H. English Ten The Fall of Rome

Continue creating the multiple choice questions with your team members.  You may create questions in which you make inferences; characterize characters; assess knowledge of plot; symbol; literary devices. You and your team must create eight questions.

H. English Ten The Fall of Rome

Today, in small groups of no more than three students, you will be creating questions that could potentially be on a quiz for the novel The Fall of Rome. As we all know, creating questions demands that the question creator: now the answer; be able to phrase the question and answer choices to elicit the correct answer from the test taker; assess literary devices; comprehension; vocabulary; theme; tone; and other knowledge domains.  You and your team will write your questions on Salmon or Beige paper; if you need more than one sheet of paper, that is fine. You will obtain class points for creation of quiz questions. You will also write a reflection on the experience.

Journal Topics for the Week of May 26, 2016

1. Do you think successful minorities should feel obliged to mentor younger minorities in the same career, or at school? Should they actually do it?
2. How do you feel about Affirmative Action outreach to individuals living in poor, or economically challenged communities to qualified candidates?
3. Why does it matter that Ms. Hansen is white? Discuss the importance of her not being the same race as Rashid, Washington or Gerald?
4. What is wrong with Mr. Washington? Is he a candidate for therapy? Diagnose his problems.

H. World Literature Period 6

As you continue to compose your Final Senior Reflective Essays, be mindful that the essay is to fulfil requirments for your English Class. Many of you have not focused on a specific strategy, technique, or text in THIS class or another English or History Class. To refresh your memory: SOAPS; Thinking in Colors; Translations; Academic Summaries; Creating Levels of Questions; Modelling and Creative Writing; Music Assignments in Class; Articles of the Week "A Dozen Demons"; "The Ways We Lie"; "Hidden Intellectualism"; use of Ted Talks; Dramatic Recitals; Student Lead Discussions; Character Analysis; Lectures on Thesis Statements; Begining with a Quote versus a sentence; Interviews with Parents...etc.
Champion of the World by Maya Angelou Maya Angelou
Fish Cheeks Fish Cheeks

H. English Ten Period 5

Read The Fall of Rome Chapters 7-9. For each Chapter, please select two meaningful quotes, or quotes that strike you as interesting, and character revealing, and respond in your Dialectical Journal. We will work on Character Analysis this upcoming week. We should be finished with the novel by this Friday, so if you would like to get ahead, you may read Chapters 10-12 by Tuesday.

AP Literature Period 4/H. World Literature Period 6

1. Continue Writing your Senior Reflective Essays. Be sure to include details from Senior English, in terms of meaningful/helpful assignments; discussions; etc. and how these helped in your overall growth as a reader, writer, and thinker.
2. Bring the Stranger. We will continue part 2-period 4; and finish the book--period 6

The Stranger Part 3

Part 3 of the text has been uploaded on the same post as Part 2. In class, we up to page 97, and answered the question: The prosecutor attempts to try Mersault for the indifference he showed towards his mother's death AND his shooting of the Arab.  Are the two connected? How? Is is fair to attempt to connect the two?
Homework questions from Thursday were not collected, but will be collected on Monday.
Homework: I will check two pages of your Senior Reflective Essay on Monday!!

The Stranger Part 2

The Stranger Response Questions
1. Can anyone take your freedom? Discuss the yes and no possibilities to the question.
2. What might be the significance of the story of the Czecholsvakian traveler?
3. What does the magistrate hope to do when brandishing the crucifix in Mersault's face?
4. Why does Mersualt not try to defend himself? Make up a story about his mother's death impacting him? Or convert to Christianity and/or show remorse or emotion?
5. Why do you think Mersualt was placed in solitary confinement? Do you think this punishment accomplishes it outcome with Mersault?

H. World Literature

The Stranger Part 2The Stranger Part 2
The Stranger Part 3

H. English Ten period 5

1. Re-read the Article "A Dozen Demons"
2. A Dozen Demons Text to Self: For each of the 12 "Demons" that Ellis Cose outlines, give a specific event, or experience that YOU have had with that demons. Perhaps it was at school, with your family member, friends, or social encounters with the world.  You may change names to protect the innocent (and the guilty!)
3. What does it mean, "The Past is Prologue"? What do we learn about Mr. Washington, and how does what we learn influence his behavior and outlook?
4. Lastly, finish Chapter 4, and read Chapters 5. Select two statements or quotes from each chapter, list at the top of your Dialectical Journal (Remember, you have the cover, you add your own paper), and respond to your quote in a half full page.

AP English Literature period 4

Please read the rest of chapters 2-3 of The Stranger.  Be prepared to share the Thinking in Colors Activity. Also, if you did not submit your SOAPS for the Article of the Week, please complete and have ready to turn in. Tomorrow we will discuss the final senior reflective essay as well. Be sure to bring the novel, The Stranger! 

H. World Literature Period 6

How has the Mersualt that we "knew" changed or developed? Write your thoughts in a reflection, using evidence from the text to support your response. Your response must be no fewer than a page.

H. English Ten period 5

1. Finish your Article of the Week SOAPS with Academic Summary on "A Dozen Demons" Be sure that you read the article first!
2. Complete Three Open Minds: one for Ms. Hansen; one from Mr. Washington, and one for Rashid.  Be sure to use color; to include 5 objects that symbolize the character, several quotes, and at least 5 adjectives PER OPEN MIND.
2. Complete your Identity Puzzle in which you consider your nationality; race; or ethnicity and identify several (more than ten different factions). You may make your puzzle in any shape that you desire.
3

H. English Ten

Article of the Week Here it is: A Dozen Demons

Honors World Literature p. 6

The Stranger Questions
1. Other than his repeated use of "I" what other childlike tendencies foes Mersault exhibit? Please identify and discuss at least two.
2. What does the story about how Old Salamano and his dog teach us?
3. Who is Raymond Sintes? Why does he beat his girlfriend? Based on his conversation with Mersault  how might you characterize him?
4. Create 3 level 3 questions based on reading Chapter 3.

H World Literature Period 6/ AP English Literature period 4

The Stranger Resources:
Albert Camus Biography Powerpoint
 Follow this link to access the online text: The Stranger pdf

AP English Literature Period 4/H. World Lit period 6

Select one the following and respond: How does a child become a functional adult when their family is dysfunctional? Support your answer with references to texts, and or opinion or observation.
2. What are the effects of being un-sociable (introverted) and how does being unsociable impact the individual and those around them?
If you'd like, you can answer both questions with at least a paragraph per answer. Otherwise, please answer in no less than 3/4 of a page.

H. World Literature Period 6

Answer the following questions based on the lists that the class generated for Mom; Dad; and Kid:
Look or think specifically about the lists you created for a Mom/Dad and think about the following: Do any of these things bring joy? Why or why not? Why are they still done? Especially if they do not bring joy to the provider...

Make a list of things that you, or your parents do on a daily basis, day in and day out. You may make two separate or even three separate lists: one for your mother; one for your father, and one for you the child.  Try to list as many as twenty tasks that are done daily or almost daily, or with some regularity.

AP English Literature Period 4

1. Make a list of things that you, or your parents do on a daily basis, day in and day out. You may make two separate or even three separate lists: one for your mother; one for your father, and one for you the child.  Try to list as many as twenty tasks that are done daily or almost daily, or with some regularity.
Homework: Re-read chapter 1 of The Stranger. Create two level one questions; two level two (inferential questions); and two level three questions based on Chapter 1 of The Stranger. Also respond: with whom do I connect or relate to in the story, and why? With whom do I no connect or relate to; and lastly provide a surprise or ephiphany about Mersualt. This assignment is worth 35 points. 
2. The Myth of Sisyphus

English Ten Honors Period 5

1. Compare and contrast the way that Ms. Hansen and Mr. Washington begin their classes on the first day.  What might the way they begin their classes reveal about their personality, and teaching style.
2. The story is told my how many point of views? Why might this be important?
3. Complete Open Minds for Each of the Main Characters: Jerome Washington, Rashid Bryson; Jana Hansen. You may obtain open minds from me, or you may google and download yourself. In each open mind, include ten adjectives. Three quotes; and four images/symbols that support your understanding of the character.
4. Explain the significance of two black characters from different backgrounds.

AP English Literature Period 4

1. Please bring ANY borrowed texts! Please also locate your Perrine Literature Text. Be sure your name is on it!

H. World Literature period 6/H. English Ten

Write a one page reflection in which you answer the following: How did the assignment help you better understand the plot, universal themes and character development? What did the assignment better help you understand or perceive about the play?
2. Two-- the King Lear Test will probably be on Friday.  Why prolong it. It will be just right, and focus on the plot and quotes and characters. Study now!

AP English Lit p. 4

Get plenty of rest!!!! Dont cram-- review some quotes, themes, maybe a few devices and poetic devices then......go.to.bed!!!!

H. English Ten period 5

1. Reflect on your re-reading of your assigned scene.  In one paragraph (of course you may write more than one) answer the following: how has the group assignment helped you to more precisely understand the plot, or character development?
The Fall of Rome
1. How might your [school] experience be different if you attended a gender specific (single gender) school?
2. Go back to page ten of the novel, re-read page 10-14. Rewrite a pivotal moment from that of Rashid or another student.
3. For what reason does the author chose to give Rashid both a mother and a father? How might this impact the plot?
4. What themes might the novel address considering the similarities of race but difference of age in the two protagonists?