12/13/2011

Homework: None, but if you've been absent any day this week, be sure to read Act I in Romeo and Juliet.
You can visit Shmoop on my Resources Page and get a modern day summary of the play to aide you in your understanding if necessary.
Middle Age Test Takers: Make Up Tests--No Later than THIS THURSDAY!

***Tomorrow: You will write your Act I Assessment! This particular assessment will be a paragraph summarizing the key elements of Act I. As discussed in class today, consider focusing on the key characters that are introduced in this act and their relationships with each other. You will want to make sure that your summary contains a solid introductory topic sentence and a concluding sentence that ties back to your main topic.

You will have forty minutes to write this assessment; you will want to take all that time as it's a heavy weighted grade, and the team with the highest test percentage wins our first awarding of ducats!

Mrs. Johnson

12/07/2011

English Homework: Read pages 804-807 in tan book--bring tan book to class tomorrow.

History Homework:

 Everyone needs 1^st of 3 documents read, annotated, highlighted, and brought to class ready to discuss tomorrow.

12/05/2011

Homework:
*Continue study for Middle Ages Literature Test for Wednesday (100 question multiple choice)
Read the background information and "The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer on page 772-784 and answer the following questions:
"Identifying Facts" 1-4
"Interpreting Meanings" 1-4

***I am not collecting the answers to these questions until the beginning of the English period on Wednesday, before you take the test, so you can always read the story tonight, go through the questions verbally, but then actually write them out tomorrow to help you time manage a little.

Thank you,

Mrs. Johnson

12/02/2011

Homework:
Study for Middle Ages Literature Test! You will find the Study Guide under the "Study Guides" tab.
1. Today in class we took notes on the "Punctuation" Power Point, which you can find under the "Power Points" tab. You will want to take notes on the different kinds of punctuation you can use for stylistic purposes.
2. Punctuation has been removed from the following excerpt. It is your job to put it back in, using the various punctuation marks reviewed or learned in the Power Point:
 

“Preparation timing and speed were all important the explorers had to wait for spring and sunlight to return to the Arctic but they also had to complete the journey before great sections of the polar ice melted in the Arctic summer Peary’s expedition consisted of five advance relay sledge teams which would take turns going ahead to break the trail and establish supply camps as each team finished its leg of the journey it would return to the supply ship”

 

***Bring your excerpt with the correct punctuation to class with you on Monday. Additionally, bring your tan book as we will read the "Wife of Bath" story.

3. As promised, the Dante and Chaucer lecture notes are under the "Study Guides" tab. I can print copies out for those who truly cannot access them.
***Bring tan books Monday for the "Wife of Bath" story!
4. Dr. Paraskevas asked you to email her your sentences directly from now on. Her email address is now located under the "Resources" tab.
5. Finally, I of course collected the Song of Deeds stories today.

Happy Friday!

Mrs. Johnson

12/01/2011

Today in class:

Homework:

Please finish Dante's Inferno (if you were in class today, that amounts to two pages of reading). If not, then four.
***Song of Deeds stories are due tomorrow! I look forward to reading them!

Mrs. J