final on Tuesday 12-15-09 starts at 8:30 and lasts till 10. Those students given extended time must walk to my room with the proctor. They can continue working in room 322 under my supervision.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Final Exam Study Guide
I wrote your final and updated EACH Page on the website (Summer Reading, Holocaust, Brave New World). Study tips would include looking over your active reading, reading questions, old tests and quizzes as well as the concepts listed on the sites). The essay questions are drawn from the concepts listed.
From the Literature Book:
Hills Like White Elephants
A Pair of Tickets
The Management of Grief
Know the stories (Plot, Setting, Conflicts, Characters). There are some MC questions and essays that deal with the Literature stories.
If you have any questions, visit with me this week.
Monday 12-14-09 we will have our final exam essays that deal with Brave New World
Tuesday 12-15-09 is the final...look on my door for the room that you must go to that day. You need to bring a #2 pencil, eraser and a pen. Everything else is provided for you.
From the Literature Book:
Hills Like White Elephants
A Pair of Tickets
The Management of Grief
Know the stories (Plot, Setting, Conflicts, Characters). There are some MC questions and essays that deal with the Literature stories.
If you have any questions, visit with me this week.
Monday 12-14-09 we will have our final exam essays that deal with Brave New World
Tuesday 12-15-09 is the final...look on my door for the room that you must go to that day. You need to bring a #2 pencil, eraser and a pen. Everything else is provided for you.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
December 2
Today we had our first BNW quiz. Tomorrow, and the rest of the semester, be ready for a binder check.
Tomorrow's plan: Turn in BNW homework, address questions you have, discussion...always be prepared for a quiz!
Final Exam study guides to be posted this weekend...organize NOW in preparation.
YES, it IS correct...there will be NO Vocabulary on the final exam...just literature and grammar. Your Vocabulary books have been turned in top me for safekeeping...you'll get them back in February!
Tomorrow's plan: Turn in BNW homework, address questions you have, discussion...always be prepared for a quiz!
Final Exam study guides to be posted this weekend...organize NOW in preparation.
YES, it IS correct...there will be NO Vocabulary on the final exam...just literature and grammar. Your Vocabulary books have been turned in top me for safekeeping...you'll get them back in February!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Ten Days to go...
BNW 1-5 due today
BNW 6-10 due Thursday 12-4
BNW 11-15 due Monday 12-7
BNW 16-18 due Thursday 12-10
There will be 4 reading quizzes
Be ready for a binder check ANY time between now and finals
Final Exam study guides will be posted by the end of the weekend.
Final Exam ... Tuesday 12-15-09.
BNW 6-10 due Thursday 12-4
BNW 11-15 due Monday 12-7
BNW 16-18 due Thursday 12-10
There will be 4 reading quizzes
Be ready for a binder check ANY time between now and finals
Final Exam study guides will be posted by the end of the weekend.
Final Exam ... Tuesday 12-15-09.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Essay Contest Final Drafts Due Tuesday 11-24-09
A few items to consider as you finalize your paper:
1. Word count of 750 words or less does NOT include World Cited Page
2. Make Works Cited Page it's OWN page
3. Make sure to cite sources/research (in text citations) for the Founding Documents (years 1760-1800) as well as Historical Figure.
4. Make sure to clearly make connections as to how the historical figure exhibited the civic value
5. Make sure to clearly state how YOU have or will try to exhibit the value...do not speak in generalities...be SPECIFIC
6. Run Spell Check
7. Read over your paper prior to printing out and turning it in to look for errors the computer does not find (the not they, etc). Sometimes we type faster or slower than the thoughts running through our head.
8. Capitalize proper nouns...yes, many did not in the drafts, WOW!
9. Watch for unclear pronoun reference, a common error.
watch for shifts in verb tense. For example...the historical figures actions happened...therefore should be in past. What you might do or might do is present or future. Stay consistent in each section.
Print out and turn in with the rough draft I wrote on and evidence of peer tutoring if you were required to attend.
Upload to turnitin.com. MAKE SURE IT IS UPLOADED AS A .DOC so i can send it in to the contest.
Brave New World Assignments
Due Dates:
Tuesday 12-1-09 Chapters 1-5
Thursday 12-3-09 Chapters 6-10
Monday 12-7-09 Chapters 11-15
Thursday 12-10-09 Chapters 16-18
There will be at least 4 quizzes throughout the reading ... be prepared every day... finals are approaching...there is not time to fall behind.
The Website is updated with the BNW page. Check it out!
Tuesday 12-1-09 Chapters 1-5
Thursday 12-3-09 Chapters 6-10
Monday 12-7-09 Chapters 11-15
Thursday 12-10-09 Chapters 16-18
There will be at least 4 quizzes throughout the reading ... be prepared every day... finals are approaching...there is not time to fall behind.
The Website is updated with the BNW page. Check it out!
Friday, November 20, 2009
It's Almost Thanksgiving...end of the semester
Don't forget to bring Brave New World on Monday and your paper draft is due to me and uploaded to Turnitin.com NLT Tuesday.
The BNW study guide will be posted on the website this weekend. a POP QUIZ could be given ANY time we have a BNW reading assignment...be prepared.
The final exam is Tuesday 12-15-09 at 8:30 am. A study guide will be posted a week in advance.
The BNW study guide will be posted on the website this weekend. a POP QUIZ could be given ANY time we have a BNW reading assignment...be prepared.
The final exam is Tuesday 12-15-09 at 8:30 am. A study guide will be posted a week in advance.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Holocaust Test Thursday 11-19-09
Potential Short Answer questions will be drawn from this list.
Quotes to Interpret:
For all short answer questions...enough CONCRETE details from the story MUST be given in support. Someone who has NEVER read the book should REALLY KNOW SPECIFICS ABOUT THE STORY in your explaination to get a better understanding of THIS PARTICULAR PIECE OF LITERATURE. Vague answers w/o textual evidence (only topic sentence type answers) will not be given credit. PROVE YOU READ THE BOOK. IF YOU DID NOT BE HONEST AND ANSWER A DIFFERENT QUESTION OR WRITE SORRY, I NEVER READ THE BOOK IN THE SPACE PROVIDED FOR THE ANSWER.
1. What does Primo Levi mean when he says “ We now invite the reader to contemplate the possible meaning in the Lager of the words ‘good’ and ‘evil’, ‘just’ and ‘unjust’(page 86 SIA).
2. What is Primo Levi saying about how his imprisonment has changed his life when he says: “This year has gone by so quickly…this time last year I was a free man: an outlaw but free…I had an enormous, deep-rooted, foolish faith in the benevolence of fate; to kill and die seemed extraneous literary things to me…Today the only thing left of the life of those days is what one needs to suffer the hunger and cold…I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself” (pages 143-44 SIA).
3. Primo Levi explains in the following quote how one's humainty is taken from them in the lager. Use examples to fully explain his quote. “The Lager was a great machine to reduce us to beasts, we must not become beasts; that even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization ” (page 41 SIA).
4. What does Opdyke mean when she says: "Everyone in Poland in those days had a bitter story. Everyone." (IMH 101)
5. Moses Steiner said to Irena "You're only a young girl. What can you do?" (IMH 108). What does he mean by that statement? How does Irenka take to being given a label or a limitation?
6. Irenka says: "It must be said now that I am a slave. What else do you call someone put to work in an ammunition factory, kept under guard, and paid no wages". Explain how WWII changed Irenka's life. Who was she prior to the war? How was she a slave (to whom?) during the war? What was her life after the war? (IMH 84)
7. Irenka states: "Where could I live without fear?" She was fearful most of the six years she was involved in the war. Why? Did she cause the fear? Was the fear imposed upon her? Both? Explain.
8. "Memory is a curious instrument" (SIA page 132). How does Levi and Irena remember the events during WWII? Do they look back upon the events with anger? Are they sad? Are they merely stating facts? Use textual evidence to support.
Concepts:
1. What is a "Choiceless Choice" in the Lager?
2. What lessons did Levi learn from those he encountered the lager?
3. How did Irena's display her faith in the novel In My Hands?
4. Irena had crimes committed against her ad she committed crimes. Is she a victim? Is she a champion for those down and out? How would YOU identify her?
5. Book Buring - who, what, where, when, why
6. Propaganda - who was in charge? target audience? message?
7. The role of the: Survivor, Victim, Perpetrator, Rescuer, Bystander and Liberator
Quotes to Interpret:
For all short answer questions...enough CONCRETE details from the story MUST be given in support. Someone who has NEVER read the book should REALLY KNOW SPECIFICS ABOUT THE STORY in your explaination to get a better understanding of THIS PARTICULAR PIECE OF LITERATURE. Vague answers w/o textual evidence (only topic sentence type answers) will not be given credit. PROVE YOU READ THE BOOK. IF YOU DID NOT BE HONEST AND ANSWER A DIFFERENT QUESTION OR WRITE SORRY, I NEVER READ THE BOOK IN THE SPACE PROVIDED FOR THE ANSWER.
1. What does Primo Levi mean when he says “ We now invite the reader to contemplate the possible meaning in the Lager of the words ‘good’ and ‘evil’, ‘just’ and ‘unjust’(page 86 SIA).
2. What is Primo Levi saying about how his imprisonment has changed his life when he says: “This year has gone by so quickly…this time last year I was a free man: an outlaw but free…I had an enormous, deep-rooted, foolish faith in the benevolence of fate; to kill and die seemed extraneous literary things to me…Today the only thing left of the life of those days is what one needs to suffer the hunger and cold…I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself” (pages 143-44 SIA).
3. Primo Levi explains in the following quote how one's humainty is taken from them in the lager. Use examples to fully explain his quote. “The Lager was a great machine to reduce us to beasts, we must not become beasts; that even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization ” (page 41 SIA).
4. What does Opdyke mean when she says: "Everyone in Poland in those days had a bitter story. Everyone." (IMH 101)
5. Moses Steiner said to Irena "You're only a young girl. What can you do?" (IMH 108). What does he mean by that statement? How does Irenka take to being given a label or a limitation?
6. Irenka says: "It must be said now that I am a slave. What else do you call someone put to work in an ammunition factory, kept under guard, and paid no wages". Explain how WWII changed Irenka's life. Who was she prior to the war? How was she a slave (to whom?) during the war? What was her life after the war? (IMH 84)
7. Irenka states: "Where could I live without fear?" She was fearful most of the six years she was involved in the war. Why? Did she cause the fear? Was the fear imposed upon her? Both? Explain.
8. "Memory is a curious instrument" (SIA page 132). How does Levi and Irena remember the events during WWII? Do they look back upon the events with anger? Are they sad? Are they merely stating facts? Use textual evidence to support.
Concepts:
1. What is a "Choiceless Choice" in the Lager?
2. What lessons did Levi learn from those he encountered the lager?
3. How did Irena's display her faith in the novel In My Hands?
4. Irena had crimes committed against her ad she committed crimes. Is she a victim? Is she a champion for those down and out? How would YOU identify her?
5. Book Buring - who, what, where, when, why
6. Propaganda - who was in charge? target audience? message?
7. The role of the: Survivor, Victim, Perpetrator, Rescuer, Bystander and Liberator
Monday, November 16, 2009
Week of November 16th
Today you did your words and definitions for lessons 20 and 21. Friday will be the vocabulary test with an emphasis on 20/21 and lessons 15 - 21. I'll collect vocabulary books Friday and return second semester. YOUR TICKET FOR YOUR TEST FRIDAY IS TURNING IN YOUR VOCABULARY BOOK! Format: all MC
We discussed book burning and the upcoming Holocaust Test (Thursday). It will cover SIA, In My Hands, Book Burning and Propaganda. Short answer Q's to be posted here Wednesday. Format: MC and Short Answer.
In My Hands Party 3 due Wednesday...possibly a quiz on In My Hands Part 3 that day.
Brave New World needs to be in class Monday 11-23-09.
Essay Contest due to me and turnitin.com NLT Tuesday 11-24-09.
WITH EACH BRAVE NEW WORLD reading assignment, there will be the possibility of a short quiz. BNW questions to be posted over the weekend. BNW will be tested on the final.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Friday November 13th
Happy Friday the 13th
Yesterday you took the SIA quiz and read In my Hands or studied for today's vocabuary quiz...today is the vocabulary quiz in sentence format.
Monday 11-16-09 In My Hands Part 2 is due, Wednesday 11-18 part 3 with the Holocaust test on Thursday 11-19-09.
Vocabulary test 11-20 (emphasis on 20 and 21).
Today's trivia: The first child delivered MID AIR on a Delta flight happened in what year? To get credit...you must email my yahoo account No LATER THAN noon Saturday with the answer.
Have a good weekend...see you Monday...we'll circle it up and talk about In My Hands!
Yesterday you took the SIA quiz and read In my Hands or studied for today's vocabuary quiz...today is the vocabulary quiz in sentence format.
Monday 11-16-09 In My Hands Part 2 is due, Wednesday 11-18 part 3 with the Holocaust test on Thursday 11-19-09.
Vocabulary test 11-20 (emphasis on 20 and 21).
Today's trivia: The first child delivered MID AIR on a Delta flight happened in what year? To get credit...you must email my yahoo account No LATER THAN noon Saturday with the answer.
Have a good weekend...see you Monday...we'll circle it up and talk about In My Hands!
Monday, November 9, 2009
Week of Monday 11-9-09
Monday - I am out sick today. The instructions for the sub were NOT TO COLLECT anything. I will get your Book Burning and In My Hands tomorrow.
With the sub today:
start on the words/definitions/images from vocabulary book chapters 18 and 19. (Quiz Friday) AND complete the paragraphs that correspond with those lessons.
For class discussion tomorrow: search Survival in Auschwitz for the characters that Levi encountered, what lesson did he learn from each man.
SIA quiz moved back to Thursday.
In My Hand Part Two Due Monday 11-16-09 questions will be posted on the website
With the sub today:
start on the words/definitions/images from vocabulary book chapters 18 and 19. (Quiz Friday) AND complete the paragraphs that correspond with those lessons.
For class discussion tomorrow: search Survival in Auschwitz for the characters that Levi encountered, what lesson did he learn from each man.
SIA quiz moved back to Thursday.
In My Hand Part Two Due Monday 11-16-09 questions will be posted on the website
Friday, November 6, 2009
Week of November 9th
Due Monday 11-9-09:
In My Hands Part one
Book Burning Brochure
Tuesday 11-10-09 Quiz on SIA ... study via reading questions and what we discussed in class
Friday 11-13-09 Vocabulary Quiz on Lessons 18 and 19 ... Sentence Format
Don't forget...Wednesday 11-11-09 is a Day Off!
In My Hands Part one
Book Burning Brochure
Tuesday 11-10-09 Quiz on SIA ... study via reading questions and what we discussed in class
Friday 11-13-09 Vocabulary Quiz on Lessons 18 and 19 ... Sentence Format
Don't forget...Wednesday 11-11-09 is a Day Off!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Survival In Auschwitz
Quiz...Tuesday 11-10-09
Study Guide for quiz...reading questions and passages we discussed/will discuss in class. Probably 10 Multiple Choice and 1 short answer (paragraph).
Study Guide for quiz...reading questions and passages we discussed/will discuss in class. Probably 10 Multiple Choice and 1 short answer (paragraph).
Friday, October 30, 2009
October draws to a conclusion
Today we took our quiz on lessons 15 and 16 in vocabulary. Next week will be lesson 17.
Friday 11/13 vocabulary quiz on lessons 18 and 19
Friday 11/20 Final Vocabulary TEST
Friday 11-6-09 the Outside Reading report is due (Under PAPERS on the website) ...bring your book to class as well.
Read the Book Burning activity...work on it...bring your work to class on the day that you are NOT on retreat...either Wed the 4th or Thurs the 5th. Activity can be found on Holocaust Studies Page on Website. Final project is due Monday 11-9-09.
Have BOTH Holocaust books with you in class at all times. the 4th or 5th you'll have a reading assignment out of the Rescuer book.
Holocaust Rescuer book...study guide to be posted on the website by 11/4/09. Posted PART ONE on 11-1-09 after I returned from the open house at school.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tutoring
Peer Tutoring for Writing
Ms. Crlenjak's Room:
Tue/Thu mornings 7:00 - 7:30
Wed and Thu afternoons 2:00 - 3:00
Mr. Johnston...Mendel Computer lab:
Tues-Wed-Thurs 2-3 pm
The End of October...
Today I passed back all papers...minus the group presentations (Propaganda) if you have already gone...those will be passed back after EVERYONE has presented.
We also discussed the Holocaust Studies Book Burning Assignment ... research MUST be done prior to next week. It will be worked on in class the day you are not on 10th retreat (11/4 or 11/5).
Tuesday - Paper Draft is Due (Essay Contest)
Wednesday - Vocab Test corrections
Friday - Vocab Quiz...17 and 18 (Multiple choice and sentences)
Outside Reading report due...Friday 11-6-09
We also discussed the Holocaust Studies Book Burning Assignment ... research MUST be done prior to next week. It will be worked on in class the day you are not on 10th retreat (11/4 or 11/5).
Tuesday - Paper Draft is Due (Essay Contest)
Wednesday - Vocab Test corrections
Friday - Vocab Quiz...17 and 18 (Multiple choice and sentences)
Outside Reading report due...Friday 11-6-09
Friday, October 23, 2009
What to look forward to...
Today we took our vocabulary test on lessons 8-14 with an emphasis on 13 and 14.
Monday we'll resume Propaganda presentations
Tuesday (10-27) paper draft is due.
Friday (10-30) Vocabulary Quiz on Lessons 15 and 16
We'll discuss SIA when not listening to Propaganda presentations.
Outside Reading Report due Friday 11-6-09. Report MUST match title of book you gave me - will not be accepted if you switch titles. Book MUST be brought to class with the report.
Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer ... first reading assignment will be due MONDAY 11-9-09 (after the Outside Reading book is completed).
Holocaust "Topic" Speaker...Nov. 3rd
ON the Holocaust Studies page on the website...I listed a Book Burning Assignment due Monday 10-26-09 .. that is being changed ... details on website also...bring in information, on Nov 4 and 5 when part of the class is on retreat you can work on teh project compilation...it's due Monday November 9th.
Monday we'll resume Propaganda presentations
Tuesday (10-27) paper draft is due.
Friday (10-30) Vocabulary Quiz on Lessons 15 and 16
We'll discuss SIA when not listening to Propaganda presentations.
Outside Reading Report due Friday 11-6-09. Report MUST match title of book you gave me - will not be accepted if you switch titles. Book MUST be brought to class with the report.
Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer ... first reading assignment will be due MONDAY 11-9-09 (after the Outside Reading book is completed).
Holocaust "Topic" Speaker...Nov. 3rd
ON the Holocaust Studies page on the website...I listed a Book Burning Assignment due Monday 10-26-09 .. that is being changed ... details on website also...bring in information, on Nov 4 and 5 when part of the class is on retreat you can work on teh project compilation...it's due Monday November 9th.
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