Wednesday January 17, 2018

Honors English 10: Today students took a quiz over chapter 5 and 6. Students then worked through the chapter comprehension questions. Here are the questions for 5 and 6:

Chapter 5

1. Hester comes to some conclusions about her life on the first page of chapter 5. What does she realize about the scarlet letter?

2. What does Hawthorne suggest about people who are shamed and where they end up?

3. Where does Hester end up living after her prison sentence? How does she make a living?

4. What is ironic and even hypocritical about her job?

5. How is she treated by the townspeople?

6. What strange and unexplainable thing starts to happen to Hester in relation to the scarlet letter?

Chapter 6
1.       Where does Hawthorne say the infant was worthy to have come from? Why is this important? What does it relate to? (Think of the religious aspects)
2.       How does Hester perceive her child? Use a line from the text to support your thinking.
3.       What is Pearl’s behavior like around other children?

    HOMEWORK: Study vocabulary! Vocab is located on your Scarlet Letter pre-reading sheet! 

  

    English 10: Students were checked off for completion of their chapter two questions. We then reviewed vocab. Then we read chapter 3 together in LOTF. 

     HOMEWORK: Study vocabulary! Also, a practice list is now available on vocab.com! This is practice only, you do not need to do it, but it can help you for the quiz coming up on Monday!

Tuesday January 16, 2018

Honors English 10: Today, students answered questions for their previous reading of chapters 2-4. Here are the questions, which should be answered in your notebook:

Chapter 2

•       1. What piece of equipment in the town served “…to be as effectual an agent, in the promotion of good citizenship, as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France.”?

•       2. In chapter two, what does Hawthorne specifically compare Hester’s appearance to?

•       3. Whose presence kept the mood of Hester’s punishment grave and somber, rather than raucous and filled with more vocal ridicule?

•       4. Hester day-dreams during her punishment. Of whom and what does she think about?

Chapter 3

1. In this chapter we learn the exact punishment for Hester’s crimes. What is the exact punishment?
2. The Governor asks a member of the religious elite to pressure Hester into revealing the father. Who ends up pressuring her in a speech? What is Hester’s reaction to the speech?

Chapter 4

1. What is wrong with Hester and the baby?
2. What is the name of the man who comes as a doctor to help Hester and her baby?
3. What does Hester initially fear the man is trying to do?
4. Ultimately, who do we find out this man really is?
5. What do we learn about Hester’s relationship and attitude she had towards her husband?
6. What pact do Hester and Chillingworth make at the end of the chapter? 

HOMEWORK: Read chapter 5 and 6 before start of class tomorrow!

Link to digital copy of the text:

 http://www.literatureproject.com/scarlet-letter/

English 10: Today, students read chapter 2 in Lord of The Flies on their own. Answer these questions in your notebook:

1.      What rule does Ralph set for the tribe?

2.  What fear do the small children have?  How does Jack respond and how does Ralph respond?

3.  What effort does Ralph say the boys should take to get rescued?

  

4.  How does the plan to get rescued back fire on the boys?

  

5.  What worry does Piggy have at the end of the chapter?

   

6.  From what view point is this story narrated?

7.  In what genre is this novel?  

9.  What was the author's purpose in writing this story? How do you know? (Inform, persuade, entertain)

10. Find an example of personification in this chapter. Write the line down and explain how it is an example of personification.

HOMEWORK: finish chapter 2 and questions before class tomorrow.

Here is a link to a digital copy of the text:

http://colleronline.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/2/0/2820270/lotf_text.pdf

Friday January 12, 2018

Honors English 10:  Today, students read chapter one and part of chapter two of The Scarlet Letter in class.

HOMEWORK: Finish chapter two and read three and four. Complete a half page summary for chapter two.

Access the text for free, here: http://www.literatureproject.com/scarlet-letter/


English 10: Today students finished reading chapter one in Lord of the Flies.

Thursday January 11, 2018

Honors English 10: Today, students read and answered questions for the "Custom House" introduction in The Scarlet Letter.


English 10: Today students read the first 20 pages of Lord of the Flies.

HOMEWORK: survival guides are due Friday!

Wednesday January 10, 2018

Honors English 10: Today we worked on the pre-reading activity and anticipatory questions to help launch our reading of The Scarlet Letter.

HOMEWORK: Finish the pre-reading activity and the anticipatory questions!


English 10: Today students continued to work on their survival guides to help launch our reading of The Lord of the Flies. 

HOMEWORK: finish survival guides by Friday! You will turn them in at the beginning of class.

Tuesday January 9, 2018

Mr. Wells was out today. Students completed a pre-assessment for quarter 3.

Monday January 8th, 2018

Honors English 10: Today, students had the period to work on the pre-reading sheet for Scarlet Letter. 

HOMEWORK: Pre-reading sheet needs to be completed by Wednesday.

Access the text for free, here: http://www.literatureproject.com/scarlet-letter/


English 10: Today we started our unit on The Lord of The Flies. Students began working on their survival guides.  Survival guides will be due Friday.

HOMEWORK: LOTF vocab list #1.