Current Assignments/Class Work

English 9 The Odyssey

Work collected last week:

• Epic Hero Cycle Chart
• Heroic Qualities Chart
• Part 1 Summaries

This week:

• Capitalization review and worksheet
• Test review
• Begin Epic Hero essay
• Test Friday

English 10 The Anthem

• The Anthem Study guides due this week
• The Anthem extension writing activities
• Test prep vocabulary assignment
• Apostrophe usage review and worksheet

English 11

• Characterization in novel study
• Novel reading (study guides/vocab sheets/quizzes)
• Benchmark test questions review
• Reading quiz #2

*Students reading To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, or The Grapes of Wrath must be reading at home

Current Assignments/Class Work

English 9

The Perfect Paragraph (Topic Sentence Worksheet)
The Odyssey Part 1 Ship's Log (one-page first person narrative)

*Classes will begin reading Part 2 this week

English 10 The Anthem

Chapter 1 (Questions 1 and 2)
Chapter 2 (Questions 1,3,5,6)

*English 10B Socratic Seminar Tuesday

English 11

Of Mice and Men

• Chapter 1 vocabulary
• Chapters 1 and 2 study guides

To Kill a Mockingbird

• Chapters 1-3 vocabulary
• Chapters 1-3 study guide
• English 11B chapters 4-7 study guide

The Great Gatsby

• Chapter 1 and 2 vocabulary
• Chapters 1-3 study guide

Current Assignments/Class Work

English 9:

The Odyssey Part I

• Page 1004 5a, 6a, 6b
• The Epic Hero Cycle (handout)
• Odysseus' heroic qualities/human weaknesses (handout)
• Continue summarizing after daily reading
• Mapping Odysseus' quest (handout)
• Reading quiz Friday

English 10:

"There Will Come Soft Rains"

• Study guide questions (short story comprehension)
• In class questions (irony/theme)
• Paragraph explaining theme of Bradbury's short story

The Anthem

• Author background
• Vocabulary
• Major Works Data Sheet (10B only)
• Chapter comprehension questions

English 11

Literature Circle Roles

• "Dust Tracks on the Road" reading (perform job as you read)
• Reading quiz
• Subgroup meeting/Reading group meeting
• Literature roles graphic organizer
• Novel selection (Of Mice and Men/To Kill a Mockingbird/The Great Gatsby)