Christmas Break Reading

Here are some resources to help you with your reading assignment:

• Assignment page

• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Military terms defined by chapter
• Character list

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Vocab list by chapter sections
• Character list

• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Vocab list by chapter sections
• Character list

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Vocab list by chapter
• Character list

• Grendel by John Gardner
• Vocab list by chapter
• Character list

Thursday

1B

📚Semester Exam Study Guide📚 (PDF)

🤓Semester Exam Study Guide 🤓(Google Doc)

• 1B Exam = Wed. 12/20/17
• Practice test w/ answers
• Review activity: Multiple choice question writing
• How to write good test questions
• In-class assignment: Write 10 good questions using the short stories we have read this semester and the terminology on the semester exam study guide.
• HW due Mon. 12/18/17: Download this template and type your 10 questions in the 2nd (purple) column. Share it with me by class time on Monday.
• BYOM Party! - Monday

4B

📚Semester Exam Study Guide📚 (PDF)

🤓Semester Exam Study Guide 🤓(Google Doc)

• 4B Exam = Mon. 12/18/17
• Practice test w/ answers
• Review activity: Multiple choice question writing
• How to write good test questions
• In-class assignment: Today you will share the questions you wrote for homework with a classmate so they can answer them for practice for the exam on Monday. Please follow these steps:
1. Open the doc you made with your ten questions. You should have used this template to list your questions.
2. Share the doc with me if you haven't already. 
3. Choose a partner and share the document with them.
4. You will receive two grades today-- one for the quality of the questions you wrote on your doc and another grade for the quality of your answers/justification on your partner's questions.
5. When you receive someone else's questions, put your name at the top and fill in the blue third column, "Answer with Justification".  Enter your answer for each question and type in a reason why you chose that answer. When you're done, let your partner know.
6. When your partner says they are done, use your key to check their answers in the last, red column.
7. If there is time left in class, STUDY! I put a practice test above that you can look at, but there is also the study guide. 
8. HW due Mon. 12/18/17: STUDY A LOT FOR YOUR TEST! I want everyone to get an A! 
9. See you on Monday-- don't forget the 🎁 exchange!

Tuesday

1B

• SHORT FICTION
• Discussion of fiction terms #38-55
• "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Discussion of setting and figurative language for the story
• Viewing / discussion of video representations of the story
• "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• EXAM REVIEW
• 📚Semester Exam Study Guide📚 (PDF)
• 🤓Semester Exam Study Guide 🤓(Google Doc)
• 1B Exam: Wed. 12/20/17
• Practice Test w/ answers
• Notes: How to write good multiple choice questions. We will use these ideas for our review activity on Thursday.

4B

• SHORT FICTION
• Discussion of fiction terms #38-55
• "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Discussion of setting and figurative language for the story
• Viewing / discussion of video representations of the story
• "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• EXAM REVIEW
• 📚Semester Exam Study Guide📚 (PDF)
• 🤓Semester Exam Study Guide 🤓(Google Doc)
• 4B Exam: Mon. 12/18/17
• Practice Test w/ answers

Friday

Click image to see semester exam schedule.

• Winter Break Reading: Make sure you are working on making a selection and procuring your text for the assignment.

• Short Fiction Analysis: In-class assignment below 
1. IN PAIRS: 
• Discuss the annotations from your homework with "The Yellow Wallpaper" with a partner. Add any ideas that you learn from your partner.
• The sections of the plot that you identified and justified
• The sections you identified as key for characterization of the narrator.

• Make notes in the margin of the text about possible conflicts in the story. 

                           2. INDEPENDENTLY: 

• Add the definitions for Setting, Figurative Language, and Theme (#38-55) to your list of terminology. Use examples from "The Yellow Wallpaper" where possible, but you might need to include some of the other stories we have read in order to get good examples in your notes with the definitions.

• Think of a good interpretive question for "The Yellow Wallpaper". Post it on Google Classroom. Then, respond to two classmates' questions. I'm expecting that the responses will be a few sentences to a paragraph in length.
 

Wednesday

• Short Fiction
• HW due Fri. 12/8/17: Read "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Annotate for the following:
• Plot sections (justify the shifts)
• Characterization of the narrator 

Monday

1B

• Class will not meet on Wednesday 12/6/17 because I will be testing. You will come to 143 for breakfast then I will send you to the gym for the class period. There are assignments due on Friday.
• Christmas Break Reading Assignment
• Over the break, you will read one of the books listed below. Your assignment will be to have a one-on-one, 10-15 minute conversation with me about the deep elements of the text in January. You can listen to me give an overview of each book here.
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin (see me for free copies)
• Grendel by John Gardner (check out in library or order on your own)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (see me for free copies)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (check out in library or order on your own)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (check out in library or order on your own)
• Short Fiction: "A Day's Wait" by Ernest Hemingway
• Assignment: We continued with Discussion Questions in groups. I collected the group papers. You are responsible for completing the questions you did not complete in class and turn them in on Fri. 12/8/17.  
• HW due Fri. 12/8/17: Read "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Annotate for the following:
• Plot sections (justify the shifts)
• Characterization of the narrator 

                     In class on Friday we will discuss setting, theme and symbol.

4B

• Class WILL meet on Wednesday 12/6/17.

• Christmas Break Reading Assignment
• Over the break, you will read one of the books listed below. Your assignment will be to have a one-on-one, 10-15 minute conversation with me about the deep elements of the text in January. You can listen to me give an overview of each book here.
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin (see me for free copies)
• Grendel by John Gardner (check out in library or order on your own)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (see me for free copies)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (check out in library or order on your own)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (check out in library or order on your own)
• Short Fiction: "A Day's Wait" by Ernest Hemingway
• Assignment: We continued with Discussion Questions in groups. I collected the group papers. You are responsible for completing the questions you did not complete in class and turn them in on Wed. 12/6/17.