Last day of the quarter:

Good day to check in with me if you have individual questions

Last day to make up missing assignments without having a 0 added to the grade book.  THESE DO NOT HAVE TO BE PERMANENT, but they will be added as a "reminder" to get them done.  If this affects eligibility for extracurricular activities, you need to speak to me personally and get a make up plan in place.

Honors

We will add two poems, in addition to "Opportunity" to our short story/poetry unit.  The first one is called "Naming of Parts" by Henry Reed.  The second is "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen.  That puts us at 3 poems and 4 stories.  Today is a good day to get started on those.  Hint: Those are the Wordwright poems too.  We'll take that on Tuesday next week.
Focal points for these poems and connecting them to the group:
-Ambiguous language and how it affects overall meaning/interpretation
-Connection to commonly seen depictions/attitudes toward war in other things you have read
-Consideration of how the change in weaponry over centuries of war could change our perception of it
-The rights of the individual (citizen) vs. the soldier who becomes part of a unified military body
-How war/violence's depiction in art/media affects the general public's view of it and of the people who "practice" it
-Whether or not war/violence/conflict is inevitable and how that concept is illustrated


English 10

"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen and "Naming of Parts" by Henry Reed are two poems that you need to familiarize yourself with.  We will take the first of our quarterly poetry/short story analysis evaluations known as Wordwright over these two poems next week on Tuesday.

The Glass Castle: We will take a part 1 test (pgs. 1-75ish) at some point in the near future, SO GET TO READING.  If you've ever felt like you didn't belong somewhere, like your family wasn't "normal" enough, or like you were in a situation that you weren't sure you would ever be able to get out of, this might be a book you'll understand even more.

Wordwright Words
From the poems: haunting, flounder (verb), cud, zest, swivel, gutter (verb), obscene, ardent, breech, japonica, ecstasy, vile

From the questions: stanza, ironic, reverent, fluid, melancholy, immediacy, petulant, oratorical, hyperbole, detached, rapt, laborious, alliteration, meter, onomatopoeia, consonant, diction, bitter, lilting, syntax/syntactic, past participle, magnitude, abstract noun, formal