Assignment 1 of 5
Study for your Unit 2 exam Monday the 10th/Tuesday the 11th!!! You will have 90 minutes to complete your test and the first 5-10 minutes (based on class vote) to study for it beforehand.

Part 1: 55 multiple-choice questions on all 5 stories (know narrative elements + gothic elements + irony + literary devices such as foreshadowing, mood, imagery)

Part 2: 2 CEL paragraph reponses addressing the situational irony and mood of two stories we’ve read this unit

Suggested study plan over the weekend:
1. Reread all five stories (“Lamb to the Slaughter” + “Sonata for Harp and Bicycle” + “Desiree’s Baby” + “The Adventure of the German Student” + “The Cask of Amontillado”)
2. Review PowerPoint notes and CATCH notes to re-familiarize yourself with the characters, plot, etc. for each story


Assignment 2 of 5
Write down the quotes you will be using for Part 2 of the Unit 2 exam on the index card you were given in class.

How many quotes should you write down? At least 2 for each question (so 4 total).
Do I need to know the page numbers for my quotes? YES.
If my quote includes words I don’t understand, can I have definitions of those words on my index card? YES.
Can I put definitions of gothic elements, irony, etc. on my index card? NO.
Can I write out a draft of my CEL paragraph on the index card? NO.
If I write big, can I use multiple/different index cards than the one you gave me? Yes.
Can I know what two questions I will be asked on the test so I can find quotes for my index card? YES. See below:

SCR Question 1: Choose a story from this unit that features SITUATIONAL irony. Write a CEL paragraph demonstrating how situational irony shows up in your chosen story.

SCR Question 2: The MOOD of many of our gothic stories in this unit could be described as EERIE (spooky, sinister, frightening). Choose a story with an eerie mood from our unit then explain (in a CEL paragraph) how the author creates this eerie mood.


Assignment 3 of 5
Read the first 25 pages of your IRP book OR the first two chapters (whichever comes first). Next, fill in TWO squares of the IRP SSR log you were given in Ms. Ng’s/Mr. Lee’s/Mr. Shimizu’s class.

For my class, I expect you to do Prompts 2 and 3 before our next class:
Draw a scene from the section you just read in one of the boxes.
Pull out a favorite quote from the section you just read and explain why it’s your favorite in another of the boxes.

**In case you did not receive a copy of the IRP SSR log in class, I am attaching a digital copy to this website.


Assignment 4 of 5
Decide which two stories and which two gothic elements you will focus on for your upcoming essay. Circle them in pencil on your copy of the essay outline. If you were absent on Wednesday, email me for a digital copy.


Assignment 5 of 5
Use the long weekend to prepare for your notebook check on Monday the 17th/Tuesday the 18th. That means:

Complete CATCH notes for all 5 stories: you should have notes on every page, and your notes should cover gothic elements, irony AND at least one of the following: foreshadowing, imagery, mood.

Complete graphic organizers for all 5 stories. Period 6, you must have 16 vocabulary words, not just 8.

Complete CEL paragraphs for ALL 5 stories. The paragraph for “Lamb” should be on dramatic irony and the others should be about how certain gothic elements in the story make the story gothic.

 

Assignment 1 of 5
Complete CATCH notes for “The Cask of Amontillado” in the “assignments” section of your notebook (1.5 full pages minimum) by our next class. You may also print out the text using the link below and record your notes on the printout.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/poe/cask.html


Assignment 2 of 5
Complete the graphic organizer for “The Cask of Amontillado” by our next class.


Assignment 3 of 5
In your notebook (or on scratch paper), write down at least THREE short-answer questions you think you might see on your Unit 2 Test next Monday/Tuesday.  Create questions that can be answered in 1-2 sentences.

Your questions can be about any of the 5 stories we have read this unit.
Your questions can be about gothic elements, irony foreshadowing, imagery, and/or the mood in the stories.

Submit your BEST CEL paragraph to Turnitin.com before 11:59 p.m. on the day of class (so, odd periods should submit by Monday 11:59 p.m. and even periods by Tuesday 11:59 p.m.).

 

 

Assignment 5 of 5
Since you have a long weekend coming up, I would get a head start on the homework for the weekend and check that I have done the following assignments. If not, I would make sure to finish them over the weekend.

CATCH notes for every story (focusing on gothic elements, irony and other literary devices discussed for the story)
CEL paragraphs for every story complete
Graphic organizers for all 5 stories (Period 6, remember you should have 16 vocabulary words total)
Achieve 3000 lessons for “Still a tough Road” + “Music For Your Mind” + “Age of Revolution: Haiti’s Fight to be Free”

Personal Narrative rewrites for papers scoring below a 2.00

 

Your third Achieve 3000 lesson ("Age of Revolution: Haiti's Fight for Freedom") is due.  

 

You do not have to answer the thought question this time.  You may stop after the activity quiz. 

 

The link for the article is: http://portal.achieve3000.com/kb/lesson/?lid=15201&step=11&c=65&asn=1

 

*Make sure you are logged in before clicking this link.

 

 

Bring your textbook to class so that we can continue discussing "The Cask of Amontillado."  Remember to cover your textbook!

 

 

Read/Reread the story in your textbook (pp. 7-12) and begin CATCH notes before coming to class.

 

Period 1: CATCH the printed-out copy of the text you were given in class.  If you have misplaced your copy, print another of from http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/poe/cask.html

 

Periods 2-6: Since the text is in your textbook, CATCH notes should either be completed in the "assignments" section of your notebook (1.5 pages) OR completed on post-its attached to the pages in your textbook equalling 1.5 pages.  If you want to print out your own copy of the text from the link above and CATCH that, that is okay also.

 

 

Begin the graphic organizer for "Cask of Amontillado" by completing the vocabulary section on the front of the handout.  The rest of the graphic organizer will need to be completed by Wednesday, so feel free to do more.

 

 

Period 6: Complete a CEL paragraph on the gothic elements in "The Adventure of the German Student" in your notebook (this should be your fourth paragraph).  To prepare yourself best for the test, try to finish within 20 minutes.

 

Other periods: Make sure you can show this finished paragraph in class next Monday/Tuesday.

 

Why could Washington Irving’s “The Adventure of the German Student” be considered a gothic story?
a) Write a ONE-sentence claim answering the prompt. Your answer should identify TWO different gothic elements present in the story.
b) Before you give your evidence, help the reader understand where the quote is coming from—who’s the speaker? What’s the situation?
c) Give your FIRST quote that clearly shows a gothic element at work in the text (cite the page number). Next, explain what element is present in the quote.
d) Give a SECOND quote that clearly shows a different gothic element at work in the text (cite the page number). Next, explain what element is present in the quote.
e) Link your explanations (interpretations) of these two quotes to the claim sentence: connect the examples of gothic elements in the quotes to the definitions of these gothic elements.

Bring your textbooks to class.  Period 1, you will be provided with a hardcopy of the text in class since you do not have your textbooks checked out to you.

 

 

Reread the stories "Desiree's Baby" and "The Adventure of the German Student."  Finish your CATCH notes for both.  Focus on pulling out examples of irony, gothic elements and foreshadowing in your CATCH notes.

 

 

Complete the entire graphic organizers for "Desiree's Baby" and "The Adventure of the German Student" by our next class.  

 

*This means finding 8 vocabulary words from the text and filling in the grid on the front of the graphic organizer with each word's part of speech, definition, page/paragraph number and synonym/antonym.

 

*This also means giving at least FOUR examples in the story of gothic elements.  Of these four examples, THREE need to be for different elements.  For example, you could do 2 examples of a gothic setting, 1 example of high emotion in the text and 1 example of a hereditary curse.

 

 

Complete a CEL paragraph on the gothic elements present in "Desiree's Baby" in the assignments section of your notebook.

 

Why could Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” be considered a gothic story?
         a) Write a ONE-sentence claim answering the prompt. Your answer should identify TWO different gothic elements present in the story.
         b) Before you give your evidence, help the reader understand where the quote is coming from—who’s the speaker? What’s the situation?
         c) Give your FIRST quote that clearly shows a gothic element at work in the text (cite the page number). Next, explain what element is present in the quote.
         d) Give a SECOND quote that clearly shows a different gothic element at work in the text (cite the page number). Next, explain what element is present in the quote.
         e) Link your explanations (interpretations) of these two quotes to the claim sentence: connect the examples of gothic elements in the quotes to the definitions of these gothic elements.

 

 

Your second Achieve 3000 lesson ("Music for Your Mind") is due Thursday the 29th (odd) or Friday the 30th (even).  Make sure you complete it by then.

 

The thought question you should answer is: 

 

How does playing music actually benefit the mind's development, according to experts in the article?

 

The link for the article is: http://portal.achieve3000.com/kb/lesson/?lid=16061&step=11&c=81&asn=1

 

*Make sure you are logged in before clicking this link.

 

 

 

 

Study for your first word roots quiz.  You will be given a chart resembling the handout with the word roots you were given in class.  You will be asked to fill in any missing information (the root word itself, its meaning, and/or up to two examples).

 

 

 

 

The weird schedule for this week has afforded you some extra time on your assignments from last week for "Desiree's Baby" ... The following assignments will be checked at the END of the week (Thursday the 29th for odd periods, Friday the 30th for even periods) rather than at the beginning of the week.

 

CATCH for "Desiree's Baby"

Completed graphic organizer for "Desiree's Baby"

Completed CEL paragraph on why "Desiree's Baby" can be considered a gothic story.

 

Of course, if you have it completed earlier than the end of the week, I will stamp it for you early.

 

 

 

 

Study for your first word roots quiz.  You will be given a chart resembling the handout with the word roots you were given in class.  You will be asked to fill in any missing information (the root word itself, its meaning, and/or up to two examples).

 

 

 

 

Read and CATCH all four pages of "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin.  Focus your CATCH notes on pulling out evidence/examples of gothic elements and irony.  Try for at least 2 examples of gothic elements per page.

 

 

Complete the vocabulary grid section of your "Desiree's Baby" graphic organizer before our next class.  There are spaces for 8 unfamiliar words from the text, so average about 2 per page.  

Finish all five steps of the Achieve 3000 lesson procedure for the article "Still a Tough Road" before coming to class.  

 

The link for the article is below:

 

 

The thought question response should be a CEL paragraph of at least 5 sentences and should answer the following prompt:

 

 

 

Add to your CATCH notes for "Sonata for Harp and Bicycle" based on class discussion.  Try to find evidence of at least two gothic elements on each page of the story and make sure to record what you find as part of your CATCH notes.

 

 

Finish the CEL paragraph on gothic elements in "Sonata" if you did not finish in class.

 

Why could Joan Aiken’s “Sonata for Harp and Bicycle” be considered a gothic story?
          a) Write a ONE-sentence claim answering the prompt. Your answer should identify TWO different gothic elements present in the story.
          b) Before you give your evidence, help the reader understand where the quote is coming from—who’s the speaker? What’s the situation?
          c) Give your FIRST quote that clearly shows a gothic element at work in the text (cite the page number). Next, explain what element is present in the quote.
         d) Give a SECOND quote that clearly shows a different gothic element at work in the text (cite the page number). Next, explain what element is present in the quote.
         e) Link your explanations (interpretations) of these two quotes to the claim sentence: connect the examples of gothic elements in the quotes to the definitions of these gothic elements.

Please read Joan Aiken's short story "Sonata for Harp and Bicycle" for homework over the weekend.  Complete your CATCH notes on the story in your notebook in the "assignments section" and write 1.5 pages of notes minimum (focus on examples of irony and gothic elements).

 

Periods 2-6: The story is in your textbook (pp. 541-8)

Period 1: Please use the following PDF uploaded to this website to access the story.  You may write your CATCH notes in your notebook or you may print out the PDF (5 pages) and write them onto the text itself.

 

 

Finish your graphic organizer for "Sonata" by the next class period.  

 

 

Bring your textbook (or your iPad with a digital copy of the text if you're in first period) to our next class.

 

 

Make flashcards for the 18 word roots on the handout you were given in class ("audi" to "viv, vita, vivi").  On the front of each card should be the word root itself.  On the back of each card should be the meaning and 2 examples.  Your examples can be from the handout or others that you select.  Just make sure that the examples you select do in fact derive from the word root in question.

 

Your first word roots quiz on these 18 word roots will be Wednesday, September 28th.

 

 

Don't forget to complete your first Achieve 3000 lesson ("Still a Tough Road") by next Wednesday the 21st.

 

 

Assignment 1 of 3
Please reread Roald Dahl’s short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” before Thursday/Friday and add to your CATCH notes. Make sure you go through all of the steps of CATCH, finishing with a one-sentence main idea (theme, NOT summary).


Assignment 2 of 3
Please complete the graphic organizer for “Lamb to the Slaughter” before class on Thursday/Friday. Make sure you are giving a full answer by supporting your thinking with evidence (quotes) from the text.


Assignment 3 of 3
Please keep the following ongoing homework assignments in mind:

1.  Turn in late submissions of your personal narrative and/or rough draft materials
2.  Submit your personal narrative to Turnitin.com if you have not done so already
3.  Complete your first Achieve 3000 lesson (“Still a Tough Road”) by next Wednesday (9/21) ... The link is: http://portal.achieve3000.com/kb/lesson/?lid=16469&step=11&c=61&asn=1
4.  Study for retakes of your narrative elements quiz. The last day to retake it is this Thursday (9/15)
5.  Redo your notebook check for a 2.0 maximum grade. You will not receive a passing grade if you do not bring ALL 5 texts and have every assignment completed.
6.  Get your IRP book approved for semester 1. The last day to do so before it becomes late is Friday 9/30.

Assignment 1 of 4
Finish typing the FINAL draft of your personal narrative. Before you print it out, read it out loud to yourself to catch any errors you may have missed. Ask yourself … is this the best version of your narrative you can submit?

DON’T FORGET: Remember to (1) highlight your climactic sentence, (2) underline at least two sensory details (and label them with one of the five senses), and (3) draw lines at the end of both exposition and rising action.


Assignment 2 of 4
Before you come to class on Wednesday, please make sure you bring the following items to school with you AND staple them BEFORE you enter class in the order below:

Final draft - 2-3 typed pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12-point font (1” margins all around)
Rough draft - complete (1.5-2 pages if handwritten) with evidence of peer editing
Graphic Organizer
Peer Edit Checklist - with 2-3 sentences in response to the questions at the bottom
Narrative Breakdown for the story idea you chose with peer feedback at the bottom
Rubric + Plot Diagram


Assignment 3 of 4
Make sure that you submit a digital copy of your final draft online to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. 

To submit your final draft online …
1. Log in to Turnitin.com
2. Click “Period __ 2016-17” and you will see one assignment set up
3. Click the “submit” button for your personal narrative assignment (the only assignment listed)
4. Change “Cut & Paste” to “Single File Upload” from the drop-down menu
5. Give your assignment a title (e.g., “Personal Narrative”)
6. Pull up your assignment from your computer, Dropbox account or your Google account
7. Upload the selected file
8. Click “Upload”


Assignment 4 of 5

Read the Achieve 3000 article entitled "Renaissance: The Mystery of Caravaggio".  It should appear as one of the articles on your homepage when you log in.  If not, use the link below to access the article:

 

 

 

Assignment 5 of 5
Retakes for the narrative elements quiz are still going on until Thursday 9/15. Please make sure to bring all of your notes/notebook with you, regardless of whether we saw each other that day for class.

When coming to “retake” your notebook check, keep in mind that I am going to need to look at every single assignment for completion and to see that you have completed CATCH for each of the texts we’ve read. Complete CATCH means writing down a clear main idea (theme, not summary) for the text on your copy of the text itself. If textual evidence was required for an assignment (e.g., the reading questions for “The Vegetable”), then you need to provide quotes supporting your answers.

Assignment 1 of 4
Finish typing the FINAL draft of your personal narrative. Before you print it out, read it out loud to yourself to catch any errors you may have missed. Ask yourself … is this the best version of your narrative you can submit?

DON’T FORGET: Remember to (1) highlight your climactic sentence, (2) underline at least two sensory details (and label them with one of the five senses), and (3) draw lines at the end of both exposition and rising action.


Assignment 2 of 4
Before you come to class on Wednesday, please make sure you bring the following items to school with you AND staple them BEFORE you enter class in the order below:

Final draft - 2-3 typed pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12-point font (1” margins all around)
Rough draft - complete (1.5-2 pages if handwritten) with evidence of peer editing
Graphic Organizer
Peer Edit Checklist - with 2-3 sentences in response to the questions at the bottom
Narrative Breakdown for the story idea you chose with peer feedback at the bottom
Rubric + Plot Diagram


Assignment 3 of 4
Make sure that you submit a digital copy of your final draft online to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.

To submit your final draft online …
1. Log in to Turnitin.com
2. Click “Period __ 2016-17” and you will see one assignment set up
3. Click the “submit” button for your personal narrative assignment (the only assignment listed)
4. Change “Cut & Paste” to “Single File Upload” from the drop-down menu
5. Give your assignment a title (e.g., “Personal Narrative”)
6. Pull up your assignment from your computer, Dropbox account or your Google account
7. Upload the selected file
8. Click “Upload”


Assignment 4 of 4
Retakes for the narrative elements quiz are still going on until Thursday 9/15. Please make sure to bring all of your notes/notebook with you, regardless of whether we saw each other that day for class.

When coming to “retake” your notebook check, keep in mind that I am going to need to look at every single assignment for completion and to see that you have completed CATCH for each of the texts we’ve read. Complete CATCH means writing down a clear main idea (theme, not summary) for the text on your copy of the text itself. If textual evidence was required for an assignment (e.g., the reading questions for “The Vegetable”), then you need to provide quotes supporting your answers.