Honors English Ten Period 5

1. Complete your Character Bio-Poem or Character I Am Poem based on your Open Mind.

ERWC Period 1 & H. Expos. Composition Period 6

1. Be sure to visit the link and re-read the Intro and Chapter 1 (To Nickle and Dimed), if you did not have a chance. Additionally, you may still turn in the classwork/homework from last Friday which was the SOAPS on Revise for Evidence and the study questions for Nickle and Dimed.
2. How much does it take to be Middle Class? Look at the chart found here : What does it mean to be middle class?
3. Then, with that range of numbers in mind for California, print/download the Cost of Living Calculations. Then calculate the costs for food, rent or mortgage, utilities, transportation costs; clothing; car payment; car insurance; phone; and basic necessities. You may ask your parents for some of their actual expenses for things or use the web to assist you.

H. Expository Composition Period 6

Frame Sentence: There are many others who share in my love of......
If you need help, use the above frame sentence to begin or refocus the second segment of your essay.
Be sure the second section addresses: the people or organization concerned with your interest; a trend or development; and a cause for concern.
Finally, eliminate 50% of "to be verbs" on each page; 50% of bland, non-information containing words (words with neutral connotation when you want a word that has a connotation); use active verbs in active tense and not the passive.

H. Expos. Comp. Period 6

H. Expository Composition: Please obtain a copy of Nickled and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. In the meantime, you may find the PDF here to read the Introduction and Chapter 1
 Nickeled and Dimed

ERWC Period 1 and H. Expos. Comp. Period 6

By Monday, students in both classes should have read the Introduction and Chapter One (1) of Nickled and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich,  Please answer the following questions neatly, completely and legibly: Nickled and Dimed: Introduction and Chapter One 1. Near the outset, Ehrenreich (speaking of her own sister) employs the term “wage slave.” What does she mean by this?

2. What are the three rules the author sets for herself at the beginning of Nickel and Dimed? 3. Early on, the author tells us that she has a Ph.D. in biology. How, if at all, does this figure into the narrative

CHAPTER 1 – SERVING IN FLORIDA 1. Early in Chapter One, Ehrenreich notes that, in terms of low-wage work, “the want ads are not a reliable measure of the actual jobs available at any particular time.” Explain why this is so.

2. At one point, Ehrenreich details the living conditions of her fellow workers at the Hearthside. Reviewing these arrangements, explain how each set-up compares with the author’s own “$500 efficiency” quarters.

3. Waiting tables at Jerry’s, the author meets a young dishwasher named George. Who is he? What is his story? Why do he and Ehrenreich befriend one another? And why does she not “intervene” when she learns from an assistant manager that George is thought to be a thief?

4. On her first—and last—day of housekeeping in Key West, Ehrenreich is met by a manager who addresses her as “babe” and gives her “a pamphlet emphasizing the need for a positive attitude.”  Why do you think this is important? What does this reveal?

5. In an extended footnote in Chapter Two, Ehrenreich explains how “the point” of the housecleaning service where she is employed “is not so much to clean as to create the appearance of having been cleaned.” Why is this? Why the deceit? Why does The Maids outfit not really clean homes properly?

6. Continue to revise (especially period 6 since you have yours back) your essays. 

AP English Literature p.4

Complete the SOAPS Sheet and the Academic Precis based on your reading of "Love" from our Perrine Text, or "The Hound".  Remember, you are completing a Rhetorical Precis, which includes a list of literary terms employed; 3 questions: 1 Clarification Question' 1 style question (or about an aspect of style or language or literary technique; and 1 Application question.

Expository Composition P. 6

1. If you can, please report to room 114 tomorrow during brunch. Otherwise please do the following:
a. Re-read your essay OUT-LOUD with a Pencil. Mark where areas that you hear are problematic. Perhaps you repeat the same word, or use too many "coulds" or "woulds" before the actual verb. b. eliminate using the same word by combining some sentences.
c. Look at your paragraphs: do you use to few paragraphs? d. Does your essay appear finished?

AP English Lit. P4

1. Read the essay, "Questioning the Text: Literary Analysis and Multiple-Choice Testing." by Eric Wimmers. Annotate the essay and understand the author's argument.
2. Continue/complete the 10 Multiple Choice Questions created with a your colleague on the poem, "The Hound".
3. Re-read our Feel Good Friday poem, "Love" by Anonymous on page 820 of your Perrine Text. Respond to questions 1,2,3,6,7,10, and 14 from page 655 Understanding Poetry.
4. Review any lecture notes as we are nearing a unit exam within the next two weeks.

H. Expository Composition P. 6

Complete your Essay #1: (Both parts--the narrative and expository part). Then type and print out for a second round of peer editing on Monday.
Reminders: Using specific details help build your credibility. They satisfy the reader. They produce more engaged and lively writing.
Also, the second part of the essay asks you to inform the reader about how your hidden love or talent exists and has others, too that love that same topic.  In the second part of the essay, you demonstrate what you learned about your interest through research.

H. English Ten P5

Finish reading, "Life is Sweet at Kumansenu" Be ready to discuss this story, as well as continue working a bit on Greenleaf on Monday.
Be sure to keep reading your Independent Novel.

AP English Literature p.4

1. Be sure you have finished the Diagnostic AP Lit Exam. 2. Finish your Rhetorical Precis for "The Hound"
3. Be sure to check-out; order; The Picture of Dorian Gray. I have copies of the text which can be purchased from me-- they are the Dover Edition of the text-- only about ten copies.

H. English Ten

Be ready to share your levels of questions. Be sure you understand "Greenleaf"

H. Expos Composition P.1

Continue to research details for your essay.  If you need to speak with family members, view pictures or programs in order to add specific details please do so. Re-read your essay, and try a new beginning to grad the readers attention. Use specific names and proper names for objects so that the reader can imagine what is happening.  Revise for specificity; revise for evidence. Then, re-read the actual prompt,and continue writing.

H. Expository Composition p.6

Be sure to look under classroom reading and important handouts to download the first Major Essay/Writing Assignment, "My Love Affair With..."

AP English Literature P. 4

1. In class we read the poem "The Hound". Complete questions 1,2, 3, 5,6, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 from page 655 of the Perrine Literature Text.
2. Select any two and respond in a full page:
Recollect a time when you felt inferior to someone else. Why did you feel that way and how did you act?
Recollect a time you felt superior to a person.  Why did you feel that way and how did you demonstrate your superiority?
Write about insecurity. What does it mean to feel or act or be insecure? How do insecure people act?
3. Finally, read the short story "Greenleaf" by Flannery O'Connor in your story, or by following this link Greenleaf by Flannery O'Connor . Read the story up page 317 (the online version. if using the Perrine text, read up to page 491. As you read, make notes perhaps on an index card of the times when a character acts superior to another. Or when a character acts insecure. Are there instances where a character acts both superior and insecure?

H. Expository Composition P. 6

1. Bring in a tangible artifact that reflects or represents one of your talents, likes, or hobbies that is a source of Hidden Intellectualism.
2. Be sure to complete question #6 (The Synthesis Question) and bring to class.

AP English Literature Period 4

Continue matching the AP Open Prompts by year with their corresponding Chapters in How to Read Literature Like A Professor. 
2. Be sure you have ordered or checked out your AP Independent Reading Novel.
3. Order/Reserve a copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I will have the a few copies of the Dover Edition for sale ($4.50) next week.

H. English Ten P.5

1. Use wikipedia or another source and read the biography of Flannery O'Connor.  

2. Do not finish reading the end of "Greenleaf" rather, re-read what was read in class-- anywhere from the beginning of the story to page 328. Annotate and mark details of the story that convey Mrs. May's distaste for the Greenleafs; Mr. May's silent defiance of Mrs. May's condescending attitude; and humorous details that indicate that Mrs. May is not all she claims to be. 

AP English Literature Period 4

Read All of the essay, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Cannot Read" by Francine Prose and answer question #5; and Under Rhetoric and Style, answer question number 3.

Honors Expository Composition Period 6

1. Write out answers for questions 1, 4 and 1 and 2 on the first page regarding "Hidden Intellectualisms" Be sure to bring the essay tomorrow!

H. English Ten Period 5

The Worlds of Fiction:
In class today, I provided a convention or rule, or common practice, that was specific to Southerns.
In three sentences or more or less, describe a convention which governs behavior from your race, gender, ethnicity; age group; location or geography or religion.

Carefully read and re-read the short story "Greenleaf" by Flannery O'Connor up to page 317. Please answer the following questions on a sheet of paper that will be submitted.
1. What type of imagery is a crown/wreath of thorns?
2. For how long had Mrs. May hired Mr. Greenleaf? Why doesn't she (Mrs. May) find another worker if she is unsatisfied with the Greenleafs?  Find the exact answer from the text and write it down.
3. Mr. Greenleaf says something to Mrs. May that demonstrates his (Mr. Greenleaf's) sense of values and beliefs. What does he say to Mrs. May? (hint..it involves her sons) and what does his comment reveal about his values?
4. Why does Mrs. May "never eat breakfast" p.314? Explain the significance of Mrs. May sitting at the head of the table, and the way her two sons, Scofield and Weslet behave. How do they behave?

AP English Literature Period 4

Complete the How to Read Literature Like A Professor Study Guide for the following chapters:
Now Where Have I Seen Her Before (Chapter 5); Or the Bible (Chapter 7); Chapter 10 (It's More Than Just Rain of Snow); Chapter 22 (He's Blind for A Reason); Chapter 26 (Is He Serious? And Other Ironies?)