It was a low-key day; we updated grade sheets (I passed back your essays and posted your grades). After, I introduced your independent reading book assignment, writing a letter about literature. The goal is simply to tell the author how his or her work made a difference in your life. We read and discussed two sample letters.
Homework:
*We're going to the textbook room tomorrow, so bring your student id and your book!
*Do a little brainstorming for your letter. Consider the following questions:
1.) Why do you have strong feelings about the book? Why did you react the way you did?
2.) Did the characters, conflict, or setting mirror your life in some way?
3.) What strengths or flaws do you share with a character or characters in the book?
4.) What did the book show you about your world that you never noticed before?
5.) What surprised you about yourself while you were reading this book?
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The Final Independent Book for English 9HP'ers: Science in the Service of Evil
Select and read one of the following:
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
Valerie Martin's Mary Reilly
Read the first half of your book by May 22.
Be 3/4 of the way through by May 29.
Be finished by June 2.
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
Valerie Martin's Mary Reilly
Read the first half of your book by May 22.
Be 3/4 of the way through by May 29.
Be finished by June 2.
Spring Semester Book List (English 10HP)
Richard Wright's Black Boy
William Shakespeare's MacBeth
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
William Shakespeare's MacBeth
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
Spring Semester Book List (English 9HP)
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate
Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate
Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Don't forget that, in addition to submitting a hard copy (print out) of your essays, you are now required to upload your essays to www.turnitin.com (click on the photo above). I'll train you and give you the required passwords on Wednesday, December 10.
In case you missed or misplaced the instructions. Here they are again:
1. Go to www.turnitin.com
2. Click on “New Users” in the top right corner.
3. Select user type: “student”
4. Turnitin class ID: ___________________
Password: _________________________
5. Enter your email address
6. Enter and confirm your own password of 6-12 characters
7. Continue to create a user profile. Follow the directions on the screen until you are completed. Then end process to log in once you finish.
8. Click on ________________
9. Click the icon labeled “submit” to turn in your paper.
10. Upload your saved paper. Find the file by browsing in the file you have save your paper into.
11. Continue with directions. Once you are finished Log Out!
In case you missed or misplaced the instructions. Here they are again:
1. Go to www.turnitin.com
2. Click on “New Users” in the top right corner.
3. Select user type: “student”
4. Turnitin class ID: ___________________
Password: _________________________
5. Enter your email address
6. Enter and confirm your own password of 6-12 characters
7. Continue to create a user profile. Follow the directions on the screen until you are completed. Then end process to log in once you finish.
8. Click on ________________
9. Click the icon labeled “submit” to turn in your paper.
10. Upload your saved paper. Find the file by browsing in the file you have save your paper into.
11. Continue with directions. Once you are finished Log Out!
If you are able to donate any of the following to our classroom, we would greatly appreciate it...
- Skinny white board markers
- Good books for the classroom library
- Classroom supplies: loose leaf paper, highlighters, post-it notes, blue/black ink pens, 3x5 index cards, etc.
- Kleenex
- Tennis balls (pre-cut if possible for easy slipping-on to desk feet!)
- Band-aids
A Little about Me
I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education from Eastern Michigan University in 1992. My major was, of course, English. After a brief stint in the Reading and Literacy Program at The University of Michigan, I began my teaching career at Ann Arbor Huron High School where I taught for a little over ten years. In 1998, I received my Master's degree in English: Written Communication. I worked several years with the Eastern Michigan University Writing Project, serving as a teacher consultant and teacher coordinator for the Summer Institute.
In 2004, my husband and I moved to Santa Monica. I taught one year at Samohi before I became teacher leader of the H house. Two years later, I had my beautiful baby boy, Calvin. I have been lucky to spend his first two years at home watching him grow! Now I return to Samohi, teaching part time in A house.
Contact Information
The best way to contact me is via e-mail:
tanderson@smmusd.org
tanderson@smmusd.org
A Little about Honors English
The focus of this course will be to create a learning community where you can develop critical reading and writing skills necessary for college and expand your repertoire as readers, writers, and original thinkers. In addition to our core texts (see below), you will select “independent reading” from a list of books paired with the themes of the core literature.
In addition to regular reading, you can expect the following:
•You will keep all class lesson notes in your Reader’s-Writer’s Notebook.
•When reading a work as a class, you will take periodic oral and written quizzes.
•After each unit, I will usually give a test or ask you to prepare a project, give a presentation, or write an essay that requires you to apply what you have learned in class.
•You will choose three or four books to read independently throughout the semester. You will often discuss your book with a small group of peers before writing an essay or completing a project.
•Throughout the semester, you will have an opportunity to practice writing essays in a timed setting, a situation you will face in college; however, most writing will go through a process of revision aided by teacher and peers. Although much of the writing will be analytical and persuasive, some will be reflective and creative.
•Keep everything! You will submit a Semester Portfolio to showcase your finished writing, demonstrate your mastery of the skills, and reflect on the semester as a whole.
In addition to regular reading, you can expect the following:
•You will keep all class lesson notes in your Reader’s-Writer’s Notebook.
•When reading a work as a class, you will take periodic oral and written quizzes.
•After each unit, I will usually give a test or ask you to prepare a project, give a presentation, or write an essay that requires you to apply what you have learned in class.
•You will choose three or four books to read independently throughout the semester. You will often discuss your book with a small group of peers before writing an essay or completing a project.
•Throughout the semester, you will have an opportunity to practice writing essays in a timed setting, a situation you will face in college; however, most writing will go through a process of revision aided by teacher and peers. Although much of the writing will be analytical and persuasive, some will be reflective and creative.
•Keep everything! You will submit a Semester Portfolio to showcase your finished writing, demonstrate your mastery of the skills, and reflect on the semester as a whole.
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Fall Semester Book List (English 10HP)
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Chaim Potok's The Chosen
Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Fall Semester Book List (English 9HP)
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Octavia Butler's Kindred
George Orwell's 1984
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
Elie Weisel's Night
Octavia Butler's Kindred
George Orwell's 1984
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
Elie Weisel's Night
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