English 12 Block 1:
- https://bced.vretta.com/#/en/bced-landing/grad/sample/literacy12
- Quiz alert! Read the short "How Much Land Does A Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy. There will be a short comprehension quiz on Friday.
- Review these notes on didactic story telling.
- Look for the opening motivations, the major events, the characters, and its didactic qualities.
- Test alert for Monday! Be ready for the fragments and run-on test on Thursday!
- Finish all four parts of the graphic organizer on "Hills Like White Elephants" and hand it in to me if you haven't done so already.
English 9 Block 2:
- Finish the rough copy of your introductory paragraph.
- Finish all three rough copy body paragraphs for our "courage essay".
- For each BP, choose one of the people we've studied, and write a standard paragraph on why s/he is courageous. Don't re-tell me their story; give me three examples of why they are brave. Provide a topic sentence, give me the three examples, and finish with a conclusion.
- Here's a sample topic sentence that you are free to use: ___________ is a courageous person because _____________. First, ... [Obviously, you'll fill in the blanks.]
- Be ready for Spelling #8:
- 1. especially
- 2. exaggerate
- 3. excellent
- 4. excitement
- 5. exercise
- 6. exhaust
- 7. existence
- 8. extremely
- 9. familiar
- 10. fascinating
- 11. February
- 12. feud
- 13. finally
- 14. foreign
- 15. frustrated
English 11 Block 3:
- Finish the rough copy of your introductory paragraph.
- Test alert! Did you miss the fragments and run-on test on Thursday?
- Make sure you have two rough copy paragraphs on the negative and positive aspects of digital technology for Thursday. Use the notes we've taken and consider what has been said about the structure of the paragraph.
- Did you miss last week's test on fiction? See me ASAP!
English 11 Block 4 (Day 2):
- Grammar: We've finished the first cycle of the "Parts of the Sentence" mini-unit, and we've now started our review. Look for the test in two weeks. The parts in bold are the topics we have now reviewed.
- Study this site on subjects and predicates.
- Study this site on direct and indirect objects.
- Study this site on prepositional phrases.
- Study this site on appositive phrases.
- Study this site on simple sentences.
- Study this site on compound sentences.
- *Study this site on complex sentences.
- *Study this site on adjectives.
- *Study this site on adverbs.
