Due Tuesday June 1, 2010
Rough Draft research paper.
Easter Break Homework - Due Monday 4/12/10
Read the five texts pages 579 - 589. In notebook, answer the questions at the end of each essay. Then, in essay format (typed), answer the question #3 page 590. Be sure to synthesize three sources. Use specific examples from the texts to support your position.
Due 3/26/10
Page 823 - 824 # 2 - 6
Page 314 - 316 # 1 - 4
Page 737 - 750 - questions page 737 # 1 - 8
Due 3/22/10
Answer question page 316 # 1 - 4.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Maya_Lin.html
Midterm - Tuesday 1/26 - 11:30 - 2:30 Room 210
Midterm Review
Review the literary elements (listed below)
Complete Page 74 - "Conversation" - Use only Documents 1 - 6
pages 75 - 79.
deductive reasoning
parallel syntax
simple sentences
onomatopoeia
connotation
personification
alliteration
compound sentence
alliteration
apposition
hyperbole
understatement
litote
oxymoron
paradox
independant clause
allusion
Christmas Break Homework
All work is due Monday January 4, 2010. All work must be typed.
1. Complete Essay Questions 1 and 2 of AP Exam (handout given in class on Wednesday).
2. Textbook: Read pages 798 - 805 (take notes in notebook, use the "Questions for Discussion" as a guide). Answer "Questions on Rhetoric and Style" page 805 # 1 - 8 (typed).
3. Textbook: Read pages 807 -815 (take notes in notebook, use the "Questions for Discussion" as a guide). Answer "Questions on Rhetoric and Style" page 815 # 1 -7 (typed).
Due Monday 12/21/09
Page 1006 #2
Due Monday 12/14/09
Final copy of essay for Bush/Roosevelt speech. Essay must be typed.
Due Monday December 7, 2009
Answer the following questions for the short story given Friday in class.
1. What kind of person does the writer or speaker seem to be?
2. Who is the audience for theis text- whom does the speaker or writer seem to be addressing?
3. What seems to be the relationship between the speaker or writer and the audience?
4. What is the central idea that this text develops?
5. How is the text developed through examples? descriptions? stories?
6. How is the text organized? How are its parts arranged? How are the parts connected? How does its arrangement help the development of the text?
7. What is the context for the text?
8. How does the context influence the writer or speaker or the relationship of the writer or speaker with the audience?
Due Monday 11/30/09
1. Textbook page 186 # 1 - 5. Cite specific examples from the text to support your answers. Must be typed.
2. Page 188 - Answers questions #2 ( one paragraph, use dialogue) and #3 (two - three paragraphs). Must be typed.
Due Monday 11/23/09
AP Essay due (typed).
Due Monday 11/16/09
Rough Draft of Argument Essay due.
Due Monday 11/9/09
Assignment page 26.
Due Tuesday - 11/3/09
Descriptive Paragraph.
Friday 10/30/09
Test Chapters 1 - 3.
Page 727 - 733. Answer questions page 733 # 2 - 6 on looseleaf.
Due Monday 10/26/09
Page 716 #2
Due Monday 9/14/09
The Language of Composition - Read chapters 1 - 3 and complete the following assignment in notebook: page 9, page 26, page 28, page 55 (use the annotation technique, complete in textbook), page 55 - Syntax # 1 - 9, page 66, and page 74 (which three sources would you use?). Remember to turn these in before homeroom Monday morning...