American Literature Assignments

Research Paper due, retyped. Turn in first draft and this one.

Today on 4/18:

1. Turn in your research papers with sources.
2. Be sure your journals are in!!

HW = Journal or justifying a decision due Tuesday, typed.

Today on 4/17:

Finished watching film.
Act 4 Handout.

HW = Research paper re-written is due on Friday. Turn in sources and first draft with it.

Journals due tomorrow. There have been 10.

Quiz tomorrow on Act 3 words - includes spelling too!

Today on 4/14:

1. Handouts: Cause & Effrect - Act 3 - and "Foil" stamped in class.
2. Read Act 4 - The Crucible from the beginning to pg. 152.

HW = Complete reading of Act 4. Quiz tomorrow.

Summarize Act 3 (NOT QQN) from pg. 107 to end of act 3. Also select 3 quotes and explain their significance.

Today on 4/14:

1. SSR
2. Stamped HW (Summary & Quotes)
3. Quiz on Act 3 & 4
4. Peer Editing of Research Papers.

HW = Study Act 3 vocabulary words for quiz tomorrow. Also, do QQN's for 1-5 for all of Act 4 tomorrow.

Research Paper due Thursday!

Today in class on 4/4:

We went to the lab to do research for the research paper due next Friday 4/11.

HW = Research Paper!!

Today on 4/10:

Finished reading rest of Act 3. Notes were given.

Handout: "How to Quote" - folder

HW = research paper, bring sources, bring outline

Today on 4/11:

1. Collected Research papers, outline, and your sources.
2. Watched Act 3 of The Crucible.

HW = None

Today on 4/9:

1. SSR
2. Worked on research paper outline, and work(s) cited page.

HW = QQN's for Act 3 from beginning to pg. 107. Do all 5 this time, including one of the literary terms!

HW = Research Paper

Today on 4/7:

1. Ms. Brown came to program for next mester.
2. Handouts: Research Outline - see folder; Act 3 - Words to Know (completed and stamped in class).

HW = Research Paper - Due Friday; On Wednesday please bring sources to work on Works Cited page.

Today on 4/8:

Journal #10 - See a friend.

Handouts: MLA Format; Short Story Terms

Read Act 3 from beginning to pg. 107 (this covers scene 1 & 2)

HW = Research Paper - BRING IN SOURCES to work on Works Cited Page

Today on 4/2:

1. SSR
2. Research - Going to computer labs tomorrow for research paper.
3. Discussed: 10 Commandments / Crucible
4. Conflicts - Stamped in class.
5. Quiz - Act 2 - You missed it!

HW = Research Paper

Today on 4/1:

Journal #9 - See a friend for the topic.
HW Stamped.
QQN's discussed in class - participation points given out. (Act 2)
Homework discussed.

HW = The Ten Commandments (handout)

Today on 3/31:

1. Grade check.
2. SSR.
3. Groups finished from pg. 75 to end of Act 2 of The Crucible.
4. Groups - stamped QQN's.

HW = Act 2 Discussion questions

Today on 3/28:

1. SSR
2. CST Practice - Handout
3. Reading groups: Crucible (Read pages 61 to 76). Read for: Mary Warren, Proof of Devil/Witchcraft, Parris)

HW = None

***Assignments collected today for grading!

Today on 3/26:

1. SSR
2. Journal #7 Vocab Definitons - see a friend for the words!
3. Dialogue Handout - part 2. Get it and staple to previous one - assignment #13.
4. Quiz - This was a BIG quiz - see me to take it,.

HW = Act 2 "Words to Know" handout.

Today on 3/27:

1. HW Stamped
2. Assignments will be collected Friday. Be Prepared!
3. Journal # 8 - Pick 5 words from Act 2 handout and use in 5 sentences.
4. Watched rest of Act 1 movie - The Crucible.
5. Reading Groups: The Crucible - Act 2 Page 52-61 Read for: What is Elizabeth and John's relationship like?

HW = None

Today on 3/24:

1. SSR
2. Vocabulary Practice - Test tomorrow on Act 1 words.
3. Discuss and take notes on pages 38-52 of The Crucible.
4. Handout (Act 1 Questions) - see folder. Worked on this in class.

HW = Finish Act 1 questions

**Testing Schedule for the rest of the week. Make sure you have school schedule.

Today on 3/25:

1. HW Stamped.
2. Vocabulary Test
3. Crucible - Act 1 Notes/Discussion
4. Act 1 Dialogue Handout (stamped in class)


NO HW!

Today on 3/20:

1. Early Assessment Test - 11th Graders. This took an hour.

HW = Read pages 38 to 42 (skip the long part from the author).

Today on 3/20:

1. SSR
2. Went over previous days reading of pages 26-42. Character list updated, notes taken in book.
3. Groups Read: Act 1 pages 42 to end of Act 1 (pg. 52). QQN's were completed and stamped in class for pages 42-52.

HW = None

Today on 3/18:

1. Journal # 6 Use the other 3 words not used in sentences for your homework from Act 1 - The Crucible handout.

2. Homework stamped.

3. Handouts: QQN - see folder

4. Groups Formed to read The Crucible. Groups read pgs. 21-26. Groups took notes on post-its and also on Character handout.

HW = Create questions (no, don't answer them too) for the question part #1-4.

Today on 3/19:

1. SSR
2. Quiz on Characters - sorry you missed it!
3. Reading Groups - Read pages 26-34, update character list, and do 3 quotes. DON"T forget to write "why" you picked that quote or what it shows!

HW = None

Today on 3/17:

1. SSR
2. Sent. Fragment ex. (see folder)
3. Read The Crucible from page 13 to 21
4. Added to Character List & made post-it notes in book

HW = Act 1 Vocabulary Words (handout)

ASSIGNMENTS LISTED ON YOUR TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE WILL BE RANDOMLY SELECTED TO TURN IN!!

Today on 3/14:

1. Collected specific assignments!
2. SSR
3. Quiz - you missed it
4. Began reading The Crucible from pg. 8 (where play begins) to page 13 (very top).

HW = None

BRING IN ALL YOUR WORK, ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE COLLECTED FRIDAY!!!

Pilgrim Newspaper Due 3/13

Today in class on 3/12:

Homework stamped.
1. Read poem - Anne Bradstreet, pg. 138 "Upon the Burning of My House"
2. Answer questions after reading - #2, 3, 5 and 8. These were stamped.
3. Finished movie "The New World"

HW = Newspaper for the Pilgrims

Today in class on 3/13:

1. Collected Newspaper Front Pages
2. Updated Table of Contents.
3. Introduction to our new play - The Crucible (see handout folder and me for your book).

HW = None - REMINDER - ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE COLLECTED FRIDAY!!

Today on 3/11:

We hope you did well on the CAHSEE!
1. Journal #4 - Imagine you are Squanto. Write a diary entry that reveals why you helped the Pilgrims and chose to live with them.

2. Continued movie "The New World"

HW = Sentence Fragments handout

Today on 3/10:

1. SSR (get a Reading Log)
2. Created a "Table of Contents" page for assignments.
3. Newspaper Assignment (DUE THURSDAY) - TYPED
Create the front page story of a newspaper that would have existed back in England at the time the Pilgrims landed in America. Assume that the paper tends to make news events more "colorful" than they really are. Provide the news story, headline, proper date, etc. Remember the 5 news questions: who, what, when, where and why

4. Began watching "The New World" movie - Purpose: Compare/contrast readings and what you already know.

HW = Handout on "Words to Know" for "Of Plymouth Plantation" (Due Tuesday). yOU DO NOT NEED TO DO LETTER "B"

Today on 3/6:

1. Homework was stamped.
2. Further discussion on "What is an American?" and comparing American then and now.
3. Read p. 292 - Ben Franklin's Aphorisms - Contrast to Crevecouer's essay on p. 290
4. Cornell Notes on Puritans - Page 134-136 - Stamped

HW = Grammar Practice - Verbs. p. 120

Today on 3/7:

1. Journal #3 - Define the following words: (aloof, commodity, hue, procure, providence).

2. Homework stamped.

3. Read pg. 82 of textbook "Of Plymouth Plantation" - Write Cornell Notes for the following:
(Thesis, arrival, first encounter, starving time, Indian Relations, First Thanksgiving)

No HW!

Today on 3/5:

1. Journal #2 - See a friend to copy sentences down from yesterday's reading.
2. We read from textbook: Page 290 "What is an American?"
3. Took Notes on the essay. See a friend

HW = None