Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Off-Track Assignments-Grade Ten Honors English

Honors Ten English Off-Track Assignment

Deliver the following by the end of the first week of instruction for Semester A 2007-2008:

Dialectical Journal Number One (twenty-five thoughtful entries)
Dialectical Journal Number Two (twenty-five thoughtful entries)

Rules: No contractions; no “you”; typed, not handwritten; properly formatted; book titles may not be amended over the summer break; spell-grammar check must be used before printing assignments

Book/play choices were made June 29 from the following titles:

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Carroll, Lewis

All Quiet on the Western Front
Remarque, Erich Maria

Black Ice

Cary, Lorene

The Broken Cord
Dorris, Michael

Cry, the Beloved Country
Paton, Alan

David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles

Dune
Herbert, Frank

Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965
Williams, Juan

Fences: A Play
Wilson, August

The Fire Next Time
Baldwin, James

Hiroshima

Hersey, John Richard

Jane Eyre
Bronte, Charlotte

Me Me Me Me Me-Not a Novel

Kerr, M.E.

Silent Spring
Carson, Rachel Louise

A Summer Life
Soto, Gary

A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles

Where the Lilies Bloom

Cleaver, Vera


Grade Ten Syllabus and Letter to Parents will be posted on this site in mid-August 2007.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Grade Ten Honors English

INFORMATION FOR THE NEW SEMESTER WILL BE POSTED IN MID-JULY.