English 10H: Ms. Lefebvre slefebvre@ elmhurst205.org

This blog is intended for the use of English 10H students in Ms. Lefebvre's class during the 2006-2007 school year. Please check this blog frequently -- you will find it to be an enormously helpful resource to obtain homework assignments, reading calendars, and various other learning materials.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Bless Me, Ultima Reading Calendar



Reading Schedule: Bless Me, Ultima

Thursday, November 30th: pp. 46-60

Friday, December 1st: pp. 60-82

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Monday, December 4th: pp. 83-105

Tuesday: pp. 106-135

Wednesday: No reading homework

Thursday: pp. 136-151

Friday: pp. 152-176

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Monday, December 11th: pp. 177-190

Tuesday, December 12th: pp. 191-216

Wednesday, December 13th: pp. 217-235

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Homework: 11/28

For tomorrow, read pages 1-13 of Bless Me, Ultima.

Be sure to annotate for maturity criteria and literary devices in attempt to answer our key questions for this unit.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

INDEPENDENT READING!


Keep working on your independent reading! Your project is due on Friday, December 1st.

<----- Ms. Lefebvre's Independent Reading Book: The Know It All
By: AJ Jacobs

Monday, November 13, 2006

Homework: 11/13

For tomorrow (Tuesday), please read pages 70-80 in The Importance of Being Earnest.

Be prepared to read on in class tomorrow!

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Homework: 11/9

Over the weekend, please read the first part of Act II (pages 56-70) in The Importance of Being Earnest.

Also, please continue working on your independent reading project.

Have a great weekend! GO DUKES!

Friday, November 03, 2006

Homework: 11/3


For Monday, please do the following:

* Locate and bring The Importance of Being Earnest to class.

* If you did not finish finding an independent reading book in the library on Friday, find one and bring it to me with your completed yellow sheet on Monday. I need to sign off on this sheet before you begin the project.

* Complete your "Frye's Comedy Criteria" homework

Directions: Watch a television show, television shows, a movie, movies, or a combination of any of the above. Watch this text with the intention of finding four DIFFERENT criteria of comedy than you found in the Seinfeld episode. Fill out the chart on the back of your Frye's criteria packet to do a close analysis of what makes this text or these texts comedic.


HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND! GO DUKES!