English 11A – 6th Hour Book Project Posting Spot

FOR YOUR first book project this term, in addition to the talk and the reading logs, you are required to post to this spot twice. You must fill the box to get full credit, and if you have numerous errors, I will not approve it, and you will have to redo it. I recommend typing into a [...]

English 11B – 4th Hour Book Project Posting Spot

FOR YOUR book project this term, in addition to the paper and the reading logs, you are required to post to this spot twice. You must fill the box to get full credit, and if you have numerous errors, I will not approve it, and you will have to redo it. I recommend typing it in [...]

English 11A 2nd Book Project Posting Spot

FOR YOUR second independent book project, in addition to the book project and the reading journals, you are required to post to this spot twice. You must fill the box to get full credit. If you have numerous errors, I will not approve it, and you will have to do it again, so I would suggest [...]

ENGLISH 11A 1st Book Project Posting Spot

FOR YOUR first book project this term, in addition to the talk and the reading logs, you are required to post to this spot twice. You must fill the box to get full credit, and if you have numerous errors, I will not approve it, and you will have to redo it. Proofread! Use only your first [...]

WELCOME BACK!

Welcome back to school. I hope you’re getting into the routine again of getting up early (not something I like doing either!).
On my blog you will find handouts of assignments and links to useful websites to get ACT or MLA help. There are other links as well that I hope you will be able to [...]

A Farewell to Arms – Posting Spot

Ah…one of the greatest American novels. I hope all of you enjoy it. Many of my past students have found the love story in this one fun to read and the war parts exciting. We’ll spend some time discussing this one in the fall, so it’s best to read it closer to September. Post your [...]

Group 7 – Go Tell it on the Mountain – Posting Spot

Kayla, Sarah, Briana, and Allison: Post your thoughts here about your novel, Go Tell it on the Mountain. Use only your first name and last initial, make each posting substantial, and proofread them before you post. If you have numerous errors, I will not approve them. You must post four times.

American Dream Paper

WE’RE FINISHING the American Dream unit next week, so I’m attaching the paper assignment in case you want to get started early. We’ll begin discussing this in class Friday. The paper will be due Monday, April 28.
Paper assignment – american-dream-paper.pdf
Rubric – american-dream-paper-rubric.pdf

A BOOK RECOMMENDATION

HI EVERYONE,
I just wanted to take a minute to tell you about a book I just read. I know some of you will LOVE this book, probably especially guys. It’s called The Road by Cormac McCarthy and it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction last year. I picked up the book last Thursday not knowing [...]

English 11A: 2nd Book Project Posting Spot

FOR YOUR second book project (independent-book-project-linguistic-choices.pdf), in addition to the paper and journals, you are required to post to this spot twice. You must fill the box to get full credit, and if you have numerous errors, I will not approve it. Proofread! Use only your first name and last initial. The criteria for the postings is [...]