English 11 Honors

English 11 Honors
Syllabus
April 23-27, 2007

Monday, April 23, 2007

Today I will go over evaluating your rough draft via speaker phone. (**)
Each of you will evaluate your own paper using both rubrics.
Each of you will evaluate another rough draft of someone at your table.
You will need a clean copy for your individual editing and the one you complete for your classmate.
You need to make sure your name and the person peer editing paper are recorded on rubric sheets.
Vocabulary test 14 will be on Wednesday so you will have time to work on peer editing.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Today you will edit your rough draft and make any necessary corrections.
In the proofing process, you need to make sure examples are supported, clear, and not generalizations.
You need to make sure you have read the information given to you.
You need to read in your Little Brown Handbook the material over literature analysis.
I mentioned all of this two weeks ago.
All material needs to be handed in and ready to go at the start of class on Wednesday.
This means you need the information printed before class.
I will get this material back to you by Friday.
Research papers will be due on Wednesday, May 2.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Mrs. Gidley will collect all material. You can paper clip it together.
You will have a test over Vocabulary 14.
You will receive Vocabulary 15 words.
You may work on these in class.
We will begin the unit that covers the time period of The Great Gatsby.
We will discuss the literature circle information on Monday, April 30, 2007.
You are to read the material on pp. 523-536 for collection at the end of the hour on Thursday.
After reading, you are to look at page 533- yellow and purple box and apply “The Elements of Modernism in American Literature.”
This will be collected for me to grade.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

You have the hour to finish reading and reflecting over the Introduction to “The Moderns.”
We will be discussing the quote on p. 524. You may want to reflect and write ideas as to “What kinds of ideas were ‘blown away’ by the war.”

Friday, April 27, 2007


Today you will read pp. 583-603 in class. This is Fitzgerald’s short story “Winter Dreams.” Some of the events and settings mirror those in his life.
If you finish reading this, you are to complete the following:
Questions 1-9.
These will be assessed.


You do not have any homework this weekend unless you want to polish your rough drafts.

Whether you are going to the prom or not, I want you to have a safe and fun weekend.
Please make good choices.
I will see you on Monday.