Welcome Back

Second semester is upon us, and for this week we delve carefully into a new arena of English: syntax, voice, and advanced grammatical construction.
The first major situation you will deal with is syntax terms. These terms will be tested this Friday.
The first homework assignment is on loose and periodical sentence structure and its impact on reading. This will be due on Tuesday.
The second assignment will be examining different aspects of style. That handout will be given in class on Tuesday and will only be made available via Snapgrades if needed. The due date will be Thursday.

Necklace-Ibis: The Grinch Has Arrived

Ahhh, I just got finished watching "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". Perfect timing.
We start Monday with The Necklace. Study questions will be available in class.
The text is available online as well. I have e-mailed the text to you.
This assignment is due Wednesday, November 19th. Use this link to help you with your work:
www.unc.edu/~getkara/The%20Necklace/Home.html

The vocabulary this week is the Figure of Speech list, which will be available online as well as in class. This will be tested on Friday, November 21st.

The Scarlet Ibis "boot camp" begins Wednesday. The study guide will not be available except via class.
The text will be sent to you via e-mail and also via Snapgrades. Please consult the NEW! planner, as this is an extensive assignment. More details will be revealed on this site.
There are no late days on these assignments, so stay on top of your work!!!

Short Story Unit Week 4: Bergeron

This is the calm before a light storm.
There will not be much in the way of homework as we gear up for the last two short stories that will take us to Thanksgiving.
The hardest part of the week is the Lesson 4 and 5 vocabulary tests from the SAT/ACT lists. These are not available online, so please be sure to have copies of these!
We will be working in-class on diagramming and also the Point of View handout.
Do not forget to be reading your book for independent reading. I will need a notecard announcing which book you are reading by Friday.

The Odyssey kicks into full gear

After turning in the summaries on Tuesday (Books I-IV, which not be available online), we shift our direction to Books V-VIII, where we will be going full force into the reading of The Odyssey.
We will read Books V-VIII (study questions available here) in class Wednesday (pp. 890-899), which is actually a fairly quick read.
In case students do not finish, there is a summary of these readings which were provided last week to you, but again these will not be available online. Please check to make sure you have the summaries and if you do not let me know ASAP, as I also do not have a digital version of these to e-mail you.
Books 9 and 10 study questions are available. See planner for due date.
DO NOT FORGET ACT/SAT vocabulary test #3, which is on Friday
Literary Terms Test (first page of handout) is Friday, October 3rd
Literary Terms Test (both pages of handout) is Thursday, October 9th