Homework

--Last chance to turn in your rough draft - May 28
--Vocabulary Note Cards - all complex sentences --lesson 17
--Read chapter five of Lord of the Flies

Homework - 5/18/09

--Read chapters 2-3 of Lord of the Flies
--Write 20 study guide questions. Rank these in order of difficulty (hardest - 20). Do not write more than five literal recall questions.
--Study for your vocab quiz.

Homework 5/7/09

--Get your progress reports signed
--Rough draft due May 14, 2009!

Homework

--Vocabulary note cards. Sentences on the back are of your choice.
--Study for your TFA test
--Second notes are due next Monday. Many of you are very far behind. If you do not complete this project, you are hurting yourself in two ways:
1. You are ensuring you will fail this trimester (and possibly your freshmen year depending on how well you did in the previous two trimesters
2. You are losing out on valuable skills. You will do a research project every year you are at LMSA.

Homework 4/22

--Your outline is due on MONDAY. Please follow the format on the sample outline I provided you with when you turned in your notes.
If you have not submitted your notes, I will not accept your outline.
If you have not submitted your annotated bibliography, you are two weeks behind. You will not be permitted to submit either your notes or your outline until the annotated bibliography is approved.
--Finish Things Fall Apart
--Complete the study guide for chapters 20-25

Homework 4/13/09

--Read Things Fall Apart chapters 11-13
--Complete the study guide for chapters 11-13
--Complete your vocabulary words
10 - compound using a conjunction
10 - compound using ; therefore,
; however,
; nevertheless,
--QUIZ on THINGS FALL APART Thursday
--Sources and notes due MONDAY
You must have at least five pages of notes from three of your sources. The sources must be printed or photocopied, then highlighted. Your notes will be directly after each source, not all together. I want to see where the notes came from, so the notes will be divided up, not in a section all together.

Homework

--Annotated bibliography due Monday
--Read Things Fall Apart chapters 9-10
--Complete the study guide for those chapters

Homework 4/6

--Read Things Fall Apart chapters 7 & 8
--Complete the study guide for those chapters
--Study for your vocabulary quiz
--Annotated bibliography is due MONDAY

Some of you need to turn in your binders with the KWL/Research Proposal ASAP. Remember, your score automatically drops one grade with every day it is late.

Homework 4/2/09

--Please bring in song lyrics for a NARRATIVE song (the song MUST tell a story)
--Complete the Research Proposal/KWL form
--Read chapters 4, 5, 6 of Things Fall Apart
--Complete the study guide for chapters 4, 5, 6

Hope break was fun... here's your homework! 3/30/09

--Vocabulary lesson 13 - write sentences on the back of your note cards. 10 words should be written with compound, 10 with complex formats.
--Turn in the contract for your research project. If you lost the contract, it is on the website under Important Class Documents.
--Read chapters 1-3 of Things Fall Apart.
--Complete the study guide questions for Things Fall Apart. Write the answers on a separate piece of paper. Answers should be written in complete sentences!

Note! Rubric!

The rubric for your presentations is posted in the Important Class Documents section!

Presentations February 23

1st period - Feb 23
Francesca Mason
Tiffany Henry
Dywon Perkins
Abel Larralde
Tim Silva
Chantee Capers
Mario Vidal
Jason Dunn
Rachel Brown
Taylor Ross

5th Period - February 23
Shawnte Lawson
Marcellis Montgomery
Narika Williams
Kenya Earls
DeShaun Blocker
DeQuortney Moore
Marlon Vernon
Carla Velasquez
Anton Dillon
Kimberly Waterford
Christopher Gee
Matthew Patterson
Mittithya Harris
Chevon Morris

Homework 2/17/09

--Projects due next week... make sure you know what time and date you chose for your presentation. There will be NO make-ups.
--Study for Vocabulary Quiz (Lesson 11)
--Write ten questions about Maus for a quiz.

Homework

--Lesson 11 vocabulary note cards (also, study for toss around)
--Begin work on your interview project. Interviews are done, and you should be planning how you will tell your interviewee's story. Plan on setting the project format by 2/17.
--Finish Maus

Homework

--Interviews are due Monday, TYPED and in the format we discussed in class
--Read Maus to page 127

Homework

--Read Maus to page 87
--Write twenty interview questions for the Interview project
--Complete the frame story worksheet

Homework

--Study for the Odyssey test
--Write a 1 page journal entry on whether or not you think Odysseus is an epic hero.

Homework

--Finish the Odyssey
--Complete "Who's Who in the Odyssey"--the full two pages are on my website. If you only have the first page, make sure you print out the second page and complete it.
--Study for your vocabulary quiz
--Watch the Obama inauguration speech, then answer the questions I gave you in class.

Homework

--Read books 20, 21, 22 of The Odyssey
--Create a cartoon (4 paneled) for each chapter. Each cartoon must be on a separate sheet of paper. This means you will have Book 20 on one page, Book 21 on another, Book 22 on a third. All must be labeled.
--Do NOT do this on lined paper. Make an effort to make it nice. We'll be using them in class on Tuesday

Homework

--Vocabulary note cards lesson 9
--Read books 18 & 19 (16 & 17 too if you are in first period)
--Write HOTS questions for books 18, 19 (16 and 17 too if you are in first period). These will be used for a quiz.

Homework

--Read books 12 & 13
--Write 5 HOTS questions for each chapter (10 total)
--Study for vocab quiz
--Work on your final draft of your narrative poem (due next Monday!)