Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Homework 3/30/10

Period 4 and 5
Post Vocab sentences
Read the Spenserian Sonnets and answer the questions that go with them.
Sonnet 30, 1-3
Sonnet 75, 1-3
Email them to me!!

Period 4
Do the Connect to your life on the William Shakespeare sonnets pg. 302 in packet.
Write at least half a page in paragraph form.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Homework 3/29/10

Period 4 & 5
Read Shakespeare sonnets 29,116,130 and answer questions 1-3 for 29 and 116. For Sonnet 130 answer questions 1-4 on the last page of questions.

5th period- email them to me
4th period- email or write down.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Homework 3/16/10

Periods 4 & 5
Type a 1 page response to, both, Sonnet 169 and 292 by Petrarch.
The write up should include:
1. Your opinion on the message of the poems
2. Criticize or praise one part of the poem.

You must address BOTH POEMS, so choose which ever paragraph structure that you feel is appropriate. It must have more than one massive paragraph. This is not a quickwrite.
Ensure that there are the least amount of errors possible.

Period 4 Only
Review the information you have on Sonnets and make a flip book that includes the main elements of a sonnet.
Your intended reader is an elementary school aged child, so your book should include color and pictures. It should also be small and easy to flip through.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Homework 3/12/10

Period 4
Read the sonnet handout and complete the worksheet in order to help you out on the reading check quiz that you will have on Monday.

Period 5
Read the sonnet handout and make a flip book on the main elements of a sonnet.
Click here to see a sample of a flip book. (keep in mind that it doesn't have to show animation, it should just be small and easy to flip through AND aimed at elementary school kids, so that means add color)

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Homework 3/9/10

Period 4 & 5
Check blog (post comment: If you could be any animal, which would it be and why?)
STUDY FOR VOCAB TEST


PERIOD 4
Read pgs. 275-277 take notes

Monday, March 8, 2010

Homework 3/8/10

Period 4
Study for Vocab Test

Period 5
Study your notes from pg. 275 on Sonnets. (quiz)
Study for Vocab Test

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Homework Due Tomorrow (3.8.10)

Period 4
Check the blog (Blog Comment-What are you most looking forward to this week or upcoming weekend?)
Study for Vocab Test
Know the definitions of the highlighted terms and give an example of the 4 types of sentences.

Period 5
Check the blog (Blog Comment- What are you most looking forward to this week or upcoming weekend?)
Study for Vocab Test
Read pages 275-277 and take notes.
There looms an impending quiz.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Homework 3/3/10

Period 4 & 5
1. Check the blog (post a comment telling me what is your all time favorite movie)
2. Read pgs. 55-56 and 69-70 from Holt textbook.
3. Type a one page response that:
- briefly summarizes and shows the connection between the 3 readings (Blackening Teeth in Tudor times, Fashion article [p. 55] and poverty article[p.69])
- addresses the following questions:
  • What was life like during the Renaissance?
  • Based on what you read about the time period, what do you think were the values for Society? (What types of things were valuable to people back then)
  • How is this similar or dissimilar to some of the values that America has today?
  • Why do you think they are similar or dissimilar?
USE PROPER PARAGRAPHS AND GRAMMAR. THE LACK OF PROPER PARAGRAPHS AND GRAMMAR WILL RESULT IN AN AUTOMATIC DEDUCTION OF 5 POINTS OUT OF 25. THE REST OF YOUR GRADE WILL DEPEND ON WHETHER YOU ANSWERED ALL OF THE QUESTIONS.

4. Study for Vocab Test

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Homework 3/2/10

If you went on the college field trip, you must make up vocab quiz 49 and get the notes from someone.

Period 4
1. Take Online Quiz for Introduction to Renaissance
2. Log on to Classmarker.com

Both 4th & 5th periods
1. Check this blog (to prove that you did check this blog, post a comment that says, "Ms. Ramirez, my favorite food is_________. (fill in the blank)
2. Study for vocab Test
3. Renaissance Bubble cluster: Review your notes and write down facts that you think fully represent/embody the Renaissance Period

Monday, March 1, 2010

Homework 3/1/10

Period 4 & 5
1. Study for Vocab Quiz 49
2. Take Renaissance Intro Quiz
Go to classmarker.com
Log in and take test.
If you do not have a login, check your email (This is for the new kids, not people that just don't remember, but you may still want to do an email search for your username/password. Otherwise, you should know it and not remembering is not a valid excuse for not completing the quiz)