Homework 11/30/10

Period 4
1. Study for Vocab Quiz #31
2. Answer questions 2, 3 and 4 on pg 96 of packet. You must give evidence to back up your answers.

Period 5
1. Study for Vocab Quiz #31
2. If you were absent ask a classmate that WAS in class, to show you what we did in class. (Flashcards on dictionary.com)

Homework 11/22/10

Period 4

1. Study for Vocab Quiz (Take a look at Abby, Catalina, Lorelye, Sarah or Tedra's slide shows by clicking above on Student blogs. It's another way to study)

-take a look at the slide show on the vocabulary tab above (intended to quiz you on the definitions.)

2. Complete your group posters for "Wife's Lament"
- Look at class notes for directions



Period 5

1. Study for Vocab Quiz

2. Draw 3 color pictures that relate to any parts of the first 15 lines of The Seafarer.

-use white paper without lines.

Homework 11/19/10

Period 4
Answer the Seafarer Critical Questions sheet.
Read the Wife's Lament (There might be a reading quiz on it)

Homework 11/18/10

Period 5

Correct the following sentences on your worksheet:

• 3. Mothers often have prosperity .
• 4. Unexpected changes in climatic conditions are a portent of probable natural disasters in near future.
• 5. Girlfriend complain justifiably when they are treated by friends as more appendages to their boyfriends.

Write down the following example sentences on your worksheet:

1. Some elementary school kids are contentious.
2. If I get stung by a bee my face will distend.
3. Our recent argument portended the out come of our relationship.
4. The criminal was nervous because there was a tendentious juror on the rape case.
5. All of my appendages hurt after the game.
6. The family could not afford to expend any more money on Susan's dance classes.
7. She has a propensity for using foul language.
8. After volunteering in the tutoring club for three months I received a $100 stipend.

Homework 11/17/10

Period 4
Write a paragraph explaining what your current reputation is and whether or not you would be praised if you were to die at this moment.
If you were to be praised, what would people say about you?

Period 5
Complete the vocab worksheet and post vocab sentences.

Homework 11/16/10

Period 4
Post Vocab Sentences or ppt.

Period 5
Study for Vocab Quiz

Homework 11/15/10

Period 4
1. Study for Vocab Quiz
2. Tell me what correlation there is between what lines 43-46 talk about and men currently serving in the military. Email your reply to me.

Extra Credit
In the same email as above, write "Extra Credit" and then tell me if the way that I split up the lines, makes sense to you. Were they split the same way that you had split them up? Did you learn anything in class about the poem or was it all just stuff you knew and had considered already?
[Note: this is where the real learning comes from, since your reply to me can be considered a self-evaluation. I am not inside your head to see how much you initially grasped of the poem, but you can let me in by doing this extra credit. BE HONEST!!]

Period 5
Study for Vocab Quiz

Homework 11/9/10

Period 4 & 5
Do blog sentences or powerpoint
Find a book that you would like to read for outside reading
-make sure that it is appropriate for school
-You will be getting points for bringing it in

Homework 11/8/10

Period 4
Study for Vocab Quiz #28
Email me a paragraph explaining what positive message or lines you see in "The Seafarer". Please make sure to include line numbers.

Period 5
Study for vocab quiz #28
Reread the front page of The Seafarer" and change any previous interpretations you had written down, if they have changed after rereading them.

Homework 11/4/10

Period 4
Make a mini poster that includes the title of the poem, the quote you selected in class, why you selected it and a color drawing (not printed) picture.

Period 5
Do the front of the Seafarer worksheet. In the boxes on the sheet, write down what you think each stanza (paragraph) means. (Remember that you can "act" it out to help you see what it's saying)

Homework 11/3/10

Period 4

Complete the grammar packet

Do sentence corrections for week 28

Period 5

Do sentence corrections on the corrections sheet that we started in class.

The sentences are below:

1. While playing the game of football I use my peripheral to watch my surroundings.
2. As a doctor is more than likely to be able to be a curative.
3. Periodontal is scientific for a gum disease.
4. The sinecure of fishing is the gain of fish.
5. Some patients whose diseases no longer respond to curative treatment.
6. The girl with cancer imagined that she could feel the curative.
7. The parimeter of san pasual valley does not go past the orange groves.

Homework 11/2/10

Period 4
1. Post Vocab Sentences for week 28 or do the Extra Credit and email me your link.
2. Reread "The Seafarer" and IN PENCIL draw lines where ever you see a shift or change of topic, mood, or purpose in the poem. Be ready to explain why you split it up as you did.

Period 5
1. Post Vocab Sentences for week 28 or do the Extra Credit and email me your link.
2. Complete the "Seafarer Background Worksheet" using your class notes from 11/1/10. If you do not have them, ask someone to borrow their notes.

Homework 11.1.10

Period 4
Study for vocab quiz and today's class notes for potential quiz.

Period 5
Study for Vocab Quiz.