Seniors: Final grades will hopefully be entered into Skyward tomorrow depending on time.

10H: Final grades will be entered as I get everything finalized (memoirs, projects, extra credit)
Use this narrative rubric for more detailed feedback on your memoir grade.

Grades will not be posted in print outside of classroom as in years past.  You will need to check Skyward for your final grade.

English 10H GC Short Answer General Feedback/Explanations:
1.  Had to emphasize the fact that the "border between turbulence and order" was THEIR LIFE and that it was a product of Rose Mary and Rex.  She realizes this as an adult but also acknowledges how it prepared her for her own independence.  A good answer will make the direct correlation (symbolically) between this aspect of fire and the life of the Walls family.  It will also reference the uncertainty of going back and forth and how eventually that becomes motivation for the children, as they get older, to make a change.

2.  Had to include reference to JW realizing that she didn't want to completely abandon who she was and that New York was too much of a departure, but the farm in Virginia represents a blend of who she was, who she is, and who she wants to be.  Answers should also contain acknowledgment of the fact that despite the hardship, her childhood and experience with her family did truly shape her as a person.

3.  Tragic Hero is the key element.  You can't just talk about Rex's alcoholism or the fact that he keeps disappointing JW.  Why can't he stop doing it?  A tragic flaw is something that brings a hero down despite their best efforts to combat it.  Why can't Rex stop drinking, or get a normal job, or just stop dragging his family through the mud?

4.  Although the whipping did affect the bond between Rex and JW, it really served as a realization to JW that she had to GET OUT.  Not just out of Welch, but out of the cycle (turbulence and order) of her life at that point.  This point marks the end of the "adventure" of growing up in her family.  It's not a game anymore, and she's going to get stuck if she doesn't do something about it.  This provides the jolt of reality that she needs.  Additionally, if Rex had backed JW rather than Rose Mary, it would basically been an admission that he was also in the wrong because he is also a lousy parent in the traditional sense.

Finals Preparation.  

Open note/open book for all. As Gandalf would say, 

"STUDY, OR YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!"

English 12: Vocabulary Test 8.  Begin preparing your finals notes.  Final exam will be over the following material: Canterbury Tales General Prologue, Pardoner's Tale, Wife of Bath's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte d'Arthur.  There will also be 2 cold reads on the test.

English 10H: Art Replication Project Presentations.  Reminder on the semester exam material:  Objective questions will come from the 5 listed pieces of literature.  Constructed written response will come from the 2 cold reads.

English 12:
Read The Wife of Bath's Tale.  Vocabulary test tomorrow.  Sentences will be over the purpose/message of each of the two CT tales read this week.  Focus on the satire, the character and how they are presented, and the difference between the author (Chaucer) and the narrator (Pardoner/WOB).  You will have access to your notes, but not to the text.

English 10H:
Initial finals information.  The following works will be the source material for your semester exam and can be found in the text book:  Ode to My Socks, We Real Cool, Same Song, And of Clay Are We Created, Into Thin Air.  There will also be several cold reads on the test.

In class today: Meet with groups to finalize your presentation details.  You must show me a basic written outline of the structure of your presentation (basically, what are you planning your in class time to look like?) by the end of the hour.

Monday 12/8

English 12: Read and discuss The Pardoner's Tale.

English 10H: Wordwright 2

English 12: CT general prologue part 2 identification quiz and discussion.

English 10H: Hand back and discuss close reading element of Vocabulary Test 6.  Patterns and close reading in Wordwright 2 word list.  We will take Wordwright 2 on Monday.

English 12: Hand back Vocabulary 7 test.  Vocabulary List 8.  These words are Canterbury Tales GP specific, so you need to develop a contextual familiarity with them that can be applied to the characters, the traits, and the descriptions of the GP.  Finish reading the GP (starting with The Skipper) and take notes over the remaining characters.  There will be a quiz on Friday on which you will be given a description of the character and must identify them.

English 10H: GC test. Wordwright 2 will be on Monday 12/8. Here are the words:

From the poems (2 poems):
shire, pall, supple, drawn

From the questions:
onomatopoeia, iambic, feminine rhyme, personification, anthem, patter, orison, pallor, rhetorical question, fulcrum, wry, bayonet, elegiac, alliteration, consonance,keen, villanelle, Shakespearean sonnet, ode, epic, Petrarchan sonnet, tone, talon, brusque, acerbic, cynical, blithe, sage, flippant, heroic couplet, slant rhyme, connotation, irony, halcyon, verb mood, masculine rhyme

Don't forget, the deadline for submissions to the JOCO Library's teen literary magazine Elementia (submit here) is this week.  As of 3:10 pm on Tuesday 12/2 the submission clock on their website is at 3 days 8 hrs.  If you want to submit to this magazine, get it done.  If you want extra credit to go with it, check in with me and a draft of your submission before the deadline.  Submissions are electronic.

English 12: Read first half of the Canterbury Tales General Prologue (GP) in class.  Take notes over each character.  Focus on physical description, personality, and character traits.  Quick ID quiz after reading.

English 10H: Due to confusion regarding the testing schedule over The Glass Castle and how it is configured regarding block scheduling this week, the test dates have been moved to Wednesday and Thursday of this week.  GC test will be Wed/Thurs Dec. 3 and 4.  It will be open book and open note.