ENGLISH 11

1. Turn in your eye-witness report!
2. Continuing Smoke Signals
3. You are responsible for the journals for yesterday, today, and tomorrow!

HR — College Go Week! Activity

THEMES

1. Flying Machines are DUE MONDAY
2. Vocabulary 6-10 DUE TODAY
3. Science Fiction Draft DUE TODAY

AP LITERATURE

1. Seemingly random writing, which has a use later — you are not thinking hard enough…answer this question on the paper from yesterday: Where do you live?
2. Handout for practice dealing with diction.
3. What generic category would you like to write creatively about? Love? Horror? Lost? Redemption? — tell Paige your idea. Paige write them down.
4. Syntax and inference

• INFERENCE: A judgement based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances. For example, advised not to travel alone in temperatures exceeding fifty degrees below zero, the man in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” sets out anyway. One may infer arrogance from such an action.
• SYNTAX: The arrangement of words to form phrases, clauses and sentences; sentence construction. Syntax is also both the patterns of the aforementioned arrangements and the function of a word, phrase, or clause within a sentence.

ENGLISH 11

1. Changing our schedule for this week! Today and tomorrow we will be watching Smoke Signals.
2. Tomorrow everyone needs to have their eye-witness report in the in-box.
3. Continue working on the vocab sheet 6-10.
4. Friday will be a novel/book report day for those not on a college visit.

HR — Writing Day

1. English 11 students work on journals or eye-witness report.
2. Themes students work on science fiction story.
3. AP Students work on next poetry response.

THEMES

1. Media Day — Fill out your form completely!
2. Tomorrow — Vocab 6-10 and Science Fiction Story are DUE!
3. Flying machines are DUE MONDAY!

AP LITERATURE

1. Seemingly random writing that has a purpose you don’t know about yet
2. Reading day!
3. Last day to give book talk is next Wednesday!

ENGLISH 11

1. Novel Reading Day — fill out reading log and vocab 6-10
2. Grading Journals 21-30
3. Journal #31 — Write 7+ sentences in a different form of dialect, such as hillbilly, Cajun, overly formal, gangster, etc.

THEMES

1. Notes on PKD and steampunk
2. Any extra time — work on vocabulary or reading your novel

AP LITERATURE

1. Poetry Response DUE
2. Prose Test — Explain grading changes

ENGLISH 11

1. Journal #30 — Which of your traits do you hope your children receive? Which do you hope they don’t receive? Explain why.
2. Grammar Book — Get one!
3. Pages 39-41 in grammar book

HR — College Go Week Activities

THEMES

1. Novel Reading Day — Book Report coming up! 10/7
2. Novel vocab 6-10 DUE 9/29
3. Science Fiction Rough Draft DUE 9/29

AP LITERATURE

1. Changing plans (Thank College Go Week!)
2. Today is an novel reading/essay finishing/ poetry response working on day

ENGLISH 11

1. Journal #29 — What is the strangest, school-appropriate dream you have ever had? Do you believe dreams tell you something about yourself? (I will be checking journals 21-30 on Tuesday!)
2. Book Report Info. Packet — Book Report DUE DATE 10/6!
3. TODAY, FINISHING Sherman Alexie Packet!

THEMES

1. P.K.D. Notes
2. Book Report Info. Packet — Book Report DUE DATE 10/7
3. Flying Machine Project DUE 9/30 (next Friday)
4. Novel vocab 6-10 DUE 9/29 (next Thursday)
5. Science Fiction Rough Draft DUE 9/29 (next Thursday)

AP LITERATURE

1. “What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” — Stephen King
2. Today — your “wowing” creation myths are DUE.
3. Monday — DUE — Second draft of College Essay with changes highlighted (staple 1st draft to it).
4. Tuesday — Poetry Response! (tips & such).
5. From now on if you get 50% or better on your Prose Test, you get ALL your points.  If you get less than 50%, then you will have to get the correct answer and explain why that is the right answer to get .5 points for each correction.

ENGLISH 11

1. Journal #28 — See syllabus for topic!
2. Last Eye-Witness Report work day — if you are not using your time today — then it is DUE TODAY!

ENGLISH 11

1. Journal #27 — Write a dialogue between two friends in which an amazing bit of news is exchanged.
2. Today you need to work on the draft of the eye-witness report.
3. Remember to answer: who, what, when, where, why, and how.  Also, include relevant, descriptive imagery.

THEMES

1. Media Day — Class choice of media.
2. Fill out sheet completely — 50% off if you leave name of media, genre, class question, characteristics, idea, or opinion question blank.

AP LITERATURE

1. Novel reading day — talkers are going to lose points
2. Book talks
3. Kailyn y Amber need to take a lovely prose test — your goal is to beat 10/15.

ENGLISH 11

1. Journal #26 — Check your syllabus!
2. Today is a novel reading day! Fill out your log and look for vocabulary words for the back side of your sheet.

ENGLISH 11

1. Journal #25 — Which invention had a greater impact on society: the phone or the television? Write a five sentence paragraph explaining your pick and why.
2. GET A YELLOW GRAMMAR BOOK: Page 37 (1-10 + more practice)
3. Turn in all completed grammar work stapled together without any paper dingle-berries.

THEMES

1. 50% of American adults are unable to read an eighth grade level book. – Many people wish they could do what you are doing today
2. Journal #7 — What has been your favorite part of your novel so far? Explain why.
3. Fill out your reading log and start the next section of vocabulary.
4. Remember you are getting points for reading.  Also, remember the journals will be a BIG grade and you should be writing at least a paragraph for each.

AP LITERATURE

1. Illustrated myth (Time to use  those colored pencils and drawing skills.) DUE THURSDAY
2. Poetry Response #5 DUE TUESDAY.
3. Returning College Application Essay Drafts — Consider letting a friend read it to offer ways to improve it.  Turn it in 25, turned it in late 12.5, never turned it in 0. I want second, better draft for this Friday (with 1st draft and changes made highlighted on the second).
4. You only have until Oct. 5th to get your novel pages finished :0

ENGLISH 11

1. Journal #24 – Daniel Defoe said, “The good die early, and the bad die late.” Write five sentences analyzing this quote.
2. Period 1 — Do not bring anything to class. Be in your seat so I can take attendance quickly. You sit together as a class in the auditorium.
3. Period 3 & 7 — Sherman Alexie Packet

THEMES

1. Flying machine requirements passed out — teams of 2 only!
2. Period 2 — Shield destruction/testing. Bring a jacket.
3. Period 5 — Battlestar Galactica

AP LITERATURE

1. Team building exercise/English skill building activities.
2. If you don’t check Harmony for your grades, then you need to!
3. Several of you owe me Essay #1 — This is the first grade in the Test/Essay category. If you didn’t do it, then your grade dropped 45% because you have a zero on the only grade in that category. Luckily, I entered these after mid-terms were printed, but you need to turn it in for 50%.