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Friday, February 1, 2013

Homework: February 1

Welcome to February...and welcome back, winter weather!

Honors English 11

  • We watched Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days on a Reservation in class today, to try to get a sense of some of the issues facing modern-day Native Americans. (It is available to stream on Netflix if you missed it today...it's season 3, episode 6 of the 30 Days series.) The information will be useful in our study of Sherman Alexie, even though Alexie did not grow up on the reservation Spurlock visited. 
  • For homework, please write a response:
    • Paragraph 1: Provide a summary of the episode.
    • Paragraph 2: Do a "reader response" of the episode...what did you think about? What resonates with you? (If you don't know what resonate means, click here!)
    • Paragraph 3: Make some connections between this text (30 Days) and the Alexie texts we've looked at so far.
English 12
  • Finish reading and annotating the excerpt from Room. You'll need to have completed it in order to complete a writing assignment on Monday.

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