English 3/4 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.

Typed final draft of Julius Caesar essay is due in class on Wednesday, May 21.

Julius Caesar Essay Topics

English 3/4

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 argument.  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: Write an essay in which you prove that Brutus is a man of honor destroyed by forces beyond his control.  Identify and explain three reasons for Brutus’ downfall.

Option Two:  Write an essay in which you prove that Brutus is a self-righteous hypocrite who uses high-minded phrases to hide his evil intentions and deeds.

Option Three:  Write an essay in which you prove that Brutus is a man of honor destroyed by forces beyond his control, and, a self-righteous hypocrite who uses high-minded phrases to hide his evil intentions and deed

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.

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

Study your lecture notes and responses to study questions.  Quiz Tuesday on Act II of Julius Caesar.

Write complete sentences to respond to study questions for Act II Scenes 2 and 3.

Write complete sentences to respond to Act II Scene 1 study questions.

Read Act II. Scene 1 of Julius Caesar.

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

Write complete sentences to respond to study questions for Julius Caesar:

Act 1 Scene 3, numbers 1-9.

Due Monday, 4/21/14: Write complete sentences to respond to Study questions 1-9 (Act 1), and 1-13 (Act 2).

News article and writing assignment about a good leader is due on Friday, 4/18/14. Please type your paper.

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.

"I Am" poem or an autobiographical free-verse poem (about you) is due tomorrow.

Due Monday: Complete Application Practice #92 (handout).

Read for 30 minutes a book of your choice that is appropriate for school.

Read for 30 minutes a book of your choice that is not a textbook.

Due today: SAT vocabulary assignment.

Bring your Night books to class today.

The Night in-class essay tomorrow.  Bring your book and one page of notes.  No Spark Notes or any other notes from the Internet.

Test on Night tomorrow (the whole book.)  Study your vocabulary words and definitions, as well as your lecture notes and study questions.

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

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

Read for 30 minutes a book that could possibly be used for a future book report.

Night vocabulary homework is due tomorrow, 2/27/14.

Read a book of your choice for 30 minutes tonight.

Due tomorrow: Responses to Night Study Questions 5 (worksheet.)

Night group projects due on Friday, 2/14/14.

Read Night, 91-108 tonight.

Read this weekend, Night (73-90).  Typed or handwritten responses to Study Questions 4 due on Tuesday.

Read a book of your choice for 30 minutes tonight.  Classwork: Write a paragraph in which you identify and describe the character you sympathize with the most from the short story, "A Spring Morning."  Explain why you feel compassion or another emotion for him or her.  Use a quote from the story to support your opinion.  Include the page number for the quote.

Get plenty of sleep tonight (and every night), and eat a healthy breakfast tomorrow (and every morning), to help you prepare for the CAHSEE.  The CAHSEE is scheduled for tomorrow and Wednesday at MKHS.

Read Night, pages 55-72.  Study Questions are due in class on Monday, 2/3/14.

Read Night pp. 38-54 tonight.  Study Questions 2 (1-10) due in class this Friday.  

Night Study Questions 1 due in class on Wednesday, 1/29/14,

This weekend, read Night, p. 1-34.

In-class essay tomorrow.

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.