Current Syllabus

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Syllabus for Honors Sophomore English  – Late May 2012

Slaughterhouse Five & MCAS (which is a monumental waste of our time)

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DATE	HOMEWORK*	IN CLASS
Mon – May 13MCAS!!!		Hyphenation Quiz Writing Hemingway
Tues – May 14I HATE MCAS	(for all MCAS days, the schedules are flexible, and few hard deadlines will be set)	Pluralization Quirks Writing Hemingway continued
Wed – May 15	Vocab sheet 3.8(suggested) Read Chapter 1	What to watch for in Vonnegut (repetitions & logic) Finish with Hemingway Stories
Thur – May 16	(suggested) Read Ch. 2Brilliant Observation: Hemingway	A discussion of Chapter One of Slaughterhouse Five PLURALIZATION QUIZ
Fri – May 17	Read chapters 1-3	READING QUIZ Vonnegut and O’Brien – metatext … what is the purpose? Similarities? Differences? Getting caught up with the above lessons
Mon – May 20GRAMMAR		World Cup Matchups – Trivia from Slaughterhouse Five etc
Tues – May 21		Vonnegut’s style Humor in fiction
Wed – May 22VOCAB	Vocab QUIZ 3.8	Review of the stories that we read in the 2nd half
Thur – May 23	Read Chapters 4 & 5	READING QUIZ Repetitions – checking in Possible Essay Topics
Fri – May 24	4th QUARTER ESSAYS WILL BE DUE ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5th	What are you noticing so far in the book?

* = Assignments are DUE on the date given NOT the following day