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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Homework: September 18

Honors English 11 (C block)

  • Study for your vocab quiz! It's tomorrow.
  • Read and annotate "Reservation Mathematics" (click the link if you forgot your copy at school!). Make note of your OBSERVATIONS, QUESTIONS, and CONNECTIONS. We'll talk about the poem tomorrow in class. This work that we did in class today might be helpful: 

  • By next Thursday (sorry, folks, we don't have class next Friday, so Thursday it will be...), read the article "In the Shadow of Wounded Knee," mark it up as you read, and write a response using the 3-paragraph response format. I'll show you this in class, but if you want a little background information and some pictures, check out this site. You can access the text here, but there are also tabs to access some photos and audio from the Pine Ridge Reservation.
English 12 (E block)
  • Study for your vocab quiz! It's tomorrow. I'll also be asking you to check in about other content from this week.
  • Finish reading and marking up "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves."
Readers/Writers Workshop 8 (F block)
  • Finish up your two alternate beginnings for your narrative. Reread your original beginning, consider the two new ones, then decide which one you'd like to use for your narrative.
  • Start looking for a piece of writing that you think is strong. I'll want you to bring something in that you think represents good writing--a short story, article, poem, section of a book...
  • Read your independent reading book!
English 11 (G block)
  • Study your vocab! 
  • If you need to, finish up your response to the "Sherman Alexie Connections" assignment. Here's the prompt (click on it to enlarge it):

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