Poetry

Homework Assignments: Week 22
English 10

Monday
1/31 Practice your speech. Make sure that you know the entire speech and that you vary your intonation, practice pausing, and speaking clearly and loudly. Get a good night’s rest because tomorrow is the CAHSEE. Do your best and make sure you only have to take the test once.

Tuesday
2/1 Continue practicing your speech. You will have to practice your speech, many, many times in order to know it well enough. Make sure you’re ready to deliver your speech perfectly by Thursday

Wednesday
2/2 Continue practicing your speech. Be sure to vary your intonation, pause effectively, and be expressive. Practice in front of friends or family, or in front of a mirror, so that you can check your gestures and facial expressions. Be sure to make eye contact and look confident (even if you aren’t). Tomorrow is the day.

Thursday
2/3 No homework!!

Friday
2/4 Read in your IR book. Remember, if you’re reading more than one book, the first book is due by February 18. All books must be read and tested by March 1.

Old Assignments: Week 18-19

Week 21

Monday
1/24 Make sure you’ve made all the final changes for on your speech and that you’ve made your note cards. Learn at least the first half page of your speech; we’ll practice tomorrow in class.

Tuesday
1/25 Continue practicing your speech. You will have to practice your speech, many, many times in order to know it well enough. Make sure you know the first half of your speech by Thursday (either 1.5 pages if you speech is short, or 2.5 if it is long).

Wednesday
1/26 Continue practicing your speech. Be sure to vary your intonation, pause effectively, and be expressive. Practice in front of friends or family, or in front of a mirror, so that you can check your gestures and facial expressions. Be sure to make eye contact and look confident (even if you aren’t).

Thursday
1/27 Continue practicing your speech. Make sure you can deliver your whole speech by Monday (and only have to look at your note cards occasionally).

Friday
1/28 Read in your IR book and practice your speech so that you are ready to give your whole speech on Monday. We will spend all period Monday and Tuesday for everyone to deliver their entire speeches to the class. Wednesday, you will deliver your speech to the school.

Week 20

Tuesday
1/18 Read in your IR book and finish the introduction to Cyrano de Bergerac if you ahve not done so already.

Wednesday
1/19 Work on revising for the final draft of your speech. Be sure to add power language, repetition, precise word choice, and persuasive writing. Make sure you have an effective conclusion. Use the writing notes and my comments to help you revise. Due Friday.

Thursday
1/20 Finish writing the final draft of your speech. Be sure to read it aloud and fix any awkward moments, typos, or points that need more emphasis. Due tomorrow.

Friday
1/21 Read in your IR book and memorize the hook to your speech. Be prepared to deliver your first half page to the class on Monday.

Week 19

Monday
1/10 Work on writing the first draft of your speech. Write at least the first page tonight, but try for the first two pages if you’re going for the extra credit due date of Wednesday. Be sure that you begin with an engaging hook, write several persuasive, well-supported paragraphs, and end with a piece of your hook. Due Thursday.

Tuesday
1/11 Work on the first draft of your speech. You may earn 15 extra credit points if you hand in your first draft Wednesday and your second draft Thursday.

Wednesday
1/12 Finish writing the first draft of your speech, due tomorrow. Or finish revising for your second draft if you’re going for the extra credit. Be sure to hand this draft in before you leave for mock trial. Bring your IR book to class on Thursday and Friday of this week.

Thursday
1/13 Based on peer editing comments and what you learned from writing response groups, write a second draft of your speech. Due Friday. Bring your IR book to class tomorrow.

Friday
1/14 Read in your IR book and schedule a test as soon as you’ve finished a book. If you haven't finished vocabulary #1b, finish it over the weekend and hand it in on Tuesday.

Week 18

Monday
1/3 We’ll be working on researching for the speech contest topic all this week. This years topic is Enforcing our Borders: States versus Federal Rights. Read the New York Times overview article on Arizona’s immigration law SB1070. Read at least the first three pages of United States v. Arizona. Find both articles on the speech contest GoogleDoc and print out and underline on the articles or save to your computer and highlight there. You will show your highlighting at the beginning of class tomorrow.

Tuesday
1/4 Read articles on the speech topic from the GoogleDoc. Please start with articles from the GoogleDoc because choosing articles from reputable sources is very important in giving a speech. Once you have your grounding, you can branch out and look for your own articles. I would recommend searching SFGate.com and NYTimes.com because they both have free on-line archives (unlike many newspapers). You also might want to try PBS.org, NPR.org, WhiteHouse.gov and AZ.gov. Please print out and underline or save and highlight on your computer and show me what you’ve read at the beginning of class tomorrow.

Wednesday
1/5 In addition to continuing your research on the speech contest topic, write up a brief paragraph about your opinion on the issue and ideas for your speech angle. Bring to class your paragraph and any new articles you’ve read. Be sure to save all the source information on each article because we will write up bibliographies next week.

Thursday
1/6 Do more research on the speech contest topic and bring your articles to class tomorrow.

Friday
1/7 Read in your IR book and schedule a test as soon as you’ve finished a book. I know many of you were planning on finishing a book over winter vacation. Work on the first draft of your speech on Enforcing our Borders: States versus Federal Rights. First drafts will be due next week.