Homework/Reminders for All Classes - 16 January 2018

I'm going to do a post for all of the classes to review what needs to be done before next class - Wednesday for A day and Thursday for B day. If we don't have school because of the forecasted snow, then these reminders would be due for the next class.

AP English III

We had a really productive class today working through Hurston's "How It Feels to Be Colored Me." I think that working through this very accessible text helped you to understand more of what Emerson was doing with his piece "The Oversoul." Remember that as we keep reading we will continue to build an understanding of what Transcendentalism is.

For next class you have Henry David Thoreau's "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" - Be sure to read and annotate the piece clearly. Think about WHY Thoreau goes into the woods to live. Find out WHAT his points are about the life of others. His language and metaphors get a bit complicated, but if you keep Transcendentalism in mind, you'll be able to understand.

You have a few things to turn in to me next class. First, you have your small daily reflections on your Transcendentalism experiment. Remember that these should review how your process went for the day. You should also turn in your overall week-long reflection where you think about the week as a whole. This week-long reflection should be one-page, typed, double spaced. Lastly, you have two vocabulary cards due next class - one word from Emerson, one word from Hurston. Be sure to complete all parts of the card and share with me or turn them in.

English IV

We have finished Twelfth Night. You should be looking through all of the great work and notes that you have taken with this play to prepare for our unit exam. The exam will be in two classes from now. Next class we will play a review game, review our study guides as we play the game, and then get ready for our next unit of the year on Frankenstein.

Advanced Russian

You should be working on your exercises related to verbs of motion so that you are able to conjugate them appropriately in past and present tense, know the difference between unidirectional and multidirectional action, and be aware of the related cases and prepositions used with different verbs. Next class we will be doing a TPRS activity where we will be traveling through Russia. Make sure that you have your list of where you would go if you could go to Russia. Know where these places are and how you would get from place to place.

Russian I

Spend your time working on the exercises in the end of Chapter One related to the different cases and how to use them appropriately. You should be working hard to memorize your endings so that you can put words in any of the six cases and identify that case. You will also want to be able to know what each case does and why it is used in a sentence. Next class we will spend some time reviewing cases with Mad Libs in Russian!