3 January 2011

English 12 CP (Word of the Day:  fractious)
Period 6  Welcome back and Happy New Year, everyone!  I hope you are all well rested because there is much to be done in the next few weeks.
*For starters, tomorrow (1-4-11), there will be a quiz on the Renaissance, pastoral poetry, and carpe diem poems.
*Also, tomorrow, your sonnets in the style of Shakespeare's Sonnet #18 are due.
*On Wednesday, 1-5-11, there will be a vocabulary quiz; please know the words from precipice to prevaricate (the words in between are:  burnish, cantankerous, exhaustive, lethargic, decry, euphonic, troglodyte, redoubtable, extrapolate, and fractious).
*Friday, 1-7-11, there will be an assessment on your outside reading books -- 10 short-answer, basic questions about your books.

You should also be working on the rough draft of your research paper which is due Friday, 1-14-11.  Writing two or three paragraphs every night will surely lighten the burden of this arduous task.  DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE NIGHT BEFORE TO TRY TO WRITE 7 PAGES!

English 10 CP
Periods 1 and 4  Welcome back and Happy New Year, everyone!  Right now, both classes are working on writing memoirs in the style of Truman Capote.  Rough drafts are due this week for peer editing.  Please remember that this assignment is for your portfolio.

In addition, there are new vocabulary words.  Homework due tomorrow, Tuesday, 1-4-11>Using 8-10 vocabulary words, write a paragraph which includes all 5 of the verbs in this group of words.

Have a great evening...see you tomorrow.