Class 6 Comprehensive English Honors

NOTE: Any LATE work that requires completion on a laptop must be completed and handed in by Wednesday, 5/13. Regular laptop use will continue in class, but all late work that requires laptops is due 5/13. Check PowerSchool carefully.

Homework Week of 5/5/25

1. 8th graders write a promotion speech due 5/14. Refer to directions in Google Classroom.

Homework Week of 4/14/25

1. Complete the "Write Your Own Thesis" page by Tuesday, 4/15.

Homework Week of 3/31/25

1. Complete "Breaking Down the Text" for paragraphs 1 - 3 by Weds. 4/2. You can note your answers on a Google Doc or on the pages of the packet.

Homework Week of 3/10/25

1. Make sure your locavore essay is submitted in Classroom Companion.

2. Complete the Grammar Practice Exercises for Lessons 4.1 and 4.2 about clauses. We will discuss answers on 3/14.

Homework Week of 2/10/25

1. Complete the Listenwise assignment based on the Federalist Papers. This is due Friday, 2/14.

Homework Week of 12/2

1. Study the first 10 literary terms. Be prepared to identify the terms in text examples. The terms are abstract through anecdote.

2. Complete the "Into the Wild" written response by 12/19.

Homework Week of 10/21

1. Complete the Think Questions for "Because I Could Not Stop for Death." by Tuesday, 10/22.

2. Complete the Vocabulary Tab for "Society and Solitude" by Wednesday 10/23.

Homework Week of 9/30/24

1. Complete the Academic Vocabulary Lesson in StudySync.

2. Complete the Think Questions for the Literary Focus: Transcendentalism and Romanticism selection in StudySync by Thursday, 10/3.

Homework Week of 9/23/24

1. Listen to the selection, "Should Cell Phones be Banned" and complete the written response questions by Friday, 9/27/24.

Homework Week of 9/2/24

1. Your Marcus Aurelius essays are due Friday, 9/6. You have class time to work on this essay all week.

2. Listen to and complete the quiz for the Listenwise selection "Famous People Who Failed" by Tuesday, 9/10.

3. **Note - I did not list the previous Listenwise assignment "Citizenship in Ancient Rome" on my site. My apologies. You can turn this work in late for up to full credit. Please work to have it finished by Friday, 9/6.

Homework Week of 8/26

1. Read "Arranging Ideas" in our Argument Writing Packet by Tuesday, 8/27.

2. Review the prompt and decide if you agree, disagree or are in the middle regarding the statement Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius made about cooperation. Be ready to state your position in class on Wednesday, 8/28.

3. Draft an introduction on a Google Doc by Thursday 8/29. We will review introductios in class.

Homework Week of 12/4

1. Please return your Sunny Hills Field Trip Permission slip by Friday, 12/8.

Homework Week of 11/13

1. Complete the Rhetorical Strategies Skills Lesson by Thursday, 11/16.

2. Compete the Syntax and Diction Skills Lesson by Friday, 11/17

Homework Week of 10/30

1. Read "1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address" Complete the Think Questions and the Written Response question based on this selection.

Week of 10/9

1. Complete the StudySync Skills Lesson on source commentary.

2. Complete the Listenwise assignment about Offshore Wind Energy by Friday, 10/13.

Week of 9/18/23

1. Finish drafting the introduction to your STEM synthesis essay by Tuesday, 9/19.

2. Complete the STEM-related Listenwise Quiz by Tuesday, 9/19.

3. Complete the Coding article in Common Lit by Wednesday, 9/27.

Week of 9/5/23

1. Complete the questions based on the Listnewise selection about new voting laws by Friday, 9/8.Domain by Tuesday, 8/22/23.