Mr. Porter’s Class 4/24/06
Communications J – 6/7th Period

Homework Schedule for Animal Farm by George Orwell

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday/Weekend
April 24
Begin reading
25
(Book Fair day)
Chs. 1 & 2
26
Ch. 3
27
Ch 4.
28
Ch 5-6
May 1
Ch 7.
2
Ch 8
3
Ch 9
4
Ch 10
5


Instructions for completing homework: Read the assigned passages on the night indicated. After you have completed your reading, you have six options:

Write a summary of what you just read.
Pick a character and write an evaluation of what he or she did; do you agree/ understand their actions? Would you have done the same thing?
Compare what you just read to something that happened in your own life.
Compare what you just read to another book that you read.
Illustrate a scene from what you just read and write one sentence explaining your illustration.
Take a 3 question quiz the next day in class.

All homework will be graded with a check, a check plus, a check minus, or a zero.

Stay on the schedule regardless of days absent or other interruptions of our normal class schedule.

There will be a test on the novel when we complete it. Test date to be announced.

Please bring your novel to class every day as we will be reading from it and doing activities based on certain passages from time to time.

Mr. Porter’s Class 4/24/06
Communications J – 1st Period

Homework Schedule for The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday/Weekend
April 24
Begin reading
25
(ASC speeches)
26
(Book Fair day)
Complete to p. 78.
27
pp. 79 – 96
28
pp. 97 - 130
May 1
pp. 130 - 151
2
pp. 152- 176
3
pp. 176-197
4
pp. 198-end
5


Instructions for completing homework: Read the assigned passages on the night indicated. After you have completed your reading, you have six options:

Write a summary of what you just read.
Pick a character and write an evaluation of what he or she did; do you agree/ understand their actions? Would you have done the same thing?
Compare what you just read to something that happened in your own life.
Compare what you just read to another book that you read.
Illustrate a scene from what you just read and write one sentence explaining your illustration.
Take a 3 question quiz the next day in class.

All homework will be graded with a check, a check plus, a check minus, or a zero.

Stay on the schedule regardless of days absent or other interruptions of our normal class schedule.

There will be a test on the novel when we complete it. Test date to be announced.

Please bring your novel to class every day as we will be reading from it and doing activities based on certain passages from time to time.

Homework due Fri 4/21
J classes -- finish reading the article on Susan B. Anthony, answer 10 of the 15 questions on p. 365

Homework due Tues 4/18 -- VOCAB!
J-Unit 22, p. 143, ex 1-4
K-Unit 20, p. 129, ex 1-4
L-Unit 16, p. 101, ex 1-4

Homework due Tues 4/4

1st period -- read the next section of Speak, to p. 92. 3-question quiz tomorrow.
2nd period -- vocab -- Unit 14, p 87
4th period -- vocab -- Unit 19, p. 121
6/7th period -- read The Notebook to p. 106. 3 -uestion quiz tomorrow
10th period -- read Animal Farm chapters 3-4. 3-question quiz tomorrow