Pre AP 10th Grade ELA Fall 2008

Your summer reading:

Dante's Inferno (translation by Allen Mandelbaum)

Additionally, you must pick two novel from the following:
1984
A Brave New World
Clockwork Orange
Farenheit 451
A Man in the High Castle

Creative Writing

Go to this page, read one of the writers' commentaries , then respond to it in your own blog:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/specials/writers.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Pre AP 10th Grade ELA 5.27.08- 5.30.08

Read Pynchon's review of Love in The Time of Cholera:
http://community.livejournal.com/ru_pynchon/11938.html#cutid1

Finish A Heart of Darkness by next Tuesday.

Complete your short story revisions for next Wednesday.

Pre AP 10th Grade ELA 5.19.2008-5.23.2008

Monday
Read Voyage Act One and write one blog entry.

Tuesday
Read Voyage Act Two and write one blog entry.

Wednesday
Complete your analytic film essay for by next Wednesday.

Thursday
Read Shipwreck 127-147 of Act One and write one blog entry.

Friday
Read Shipwreck complet Act One.

Senior English ELA

Your final blog entries for Candide should be organized:

Chapters 19-24

Chapters 25-28

Chapters 28-30

I will check them Friday.

Senior English ELA

This week you should:

- rehearse your scenes for presentation Wednesday
- complete final satire project by next Tuesday

Return any owed books to myself or the EVL.

Pre AP 10th Grade ELA

This week you should:

- rehearse your scenes with costumes
- read Act I and II of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov and write one blog entry for each scene
- write one blog entry that encompasses your final reaction to the play
- complete film analyis begun in class

Creative Writing

Today we'll be focusiing on contests and literary magazines:

http://www.newpages.com/magazineguide/newmags/newmags.htm

Try to find as many free and applicable possible submissions.

Pre AP 10th Grade ELA

This week you must

- Rehearse your scenes.
- Complete your short story for next Wednesday.

Ap Language and Composition

Here you can find a list of words to describe tone
http://courseweb.hopkins.k12.mn.us/file.php/593/Unit_1/tonewords.pdf


Read this op-ed from the NYT and describe what sort of tone the article is written with three examples from the text
http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/liar-liar-pants-aflame/index.html?ref=opinion

Senior English Assignments 5.6.08-5.10.08

Tuesday
Read Chapter 6-9 of Candide and write one blog entry.

Wednesday
Read Chapter 10-13 of Candide and write one blog entry.

Thursday
Rehearse your scene of Hamlet.

Friday
Read Chapters 14-18 of Candide and write one blog entry.

Final Project due May 22nd.