Summer Reading Assignment: The Maltese Menagerie. You will write a SHORT scene with two characters involved in a dialogue. One character is to come from The Glass Menagerie. The other is to come from The Maltese Falcon. You may use any character from each work but remember that the characters must act and speak like they do in the original work. As a suggestion one character should be hiding something from the other. You can put the characters in any situation you like. You may work with a partner. The play should be at least 2 pages = 2 minutes in length. Have fun! Due 8/21
Assignment 1 Native American Mythology, Comparing Archetypes After reading pages 14-21 in our text. You should notice some similarities in the archetypal creatures in The Earth On The Turtle's Back and When Grizzlies Walked Upright. Which creatures did you find that are similar? What attributes or characteristics make them similar? 1 paragraph Due 8/22
Assignment 2 In Class Quick Write. "I am free because..." A central theme of this course will be the idea of liberty. For your first Quick Write I would like to see a 5 sentence paragraph that begins with a reason that you believe you are free followed by three supporting reasons or three examples that elaborate your your main idea (1 sentence each). Your fifth sentence will be a conclusion, restating in a new way the main idea you gave in the first sentence. Due 9/4
Assignment 3 The Bear Story: After we read pages 14-20 in our textbook, Mr.Ciampa will tell a tale meant to be a parable. You are to listen and take some notes then you will answer the following questions in complete sentences: 1) Describe the protagonist.
2) What is the name of the bear?
3) What is the setting?
4) What is the main conflict of the story?
5) What are two of the main lessons/morals of the story?
Assignment 4 Character and Characteristics: Personal Narrative Part 1 We have been talking about how the defining characteristics of a character in the summer reading and in our Native American stories often proscribes the actions that character will take. Laura in The Glass Menagerie, for example, would not hang out in night clubs, but probably would enjoy looking at glass figurines on Amazon.com. The red haired girl in When Grizzlies Walked Upright would never harm a bear and would probably be an animal rights activist, if she were in a modern setting. Now lets talk about you. What are some of your defining characteristics? Are you honest, brave, smart, or all of the above? In a paragraph describe some of your defining characteristics. In class we will be working on turning this paragraph into an introduction to a larger essay. Due 8/28
Assignment 5 Does Character define action or does action mold character? Think of the characteristics you used to describe yourself. Was there ever a time when one of these characteristics came into play or was lacking when you needed it? Was there ever a time when you found a new attribute you never knew you had? We will rewrite your paragraph from assignment 4 focusing on a single characteristic that came into play during some event in your life. Your introductory paragraph will describe your relationship to that character trait. We will develop your story from there. Due 8/29
Assignment 6 Finding the Beats to Your Story. In class we will be creating a story diagram that charts the interaction between your characteristics and the events that shape them or are shaped by them. Due 9/5
Assignment 7 Going Against Type, The Essay: Personal Narrative Part 2 Based on the paragraphs you wrote for Assignments 4 and 5, and the outline you created for assignment 6, you will create a narrative that tells a story about an uncharacteristic action you took or an incident that took place where you did something unexpected. That is, where you did something you didn't think you would do. To begin, we will be working on your introductory paragraph. The body and conclusion will follow, hopefully. Due 9/12
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Assignment 8 Analyzing Your Narrative, The Analytical Essay. In Class we will be using the SOAPST strategy to find the essential elements you want to discuss in a literary essay that analyzes the narrative you wrote.
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Assignment 9 Native American Super Hero. After learning about some of the super human characters in Native American lore,we will create one of our own. By yourself or with a partner you will sketch out your superhero and describe his/her powers. You will then write a one paragraph biography of the hero you created next to the picture or beneath it. Your biography should include an explanation of which powers came from what tribes. For example, if your character has Muskrat, or Turtle like powers, he/she may have got them from the Onondaga (see p. 16 in our text). You may need to do some research to learn more about the folklore of various tribes and the special powers the characters in their stories have. You may use any one or any combination of the 562 different tribes found in America for the source of your hero's characteristics. Due 9/12 An example from X-Men follows below:
Assignment 2 In Class Quick Write. "I am free because..." A central theme of this course will be the idea of liberty. For your first Quick Write I would like to see a 5 sentence paragraph that begins with a reason that you believe you are free followed by three supporting reasons or three examples that elaborate your your main idea (1 sentence each). Your fifth sentence will be a conclusion, restating in a new way the main idea you gave in the first sentence. Due 9/4
Assignment 3 The Bear Story: After we read pages 14-20 in our textbook, Mr.Ciampa will tell a tale meant to be a parable. You are to listen and take some notes then you will answer the following questions in complete sentences: 1) Describe the protagonist.
2) What is the name of the bear?
3) What is the setting?
4) What is the main conflict of the story?
5) What are two of the main lessons/morals of the story?
Assignment 4 Character and Characteristics: Personal Narrative Part 1 We have been talking about how the defining characteristics of a character in the summer reading and in our Native American stories often proscribes the actions that character will take. Laura in The Glass Menagerie, for example, would not hang out in night clubs, but probably would enjoy looking at glass figurines on Amazon.com. The red haired girl in When Grizzlies Walked Upright would never harm a bear and would probably be an animal rights activist, if she were in a modern setting. Now lets talk about you. What are some of your defining characteristics? Are you honest, brave, smart, or all of the above? In a paragraph describe some of your defining characteristics. In class we will be working on turning this paragraph into an introduction to a larger essay. Due 8/28
Assignment 5 Does Character define action or does action mold character? Think of the characteristics you used to describe yourself. Was there ever a time when one of these characteristics came into play or was lacking when you needed it? Was there ever a time when you found a new attribute you never knew you had? We will rewrite your paragraph from assignment 4 focusing on a single characteristic that came into play during some event in your life. Your introductory paragraph will describe your relationship to that character trait. We will develop your story from there. Due 8/29
Assignment 6 Finding the Beats to Your Story. In class we will be creating a story diagram that charts the interaction between your characteristics and the events that shape them or are shaped by them. Due 9/5
Assignment 7 Going Against Type, The Essay: Personal Narrative Part 2 Based on the paragraphs you wrote for Assignments 4 and 5, and the outline you created for assignment 6, you will create a narrative that tells a story about an uncharacteristic action you took or an incident that took place where you did something unexpected. That is, where you did something you didn't think you would do. To begin, we will be working on your introductory paragraph. The body and conclusion will follow, hopefully. Due 9/12
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Assignment 8 Analyzing Your Narrative, The Analytical Essay. In Class we will be using the SOAPST strategy to find the essential elements you want to discuss in a literary essay that analyzes the narrative you wrote.
Click here to view the Narrative Analysis Handout.
Assignment 9 Native American Super Hero. After learning about some of the super human characters in Native American lore,we will create one of our own. By yourself or with a partner you will sketch out your superhero and describe his/her powers. You will then write a one paragraph biography of the hero you created next to the picture or beneath it. Your biography should include an explanation of which powers came from what tribes. For example, if your character has Muskrat, or Turtle like powers, he/she may have got them from the Onondaga (see p. 16 in our text). You may need to do some research to learn more about the folklore of various tribes and the special powers the characters in their stories have. You may use any one or any combination of the 562 different tribes found in America for the source of your hero's characteristics. Due 9/12 An example from X-Men follows below:
Warpath, also known as James Proudstar is an Apache Native American, Proudstar possesses mutant superhuman strength and speed, like his older brother, the short-lived X-Men Thunderbird, though Warpath's power-levels are much higher.
He originally blamed the X-Men for his brother’s death and joined the villain group the Hellions to get revenge. He later reconsidered his views and became a longtime member of the militant X-Men offshoot X-Force. After a long journey to the Shi'ar Empire with the Uncanny X-Men, Warpath became a member of the new incarnation of X-Force but he left after the events of Necrosha.
Assignment 10 Native American Government: After reading pages 14-21, and 24-26 from our text book you will answer questions 1-6 on page 26 and 3 and 4 on page 27. Due 8/23
Assignment 11 Modern American Mythology: After watching the film X-Men2, You will answer the following questions. Who is your favorite X-Man/Woman? Explain why in terms of their powers and their ethics. 1 paragraph. Describe 3 elements X-Men2 has in common with the Native American myths you read for this unit. 1 paragraph. Due 9/2
He originally blamed the X-Men for his brother’s death and joined the villain group the Hellions to get revenge. He later reconsidered his views and became a longtime member of the militant X-Men offshoot X-Force. After a long journey to the Shi'ar Empire with the Uncanny X-Men, Warpath became a member of the new incarnation of X-Force but he left after the events of Necrosha.
Assignment 10 Native American Government: After reading pages 14-21, and 24-26 from our text book you will answer questions 1-6 on page 26 and 3 and 4 on page 27. Due 8/23
Assignment 11 Modern American Mythology: After watching the film X-Men2, You will answer the following questions. Who is your favorite X-Man/Woman? Explain why in terms of their powers and their ethics. 1 paragraph. Describe 3 elements X-Men2 has in common with the Native American myths you read for this unit. 1 paragraph. Due 9/2
Assignment 12 Class Folders: All students will have an individual folder where they will keep their work once I have graded it and handed it back. This should be a plain Manila folder which you may decorate. Your Name and Period Number must be visible and legible somewhere on the front of the folder. Due 9/2
Assignment 13 English 11 Web Page. After written work has been revised and rewritten, the final step in the writing process is to share your work with the world. We will accomplish this by publishing our work on line. All students will create a web page dedicated to this course either by creating a new page on their existing site or by using Googlesites to create a new site. Once you have set up a google site or created a page on your already existing site, you will email me the link at cciampa@champscharter.org. Due 9/19
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Assignment 14 Find and Define Vocabulary p. 42-48 You will find no less than five and no more than ten vocabulary words from our text that you do not already know. Do not include words already defined in the text. Once you have made your list, you will define these words in the same manner they are defined in our textbook (see p. 43). Make sure you list the correct part of speech. You may use the internet or a dictionary to find the definitions. Due 9/5
Assignment 15 Vocabulary Quiz There will be a 20 question Vocabulary Quiz on Tuesday 9/9, . The list of words will be compiled from the most frequently occurring words students found in their word search from pages 42 to 48 in our text. These will be posted on the Wednesday before the quiz. The quiz will also include the words already defined in the text:
loathsome pestilential copious fetters parcel autonomous mollify amassed flogging apprehensions improvident procure avarice pacify galling gratify wretched plight dejected commissary
You will know the definition as it relates to the text and the part of speech for each word on the quiz.
Assignment 16: What is your single most important belief? One introductory sentence plus three reasons why this belief is important to you plus a concluding sentence equals five sentences which equals one paragraph.Due 9/23
Assignment 17 Peer Editing You and a partner will be editing and grading our in class paragraph from Assignment 12. one team member will be scoring from 1 to 5 on structure, that is looking for the complete introductory sentence, 3 complete supporting sentences and a complete concluding sentence. 1 point will be deducted for each missing sentence. If all are present the student receives a 5. The other team member will be deducting a point for each error in grammar and spelling. If there are more than five errors the student will receive a 0. If there are no errors, the student will receive a 5. The two scores will be averaged together for a final grade. The correctors will receive in class credit. Due 9/23
Assignment 13 English 11 Web Page. After written work has been revised and rewritten, the final step in the writing process is to share your work with the world. We will accomplish this by publishing our work on line. All students will create a web page dedicated to this course either by creating a new page on their existing site or by using Googlesites to create a new site. Once you have set up a google site or created a page on your already existing site, you will email me the link at cciampa@champscharter.org. Due 9/19
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Assignment 14 Find and Define Vocabulary p. 42-48 You will find no less than five and no more than ten vocabulary words from our text that you do not already know. Do not include words already defined in the text. Once you have made your list, you will define these words in the same manner they are defined in our textbook (see p. 43). Make sure you list the correct part of speech. You may use the internet or a dictionary to find the definitions. Due 9/5
Assignment 15 Vocabulary Quiz There will be a 20 question Vocabulary Quiz on Tuesday 9/9, . The list of words will be compiled from the most frequently occurring words students found in their word search from pages 42 to 48 in our text. These will be posted on the Wednesday before the quiz. The quiz will also include the words already defined in the text:
loathsome pestilential copious fetters parcel autonomous mollify amassed flogging apprehensions improvident procure avarice pacify galling gratify wretched plight dejected commissary
You will know the definition as it relates to the text and the part of speech for each word on the quiz.
Assignment 16: What is your single most important belief? One introductory sentence plus three reasons why this belief is important to you plus a concluding sentence equals five sentences which equals one paragraph.Due 9/23
Assignment 17 Peer Editing You and a partner will be editing and grading our in class paragraph from Assignment 12. one team member will be scoring from 1 to 5 on structure, that is looking for the complete introductory sentence, 3 complete supporting sentences and a complete concluding sentence. 1 point will be deducted for each missing sentence. If all are present the student receives a 5. The other team member will be deducting a point for each error in grammar and spelling. If there are more than five errors the student will receive a 0. If there are no errors, the student will receive a 5. The two scores will be averaged together for a final grade. The correctors will receive in class credit. Due 9/23
Assignment 18 Find and Define Vocabulary p. 78-84 You will find no less than five and no more than ten vocabulary words from our text that you do not already know. Do not include words already defined in the text. Once you have made your list, you will define these words in the same manner they are defined in our textbook. List the correct part of speech. You may use the internet or a dictionary to find the definitions. Due 9/10
Assignment 19 Read and Answer: The differences in the stories of William Bradford and Olaudah Equiano are readily apparent but we will discuss them in class briefly. Once you have read pages 78-84, you will answer the following questions: 1) What are three similarities between the travel logs of WIlliam Bradford and Olaudah Equiano? For now, 5 sentences=1 paragraph. The colonists concluded a peace treaty with the Wampanoag in 1621. What similarities does this treaty have with the Iroqouis Constitution? For now, 5 sentences=1 paragraph. 2 Paragraphs Due 9/16
Assignment 20 Publishing #1 You will take your in class paragraph assignment a.k.a. Assignment 16 and publish it on your web page for this class. This should be a finished, grammatically and structurally correct paragraph. If you do not agree with the peer editors comments or if you were not here to have your paragraph edited, please see me before putting this paragraph on your site. Due 9/28
Assignment 21 Find and Define Vocabulary p. 1230-1240 You will find no less than five and no more than ten vocabulary words from our text that you do not already know. Once you have made your list, you will define these words in the same manner they are defined in our textbook Make sure you list the correct part of speech. You may use the internet or a dictionary to find the definitions. Due 9/18
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Assignment 22 Quickwrite: Discuss a time you were suspected of a misdeed which you did not commit, or incorrectly suspected someone else. Describe the incident, your involvement and how you felt at being misunderstood or in misunderstanding. 1 paragraph. Due 9/30
Assignment 23 Vocabulary Quiz There will be a 20 question Vocabulary Quiz on Friday, . The list of words will be compiled from the most frequently occurring words students found in their word search from pages 42 to 48 in our text. These will be posted on the Wednesday before the quiz. The quiz will also include the words already defined in the text:
theocracy dissembling faction sundry peril parochial ordinance magistrate vindictive ingratiating
lamentable pulpit calamity staunch dainty shoals creed jollity inevitable predilection
Assignment 24 Find and Define Vocabulary p. 1241-1260 in our textbook or p. 14 to the end of Act 1, if you are using the PDF or your own copy. You will find ten vocabulary words from our text that you do not already know. Once you have made your list, you will READ THE ASSIGNED PAGES, then define these words in the same manner they are defined in our textbook Make sure you list the correct part of speech. You may use the internet or a dictionary to find the definitions. Due 9/30
To view an article about McCarthy's techniques, click here.
Assignment 25 What techniques did Joseph McCarthy use during the House on Un-American Activities Committee hearings that were also used by the tribunal during the Salem Witch Trials? For now, 5 sentences=1 paragraph. Due 10/5 All assignments should be in MLA format. To review click here.
To review how to do in text citations, click here.
Assignment 26 Vocabulary Master List For the remaining 60 pages of The Crucible you will keep a list of 30 words, WHILE YOU ARE READING THE PLAY, to be turned in at the end of the week. You may use any words that appear from pages 1274-1334, including the non-play sections of the text. Your list should include a definition and the part of speech.Due 10/9
Assignment 27 In Class Witch Trial To help students prepare for their persuasive essays. Teams of three consisting of one prosecutor, one defender and one defendant will pick a character from The Crucible to try in class. This team will be presenting textual and historical evidence before a tribunal of their peers to prove the innocence or guilt of the chosen character. While this assignment is optional, participants who are convincing in their representations will receive up to 10 project points.
Assignment 28 After an in class review, students will present written arguments in class about which rules of the Modern Language Association we are being asked to follow make the most sense to them and which make the least. Due 10/7
Assignment 29 Introductory Paragraph You will be answering the question: Who is the most virtuous character in The Crucible? Once you have selected the character you want to write about, you will find 3 reasons why you chose this character that can be supported from the text. For now, 5 sentences=1 paragraph. Due 10/10
Assignment 30 Crucible Vocabulary Quiz There will be a 20 question Vocabulary Quiz on Monday 10/13, . The list of words will be compiled from the most frequently occurring words students found in their word search from pages 1274to 1334 in our text. These will be posted on the Wednesday before the quiz. The quiz will also include the words already defined in the text:
deceit theology effrontery imperceptible prodigious evasive deference lechery anonymity daft flailing incredulous confounded blasphemy deposition conciliatory sibilance adamant beguile floundering
Assignment 31 The 5 Paragraph Essay You will take your Introductory paragraph from Assignment 29 and expand it to a 5 paragraph, persuasive essay. The rough and final draft are to be in MLA format. We will spend time in class reviewing how to do this. You may also click on the link below for a quick tutorial to review the minimum structural requirements. Your rough drafts will be due on 10/15. Your final draft is to be posted on your web page by 10/30 with a Works Cited page as needed. To automatically generate a Works Cited Page and get other useful tips on MLA usage, go to http://www.bibme.org/ or click here.
Five Paragraph Essay
Assignment 32 After reading an in class hand out about the Crucible you will:
Answer in complete sentences!
1) How many men, women and dogs were executed in Salem in 1692?
2) When was the first apology to the victims issued?
3) Who received restitution for the witch trials?
4) Where did Arthur Miller go to college?
5) How many people worldwide were executed as witches by the end of the 17th century?
6) Why did Molly Kazan object to her husband Elia directing the play?
7) When did Reverend Hale really protest the witch trials?
8) Name another country where the play was produced.
9) When did Miller appear before H.U.A.C
10) When was the memorial to the victims dedicated?
Assignment 19 Read and Answer: The differences in the stories of William Bradford and Olaudah Equiano are readily apparent but we will discuss them in class briefly. Once you have read pages 78-84, you will answer the following questions: 1) What are three similarities between the travel logs of WIlliam Bradford and Olaudah Equiano? For now, 5 sentences=1 paragraph. The colonists concluded a peace treaty with the Wampanoag in 1621. What similarities does this treaty have with the Iroqouis Constitution? For now, 5 sentences=1 paragraph. 2 Paragraphs Due 9/16
Assignment 20 Publishing #1 You will take your in class paragraph assignment a.k.a. Assignment 16 and publish it on your web page for this class. This should be a finished, grammatically and structurally correct paragraph. If you do not agree with the peer editors comments or if you were not here to have your paragraph edited, please see me before putting this paragraph on your site. Due 9/28
Assignment 21 Find and Define Vocabulary p. 1230-1240 You will find no less than five and no more than ten vocabulary words from our text that you do not already know. Once you have made your list, you will define these words in the same manner they are defined in our textbook Make sure you list the correct part of speech. You may use the internet or a dictionary to find the definitions. Due 9/18
For a PDF of The Crucible click here.
Assignment 22 Quickwrite: Discuss a time you were suspected of a misdeed which you did not commit, or incorrectly suspected someone else. Describe the incident, your involvement and how you felt at being misunderstood or in misunderstanding. 1 paragraph. Due 9/30
Assignment 23 Vocabulary Quiz There will be a 20 question Vocabulary Quiz on Friday, . The list of words will be compiled from the most frequently occurring words students found in their word search from pages 42 to 48 in our text. These will be posted on the Wednesday before the quiz. The quiz will also include the words already defined in the text:
theocracy dissembling faction sundry peril parochial ordinance magistrate vindictive ingratiating
lamentable pulpit calamity staunch dainty shoals creed jollity inevitable predilection
Assignment 24 Find and Define Vocabulary p. 1241-1260 in our textbook or p. 14 to the end of Act 1, if you are using the PDF or your own copy. You will find ten vocabulary words from our text that you do not already know. Once you have made your list, you will READ THE ASSIGNED PAGES, then define these words in the same manner they are defined in our textbook Make sure you list the correct part of speech. You may use the internet or a dictionary to find the definitions. Due 9/30
To view an article about McCarthy's techniques, click here.
Assignment 25 What techniques did Joseph McCarthy use during the House on Un-American Activities Committee hearings that were also used by the tribunal during the Salem Witch Trials? For now, 5 sentences=1 paragraph. Due 10/5 All assignments should be in MLA format. To review click here.
To review how to do in text citations, click here.
Assignment 26 Vocabulary Master List For the remaining 60 pages of The Crucible you will keep a list of 30 words, WHILE YOU ARE READING THE PLAY, to be turned in at the end of the week. You may use any words that appear from pages 1274-1334, including the non-play sections of the text. Your list should include a definition and the part of speech.Due 10/9
Assignment 27 In Class Witch Trial To help students prepare for their persuasive essays. Teams of three consisting of one prosecutor, one defender and one defendant will pick a character from The Crucible to try in class. This team will be presenting textual and historical evidence before a tribunal of their peers to prove the innocence or guilt of the chosen character. While this assignment is optional, participants who are convincing in their representations will receive up to 10 project points.
Assignment 28 After an in class review, students will present written arguments in class about which rules of the Modern Language Association we are being asked to follow make the most sense to them and which make the least. Due 10/7
Assignment 29 Introductory Paragraph You will be answering the question: Who is the most virtuous character in The Crucible? Once you have selected the character you want to write about, you will find 3 reasons why you chose this character that can be supported from the text. For now, 5 sentences=1 paragraph. Due 10/10
Assignment 30 Crucible Vocabulary Quiz There will be a 20 question Vocabulary Quiz on Monday 10/13, . The list of words will be compiled from the most frequently occurring words students found in their word search from pages 1274to 1334 in our text. These will be posted on the Wednesday before the quiz. The quiz will also include the words already defined in the text:
deceit theology effrontery imperceptible prodigious evasive deference lechery anonymity daft flailing incredulous confounded blasphemy deposition conciliatory sibilance adamant beguile floundering
Assignment 31 The 5 Paragraph Essay You will take your Introductory paragraph from Assignment 29 and expand it to a 5 paragraph, persuasive essay. The rough and final draft are to be in MLA format. We will spend time in class reviewing how to do this. You may also click on the link below for a quick tutorial to review the minimum structural requirements. Your rough drafts will be due on 10/15. Your final draft is to be posted on your web page by 10/30 with a Works Cited page as needed. To automatically generate a Works Cited Page and get other useful tips on MLA usage, go to http://www.bibme.org/ or click here.
Five Paragraph Essay
Assignment 32 After reading an in class hand out about the Crucible you will:
Answer in complete sentences!
1) How many men, women and dogs were executed in Salem in 1692?
2) When was the first apology to the victims issued?
3) Who received restitution for the witch trials?
4) Where did Arthur Miller go to college?
5) How many people worldwide were executed as witches by the end of the 17th century?
6) Why did Molly Kazan object to her husband Elia directing the play?
7) When did Reverend Hale really protest the witch trials?
8) Name another country where the play was produced.
9) When did Miller appear before H.U.A.C
10) When was the memorial to the victims dedicated?
Assignment 33 Find and Define Vocabulary p. 138-153 You will find ten vocabulary words from our text that are unfamiliar to you. Once you have made your list, you will define these words in the same manner they are defined in our textbook Make sure you list the correct part of speech. You may use the textbook, internet or a dictionary to find the definitions. Due 10/22
Assignment 34 Benjamin Franklin Comprehension Questions p. 148 Questions 1,2 and 4 Due 10/24
Assignment 35 Benjamin Franklin Virtue Vocabulary Quiz Instead of doing our usual vocabulary quiz for this unit, you will be quizzed on Franklin's list of 13 virtues on page 141-142 of our textbook.
Assignment 36 Find and Define Vocabulary The Black Cat Edgar Allen Poe You will find ten vocabulary words from the short story handout that are unfamiliar to you. Once you have made your list, you will define these words. Make sure you list the correct part of speech. You may use the internet or a dictionary to find the definitions. Due 10/27
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Assignment 37 Scary Sentence Worksheet
Assignment 38 Roughing it Prefatory Worksheet
Roughing It Home Page
Assignment 39 Find and Define Vocabulary Roughing It Chapter 9 You will find ten vocabulary words from our text that are unfamiliar to you. Once you have made your list, you will define these words. Make sure you list the correct part of speech. You may use the internet or a dictionary to find the definitions. Due 11/9
Assignment 40 Find and Define Vocabulary Roughing It Chapter 10 You will find ten vocabulary words from our text that are unfamiliar to you. Once you have made your list, you will define these words. Make sure you list the correct part of speech. You may use the internet or a dictionary to find the definitions. Due 11/12
Assignment 41 Open Book Quiz Roughing It Chapters 9-12. In class you will answer the following questions:
Where is Twain’s stage coach on the seventh morning?
What happens to the stage coach that same night?
Who is Slade and what happens to him?
Name one of Bemis’ several jobs.
Name of the mountains they pass through in Ch. 12
Twain recalls dropping this on his friend John’s head.
”The Destroying Angel” is a member of what religious group?
Big Mountain is 15 miles from this city.
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Assignment 42 Find and Define Vocabulary Roughing It Chapter 11-13. You will find ten vocabulary words for each chapter as you read from our text. Once you have made your list, you will define these words. Make sure you list the correct part of speech. Due 11/17
Assignment 43 Reading Test Chapters 9-12 You will be responsible for showing your knowledge of locations, characters, and major events depicted in Roughing It Chapters 9-12 See Assignment 41 Due 11/13
Assignment 44 Complex Sentences: For Chapter 14 You will find 5 Complex sentences and identify the dependent and independent clauses. Due 11/18
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Assignment 45
Vocabulary Quiz. on 11/21 for Chapters 9-14 on the following words:
sullen desperado appeased relentless emigrant supplanting churlishness myrmidons judiciously preponderance requisite conundrum limpid perceptible diminished indignant non-plussed reposing subsided surreptitiously
Definitions provided by Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
Assignment 46 Quickwrite: If you could travel to anywhere in the world, where would you go? How would you get there? Why did you pick your location? This assignment should contain at least one Simple, Compound, and Complex sentence.1 paragraph. MLA format Due on your web page 12/1
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Assignment 47 READ Chapters 20- 24 (XX-XXIV) and define a total of 20 words. You may do 5 words a chapter or space it out according to the words you don't know as long as you have 20 words by the time you are done reading Chapter XXIV. Don't forget parts of speech! Due 11/24
Assignment 48 Roughing It Reading Challenge Ch. 20-24 You will answer 20 questions from a worksheet handed out in class.
Answer in complete sentences!
1)Where is Twain on the eighteenth day?
2)What lies at the edge of the desert?
3)How many times is the Horace Greeley story told in Chapter 20?
4)How is Carson City first described?
5)What happens as soon as Twain meets Mr. Harris?
6)What is a Washoe wind?
7)Why are there so many bald people in Carson City?
8)Who are the Surveyors and how far East does the Governor ask them to go?
9)What do the Surveyors bring back with them?
10)What is a sinecure?
11)Who is His Majesty The Secretary?
12)How high does Twain estimate the mountains around Lake Tahoe are?
13) How does Twain describe Lake Tahoe?
14) How does Twain feel after camping by the lake?
15)What happens when Twain decides to build a house? 1
16) Why does Twain call his outings on the lake balloon voyages?
17) What happens to Twain’s forest home?
18) What kind of horse does Twain buy in Chapter XXIV?
19) What were Carson and Eagle valleys almost literally carpeted with?
20) What does Twain do to get rid of the horse?
Assignment 49 Roughing It Reading Test 12/3 See above questions to prepare.
Assignment 50 (Part1)
Descriptive Essay Pre-write: In a paragraph, focus on answering the following questions:
What location will I write about? What theme will my descriptions support? What details already come to mind about the setting I've chosen?
Assignment 42 Find and Define Vocabulary Roughing It Chapter 11-13. You will find ten vocabulary words for each chapter as you read from our text. Once you have made your list, you will define these words. Make sure you list the correct part of speech. Due 11/17
Assignment 43 Reading Test Chapters 9-12 You will be responsible for showing your knowledge of locations, characters, and major events depicted in Roughing It Chapters 9-12 See Assignment 41 Due 11/13
Assignment 44 Complex Sentences: For Chapter 14 You will find 5 Complex sentences and identify the dependent and independent clauses. Due 11/18
To review Simple, Compound and Complex sentences click here.
Assignment 45
Vocabulary Quiz. on 11/21 for Chapters 9-14 on the following words:
sullen desperado appeased relentless emigrant supplanting churlishness myrmidons judiciously preponderance requisite conundrum limpid perceptible diminished indignant non-plussed reposing subsided surreptitiously
Definitions provided by Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
Assignment 46 Quickwrite: If you could travel to anywhere in the world, where would you go? How would you get there? Why did you pick your location? This assignment should contain at least one Simple, Compound, and Complex sentence.1 paragraph. MLA format Due on your web page 12/1
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Assignment 47 READ Chapters 20- 24 (XX-XXIV) and define a total of 20 words. You may do 5 words a chapter or space it out according to the words you don't know as long as you have 20 words by the time you are done reading Chapter XXIV. Don't forget parts of speech! Due 11/24
Assignment 48 Roughing It Reading Challenge Ch. 20-24 You will answer 20 questions from a worksheet handed out in class.
Answer in complete sentences!
1)Where is Twain on the eighteenth day?
2)What lies at the edge of the desert?
3)How many times is the Horace Greeley story told in Chapter 20?
4)How is Carson City first described?
5)What happens as soon as Twain meets Mr. Harris?
6)What is a Washoe wind?
7)Why are there so many bald people in Carson City?
8)Who are the Surveyors and how far East does the Governor ask them to go?
9)What do the Surveyors bring back with them?
10)What is a sinecure?
11)Who is His Majesty The Secretary?
12)How high does Twain estimate the mountains around Lake Tahoe are?
13) How does Twain describe Lake Tahoe?
14) How does Twain feel after camping by the lake?
15)What happens when Twain decides to build a house? 1
16) Why does Twain call his outings on the lake balloon voyages?
17) What happens to Twain’s forest home?
18) What kind of horse does Twain buy in Chapter XXIV?
19) What were Carson and Eagle valleys almost literally carpeted with?
20) What does Twain do to get rid of the horse?
Assignment 49 Roughing It Reading Test 12/3 See above questions to prepare.
Assignment 50 (Part1)
Descriptive Essay Pre-write: In a paragraph, focus on answering the following questions:
What location will I write about? What theme will my descriptions support? What details already come to mind about the setting I've chosen?
From Chapter XXIII of Roughing It
If there is any life that is happier than the life we led on our timber ranch for the next two or three weeks, it must be a sort of life which I have not read of in books or experienced in person. We did not see a human being but ourselves during the time, or hear any sounds but those that were made by the wind and the waves, the sighing of the pines, and now and then the far-off thunder of an avalanche. The forest about us was dense and cool, the sky above us was cloudless and brilliant with sunshine, the broad lake before us was glassy and clear, or rippled and breezy, or black and storm-tossed, according to Nature's mood; and its circling border of mountain domes, clothed with forests, scarred with land-slides, cloven by canons and valleys, and helmeted with glittering snow, fitly framed and finished the noble picture. The view was always fascinating, bewitching, entrancing. The eye was never tired of gazing, night or day, in calm or storm; it suffered but one grief, and that was that it could not look always, but must close sometimes in sleep.
We slept in the sand close to the water's edge, between two protecting boulders, which took care of the stormy night-winds for us. We never took any paregoric to make us sleep. At the first break of dawn we were always up and running foot-races to tone down excess of physical vigor and exuberance of spirits. That is, Johnny was, but I held his hat. While smoking the pipe of peace after breakfast we watched the sentinel peaks put on the glory of the sun, and followed the conquering light as it swept down among the shadows, and set the captive crags and forests free. We watched the tinted pictures grow and brighten upon the water until every little detail of forest, precipice and pinnacle was wrought in and finished, and the miracle of the enchanter complete. Then to "business." That is, drifting around in the boat. We were on the north shore. There, the rocks on the bottom are sometimes gray, sometimes white. This gives the marvelous transparency of the water a fuller advantage than it has elsewhere on the lake. We usually pushed out a hundred yards or so from shore, and then lay down on the thwarts, in the sun, and let the boat drift by the hour whither it would. We seldom talked. It interrupted the Sabbath stillness, and marred the dreams the luxurious rest and indolence brought.
The shore all along was indented with deep, curved bays and coves, bordered by narrow sand-beaches; and where the sand ended, the steep mountain-sides rose right up aloft into space, rose up like a vast wall a little out of the perpendicular, and thickly wooded with tall pines.
So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air! Yes, where it was even eighty feet deep. Every little pebble was distinct, every speckled trout, every hand's- breadth of sand. Often, as we lay on our faces, a granite boulder, as large as a village church, would start out of the bottom apparently, and seem climbing up rapidly to the surface, till presently it threatened to touch our faces, and we could not resist the impulse to seize an oar and avert the danger. But the boat would float on, and the boulder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must still have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface. Down through the transparency of these great depths, the water was not merely transparent, but dazzlingly, brilliantly so. All objects seen through it had a bright, strong vividness, not only of outline, but of every minute detail, which they would not have had when seen simply through the same depth of atmosphere. So empty and airy did all spaces seem below us, and so strong was the sense of floating high aloft in mid-nothingness, that we called these boat-excursions "balloon-voyages."
Assignment 50 (Part 2) Seeing the Forest for the Trees After reading Twain’s Roughing It, write a descriptive piece (see above example) about some part of the terrain in which it takes place or a particular location (like the stagecoach or the mountains). You may also write about a natural setting you have been to before or one you would like to visit. If you write about a place you've never been to, you must do research in advance. What does it look, smell, sound, taste and feel like? Tie your descriptive piece together with some kind of unifying theme or thesis (e.g., the fear of death that pervades the unknown territory or the natural beauty that calms the spirits of its inhabitants…)
Reminders:
In this original piece of written description, be sure to:
- Use descriptions that appeal to all the five senses.
- Use figurative language (e.g., similes, metaphors, personification, foreshadowing, alliteration, assonance, and allusions to other literary texts, etc.).
- Include an introduction, body and conclusion paragraphs, make use of transitions to help the reader make the connections from one part of the paper to the next. The final draft is due posted on your web page Friday, December 6th. For more information on Descriptive Essays click here.
If there is any life that is happier than the life we led on our timber ranch for the next two or three weeks, it must be a sort of life which I have not read of in books or experienced in person. We did not see a human being but ourselves during the time, or hear any sounds but those that were made by the wind and the waves, the sighing of the pines, and now and then the far-off thunder of an avalanche. The forest about us was dense and cool, the sky above us was cloudless and brilliant with sunshine, the broad lake before us was glassy and clear, or rippled and breezy, or black and storm-tossed, according to Nature's mood; and its circling border of mountain domes, clothed with forests, scarred with land-slides, cloven by canons and valleys, and helmeted with glittering snow, fitly framed and finished the noble picture. The view was always fascinating, bewitching, entrancing. The eye was never tired of gazing, night or day, in calm or storm; it suffered but one grief, and that was that it could not look always, but must close sometimes in sleep.
We slept in the sand close to the water's edge, between two protecting boulders, which took care of the stormy night-winds for us. We never took any paregoric to make us sleep. At the first break of dawn we were always up and running foot-races to tone down excess of physical vigor and exuberance of spirits. That is, Johnny was, but I held his hat. While smoking the pipe of peace after breakfast we watched the sentinel peaks put on the glory of the sun, and followed the conquering light as it swept down among the shadows, and set the captive crags and forests free. We watched the tinted pictures grow and brighten upon the water until every little detail of forest, precipice and pinnacle was wrought in and finished, and the miracle of the enchanter complete. Then to "business." That is, drifting around in the boat. We were on the north shore. There, the rocks on the bottom are sometimes gray, sometimes white. This gives the marvelous transparency of the water a fuller advantage than it has elsewhere on the lake. We usually pushed out a hundred yards or so from shore, and then lay down on the thwarts, in the sun, and let the boat drift by the hour whither it would. We seldom talked. It interrupted the Sabbath stillness, and marred the dreams the luxurious rest and indolence brought.
The shore all along was indented with deep, curved bays and coves, bordered by narrow sand-beaches; and where the sand ended, the steep mountain-sides rose right up aloft into space, rose up like a vast wall a little out of the perpendicular, and thickly wooded with tall pines.
So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air! Yes, where it was even eighty feet deep. Every little pebble was distinct, every speckled trout, every hand's- breadth of sand. Often, as we lay on our faces, a granite boulder, as large as a village church, would start out of the bottom apparently, and seem climbing up rapidly to the surface, till presently it threatened to touch our faces, and we could not resist the impulse to seize an oar and avert the danger. But the boat would float on, and the boulder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must still have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface. Down through the transparency of these great depths, the water was not merely transparent, but dazzlingly, brilliantly so. All objects seen through it had a bright, strong vividness, not only of outline, but of every minute detail, which they would not have had when seen simply through the same depth of atmosphere. So empty and airy did all spaces seem below us, and so strong was the sense of floating high aloft in mid-nothingness, that we called these boat-excursions "balloon-voyages."
Assignment 50 (Part 2) Seeing the Forest for the Trees After reading Twain’s Roughing It, write a descriptive piece (see above example) about some part of the terrain in which it takes place or a particular location (like the stagecoach or the mountains). You may also write about a natural setting you have been to before or one you would like to visit. If you write about a place you've never been to, you must do research in advance. What does it look, smell, sound, taste and feel like? Tie your descriptive piece together with some kind of unifying theme or thesis (e.g., the fear of death that pervades the unknown territory or the natural beauty that calms the spirits of its inhabitants…)
Reminders:
In this original piece of written description, be sure to:
- Use descriptions that appeal to all the five senses.
- Use figurative language (e.g., similes, metaphors, personification, foreshadowing, alliteration, assonance, and allusions to other literary texts, etc.).
- Include an introduction, body and conclusion paragraphs, make use of transitions to help the reader make the connections from one part of the paper to the next. The final draft is due posted on your web page Friday, December 6th. For more information on Descriptive Essays click here.
Assignment 51 Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Natural World Textbook Read page 388-390. Answer Questions 4 & 6. Read P. 393 Answer Question 3. Due 12/5
Assignment 52 Walden by Henry David Thoreau Read p. 403-411 Answer Questions 1 through 4 on p.411 Due 12/6
Assignment 53 "The Brain is Wider Than The Sky" by Emily Dickinson p. 426 Answer Questions 1 and 3 on p. 427 Due 12/9
Assignment 54 "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman READ! p.436-438 Answer Questions 2 through 5 on page 439 (Preview the questions before reading) Due 12/10
Assignment 55 Final Exam Given during finals week, this exam will cover American Literature we have covered in our course over the semester and will also test for your skills as a reader. The exam will be worth 100 points and will be more heavily weighted than any other test. It is recommended that students take all of the allotted time to complete the exam.
Study Guide:
The following words may be on the final. You should know their definitions and parts of speech.
loathsome pestilential copious autonomous mollify amassed apprehensions improvident procure avarice pacify galling gratify dejected theocracy dissembling faction sundry peril parochial vindictive ingratiating lamentable calamity staunch creed predilection deceit theology effrontery imperceptible prodigious evasive deference anonymity incredulous confounded blasphemy deposition conciliatory adamant beguile sullen appeased relentless supplanting churlishness myrmidons judiciously preponderance requisite conundrum indignant reposing subsided surreptitiously
You should know all 13 of Benjamin Franklin's virtues.
You should be able to identify the following people we've studied:
Dekanawidah
Olaudah Equiano
William Bradford
Arthur Miller
John Proctor
Elizabeth Proctor
Joseph McCarthy
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
Edgar Allen Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
You should be able to answer these questions about mark Twain's Roughing it:
Who is Slade and what happens to him?
Name of the mountains they pass through in Ch. 12 ?
”The Destroying Angel” is a member of what religious group?
How is Carson City first described?
What is a sinecure?
Who is His Majesty The Secretary?
How does Twain describe Lake Tahoe?
How does Twain feel after camping by the lake?
You should know the following academic concepts and terms: Aphorism, Simple Sentence, Compound Sentence, Complex Sentence, Compound-Complex Sentence, Complete Sentence, Dependent Clause, Independent Clause
Long answer questions may include: The reasons behind the writing of The Crucible and the major themes contained therein. How Twain, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Dickinson perceive nature. What Thoreau thinks of technology.
Based on all the corrections and re-writes we've done, you should have a basic grasp of proper usage like knowing the difference between there, their, and they're. You should know when it's appropriate to use an apostrophe and when a phrase needs no apostrophe in its construction. You should know when to use a comma, and when to use a semi-colon; this final item being something I've corrected on many of your papers.
Assignment 52 Walden by Henry David Thoreau Read p. 403-411 Answer Questions 1 through 4 on p.411 Due 12/6
Assignment 53 "The Brain is Wider Than The Sky" by Emily Dickinson p. 426 Answer Questions 1 and 3 on p. 427 Due 12/9
Assignment 54 "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman READ! p.436-438 Answer Questions 2 through 5 on page 439 (Preview the questions before reading) Due 12/10
Assignment 55 Final Exam Given during finals week, this exam will cover American Literature we have covered in our course over the semester and will also test for your skills as a reader. The exam will be worth 100 points and will be more heavily weighted than any other test. It is recommended that students take all of the allotted time to complete the exam.
Study Guide:
The following words may be on the final. You should know their definitions and parts of speech.
loathsome pestilential copious autonomous mollify amassed apprehensions improvident procure avarice pacify galling gratify dejected theocracy dissembling faction sundry peril parochial vindictive ingratiating lamentable calamity staunch creed predilection deceit theology effrontery imperceptible prodigious evasive deference anonymity incredulous confounded blasphemy deposition conciliatory adamant beguile sullen appeased relentless supplanting churlishness myrmidons judiciously preponderance requisite conundrum indignant reposing subsided surreptitiously
You should know all 13 of Benjamin Franklin's virtues.
You should be able to identify the following people we've studied:
Dekanawidah
Olaudah Equiano
William Bradford
Arthur Miller
John Proctor
Elizabeth Proctor
Joseph McCarthy
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
Edgar Allen Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
You should be able to answer these questions about mark Twain's Roughing it:
Who is Slade and what happens to him?
Name of the mountains they pass through in Ch. 12 ?
”The Destroying Angel” is a member of what religious group?
How is Carson City first described?
What is a sinecure?
Who is His Majesty The Secretary?
How does Twain describe Lake Tahoe?
How does Twain feel after camping by the lake?
You should know the following academic concepts and terms: Aphorism, Simple Sentence, Compound Sentence, Complex Sentence, Compound-Complex Sentence, Complete Sentence, Dependent Clause, Independent Clause
Long answer questions may include: The reasons behind the writing of The Crucible and the major themes contained therein. How Twain, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Dickinson perceive nature. What Thoreau thinks of technology.
Based on all the corrections and re-writes we've done, you should have a basic grasp of proper usage like knowing the difference between there, their, and they're. You should know when it's appropriate to use an apostrophe and when a phrase needs no apostrophe in its construction. You should know when to use a comma, and when to use a semi-colon; this final item being something I've corrected on many of your papers.