English Connections 5/6 (Period 1) Assignments

• Continue to work on your Final Project display board
• Write the letter and journal entry for Mrs. G to check on Monday.

• Work on Project parts

• Work on your final project (letter, journal, photos, memento, etc)

• Work on JAI Project parts

• fill out the Project Planning worksheet (all parts) for your Japanese American Internment final project

• Take the AR test on our Japanese American Internment book
  • Find the AR website on the library website https://hosted91.renlearn.com/297094/
  • Username is your student ID #; password is "learn"

• Start work on Final Project: choose identity, photos; make decisions about letter, journal, etc.

• Finish Myon Chapter 9; take end-of-book Test
• Finish notes; bring notebook to turn in for extra credit

• Complete Myon Book Ch 8 reading and notes

• Finish Myon book Chapter 7 reading and notes (quiz on Monday(

• No homework. 

• Complete the See-Think-Wonder assignment on internet research on Camp Harmony

• Finish reading "Camp Harmony" short story.

• Myon book Chapter 6 reading and notes

• Myon book Chapter 5 reading and notes

• Read Chapter 4 of JAI and take notes.  

• Complete Myon book Ch 3 reading and notes

• Copy Myon book Chapter 1 notes into booklet
• Listen to/read Chapter 2
• Write down vocab/take notes on Chapter 2

• Reread Myon book Chapter 1 (no audio).  List new words and take notes on notebook paper.

• Finish watching video of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnQ_6h3VtRo

• Finish essay self-checklist and final revision of essay.  Bring all parts of the process to submit with your essay.

• Continue to revise your Comparison-Contrast essay

• Finish concluding paragraph and Works Cited page of essay; bring first full draft printed out 

• Finish the second half of the body of your comparison-contrast essay.

• Finish the first half of your body paragraphs for your Comparison-Contrast essay.  Include lots of details from both stories.  Print a copy before class.

• Revise essay outline
• Start introductory paragraph (finish in class tomorrow)

• Fill out the outline for the Comparison-Contrast Essay

• Finish filling out the T-chart on similarities and differences between Roll of Thunder and To Kill a Mockingbird

• Review and practice for Mise-en-Scene presentation in class.

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• HAPPY EASTER!

• Continue to work on Mise-en-Scene frame analysis.  Due Wednesday.  Please share your PowerPoint with my by the beginning of class on Wednesday.  Presentations will be on Thursday (or next week, if necessary).

• Choose a frame (picture of a scene) from a movie. Print your image.  (Tomorrow in class I will give you an assignment for you to analyze the 5 elements of mise-en-scene from the frame.)

• Complete TKAMB research on The Great Depression in the South and The Scottsboro Boys Trial

• Design a new cover for ROT.  Include the entire title and author's name on the front cover.  On the back cover, write a paragraph to get the reader's interest and write a quotation from a (fake) critic.
• Use the white sheet of paper handed out in class.

• Start worksheets on Character Development

• Finish ROT Plot Organization Map (put the 14 plot points on p. 47 on the narrative arc chart on p. 48)
• Review ROT Ch 10-12 vocab for rest of test tomorrow

• Finish ROT Ch 11 worksheet
• Read ROT Ch 12 (to end!)
• Finish ROT Ch 12 worksheet (front page)
• Review vocab for Test on ROT Ch 10-12

• Finish reading ROT Chapter 11.  (worksheet in class tomorrow)

• Finish ROT Vocab Ch 10-12 Worksheets

• Complete ROT Ch 10 worksheet

• Read ROT Ch 10
• Review ROT Ch 7-9 summary and vocab for Test on Tuesday

• Finish ROT Ch 9 reading and worksheet (front only)

• Vocab worksheet for ROT Chapters 7, 8, 9
• Finish Ch 8 worksheet

• Finish ROT Chapter 8 reading (do worksheet in class tomorrow)

• Finish ROT Chapter 7 reading and worksheet

• Start reading ROT Ch 7

• Finish reading Ch 6 and complete Ch 6 worksheet
• Review Ch 4-6 for Quiz tomorrow

• Finish ROT Ch 4, 5, 6 Vocab worksheets
• Finish ROT Ch 5 brown worksheet

• Finish reading ROT Chapter 5
• Do Chapter 5 worksheet
• Fill out Vocab Worksheet for Ch 4, 5 (due Tuesday)

• Read 1/2 ROT Ch 5

• Finish ROT Chapter 4
• Finish worksheet

• Continue reading ROT Ch 4 (due Thursday)
• Type (MLA style) 1-page paper answering the 3 questions on the bottom of the brown page entitled "What do you think about discrimination?"  Print at home or before class.
  • If you discriminated against another person: What happened? Did you realize you were judging unfairly? What did you do? How do you feel about it now?
  • If you were discriminated against: What happened? What did you do? Have you seen the person/people since? How do you feel about it now?
  • Using your experience and the situations in Roll of Thunder as a reference, explain why you think people discriminate against others.  What can each of us do to keep this from happening?

• Review Ch 1-3 vocab (orange sheets) and story for Quiz tomorrow
• Read 1/2 ROT Ch 4

• Finish reading ROT Chapter 3
• Finish ROT Ch 3 Worksheet

• ROT Ch 3 Vocab Worksheet
• Read ROT Ch 3 pp. 42-52

• Finish ROT Ch 2 Vocabulary Worksheet
• Read ROT Ch 3 (due Friday)

• Finish filling out vocab worksheet (orange paper) with parts of speech, other word forms and example sentences for each of the 8 vocab words given in class. 
• Bring your book tomorrow to start reading.

• Test on A Christmas Carol.  Review from the study guide, past quizzes and study questions.
• Revise Stave 4-5 Study Questions.  Due on Friday.

• Complete Stave 3 Study Questions
• Read 1st half of Stave 4:  pp. 63-70 (Ben: 61-67a)

• Finish Stave 2 study questions
• Read 1st half of Stave 3 pp. 39-51 (Ben: pp. 43-53a)

• Read 2nd half of Stave 2 pp. 30-38 (Ben:  pp. 34b-41)
• Start Stave 2 Study Questions (due Friday)

• Finish Stave 1 study questions (green handout)
• Read the first half of Stave 2 pp. 21-29 (Ben: pp. 27-34a)

• Read about Victorian England on the following website.  Read about Victorian cities, Victorian workers and Charles Dickens.

• Upload your Outsiders paragraph to Turnitin.

• Rewrite Outsiders thematic statements (on back of Written Test handed back in class today) for 1/2 points back.
• Enroll in the English Connections 5-6 class on Turnitin (Class ID:  19721008; Enrolment Key: staygold)
• Type your Outsiders paragraph in Office 365 Word to upload to Turnitin.  We will upload in class tomorrow.

• Revise Outsiders Ch 10-12 study questions.
• Review study questions for Test tomorrow.

• Finish The Outsiders (chapters 10-12)
• Answer the study questions for Chapters 10-12 on OneNote.

• Revise you answers for Ch 7-9 questions
• Start reading Outsiders Ch 10-12

• Finish reading The Outsiders Ch 7-9
• Answer the study questions on One Note 

• Write answers for "Nothing Gold Can Stay" worksheet #3, 4, 6, 7, 8.
• Read Outsiders Chapter 7-8.
• Work on Outsiders Chapter 7-8 vocab (due Friday)

• Revise answers for Study Guide questions on Ch 5 & 6.
• Memorize and practice "Fire and Ice" for recitation redo tomorrow.

• Finish reading The Outsiders Ch 5 & 6.
• Answer the study questions for Ch 5 & 6 on OneNote.
• Memorize "Fire and Ice" to recite on Monday in class.

• Write about the connection between The Outsiders and the poem "Fire and Ice."
• Finish Outsiders Vocab Ch 5-6 worksheet.

• Continue reading Outsiders Ch 5-6.
• Start work on Ch 5-6 vocab worksheet (due Friday 10/26).

• Revise answers to Outsiders Study Questions for Ch 3-4.
• Keep reading Ch 5-6.

• Revise answers to Outsiders Study Questions Ch 1-2.  
• Quiz in class on Wednesday on Ch 1-2.
• Read Ch 3-4 (5 pages per day) this week.

• Finish reading Ch 1-2 of The Outsiders
• Answer the study guide (discussion) questions in your Homework folder on OneNote.

Complete Outsiders Journal #3 in Paragraphs and Essays folder on OneNote:

Who is your hero?  Write an 8-10 sentence paragraph telling about him or her and why he or she is your hero.

• No new homework.  
• Hero's Journey and LWW as allegory Test next Monday, 9/24

• No new homework.  Continue on LWW as Christian allegory in class.

• Fill in the middle column of the LWW as Allegory chart.  Think of what Biblical character or event is being symbolized by each story part.
• Bring your Bible to class tomorrow.