Honors (Periods 1 & 4)
You must first log in and create an account on the Bedford St. Martin's website. I have included the urls here for Periods 1 & 4.
Period 1: BedfordSt.Martin's
Period 4: BedfordSt.Martin's
In order to create your account, you are going to have to put in the long code at the front of your textbook. It's on the cardstock page. Do NOT tear this page out! Once you create your account, it will take you to a class website with your first assignment. Click on assignment, then the blue box with an arrow to get the complete assignment (I have repeated it below in case there are any problems. In case of a total web site melt down, To hear and read the essay and access the questions, click on the side bar where you see the dot and date next to "Joan Didion Santa Ana Wind" I've also linked to Joan Didion's essay so that you can read it and linked to a word document where you can answer the 4 questions. (So, there's no reason not to do the work) After you have answered the first 4 questions, go to the class blog and answer the question posted there.
See below for directions and homework.
Directions: I recommend that you listen to Diane Keaton read Joan Didion's descriptive essay. You can download a transcript to follow along. There are headphones on the back table or use your own.
Answer the first 4 questions in complete, thoughtful sentences. When you have finished answering the questions and you have submitted them, go to the class blog and respond to the post. By next class, please respond to two of your classmates.
Homework: Look at the painting on page 187 and read Joyce Carol Oates's poem "Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942." You don't have to answer them, but be prepared to discuss the questions on pp18 & 190 on writing strategy and language. Then read Joyce Carol Oates on Writing pp 191-192.
Have a great weekend and I'll see you in class Tuesday. Please bring books.
Regular (Periods 2 & 5)
1. Begin with the attached handout on creating similes and metaphors. You can type them up or print and hand write. You will need to turn them in to Mr. Berger, whichever way you go. (Remember that to print, you must release your print job from the Desk Top). (No more than 20 minutes on this, preferably 15)
2. After this and sharing your similes and metaphors, please read the short essay by Zora Neale Hurston: "How it Feels to be Colored Me" -- As you're reading, also pay attention to her use of language and be thinking about her main ideas. Are they different from what you expected when you read the title. Look carefully at the final metaphor in the last paragraph.
3. Your last assignment is to go to you class blog and respond to the prompt, which is basically to create a similar metaphor for yourself: what is your container and what is it filled with? I've posted a personal example to help you get started. Please create a post and then by the next class, respond to two class mates.
You must first log in and create an account on the Bedford St. Martin's website. I have included the urls here for Periods 1 & 4.
Period 1: BedfordSt.Martin's
Period 4: BedfordSt.Martin's
In order to create your account, you are going to have to put in the long code at the front of your textbook. It's on the cardstock page. Do NOT tear this page out! Once you create your account, it will take you to a class website with your first assignment. Click on assignment, then the blue box with an arrow to get the complete assignment (I have repeated it below in case there are any problems. In case of a total web site melt down, To hear and read the essay and access the questions, click on the side bar where you see the dot and date next to "Joan Didion Santa Ana Wind" I've also linked to Joan Didion's essay so that you can read it and linked to a word document where you can answer the 4 questions. (So, there's no reason not to do the work) After you have answered the first 4 questions, go to the class blog and answer the question posted there.
See below for directions and homework.
Directions: I recommend that you listen to Diane Keaton read Joan Didion's descriptive essay. You can download a transcript to follow along. There are headphones on the back table or use your own.
Answer the first 4 questions in complete, thoughtful sentences. When you have finished answering the questions and you have submitted them, go to the class blog and respond to the post. By next class, please respond to two of your classmates.
Homework: Look at the painting on page 187 and read Joyce Carol Oates's poem "Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942." You don't have to answer them, but be prepared to discuss the questions on pp18 & 190 on writing strategy and language. Then read Joyce Carol Oates on Writing pp 191-192.
Have a great weekend and I'll see you in class Tuesday. Please bring books.
Regular (Periods 2 & 5)
1. Begin with the attached handout on creating similes and metaphors. You can type them up or print and hand write. You will need to turn them in to Mr. Berger, whichever way you go. (Remember that to print, you must release your print job from the Desk Top). (No more than 20 minutes on this, preferably 15)
2. After this and sharing your similes and metaphors, please read the short essay by Zora Neale Hurston: "How it Feels to be Colored Me" -- As you're reading, also pay attention to her use of language and be thinking about her main ideas. Are they different from what you expected when you read the title. Look carefully at the final metaphor in the last paragraph.
3. Your last assignment is to go to you class blog and respond to the prompt, which is basically to create a similar metaphor for yourself: what is your container and what is it filled with? I've posted a personal example to help you get started. Please create a post and then by the next class, respond to two class mates.