• English 12 Block 1: Homework for Friday
  • For Friday, write down eight quotes (two from each of the four essays) using a variety of blending strategies:
  • Make sure the quotes are properly cited:
  • For each essay, find one quote that typifies its theme, and one that is representative of its style.
  • Also, finish one page of point form notes (themes/arguments/key quotes/stylistic devices) on Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" and Philip Meyer's "If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger Would You?"
  • If not done, read Maya Angelou's "Grandmother's Victory" and write a paragraph answering the following topic: Why is Maya Angelou's "Grandmother's Victory" an example of a narrative essay?

  
  
  

  English 11 Block 2: Homework for Friday

  • Type up one of your three poetry paragraphs. Feel free to modify and improve it! Make it perfect!
  • If you missed it, come in and write the subject-verb agreement test.
  • Finish your third poetry paragraph. Explain why "Sonnet 138" is, indeed, a sonnet. Or, explain why "The Dying Stockman" is a ballad. Include two or three quotations, with at least one using the formal method and another using the blended method.

  
  

  
  

  English 11 Block 3: Homework for Friday

  • Type up one of your three poetry paragraphs. Feel free to modify and improve it! Make it perfect!
  • If you missed it, come in and write the subject-verb agreement test.
  • Finish your third poetry paragraph. Explain why "Sonnet 138" is, indeed, a sonnet. Or, explain why "The Dying Stockman" is a ballad. Include two or three quotations, with at least one using the formal method and another using the blended method.