Monday, October 24, 2011

ENGLISH 10: October 24-28

Hello Sophomores!

I hope you had a restful weekend. This is a B week, so your class will meet three times, which is a good thing, since we have lots to do!

On Tuesday, we will discuss the reading you had for homework, The Narrative of the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson. We will discuss the characteristics that classify it as Plain Style writing, the events that led up to the captivity, and the author's tone and purpose. We will also read the background information for another captivity narrative, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oluadah Equiano, the story of a boy captured in Africa and sold into slavery. Expect to compare and contrast these two narratives.We will also review your vocabulary, lesson 11, for a quiz on WEDNESDAY, which is not the typical quiz day. I will not be here on Friday, so I am bumping the quiz up a day. I will be accompanying our Poetry Out Loud winners to a workshop at UAH. In class Friday, you will watch the film Amistad, but only if I have permission from all your parents. I will send permission slips home on Tuesday which MUST be returned by Wednesday. As an alternative to the film assignment, I will have you answer the questions on pages 43 and 65 in your text books, and some practice exercises on classifying sentences by structure and purpose and identifying fragments and run ons.

Speaking of narratives, don't forget to complete your narrative essays and upload them to Moodle no later than Friday. We will be sharing some of them in class on Tuesday, Nov. 1.

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