September 19--30

ALABAMA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION EXAM THIS WEEK

I HAVE THE BEST STUDENTS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ENGLISH 9 HONORS

This is the link for the vocabulary words of Fahrenheit 451

http://quizlet.com/6585117/fahrenheit-451-flash-cards/

AP LANGUAGE AND COMP
We will begin Rhetorical analysis this week.
We will learn to break down prompts and passages.

ENGLISH 11

This week we will begin a literary analysis of The Great Gatsby
English 11
1A Read the first four chapters of The Great Gatsby. You will have a quiz over the reading. In your literature book read pp. 695-696 Read the excerpt on F. Scott Fitzgerald.

SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER:

"Fitzgerald's young men go east even as far as Europe; they are in quest not of art and experience, but of an even more ultimate innocence, AN ABSOLUTE AMERICA: a happy ending complete with new car, big house, money, and the GIRL."(Tredell, 1997).

"To understand the unity of The Great Gatsby we must first recognize that its primary subject is the growth of awareness. The awareness belongs to the narrator, Nick Carraway, who not only enjoys the advantage of distance in time from the events he relates, but even at the scene of their unfolding has been more of a perceiver than a participant. It is significant that his retrospections are never so concerned with what he did as with what he saw." (Tredell, 1997).

• We will also compare and contrast the characteristics of Realism and Modernism
• We will look for the characteristics of Modernism in T. S. Eliot's classic poem "J. Alfred Prufrock"
• YOUR HOME WORK FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT WILL BE QUESTIONS 1-15 ON PAGE 663

FRENCH
We will begin chapter 2 section 2.2 we will be working with French adverbs of frequency and adverbs of manner to talk about how often you doing something and how well you do something. The link to quizlet for your vocabulary work is below:

http://quizlet.com/1323272/bien-dit-1-ch-22-flash-cards/
Additionally we will learn about contractions in French and how to form these parts of speech, as well as French conjunctions. See you in class!

French verb busters link:
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/french/verbbuster/VerbBusterindex.htm

HOMEWORK ALERT!!!!
CHAPITRE 2 exercises 23, 25, 27, 28, 29

MYTH AND LEGEND
We will continue our work with Edith Hamilton's Mythology
I will be showing you documentaries from the History Channel on the Olympian gods and goddesses, as well as the monsters and heroes.Here is a link where you can practice the vocabulary from the book: http://quizlet.com/3731050/edith-hamiltons-mythology-flash-cards/
You should read from The Earliest Heroes to through the Quest of the Golden Fleece.
Be prepared for a reading check over the material.

September 12-16

English 9 Honors
Test Tuesday  September 13th
covering 3 short stories--"Initiation," "The Most Dangerous Game," "A Christmas Memory."  Your test will cover literary elements and how these devices are used within the text, as well as the VOCABULARY from these selections.
Bring Fahrenheit 451to every class next week.


AP Language and Composition
Complete AP Multiple Choice debriefing
Take AP Multiple Choice test for The Adventures Huckleberry Finn
Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis
Exercises for Rhetorical Analysis
PREP SESSION SATURDAY--SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

ENGLISH 11
The Lost Generation  
The years immediately after World War I brought a highly vocal rebellion against established social, sexual, and aesthetic conventions and a vigorous attempt to establish new values. Young artists flocked to Greenwich Village, Chicago, and San Francisco, determined to protest and intent on making a new art. Others went to Europe, living mostly in Paris as expatriates. They willingly accepted the name given them by Gertrude Stein: the lost generation. Out of their disillusion and rejection, the writers built a new literature, impressive in the glittering 1920s and the years that followed.

Romantic clichés were abandoned for extreme realism or for complex symbolism and created myth. Language grew so frank that there were bitter quarrels over censorship, as in the troubles about James Branch Cabell's Jurgen (1919) and-much more notably-Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (1931). The influences of new psychology and of Marxian social theory were also very strong. Out of this highly active boiling of new ideas and new forms came writers of recognizable stature in the world, among them Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, and E. E. Cummings.
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This week we will begin the THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This link is to University of South Carolina where you will find a brief life of Fitzgerald    http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html
Reading quizzes will be given this week to check for reading comprehension

Questions to Think About:

1) Who do you think the characters in The Great Gatsby represent? Do they seem like real people? Which characters seem the most real to you?

2) What is the symbolism of the green light that appears throughout the novel (at the end of Daisy's pier, at intersections throughout the book)?

3) Fitzgerald returns several times to describe a decrepit optical products sign -- the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleberg -- that hovers over "the valley of ashes." What does that sign represent?

4) Fitzgerald describes the world as "a valley of ashes" but often contrasts Daisy and Jay Gatsby as being spotless. What does this say about his view of American culture and of both Jay and Daisy?

5) In what ways does Fitzgerald present a tension between Modernism and Victorianism in The Great Gatsby?

6) The Great Gatsby is often referred to as the quintessential novel of the "Jazz Age." Using examples from the book, explain what this term meant, and Fitzgerald's attitudes towards that characterization of the 1920s.

FRENCH I/II
WE WILL BEGIN CHAPTER 2 THIS WEEK. PLEASE BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK AND YOUR WORKBOOK TO CLASS. Complete the handout for homework. Practice the vocab on the link below
Vocabulary 1 chp. 2 http://quizlet.com/1304581/bien-dit-1-ch-21-flash-cards/

MYTH AND LEGEND
This week we continue our work with the first 3 chapter of Edith Hamilton's Mythology
On Monday I will give you additional information and you will watch a documentary from the history channel CLASH OF THE GODS--ZEUS.Bethany created this vocabulary practice on quizlet: http://quizlet.com/6448766/vocab-for-september-12-flash-cards/

September 6-9

FRENCH I/II
Continue irregular verb practice of ETRE, AVOIR,and introduce  ALLER (to go)

French 2 website to practice the conjugations of French verbs regular and irregular:
http://www.verbuga.eu/Mise/Mise.html
French I on this website, you can practice etre avoir aller :
http://quizlet.com/4397044/french-1-verb-practice-flash-cards/
This site is to practice days of the weeks and times of day: http://quizlet.com/530486/french-times-of-day-days-of-week-flash-cards/ TEST FRIDAY

Practice Pledge in French

Complete work in chapter 1 grammatical structures

MYTH AND LEGEND
Here is the link to E.M. Berens Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22381/22381-h/22381-h.htm


It is hardly necessary to dwell upon the importance of the study of mythology: our poems, novels, and even our daily journals teem with classical allusions; nor can a visit to our museums and art galleries be fully enjoyed without something more than a mere superficial knowledge of a subject which has in all ages inspired artists of all genres.

Source: E.M. Berens Myths and Legends of Greek and Rome (1880)

VOCABULARY FOR CHAPTER 1 EDITH HAMILTON'S MYTHOLOGY:

http://quizlet.com/3961849/mythology-edith-hamilton-ch1-quiz-flash-cards/

Vocab chapter 2: http://quizlet.com/3966944/mythology-edith-hamilton-ch-2-flash-cards/
Vocab chapter 3: http://quizlet.com/4042096/mythology-edith-hamilton-ch-3-flash-cards/
Study questions for chapter 1-3 complete in class/due date Monday September 12, 2011

Lecture: Origin of the world the first dynasty-Uranus and Gaea, The second dynasty-Cronus and Rhea, The battle of titans and Olympians to establish the third dynasty of the Zeus and the Olympians

History Channel Documentary - Clash of the God's Series: ZEUS

English 9 Honors

We will continue with the work that we began last week-
We will examine plot structure -time and sequence in terms of chronological order, flashbacks, flash-forward, foreshadowing. We will study plot structure and its purpose in Sylvia Plath's "Initiation," "The Most Dangerous Game," "A Christmas Memory?" Looking for literary devices used to construct the narrative, probing how conflict works to create suspense and tension within the work and move the plot along and how setting provides background for narratives. On Friday, you will write an autobiographical narrative using these elements.

Homework: complete the readings "The Most Dangerous Game," Setting on page 60-61, the excerpt from "A Christmas Memory," page 79 writing an autobiographical narrative. Study the vocab words from the 3 short stories--"INITIATION, THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME, A CHRISTMAS MEMORY"


AP Language and Composition: SHORT WEEK

TUESDAY: Multiple Choice practice test (individual) 60 minutes

FRIDAY: debriefing with instructor

NEXT WEEK AP MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST OVER HUCK FINN

English 11

This week we will spend most of time in class constructing and completing you essays
from the prompts on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Work on these at home on Wednesday night as well.
Complete your reading of Huck Finn
Final Huck Finn Test Monday next week