English 3-4

Make some traction this weekend on your folktale!

Those of you who are editing Role of the Writer/Reader/Literature/Storytelling should bring your revised drafts to class on Monday. Please see me if you need an extension.

Read chapters 15, 16, and 17 and complete accompanying dialogue journals. Be ready for a quiz on Monday.

Folktales!

This week you will be working with partners to develop your own folktales.

We will listen to folktales, analyze folktales, write and illustrate folktales.

You should be finished with chapter 14 as well as accompanying dialogue journals.

By Monday you should have finished chapter 17. We will have a class discussion on chapters 14-16 on  Friday (we'll be reading 15 and 16 in class).

Monday

Read through chapter 14 in Things Fall Apart, and complete dialogue journals. There will be a quiz on Monday on chapters 10-14.

Thursday/Friday 10-4/10-5

Read chapters 8,9,10 and complete 1 page of dialogue journals for each. Remember, each dialogue journal should have 2-3 quotes and a response on the right side column. At the bottom of each page summarize the chapter in 2-3 sentences.

Homework Over the Break!

Read to the end of Chapter Six and complete dialogue journals for each chapter.

Periods 5,6

Finish annotating "The Body Ritual of the Nacerima" by Horace Miner. Due at the beginning of class.

HW:

Period 2: Finish Chapter 1 of Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe for class on Thursday.

Periods 6 and 7: None.