WELCOME

CLASS OF 2010

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FOR ALL CLASSES: added: 11-6-2009

NINE WEEKS TEST

All students are reminded about the bubble sheet part of the nine weeks test.  Even: Monday, Nov. 9; Odd: Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Be sure to have a pencil (or two) with you!!

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FOR ALL CLASSES!!:  added: 11-6-2009

Remember that your study guide for your nine weeks test is a QUIZ grade.  It is due the same day as your bubble sheet part of the nine weeks test.  See above.   I will NOT accept it late.  No. No. No.

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! MORE REMINDERS ! added: 10-30-2009

FOR ALL STUDENTS

After the literary terms quiz on Nov. 4 (Odd) and Nov. 5 (Even), students will write their responses for the prompt for their 9 weeks test.  Come to class prepared.  Have a writing utensil and paper that day.

The nine weeks test proper will be givien on Nov. 9 for Even classes and Nov. 10 for Odd day classes.

A study guide will be given the first of next weeks.  Its correct completion is a quiz grade.  It I do not receive it on the due date, I will not accept it.  Due dates:  Even: Nov. 9; Odd: Nov. 10

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If you have taken The Holt Reader from the classroom, please return it.  Others need to use it too. added 10-30-2009

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 FOR ALL BLOCKS: ADDED: 10-29-2009

QUIZ: Odd: Nov. 4; Even: Nov. 5

Students will have a quiz on the following terms:

• ballad
• refrain
• incremental repetition
• vernacular
• characterization
• direct characterization
• indirect characterization
• frame story
• romance
• romance hero

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FOR ENGLISH 12 ONLY: ADDED: 10-29-2009

Beowulf essays due for a quiz grade on Even, Nov. 5 and Odd, Nov. 6

Be sure to have the following 2 class work assignments with the final:

• the pre-write- the graphic organizer of your choice
• the proofread typed first draft- with the proofreading marks

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BLOCK 2 ONLY: added : 10-16-2009

TEST: Final copy of your resume is due on October 19.  You must turn in your graded typed first draft with it.

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FOR ALL CLASSES: ADDED: 10-16-2009

Even- due October 19; Odd- due October 20

Remember to complete the six homework assignments given to you.  You will need YouTube to complete the sheet.  THE WORST JOBS IN HISTORY: THE DARK AGES- narrated by Tony Robinson.

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To All, added:  10-8-2009

As I told all students yesterday and today, I am no longer able to take any late work.  I allowed this for the first half of the first nine weeks will students became acclimated with the new school year, but as of October 7 and 8, I will no longer allow this to happen.  This, of course, does not apply to students who have been absent.

Thank you.

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FOR ALL CLASSES: ADDED 10-8-2009

TEST:  EVEN- OCT. 15; ODD- OCT. 16

BEOWULF TERMS

• Be sure to see the Elements of an Epic PowerPoint attached
• Beowulf-  considered England's first piece of national literature
• motif- in literature, a word, a character, an object, an image, a metaphor, or an idea that recurs in a work or in several works (our class example was the horror movie)
• archetype-  a pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages.  An archetype can be a character, a plot, an image, or a setting
• Paganism-  a religion where the members believe in more than 1 god, they believe there is no afterlife, fate rules their lives
• fate-  what Pagans believe rule their lives
• Christianity-  a religion where the members believe that Jesus Christ is the Savior, they believe in free will and an afterlive, pushed Paganism from England
• caesura-  a pause or break within a line of poetry, usually indicated by the natural rhythm of the language; used for taking a breath
• | |-  the symbol for a caesura
• kenning-  in Anglo-Saxon poetry, a metaphorical phrase or compound word used to name a person, place, thing, or event indirectly
• scops-  the Anglo-Saxon storytellers who sang of gods and heroes
• elegy-  a poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost
• alliteration-  the repetition of beginning consonant sounds
• oxymoron-  a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory words/ideas
• foreshadow-  when an author gives the reader hints about what will happen
• dramatic irony-  when the reader/audience knows things the characters do not know
• personification-  a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing is given human qualities
• imagery-  language that appeals to the senses
• denotation-  literal/dictionary definition of a word
• connotation-  all the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to a word; the picture a word brings to mind

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FOR ALL CLASSES:  ADDED 9-22-2009

Homework grade: Even- Sept. 23; Odd- Sept. 24

Be sure to bring in the signed Classroom Rules and Procedures.

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FOR ALL CLASSES:  ADDED 9-22-2009

DATES DUE:  Odd- Sept. 28 and Even- Sept 29

Quiz Grade:  First Draft of the college/university application.  Be sure to follow the application's directions and the directions given in class.

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FOR ALL CLASSES :  ADDED 9-16-2009

Homework grade

Dates due:  Even:  Sept. 23 and Odd: Sept. 24

Below are the two Web sites for the learning style inventories:

http://people.usd.edu/~bwjames/tut/learning-style/stylest.html

http://www.personal.psu.edu/bxb11/LSI/LSI.htm  

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FOR ALL CLASSES: added 9-14-2009

1.  Homework:  Due Dates:  Even:  Sept.  21; Odd:  Sept. 22

     Bring in 2 blank copies of an undergraduate college application.  The copies must be of the same.  NO community colleges.  NO technical colleges.

2.  Quiz:  Due Dates:  Even:  Sept. 21; Odd: Sept. 22

     Typed first draft of resume

3.  Quiz:  Due Dates:  Odd: Sept. 28; Even: Sept. 29

     First draft of the college application- in ink

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For all classes:

Students will be given homework assignment sheets in class.  These sheets will contain the homework assignments for the entire nine weeks period.  The dates on the sheet are the dates assignments are due.  Late homework is not accepted.  Because students are given the homework assignments in advance, when a student is absent, the missed homework assignment(s) and the assignment due the day of the student's return are due the day the student returns to class.

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HELPFUL WEBSITE: not listed below

You can sign up for Grace Fleming's helpful hints at http://homeworktips.about.com/gi/pages/stay.htm.  I highly recommend you do so.  I receive them, and they are quite valuable.  Simply click on the link, and you will be there.

Good luck!!

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Class Supplies:

For all classes:

• 1 1/2 inches (or larger) three-ringed binder
• blue or black pens
• loose leaf paper
• three-ringed notebook dividers
• 3.5 disk/CD-RW/or Jump drive removable disk- to store assignments
• 8.5" x 11" computer paper (for home- I don't need it)
• (later in the year)for research paper: teacher-given envelope for turning in research materials
• (later in the year)for research paper: see research paper supplies material- on information sheet