English II

You must reply to each of these questions with thoughtful and intellectual responses:
1. In your own words, what are human rights? Who should have them? What are the rights that every human should have?
2. Comment on how you perceived the altercation that Amir got himself into. What was it like? What did it show about him? How has he grown? What are your thoughts on his actions/reactions?

Week 14

ENG I

MEMOIR BOOK PROJECT

Remember you must complete this assignment in order to pass the first nine weeks. This project represents two test grades. It is broken down into several steps.
 
Memoir writing is a compilation of snapshot memories. Snapshot memories are fairly short and very specific.  Each memoir is rich in detail and description.  It differs from writing an autobiography, in which where you start with the day you were born and tell everything that has happened since then.  It also differs from a biography in that the person telling the story of the event is the person who actually experienced it, rather than someone observing the action.  In other words, there is no bias in the writing except that of the person who took part in the event.  An important part of memoir writing is the author's stated or implied message about why a memory is important enough to share.  In other words, it answers the question, "What difference does it make?"
 
We will be writing our own memoirs.  The "snapshot" memories you choose must be important enough to be shared with our class in order to strengthen our understanding of one another within our family!  They are memories you would want to pass down to generations.
 
We will write about the memoir subjects listed below in descriptive mode:
action verbs in the present tense, sensory detail, and figurative language.  You will bring the memory to life by writing about it in "real time," as if you are in the moment.

Categories
♦ "Where I grew up" stories
♦ Love stories (first love, true love, end of love, etc.)
♦ Pain stories (someone hurt you, argument with best friend or parents, etc.)
♦ First day of school stories
♦ Rites of passage/realizing you are growing up stories
♦ Weather stories (tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, etc.)
♦ Holiday Stories (traditions, memorable ones, when you found out there was no Santa
Claus, etc.)
♦ Physical Hurt stories (broken bones, stitches, surgeries, bee stings, etc.)
♦ First-time-I... stories  
♦ Funny family stories (Those your mother always tells at gatherings.)
♦ "Caught ya'!" stories (lying, cheating, writing a love letter, etc.)
 

How to Get Started

We will start by free writing in our journals, looking at examples of memoirs, and talking about the importance of memories.  We will then draft, create a hook, peer edit, and conference with me. We will present the memoir to the class aloud, and then prepare the final draft to be published in a class book. You can visit Mrs. Warren's website to read books from previous classes.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS TO THE WRITING PROCESS:
• Turn in all drafts of each piece
• Staple all peer and self editing and revision sheets to the entries with which they correspond
• Organize drafts and editing/revision forms in the order
The final draft must be four pages long, present tense, free of mistakes, and appropriate for school.

Weeks 6-8

English I: 1st Block

English I: 4th Block

English II: Cramming Conventions and Basics for the Writing Test!

Weeks 4-5

English I: 1st Block

English II: 3rd Block

English I: 4th Block

Weeks 1 - 3: Spring 2010

1st Block: English I

3rd Block: English II A & B

4th Block: Honors English I

English I Vocabulary: List: This will last you all semester!

English I Syllabus

Closing of Fall Semester

English I: End of Course Schedule 1st Block and 4th Block

English II - B: End of Semester Schedule

Fall 2009 - 2010 Exam Schedule

December 7 - 11

English I

English II

The Iliad:

Tutoring will be Tuesday and Thursday of this week.

November 30 - December 4

English I
- Wednesday's Assignment


English II

Tutoring will be made available on Tuesdays and Thursdays


Key Club: General Meeting (Dec 2) and Kiwanis Meeting (Dec 3)


Think Pink Game: December 2

PAC November 16, 2009

Welcome to The 21st Century!

Today we will take a quick journey through some of the components of technology at South Brunswich High School! Several of us have been blessed to be provided with the 21st Century Carts you see here. We all use them in different ways relative to our own teaching styles and content areas, but we all share in the excitement of sharing this knowledge and accepsability with our students! What I will show you today is an overview of techniques I consider to be applicable across the curriculum!

Online Stopwatch

English II Vocabulary

Technology Poem

I Am Poem

Unity Poem

Polls Everywhere