Assignment for February 23, 2010

Read Chapter 4
Complete Exercise 4
Continue working on Biblical allusions Project
Review Vocab words and do worksheet (In class quiz next week on all words)
Fix It: Nothing new: Make sure you are caught up to week 20.

Purchase or borrow: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. We will be using this book for the next few weeks.

February 16 NO CLASS--WINTER BREAK (Farewell to Jake Gardner leaving for New Zealand mission trip! Remember to pray for him.)

Assignments: Read "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
Annotate story.
Note any allusions. Explain what the authors purpose is in using the allusion.
Fix It Week 19
Vocab words Week 19

February 9 SNOW DAY! NO CLASSES!
Assignments:
*Fix It Week 18
*Vocab cards review Week 18
*Continue working on Biblical Allusions project. Go to www.worsleyschool.net and search 'allusion' for ideas on how allusions might be used. You will be giving quick in class reports on your assigned Bible passage.
*Reread chapter 3 Allusions and fill in pg 30 and 31
*Google: Adam's Curse by William butler Yeats, print out, annotate, paraphrase/explaining what the author says in each stanza. Look up and read Genesis 3:17. Write why you think Yeats includes the Biblical allusion in his poem and what his purpose is.

Assignments for February 2, 2010

Fix It week 17 (not a typo--getting back on track)
Vocab. cards Week 17

Read pg 27-33 in Student book.
Research assigned Biblical passages and suggest ways it might be used in literature (to be presented to class)
Exercise 2 (pg 35)