Category: Personal Blog

  • Advanced Reading Feb 23-27

    Monday: Reading and Vocabulary development Tuesday: Artcle and reflective questions Julie Tharp: “When the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre” Wednesday: Newsela Articles and Reflective Video Responses (See Ted Talk below) Thursday: Act Prep and review Friday: Independent Reading and Vocabulary Development

  • ENG10 Feb23-27

    Friday all sophomores will be out of school for an Arts and Humanities Field trip to Lexington. No quiz this week Vocabulary Group 5 and Grammar Quiz on Adjectives and Adverbs will be next Thursday (Mar 5). Unit Four: Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Notes Outline Monday: Intro and Read Song of Roland for Homework Tuesday:…

  • ENG10 Feb9-13

    Vocab Quiz: Group 4 Grammar Quiz: Verbs Readings Thucydides “A Funeral Speech by Pericles” Tacitus: “The Burning of Rome” Personal Blogs About Me” 4 others Literature Responses Unit 01: You and the Internet Unit 02: Ruth=Love?, Flood Stories, Death Unit 03: Trojan War: Article Responses unit 03: Trojan War Project (See Below) Project questions(Choose Two.…

  • 3rd Block Class Survey

    Follow this link to complete a Class Survey for 3rd Block Adv Literacy Skills

  • ENG10 Weekly Update Jan 26-30

    Unit 03: The Epics of Troy Readings on The Iliad and The Aeneid.  Class Presentation Read Books of Iliad Vocabulary and Grammar Group 3 Verbs Weekly Blogs Which of the Major Characters would be your friend? Which of the female characters should be considered strong woman? Who is the real tragic hero Achilles or Aeneas? Who was the…

  • ENG10 Weekly Update Jan 20

    Arabic Fiction: “The Fisherman and The Jinne” Excerpt from Thousanc and One Arabia Nights Eample of a frame story Unit Two: Review Literature Terms: Theme, Narrative, Protagonist, Antagonist, Static Character, Dynamic Character Poetry Terms: Parallelism and Antithesis Freytag’s Pyramid Quiz: Vocabulary Gropu 2 and Grammar: Nouns and Pronouns Vocab Definitions Nouns and Pronouns Unit Three:…