English 10 Honors Homework
Wed, 30 Jan: Comma sentences - due Thurs. Get syllabus signed and hand in by Monday.
Thurs, 31 Jan: Sign syllabus by Monday. Get SSR. Plot out structure for a movie or book.
Fri, 1 Feb: Sign syllabus. Get SSR.
Mon, 4 Feb: Look up vocab. Read Part I, The Secret Sharer.
Tues, 5 Feb: Read Part II, The Secret Sharer. SSR on Thurs.
Wed, 6 Feb: SSR on Thurs. Study semicolons.
Thurs, 7 Feb: Vocab quiz - Monday.
Mon, 11 Feb: Look up vocab: retract, exacerbate, conspicuous, kindle, thwart, immaterial, disparage, sumptuous, fitful, soporific.
Tues, 12 Feb: Read Act I, A Raisin in the Sun. SSR - Wed.
Wed, 13 Feb: Vocab quiz - Thurs. Read Act II, A Raisin in the Sun.
Thurs, 14 Feb: SSR.
Tues, 19 Feb: Read Act III, A Raisin in the Sun. Look up vocab 21: unobtrusive, enigma, savory, paucity, elusive, clemency, celestial, refurbish, exemplary, tirade.
Wed, 20 Feb: Type and print MLA Paragraph.
Thurs, 21 Feb: Vocab quiz - Friday.
Fri, 22 Feb: SSR.
Mon, 25 Feb: Look up Vocab 22: innocuous, censure, fledgling, scoff, trepidation, inscrutable, relegate, bombastic, cache, temerity.
Tues, 26 Feb: Read Chapter 1, The Metamorphosis. Work on Lit Terms Sheet.
Wed, 27 Feb: Read Chapter 2, The Metamorphosis. Work on Lit Terms Sheet. Vision and Hearing Tests - Fri.
Thurs, 28 Feb: Vocab quiz - Fri. Read Chapter 3, The Metamorphosis.
Fri, 1 Mar: Work on lit terms sheet.
Mon, 4 Mar: Kafka Lit Terms Sheet - due Wed.
Tues, 5 Mar: Kafka Lit Terms - due Thurs. Look up vocab 23: supercilious, inadvertent, expedient, turbulence, assuage, labyrinth, decadence, superfluous, forlorn, opportunist.
Thurs, 7 Mar: Vocab quiz - Friday. Vision and hearing tests- Friday.
Mon, 11 Mar: Look up vocab: spurious, vilify, disparity, laconic, coalesce, atrophy, scrupulous, unscathed, deference, imminent.
TUESDAY UPDATE: I will be back on Thursday, but here is the plan for Wed: In the vertical cabinet in the corner are the Maus books. Select two students to pass out one text per student. Please read Part I, Chapters 1 and 2. Thanks.
Thurs, 14 Mar: Read Chapter 3, Maus. Vocab quiz - Monday.
Fri, 15 Mar: Vocab quiz - Monday. SSR Exam coming soon.
Mon, 18 Mar: Read Maus, Chapters 4 and 5. Look up Vocab 25: incisive, devoid, ambiguous, perfidy, disposition, vindictive, fortuitous, corroborate, admonish, equanimity.
Tues, 19 Mar: Read Part I, Ch. 6 and Part II, Ch. 1, Maus.
Wed, 20 Mar: Read Ch. 2 and 3, Maus.
Mon, 25 Mar: Maus Test - Tuesday. Look up vocab.
Tues, 26 Mar: SSR.
Fri, 29 Mar: SSR Exam - next week. Bring SSR book every day.
Mon, 1 Apr: Look up Vocab 27: relic, listless, delineate, unassailable, intemperate, squalid, dissipated, analogous, commiserate, meager.
Mon, 15 Apr: Look up vocab: sagacious, equivocate, stagnate, animosity, intractable, profane, distraught, demeanor, untenable, buffoon. Get SSR2. Facts about Greek god - Tues.
Below pic - The summer day when I went to the island of Delos in Greece to see where Apollo and Artemis were born -
Tues, 16 Apr: Read pages 1-19, Oedipus Rex.
Wed, 17 Apr: Read pages 19-32, Oedipus Rex. SSR2 - in class on Thurs.
Thurs, 18 Apr: Vocab quiz - Friday. Sophocles sheet - Friday.
Fri, 19 Apr: SSR.
Mon, 22 Apr: Look up vocab: indelible, melancholy, ennui, denunciation, volatile, pivotal, mirth, augment, truculent, nuptial. Read Oedipus Rex, pages 32-54.
Tues, 23 Apr: Read and underline the Bettelheim article . SSR - Wed.
Wed, 24 Apr: In-class essay on Oedipus Rex - Thurs.
Thurs, 25 Apr: Vocab quiz - Friday. SSR - in class on Friday.
Fri, 26 Apr: SSR.
Mon, 29 Apr: Look up vocab: woebegone, manumission, insouciant, ambivalence, stoic, profusion, lassitude, disperse, raucous, patina.
Tues, 30 Apr: Tyrannos sheet - due Wed.
Thurs, 2 May: Vocab quiz - Friday.
Mon, 6 May: Look up vocab: acclaim, pretentious, sporadic, sequester, lucid, incontrovertible, ethereal, trite, Machiavellian, vernacular. Read The Induction, The Taming of the Shrew.
Tues, 7 May: Read Act I, The Taming of the Shrew. Bring sonnets - Wed.
It may not be true Italian, but this is pizza!
Mon, 3 Jun: Look up Vocab Epilogue: cryptic, disingenuous, raze, stultifying, capitulate, garner, provincial, sycophant, alleviate, guile. Read The Catcher in the Rye, Chapters 1-8. SSR Exam - next week.
Tues, 4 Jun: Read Chapters 9-15, Catcher. SSR Exam - Friday.
Wed, 5 Jun: Read Catcher, Ch 16-21. SSR Exam - Friday.
Thurs, 6 Jun: Read Chapters 22-26, The Catcher in the Rye. SSR Exam is Friday. Vocab quiz is Friday.