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Honors English II Homework
Here we go! Easy book, quick read...but read chapters 4-7. Pay attention to how the history lesson develops the characters and drives Ben Ross's decisions (he's the teacher). How do his decisions impact the narration and the other characters? What is the author's purpose for the events of these chapters?
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Tonight, read the forward from the author and chapters 1-3. For the entire novel, we will look at how the characters are developed throughout the text, how the characters serve to develop the author's purpose, and how history influences events in the plot and the characters' development. It's a fun EASY book.
Yes, it will be on the midterm. However, do not just read and do a mental dump after we finish this book. We will use it to segue into Elie Wiesel's Night after Fall Break. Let the Holocaust literature and ethical and sociological discussions begin! Don't forget to answer these two questions concerning the texts. Group work is great, and it's even better when you can show me what you think about the texts on your own about other potential topics!
Homework question: Though women were the focal point, explain what these texts reveal about men’s roles in the 1800s to early 1900s. Use examples from the texts to explain your answers. Tomorrow, we will complete the CASE Essay portion of the midterm. I will give Unit 2 essays tomorrow with your individual comments. Remember to elaborate and explain how the evidence fits. Use the prompt to help you write your thesis! No shame in the game when the State does not frown upon that. :) Make sure that you read pages 111-112 and 114-115 in your info binder. This will add to our discussion about Trifles by Susan Glaspell and "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl.
Study for your clauses quiz tomorrow! Make sure you know the differences among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Know what a sentence fragment, run-on, and complete sentence look like. You will be required to apply your knowledge of sentence variety in a writing section so that I can see that you understand how variety impacts how your argument/idea looks and sounds.
Finish your sentences for homework. Remember to follow the directions for each sentence!
We will finish our discussion of Trifles tomorrow. As you read Trifles by Susan Glaspell, think about the following questions and document your findings in your text:
1. What is the central problem in the play? 2. How does gender influence the view of the problem? 3. How does one's position in the community affect the view (perception) of the problem? 4. Do the means justify the end? Are the women justified in their decisions and actions? The unit test will be finished tomorrow. Remember that on Wednesday, September 18th, we will finish speeches.
We will begin a mini-unit that combines poetry, speech, a short story, and a play. It's time to take these first two units and start weaving them with other texts. Complete #s 1-10 on your Sentence Type Review #1 sheet. Make sure that you follow directions.
We will finish speeches on Wednesday September 18. Make sure you are ready to go if you did not present on Friday as scheduled. Over the weekend, review over your rhetorical devices and rhetoric fallacies (logos, ethos, pathos) and their purpose and impact on a speaker's writing and audience! It's all about application and analysis! Review your comma rules. Also, look over your rhetoric devices (allusion, imagery, simile, metaphor, allusion, parallelism and repetition, anaphora, etc.) and rhetorical fallacies (logos, pathos, ethos) and how those items effect an author's purpose.
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