English I Week 6

Lessons for Week 6

Short Story Test coming up Oct. 6

Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech Quiz

Make friends with the parts of speech and enjoy a little School House Rock!

Progress Reports

Progress reports for all classes will be sent home Friday. Please sign and return the report.

Ehanced English I Week 6 (first period only)

Week 6 Lessons

Webquest Directions

Week 5 Lessons

Week 5 Lesson Plans

Remember you have a Nonfiction Test Monday

Test for Monday

Enhanced English I Lesson Plans Week 5 (First Period)

Week 5 Lesson Plans

Enhanced English One (First Period Only)

Here is your study guide for your test on Tuesday.

Study Guide

Progress Reports

Progress reports will go out this Friday 9/11. Please feel free to call or email with any questions you may have about your grades.

910-845-2203

mwarren@bcswan.net

Remember students with a 77% or below must come to tutoring on Thursday. There is a bus that will take them home after tutoring.

Week Four English I Sept 14-18

Your memoirs will be read aloud to the class on Sept 14th and 15th
Sept 17 you will sign a publishing contract and send your memoir to the publishing company
Sept 21 you have a nonfiction test

Week four Lesson Plans

Study Guide for Nonfiction Test

Enhanced English One Webquest

This assignment is worth 50 points

Webquest for the Friendship by Mildred Taylor
Adapted from http://www.tvhs.k12.vt.us/WMHS/Faculty/Kurucz/html/eng9/TKAM/Bird1.htm

Part One
· With your reading partner view the website and complete the questions below
· Visit: http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/girl.html
· Answer these questions and please type your answers
How did the women describe daily life? (home, speech, status)
How do you think their life was different from the lives of black people at the same time?

Part Two
· With your reading partner view the website and complete the questions below
· Visit: http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/mculley.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0730
· Answer these questions and please type your answers
How were the lives of the black women different from the lives of the white women?
How did poverty play a role in their lives?

Part Three
· With your reading partner view the website and complete the questions below
· Visit http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/jimcrowlaw1/p/jimcrowoverview.htm
· What is a Jim Crow Law?

Part Four
Visit this sites and look at the pictures http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html
Print out your picture and then explain how both a white man living in the South in the 1930's and a white man living in the North in the 2000's would react to that picture -- what might each say or do?

Part Five
Visit this site and read the story
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/emmett.html

What are some emotions you feel when reading this story?

Link for Birbiglia Summary

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=361

English I Week 3

Your memoir assignment is due this week. This assignment makes up 20% of your nine weeks grade.

Week Three Lesson Plans