Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving, what 'cha thankful for?

Here's to keeping homework light and easy over long weekends!!!

Socials 11

Activities on p 105: all

English 12

Ch 8 & questions 1984

English 11

Study for vocab quiz upon your return.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

"Hump" Day

Drama 9

  • That's a wrap! "Cast party" tomorrow, bring your good games and your fun food.
  • Bonus assignment due tomorrow (oral interpretation)

Socials 11

  • See you a week from today: do all Activities in Ch. 5 p. 105
  • Create a propaganda poster for a current cause you support. This is not a WWII poster nor an advertisement to sell something. Review the definition of propaganda for help.

English 12

  • Finish finding all of the literary devices for "Military Historian": Irony, Caesura, Personificaiton, Allusion, Enjambment, Simile, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Imagery, Consonance, Metaphor.
  • Answer the following question (1/2 page, single-spaced paragraph):

Show several instances (at least two) where Orwell foreshadows Winston's fatal outcome by what he says and does (or that, Winston is self-destructive) in the first half of 1984. Incorporate quotes as supporting evidence.

  • Get your permission form signed and returned.

English 11

  • "Speech, Speech!!"

Monday, October 4, 2010

Monday of a short week, it's not all bad!

Drama 9
  • Bonus alert! Do a oral interpretation of any of the four poems at the end of the textbook for 1% bonus on report card.
  • Performance plays tomorrow.

Socials 11

  • Chapter 4 test tomorrow. /30

English 12

  • Read The Lonliness of the Military Historian for class discussion tomorrow.
  • Read Ch. 7 of 1984 and answer questions.

English 11

  • Speech due Wednesday!!!
  • How's that 'no complaining' thing going?

Friday, October 1, 2010

Friday, the Good!

Drama 9
Remember your lines, next Tuesday is performance date!


Socials 11
No HW but test on Tuesday, consider some light review.


English 12
Finish reading Ch.4 and read Ch. 5 for the weekend...as always complete the questions that follow.


English 11
I recommend reviewing the long list of vocab terms that come out of "Do Seek their Meat From God" as we will read it on Monday.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Back in Black!

Drama 9


-Final performance Oct 5.
-Be ready for "Christmas Rush" to start tomorrow's class.



Socials 11

-Answer the three questions on the board (unemployment and best country)
-Answer 1-3 on p. 90



English 12
-Finish reading "Omelas" and complete your journal for "Peace"


English 11
-Study vocab for quiz tomorrow.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Today you were a part of the democratic process!

Drama 9
Keep memorizing. Final performance Oct. 5th.


Socials 11
Begin Ch. 4 and answer # 1,2 of Activities on p. 79.


English 12
Read Chapter 2 and answer questions of 1984.
Be ready to discuss Peace found in your textbook p. 743


English 11
Reread King's speech and identity aspects of his speech that make it superior. Write these aspects out on lined paper.
Identity speech due October 6

Monday, September 27, 2010

Muggy Monday

Drama 9
Your final performances are on October 5th. Continue memorizing your lines.



Socials 11
Ch. 3 test tomorrow /50
matching names, M.C., vocab/terms, a paragraph response (choose one of two)



English 12
Read and answer questions for Ch. 1 of Pt. II of 1984.
Read "Peace" on p. 743 of your textbook.




English 11
Read "Sunday in the Park"

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