Class Assignments

Monday, June 14, 2010 11:00 AM

Parents

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6/14/10: Please read the important announcement on the Entrance page to this site.

Check below for the day-to-day class work, homework assignments and test dates.

View the class resource text, A Handbook to Literature, by William Harmon.  Previous editions of the book are acceptable.  Although I make available a link to a Web site of literary terms for those who do not purchase the book, I do recommend owning this comprehensive gathering of literary concepts and terminology.  This text has utility beyond this class, extending into the student's college years.

View the course syllabus and the English department's policies.

View the Back-to-School Night PowerPoint presentation.

View the California State Standards as taught in this course.

Read this insightful article from The Atlantic Monthly.  It examines some of the misperceptions of parents and students who anxiously commit to attending a top-tier university.

Here is another article focusing on parenting the gifted student.

Weekly Class Assignments

                                 for Honors World Literature

Major Assignment Note: Students will take a 184-point, cumulative final exam on this year's literary terms and a district semester final exam.

This week's final exams schedule:

Monday: Zero and first periods take their exams.

Tuesday: Zero and third periods take their exams.

Wednesday: Second period takes its exam.

Note: All must give me on the day of the final exam (last day in class) a typed or handwritten letter to an incoming sophomore.  This letter should be an evaluation of the class and instructor, as well as advice on how to best succeed in the course.  I will not hand you the exam until you have a letter for me.  Signatures are optional, but please place the letter in an envelope and seal it.

These are your final literary terms for the year.  Add them to all of the literary terms we have studied this year and know that at the end of second semester you will have a comprehensive exam on them.

Terms 141-151: symbolism, symposium, synopsis, theme, tract, tragic flaw, tragic irony, transcendentalism, travesty, verisimilitude and vignette.

Students will find the definitions to these terms in their Handbook to Literature.  If the student did not purchase this recommended text, these terms may be found on the link I provide on this site's main page at the bottom or by completing Internet searches.  You may also come to my room at lunch to copy definitions from my master list of literary terminology.  I assign five terms each week and after every four weeks, I test on all 20 terms on a matching format exam.  At the end of the year, our final exam will be on these literary terms and concepts.  I strongly recommend students create flashcards for the terms and study them with a parent or peer.

Honors-related online documents and lectures

Literary Lectures List

Active Reading Notes (ARN) Instructions

Making Stories Lecture

Lord of the Flies Lecture

Lord of the Flies Essay Requirements

Cry, the Beloved Country Lecture

Style Unit Essays Instructions

Style Unit: Mock AP Exam #1, Mock AP Exam #2.  If the text looks fuzzy, click on it, then click on the resizing icon to focus the writing.

The Fall Lecture

The Fall Collage

Antigone Lecture

Areas of Improvement in the Essay Checklist

Second Semester's--Persuasive Speech (be certain to follow these guidelines)

Persuasive Speech Evaluation Guide

The Research Paper Requirements

The Research Portfolio Requirements

The PowerPoint Lecture Requirements

PowerPoint Lecture Rubric

Independent Project Contract

Weekly Group Meeting Requirements

Creative Project Rubric

Weekly Class Assignments

                                    for Ethics in Action

Tuesday: Students take their final exam.

***Participate on this site's Speakers' Corner where you earn 1/2 of your class participation points; if you do not participate, your grade goes down; I add these points at the semester.***

View the course syllabus.