Ms. Briskin
Room 217
Office Hours: 8:00-8:30
3:00-4:00
cbriskin@mpls.k12.mn.us
Voicemail: 668-7428
Hello new students and families! I am looking forward to the upcoming fall session of 2011. If you have any concerns or questions please email me. Current homework assignments will be posted every week. For handouts and rubrics please refer to the units on the sidebar.
Note about books: Although we have books available to check out of the media center, I strongly encourage students to buy their books in order to highlight important passages and write in the margins. You can buy cheap and used books on Amazon.com or at Half Price books. Here is the list of books for this year: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part TIme Indian by Sherman Alexi The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver Romeo and Juliet Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Turnitin.com
Class code/ password
Hr. 4: 4626254 coco1
Hr 5: 4259630 coco2
Hr. 6: 4259639 coco3
Homework 2.13-2.20
Monday 2.13 :Read 1.4 and answer questions on p. 8 in packet on Queen Mab
Tuesday 2.14: Drawingon Queen Mab is due
For Wednesday 2.16: Read 1.5
Friday: Project Success
Monday Feb. 20: Test Act 1
Week Feb 6-10
2.7 Essay on THings Fall Apart due (100 pts)
2.8 Insult sheet due
2.10 Views on love due (10 pts)
Vocab. act 1 due (10 pts)
Thursday 1. 26: chapter questions for Part 3 due
Friday 1.27: outline of paper (10 pts)
Monday 1.30: First body paragraph due/work on transitions to 2nd body paragraph
Tuesday 1.31: Thesis statement due (5 pts). Review for Final
Wednesday 2.1: Final TFA
Friday 2.3: First draft paper due (10 pts)
Monday 2.6 TFA paper due
–Begin Romeo and Juliet 1.1
For Monday November 7: Read Chapter 7: How They Eat in Heaven
be prepared for a short quiz: vocabulary, quotes, character.
For Tuesday, November 8: Read the first half of chapter 8
Wednesday November 9: Test on Chapters 1-8
review powerpoint on the side bar under The Bean Trees
Read chapters 1-2 (questions under Bean Trees in the Side Bar)
Study guide due Tuesday ( do the first 14 questions)
For Thursday, Oct 27: Choose five symbols or similes from your symbol sheet and write five good topic sentences. Example: The ______________represents ___________and ___________.
The colorful Clothes that Taylor wears represent her bright personality and her desire to be different from the other girls at her school.
For Friday Oct. 28: Fill out Vocab definitions: enraptured, indelible, lethal, conniption, snooty, reticent, ulterior, spectacle
For Monday Oct. 31: paragraph on symbol due. See rubric and example in the side bar.
Homework for Friday, October 7
finish reading book
writing assignment due on theme. See rubric in Part Time Indian on side bar
Homework For Monday October, 3
1 Read through the chapter Dance, Dance, Dance
2 write down two significant quotes and commentary for each quote explaining why it is significant. Please look at powerpoint under Part Time Indian on side bar for how to do this well. (8 pts)
3. Type your bio poem that we started in class. Powerpoint for that is also attached under Part Time Indian. In short: create ten good titles for ten memoraable events in your life. Look at the first 10 titles that Sherman Alexei uses. They are significant, ironic, methaphorical and symbolic. Your list will look a poem when you are done. (10 pts)
Reading and homework schedule 9/26-10/1
-Monday’s lesson: voice and language.
- Reading for Tuesday: pages 45-53
Lesson: what is hope?
-Reading for Wednesday: pages 54-73
metaphor poem due: 10 line hope poem
Lesson: How to fight Monsters
unspoken rules activity
-Reading for Thursday: 74-104
drawing of your two worlds due (10pts)
Lesson: Allusions
-Reading for Friday: Hunger Pains (104-113)
Create Bio Poem in class.
Final draft due Monday, Oct. 4
Due Monday, Sept. 26: study guide for Part TIme Indian pages 1-41 (10 pts)
Schedule for week of 9/19 -9/23
9/19 Monday: TIB essay due (attach rubric and 2 earlier drafts)
9/20 Tuesday: rBring
9/21 Project Success
9/22 in class writing assignment on how setting reinforces theme in the stories we read. Be familiar with all stories and the terms: pov, climax, epiphany.
9/23 Bring Outcasts United for class discussion
For Monday 9/12 First typed draft of TIB due! (10 pts) Self edit in class
For Tuesday 9/13: drawing of simile from "Something Bright" (if you didn't do the drawing for "Through the Tunnel"
For Wednesday 9/14: first revision of TIB due (10 pts: peer edit
For Friday 9/16: Final revision of TIB due.
Homework 9/6-9/9
9/7: For Wednesday: Read “Through The Tunnel” ( p. 78)
WED: QUIZ ON THROUGH THE TUNNEL
9/8 FOR Friday: Drawing of a simile from “Through the Tunnel”
9/9 For Friday: voc. quiz abdicate list (powerpoint for this is on sidebar.)
Homework: August 1-27. Have fun. (Don't forget to read Outcasts United by Warren St. John for summer reading)