10th+grade+English


 * Welcome to my wiki. Please consult these postings for special assignments.**


 * Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016**

Hello students,

I hope you are enjoying this beautiful holiday weekend. I am looking forward to seeing your creative billboard projects. Remember that your goal is persuade a viewer to read the book that you chose to read this summer. Your 8 1/2 by 11 inch poster should accomplish the following goals:

1. It should have a visual focus so that your viewer is drawn to an image and/or lettering. 2. You should include the title of your novel or nonfiction work as a major visual element. 3. You should write a few sentences that describe the theme (message) of the novel and which will make your reader want to read it. However, spoiler alert: make sure that you do not give away too much of the plot! 4. If you want to include any "testimonials" -- i.e. reviewers' comments -- you may. Since this is a creative assignment, you may make them up, but they should sound believable.

Above all, be creative and make "advertisement" for your book your own!

I have posted the assignment sheet below if you want to look at it again.


 * Friday, Jan. 23, 2015**

I've posted the assignment sheet for the creative assignment and a few more models for you to look at. Note how these student writers used a concrete object to represent a greater feeling.












 * Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014**

Here are the materials I have distributed for //The Joy Luck Club// essay. Please check the sheet with embedding stems, which will remind you of how to smoothly blend quotations with your analysis. I have also attached the original outline and assignment sheet below as well.




 * Friday, Oct. 3, 2014**

Remember that your Old Milon essay is due on Monday! Here are copies of the diagram on the board that outline's the structure of this paragraph and the heading you should use on your final copy. Work hard and get this done over the weekend.


 * Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014**

Keep working on your embedded sentences by combining the left and right sides of your heuristic chart. Here is a copy of the sentence stems I showed you in class today.




 * Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014**

Here are the images of the hourglass "recipe" and the heading for the "Cranes" assignment.






 * Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014**

The attachment below presents three embedding stems for the "Cranes" assignment.



This attachment is the worksheet for the editorial about the Korean War Memorial




 * Monday, Sept. 8, 2014**

Here is the copy of the summer reading book review essay that was given out in class today. Remember that the deadline for this project is Friday, Sept. 12. Be sure to use __supporting evidence!__


 * Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014**

Just a reminder that you have a multiple choice quiz on your assigned summer reading text (either //The Lightning Thief// or //All Quiet on the Western Front.//) Your independent choice billboard/ad is due on Monday.


 * Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014**

I hope you had a good first day of school. Here are some reminders for tomorrow and beyond:

1, Periods 2,3 -- Finish your personal reader history if you did not do so in class. 2. All classes -- Your billboard/ad for your independent choice reading is due on Monday, Sept. 8. A copy of this assignment is posted below. (Periods 1/2 will discuss this assignment in class tomorrow.)



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=**Welcome to my wiki! Please consult these postings for special assignments.**= I hope you had a fun-filled summer that included reading books that were assigned, as well as at least one work that was chosen by you. Your first assignment is a creative one in which you will design a poster which is intended to persuade other North Penn students to read your book. Please consult the link below for more details.
 * Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013**




 * Friday, Sept. 27, 2013**

Your homework is to read and "talk to the text" for the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains." After you have marked up your copy by capturing your thoughts (Remember to include any literary devices and figurative language), then complete the heuristic chart. Remember that your goal is to analyze why the writer made the choices he or she did and draw inferences about the deeper meaning of the text.






 * Monday, Sept. 30, 2013**

Many of you have not submitted your paragraph on the theme of loyalty in the short story "Cranes." Others of you may want to rewrite for a higher grade. Work on this assignment now!!!

PLEASE CONSULT THE ASSIGNMENTS LISTED ABOVE THIS LINE FOR THE 2013-1014 SCHOOL YEAR! __

Friday, Oct. 19, 2012

Please consult the following page numbers as you brainstorm textual evidence for your "War is all hell" essay.




 * Monday, Oct. 28, 2013**

Your homework is to read the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" found on pages 87-92 of your literature book. As you are reading, please capture your thought processes by completing a metacognitive journal. The questions you are to respond to are found in the link below.




 * ONLY CONSULT THE ASSIGNMENTS LISTED ABOVE THIS LINE!**

Sept. -- Please click on the link below to open the reading survey.

[|https://docs.google.com/a/npenn.org/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dDNKOFcyS2ZKMkMtSWE3MFNuZkpJTEE6MQ#gid=0]


 * Tuesday, Dec. 6 -- Creative writing models**

Consult these creative writing models for ideas about how to approach your symbolism assignment. Be sure to "show, not tell."