Monday, March 18, 2019

Introduction to Science Fiction

Today, we took introductory notes for Science Fiction. We'll be starting Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man tomorrow. If you have your own copy of the text, please start bringing it tomorrow.

Click here to see the Science Fiction notes from today.

Click here to download the BLANK Science Fiction student notes from today.

Click here to download the entire text of The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury.

Vocabulary Unit 10 Notes

Today, we took notes for Vocabulary Unit 10. Here are the notes:



Click here to download the BLANK student notes page for this vocabulary unit.

Click here to see the Quizlet for Vocabulary Unit 10.

Friday, March 1, 2019

Gatsby Exam Review, Exam Review Extra Credit

Click here to view the extra credit for the Gatsby Summative Exam. The post-it note annotations are worth 5 points per chapter, so that means that this extra credit worth 15 points on Monday's Gatsby exam. Do it! This extra credit is due on Monday, March 4, 2019.

Click here to download a copy of the Gatsby Summative Exam review sheet. I highly recommend that you do the review first on your own (or with a friend) and then look at the test review answers.


Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Prepare for the Gatsby Socratic Seminar

On Monday, we started to prepare for the Socratic seminar for The Great Gatsby. Our main goal is to discuss the book, so we can understand it better. Hopefully, then, this will lead us to excellent scores on the Gatsby final test next week. PLUS, class discussions are fun - amirite?

In case you were absent or lost yours, click here to download a blank copy of the prep sheet for the Gatsby Socratic Seminar. Please make sure you read all of the directions. Some sections require answers for your questions, complete with text evidence and citations.

Remember: If you're citing a book, you just put the author's last name and page number in parenthesis at the end of the sentence. For example: Tom Buchanan accuses Jay Gatsby of being a bootlegger during the confrontation by saying that Gatsby's stores "sold grain alcohol over the counter" during the Prohibition (Fitzgerald 133). Notice that the citation (Fitzgerald 133) is before the period at the end of the sentence.

If you would like to look at the class resources for writing questions, click here to see the resources.

Please come prepared on block day! Your whole prep sheet should be done. This Socratic seminar is a double daily grade - one grade for the completed prep sheet (again - please read the directions on the page to make sure you've done everything), and one grade for your participation in the discussion. For whatever reason, if you are unhappy with your discussion grade, you will have a chance to raise that grade after we do the seminar.

Thursday, February 21, 2019

The Great Gatsby: Ch 8-9 Review ANSWERS

Click here to confirm your answers!

The Great Gatsby: Chapters 8 and 9 Detailed Review

Click here to download the review for chapters 8 and 9. All page numbers are from the hard cover version of the book.

Friday, February 15, 2019

The Great Gatsby: Chapter 7

Click here to read chapter 7.

Here's the audio of chapter 7:

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

The Great Gatsby Chapters 5 & 6

Click here to read chapter 5.

The Great Gatsby Chapter 4

You received the extra credit for chapters 4-6 today in class; I have extra copies if you need one. Click here to download a copy of the extra credit for this Friday's quiz. (Just do the chapters 4, 5, and 6.)

Click here to read chapter 4.

Today, we worked on a character analysis for chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby. There are four options, and I asked you to complete two of them. Click here to download a copy of the chapter 4 character analysis.

You will then take ONE of those analysis paragraphs and turn it in on TurnItIn.com. It's just one single paragraph. You also received a piece of paper that states how this paragraph will be graded. Please note that I have changed the due date to Friday, February 8 at 11:59pm.

Click here to download my example MLA format.
To use this file:

  1. Download the file.
  2. Save it to your computer or thumb drive. Make sure you are saving it where you can find it later!
  3. Look at the header and heading. Update the information with your name, class period, etc. Make sure to double click the header and put your last name up there next to the page number.
If you want to set up your own MLA formatting, click here to download step-by-step directions.