Due Monday

1. There will be quiz on passive, progressive, and linking forms of "to be"

2. Please print the first page of the critical essay by Stacey Margolis.

You need to dived the text into about 6 equal sections. For each section, write down new words and their definitions, and a margin summary of the information in that section.

Identify any quotations that might support the importance idea of Huckleberry Finn the novel criticizing the continued mistreatment of African Americans.

Due Thursday--Revised Writing Sample

For Thursday, you are performing style revisions on the immigration writing sample that you wrote for Mr. Nickel today in history. The rubric below shows what you will be evaluated on in regards to style. Please do not focus your revisions on content, but instead work on sentence beginnings, reducing passive, progressive, and linking, transitional strategies, etc.

You will be turning in your raw copy with revisions marked, and then a final copy that you typed with the revisions made.

Style Rubric

(My apologies that the style rubric still contains spelling/usage errors, but time did not permit me to make the changes and still get this information posted.

Observation Note card Info

Please check the information in the previous post regarding your SBAC essays.

Your first research paper checkpoint is due Tuesday, (27th?)

You will need to have 10 quotations from Huck Finn that support your observation topic arranged in order from strongest to weakest.

Please see this document if you have any questions about how your assignment should be completed.

Updates

Extra Credit Info

If you have not found the extra credit information on the lower left bar, here it is:

Then, you must write a 2 page (double spaced) paper. The first page, should be information about what you learned. The second page, should be your reflections about the importance of what you learned.

This is due at the beginning of 6th period on Friday.

Grade updates:

I have still not started grading the "make up work folder" but I have high hopes that this might happen on Thursday.

Starting Thursday, you should be able view your grade with your SBAC writing task scores entered. If you do not see scores, this means one of three thing:

1. You did not turn it in OR you submitted the wrong assignment.
2. I have made an error in processing your paper.
3. You paper is under investigation for having a high "similarity index" to another student's paper or the internet.

Regardless, a conversation might be in order.

Good luck with the rest of your finals and I will see you all on Friday.

Final Exam Information

Below is information about your semester one objective final. Your semester one reading list is available on the left.

Semester 1 Final Exam

127 Multiple Choice Questions
Essay Component (maybe..hopefully)

Objective Test breakdown:

 60 Huck Finn Questions

 15 Timeline Questions
 20 Character/Quotation Questions
 12 Character Interpretive Importance Questions
 12 General Knowledge/Interpretive Importance Questions

 20 Time Period General Description Questions

 12 Quotation matching to Time Period

 8 Literary Device Identification

 10 Literary Device Definition

 16 Author Identification

Literary Devices: Semester 1


Aphorism
Personification
Periodic Structure
Allusion
Metaphor/Analogy
Argumentation
Parallel Structure
Rhetorical Questions
Faulty Dilemma/Ultimatum
Slogan
Conceit
Enjambment
Epanorthosis
Diction
Syntax
Simile
Imagery
Appeals to Logic,
Emotion, Authority,
Fear