American Lit./Comp. Per. 1 Assignments

Read chapter excerpt and answer questions. Please answer in complete sentences that use the language of the question.

Read chapters from Mice and Men - answer questions - DO NOT COPY QUESTIONS. Include the information from the question in your answer.

Write a very large paragraph or two, (approximately half a page) about loneliness. You can consider it any way you like, what are your thoughts/feelings - what might it be like to have no family in the world?

Finish your revision of the character paragraph.
Remember:
1. do not use the word "quote"
2. right before the quotation, tell who said it, when and where -
example: While they were playing cards in the bunkhouse, Whit said to George, "She got the eye on all the guys."

PER.2 COME UP WITH A THEME STATEMENT.

2 sentences for each synonym
synonyms:
cringe, detritus, knapsack, frightened, depressed, complicated, bellow

2 sentences for each vocabulary word. 12 word minimum for each sentence -

YESTERDAY'S HOMEWORK 1 AND 3: VOCABULARY FILL-IN

YESTERDAY'S HOMEWORK 2: VOCABULARY FILL-IN AND 2 PARAGRAPHS ON ONE OF THE ISSUES YOU AGREED OR DISAGREED WITH

WORK ON YOUR SONNET, ODE, OR ESSAY. EVERYTHING DUE ON FRIDAY.
What is due:
a. sonnet
b. ode
c. 2-voice poem (retyped)
d. I Am From poem (typed and beautiful)
e.essay comparing two of the poems we went over today

WORK ON ANY OF THESE IN CLASS TOMORROW

POETRY PORTFOLIO DUE TOMORROW
a. ode
b. sonnet
c. 2-voice poem
d. I Am From
e. essay comparing 2 poems
ALL TYPED, BEAUTIFUL, WITH AT LEAST ONE ILLUSTRATION

WORK ON YOUR SONNET/ODE/ESSAY DUE SOON

finish I Am From poem

Finish I Am From poem

Finish final draft - typed or not, if not - black or blue ink NEAT

ALSO STUDY ROMANTIC NOTES

Read/write/think
a. Read "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe
b. Fill out Romanticism worksheet

Recopy your draft and include the changes that you made to the first one. SKIP LINES.
Tomorrow turn in BOTH drafts. Have a lovely afternoon.

Find two areas in your draft that you can improve by adding details and sensory language. Circle those areas and rewrite either on that same paper or on another one.YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REWRITE YOUR ENTIRE DRAFT.

No homework

Astronomer poem: write your own

EXTRA CREDIT: SEE ATTACHED ASSIGNMENT. 20 EXTRA CREDIT POINTS

2 sentences for each synonym:
synynoms:
awe - wonder
refuge - shelter
transcend - rise above
intuition - clairvoyance
subjective - biased
objective - unbiased
Romanticism - 0

Each sentence should have at least 12 words.

Write a poem about your dreams, kind of like Langston Hughes' poem "Dreams"
At least 7 lines. (Mary, Reanah, Sydney, Dominique, Joshua, Monica)

Vocabulary fill-in worksheet

Worksheet for HItler Youth - get from Jonathan

word search, and choose 5 words to create sentences (use the back)
(Yoalli, CJ, Danny Ariel)

Define anti-semitism, describe what the holocaust was
(Lauren)

Finish filling out the last page of packet, (writing frame for summary)

Write one paragraph about D-Day. Turn in to Rigo

Due on Monday, 5 pts. extra credit if you turn it in tomorrow:
Write a treaty between 2 countries or groups of people; decide on the terms, etc.
(Hernan's group)

One paragraph about what you learned in class about the Great Depression.

Finish your lovely paragraph on Romanticism - based on the notes you took.

WORK ON YOUR REPORT!

WORK ON YOUR RESEARCH REPORT; THE OTHER PIECE (CREATIVE ONE) WILL BE DUE ON FRIDAY.

No homework: work on your research

paragraph about what you did for research today. What is your topic. What did you find difficult or confusing, what was interesting? What was some information you found today?
ALSO: 2 sentences with appositive phrases

EXTRA CREDIT 7 PTS.

WRITE 5 SENTENCES WITH APPOSITIVES. IDENTIFY THE POSITIONS.