Shoebox Project

Check out episode 13 of El Camino Reality for a segment on our shoebox project:

http://www.ecrjournalism.com/showcase/2012/11/20/el-camino-reality-season-3-episode-13/

H English 10 Winter Break Assignment

Read and annotate The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. You will be tested on the book when you return. I will also check your books for annotations.

10th Grade Final Study Guide

Julius Caesar

Cicero

Portia

Casca

Decius

Antony

Calpurnia

Flavius

Octavius

Caesar

Murrelus

Lepidus

Cassius

Brutus

 

·         Why does the writer leave gaps in the letter that Lucius finds?

·         What inferences can be drawn from the way Brutus interprets the letter?

·         What is the contrast between Brutus and Cassius' argument and Octavius and Antony's?

·         What does Brutus mean by "Caesar, now be still; / I killed not thee with half so good a will"?

 

OAFK

Sir Ector

Guenever

Morgan le Fay

King Pellinore

Elaine

Morgause

Sir Thomas Malory

Gareth

Nimue

Gawaine

Sir Bruce Sans Pitié

Uther Pendragon

Lancelot

Agravaine

Galahad

 

·         The Beast Glatisant is part…

·         What is Merlyn’s last act before disappearing with Nimue?

·         According to Merlyn, what is “the curse of the world”?

·         What is the name of Lancelot’s sword?

 

Grammar                                                                             Persuasion

·         Its vs it’s                                                                               Logos, Pathos, Ethos

·         Idle vs idol                                                                           claim, evidence, diction, connotation,

·         Lose vs loose                                                                     denotation, style, argument, elaboration,

·         Possessive/plural                                                             credibility, source

·         capitalization                                                     

 

Identifying in a sentence:

·         subject

·         predicate

·         adjective

·          adverb

·         Preposition

·         object of preposition

·         indirect object  

·         direct object

·         objective complement 

·         conjunction

·         article

·         predicate nominative

·         predicate adjective

 

Literary terms

·         Mood

·         Thesis

·         Tone

·         Symbol

·         Diction

·         Metaphor

·         Irony

·         Foreshadowing

·         Personification

·         Allusion

·         Simile

·         Hyperbole      

 

Elements of an essay

·         Transition

·         Hook

·         Commentary

·         Topic sentence

·         Conclusion

·         Thesis

·         Concrete Detail

·         MLA format

9th Grade Final Topics

Literary terms
Elements of an essay
Morphemes
Great Expectations
The Odyssey
MLA Format
Persuasion
Grammar
Vocabulary from GE packet

Antony Speech Questions... Finally!

Sorry it took me so long to post these. You can turn them in by Friday. I don't know why they are sideways and I casn't fix it - you can download the pictures and rotate them to see the questions better.

Antony Speech Questions

I forgot to post them on Friday and I don't have the paper at home, so if you didn't finish, don't worry about it. I will post them tomorrow. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.