The Great Gatsby: The Social Register character worksheet. Due Wednesday 1 February.

The Great Gatsby: "Identifying Setting" worksheet: due Friday 27 January.

 

LAST DAY FOR EXTRA CREDIT: YOUR OWN THE GREAT GATSBY NOVEL (Friday 27 January).

Extra-Credit Essay: The prompt is "An Important Change" (see My Access for details). The essay must be submitted in MLA format, be five-six paragraphs in length, have no contractions, AND have one use of simile, one use of metaphor, and one use of personification (each is to be hi-lighted). 

Due Monday 9 January. 

Winter Dreams: Judy & Dexter Venn Diagram due Wednesday 14 December.

Winter Dreams: Antonym/ Synonym and Narrative worksheet due Monday 12 December

Truth & Lies: The Essay. In a persuasive essay, students will either agree or disagree with Sophocles's statement about the power of lies and truth. Final essay submission date is 1 December. Available to students on My Access.

Earnest Hemingway Quiz: Soldier's Home & Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954 on Thursday 1 December

Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway: Vocabulary Development worksheets due Wednesday.

Essay Outline: Truth & Lies

Thesis statement and outline of body paragraphs due 17 November

Unit test on Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit & the Pendulum, The Raven, biography, American Gothic Literature, and other notes.

Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven: stanzas have been assigned, and they must be memorized, for a class choral-reading on Tuesday 8 November.