Assigned 5-20-14

 

Frankenstein, Chap. 24 Presentations and Questions

 

Properly Addressed Envelope

(6 points) 

 

Assigned 5-16-14

 

Frankenstein, Chaps. 22 and 23 Presentations and Questions

 

Personal Letter

(10 points)

Adhering to personal letter format, write a letter to yourself that will be mailed to you a year from now that does the following:

 

Clarify your current situation, experiences and concerns, culminating with a summary of Shelley's novel.

Clarify where you wish to find yourself a year from now.  What do you wish to have accomplished and acquired?

Assigned 5-16-14

 

Frankenstein, Chaps. 22 and 23 Presentations and Questions

 

Personal Letter

(10 points)

Adhering to personal letter format, write a letter to yourself that will be mailed to you a year from now that does the following:

 

Clarify your current situation, experiences and concerns, culminating with a summary of Shelley's novel.

Clarify where you wish to find yourself a year from now.  What do you wish to have accomplished and acquired?

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Frankenstein, Chap. 4

 

Vocabulary (3 points)

Choose and define 6 vocabulary.

Summary (3 points)

Develop paragraph.

Passages (6 points)

Quote 3 passages and discuss.

 

HOMEWORK:  read novel as much as possible if not completely.

Assigned 4-9-14

 

Frankenstein, Chap. 2

Vocabulary (3 points)

Choose and define 6.

Summary (3 points)

Paragraph summary.

Passages (6 points)

Quote 3 passages and discuss.

 

HOMEWORK:  read chap. 3

 

Assigned 4-7-14

 

Having and Raising a Child

(6 points) (due today)

Paragraph:  If you were able to have only one child, would it be a boy or girl?

                    How would you raise the child?

                    What would you want the child to have, know, learn and believe?

                    What would you want the child to be as an adult, accomplish?

 

Frankenstein Questions, pages 1-16.

Read pages 1- 16;

write and answer as fully as possible questions (see below attachment).

Assigned 4-3-14

 

 

A Perfect Day

(6 points) 

Paragraph:  Describe, clarify a 24 hour period that you would consider to be your ideal, "perfect day."

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"The Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Money"

(10 points) 

1.  Define and describe money. Discuss why money is necessary and important.

2. Clarify what Morrie says in the last paragraph of page 124 through the second paragraph of 125.

3.  Clarify what Morrie says in in the second paragraph of 126 through the second paragraph of 127.

4.  Clarify what Morries says in the the two middle paragraphs of page 128.

Assigned 3-25-14

 

"The Seventh Tuesday We Talk About the Fear of Aging"

(2 points)

1.  What are your thoughts on aging, getting old?

 

"The Sixth Tuesday We Talk About Emotions"

(4 points)

1.  Clarify what Morrie says in the last paragraph of page 103 through the first paragraph of page 104.  What do you think of what he says? Is it possible? Have you done this before?

 

2.  If reincarnation were a reality, what would you come back as and why?

(1 point)

 

"The Professor, Part Two"

(4 points)

Notes on Morries life experiences and the italicized section.

Assigned 3-21-14

 

"The Fifth Tuesday We Talk About Family"

Assigned 3-19-14

 

( 9 points) 

Identify the topic of discussion for the second, third and fourth Tuesday chapters.

For each chapter, copy/ quote a passage of significance.

Discuss the significance of each.

Assigned 3-17-14

 

Current Event/Incident

(4 points) 

Take notes on a current news event/incident (use internet).

 

"The Professor"

(4 points) 

Read pages 73-79 and take an approximate page of notes.

 

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Unit I:  Bring a Text You Like to Class (green reader)

Listen to "It's Like That" and "Where is the Love?" 

(see below attachments for lyrics)

 

Quickwrite 

(4 points) (due today)

Paragraph response on activity 2, page 21.

 

Reading Habits Survey 

(4 points) (due today)

Complete pages 22-24.

 

Read and Annotate

(4 points) (due today)

Pages 19-20

 

HOMEWORK:  bring in the song lyrics as a word document on a topic related to conversation chapters of Tuesdays with Morrie. (6 points)

 

 

 

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Review/Clarify Chap. 6 and 7 of Brave New World

 

Brave New World, Chap. 8 Questions

(10 points) (due today)

(see below attachment)

Assigned 2-6-14

 

Brave New World, Chaps. 6 and 7

 

Multiple-Paragraph Composition

(10 points) (due today)

Provide general background information on Native Americans;

State how Native Americans relate to the novel;

Identify the characters and the location that they journey to at the end of chapter 6 and chapter 7;

clarify, describe their experiences.

 

HOMEWORK:  read chaps. 8 and 9.

 

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Brave New World, Chap. 4 and 5 Review 

 

HOMEWORK:  read chapter 6 and at least part of chapter 7.

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Paragraph Composition in MLA Format 

(10 points) (due today)

Identify the character and the ritual that is presented in part 2 of chapter 5.

Clarify and describe this character's experience in this ritual.

Assigned 1-27-14

 

Brave New World, Chap. 3 Questions and Notes

(5 and 4 points)

Write and answer the following qusetions (see below attachment), and take notes on how society was created according to Mond.

 

HOMEWORK:  read chapters 4 and 5.

Assigned 1-23-14

 

Review Chapter 1 and 2, Brave New World.

 

HOMEWORK:  read chapter 3.

 

 

Assigned 1-21-14

 

Read aloud Chap. 1, Brave New World.

 

HOMEWORK:  finish reading chap. 1.

Assigned 1-16-14

 

Aldous Huxley Quotes (inter-net)

Assigned 1-14-14

 

Course Description

(see below attachment)

 

Issue Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

 

Aldous Huxley 

(4 points) (due today)

Read pages 261-264, and take notes (an approximate page).

 

Initial Thoughts on Novel

(3 points) (due today)

Read pages 265-268, and take notes (an approximate 1/2 page).

 

Chapter 1 Vocabulary

(5 points) (due no later than Tuesday)

Copy all 70 words, and for the word corresponding to your number, find and copy the sentence the word is used in from chap. 1.