Class Assignments
Sunday, February 05, 2012 10:23 AM
Parents
Welcome to our class web site. Your role in monitoring our weekly assignments can be a significant and positive influence on the student's success in the class. Please visit the site as often as possible.
Check below for the day-to-day class work, homework assignments and test dates.
View the class resource text, A Handbook to Literature, by William Harmon. Previous editions of the book are acceptable. Although I make available a link to a Web site of literary terms for those who do not purchase the book, I do recommend owning this comprehensive gathering of literary concepts and terminology. This text has utility beyond this class, extending into the student's college years.
View the course syllabus and the English department's policies.
View the California State Standards as taught in this course.
Weekly Class Assignments
for Honors World Literature
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Monday-Thursday: We read and analyze the play Julius Caesar.
Friday: Literary lecture: "Goethe"
Literary Terms for this week: Petrarchan conceit, philology, picaresque novel, plot, and poetic justice
Students will find the definitions to these terms in their Handbook to Literature. If the student did not purchase this recommended text, these terms may be found on the link I provide on this site's main page at the bottom or by completing Internet searches. If you use either of these alternatives, I highly recommend you check your acquired definitions with those in another student's Handbook. You may also come to my room before school, at lunch, or after school to copy definitions from my master list of literary terminology. I assign five terms each week and after every four weeks, I test on all 20 terms on a matching format exam. At the end of the year, our final exam will be on these literary terms and concepts. I strongly recommend students create flashcards for the terms and study them with a parent or peer.
Honors-related online documents and lectures
Literary Lectures List
Active Reading Notes (ARN) Instructions
Making Stories Lecture
Lord of the Flies Lecture
Lord of the Flies Paper Requirements
Cry, the Beloved Country Lecture
Style Unit Essays Instructions
Style Unit: Mock AP Exam #1, Mock AP Exam #2. If the text looks fuzzy, click on it, then click on the resizing icon to focus the writing.
The Fall Lecture
The Fall Collage
Antigone Lecture
Semester One Study Guide (use your Language Arts textbook)
Semester Two Study Guide (use your Language Arts textbook)
Areas of Improvement in the Essay Checklist
Second Semester's--Persuasive Speech (be certain to follow these guidelines)
Persuasive Speech Evaluation Guide
The Research Paper Requirements
The Research Portfolio Requirements
The PowerPoint Lecture Requirements
PowerPoint Lecture Rubric
Independent Project Contract
Weekly Group Meeting Requirements
Creative Project Rubric
Interpreting PSAT Reports
Weekly Class Assignments
for Ethics in Action
Monday-Friday: Students complete the moral inventory, and we use it as a basis for this week's discussion.
View the course syllabus.