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ELA 11 Mods 14,15 June 10, 2008

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 [...]

ELA 11 Mods 14,15 May 28, 2008

The Things They Carried
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 [...]

Ela 11 Mods 14,15 May 15, 2008

The Things They Carried
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 [...]

ELA 11 Mods 14,15 May 6, 2008

The Things They Carried
Here is the Pinky and Bunny Vietnam video if you need to see it again:
 

ELA 11 Mods 14,15 May 1, 2008

The Things They Carried
For tomorrow, please finish the thrid short story, Spin.  We left off on page 36.

ELA Mods 14,15 April 29, 2008

The Things They Carried
Answer Question #12 and #13 in the text.  Read the next short story, Love, for tomorrow.

ELA 11 Mods 14,15 April 28, 2008

The Things They Carried
What can you learn about America from a look around one of the rooms in your house?  Submit through the comment feature for tomorrow.

ELA 11 Mods 14,15 April 25, 2008

The Things They Carried
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.

ELA 11 Mods 14,15 April 24, 2008

The Things They Carried
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.

ELA 11 Mods 14,15

The Things They Carried
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 [...]