Sophomore English!

You don't have homework over the weekend except to read for joy! Read something and tell us about it when you get back to class.

Your in-class analysis essays need to be finished during tutorial. (Period 6, I am giving you 20 more minutes in class on Monday).

HW: Period 2

Period 2, you should come to class prepared to write your essay on Friday. This may mean that you bring an outline, or a rough draft, anything that will help you write your final draft in class and complete it by the end of the period.

HW: Tues.1/Wed. 2

Period 2/6: Study for your figurative language quiz. If you did not typed up your two poems please scroll down for further instructions.

Period 7: Finish the connotation practice worksheet and bring completed to class on Wednesday. Be prepared for the figurative language quiz.

Summative Assessments for Figurative Language Unit

The following assignments represent the summation of your learning this unit. You will show that you understand and can apply figurative language as well as examine and analyze the effect of purposeful diction in a piece of writing.

1. You should have turned in your vignette and all of its accompanying drafts (was due 9/23)
This assignment shows your ability to apply figurative language to your writing.

2. Two typed, revised poems from your composition notebook. Due Monday 9/30

• Choose from your Alliterative Poem "Happiness Happens" (or other), your Onomatopoeia Poem, your "Ego-Tripping" Poem, or your "Directions" Second-Person Poem. 
• Each poem needs to be on a separate sheet of paper in a font that is legible and suits your poem. On this paper, do not use MLA formatting for you name. 
• Type your name to be on the sheet beneath the poem (no need to place my name or the period on the sheet this time). 
• The poems will be displayed on "Back to School Night" next week!

3. A figurative language quiz 10/1-10/2

4. An in-class essay (beginning (10/1 and 10/2) 

• The essay will examine the use and effect of figurative language on a short story by Gary Soto. In order to show what you know you will make strong notes in the margin, using the CARPE system of note making, followed by the creation of your essay. This will be completed in class.

Next week we move onto a unit entitled, "The Role of the Writer"

Homework Reminder!

Period 2: Finish Ego-Tripping entry in your composition notebooks. This should be as long as the length of your page. Also fill in the box on page 4.  Remember hyperbole is exaggeration to make a point.

Period 6/7: Finish "Directions" poem using second person. Remember that this should be at least as long as the length of one page in your composition notebook.

Period 6! Don't let me forget to collect "The Town Dump" by Wallace Stegner.

Due Monday the 23rd!

• Responses to the Wallace Stegner vignette "The Town Dump"
• Final Draft of the Vignette!
• Be ready to share part of your vignette with the class!

Over the Weekend HW: Sophomores

Over the weekend you will finish a draft of your Name Vignette, based on the Sandra Cisneros piece we read in class Thursday and Friday. Draft (typed) due Monday, 16th. (Final due on Monday the 23rd).

Remember your SSR books every day!