English II at the Mount

1. Study for your Unit IV vocabulary quiz!  Utilize online resources, especially the website we looked over together in class: http://quizlet.com/6715632/sadlier-oxford-vocabulary-workshop-level-e-unit-4-flash-cards/

2. Your short stories will be due on Thursday (8th) and Friday (9th) of next week... you will get your drafts back next class, and may want to begin working on the final versions even before we've finished our in-class revisions.

3. Be prepared for a performance assessment on the w...
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DANES ONLY:

Study for your pronoun requiz on Wednesday.

EVERYONE:

"Show, Don't Tell Vocab."

In class, we talked about how effective writing "shows" the audience rather than "tells," using vivid imagery, dialogue, direct action, and interesting diction.  "Telling," on the other hand, is just making boring, straightforward factual statements, without creating a vivid image for the reader. 

Pick ten (10) vocab words from Unit IV (I recommend choosing words you struggle with -- give yourself extra...
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We read an interesting selection of short stories during Unit III, and I know plenty of you did some grumbling about a few of them ("In the Penal Colony," anyone?).  Well, it's time for you to prove that you're more than a match for Kurt Vonnegut or Franz Kafka... the last thing we'll be doing in Unit III is exploring the five-step writing process and writing our own short stories!

The five steps of the writing process are:

I - Invent (brainstorm, muse, dream, ponder, explore)
O - Organize (plan...
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Hi team,

Although generally I avoid giving extra credit for activities not directly related to what we're doing in English class, for the sake of ART I'm violating this principle and offering a small amount (3 quiz/test points) of extra credit for bringing in baked goods for the literary magazine's bake sale, which began today and will continue tomorrow and Friday!  We would love donations of any kind, and the money we raise will be used to defray the cost of printing the magazine.  The litera...
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1. Pronoun Review Worksheet (distributed in class)

2. Study for your pronoun quiz!

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1. Finish steps two and three of the Short Story Analysis Assignment.  This will help you study for your test!

2. Study for your test!

Resources:
1. "Richard Cory" (http://www.bartleby.com/104/45.html)
2. "Spark Notes" style write up on "In the Penal Colony" -- not perfect, but there are a lot of good thoughts in this article.  You might find the "themes" section particularly useful.  (http://www.shmoop.com/penal-colony/)
3. Unit III Study Guide --> Click on "Files" at the top of this web page, an...
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Complete all six items under "Step One" of the Short Story Analysis Assignment, handed out to you in class.

CP: "By the Waters of Babylon"
Pre-AP: "In the Penal Colony"

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1. a. Create a diagram of Prince Prospero's seven colored chambers, labeling each chamber with its color and a list of associations/connotations associated with that color. (story on pg. 495)
    b. Create a list of vivid images (words and phrases which appeal to the five senses and create "mental pictures" for a reader) that Poeuses in "The Masque of the Red Death" (story on pg. 495).  Be sure you note the page number!
    c. Create a list of interesting words which help create the mood of "Th...
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EVERYONE:

#1. Remember that the handouts for your group projects about analyzing elements of short stories must be emailed to me (or given to me in hard copy) by 7 AM on Wednesday morning!

#2. Waegmundings & Scyldings Only: Finish up your vocabulary sentences for Unit IV (first ten words).

#3. Short stories for next class by class...

DANES:

Read and annotate "By the Waters of Babylon" (textbook page 174).  Annotation includes:

• indicating important points;
• writing comments & questions;
• indicating unfa...

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