Grade 12 English Homework Page
Week of 2/6/2012
Exercises for lesson 15 are due on Monday. Read pages 487-494 and complete questions A-D on page 496 for Tuesday. Questions 1-10 on page 496 are due on Wednesday.
Week of 1/30/12
Vocabulary exercises for lesson 14 are due on Monday.
We will go over questions 1-10 on page 420 on Tuesday.
Read the story on page 425 and the questions on page 426 will be due on Wednesday.
We will read pages 239-433, along with a handout in class on Thursday.
Vocabulary 14 quiz on Friday.
Vocabulary exercises lesson 15 are due next Monday.
Week of 1/23/12
Sonnet presentations will be on Monday and Tuesday. Please be ready!
Vocabulary exercises 13 are due on Monday.
Please read pages 413-418 for Wednesday.
Questions 1-10 on page 420 will be completed in class on Thursday.
Vocabulary quiz, lesson 13 is on Friday.
Exercises for lesson 14 are due next Monday.
Week of 1/17/12
We will be working on finding a Shakespearean Sonnet that we have not discussed during class that you can research and present to the class next week. Please do not choose a sonnet someone else in the class has chosen.
We will go over vocabulary exercises on Thursday, and the quiz will be on Friday.
Week of 1/10/12
Vocabulary exercises for Lesson 11 are due on Monday.
Read and determine what Sonnet 116 is about (pg 228) for Tuesday.
Reading Sonnet 130 in class on Tuesday.
Questions on page 229 are due on Wednesday.
Vocabulary quiz on lesson 11 on Friday,
Week of 1/3/2012
Happy New Year!
Vocabulary lesson 10 exercises due on Wednesday.
Read pages 223-224 for Wednesday.
Complete questions 1-10 on page 227 (class time on Thursday)
Vocab quiz lesson 10 on Friday.
Vocab exercises lesson 11 are due on Monday.
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Macbeth essay is due on Friday, December 23rd. NO LATE ESSAYS will be accepted. If you are unable to be in school on Friday, make sure your essay is turned in.
Macbeth Essay Topics. (Choose only one!)
1. The startling and monstrous witches are among the most memorable characters in the play. How does Shakespeare characterize the witches? What is their thematic consequence?
2. Compare and contrast Macbeth, Macduff, and Banquo. How are they alike? How are they different? Is it possible to argue that Macbeth is the play’s villain and Macduff or Banquo its hero, or is the matter more complicated than that?
3. Discuss the role that blood plays in Macbeth, particularly directly after Duncan’s murder and again late in the play. What does it symbolize for Macbeth and his wife? How does Shakespeare use blood to convey and theme and a message.
4. Discuss Macbeth’s hallucinations and visions. What role do they play in the progression of his character?
5. Discuss Shakespeare’s use of stage direction, in which certain important moments and plot developments take place offstage. What is his reasoning and does he accomplish his goal?
ANY MAKE-UP WORK FOR MACBETH MUST BE COMPLETED AND TURNED IN NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23rd.
Week of 12/12/2011
We will finish reading/viewing Act IV on Monday.
Questions 1-9 are due on Tuesday.
The open book quiz due on Wednesday.
We will begin reading/viewing Act V on Wednesay.
Questions 1-8 on pages 387-388 are due on Friday.
The Open Book Quiz for Act V is due on Monday
Questions 1-9 (The Play as a Whole) on pgs 388-389 are due Monday
We will be working on an essay next week.
Week of 12/5/2011
We continue with MacBeth this week, reading/viewing Act III in class.
Questions A-F on page 351 are due on Wednesday.
Questions 1-10 on page 351 are due on Thursday.
We will complete the open book quiz for Act III in class on Thursday.
We begin reading/viewing Act IV on Friday
Week of 11/28/2011
We continue with Macbeth this week, reading/view Act II in class.
Questions A-J on page 333 are due on Wednesday.
Questions 1-9 on page 333 are due on Thursday.
The open book quiz on Act II is due on Friday.
Week of 11/14/2011
We begin Macbeth this week, and will read/view Act I in class.
Questions A-E on page 318 are due on Wednesday.
Questions 1-9 on page 318 are due on Thursday.
The Open Book quiz for Act I is due on Friday.
Week of 11/7/2011
We will be creating posters in class based on the two tales we have read so far. On Wednesday, we'll read The Miller's Tale in class.
Thursday will feature a discssion on the tale. Between now and Thursday, be sure to watch a full episode of a sitcom!
Week of 10/31/2011
Lesson 9 Vocabulary exercises due on Monday.
Reading The Wife of Bath's Tale in class on Wednesday.
Page 149 questions A-D due on Thursday.
Vocabulary quiz lesson 9 on Friday.
Questions 1-8 page 149 due Monday.
Week of 10/24/2011
Vocabulary lesson 8 due on Monday.
Chaucer Pilgrim Quiz on Tuesday (handwritten notes may be used).
Please read "The Pardoner's Tale (pgs 129-136) for Wednesday
Questions 1-8 (you can skip #9) on page 137 are due on Thursday
Lesson 8 quiz Friday
Week of 10/17/2011
Vocabulary lesson 7 exercises due on Monday...we will go over in class on Tuesday.
Chaucer Prologue presentations will begin in class on on Wednesday.
Vocabulary quiz lesson 7 on Friday.
Week of 10/10/11
Vocabulary lesson 6 exercises due on Tuesday.
We begin The Canterbury Tales on Thursday.
Vocab lesson 6 quiz on Friday.
Week of 10/3/2011
Vocabulary exercises for lesson 5 are due on Monday.
College essays are due Tuesday, Oct. 11th.
We begin the works of Chaucer this week. Please have notebooks in class on Tuesday and Thursday and be sure to have books on Thursday.
Vocabulary quiz on lesson 6 is on Friday.
Week of 9/26/2011
Vocabulary lesson 4 exercises are due on Monday.
Please make sure you have read the article from the Boston Globe given out in class on Friday before class on Monday.
We begin college essay writing this week. There will be few written assignments as we work toward a completed essay.
Lesson 4 vocabulary quiz on Friday.
Week of 9/19/2011
Vocabulary lesson 3 exercises are due on Monday
Questions 1-11 on page 48 are due on Tuesday
Open book quiz on Beowulf on Wednesday. Make sure you have your book in class!!
Vocabulary lesson 3 quiz on Thursday
Week of 9/12/11
Vocabulary Lesson 2 exercises due on Monday
Please read pages 32 to 37 and complete questions A-E on page 38 for Monday
Questions 1-9 on page 38 are due on Tuesday
Please read pages 39-41 for Wednesday
Read pages 42-46 for Thursday
Vocabulary Lesson 2 quiz on Friday
Week of 9/6/11
Vocabulary Lesson 1 exercises due on Tuesday
Read pages 21-23 for Wednsday
Read pages 24-32 for Thursday
Vocabulary Lesson 1 quiz on Friday
Week of 8/30/11
Welcome to Senior year. Vocabulary Lesson 1 exercises distributed on Thursday will be due on Tuesday.
Please read pages 2-16 in the textbook for Tuesday...feel free to take notes or just jot a few things down as you read.
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