Homework due Tues 1/22
Juniors: Extra credit essay for The Things They Carried
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Monday, January 07, 2008
Homework schedule for Juniors reading The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien:
1/4 - 6 p. 1-38
1/7 p. 39-66
1/8 p. 66-88
1/9 p.89-116
1/10 p.117-136
1/11-13 p. 137-161
1/14 p. 162-180
1/15 p. 181-188
1/16 p. 189-218
1/17 p. 219-end
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 complete sentence explaining your illustration.
Take a 3 question quiz the next day in class.
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. 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.
1/4 - 6 p. 1-38
1/7 p. 39-66
1/8 p. 66-88
1/9 p.89-116
1/10 p.117-136
1/11-13 p. 137-161
1/14 p. 162-180
1/15 p. 181-188
1/16 p. 189-218
1/17 p. 219-end
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 complete sentence explaining your illustration.
Take a 3 question quiz the next day in class.
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. 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.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Homework schedule for Freshmen: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
1/2 p. 3-24
1/3 p. 24-46
1/4-6 p. 49-68
1/7 p. 69-92
1/8 p. 95-118
1/9 p. 118-137
1/10 p. 141-165
1/11-13 p. 165 - end
Instructions for completing homework: Read the assigned chapter(s) 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 complete 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 schedule regardless of days absent or other interruptions in our normal schedule. Bring your book to class each day.
Tentatively, our test on Speak will be Thurs 1/17.
1/2 p. 3-24
1/3 p. 24-46
1/4-6 p. 49-68
1/7 p. 69-92
1/8 p. 95-118
1/9 p. 118-137
1/10 p. 141-165
1/11-13 p. 165 - end
Instructions for completing homework: Read the assigned chapter(s) 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 complete 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 schedule regardless of days absent or other interruptions in our normal schedule. Bring your book to class each day.
Tentatively, our test on Speak will be Thurs 1/17.
