September 20, 2012

9-12 English:

Typed paper due on Friday: Compare Frederick Douglass' idea of freedom with your own idea of freedom (minimum 1 page), 12 font, 1.5 spacing
 Complete reading of "Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Friday or Monday we will look at both poems and your response to
"Stanzas of Freedom" pages 574-575,  #2  -

Next Wednesday Vocab - Lesson 3-4 due


9-12 US History
Friday Chapter 17 test
This day/CE quiz


6-8 English :
On double pages in your notebook,  do your  entries for Alpha Genres, letters L-P. Each Alpha Genre must have an illustration.

Prefix quiz

All materials in class including planner – 10 points

Example of A genres: alliteration, adventure story, allegory, acrostic poem, animal story, ABC book, agenda, analogies
Example of E genres: expository, exaggeration, editorial, essay, economic speech, eye-opening expose, e.e.cumming-like poem, elements of style, evaluation, eulogy, emulation, ending writing

Examples of K genres: knock knock jokes, key words writing, Kirk Star Trek writing, Knights of the Round Table writing,

  6-8 US History:
This Day/CE Quiz

Homework - gather any materials to continue work on your diorama
Homework points - having your rubric with you for class

Here are a couple websites :
http://www.native-languages.org/houses.htm (shows different Native homes)
and our think quest site:

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110072/navigation/native_american_chart.htm

. Here is a link to someone showing how to make a Great Plains diorama:

Papa Tom Builds an American Indian diorama Parts 1, 2 & 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRamD98yqVg&feature=relmfu