Elsinore High School
Skip to main contentEnglish 11 (Period 2) Assignments
- Instructor
- Mrs. Amy Parkinson
- Term
- 2018-2019 School Year
- Department
- English
- Description
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English 11 expands students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in alignment with Common Core State Standards. In addition, this course will provide extensive development of the writing process aligned with the Modern Language Association (MLA) format, critical literary response and analysis skills and cross-curricular study. Students will learn and perfect WICOR (Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading) strategies, including Socratic Seminars, Philosophical Chairs, close reading, and other strategies that promote rigor in order to support the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards.
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Due Friday 5/17/19: Choose groups & theme topics
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"The Battle with Mr. Covey"/"A Letter to His Former Master" packet (distributed in class on Mon. 5/6/19). Read & annotate. Then answer the questions on notebook paper. Due on Tues. 5/7/19.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Theme Log check for chapters 18-27 on Tuesday 5/7/19.
A quiz on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ch.1-27 on Tuesday 5/7/19.
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Journal Check for Journals #35-43 on Thursday 5/2/19. Click here for prompt slideshow.
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Mark Twain Research handout due Tues. 4/2/19.
Also read Pearson: American Literature workbook Vol. 2 pgs. 402-405. Annotate & be prepared to discuss this historical time period in class on Tues. 4/2/19.
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Final draft typed Gatsby American Dream Essay due on Fri. 3/22 shared to my email by 11:59 PM to be considered on time.
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Typed Rough Drafts of The Great Gatsby American Dream essay are due by the end of the period on Friday 3/15.
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Evidence Logs for your Great Gatsby Essay are due Tues. 3/12. You have to use The Great Gatsby as a source. You may directly quote, paraphrase, or summarize The Great Gatsby as evidence; however, all three methods require parenthetical citations. You may use any of the other sources I provided or research your own; you will need to parenthetically cite any direct quotation, paraphrase, or summary of these sources as well. If you research your own sources, be sure to write down the bibliographic information you would need to include on a works cited page; you will also have to parenthetically cite any direct quotation, paraphrase or summary of these sources.
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (students checked the novel out from Media Center)
Here is the essay prompt with the notes that we took when we analyzed the prompt & brainstormed topics in class on Thurs. 3/7/19.
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Mrs. Parkinson is absent today, Thursday 2/21.
Please complete Journal #17: click here for journal prompt slideshow.
Finish reading The Great Gatsby Chapter 8. Click here for audiobook.
Begin the worksheet Ch. 8: RIP Gatsby. Due at end of period TODAY 2/21/19.
Due Fri. 2/22: Journals #11-17!
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Read Ch 6 & complete Ch 6: GatsbyGram Activity. Remember that you need a sentence answer and a colored drawing for each text excerpt.
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The Great Gatsby ch. 5 stations completed in class. If you were absent, please see Mrs. Parkinson for the worksheets.
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The Great Gatsby Ch. 3 Vocabulary worksheet
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Read The Great Gatsby Ch. 3 and complete the worksheet.
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Journal #4 - Have you ever tried to impress someone by pretending to be someone or something you are not, either in person or in social media? Have you ever know someone else who did that? Describe what you (or someone else) did and why you (or someone else) did it. Was the deception discovered? What happened? Explain.
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Journal #5 - Watch the clip from Mean Girls. What are some characteristics of the exclusivity of the "Plastics"? What does Cady (Lindsay Lohan) have to change to be accepted into the group? Explain.
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Read The Great Gatsby ch. 2 & complete The Valley of Ashes & Daisy vs Myrtle worksheet.
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In small groups, students will become mini-experts on one historical context topic related to The Great Gatsby. They will research the topic & compile a final product to share out their expertise to their classmates.
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Read The Great Gatsby Ch. 1 & complete Character Report Cards worksheet.
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Please read the course syllabus with a parent/guardian. Sign it & have your parent/guardian sign it. Return it on Friday 1/18/19 for credit.
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Journal #1 - 1/15/19
Read "Burning the Old Year" by Naomi Shihab Nye. What part(s) of last year would "burn"? What part(s) of last year would "crackle"? Explain in a well developed paragraph. Journals will be checked weekly.
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One Word - 1/15/19
Choose one word that will motivate and inspire you throughout the year. On a half sheet of paper, write the one word & visually represent it. On the back of the paper, write your name and a paragraph about why you chose the word & how you will use it to motivate your actions. This is due on Friday 1/18/19.
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Gatsby vocab. for Ch. 1 & 2 was assigned on Wed. 1/16/19. Students will complete vocabulary words for The Great Gatsby ch. 1 & 2. On a piece of notebook paper, students should write down the word, the definition, and a visual representation (image to help you remember what the word means).
Ch. 1
supercilious
incredulously
imperatively
extemporizing
sedative
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contiguous
sensuously
vitality
interposed
disdain
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Journal #2 - 1/16/19
Write at least one well developed paragraph response to the attached journal prompt.
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Completed in class on Tuesday 12/11:
View the video "Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator." Then complete the worksheet on which you will analyze the rhetorical devices used in the speaker's argument. This will be due at the beginning of class on Wed. 12/12.