Due Monday, October 1, 2012

Read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time up until Chapter 173

Read "By the Waters of Babylon" from your textbook and post a quotation and analysis.

Make a post for each vocabulary word from "By the Waters of Babylon."

Due Thursday, September 27, 2012

Post an example and definition for each of the prefixes, roots, or suffixes connected to "The Possibility of Evil."

If you would like, start reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time up until Chapter 173, and "By the Waters of Babylon" from your textbook.

Due Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Write 6 Socratic Seminar Questions:

• 3 about "The Possibility of Evil"
• 3 about characterization in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Literary Terms: For one of the literary terms, expand upon the definition or give an example.

Due Monday, September 24, 2012

Read "The Possibility of Evil" and post a quotation or comment on a quotation.

Post a comment for each of the vocabulary words from "The Possibility of Evil."

Post a word related to each of the prefixes from "Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets." For each word, give its definition in terms of the prefix.

Due Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Literature Circle Role Sheets for "Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets":

• Write one page, double-spaced, Times New Roman size 12 font with one inch margins on plot, setting, mood, or character.
• Don't use orphan quotations or overly long quotations.

Literary Terms:

• Post one comment to one of the literary terms. Relate literary terms to each other, define their sub-terms (in bold), or give an example (of the term itself or a sub-term).

Also prepare for your vocabulary quiz. You will be tested on five words. You will have to spell the word correctly (0.5 points), name the part of speech (0.5 points), write the definition (1 point) and write a sentence that shows its meaning through context (1 point).

Example:

• verity (n.): truth
• She values verity. = 2.5/3 points because there is no context for the word.
• verity (n.): truth
• She values verity because she had previously been betrayed by a dishonest boyfriend. = 3/3 points because the sentence implies what "verity" means.

Due Monday, September 17, 2012

Have your Honors agreement signed and ready to turn in, if you have not already.

Read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time up to chapter 97, if you have not already.

Read "Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets"

• Post a quotation on the Analysis portion of the blog
• Comment on your own blog post, by doing one of the following:
• Make a connection to a literary term, yourself, life, or another text
• Make an inference
• Point out foreshadowing
• If someone has already chosen the same quotation as you, merely post a comment; don't repost the quotation.

Vocabulary

• For each vocabulary word from "Contents . . ." do one of the following:
• Write an alternative definition
• Use the word in a sentence (can change the form of the word)
• Give a synonym or antonym and why it is a good synonym or antonym
• Give a connotation of the word

The Curious Incident

Read up to chapter 97 of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. This will be up to page 27 of the PDF, but page 61 if you have the paperback copy of the novel.

Then write three questions for Wednesday's Socratic Seminar: one analysis, one evaluation, and one creation (prediction) question.