Tuesday, 1 April 2008

Tuesday, 1 April 2008

PERIOD 5
1. Quizzes Joseph Conradp921 and Part 1 The Secret Sharer pp925-935
2. Group discussion of questions p948
HW: Read Part 2 of The Secret Sharer pp936-945 and The Marginal Hero p947

Monday, 31 March 2008

Monday, 31 March 2008

PERIOD 5
1. Get exams back
2. Get Jane Eyre essays back
HW: Read Joseph Conrad p 921
HW: Read The Secret Sharer Part 1 pp925-935

Friday, 14 March 2008

Friday, 14 March 2008

PERIOD 5
1. Quiz the English Language p907
2. Quiz the Twentieth Century p914

Tuesday, 11 March 2008

Tuesday, 11 March 2008

PERIOD 5
1. SRF
2. Work on Reading Record Card for Jane Eyre
3. Work on 22-38 Vocabulary List
Exam tomorrow will be an AP Multiple Choice Exam with one essay question.

PERIOD 6
1. List vocabulary words you have trouble with. List synonyms from the thesaurus. Use them to play Wheel of Fortune.
Exam tomorrow will be a practice SAT Exam with Reading and Writing Sections

Monday, 10 March 2008

Monday, 10 March 2008

Periods 1 & 2
1. AR rdg & log
Exam schedule:3&4,5&6,1&2,TWT
.....Period 1
2. Exam Review, took notes on:
6+1 Writing traits & my defns for
Ideas>meaning, content
Voice> personality of writer
Sent Flue>beauty&naturalness of
the way words are put together
.....Period 2
2. Hand in or show me contest draft

Period 5
1. Hand in critical response p857
2. Quiz on Oscar Wilde & IBE
3. HW or classwork on Import…Ernest
4. Voc ch22-38= 17 words & defn
No quiz tomorrow. You'll do classwork from the book. Study for your 3rd & 4th period exams.
HW: Voc lists due later this week
Bring in books

Period 6
1. Exam review of topics to cover
• SAT sections:
2 Critical Reading & 1 Writing Skills
• Vocabulary 31-74

Friday, 7 March 2008

Friday, 7 March 2008

Periods 1 & 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Any more Macbeth essays?
3. Give presentation
4. Write a rough draft of a story (less than 300 words) about the ocean and you for the Kids Day contest. Show me for points.
Period 2: Quiz on the Restoration and 2 details

Period 5
1. SRF
2. Quiz Charles Dickens and David Copperfield pp 845-857
3. Discuss poems : Browning
HW: Critical response p 857
HW:Read Oscar Wilde and part of The Importance of Being Ernest pp 868 –875 Tell what or who is being satirized and write a quote from the play to show why you think so.
HW for Tues: Read pp 907-910 The English Language
HW for Tues: Twentieth Century pp 914-920
Bring books: Jane Eyre, Hamlet, Sound and Sense

Period 6
1. Voc Quiz 67-76
2. Check Pract Test2 Sec2 SAT
HW: Voc 77-78

Thursday, 6 March 2008

Thursday, 6 March 2008


Period 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Any more Macbeth essays?
3. Presentations
4. Literary Periods pp134-5
Read and discuss.
Take Cornell notes for quiz.
.....The Restoration Period
1. Puritans took over and were intolerant
2. The monarchy was restored with less power, but Parliament ruled.

Period 5
1. SRF
2. Quiz Eliz Bar Browning&Sonnets from Portuguese
3. Show me your revision & r.d. Hand in if it's ready to be graded
4. Discussion of poems in groups
HW: Read Charles Dickens and
David Copperfield pp 845-857
HW: Reading Record Card due for Jane Eyre
HW: Bring books: Jane Eyre, Hamlet, Sound and Sense

Period 6
1. SRF
2. Voc Quiz 63-72
3. Practice Test2 Sec2 SAT
HW: Voc 73-74

Wednesday, 5 March 2008

Wednesday, 5 March 2008

Period 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Any more Macbeth essays?
3. Presentation
4. Quiz Literary Periods p134 Gold
5. Kid’s Day story
HW: Rough draft due Friday
<300words


Period 6
1. Effective Wrtg Quiz 1-10
2. NovaNet in Learning Center
Write NovaNet Journal:
Date and what you learned today

Tuesday, 4 March, 2008

Tuesday, 4 March, 2008

Periods 1 & 2
1. AR rdg and log
2. Any more Macbeth essays?
3. Any more Presentations?
Period 1
1. Review voc 1-19;
2. Romantic Period pp 134-135 Cornell notes.
HW: Qz Wed on notes
Period 2
Voc Quiz 10-19

Period 5
1. Quiz on Browning’s poems
2. Show me your rough drafts <300 or >500
3. Discussion
HW: Read Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Sonnets from the Portuguese.
HW: Type and revise your contest essay. Bring both copies to class to show me.
• Ocean (Kids Day) < 300 for $100
• 4 Qstns (Rotary) >500 for $1000, $700, $500, $300 for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place

Monday, 3 March, 2008

Monday, 3 March, 2008

Periods 1 & 2
1. AR rdg and log
2. Any more Macbeth essays
3. Presentations

Period 5
1. Quiz on Browning
2. Hand in summary and theme for Duchess
3. Discussion
HW: Write rough draft for local Contest. See Friday 2/29 for details
HW: Read Porphyria's Lover p802; Meeting at Night; Parting at Morning p805; Prospice p806

Period 6
1. Voc Quiz 63-72
2. Finish Effective Writing from SAT
3. HW: Voc 73-74

Friday, 29 February, 2008

Friday, 29 February, 2008

Periods 1 & 2

1. AR rdg & log

2. Any more Macbeth essays?

3. Give presentations

Period 5

1. SRF

2. Turn in

Final draft

Rough draft with corrections

Final outline

Rough outline

3. Write 5 two word poems& hand in

HW: Due Tues: Write a rough draft of contest essay:

Kid's Day Ocean, <300 words for $100;

Rotary 4Way Qstns >500 words for$1000, $700, $500, or $300
Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

HW: due Mon: Read pp798-801Robert Browning and "My Last Duchess" Summarize poem and tell what you think is the theme.


Period 6

1. Voc Quiz 61-70

2. Effective Writing from SAT

HW: Voc 71-73

Thursday, 28 February, 2008

Thursday, 28 February,2008

Period 2

1. AR rdg & log

2. Any more Macbeth essays?

3. Prepare for presentations

4. Quality presentations

1] Loud enough

2] Slow enough

3] Enunciate clearly

4] Stress important words

5] Stay in character


Period 5

1. SRF

2. Check 600 words

3. Check 21-30 MC for Jane Eyre

4. Contests: Kid's Day & 4 Qstnsfrom the Rotary

HW: Final draft


Period 6

1. Voc Quiz 59-68

2. Effective Writing from SAT

HW: Voc 69-7

Wednesday, 27 February, 2008

Wednesday, 27 February, 2008

Period 1

1. AR rdg & log

2. Any more Macbeth essays?

3. Prepare for presentations

4. Quality presentations

1] Loud enough

2] Slow enough

3] Enunciate clearly

4] Stress important words

5] Stay in character



Period 6

1. Voc Quiz 57-66

2. NovaNet in Learning Center

Write NovaNet Journal:

Date and what you learned today

HW: Voc 67-68

Tuesday, 26 February 2008

Tuesday, 26 February 2008

Periods 1 & 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Any more Macbeth essays?
3. Presentations: Each student will be asked to present 4 lines from a character in Macbeth. Lines may be read, but memorizing may improve your grade. Here are some possibilities for one student or groups of students. Quotations are taken from the Gold textbook.

p79 MB 1st line and last 3 lines:
"Is this….before me?"
"I go and it is done....or to hell."

p80 Macbeth and Lady Macbeth 4 lines each
MB: "I'll go… (3)
LMB: "Infirm of… (4)
MB:"To know…myself." (1)

p83 3 WITCHES 4 lines each
"Round….caldron bubble." (10)

p84 WITCH 4 lines & MB 1 line
Witch: "Cool it…this way comes."(4)
MB: "How now….you do?"(1)

p 85 DOCTOR &WOMAN 4 lines each
DR: "I have two….she last walked?" (2)
WOM: "Since his majesty….both fast asleep."(4)
DR: "What…her say? (1)
You see her eyes are open." (1)

p85-86 WOMAN, LMB, DOCTOR 4 lines each
WOM: "It is an…of an hour" (2)
LMB: "Yet here's a spot." (1)
DR: "Hark, she speaks." (1)
LMB:"Out damned…blood in him?"(3)
DR: "Do you mark that?"
"You have known...should not." (2)
WOM: "She has spoke...has known." (2)
DR: "This disease is beyond my practice." (1)

p86 DOCTOR 4 lines "Foul whisperings…the physician."

p87 MB 8 lines= 4 & 4
"Tomorrow and…dusty death." (4.5)
"Out, out….signifying nothing."(4.5)

p87 MB 4 lines
"I begin…harness on our back."(4)

p87 MB & Macduff 3 lines each
MD: "Turn, Hellhound, turn!"(1)
MB: "Of all men….thine already." (3)
MD: "I have no…my sword."(2)

p88 MB 8 lines
MB: "I will not yield…Hold, enough!"



Period 5
1. Notes on Ch 20 essays AP style
2. Show me your 400 words
HW: Write last 200 or more words, 600+ total

Monday, 25 February 2008

Monday, 25 February 2008

Periods 1& 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Any more papers to turn in?
3. New essential vocabulary
…16] irony (n): a contradiction between expectation and reality; the unexpected
…17] personification (n): giving human qualities to nonliving things.
4. Review and quiz vocab. 8-17

Period 5
1. Get back ch20 AP style essays
2. Students absent Friday take mult choice test on 21-30 JE
3. Show me 200 words of essay
4. Check mult choice 11-20
HW: 200 more words due, 400total

Period 6
1. Quiz Voc 55-64
2. Discuss consistency in writing with parallel structure: Things in a series should have the same construction.
HW: Voc. 65-66

Monday, 25 February 2008

Monday, 25 February 2008

Periods 1& 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Any more papers to turn in?
3. New essential vocabulary
…16] irony (n): a contradiction between expectation and reality; the unexpected
…17] personification (n): giving human qualities to nonliving things.
4. Review and quiz vocab. 8-17

Period 5
1. Get back ch20 AP style essays
2. Students absent Friday take mult choice test on 21-30 JE
3. Show me 200 words of essay
4. Check mult choice 11-20
HW: 200 more words due, 400total

Period 6
1. Quiz Voc 55-64
2. Discuss consistency in writing with parallel structure: Things in a series should have the same
construction.
HW: Voc. 65-66

Friday, 22 February 2008

Friday, 22 February 2008

Periods 1 & 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Hand in
• Final Drafts
• Rough draft w/ corrections in a in different color
• Rough outline
• Final outline

Period 5
1. SRF
2. Mult choice JE 21-30
3.Show me thesis & outline
HW: 200 words for Mon.

Period 6
1. SRF
2. Quiz Voc 53-62
HW: Voc 63-64

Thursday, 21 February 2008

Thursday, 21 February 2008

Period 2
1. AR rdg & log
2. Show me 500 words total
(150 more words for 15 pts)
• Final Drafts due Friday, including:
• Rough draft with corrections in a different color
• Rough outline
• Final outline
See new blog "Writing Literary Analysis" for basic tips (below)

Period 5
1. Multiple choice JE ch 18 #11-20
2. Label best & worst of your 3 thesis ideas
3. Share best with class
HW: Thesis and outline for essay JE
Blog: Outline for Jane Eyre
Blog: Byronic Hero Characteristics
Blog: Writing Literary Analysis, Basic Tips

Period 6
1. Quiz Voc 51-60
2. Effective Writing
Part A: Being consistent
1]. Sequence of tenses
2]. Shift of pronoun
HW: Voc 61-62

Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Period 1
1. AR rdg & log
2. Show me 500 words total
(150 more words for 15 pts)
• Final Drafts due Friday, including:
• Rough draft with corrections in a different color
• Rough outline
• Final outline
See new blog entry "Writing Literary Analysis" for basic tips

Period 6
1. Quiz Voc 43-44, 51-58
2. Lab for NovaNet
HW: Voc. 59-60

Writing Literary Analysis

Basic Tips for Writing a Literary Analysis
from Sierra College 2001

1. Write in the present tense.

EXAMPLE: In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the townspeople visit Emily Grierson's house because it smells bad.
NOT: In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the townspeople visited Emily Grierson's house because it smelled bad.

2. Normally, keep yourself out of your analysis; in other words, use the third person (no I or you). Some instructors may require or allow the first or second person in an informal analysis if the usage is consistent, however, so check with your instructor.
FIRST PERSON: I believe that the narrator in "Sonny's Blues" is a dynamic character because I read many details about the changes in his attitude toward and relationship with Sonny.
THIRD PERSON: The narrator in "Sonny's Blues" is a dynamic character who changes his attitude toward and relationship with Sonny as the story progresses.
SECOND PERSON: At the end of "Everyday Use," Mama realizes that Maggie is like her but has not received the attention you should give your daughter to help her attain self-esteem.
THIRD PERSON: At the end of "Everyday Use," Mama realizes that Maggie is like her but has not received enough attention to build self-esteem.

3. Avoid summarizing the plot (i.e., retelling the story literally). Instead analyze (form a thesis about and explain) the story in literary terms.
PLOT SUMMARY: In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," the mad narrator explains in detail how he kills the old man, who screams as he dies. After being alerted by a neighbor, the police arrive, and the madman gives them a tour through the house, finally halting in the old man's bedroom, where he has buried the man beneath the floor planks under the bed. As he is talking, the narrator hears what he thinks is the old man's heart beating loudly, and he is driven to confess the murder.
ANALYSIS: Though the narrator claims he is not mad, the reader realizes that the narrator in "The Telltale Heart" is unreliable and lies about his sanity. For example, the mad narrator says he can hear "all things in the heaven and in the earth." Sane people cannot. He also lies to the police when he tells them that the shriek they hear occurs in his dream. Though sane people do lie, most do not meticulously plan murders, lie to the police, and then confess without prompting. Finally, the madman is so plagued with guilt that he hears his own conscience in the form of the old man's heart beating loudly. Dead hearts do not beat, nor do sane people confuse their consciences with the sounds of external objects.

4. Include a clear thesis statement which addresses something meaningful about the literature, often about the theme. (See separate thesis handout.)

5. Use literary terms to discuss your points (i.e., character, theme, setting, rhyme, point of view, alliteration, symbols, imagery, figurative language, protagonist, and so forth).
NONLITERARY TERMS: To show that women are important, Adrienne Rich writes about Aunt Jennifer and the tigers that she creates in her needlework.
LITERARY TERMS: The poem "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" contains vivid images and symbols which reveal a feminist perspective.

6. Do not confuse characters' (in fiction or drama) or speakers' (in poetry) viewpoints with authors' viewpoints.
AUTHOR: As a black woman, Eudora Welty faces racism in "A Worn Path." (Eudora Welty, the author, was not black.)
CHARACTER: As a black woman, Old Phoenix faces racism in "A Worn Path." (Old Phoenix, a character, is black.)
POET: In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Robert Frost is tempted to drift into his subconscious dream world, yet he knows he has other obligations to fulfill when he states, "But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep." (The pronoun "I" refers to the speaker of the poem, not to Robert Frost, the poet.)
SPEAKER: In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," the speaker is tempted to drift into his subconscious dream world, yet he knows he has other obligations to fulfill when he states, "But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep." (Here the "I" correctly refers to the speaker of the poem.)

7. Support your points with many quotations and paraphrases, but write the majority of your paper in your own words with your own ideas.

8. When writing a research paper that includes literary criticism, make sure that you form your own opinion rather than merely restate those of the critics. You may, however, use the critics' views to support yours.

9. Cite prose, poetry, drama, critics, and any other sources used according to specialized MLA standards. (See the current edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.)

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