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English II Homework
Thank you to the parents and students who took the time out of the eleven days before spring break to complete work and submit it via Google Classroom. You are a blessing!
For those of you who are in a panic about your grades, I set my phone down Friday afternoon (March 27) and decided to have the weekend for my family. For eleven days, I answered emails from 8 am until 10:30 pm, even on the weekends. I answered panicked messages on Google Classroom and tried to explain how to take a screenshot of ChompChomp because it does not tell Google Classroom or me how many you answered correctly. I charged my phone twice a day so that I would not be at my computer for twelve hours a day. I apologize that you were inconvenienced this weekend and did not receive answers to emails or messages on Google Classroom about late assignments and zeroes. Please remember that there are 45 of you total in my two sections. You are not an island to yourself, and if you are turning in a mountain of late work or sending a ton of panicked messages, multiply that by 40 (5 people have done what they were supposed to do and have current grades). I will update grades this week.
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Okay, people, we are in uncharted territory for you and me. In my fourteen years of teaching, I have never had to deal with a pandemic (ice/snow storms, yes, illness to this magnitude, no), so bear with me.
Your Night project is still due! I have uploaded the directions into Google Classroom in case you lost it or cannot find it on my website. Your revised essay is still due. For those of you that I have left comments, please revise and edit and then email it to me. If you did not finish it in class on Friday, you are still expected to finish it and email it to me. When I receive it, I will leave comments for you to revise and edit for a final submission. Assignments have been uploaded into Google Classroom. The reading can be found in your info binder. If you do not have your info binder, I have uploaded the documents into Google Classroom. These reading assignments are meant to practice your informational reading skills that are sorely lacking. This is NOT new material or learning, just additional practice. You are accountable for getting the work completed. Here is what you are to complete over the next two weeks: George Takei's "Why I love the country that betrayed me" ---I handed this out on Monday. The questions are uploaded with the document and an additional Google Doc is attached to exercise your comparison and contrast skills. "Advice to the Newly Married Lady" can be found on pages 111-113 in your info binder. Answer the questions. "Our Deportment, or the Manners, Conduct, and Dress of Refined Society" can be found on pages 114-115. The questions can be found on the PDF attached to the Google Classroom assignment. If you are a parent checking this, we set up a Google Classroom for your student BEFORE he/she left. The access code is yzul76b. Today, for those students who turned in their essays on Friday, I have returned their argumentative essays. They have until March 25 to edit and revise based on my comments. If anyone does not understand how to revise or edit the essay, he or she can stay after school for additional assistance.
Tonight, students will read George Takei's "Why I love my country that betrayed me" for homework. We will discuss the speech tomorrow. Because my student teacher has been pulled due to Corona virus concerns (UTM's decision, not mine or the district's), the test over Night will be on Wednesday March 18. The Night project is still due this Friday, March 20. The vocab quiz over chapters 6-9 of Night will also be this Friday. We will move on to narrative writing! Fun times! We will play around with this writing style on Friday and continue to develop our writing skills until the writing assessment on April 16. If you did not finish your genocide essay in class, you are required to stay after school and finish it by Wednesday, March 18th. If you do not, you will have more to fix and fewer notes to help you correct your essay.
For Monday, read Elie Wiesel's "The Perils of Indifference" on pages 66-70 in your info binder. As you read, annotate by looking for rhetorical devices (similes, metaphors, allusions, imagery, P&R, RQ) and variety of punctuation (dashes, parenthesis, ellipses, etc.). You are not required to do the questions on pages 71-73, but if you want to complete them, you may. Finally, for those of you who did not do well on the Info binder pgs 84-85 questions or the Eva Bunting questions w/ printed page for you to re-do, you are required to make those up by Wednesday March 18. Your lack of explanation and simple one word answers are not acceptable. Details, people, details. If it took you ten minutes to finish it, then you did yourself a disservice. You will finish your Night/Genocide essay tomorrow in class.
Make sure you have your genocide packet with you tomorrow. You will use it and Night for your essay tomorrow.
1st block--Read chapter 7 and answer the questions about chapter 7. Don't forget to finish your genocide packets.
2nd block--your midterm is tomorrow. Rest! For Wednesday, read the rest of Night and answer the questions on page 84-85 in your info binder. You can work on this if you finish your exam early. 1st block---your midterm exam with multiple choice and multiple select answers is on MONDAY, March 9th.
2nd block-- for Monday, you are responsible for reading chapter 7 in Night by Elie Wiesel and finishing your genocide packets. We will discuss the chapter and review for the midterm. No homework tonight. You have your midterm essay exam tomorrow, so don't miss!
On Monday, 1st block will have its midterm multiple choice exam. 2nd block will finish the genocide packet, review for the midterm, and go over Chapter 7. On Tuesday, 1st block will finish the genocide packet and go over chapter 7. 2nd block will take its midterm exam. Make sure to edit your body paragraphs and add citations if you did not add them. Check your pro/con list notes that we took at the beginning where we wrote which statement came from which author.
You should have your intro, weak claim, counterclaim, and main claim when you come to class tomorrow. You will write your conclusion and turn in your essay. |
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