English| Tenth Grade English Honors: Homework |
Course Name: Tenth Grade Honors English
Faculty Name: Mrs. Jaffe, Mrs. King
Assignments Due:
Grade 10 H English Assignments: 1/17-2/5
Wednesday, 1/17: return exams; hand out stories and begin reference of pronouns, pp.165-167 in CW.
For Thursday: read “Death of a Tsotsi” and answer question 5. Bring grammar book to class for the next two weeks.
For Fri., 1/19: Do 173-174 and read about case, 175-178.
For Mon, 1/22: do pp.179-182.
For Tues., 1/23: pp.183-187. Introduce adjectives and adverbs, ch.13.
For Wed., 1/24: 195-199.
For Thurs., 1/25: Do pp.201-203. Read “Once upon a Time” in class.
Fri., 1/26: Quiz on chapters 11 and 12 and 13.
Mon., 1/29: Read “A Drink in the Passage.” Write an essay (500 words) on a topic TBA. Introduce Tense, Voice, Mood, ch.8.
Tues., 1/30: Read 123-128 and do pp.129-134.
Wed., 1/31: 135-138.
Thursday. 2/1: voice on 139-141.
Friday, 2/2: TEST on chapters 8-13 (includes agreement).
Monday, 2/5: Learn plot of Othello.
Begin Othello.
Grade 10 Assignments: Jaffe 11/6-12/6
For Monday, 11/6: Do practice exercises (handouts).
Tuesday: quest/tiz on agreement and punctuation. Bring Sound and Sense.
For Wed., 11/8: Read “Loveliest” on p.149 and answer questions 1-3; read “Stopping” on 150 and answer #1-2 (you may jot answers down in your book or write them out).
For 11/9: “My Number” on 158 and questions 1-3; “I Had Heard” on 159 and questions 1-4.
For 11/10: “For a Lamb” and “Apparently” on 163 and jot down at least four differences between these two poems (you are free to steal from the analysis after the poems to help you). Pick your poem for the exegesis: choices for honors are “
For 11/13: Write a rough draft of your exegesis. Honors: required length is two pages, about 600-750 words. Standard: 300 word minimum. In class we will peer edit for punctuation. Peer editor will earn quiz grade on his/her correcting.
Tuesday, 11/14: final draft due. Read “One dignity” on 169 and “’Twas warm” on 170.
For Wed, 11/15: Read “Church Going” on 174 and “Ending” and do questions 1-2.
For Thurs., 11/16: vocabulary unit 5
For Fri.: “The Waking” 183, 1-6 and “God’s Grandeur” 185, 1-4. Learn bodfaced terms on pp.181-182.
For Mon.: “We real cool” 188, 1-3; “Women Work” 188-189; “Rite of Passage” 190; “Nothing Gold Can Stay” 194, 1-3.
For Tues, 11/21: vocabulary unit 6
Monday, 11/27: vocabulary review.
Tuesday, 11/28: test on units 4-6
Begin Africa unit on 11/29
Grade 10 Honors English Assignments: 5/17-6/2
for Wednesday: vocabulary test on units 13-15
for Thursday: find your anthology; pick at least two poets from the list below that you would like to research for your project.
Thursday in class: assign poets and dates for class presentations.
Friday, 5/19: begin work on projects. (library during class?) You should do your project over the week-end if possible. Requirements are given on separate hand-out. During the following week, you will each be presenting your poet and your anthology. We will assign presentation days during class.
Monday, 5/22: Presentations
Tuesday: (shortened classes)
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
MEMORIAL DAY WEEK-END
Tuesday, 5/30:
Wednesday, 5/31:
Thursday, 6/1: exam review
Friday, 6/2: exam review
poet choices:
- Wordsworth
- Byron
- Keats
- Tennyson
- Rossetti*
- Hardy
- Yeats
- Frost**
- Sassoon
- Auden
- Thomas
- Larkin
- Heaney
*not a major poet
** the only American on the list
If you want to make a strong case for doing another poet, talk to me.
Grade 10 Honors Assignments: Jaffe/ King
4/20: do Unit 13
4/21: ICW on TFA
4/24: Read pp.7-16 (“I left in a French steamer”) and do SQ
4/25: read pp.16-24 (“My first interview”)
4/26: read pp.24-33 (end Part I)
4/27: 33-43 (“Two pilgrims”)
4/28: Unit 14
5/1: 43-54 (end Part II); quiz on I and II)
5/2: 54-67 (“The brown current”)
5/3: Finish (67-77)
5/4: Read Achebe’s essay in Norton edition, pp.251-262
5/5: ICW on HofD (open book)
5/8: Unit 15
5/9: Start Master Harold, pp.3-20
5/10: pp.21-40
5/11: Finish play.
5/12: vocabulary test, units 13-15
Assignments for Grade 10 Honors and Standard: 4/3- 21 Jaffe/Kline/King
Monday, April 3: Bring Things Fall Apart to class. Assign topics.
Tuesday: study for DICTION quiz
Wednesday: chapters 1-3. Research day during class.
Thursday: chapters 4- 6
Friday: vocabulary test on units 10-12
Monday, April 10: Read chapters 7-8. Topic #1in class.
Tuesday: Topic #2. chs. 9 & 10
Wednesday: Topic #3 chs.11 & 12
Thursday: Topic #4 chs. 13 & 14 (If you are observing Passover, reading may be due Monday)
NO SCHOOL
Monday, April 17: chapters 14-17
Tuesday, April 18: chapters 18-20
Wednesday, 19: Finish novel.
Thursday, 20th: ICW on novel
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Friday: Unit 13
TOPICS:
- Ibo religious beliefs and rituals
- male and female roles in Ibo culture
- British colonialism and Christian missionaries
- post-colonial
Grade 10 Honors English Assignments: 3/6-3/23 King & Jaffe
Monday, 3/6: PAPERS DUE. Bring Correct Writing. Begin ch.16 on parallelism.
Tuesday: Do CW pp.226-230. Do pp.231-232 in class. Introduce subordination.
Wednesday: Do CW, pp.241-244.
Thursday: (Do pp.245-246 in class if needed) Illogical comparisons. Do CW. 251-254.
Friday, 3/10: Vocabulary, Unit 10
Monday, 3/13: Quiz on chs. 16-18
Tuesday: Review pp.255-262 on punctuation and do pp.275-276.
Wednesday: Review 279-285 on capital letters etc. and do pp.295-296.
Thursday: Read 313-318 and do pp.331-334.
Friday, 3/17: Unit 11
Monday, 3/20: Write a vignette using as many trite expressions and euphemistic phrases as possible. In class we will read them.
Tuesday, 3/21: Look over glossary of faulty diction on pp.318-330 and do pp.337-340.
Wednesday: Do 341-346.
Thursday: Unit 12
BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Be prepared for quiz on diction after break.
Bring your copy of Macbeth to class everyday. All assignments refer to Macbeth.
Thursday, Jan. 19 Read Act 1, Scenes 1 and 2. Answer study guide questions.
Fri., Jan. 20 Read 1.3. SQ
Mon. Jan. 23 Read 1.4 and 1.5, 1.6. SQ
Tues. Jan. 24 Read 1.7. Paraphrase of soliloquy page 19 (1.7).
Wed. Jan. 25 Act 1 Quest.
Thur. Jan. 26 2.1.
Fri., Jan. 27 2.2
Mon. Jan. 30 2.3 and 2.4.
Tues. Jan. 31 Quest on Act 2.
Wed. Feb. 1 3.1.
Thur. Feb. 2 3.2 and 3.3.
Fri., Feb. 3 3.4
Mon. Feb. 6 3.6.
Tues., Feb. 7 Quest on Act 3
Wed. Feb. 8 Human Rights Day
Thur. Feb. 9 4.1
Friday, Feb. 10 4.2.
Mon., Feb. 13 4.3.
Tues. Feb. 14 4.3.
Wed. Feb. 15 Quest on 4
Thurs. Feb. 16 5.1.
Friday, Feb. 17 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Monday, Feb. 20 No School
Tues., Feb. 21 No School
Wed., Feb. 22 5.5, 5.6, 5.7; Bring in thesis for paper.
Thurs. Feb. 23 5.8, 5.9
Fri., Feb. 24 Quest on Act 5.
Monday, Feb. 27 Bring in rough draft typed.
Final paper due Monday, March 6.
Grade 10 Standard and Honors: Jaffe 11/28-12/16
Monday, 11/21: grammar test
Tuesday, 11/22: unit 7 of vocabulary
Monday, 11/28: Bring Life of Pi and begin novel (Jaffe: assign topics)*
Tuesday, 11/29: read author’s note and chs.1-5
Wed, 11/30: read chs.6-16
Thurs, 12/1: read chs.17-26
Fri., 12/2: unit 8 of vocabulary
Mon., 12/5: chs.27-37
Tuesday, 12/6: chs. 38-46
Wed., 12/7: chs. 47-53
Thursday, 12/8: chs.54-60
Friday, 12/9: unit 9
Monday, 12/12: chs.61-72
Tuesday, 12/13: chs. 73-89
Wed, 12/14: start ch.90 and be through ch. 92 for Thursday
Thursday, 12/15: read up through ch. 92 for ICW
Friday, 12/16: try to finish novel for Friday: if not, finish over vacation!
*Topics for presentations:
- naming (1)
- Hinduism (2)
- Christianity (2)
- Islam (2)
- survivor stories (2)
- zoos and man’s relationship to animals (1/2)
Presentation dates will be decided on in class. The purpose of the presentations is to flesh out the assigned topic in relation to the novel. Some topics may benefit from the use of outside sources—such as bringing in other examples of survivor stories or the use of a map for “
When we return from break, we have one week until exams. most of which will be spent on review.
Grade 10 Honors Assignments: 11/14-11/22 Jaffe/King
for Monday: bring in completed rough draft of paper with questions
for Tuesday, 11/15: do section on misplaced modifier, 219-222
for Wednesday: FINAL DRAFT of exegesis with code name
for Thursday: review for usage test on following Monday
NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY
for Monday, 11/21: TEST on chs. 13-15 plus previous chapters
for Tuesday: Begin Life of Pi
Grade 10 Honors Assignments: October 31-14 Jaffe/King
for Monday: Bring your poetry book to class; do ch. 10, pp.159-164, odd #s only
in class: read “Bonny Barbara Allen” “Sir Patrick Spens” “Ballad of Birmingham:
for Tuesday: ch.11, pp.169-174, odd #s More ballads: ballad stanza, meter.
for Wednesday: ch.12, 179-184, odd #s Dramatic monologues: “The Chimney Sweeper” and “A Poison Tree”
for Thursday: do review, pp.185-187 “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover”
for Friday: Unit 6
for Monday, 11/8: usage quiz on chs.11-12
for Tuesday: ch.13 pp.195-199, odd #s only; Elegies: “Bells for JW’s Daughter” and “Sonnet 5”
for Wednesday: 201-203; “The Unknown Citizen” “Playboy
for Thursday: ch. 14, 207-210, odd #’s only; “God, A Poem” “”The Ruined Maid”
for Friday, 11/11: vocabulary test on units 4-6
for Monday, 11/14: Write a rough draft of your exegesis on one of the assigned poems.
Grade 10 Honors Assignment: Jaffe/King 10/17-10/28
for Monday the 17th: read pp.204-224
for Tuesday the 18th: finish the play
for Wednesday: the 19th: ICW
for Thursday the 20th: find your copy of Correct Writing and do pp. 113-15; if sentence is a fragment (paradox!), make it into a proper sentence. BRING BOOK TO CLASS. In class do pp.29-30 for self-evaluation.
for Friday: vocabulary unit 4; introduce chapter on verbs
for Monday: do chapter 8: review chart on p.124 and know lie/lay; do pp.133-136, odd numbers; do pp.137-138 in class.
for Tuesday: do 139-141, all. Introduce agreement.
for Wednesday: do pp.149-150, odd #, 153-154, odd #.
for Thursday: quiz on chapters 8 and 9.
for Friday: Parents’ Day; vocabulary unit 5
Monday, Oct. 3 Continue working on Oedipus. Read Freud article.
Tuesday, Oct. 4 NO SCHOOL..
Wed., Oct. 5 Wrap up Oedipus.
Thurs. Oct. 6 Test on Oedipus.
Fri., Oct 7 Vocabulary Test Unit 3
Mon., Oct. 10 NO SCHOOL.
Tuesday, Oct. 11 Read Antigone, up to Scene II (189-204).
Wed., Oct. 12 Vocab unit Test. Do PSAT Verbal Sections.
Thurs. Oct. 13 NO SCHOOL.
Fri. Oct. 14 Continue reading Antigone.
Assignments as announced or modified in class take precedence over what is posted on the course webpage.
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