Due Monday, December 3, 2012

Read to page 68 of Fahrenheit 451

500 words on your personal dystopia (please bring a printed paper copy to class):

• Choose an issue that you think is a problem today. Exaggerate it and create your own dystopian society. How does this society function? How did their thinking change? How do “they” control people’s thinking?

Read "Doing Nothing is Something" by Anna Quindlen

Choose a quotation from "Doing Nothing is Something" that you think is trying to persuade you to do/think something. Tell us whether or not it is effective and why. Post in the analysis section.

Vocabulary: hiatus, deficit, prestigious, contemptuous, laudable

Due Monday, November 26, 2012

Please the first 42 pages of Fahrenheit 451.

Finish the Holt Reader, pages 191-215.

Due Thursday, November 22, 2012

Post something for each vocabulary word from "Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall."

Extra Credit: due December 3, 2012

Make a poster (at least size A3) that does one of the following:
-entertain
-inform
-persuade
-express thoughts or feelings

The poster should be colorful and include graphics. There does not need to be a lot of text. The poster will be graded on how effectively it communicates its purpose and on its aesthetic value. The poster should be original (i.e. your own work).

            
This message is not sponsored by Ms. Lucy     As in you can use posters for inspiration.

Due Thursday, November 15, 2012

Post something for either author's purpose or author's perspective.

Due Wednesday, November 14, 2012

1 page, double-spaced, Times New Roman size 12 Literature Circle Role Sheet on one of the following based on Isabel Allende's "And of Clay Are We Created":

• Author's perspective
• Narrative
• Theme
• Setting

Due Thursday, November 8, 2012

Post a word and definition for each PRS (posted in the vocabulary section).

Due Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Post something for each vocabulary word from "And of Clay Are We Created."

Read "And of Clay Are We Created" if you haven't already.

Bring your Holt Reader to class on Wednesday.

Due Monday, November 5, 2012

The websites will be posted on the sidebar of the Home page. Please look through them. In the analysis, post a comment relying to "Which text seems like to would be the most interesting to read?" and "Which is the overall best website?"

You may start reading "And of Clay We are Created" by Isabel Allende in the Author's Purpose section. It is also in your Holt reader.