Below are some links to help you write your homework assignment. For a description of the homework, click on the 'Homework" tab.
Participation Extra CreditIf your participation score is low, you can complete the following extra credit assignment.
THE PARTICIPATION POINTS ASSIGNMENT: Make and submit a short video (1-3 minutes) of yourself reading a reflection that you write (and also submit). In your reflection, you should discuss what behaviors you believe resulted in lost bonus points in English class in term 3. Possible reasons include tardiness for class, coming unprepared with class materials, calling out in class, causing disruptions to class, treating others unkindly or with disrespect, being dishonest, failing to respect class materials, speaking in a language other than English, etc. Discuss what might have led you to do these behaviors, what problems they create for you and/or others, and what you intend to do to change these behaviors. Points will be awarded based on how accurately you reflect on your behavior and how thoughtfully you consider ways to change. If you wish, see Mr. Bono during snack, break, or before or after school to get ideas for what might have led you to lose points. NOTE: If you create the video online, for example with YouTube, be sure that the video is private, not available to anyone who searches for it. Then, share a link with me. |
D or F Extra Credit
If you have a D or an F, you may complete the following assignment for extra credit D or F ASSIGNMENT: Submit a final draft of a piece of creative writing that applies one or more of the concepts below. You may do a new piece of creative writing or improve upon a piece of writing that you did as part of your warm-up Creative Writing this year. Your writing can be prose (writing in sentences) or poetry. Prose writing could be fiction or creative nonfiction. REQUIREMENTS: Your work must: - be typed and include a heading, a title, 12-point Times New Roman font, and double-spacing, and 1" margins. See me for a review of how to do this. For prose: - include at least two full pages of writing (formatted as described above). - include all of the elements of plot (even if they are brief) - Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, and Resolution. - use one or more of the following, which should be underlined and labeled: foreshadowing, indirect characterization, dialogue, sensory description, and/or figurative language (simile, metaphor, irony, or hyperbole). - (for poetry) include no fewer than 60 words, though this can be broken up in multiple poems. - include only poems you began working on in warm-ups - NO poems done as classwork or homework. - use one or more of the following, which should be underlined and labeled: alliteration, rhyme (with the rhyme scheme labeled), sensory description, onomatopoeia and/or figurative language (simile, metaphor, irony, or hyperbole). Feel free to come in and ask me questions or email me your questions. |
Exam Preperation, Study guides and handouts we have used in class.
Link to a website to help with perspective and tense:
http://theeditorsblog.net/2012/01/31/narrative-tense-right-now-or-way-back-then/ Link to a video about the five paragraph essay: |
Homework Help: here are some resources to help with your assignment
If you need book related support (summaries, descriptions of the community, character descriptions etc) check out:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/giver/ http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/g/the-giver/book-summary Click here to see an example of a letter. http://www.goodletterwriting.com/personal-letters.html |
Persuasive piece handouts :
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson56/homework1.pdf http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson56/homework2.pdf |