English 12 Block 1:
- Read Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" from the short story booklet or here.
- Review your fiction notes for Thursday's fiction exam, or examine my old distance education notes:
- POV
- Plot
- Conflict
- Theme
- Symbolism
- Irony
- Characters
- Didactic Writing
- Literary Elements of UTROD
- Sample Story 1 - Quiz
- Sample Story 2 - Quiz
- Did you miss the editing exam? If so, see me ASAP!
- Review the following grammar pages:
- sentence fragments (and more)
- run-on sentences (and more)
- comma splices (and more)
- subject-verb agreement (and more)
- parallelism (and more)
- confusing words (and more)
- apostrophes (and more)
- colons and semicolons (and more)
- quotation marks (and more)
- pronouns (and more)
- Try Editing Quiz 1, Editing Quiz 2, Editing Quiz 3 and Editing Quiz 4.
- Did you miss the quiz on Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls"?
- Take notes on the different characters and events.
- What is the conflict?
- Examine this website on socialization.
- Review these notes on character, theme and symbolism.
English 9 Block 3 (Day 1):
- Here's Spelling #4. We'll write the actual quiz next week.
- 1. beginning
- 2. benevolent
- 3. believe
- 4. benefit
- 5. beneficial
- 6. biased
- 7. breathe
- 8. Britain
- 9. buried
- 10. business
- 11. calendar
- 12. carrying
- 13. casualties
- 14. ceiling
- 15. cemetery
- Paragraph!
- The good copy paragraph is now past due!
- Choose between the Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 2 rough copies and type up one good copy paragraph. Choose the one you have the most to write about.
- Use your Office 365 student account.
- 7-12 sentences / TS/BODY/CS
- One indent @ the beginning; no further line breaks
- Format: 12 or 14 size font; standard font type; 1. 5 spacing; title and full name at the top
- Aim for one actual, specific example per body point.
- Start each sentence with an article (A, An, The), introductory transition (e.g. In addition, However), or noun/pronoun. Do not start with For, Of, That, or with a word starting with an "ing".
- The good copy paragraph must be submitted in a "hard" copy. Don't send it via email!
- Did you miss the noun test?
English 9 Blocks 2 and 3 (Day 2):
- Here's Spelling #4. We'll write the actual quiz next week.
- 1. beginning
- 2. benevolent
- 3. believe
- 4. benefit
- 5. beneficial
- 6. biased
- 7. breathe
- 8. Britain
- 9. buried
- 10. business
- 11. calendar
- 12. carrying
- 13. casualties
- 14. ceiling
- 15. cemetery
- Paragraph!
- The good copy paragraph is now past due!
- Choose between the Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 2 rough copies and type up one good copy paragraph. Choose the one you have the most to write about.
- Use your Office 365 student account.
- 7-12 sentences / TS/BODY/CS
- One indent @ the beginning; no further line breaks
- Format: 12 or 14 size font; standard font type; 1. 5 spacing; title and full name at the top
- Aim for one actual, specific example per body point.
- Start each sentence with an article (A, An, The), introductory transition (e.g. In addition, However), or noun/pronoun. Do not start with For, Of, That, or with a word starting with an "ing".
- The good copy paragraph must be submitted in a "hard" copy. Don't send it via email!
- Did you miss the noun test?
Philosophy 12:
- Here was today's journal question:
- #9: A lawyer takes a solemn oath to defend the interests of his or her client. You must not suppress information either. If you were the lawyer, would you withhold information that implicates your client in a violent crime, even if you might be disbarred*?
- * kicked out of the legal profession
- Finish all of the questions for Ethics 4 in full sentences.
- Start reviewing your ethics notes for the ethics exam on Thursday.
