Christmas Break Reading

Here are some resources to help you with your reading assignment:

• Assignment page

• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Military terms defined by chapter
• Character list

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Vocab list by chapter sections
• Character list

• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Vocab list by chapter sections
• Character list

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Vocab list by chapter
• Character list

• Grendel by John Gardner
• Vocab list by chapter
• Character list

Friday

• 📚Semester Exam Study Guide📚 (PDF)
• 🤓Semester Exam Study Guide 🤓(Google Doc)
• 2A Exam = Thurs. 12/21/17
• 2A SNACKAPALOOZA List for Tues. 12/19/17
• 4A Exam = Tues. 12/19/17
• Practice test w/ answers
• In-class Assignment: Share the questions you wrote on the template for homework with me and a classmate so they can answer them to practice for the exam on Monday. Then, check the answers in the last column. There is a grade for writing the questions and another grade for answering with justification.
• Templates for ❄️  

Wednesday

• 📚Semester Exam Study Guide📚 (PDF)
• 🤓Semester Exam Study Guide 🤓(Google Doc)
• 2A Exam = Thurs. 12/21/17
• 2A SNACKAPALOOZA List for Tues. 12/19/17
• 4A Exam = Tues. 12/19/17
• 4A EXSNACKAGANZA list for Fri. 12/15/17
• Practice test w/ answers
• Review activity: Multiple choice question writing
• How to write good test questions
• In-class assignment: Write 10 good questions using the short stories we have read this semester and the terminology on the semester exam study guide.
• HW due Fri. 12/15/17: Download this template and type your 10 questions in the 2nd (purple) column. Share it with me by class time.

Monday

• 📚Semester Exam Study Guide📚 (PDF)
• 🤓Semester Exam Study Guide 🤓(Google Doc)
• 2A Exam: Thurs. 12/21/17
• 4A Exam: Tues. 12/19/17

• Short Fiction
• Discussion of fiction terms #38-55
• "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Discussion of setting and figurative language for the story
• Viewing / discussion of video representations of the story
• "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• HW due Wed. 12/13/17: Continue studying exam study guide. Bring copies of all short stories we have read this semester to class on Wed.

Thursday

Click image to see semester exam schedule.

• Winter Break Reading: Make sure you are working on making a selection and procuring your text for the assignment.

• Short Fiction Analysis: In-class assignment below 
1. IN PAIRS: 

• Discuss the annotations from your homework with "The Yellow Wallpaper" with a partner. Add any ideas that you learn from your partner.
• The sections of the plot that you identified and justified
• The sections you identified as key for characterization of the narrator.
• Make notes in the margin of the text about possible conflicts in the story. 

                           2. INDEPENDENTLY: 

• Add the definitions for Setting, Figurative Language, and Theme (#38-55) to your list of terminology. Use examples from "The Yellow Wallpaper" where possible, but you might need to include some of the other stories we have read in order to get good examples in your notes with the definitions.

• Think of a good interpretive question for "The Yellow Wallpaper". Post it on Google Classroom. Then, respond to two classmates' questions. I'm expecting that the responses will be a few sentences to a paragraph in length.

Tuesday

• Christmas Break Reading Assignment
• Over the break, you will read one of the books listed below. Your assignment will be to have a one-on-one, 10-15 minute conversation with me about the deep elements of the text in January. You can listen to me give an overview of each book here.
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin (see me for free copies)
• Grendel by John Gardner (check out in library or order on your own)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (see me for free copies)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (check out in library or order on your own)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (check out in library or order on your own)

• POW: Italian sonnet form
• In-class assignment: Read and work through a new Italian sonnet. Formulate either an observation about the poem to share with the class or ain interpretive question to ask the class. 

• Short Fiction: "A Day's Wait" by Ernest Hemingway
•  Discussion Questions turned in.
• HW due Thurs. 12/7/17:  Read "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Come to class with annotations for the following:
• Plot sections (justify the shifts)
• Characterization of the narrator 

Friday

• POW: 
• Discussion of Italian sonnet form and how it helps us understand this week's poem.
• 2A: "Read History" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 4A: Sonnet XV by John Barlas
• Short Fiction: "A Day's Wait" by Ernest Hemingway
• Assignment: Continued with Discussion Questions in groups. I collected the group papers. You are responsible for completing the questions you did not complete in class (either Wed. or Fri., depending on when you were last in class) and turn them in on Tues. 12/5/17.