3-day Weekend Assignments for all classes

AP12: Find a poem suitable for an actual full-length essay: Look for a poem where 3 specific techniques are used, with each having at least 3 different examples used in similar ways, and to the same general effect. Bring the poem to class with 3 specific topic sentences in "2-part analytic statement" form.

English 9: Complete a "Double-entry"/ 2-column "Show==>Tell" table for the Angelou story you read for class today. To do so, create a 16-line, 2 column table. Label the two columns, just like we did in class, then, in the remaining 15 lines, write down (on the left) 15 specific quotes that show something specific and interesting about Marguerite or Ms. Flowers. For each, on the right, tell what that detail might show or mean, so that each detail that you observe shows a specific interpretation or meaning.

English 10:

Complete a "Double-entry"/ 2-column "Show==>Tell" table for the excerpt from Genesis you read from our textbook. To do so, create a 16-line, 2 column table. Label the two columns, like we did in class, then, in the remaining 15 lines, write down (on the left) 15 specific quotes that show something specific and interesting in the story. To the right of each detail, write a brief note that tells what the detail might suggest, symbolize, or mean.

Remember that as we discussed in class, good entries are short, well-chosen, and specific. Also remember that we are looking at this book as a literary, not religious work: the goal is to come up with as many interesting, plausible meanings that can come from this famous story as possible, not settle on any particular interpretation!

Honors English 9: Based on our class discussion, compose three paragraphs regarding your choice of scenes from the first 8 chapters of Huck Finn. Remember that each paragraph will explore a possible reading of the theme of one scene, as supported by 3-5 quotes from within that scene. Your choice of scenes, in turn, should reflect the "3 levels" of interpretation we discussed in class: one paragraph should show an interesting quality Huck displays as a character, a second should show how character(s)' actions show something funny about human behavior generally, while a third should explore how Huck's reactions or reflections on the events of the story somehow satirize or subtly criticize generally-held social attitudes or beliefs.