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All - summer reading is a strong recommendation. Reading will increase your learning potential & your vocabulary + it's FUN. Honors, AP, & gifted - required w/ evaluation at the beginning of the year. Note - on June 4th the friends of the library will be putting out some of the LHS summer reading books on their sales shelf in the Southside branch (past the mall) - check it out for savings.
Extra Credit (pretty easy) - using the linked web pages - Answer the questions in INK & in complete sentences on your own paper. https://sites.google.com/a/essex.k12.ia.us/king-arthur-webquest/ Last week of school! - All bring back the LANGUAGE & LIT. bookS to resubmit. fINAL 6 WEEKS TEST - on day of final exam (schedule on LHS web site - http://www.lpssonline.com/site48.php skill test - apply the elements of fiction to a really good short story (author - Kate Chopin if you want to do a little research) & apply the sound devices & figurative language along w/ some lit. elements to poetry. study w/ the sound device download document & the flashcards below.
Need more research? - see the 1st link below to the Infotrack materials through our library - Many online research options including Gale Group databaseand the Literature Research Center areoffered through the Laf. Parish School System and Lafayette High & thedestiny website. Our Library’s username is lafa11287, and if you need a password, it’s “Louisiana” ============================================= 2 more units of study - 1) death of King Arthur from Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 2) sentence patterns. Homework for Friday is very important - review subjects & verbs, which I do not think, unfortunately, is below your level of competence. Regular class - 2 King Arthur stories from the lit. text w/ lots of background. pp. 754 - 769 Test will be on either Tues. or Wed. of next week. Extra credit for anyone, esp.those who did not do the last essay - due on Monday. fi
--------------- KingArthur films extra credit TheSword in the Stone (1963) Dir.Wolfgang Reitherman. 80 mins. Disney's version of King Arthur. Based on T.H.White's novel. Mediocre. Clunky animation, for Disney, and a fairly goofytreatment of the Arthur legend. Camelot(1967) Movieversion of the stage musical 1st Star Wars (late 1970s) (now considered # 4) Excalibur (1981) = most points/ most knowledge Dir.John Boorman The most popular attempt at Malory's version of the Arthuriantales. IndianaJones and the Last Crusade (1989) Dir.Steven Spielberg. Produced by George Lucas. Starring Harrsion Ford and SeanConnery.Indy and his father seek the Grail. FirstKnight (1995) starSean Connery as Arthur and Richard Gere as Lancelot. A love triangle look atthe legends. Check out the "First Knight" Home Page Merlin(1998) - TV mini-series MontyPython and the Holy Grail Knight’sTale Recent: King Arthur Tristan & Isolde to go to online text (both lit. & language are provided) http://my.hrw.com 1) put in your username & password 2) click on "go to online text" for the textbook you need (lit. or lang.) 3) easiest way to navigate by page # |
- LHS library research web site - lots of terrific links, esp. Gale Net database To use infotrac outside of the LPSS network (home) – school code: lafa11287 Password (not asked for, but just in case) - Louisiana
- Animated Much Ado About Nothing click on the picture of the animation - fun way to learn!
- Hamlet - Cartoon summary of plot
- Fashion web site for the Web Quest
- WACKY TALES - review parts of speech parts of speech = function
- NY Time article about the attack on 9-11 published the day after found poem from story
- Citationmachine - help you get the correct form for documentation
- Shakespeare Web quest - extra points for 1st Shakespeare test
- Worldbook online login: lpssschools Password: gumbo
- Ebsco research site - login - lpssschools password - gumbo Research databank - not a world wide web site - like going to a library
- good site for rules as well as Interactive grammar exercises- Excellent way to study punctuation & grammar
- Online textbook
- Interactive Grammar Quizes
- about.com - Right vs. Left Brain Quiz for homework assignment - print the Homework / Study Tips for your results
- Levt vs. Right Brain orientation quiz print your results for extra credit
- Right vs. Left Brain orientation print results for extra credit
- "The Interlopers" 1 of several online sites - extra credit for 1st 6 weeks unit test
- Text of Robert Kennedy's speech on the day MLK was assassinated Take Home test
- "Masque of the Red Death" video - reading of the story w/ pictures
- poetry forms & examples - use these to write your own. extra credit (see minimum requirements above) if turned in Monday, Nov. 28th
- "The Gift of the Magi" by O.Henry reading & analysis required before the midterm
- No Fear Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing Shakespearian Eng. (original) along side modern Eng. - try first to read the orignial the way W.S. wrote it.
- fun - a rap version of the play (overview) Much Ado About Nothing overview in rap
- ACT / College Board & how to use the hamburger method of organization helpful for the ACT or the EOC
- ACT essay examples & their scores - use hamburger method model your own essays after the best example that would give you a top score of 5
