Thursday, November 12, 2009
SAT Homework
Study your vocabulary from Week 4 and word list 2. Your example sentences for all of week 4's words and the words with the squares and circles next to them in word list 2 are due on Thursday (SAT 11) and Friday (SAT 12). I will give you a test over the words on the following week.
9th Grade Homework Assignments for 11/16-11/20
9A
DUE MONDAY (9A): Study for your comprehensive quiz over the words of the day (there should be about 14 of them) Read Appointment with Love and 1 Corinthians 13. Do the comprehension questions for Appointment with Love.
DUE TUESDAY: Read 'The Look' and do the comprehension questions for 'The Look'
DUE THURSDAY: Read The Cat and the Painkiller
DUE FRIDAY: Your poem poster project (see earlier post about this assignment) and the comprehension questions for The Cat and the Painkiller.
9B
DUE TUESDAY: Study for your quiz over the words of the day, read 1 Corinthians 13 and Appointment with Love and do the comprehension questions for Appointment with Love.
DUE WEDNESDAY: Read 'The Look' and do the comprehension questions for 'The Look'
DUE THURSDAY: Read The Cat and the Painkiller
DUE FRIDAY: Your poem poster project (see earlier post about this assignment) and the comprehension questions for The Cat and the Painkiller.
DUE MONDAY (9A): Study for your comprehensive quiz over the words of the day (there should be about 14 of them) Read Appointment with Love and 1 Corinthians 13. Do the comprehension questions for Appointment with Love.
DUE TUESDAY: Read 'The Look' and do the comprehension questions for 'The Look'
DUE THURSDAY: Read The Cat and the Painkiller
DUE FRIDAY: Your poem poster project (see earlier post about this assignment) and the comprehension questions for The Cat and the Painkiller.
9B
DUE TUESDAY: Study for your quiz over the words of the day, read 1 Corinthians 13 and Appointment with Love and do the comprehension questions for Appointment with Love.
DUE WEDNESDAY: Read 'The Look' and do the comprehension questions for 'The Look'
DUE THURSDAY: Read The Cat and the Painkiller
DUE FRIDAY: Your poem poster project (see earlier post about this assignment) and the comprehension questions for The Cat and the Painkiller.
10th Grade Homework Assignments for 11/16-11/20
10A and 10B
DUE MONDAY: You must read pages 226-229, you must write down the definitions of the different fixed poetic forms (haiku, limerick, cinquain, and figure poem) and you must do the comprehension questions for The Altar and Easter Wings.
Also, remember to copy down the comprehension question answers for 'That Time of Year' because we will be recording the scores on Monday.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will be working on The Altar and Easter Wings, so you won't have any actual homework due until Thursday. HOWEVER, on Monday, 11/23, I will be giving you a test over all the poems we have done since the midterm, SO you should use those evenings to study for your test.
DUE THURSDAY (10A) and FRIDAY (10B) read takes talent and To a Snowflake and do the comprehension questions for takes talent and To A Snowflake
Monday, 11/23: TEST: your test will be covering The Bells, Upon His Departure Hence, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, On the Grasshopper and Cricket, Sonnet LXXIII:That Time of Year, The Altar, Easter Wings, takes talent, and To a Snow-flake.
You must know the definitions of meter, foot, iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, spondee, monometer-octameter, Italian Sonnet, English Sonnet, Haiku, Limerick, Cinquain, Figure Poem, apostrophe, free verse, eye rhyme, euphony, cacophony, assonance, consonance, allliteration, repetition, refrain, simile, metaphor, imagery, ambiguity, tone, mood
The test will have three sections: a literary terms section, a comprehension question, and one passage identification/analysis. This test is covering poetry-- and I know poetry is hard for you so STUDY NOW, don't put it off until the night before.
Despite how this looks, I actually do love you! Have a good weekend.
DUE MONDAY: You must read pages 226-229, you must write down the definitions of the different fixed poetic forms (haiku, limerick, cinquain, and figure poem) and you must do the comprehension questions for The Altar and Easter Wings.
Also, remember to copy down the comprehension question answers for 'That Time of Year' because we will be recording the scores on Monday.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will be working on The Altar and Easter Wings, so you won't have any actual homework due until Thursday. HOWEVER, on Monday, 11/23, I will be giving you a test over all the poems we have done since the midterm, SO you should use those evenings to study for your test.
DUE THURSDAY (10A) and FRIDAY (10B) read takes talent and To a Snowflake and do the comprehension questions for takes talent and To A Snowflake
Monday, 11/23: TEST: your test will be covering The Bells, Upon His Departure Hence, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, On the Grasshopper and Cricket, Sonnet LXXIII:That Time of Year, The Altar, Easter Wings, takes talent, and To a Snow-flake.
You must know the definitions of meter, foot, iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, spondee, monometer-octameter, Italian Sonnet, English Sonnet, Haiku, Limerick, Cinquain, Figure Poem, apostrophe, free verse, eye rhyme, euphony, cacophony, assonance, consonance, allliteration, repetition, refrain, simile, metaphor, imagery, ambiguity, tone, mood
The test will have three sections: a literary terms section, a comprehension question, and one passage identification/analysis. This test is covering poetry-- and I know poetry is hard for you so STUDY NOW, don't put it off until the night before.
Despite how this looks, I actually do love you! Have a good weekend.
9th Grade Weekend Homework
Study your words of the day because we will have a big vocabulary quiz on Monday (9A) and Tuesday (9B)
Read 1 Corinthians 13 and 'Appointment with Love' in your textbook. It is on page 392 and 418-419. You must also do the comprehension questions for 'Appointment with Love.' These are due Monday and Tuesday.
You should also start to work on your poems. I will not give you any in class time to complete your poems.
Read 1 Corinthians 13 and 'Appointment with Love' in your textbook. It is on page 392 and 418-419. You must also do the comprehension questions for 'Appointment with Love.' These are due Monday and Tuesday.
You should also start to work on your poems. I will not give you any in class time to complete your poems.
9th Grade Poem Poster Assignment
DUE FRIDAY, 11/20
You must write a poem that is at least 15 lines long. This poem must be presented artistically on a poster or colored piece of paper. This poem must contain at least two of the poetic terms that I taught you, and these poetic terms must be used throughout the poem, not just in one line. In addition to that, your poem must have a clear and intentional theme.
Potential Poetic Terms: simile, personification, metaphor, symbol, apostrophe, rhyme, alliteration, repetition, theme, imagery, allusion, tone, mood
This assignment is worth 25 points.
I will be grading you on your spelling, grammar and length
Your use of poetic terms/figurative language throughout the poem
Your artistic and creative visual presentation of the poem.
Your poster must be bigger than an A4 piece of paper. It should be colorful. Its design should be related to the meaning of the poem.
You must write a poem that is at least 15 lines long. This poem must be presented artistically on a poster or colored piece of paper. This poem must contain at least two of the poetic terms that I taught you, and these poetic terms must be used throughout the poem, not just in one line. In addition to that, your poem must have a clear and intentional theme.
Potential Poetic Terms: simile, personification, metaphor, symbol, apostrophe, rhyme, alliteration, repetition, theme, imagery, allusion, tone, mood
This assignment is worth 25 points.
I will be grading you on your spelling, grammar and length
Your use of poetic terms/figurative language throughout the poem
Your artistic and creative visual presentation of the poem.
Your poster must be bigger than an A4 piece of paper. It should be colorful. Its design should be related to the meaning of the poem.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Study Guide for 9th Grade Test
I have posted the study guide for your test in the comments section of this post.
Sonnets for EPE
I will give ten EPE stamps to any person who can memorize any of these sonnets. There is no limit to how many you can memorize.
Sonnet XVIII
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
and summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet XCIV
They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces
And husband nature's riches from expensive;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
Sonnet CXVI: THIS IS MY FAVORITE ONE SO IF YOU MEMORIZE IT I WILL GIVE YOU 15 stamps for it.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Tim's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prove,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
These poems are by John Donne. They are also sonnets, so if you memorize them, I will give you EPE stickers for them as well.
Holy Sonnet X
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but they pictures be,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than they stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
Holy Sonnet XIV: THIS ONE IS ALSO MY FAVORITE, SO IF YOU MEMORIZE IT, I WILL GIVE YOU 15 stamps for it.
Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for, you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town, t'another due,
Labour to admit you, but oh, to no end,
Reason your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captiv'd, and proves me weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy:
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
This one is by Percy Bysshe Shelley. He was a poet from the Romantic period of English literature.
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert...Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Here is my favorite sonnet by Petrarch. If you memorize this poem, I will give you 15 EPE stickers.
Number 134- translated by Anthony Mortimer
I find no peace, and have no arms for war,
and fear and hope, and burn and yet I freeze,
and fly to heaven, lying on earth's floor,
and nothing hold, and all the world I seize.
My jailer opens not, nor locks the door,
nor binds me to her, nor will loose my ties;
Love kills me not, nor breaks the chains I wear,
nor wants me living, nor will grant me ease.
I have no tongue, and shout; eyeless, I see;
I long to perish, and I beg for aid;
I love another, and myself I hate.
Weeping, I laugh, I feed on misery,
by death and life so equally dismayed:
for you, my lady, am I in this state.
Sonnet XVIII
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
and summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet XCIV
They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces
And husband nature's riches from expensive;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
Sonnet CXVI: THIS IS MY FAVORITE ONE SO IF YOU MEMORIZE IT I WILL GIVE YOU 15 stamps for it.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Tim's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prove,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
These poems are by John Donne. They are also sonnets, so if you memorize them, I will give you EPE stickers for them as well.
Holy Sonnet X
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but they pictures be,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than they stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
Holy Sonnet XIV: THIS ONE IS ALSO MY FAVORITE, SO IF YOU MEMORIZE IT, I WILL GIVE YOU 15 stamps for it.
Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for, you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town, t'another due,
Labour to admit you, but oh, to no end,
Reason your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captiv'd, and proves me weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy:
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
This one is by Percy Bysshe Shelley. He was a poet from the Romantic period of English literature.
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert...Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Here is my favorite sonnet by Petrarch. If you memorize this poem, I will give you 15 EPE stickers.
Number 134- translated by Anthony Mortimer
I find no peace, and have no arms for war,
and fear and hope, and burn and yet I freeze,
and fly to heaven, lying on earth's floor,
and nothing hold, and all the world I seize.
My jailer opens not, nor locks the door,
nor binds me to her, nor will loose my ties;
Love kills me not, nor breaks the chains I wear,
nor wants me living, nor will grant me ease.
I have no tongue, and shout; eyeless, I see;
I long to perish, and I beg for aid;
I love another, and myself I hate.
Weeping, I laugh, I feed on misery,
by death and life so equally dismayed:
for you, my lady, am I in this state.
10th Grade Homework
In the comments section of the post, I have put the rest of the comprehension question answers for Sonnet LXXIII. You must copy them into your notes by Monday.
In addition to that, you must read pages 226-229 of your textbook, write down the definitions of the different poetic forms, and do the comprehension questions for 'The Altar' and 'Easter Wings'.
This is due Monday.
In addition to that, you must read pages 226-229 of your textbook, write down the definitions of the different poetic forms, and do the comprehension questions for 'The Altar' and 'Easter Wings'.
This is due Monday.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Answer to Question 7 for 'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening'
In the comments section of this post, I have put the answer to number 7 of 'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.' You must copy this down into your notes by tomorrow.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
9A Homework: Question Number 5 for Doubting Castle
In the comments section of this post, I have put the full answer to number 5. You must have this down in your notes by tomorrow.
11th Grade SAT Sentences
In the comments section of this post, I have put the rest of the words, definitions, and example sentences. It won't let me post up the Hangeul definitions. :(
Homework Assignments for 11/9-11/13
9A:
Due Tuesday: Composition Due: You must write an interpretation of the allegorical meaning of 'Doubting Castle.' Explain the story's personification and symbolism. It should be typed in 12 point font, 1.5 spacing, and it must contain all the necessary details.
Wednesday and Thursday: You must study for your test over the Faith, Hope, and Beauty Units.
Friday: Test.
In addition to that, I will be giving you a Poem Poster Project. This poster project will be due on Tuesday, 11/17.
9B: Due Tuesday: Your comprehension questions for 'Doubting Castle'
Due Wednesday: Composition due: You must write an interpretation of the allegorical meaning of "Doubting Castle." Explain the story's personfication and symbolism. It must be typed in 12 point font, with 1.5 spacing. It should contain all the necessary details.
Thursday: You will have in class study time to prepare for the test on Friday.
Friday: Test
In addition to that, I will be giving you a Poem Poster Project. This poster project will be due on Tuesday, 11/17.
10th Grade:
10A
Due Tuesday: Read 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' (222)and do the comprehension questions.
Due Wednesday: Read 'On the Grasshopper and the Cricket' (223) and do the comprehension questions.
Due Thursday: Read 'Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year' (225) and do the comprehension questions.
Due Monday: Read 'Easter Wings' and 'The Altar' (229) and do the comprehension questions.
10B:
Due Tuesday: Read 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' (222)and do the comprehension questions.
Due Wednesday: Read 'On the Grasshopper and the Cricket' (223) and do the comprehension questions.
Due Friday: Read 'Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year' (225) and do the comprehension questions.
Due Monday: Read 'The Altar' and 'Easter Wings' (229) and do the comprehension questions.
Due Tuesday: Composition Due: You must write an interpretation of the allegorical meaning of 'Doubting Castle.' Explain the story's personification and symbolism. It should be typed in 12 point font, 1.5 spacing, and it must contain all the necessary details.
Wednesday and Thursday: You must study for your test over the Faith, Hope, and Beauty Units.
Friday: Test.
In addition to that, I will be giving you a Poem Poster Project. This poster project will be due on Tuesday, 11/17.
9B: Due Tuesday: Your comprehension questions for 'Doubting Castle'
Due Wednesday: Composition due: You must write an interpretation of the allegorical meaning of "Doubting Castle." Explain the story's personfication and symbolism. It must be typed in 12 point font, with 1.5 spacing. It should contain all the necessary details.
Thursday: You will have in class study time to prepare for the test on Friday.
Friday: Test
In addition to that, I will be giving you a Poem Poster Project. This poster project will be due on Tuesday, 11/17.
10th Grade:
10A
Due Tuesday: Read 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' (222)and do the comprehension questions.
Due Wednesday: Read 'On the Grasshopper and the Cricket' (223) and do the comprehension questions.
Due Thursday: Read 'Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year' (225) and do the comprehension questions.
Due Monday: Read 'Easter Wings' and 'The Altar' (229) and do the comprehension questions.
10B:
Due Tuesday: Read 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' (222)and do the comprehension questions.
Due Wednesday: Read 'On the Grasshopper and the Cricket' (223) and do the comprehension questions.
Due Friday: Read 'Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year' (225) and do the comprehension questions.
Due Monday: Read 'The Altar' and 'Easter Wings' (229) and do the comprehension questions.
10th Grade Meter Quiz Tomorrow
You have a quiz over meter tomorrow. Don't worry about the words of the day.
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