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“No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest—for it is part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.”
~T. S. Eliot
Homework Assignments listed below by date due:
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~~~Assigned 12-11-13; Due 12-18-13~~~
Complete Diagramming worksheet #7
Begin working on your short, short story outline, based on the basic outline found on pp. 6-7 of your narrative handout.
Complete the Acts 10 assignment on p. 18 of your narrative handout.
Read “The Dog that Bit People” by James Thurber (handout)
Review!
Please note: Next week will be our last class until after the holidays. We will have a short unit quiz (20 minutes) over our vocabulary from poetry and narrative toolbox terms, Strunk & White rules 1-15, and over the narrative content we have discussed so far. :-)
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~~~Assigned 12-4-13; Due 12-11-13~~~
1. Hold on to your Till We Have Faces assignment for the next time we meet.
2. Read “Red” by Elsa Johnson Finnegan on pp. 22-27 of your handouts document.
3. Choose one of the short stories we have read so far: “Red,” “Rip van Winkle,” “A Day’s Wait,” or Chapter 3 from The Grapes of Wrath. For the story you choose, type out answers to the following questions, and bring them to turn in. Answer each question with proper sentences and paragraph structure, and answer them completely, carefully, and well! Each answer may stand on its own—this is a not a tied-together paper, but complete, well-written answers.
A. Describe the objective, obstacle, and outcome found in the short story you choose.
B. Discuss the characters in this short story. What purpose do they serve? Make sure to use the vocabulary available to you in your narrative toolbox as you discuss the characters.
C. Where does the climax occur in this story? What makes you think that particular point is the climax?
D. What do you think the author intends as the theme for this short story? Is he or she successful in communicating that theme?
E. Looking over your narrative toolbox, is there anything else important about this story you would like to mention?
4. Read from the “Short Story Staples” section of your handout. Read actively, thinking about what you read and how you can apply it to the idea you are thinking of writing your short, short story about. Read through the end of Part 1: The Idea, at the bottom of p. 7. Come prepared to discuss this reading, and to get a start on your idea for your own short story.
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~~~Assigned 11-20-13; Due 12-4-13~~~
Memorize & review all poetry and narrative toolbox vocabulary.
Complete any revisions you are still working on.
Complete Till We Have Faces assignment.
Read Chapter 3 from The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, pp. 20-21 of your handout.
Review Strunk and White Rules 1 – 14.
Continue pondering an idea for a short short story.
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~~~Assigned 11-13-13; Due 11-20-13~~~
Complete diagramming worksheet #6. The review sites you need can be found here: http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/relative-pronouns.html
http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/interrogative-sentence.html
Review S&W rules 1-13
Review poetry toolbox terms and terms and Part I p.1 in narrative handout.
Memorize narrative toolbox terms assigned so far (objective, obstacles, outcome, protagonist)
Complete the Opportunity assignment on p. 16 of your handouts document.
Read “A Day’s Wait” by Ernest Hemmingway (handout from Mrs. F.)
Start thinking about an idea for a short story of your own. At this point don’t make it well formed: just think of an idea that has a protagonist, and that can have an objective, some obstacles, and an outcome.
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~~~Assigned 11-6-13; Due 11-13-13~~~
Complete Diagramming Worksheet 5
Complete Lochinvar assignment on p. 15
Memorize definitions for objective, obstacle, and outcome
Read Rip van Winkle: http://www.bartleby.com/195/4.html
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~~~Assigned 10-30-13; Due 11-6-13~~~
- Complete Diagramming Worksheet 5. The videos you need to watch to prepare are here:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOJCPmFy1PY
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2HRtxQlpoM
- Watch for an e-mail from me. When it comes, read it, and print out your Narrative Writing and Short Story Handout Document.
Happy Reformation Day!
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~~~Assigned 10-23-13; Due 10-30-13~~~
* Complete Diagramming Worksheet 3. The site you will need is found here:
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/diagram_gram06.html
* Finish your sonnet and bring your final copy to turn in.
* Prepare for your poetry final.
For your poetry final exam, make sure you review all of the following:
* All Poetry toolbox vocabulary
* Review all poems we have read together
* How to do poetry scansion and rhyme scheme
* Identify the types of poetry we have discussed: limericks, haiku, ballads, sonnets, contemporary poetry
* Analyze a poem, including: scansion, rhyme scheme, meaning
* Write a short poem according to instructions
* Review Chapter 1 of Strunk and White, Rules 1 – 11
* Review what we have covered in sentence diagramming
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~~~Assigned 10-16-13; Due 10-23-13~~~
- Complete diagramming worksheet 2, and review the Owl site on gerunds: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/01/
- Memorize and bring examples of personification, onomatopoeia, and oxymoron
- Bring rough draft of sonnet
- Finish reading all the poems on pp. 22-25 of poetry handout
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~~~Assigned 10-9-13; Due 10-16-13~~~
- Review everything!
- Diagramming worksheet #1. The links you need to review before completing the worksheet are these:
- Metaphor, Mixed metaphor, and Metonymy: memorize definitions and bring examples.
- Begin working on writing your sonnet according to the directions found on pp. 13-15 in your poetry handout. Very rough draft due next wee, 10-16; rough draft due 10-23; final due 10-30.
- Be prepared to recite your chosen poem.
- Poetry Unit Final Exam on 10-30-13.
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~~~Assigned 10-2-13; Due 10-9-13~~~
- Complete S&W Worksheet #2
- Memorize definitions and find examples of imagery, irony, and litotes
- Turn in final version of historical ballad
- Review all poems and sonnets, and the sonnet section through p.10
- Begin thinking of a topic with a turn (or volta) for writing your own sonnet.
- Recitation of your memorized poem is due on Oct. 16.
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~~~Assigned 9-25-13; Due 10-2-13~~~
- Diagramming Section E online
- Review S&W rules 1-8, prepare to teach rules 9 and 10
- Memorize and bring examples of cacophony, figurative language, and hyperbole. Also bring examples of apostrophe, allusion, and assonance from last time.
- Bring your final Haiku page to turn in- make it beautiful
- Bring 3 copies of the rough draft of your historical ballad
- Review and reread the sonnets we discussed on pp. 8-10 of the handout, and the sonnets by Donne and Shakespeare on pp. 21-22
- Read “Journey of the Magi by T. S. Eliot and use it to help you think about your historical ballad
- Choose your poem to memorize; recitation on 10-18-13
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~~~Assigned 9-18-13, Due 9-25-13~~~
• Complete diagramming D.
• Prepare to teach your assigned rule (Savannah=Rule 5; Jacob=Rule 6)
• Complete final limericks page (make it beautiful and deliver it in pristine condition!)
• Finish your haiku cycle and bring three copies of it to work on in class.
• Choose a topic for your historical ballad.
• Read the next two poems in the handout: Death Be Not Proud by Donne and Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare. After you follow the reading directions in Part I of your poetry handout, analyze each poem. What do they have in common?
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~~~Assigned 9-11-13; Due 9-18-13~~~
Diagramming: complete section C here: http://www.sta.cathedral.org/lowerschool/form1/Eng1JAVwww/Grammar/Diagramming
Complete S&W Worksheet #1
Memorize and find examples of: Apostrophe, Allusion, and Assonance
Perfect one limerick, and try at least one more
Begin work on a multi-verse haiku- due in two weeks
Read the next three poems, paying attention to rhyme scheme and scansion
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~~~Due 9-11-13~~~
•Complete diagramming assignments (compelte the practice exercise at the first site, and Parts A and B on the second part) and bring any questions. Here are the two links you need:
http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=WCN8207
http://www.sta.cathedral.org/lowerschool/form1/Eng1JAVwww/Grammar/Diagramming
•Memorize alliteration and find an example of it.
•Review p. 1 Section I of the poetry handout. Use this process of reading poetry with pp. 15-17 (stop before Paul Revere’s Ride)
•Map out the rhyme schemes for the four limericks and the Ogden Nash poem. Think about what makes a limerick.
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