Week of 9/5

English 9: Storytelling

Finish reading "The Most Dangerous Game"

Story Planning and Drafting

Homework: Story Map due Wednesday


English 10: Telling Our Stories

Read Mt. Everest narratives (Hillary and Norgay)

• Different perspective
• Compare and Contrast
• Imagery/Sensory Details
• Generating questions

Homework: Verb Tense Shift worksheet due Wednesday


English 11: Early American Literature

Finish "The History of Virginia" and "Of Plymouth Plantation"

• Objective versus subjective
• Identifying subjective bias in texts

Begin "The Declaration of Independence"

Homework: No homework this week

English 12: Anglo-Saxon Literature

Finish "Gilgamesh" and "the Iliad" excerpts

• Answer #1-3

Read "The History of the People and Church of England" (Bede)

• Answer #2-4

Homework: No homework this week