Homework for Thursday, February 3

• Hero’s Journey Terminology Quiz on Monday
• Ongoing: work on Mythology Notebook

 

Connotation/Denotation @ Mrs. Dowling's Literature Terms

Hello Students!

Please read through this webpage. Then respond to the 10 questions on a separate piece of paper (you may type if you choose). Then print out the practice quiz at the bottom of the page and complete the quiz.

Do NOT complete any of these activities online - that will send the results to Mrs. Dowling, a teacher in Virginia who certainly has no idea who you are!

Myths of Creation assignment

• In addition to the Greek myth of creation which we read in class, please read three additional myths, choosing from the selection below.
• Create a table comparing the mythological elements of the four myths. I have included a link clarifying the elements common to many myths of creation - you may use it as a reference to create your table.
• You will enter this table into your mythology notebook. You may want to keep the table on a separate sheet for now, until you decide how you want to put together your notebook. Inn any case, this assignment will be in the Quickwrites section of your notebook, so follow the guidelines for Quickwrites in the rubric (that is, the table must include the date of the assignment and be at least 3/4 of a page long). Make sure to title your work as well.

Elements of Creation Myths

Choose three of these myths:
Powatomi

Wichita

Odin and Ymir

 Kono Africa

Ancient China

And just for the sake of redundance, here is the Greek myth of creation once again:
Greece

1/05/11 Homework

Dear English 9 students,

 

I finally feel that I am over this horrid bug, so I am really looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! Hope you've been enjoying the movies ;-)

 

We are going to have to do a little catching up, but it shouldn't be too bad!

1.  On Friday, you will have a content quiz on the first three myths: Zeus, Hera, Athene. Please review those myths.
2. On Monday, you will have a vocab quiz on the Week One from the list that I posted to the blog the other day.
3. Please print out the following for your binders (literature section):   Myth Notecards

 That's all for now!
See you tomorrow ~
Dr. Fleming

1/03/11 Homework

Dear English students,

I have been pretty sick, but hope to be back on my feet tomorrow!

Please download the following document, which is our vocabulary for the next month. Learn the Week 1 list for the quiz next Monday. You will be required to be familiar with both the mythological reference and the modern usage.
Myth Vocab Weeks 1-4

Of course, your OMAM paper is due tomorrow. We will do some peer editing tomorrow, and the second draft will be due on Friday.

Tomorrow (I hope!!), we will also talk in general about mythology and why it is important to us today.

'Til then,
Dr. Fleming

OMAM Drafting a Thesis Statement

You will find more info about drafting thesis statements here.

OMAM Powerpoint Research Projects

Life for African Americans and Women in the 1930s
Mental Disabilities

John Steinbeck's Life

The Dust Bowl

The Migrant Experience

The Salinas Valley: Geography, History, Agriculture

The Great Depression

The Pulitzer Prize

Euthanasia

Study Skills Catch-up!

Dear Students,

If you scroll down, you will find the answer keys to packets #5 and #6, as well as to #7. I realized that I never put these answer keys up, but since there will be study skills questions on the final in January, you definitely want to correct your work!

Please correct packets #5 and #6 and turn them in to me by Monday, December 6.

Thank you!

Dr. Fleming

Study Skills Packet #7: Answer Key

Dear Students,

Here is the answer key to study skills packet #7:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BzL0G8D3R89uMWUzMTU1ZDktNWIwZi00ZmI5LTlmMDgtNzNlNjhkYzJiMDIy&hl=en&authkey=COeOx7cO

Be sure to use a red pen to receive full credit!

Have a lovely day,

Dr. Fleming

Study Skills Packet #6: Answer Key

Dear Students,

Here is the answer key to study skills packet #6:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BzL0G8D3R89uMThhOWZhM2EtOGYyMS00Njc3LWFmNTgtZDU3ZjljZGQxMWRi&hl=en&authkey=CJm46b8G

Be sure to use a red pen in order to receive full credit!

Have a great day,

Dr. Fleming

Study Skills Packet #5: Answer Key

Dear Students,

Here is the answer key to study skills packet #5:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BzL0G8D3R89uNTRkZGQyNWItNTg1Yy00MTQ3LWI2ZDQtMTBmNTA2MGRmYjQz&hl=en&authkey=CIzB-psI

Be sure to use a red pen for corrections in order to receive full credit!

Have a great day,

Dr. Fleming

Of Mice and Men PPT research project

Here are the topics for the research project:

1. Life of John Steinbeck


2. African Americans and women during the 1930's


3. Mercy Killing


4. Mental Disabilities


5. The Migrant Experience in the United States


6. The Great Depression


7. The Dust Bowl


8. The Pulitzer Prize


9. Geography, History, and Agriculture of the Salinas River Valley in California

Common Proofreading Symbols

Here is a link to the proofreading symbols used to edit your AIN.

Bookmark this link! I expect you to pay attention to the proofreading marks, as well as all of the other marks in the paper, and make ALL the changes indicated.

This will be the only way to improve the grade on your AIN.

Learning Styles

Take the following learning styles quiz, and when you get your results, copy/paste the link into an email and send it to hfleming@pleasanton.k12.ca.us.

http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
Make sure to enter your name in the field where it says "Full Name" - your results will not be stored anywhere, but if you do not put your name, I will not be able to give you credit!

Study Skills Packet #4: Answer Key

Dear Students,

Here is the answer key to the Study Skills Packet #4: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzL0G8D3R89uMzljNGExMmQtNzE0Ni00NWVhLWI1N2QtZDVkMDNkZmQwNmUx&hl=en&authkey=COrMqkw
Make sure to use a red pen for corrections! That way you will receive full credit.

Have a lovely weekend,

Dr. F

Study Skills Packet #3: Answer Key

Dear Students,

Here is the answer key:
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzL0G8D3R89uYmI2Yjc2ZDMtM2M3OC00ZDU1LWI0NTYtYzRkYWY5MDI3NGJl&hl=en&authkey=CKL68bMJ

AIN Outline

Dear English 9 Students:

Tonight you will create an outline for your Autobiographical Incident Narrative (AIN).
First, read all three pages at the Purdue OWL website here on "Developing an Outline": "Outline Components," "How to Outline," and "Types of Outlines."

• Then, create an Alphanumeric Outline using the notes and ideas you wrote down in class today. Make sure to group your ideas in a logical way, so that there is a "bare bones" structure of your future narrative composition.
• Include upper-case Roman numeral headings for an introduction and a conclusion, although you may not know what you will say in these parts of your paper yet. You should also have AT LEAST five upper-case Roman numeral headings for the body of your paper.
• Double-space your outline, and make sure that all of your indentations are even (all like headings should line up: all the upper-case Roman numerals, all the upper-case Latin letters, all the lower-case Roman numerals, and all the lower-case Latin letters should line up with each other, just like in this example)
• Check and correct your outline for parallelism, coordination, subordination, and division.
• Make sure your work is NEAT.

This outline is due tomorrow, and we will also edit your outline tomorrow.

Study Skills Packet #2: Answer Key

Here is the answer key for the SQRW packet:

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzL0G8D3R89uY2YyOGU0ZTQtMTc3My00Y2E5LWEwYTUtMzU4MTllYTdmYmM0&hl=en&authkey=COO53L8L

Verb Tense Practice

Here is the link to the three verb exercises that I showed you in class: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs11.htm

And here are the related tutorials: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfectcontinuous.html

Please make sure to work on the verb exercises until you get 100% without using the "hint" button!

Study Skills Packet #1: Answer Key

Click on the link to access the Answer Key.

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzL0G8D3R89uZmE0OWViMTEtMDNkNy00N2M4LWI2ZjUtMTU0YWRlMWYwZTY2&hl=en&authkey=CIXDhJ4P

Remember to make your corrections using a red pen!

Have a great weekend ~

Dr. F