Monday, October 24, 2011

Pre-APEnglish 10: October 24-28

Greetings Jr. APEs!

I hope you had a restful weekend. We have lots to do this week, and unfortunately, I will not be here on Friday to guide you who are in my B class. I will not leave you taskless, however.

This week I hope to accomplish all (or at least most) of the following:
You will have a quiz on your lesson 7 vocabulary. I will give you the words to study on a handout. Your quiz will be either Wednesday (since I won't be here Friday) or Thursday depending on when we meet.

We will also finish reading the Native American myths in our text books and compare and contrast some of the with Judeo/Christian mythology. Remember, I am using the term myth in the literary sense, meaning stories that contain gods or super human characters that are passed through cultures and that may explain natural phenomena.

We will also read and discuss two accounts from different colonies, which we will likewise compare and contrast. You will read Of Plymouth Plantation and History of the Dividing Line, accounts of the Plymouth and Jamestown colonies respectively. Note that the former is written in Puritan Plain Style, and the latter is a work of satire. Be able to define both styles of writing and recognize them upon reading.

When we complete the two colonial accounts, we will delve into Captivity Narratives. I hope to complete the Narrative of the Captivity, by Mary Rowlandson this week, and read The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oluadah Equiano by next week. The former is the story of a Puritan woman who was captured for ransom during King Phillip's War, and the latter is the story of a young African captured, sold into slavery, and transported over the Middle Passage. If you get parental consent, I have a film that depicts this passage that I would like us to view.

On Friday, when I am away with the Poetry Out Loud winners, I will leave you some multiple choice questions, AP style, from excerpts from Julius Caesar. I want you to complete them and turn the answers and the packets in by the end of class. This will count as a daily grade, and we will review the answers next week.
You will also complete some practice exercises on the parts of a sentence (finding subjects and verbs, direct and indirect objects, and predicate adjectives and predicate nominatives. I will have given a brief review of these parts before Friday, but this is grammar that should be easy review, so you should not have too much difficulty.

Don't forget that your narrative essays are due soon. Please upload your completed narratives to Moodle before Friday.

See you in class!

Mrs. SO

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