Dear Parents,
I continue to meet with students on Monday and Wednesday afternoons from 3:45-4:30
PM for special tutoring sessions, especially for French- and Spanish-speaking students who
may need assistance with English vocabulary, reading, and writing assignments. All
students are welcome! No additional or special fee is assessed for this tutoring help.
Parents are always welcome to schedule a conference to discuss a student’s progress. I
would always want, however, for the student to be with us when we meet. Please contact me
through the office and fill out the Parent Conference Request Form. Thank you.
Students will continue to need access to a functioning printer. Students will not have access
to the computer lab during regular class time, so they may need to make special
arrangements to use a school computer or printer.
English II Homework for the Week of February 24, 2014
Monday, February 24: Prepare for quiz on Taming of the Shrew, Acts I, II, and III on Tuesday,
February 25.
Tuesday, February 25: Quiz on Taming of the Shrew, Acts I, II, and III.Due today: Shrew SG
questions 42-50. Begin to prepare for TEST on The Taming of the Shrew and life times
and work of Shakespeare and Globe Theater.
Wednesday, February 26: Due today: Shrew SG questions 59-70. Prepare for TEST on The
Taming of the Shrew and life times and work of Shakespeare and Globe Theater.
Thursday, February 27: TEST: The Taming of the Shrew.
Friday, February 28: Begin with FCAT Writing Prep A, How to Support Ideas and FCAT
Writing Prep B, Telling Sentences. Continue The Time Machine film.
Monday, March 3: Begin with FCAT Writing Prep C, Colorful, Precise Language and FCAT
Writing Prep D, Middle Essay—Elaboration.
Tuesday, March 4: Begin with FCAT Writing Prep E, What Matters Most—Support! and FCAT
Writing Prep F, Show, Don’t Tell.
Wednesday, March 5: Begin with FCAT Writing Prep I, Introductions and FCAT Prep M
Conclusions.
Thursday, March 6: Due today: The Time Machine vocabulary worksheet for chapters 1 and 2.
Friday, March 7: Quiz: The Time Machine vocabulary for chapters 1 and 2. Due today: The Time
Machine vocabulary worksheet for chapters 3 and 4.
Monday, March 10: Quiz: The Time Machine vocabulary for chapters 3 and 4. Due today: The
Time Machine vocabulary worksheet for chapters 5-7.
Tuesday, March 11: Quiz: The Time Machine vocabulary for chapters 5-7. Due today: The Time
Machine vocabulary worksheet for chapters 8-12.
Wednesday, March 12: Quiz: The Time Machine vocabulary for chapters 8-12. Due today: The
Time Machine study guide questions 1-4 for chapter 1.
Thursday, March 13: Due today: The Time Machine study guide questions 5-13 for chapters 2
and 3.
Friday, March 14: Due today: The Time Machine study guide questions 14-31 for chapters 4 and
5.
Monday, March 17: Due today: The Time Machine study guide questions 42-57 for chapters 8-12
and Epilogue.
Tuesday, March 18: Due today: The Time Machine study guide questions 58, 59 for Afterword;
concluding discussion of stylistic characteristics and themes.
Wednesday, March 19: TEST: The Time Machine (vocabulary, content, and literary techniques).
Begin The Time Machine film; answer film study guide questions.
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Thursday, March 20: Continue The Time Machine film.
Friday, March 21: NO CLASSES—Employee Planning Day.
English III Homework for the Week of February 24, 2014
Monday February 24: Due today: Read Chopin biography and “A Pair of Silk Stockings”. QUIZ:
“A Pair of Silk Stockings” vocabulary, content and narrative elements.
Tuesday, February 25: Due today: TEST: Shackles—Douglass and Chopin
Wednesday, February 26: Due today: Read Twain biography, p. 450ff. and complete study guide
items 1, 2, and 3.
Thursday, February 27: Due today: Read Twain, from Life on the Mississippi, pp. 453ff. and
complete study guide items 4-11. Complete Vocabulary Development worksheet for
“The Lowest Animal”
Friday, February 28: Due today: Read “The Lowest Animal” (photocopy); work on four to five
paragraph essay: In three or four paragraphs discuss how Twain, with bitter sarcasm and
irony, satirically argues that man, in terms of his nature and behavior, is “The Lowest
Animal.” In a final paragraph explain why you agree or disagree with his point of view.
Monday, March 3: Due today: Essay on “The Lowest Animal”. DVD “An Occurrence at Owl
Creek Bridge”.
Tuesday, March 4: Due today: Read Ambrose Bierce (Old Gringo) biography, p. 466 ands
complete study guide items 1-14. Verbal, situational, and dramatic irony.
Wednesday, March 5: Due today: Read Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, pp.
467ff. and complete study guide items 15-25.
Thursday, March 6: Due today: Due today: Complete Vocabulary Development worksheet for
“A Mystery of Heroism” and Read Stephan Crane biography, p. 484 AND complete
study guide items 1-5.
Friday, March 7: Due today: Read Crane, “A Mystery of Heroism”, pp. 484ff and complete
study guide items 6-21 [“War is Kind”].
Monday, March 10: Due today: Read Jack London biography, p. 495 and complete Vocabulary
Development worksheet. In class discussion of London’s life, works, and philosophy.
Tuesday, March 11: Due today: Read London, “To Build a Fire”, p. 496ff. and complete plot
analysis and “Naturalism” worksheet.
Wednesday, March 12: TEST: Twain, Bierce, Crane, and London (biographies, content of
selections, vocabulary, and narrative elements).
Thursday, March 13: Read Leggett and Brinnin, “The Moderns”, pp. 523ff.
Friday, March 14: Due today: Complete “The Moderns” study guide
Monday, March 17: Quiz: “The Moderns. Due today: Read Willa Cather biographical essay p.
538 and 539 and complete Cather, “A Wagner Matinee” study guide vocabulary items 110.
Tuesday, March 18: Due today: Read Cather, “A Wagner Matinee”, pp. 540ff. and complete
study guide story question 1-10.
Wednesday, March 19: Due today: Read Robert Frost biographical essay, pp. 558f. and
“Birches”, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, and “Birches,” pp. 560ff.
Thursday, March 20: Begin film The Call of the Wild (1942); students will complete film study
guide questions as they view the film.
Friday, March 21: NO CLASSES—Employee Planning Day
Monday, March 31: Continue film The Call of the Wild (1942); students will complete film study
guide questions as they view the film.
Tuesday, April 1: Due today: Read Frost, “The Death of the Hired Man” and complete study
guide.
Wednesday, April 2: Due today: Conclude Frost, “The Death of the Hired Man”
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Thursday, April 3: Due today: Read Robinson Jeffers biographical essay, p. 580. and “Shine,
Perishing Republic,” pp. 581f. and “Original Sin” and “The Purse Seine” (photocopy)
Friday, April 4: Due today: Complete Jeffers study guide.
English IV Homework for the Week of February 24, 2014
Friday, February 21: Read Wordsworth biography, p. 656 and selected Lucy Poems; “Ode:
Intimations of Immortality”; “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” and “London,
1802”. Complete study guide.
Monday February 24: Continue Wordsworth analyses. Happy Valentine’s Day—Won’t you be
mine?
Tuesday, February 25: Read Coleridge biography, p. 678 and “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner”. Complete textual analysis of “Kubla Khan”
Wednesday, February 26: Continue “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”.
Thursday, February 27: Quiz: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. Prepare for TEST:
Romanticism—Wordsworth and Coleridge
Friday, February 28: TEST: Romanticism—Wordsworth and Coleridge
Monday, March 3: AP Writing Exercise.
Tuesday, March 4: Read Byron biography, and “She Walks in Beauty” p. 710f.; read Shelley
biography and “Ozymandias” and “To a Skylark”, pp. 729ff.
Wednesday, March 5: Continue Byron and Shelley.
Thursday, March 6: Read Keats biography, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”, “When I
Have Fears”, and “La Belle Dame sans Merci”, pp. 745ff.
Friday, March 7: Continue Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”
Monday, March 10: Writing Exercise: Essay: The speaker of “When I Have Fears” sometimes
feels that love and fame are “nothingness.” Based on both sonnets (“On First Looking
into Chapman’s Homer” and “When I Have Fears”), what values do you think Keats
holds to be the highest in life? Support your claim with evidence from the poems’
contents, tone, and style, including imagery and figures of speech.
Tuesday, March 11: TEST: Byron, Shelley, and Keats (biographies, selections, and poetic
devices).
Wednesday, March 12: Complete reading of Pride and Prejudice, ch. 1-24, study guide
questions 1-28.
Thursday, March 13: Quiz: Pride and Prejudice entire novel, characters and events.
Friday, March 14: Complete reading of Pride and Prejudice, ch. 25-50, study guide questions
29-55.
Monday, March 17: Complete reading of Pride and Prejudice, ch. 51-61, study guide questions
56-69.
Tuesday, March 18: TEST: Pride and Prejudice
Wednesday, March 19: Read Gray, “The Victorian Period”, pp. 782ff. and complete study guide.
Thursday, March 20: Read Tennyson biography, “Tears, Idle Tears”, “The Eagle: A Fragment”,
“Flower in the Crannied Wall”, and “Ulysses”, pp. 802ff. and complete study guide.
Friday, March 21: Read Browning biography and “My Last Duchess” and Porphyria’s Lover”,
pp. 828ff.; EB Browning, Sonnet 43 (“How do I love thee…”).