Grade 11 English Language Arts Final
Hopkins
2007-2008
Overview: This year we read the following:
· Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
· The Crucible by Arthur Miller
· The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
· Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
· Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
· The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
· Where are you going? Where [...]
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Update on our project: New due date will be Monday, June 9th. We will view the animations as a class that day. This gives us some time to get through some more stories and makes up for some of the class time we have missed.
The goals of the project [...]
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We will begin the Vietnam Power Point project today in ELA. It will due on Friday, May 30th. The goals of the project are as follows:
Each student will respond to the short stories from The Things They Carried by creating a self running Power Point Story between two and three minutes in [...]
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Here is the Pinky and Bunny Vietnam video if you need to see it again:
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For tomorrow, please finish the thrid short story, Spin. We left off on page 36.
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Answer Question #12 and #13 in the text. Read the next short story, Love, for tomorrow.
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What can you learn about America from a look around one of the rooms in your house? Submit through the comment feature for tomorrow.
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Over the week-end, please pick out something that happens, or something you see and come up with a short moral for it. It should be something that seem common or everyday. Describe a moral or tell me what it means using the comment feature below.
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Tonight, please ask you parents to tell you what they remember about the Vietnam War. Did any of them serve? What do they remember about the news coverage? Anything they can remember will work.
Please use the comment feature below to submit what your parents tell you.
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We will begin the title story in Tim O’Brien’s collection today in class. I will also be giving a review of Kurzweil, as you will need this resource to answer homework questions and fully engage in the text. There is no homework due tomorrow, but you should be working on any questions [...]