Losen World Literature 2010-2011

All week: Keep reading Slaughterhouse Five. You will be expected to have completed the novel by next Monday/Tuesday.

Monday/Tuesday:

Homework: Study for your vocabulary test. I have already made up two versions. Extra credit questions will relate to "O Brother Where Art Thou."

Wednesday/Thursday:

Homework: Book 19.

Friday:  Read Book 20 for homework.

Note: There is always the potent

This is another strange week that we will have to "play by ear" to a certain extent. We have assemblies on Thursday and Friday that will impact periods 1-4 and 6. Even so, complete your vocabulary review units. This means that vocabulary will be due on Friday for periods 5, 6, & 7. It will be due on Thursday for periods 2 & 4. Other assignments will still be due--in addition to vocabulary. Also, remember that the end of the vocabulary unit also means that there will be a test. The test will be a week from Wednesday/Thursday.

Monday/Tuesday (Work due Wednesday/Thursday--or Friday in the case of 6th period).

2nd & 4th Period: Your vocabulary review unit is due on Thursday.
Books 13 & 14 are due on Wednesday and on Thursday (Friday for sixth period).

Wednesday/Thursday (For Friday, except for periods 2 & 4).

I will be checking your vocabulary review unit for periods 2 & 4 on Thursday. We will go over it.
Review books 13 & 14. In class, we will read book 15.

Homework:  Vocabulary is due on Friday for all designated classes.

Friday:

Check vocabulary and go over.

Weekend Homework for All Classes: No matter where we finished in class, you can expect a reading quiz on Monday/Tuesday. This quiz will cover Books 12-17, with emphasis on those books we actually went over in class. Paying attention has its rewards. Also, check the "Losennotes" for questions.

Reading quiz on books 9 - 11. We

Monday/Tuesday:

Make sure that you have your Bedford Anthologies with you.

Homework: Read 9-10 in "The Odyssey."

Wednesday/Thursday:

Homework: Do chapter 12 from your vocabulary books. It's the last chapter! This also means that you will do the review unit next week and that a vocabulary test will follow the week after that.

Friday:

Homework: Read books 12-13 of "The Odyssey."

Tuesday/Wednesday: Vocabulary review unit. Remember, this means that you will be tested next Wednesday/Thursday.

Thursday/Friday: Finish Inferno (portions you have been given). Expect a reading quiz on Monday/Tuesday and a vocabulary test on Wednesday/Thursday.

Tuesday / Wednesday:

Do vocabulary chapter 10.

Thursday / Friday:

Monday/Tuesday: Study for your vocabulary test.
Wednesday/Thursday: Do chapter 10 in your vocabulary book.
Friday: No homework.

Monday/Tuesday Homework (due on Wednesday/Thursday): read the introduction to chapter six, “Identity and Culture”—pp. 367-368.  Then read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown,” pp. 452-461. In writing, answer the “Exploring the Text” questions on page 461. 

Wednesday/Thurday (due Friday): Complete the vocabulary review unit.

Friday (due Monda y/Tuesday):Read the short story, “Araby.” Remember that there will be a vocabulary test Wednesday/Thursday.  

Monday/Tuesday: Read the Supreme Court Rulings. I recommend that you answer the questions provided on the agenda page as I will probably write a quiz that you will take before we discuss it. Also note that the ruling can be found under "Losennotes."


Wednesday/Thursday


Friday: No homework

Monday/Tuesday:

For homework, you are to read (under “Paired Poems”) Eavan Boland’s “The Pomegranate” and Rita Dove’s “The Bistro Styx.” Half of the class will answer the questions that accompany “The Pomegranate.” The other half will answer the questions that accompany “The Bistro Styx.”  This homework is to be your work—alone. You are not to work with peers, family members, or anyone else. You are not to use study guides like Cliff’s Notes, Sparknotes, or any other kind of “short-cut.” I want you to attempt to learn how to do this on your own. Your work will be checked for completion.

Make sure that you read the information preceding the poems and that you read the footnotes. They will help you a great deal.

Wednesday/Thursday:

    The due-date of your movie is now Friday. It was to have been completed on Wednesday/Thursday, but I have to attend a conference on Thursday.  You should have a copy of the movie on two separate flash drives (just in case one is not working).  Even though half of you will be on the field trip, you must have the movie to me on Friday. Find a way.

Also, your vocabulary is due--chapter 8.

Friday's Homework: I will distribute a hand-out on the "No" pla