Barbara Huckabay
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History Through Language25 February 2008
The current tenth grade block, History through Language, will last from Monday, February 4 through Friday, March 7.
Friday, March 7
BLOCK BOOKS DUE!
Thursday, March 6
FINAL EXAM
This will be three short essays using open notes. I will be looking for clear writing, good thinking and good supporting information.
Assignment Due Wednesday, March 5
Draw the Time Line Diagram.
Assignment Due Tuesday, March 4
Study for the quiz.
Memorize the first 12 lines of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales in the original English.
Work on getting your notes in order for your Morning Lesson Book.
Assignment Due Monday, March 3
Be like Doctor Johnson; create your own dictionary. Ten words, ten definitions. State parts of speech and use each word in a sentence.
Assignment Due Friday, February 28
Paraphrase one of the three selections from the King James Bible.
Work with your group to prepare your skit.
Assignment Due Wednesday, February 27
“Three Sniglets”
Think of three things or ideas or actions for which we ought to have words, but we don’t. Then make up your own words.
Assignment Due Tuesday, February 26
Writing in the style of Chaucer, describe a thirtieth pilgrim.
If you choose, your pilgrim may be Chaucer himself.
OR
You can choose a modern person. Think of a distinctive occupation and give the person appropriate clothes and manners. Some possibilities might be:
a Chicago alderman
a garbage collector
a hair stylist
a teacher
The Canterbury Tales is written in heroic couplets.
Each line is ten or eleven syllables long.
The accent falls on every other syllable so that there are five beats per line.
The rhyme scheme is aa, bb, cc, etc.
Chaucer uses an easy almost conversational style. He stays away from complicated flights of poetic rhetoric. He has a wonderful eye for detail. He has a shrewd and subtle sense of humor.
Minimum 12 lines.
Assignment Due Monday, February 25
Draw your pilgrim, following the text as exactly as possible. Include a caption from the text
OR
Write a monologue for your pilgrim, telling why they are going on pilgrimage and what they think of the other pilgrims.
12th Grade English Track25 February 2008
The current unit on Goethe’s Faust will last from Monday, January 28 to Friday, March 7.
There will be a final quiz on Faust on Friday, March 7.
Students must complete 3 of the following four assignments.
I. Acting
Memorize a monologue or a short scene and perform it for the class. Minimum 20 lines.
II. Academic Writing
Write a short essay on any one of the suggested topics. 250 words.
III. Creative Writing
Write a poem, monologue or other creative piece inspired by the events of the play.
IV. Visual arts
Create a collage, drawing, painting or sculpture inspired by the events of the play.
Assignment Deadlines are February 6, February 26, March 7.
Reading Assignment for Wednesday, March 5
Finish Part I. (Read to the end of the Dungeon scene.)
11th Grade English Track25 February 2008
The current unit, Romantic Poets will last from Monday, February 25 through Monday, March 10.
All students must choose 20 lines of poetry to memorize.
Assignment Due Thursday, March 6
Read Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind. Write five sentences, one for each canto, briefly summarizing each canto.
Assignment Due Wednesday, March 5
Describe a frozen moment as John Keats did in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Assignment Due Friday, February 29
Read Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats.
Describe your own dream landscape in the mood of “Kubla Khan”
Assignment Due Thursday, February 28
Read Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Assignment Due Wednesday, February 27
Read the long poem, Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth. This is a hard poem, and it will take some puzzling.
Describe in writing a childhood memory that seems to you to support an observation in the poem.
Assignment Due Tuesday, February 26
After reading Blake’s poems, write your own song of innocence or experience, in poetry or in prose. Choose something that has happened to you or something you have noticed in the world around you. Write about it emphasizing innocence and lightness or in a darker vein emphasizing its sad or menacing qualities.
9th Grade English Track25 September 2007
Wednesday, September 26
Homework Due: Grammar Exercise
Class Content: Example of a persuasive essay
Tuesday, September 25
Homework Due: Thesis statement and three supporting arguments for a persuasive essay
Class Content: Grammar lesson: subjects and verbs
Monday, September 24
Homework Due: A Comparative Essay
Class Content: Discuss comparative essays Grammar lesson
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