English 1/2 Assignments

Study your lecture notes and review session notes to prepare for your final exam. Your final exam in English is scheduled for Wednesday, May 28.

Final essay drafts are due on Wednesday, May 21.  Your essay must be typed.  Use MLA format.  Do not plagiarize.  To format quotes, use the following website: easybib.com

 

 Romeo and Juliet Essay Topics

English ½

Rough draft (20 points) due: Thursday, May 15    

Typed final draft (50 points) due: Wednesday, May 21

Directions:  Choose one of the following topics for your essay.  Write a five-paragraph essay that includes a thesis paragraph with a thesis statement; three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.  Use the third person, present tense.  Each body paragraph must have concrete evidence, that is, a quote or quotes from the play.  Identify the speaker, situation, and importance of each quote.  Explain how your evidence proves your point.  Do not plagiarize.

• You may write your rough draft on the Shaffer Essay Template (handout).

• Your final draft must be typed.  Use MLA format.

• Grading Rubric: Dr. Land’s essay rubric (used previously in our class)

Option One:  Romeo and Juliet act impulsively and hastily.  This behavior contributes to their tragic deaths.  Identify, describe, and explain three decisions or actions that Romeo and Juliet should have taken (and fail to take) at two different points in the play.  Explain how these actions or decisions would change the outcome of their fate.

Option Two:  The Nurse is an advisor and confidante to Juliet.  Friar Laurence is an advisor and confidant to Romeo. Identify, describe, and explain how the Nurse is helpful and harmful as an advisor and confidant to Juliet.  (Or, identify, describe, and explain how the Friar is helpful and harmful to Romeo.)  Explain whether the adult character is more helpful or more harmful to the younger character.  Consider the protagonists’ secret wedding and untimely deaths.

Essay rough drafts are due in class on Thursday, May 15.  The draft may be written neatly on the Shaffer essay template (worksheet.)  Do not plagiarize.

Binders with a Table of Contents and assignments listed in the T.O.C. are due in class on Wednesday, May 14.

Write complete sentences to respond to study questions for Act IV Scene 1, #1-11.

Study your lecture notes and responses to study questions.  Quiz Tuesday on Acts II and III of Romeo and Juliet.

Read Romeo and Juliet Act III Scene 5.  Write complete sentences to respond to study questions for Scenes 4 and 5: numbers 21 through 31.

Write complete sentences to respond to study questions for Act III Scenes 2, 3, 4.

Write complete sentences to respond to study questions (Part III, 1-12), for Act III Scene 1 of R&J.

Write complete sentences to respond to Act II study questions (scenes 4, 5, 6).

Finish reading Act II.Scene 4 on your own.  Write complete sentences to respond to Study Questions to Act II Scenes 3 and 4.

Write complete sentences to respond to study questions for Act 1 Scene 1 of Julius Caesar.

Respond to Act II Study Questions (1-9).  Write complete sentences.

Quiz on Act 1 tomorrow.  Study your lecture notes and responses to study questions.

Write complete sentences to respond to study questions for Romeo and Juliet:

Act 1 Scene 5, numbers 22 through 27.  Write complete sentences to respond to:

numbers 4 and 5 on page 762 of your textbook and to the Reading Check questions (a, b, c, d).

Write complete sentences to respond to study questions #16-21 in the packet for

Act 1.

Written responses to questions 1-15 (page 2) of Act 1 worksheet are due on Friday, 4/18/14.  Write complete sentences.

Written responses to Parts 1 and 2 of the R and J worksheet for Act 1 are due Thursday, 4/17/14.

Written paragraph related due Romeo and Juliet is due on Wednesday, 4/16/14.

Bring your literature book to class every day.  Cover your textbook.

Read a book of your choice for 30 minutes.  The book must be appropriate for your grade level.

Study your notes (words and definitions) for a quiz on poetry terms on 4/11/14.

Typed "I Am" poem (or a typed free verse poem about you) is due on 4/11/14.

Due Friday, 3/28/14: rough draft of The Odyssey essay. You may write your rough draft in pen on the Shaffer Template (handout), or, you may type your draft.

Due today: rough draft of your essay on The Odyssey.  Nearly write your draft on your Shaffer template (handout).  Use pen.

Bring you literature book to class today and your Odyssey notes from yesterday (Monday.) 

Test on The Odyssey is tomorrow, Thursday, 3/13/14.  Study your lecture notes and study questions and responses.

Written responses to The Odyssey review questions are due tomorrow, 3/11/14. Use your literature book including the index  to find the answers.  Write complete sentences.  Study for The Odyssey test.  The test is this Thursday.

Written responses to questions on The Odyssey worksheet are due tomorrow.

District Writing Assessment (in-class essay) is scheduled for Wednesday, March 5.

In-class preparation for essay will be held on Tuesday, March 4.

The Odyssey worksheet (epithet, simile, rhetoric) due tomorrow, 2/28/14. 

The Odyssey vocabulary homework is due tomorrow, 2/27/14.

Read 928-931 in your literature textbook.  Bring your lit book to class every day.

Typed and proofread Greek myth story from another character's (not Odysseus') point of view is due tomorrow.  Use MLA format.  Please refer to the Purdue OWL website:  owl.english.edu/owl/resource/747/01

Due tomorrow: Write a paragraph in which you respond to Number 9 on page 925 of your literature textbook.  Respond to all questions for Number 9.  Use proper grammar, word choice, spelling, and punctuation. 

Read a book of your choice for 30 minutes tonight.

Due in class on Tuesday, 2/11/14: Greek Myth and Its Influence Today homework.

Write a paragraph in which you: 

• Describe the personality, features, and clothing of a villain or villainess.
• Provide a specific example to show why he or she is evil.  
• You may describe a character from a book, movie, or tv show.

Read tonight: 899-909 in your literature book.  Bring your lit book to class every day.

Read a grade-level appropriate book of your choice for 30 minutes tonight.

Read 895-898 in your literature book. "The Odyssey" study questions are due in class on Monday, 2/3/14.

Write a paragraph in which you: identify and describe three traits (qualities) of a hero or heroine.  Identify and describe a hero or heroine from a book, movie, tv show, or real life.  Briefly summarize a decision or action he/she made that shows that he/she is a hero.

Bring your literature textbook to class today (Wednesday) through Friday.

Due Monday, 1/27/14: Exercise 17 (commas worksheet); and Application Practice #91 and #92 (double-sided worksheet.)

Read for 30 minutes a grade-level appropriate book of your choice.

Study the 15 vocabulary words and definitions (provided today in class) for a quiz scheduled this Thursday, January 23.

Dasani vocabulary homework is due in class on Thursday, January 16.

Quiz on Dasani vocabulary words and definitions is scheduled for Thursday, 1/23/14.

Read a book of your choice that's not a textbook for 30 minutes tonight.  This is a fiction or non-fiction book that could be used for a future book report.

Write a paragraph in which you describe a day in the life of Dasani, the 11-year old girl featured in the New York Times story we read in class.  Use the first person or third person voice.  Use proper grammar, word choice, spelling and punctuation.