Assignment 4-The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Yellow Book p. 1035  This is a replacement for a lecture during Holocaust Week.
In the story you are about to read, Granny Weatherall is unable to shake the memory of an event that occurred 60 years earlier.  Think about memories that replay again and again in your mind.  Which of these do you recall so vividly that you can almost relive the moments?  1. Write a paragraph about it.

2. What does jilted mean?  Have you ever been jilted?  Write a paragraph about it.
Read the story.
3. This story is not written in chronological order.  It is being told by Granny who is ill and old.  Her mind  slips in and out of the present time and moves by association rather than chronological.  What leads Granny to think that she has been jilted?
4.  Explain the irony of Granny's response to the imminence of death.
5.  What is the theme of the story based on evidence from the last paragraph of the story.

Assignment 6-The Pledge of Allegiance

I struggle with students each year to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.  It was easier when I was married.  My husband was a Viet Nam veteran and had been a POW.  He was always at the school helping with yearbook activities and my students loved and respected him. He was plague with medical problems --all from the war.

Here's another students story about the pledge.

http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2010/06/30/teen_fights_to_put_pledge_of_allegiance_back_in_classroom/

Write a persuasive essay on why or why not the pledge should be recited in school.  Support you essay with facts.

Here's some inspiration. http://www.wimp.com/whitneyhouston/

Assignment 5- Compare/Contrast Speeches

Using the SOAPS reading strategy, read Steve Jobs(creator of Mac Computer who died recently) speech to Stanford University graduates on Graduation Day.  Read Obama's speech to high school students on their first day of school.  Which speech speaks to you?

Write a 5 paragraph essay comparing and contrasting the two speeches.  Cite references from the speeches to support what you say in the essay using proper English form.

Daily Assignment-ACT/SAT

Remember each day to do the ACT and SAT activity of the day.  Check for Grammar assignments from teacher.

Assignment 4-60 Second How to

You are to write a script for a 60 second audio how to do something.
You will be taught how to use GarageBand and you will record your audio script.

Think of something that you can explain how to do.  Write the script, read it aloud and make sure you have no errors.

Assignment 3-6 Sentence Story

What can you say in 6 sentences?  You are going to write a 6 sentence story.
Sentence 1- Location
Sentences 2-4- Description
Sentence 5- Action
Sentence 6- Reaction to that action.

1. He stayed in his house.
2. He didn't talk to neighbors.
3. He worked from home.
4. He never had visitors.
5. No one was surprised when the police arrested him for murder.
6. I was surprised, I got away with it.

Assignment 2-Steve Jobs/President Obama Speeches

This is your first 5-paragraph essay.  Read the two speeches written by President Obama and Computer Wiz Steve Jobs (he died recently).  Both speeches were given before students.  President Obama's was addressing high school seniors on the first day of school.  Steve Jobs' speech addressed Stanford University seniors on their graduation day.

Use the SOAP reading strategy sheet to analyze your speeches.  Write an essay on comparing the two speeches and how each gave valuable motivational information to students.  Support your essay with quotes from the two speeches and use paraphrasing too.