**Have a great vacation, everyone!**
Honors English 11 (B and F block)
- Make sure that by the time you return from break, you have read, in Strength in What Remains:
- Chapters 1-4: (take Cornell notes for Chapters 2-4)
- Chapter 5-7: Complete a double-entry notebook, where you choose 4 moments or quotations from each chapter, write them on the left, and respond to their significance on the right.
Honors English 12 (G block)
- For MONDAY, be prepared for book club (complete the Literature Circles handout.)
- For WEDNESDAY, make sure you've finished reading and marking up Frankenstein, chapters 6-10. Now that the creature exists (and Victor has essentially set him loose), what's going to happen next? What are the consequences of "ignoring" our problems?
English 11 (A block)
- Complete the handout for Serial, examining the denotation and connotation of the words. A reminder:
- DENOTATION is the definition of a word as it's given in the dictionary. (Ex. the sun is, according to vocabulary.com, "
the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
- CONNOTATION is the way the word makes us feel--it's the emotional response/connection the word gives. (Ex. for many people, the idea of the sun brings cheerfulness and happiness--that's the emotional response/connection).
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