English 10H Honors Reading Assignment

Honors Reading List

Read your HRL selection or face SLEEPLESS DOOM as the quarter becomes more intense and you slowly transform into a walking zomboid incapable of really learning anything because you're up late trying to get caught up on what you should have already done!

I'm here to help you.  If you have a question about the class, a reading, or the details of an assignment, it's your responsibility to ask.  My ESP is not so good, so I won't know if you're confused or don't understand.  Please feel free to stop by before or after school.  I usually arrive before 7 and stay until 3.  If I'm not in my room, I'm probably in the copy center or the office.  Have me paged if necessary.

ENGLISH 10H LOG - 1st Quarter

1 - 08/18 (A) & 08/19 (B) -  Writing Prompt 1 - Personal Expectations, QW1: Why take notes?  Discussion: Note-taking procedures and rationale, common goals.  READING: "Theme for English B" ID important lines, QW2: Initial impressions and three questions.

Homework:  (1)  Read the information on questioning on the reverse of "Theme for English B" and (2) ID the different question types and answer the questions with a sentence or two. (3) Write one of each question type. (4) "Go home and write a page tonight..." BIOPAGE: compose a page of at least 250 words (approximately 1 page, typed, double spaced, 12 pt. font) that includes some information about yourself, but more importantly, expresses some of your thoughts and feelings.

2 - 08/20 (A) & 08/21 (B) - Portfolio, disclosure, website, and Honors Reading List instructions.  Quickwrite and discussion: The value of repetition - What changes, or what is different, when you watch a film more than once? Writing Prompt 2 - The Class as Text, discussion and notes.  Review the three different types of questions.
 
Homework: (1) Organize a portfolio (binder) for Honors English. (2) Read the Disclosure Document, fill out the form, sign it and return the signed form to class.  (3)  Visit this website, read the English 10H Honors Reading Assignment, peruse the list, and choose a book for 1st quarter.

3 - 08/22 (A) & 08/25 (B) - Life and literary action: inference.  Follow-up: class as text.  Writing Prompt #3 -  Interpretation of visual texts, discussion and notes on variable interpretation, perspective, and the sources of meaning.  Literary concept - Death of the Author.  QW: Object lesson in context - use the word "play" in a sentence.

Homework:  (1) See the note "DON'T PROCRASTINATE!" to the left.  Read for at least 20 minutes daily. (2) Read the directions on Thought Exercises at this link or on the reverse of your Portfolio Organization handout.
(3)  Note important, touching, or profound quotations in your HRL selection as you go; you can use these for writing about later.

4 - 08/26 (A) & 08/27 (B) - Portfolio check-up #1. QW1:  How can I do better taking notes, on my writing prompts, with organization, and avoiding procrastination?    BioPage excerpts - choose one or two and write a response.  Review questioning worksheet. In small groups, read "Did I Miss Anything?" aloud.  Have one person read "nothing" and another read "everything." Individually, quickwrite (1-2minutes) initial impressions.  Then, read it aloud again.   This time, individually write three interpretive questions about the text.  Then, read aloud a third time . Did you miss anything?  What do you "see" the second or third time that you did not the first?  Discussion of questions and third reading.  Groups report to the class. Literary term: binary opposition.  Identify "binary oppositions" at work in the text and the world around us.  

Homework:  (1) See the note "DON'T PROCRASTINATE!" to the left.  Read for at least 20 minutes daily. (2) .Note important, touching, or profound quotations in your HRL selection as you go; you can use these for writing about later.

5 - 08/28 (A) & 08/29 (B) - Review: DoA, Context, QW: How does knowledge of inferencing, DoA, and context impact both the way we write and the way we interpret what we read?  New process: Critical Reading.  "Did I Miss Anything" class discussion.  New literary term: binary opposition.  Identify "binary oppositions" at work in the text and the world around us.

Homework:  (1) See the note "DON'T PROCRASTINATE!" to the left.  Read for at least 20 minutes daily. (2) .Note important, touching, or profound quotations in your HRL selection as you go; you can use these for writing about later.

More BIG Ideas:
Writings from the past still portray our experiences in the present.  Allegory and other symbolic representations can effectively depict real, shared experiences.  Understanding the writing, the thinking, of the past can change how we interact with new knowledge and help us shape our own futures.  

And new ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:  Why do we, generally, resist learning and accepting new ideas and information?  How can we overcome that innate resistance?  What obligations, if any, do the educated have to the uneducated?

09/02 (A) & 09/03 (B) -  

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09/08 (A) & 09/09 (B) -  

09/10 (A) & 09/11 (B) -  

09/12 (A) & 09/15 (B) -  

Even more BIG Ideas: Honest differences of philosophy, religion, politics, and opinion may be unresolvable, yet diverse people can still interact with, work with, and even respect each other.  To be open-minded, one must try to achieve an UNDERSTANDING of others and their views, and that takes time and effort.

And new ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:  What are the sources of prejudice?  When is it appropriate, if ever, to act on prejudice?  How can we recognize and control our own prejudices instead of letting them control us?

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09/22 (A) & 09/23 (B) -  

09/24 (A) & 09/25 (B) -  

09/26 (A) & 09/29 (B) -  

09/30 (A) & 10/01 (B) -

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10/06 (A) & 10/07 (B) -  

10/08 (A) & 10/09 (B) -  

10/10 (A) & 10/13 (B) -  

10/14 (A) & 10/15 (B) -  1st Quarter Final Exam

10/21 (A) & 10/22 (B) - 

10/23 (A) & 10/24 (B) -