The next story we will be reading is "Wash" by William Faulkner who is the last of the four major Modern American authors we will be studying before the final. We are short on copies, so you may want to print out the PDF available here.
We will be discussing this story in class on Friday. So, this means that if you are not done SBACing on Friday, you will need to get those discussion notes from someone who is present. If you are in class on Thursday, we will be having some reading time for reading Wash, and if this reading is not complete after class on Thursday, it becomes homework to finish reading for Friday's discussion. If you have already read "Wash", you will use Thursday's
The next story we will be reading is excerpts from Faulkner's "The Bear" which is available in your red book. You will need to use the version in your red book, because any version that you find online with be 50 times longer, because it will be the full text. This story will be due on Monday.
Also, semester 2 final information is available on the left, including reading lists from first and second semester.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Friday, May 15, 2015
Due Monday
Please read Steinbeck's short story, "The Snake". If you were absent, you may need to borrow a copy from someone who was here, or search out a copy of the text online.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
Due Tuesday
Many of you need to catch up on your reading and read Hemingway's "In Another Country". If you don't have your book, the story is available online.
You will also need to finish writing down ideas for the questions below.
1. What observations can you make about the point of view of this story? What effect does this have on the reader?
2. What possible symbolism is present in the occupations of the narrator’s three main companions?
3. How is the war described on multiple occasions and what effect does this have on the story?
4. What different elements of the story contribute to a sense of isolation and alienation (or a sense of barriers prohibiting a sense of connection)?
5. What is the importance of the machines? (Hint: It’s not just ‘false hopes and promises of the modern age.’) How do the machines help to illustrate an important irony?
6. What is the importance of the major’s wife dying from pneumonia unexpectedly? What does he counsel the narrator against marriage?
You will also need to finish writing down ideas for the questions below.
1. What observations can you make about the point of view of this story? What effect does this have on the reader?
2. What possible symbolism is present in the occupations of the narrator’s three main companions?
3. How is the war described on multiple occasions and what effect does this have on the story?
4. What different elements of the story contribute to a sense of isolation and alienation (or a sense of barriers prohibiting a sense of connection)?
5. What is the importance of the machines? (Hint: It’s not just ‘false hopes and promises of the modern age.’) How do the machines help to illustrate an important irony?
6. What is the importance of the major’s wife dying from pneumonia unexpectedly? What does he counsel the narrator against marriage?
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Thursday, April 9, 2015
SBAC practice test
The Test:
You are going to complete a practice SBAC computer based test as a "guest". Unfortunately, this means that you won't get results back, but it will be a good experience for you to experience the types of questions that you might be asked to complete. You are also going to complete an assignment based on the questions that you have to respond to. The link for the test is available here. From this link select "sign in". On the next page, select guest and grade 11. You will do the G11 ELA Practice Test. (not the performance task) Please make sure you log in as a guest and that you select the 11th grade test. I used Chrome as my browser and had no problems.
The assignment:
Number your paper for each question (1-30) and create three columns which will be labeled TEXT, QUESTION TYPE, MY REACTION. Your reactions could be done as a simple ranking like "hard, medium, easy." For example, you might have things like:
Text/ Question Type/ Reaction
1. Read about clothing/ Select sentence/ pretty easy
12. Listen about frogs/ Short response/ hard
15. Read sample text/ Revise for organization/ medium
(My apologies that I don't have time to make my chart example look like an actual chart)
When you are done with the chart, please jot down ideas for the following question.
What do I feel that we need to practice most before the actual SBAC test?
This task will take you a while to complete. If you need to break it up into different sessions, when you sign back in you may just want to click past the questions you have already answered by providing fake answers.
You are going to complete a practice SBAC computer based test as a "guest". Unfortunately, this means that you won't get results back, but it will be a good experience for you to experience the types of questions that you might be asked to complete. You are also going to complete an assignment based on the questions that you have to respond to. The link for the test is available here. From this link select "sign in". On the next page, select guest and grade 11. You will do the G11 ELA Practice Test. (not the performance task) Please make sure you log in as a guest and that you select the 11th grade test. I used Chrome as my browser and had no problems.
The assignment:
Number your paper for each question (1-30) and create three columns which will be labeled TEXT, QUESTION TYPE, MY REACTION. Your reactions could be done as a simple ranking like "hard, medium, easy." For example, you might have things like:
Text/ Question Type/ Reaction
1. Read about clothing/ Select sentence/ pretty easy
12. Listen about frogs/ Short response/ hard
15. Read sample text/ Revise for organization/ medium
(My apologies that I don't have time to make my chart example look like an actual chart)
When you are done with the chart, please jot down ideas for the following question.
What do I feel that we need to practice most before the actual SBAC test?
This task will take you a while to complete. If you need to break it up into different sessions, when you sign back in you may just want to click past the questions you have already answered by providing fake answers.
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