Junior Varsity English (Prep for AP, Humanities, and Big Time University): August 2007

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Ways of Looking

On this blog you'll find readings, assignments, discussions, links, etc. related to the Ways of Looking Unit in Eleventh Grade Honors English.

Below you'll find motifs from Hamlet and comments on those motifs offered by last year's honors English juniors. The comments will give you an idea of one way this blog will be used.

The Gloucester Project (a.k.a. The Cape Ann Arts & Culture Multigenre Writing Project)

Due dates

Tues. 6/1 final draft of thesis-based research paper with in-text citations and works cited (test grade)

Tues. 6/1 final draft of annotated bibliography with ten citations and annotations (test grade)

Fri. 6/4 final draft of personal experience essay (essay on a personal experience related to your topic, evaluated for narration, description, and reflection) (test grade)

Fri. 6/11 final draft of creative writing genres (three poems and a one act play or short story) (test grade)

Fri. 6/18 FINAL 12:30 at Stage Fort Park (if raining GHS Library) turn in Multigenre paper, meet in groups to create presentation, and present. (Final Exam Grade)

Already Turned In
Fri. 5/21 question and tentative thesis (homework)

Responses to "Ways of Looking at Gloucester" packet (etc.) (homework)

Draft of seven citations and annotations with notes (seven homeworks)

Draft of two citations and annotations with notes (two homeworks)

Quotation Response Journal (on a Gloucester Narrative) (test grade)

Your Map of Gloucester (homework)

Response to Polis Is This (documentary about Charles Olson) (homework)

Hamlet (O Cursed spite / that ever I was born to set it right)

Current Assignments:

Analysis of motif through 3.2. Due Wednesday 3/23.

Comic strip for beginning through 3.2. Due Tuesday 3/22.

Analyze film versions of 3.2 (Murder of Gonzago / Mousetrap) Due Monday 3/21

Analyze film versions of 3.1 soliloquy (Past due.)

Analyze 2.2 soliloquy (Past due.)

Analyze 1.2 soliloquy (Past due.)

Assignments from previous unit:

Write a dystopia of your own.

In class essay on how Huxley satirizes paternalistic, technological utilitarianism in Brave New World.

Read 241-268 (end). Due Friday 2/12.

Read pages 217-240. Due Wednesday 2/10.

Vocabulary quiz on Wednesday 2/10.

Read pages 146-216. Due Tuesday 2/9.

Post responses to chapter 4 through chapter five part two (p. 55-99) and to chapter five part three through chapter nine (p. 99-145) by class time on Monday 2/8.

Past Assignments:

Read pages 99-145. Due Friday 2/5.

Read pages 57-99. Due Wednesday 2/3.

Use vocabulary words in sentences with context clues. Due Tuesday 2/2.

Finishing reading chapter 3. Due Monday 2/1.

Read chapter 2 of Brave New World. Write a letter or diary entry about the tour of the conditioning section of the Central London Hatcheries and Condition Centre. Due Friday 1/29.

Read chapter 1 of Brave New World. Write a letter or diary entry about the tour of the hatchery section of the Central London Hatcheries and Condition Centre. Due Thursday 1/28.

Write an open response to an assertion made in the second half of The Ad and the Ego. Due Wednesday 1/27.

Write an open response to an assertion made in the first half of The Ad and the Ego. Due Tuesday 1/26.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Ways of Looking

Junior Varsity English (Prep for AP, Humanities, and Big Time University)

The Gloucester Project (a.k.a. The Cape Ann Arts & Culture Multigenre Writing Project)

Cape Ann

Hamlet (O Cursed spite / that ever I was born to set it right)

The Tragical History of Hamlet

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