English 12 (Period 1) Assignments
- Instructors
- Term
- Spring 2011
- Department
- English
- Location
- Room 114
- Code
- 241
- Description
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This course will survey British Literature from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Works by Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, and Dylan Thomas are included. Students will prepare for their entrance tests and their future college essay assignments by writing all forms of essays recommended in the California Standards. The course includes both oral presentation and a research component which requires completion following the requirements of MLA formatting and documentation.
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Vocabulary Lesson 21
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven discussion questions
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Read Five Peope You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
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Read "The Rocking Horse Winner" on pages 1036-1047 in literature book.
Review questions #1-5
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Grammar workbook: adverbs (pages 63-64)
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Read "A Room of One's Own" in literature book (pages 1085-1088). Answer review questions #1-4.
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Adjectives - Pages 61-62 #1-32 (grammar workbook)
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Lesson 20 vocabulary quiz
Worksheet - Blake's symbols
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Read William Blake's poems, "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" in literature book pages 629-630. Answer review questions #6-13.
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Vocabulary Self-Awareness
Prepositions (grammar workbook) page 66
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Burning Bright
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Lesson 20 vocabulary
Burning Bright review questions #1-5
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Lesson 19 vocabulary quiz
Bring grammar workbook to class
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**No silent reading this week
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Read Part I in Burning Bright
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Lesson 19 vocabulary
Review Hard Times Chapter 8 class notes
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Research paper: Period 1 (3/24) and Period 5 (3/25)
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Work on research paper
Read Hard Times Chapter 8 (VIII) handout
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Lesson 18 vocabulary quiz
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Lesson 18 vocabulary quiz Tuesday (Please bring your vocabulary workbooks to class on Monday to review lesson)
Work on research paper
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Continue to work on research paper
Review class notes
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1. Lesson 18 vocabulary
2. Read Emma Chapter 2
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Research paper deadline is next Thursday, March 24th (Period 1) and
Friday, March 25th (Period 5)
Review class notes Emma Chapter 2
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25 more index cards due on Monday, February 28th. You will bring a total of 50 index cards to class on February 28th.
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25 index cards completed by Wednesday (2/16)
1 source card completed with source information in MLA format
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Bring packet of index cards to class: you should have them in a plastic box or zip-loc bag
Return signed progress reports and/or deficiencies
Begin preliminary research on Los Angeles Public Library website. Find five sources and write them down on lined paper
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Lesson 16 vocabulary
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silent reading book
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Study for Lesson 15 vocabulary quiz.
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Read Dream Analysis in your literature book (page 501 or 537). Please annotate important points
Lesson 15 vocabulary quiz is this Wednesday.
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Reading the second excerpt from Gulliver's Travels in your literature book and annotate. Please answer review questions #1-10 that follow.
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Read "Gulliver's Travels" in your literature book (pages 527-531) and annotate. You are to read the first part, ":The Voyage to Lilliput".
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Complete Vocabulary Self-Awareness worksheet.
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Finish review questions #1-5 on page 445.
Lesson 15 vocabulary
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Study for Lesson 14 vocabulary quiz.
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Complete the editing worksheet
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Write ten sentences using vocabulary words from Lesson 14. Each sentence should contain one word from the lesson.
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Complete vocabulary handout definitions and examples.
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Lesson 14 vocabulary
Study all class notes and worksheets from today's class:
iambic pentameter, Macbeth outlines and Great Chain of Being
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Complete Macbeth study guide questions for Act 1 (handout).
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Finish reading Macbeth Act 1 (Scenes 5-7) and outline.
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You are to write a two page free write on the following: First, you are to come up with a name for your generation. You may not use "Generation X" or "The Lost Generation". After you have a name, please write a two page, single-spaced, in pencil free write explaining why you have selected this name and how it defines your generation.
Study class notes from today's class.
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Read Macbeth Act 1, Scene 3 and Act 1, Scene 4. Please annotate.
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Scan Sonnets 116 and 130 for iambic pentameter. Please use a piece of lined paper and you may want to use pencil.
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Finish vocabulary handout for Macbeth.
Read Macbeth Act 1, Scene 1 and Act 1, Scene 2. Please write down kep points from each act on the handout that was distributed in class for Act 1.
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Read handout, "Witchcraft in Shakespeare's Time" and answer the questions (#1-6) on the back of the handout. You can write all of your answers on the handout.
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