Assignment Menu Monday, December 18, 2006

Here are the assignments for the last week of this semester:

1. Final Examinations Period Five on Tuesday, December 19 and Period Six on Thursday, December 21 include Catcher in the Rye multiple-choice; students may use text during test

2. Off-track book titles have been posted on a previous menu titled "Off-Track Assignments"

3. All textbooks should be returned to counter in classroom for return to textbook room

4. Two dialectical journals to be completed off track and due by the end of the first week of classes for Semester "B"; book choices can be obtained by purchase or by renting from Hollywood High School Library or your local library

5. Semester reflection in class during Final Examination; final organization of portfolios

6. New syllabus for Semester "B" will be available in late February online

Assignment Menu Monday, December 11, 2006

Here are the assignments for the next few days:

1. Off-track book titles have been made available and students will choose two for master list this week; books can be checked out from the Hollywood High School Library; a dialectical journal of twenty-five entries for each book is required at the end of the first week for next semester; titles will be posted on web log as well

2. Portfolios organized all week

3. Poetry Cornell Notes and final exam to be scheduled this week

4. Grammar Lessons One, Two, Three, Four, and Five continue this week

5. Catcher in the Rye essays are due Monday evening; the window for Vantage prompt will close this evening

6. Anthologies may be brought to class beginning today to be returned to textbook room; vocabulary textbooks are overdue as of today and should be returned immediately; Catcher in the Rye novels can be returned as of Tuesday, December 12

Assignment Menu Wednesday, December 6, 2006

1. "The Wild Bay" rubric is completed and students will use it to judge collages Thursday, December 7 so scores can be entered into gradebook

2. Catcher in the Rye Chapters 20-26 class discussion and talking points are due today, Wednesday, December 6; reading check test given at beginning of class

3. Grammar Mastery Capitalization and Punctuation tests in class all week; capitalization has been scored

4. Cornell Notes on types of poetry, metrical feet, scansion continued this week; final exam for poetry to be scheduled

5. Off-track book titles have been made available and students will choose two for master list this week; books can be checked out from the Hollywood High School Library; a dialectical journal of twenty-five entries for each book is required at the end of the first week for next semester; titles will be posted on web log as well

6. Vocabulary books can be returned to classroom for return to textbook room

7. Vantage Lab is scheduled for Periods Five and Six on Friday, December 8 for Catcher in the Rye Final Exam essay; prompts have been made available in class; if you choose to craft your own prompt it is due no later than today, Wednesday (6)

Honors Ten English Off-Track Assignment

Deliver the following by the end of the first week of instruction for Semester "B" 2007:

Dialectical Journal Number One (twenty-five thoughtful entries)

Dialectical Journal Number Two (twenty-five thoughtful entries)

Rules: No contractions; no "you"; typed, not handwritten; proper formatting

Book list will be available before December 22, 2006

Off-Track Titles Grade Ten Honors Winter Break 2006-2007

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

Assignment Menu Monday, December 4, 2006

AS WE WIND DOWN THE SEMESTER, HERE ARE SOME OF THE REMAINING ASSIGNMENTS.

1. "The Wild Bay" rubric is completed and students will use it to judge collages this week so scores can be entered into gradebook

2. Catcher in the Rye Chapters 20-26 class discussion and talking points are due Wednesday, December 6; reading check test given at beginning of class on Wednesday

3. Grammar Mastery Capitalization and Punctuation tests in class all week

4. Cornell Notes on types of poetry, metrical feet, scansion continued this week; final exam for poetry to be scheduled

5. Off-track book titles have been made available and students will choose two for master list this week; books can be checked out from the Hollywood High School Library; a dialectical journal of twenty-five entries for each book is required at the end of the first week for next semester; titles will be posted on web log as well

6. Unit Seven Vocabulary Level "E" test is today, Monday, December 4; vocabulary books can be returned to classroom as of today for return to textbook room

7. Vantage Lab is scheduled for Periods Five and Six on Friday, December 8 for "Should Teens Work" or Robert Frost poetry essay; more to come in class

8. DEBATE VIDEO SHOWN UNEDITED TO PERIOD FIVE; EDITED VIDEO SHOWN TO PERIOD SIX