English 12

Now that you have finished the novel, write an expository paragraph on how Holden has changed over the course of the novel (from Chapters 2-25 to the final chapter).

English 10

Please finish the review sheet on capitalization.

English 10

Make sure you have finished the novel.  The four questions I assigned on Wednesday are due on Tuesday.  If you still need to complete the response to "I Lost My Talk", here is the poem:

Now that you have read Chapters 11-15, respond to the poem below about your feelings regarding Saul and his introduction to Saint Jerome’s Indian School. Use any background knowledge you have from class discussion to add detail and depth to your response.  You may respond with a paragraph, a poem, or a hand-drawn image of your own creation.

“I Lost My Talk” by Rita Joe

I lost my talk.

The talk that you took away.

When I was a little girl

At Shubenacadie school.

You snatched it away:

I speak like you

I think like you

I create like you

The scrambled ballad, about my word.

Two ways I talk

Both ways I say,

Your way is more powerful.

So gently I offer my hand and ask,

Let me find my talk

So I can teach you about me.

English 12

Read Chapter 25 and do the questions for  Tuesday.  Use this weekend to rewrite the "Little Shirley Beans" academic paragraph.

The prompt for the response is as follows:

Based upon your understanding of Holden Caulfield and Catcher in the Rye,  why is this piece of fan fiction a particularly effective imagining of the song "Little Shirley Beans" that so captured Holden's attention?  Be sure to comment on the music and lyrics.

English 12

Read Chapter 24 and make sure the questions for the preceding chapters are complete as there will be a homework check.

English 10--all blocks

Students need to finish reading the book by Friday.  The questions I assigned yesterday will be due on Tuesday.  They are as follows:

Answer the following questions with good evidence and quotes.  

1. Explain what hockey means to young Saul in Chapters 20 – 34.
2. In Chapter 21, what does Saul mean that “the biggest crime [to take place at the residential school was]…making [the children] complicit?
3.  In Chapter 32, how would fighting have made Saul “give up his vision of the game”, and why was it so important for him not to give in to those pressuring him to fight?
4. How do the abuse, hockey, and drinking all fit together in Saul’s life?

 Here are your 10 vocabulary words for Week Two:

ossify (v):  turn into bone/boney tissue; harden

namby pamby (adj or n): lacking strength, energy or courage; a person lacking these traits

juxtapose  (v):  place two very different items close together for a contrasting effect

pragmatic (adj): dealing with issues/events in a sensible, realistic and practical way

condone   (v):  to approve something (usually with reluctance); to allow behaviour to

continue (usually the behaviour or actions are offensive)

wraith  (n):  ghost 

vain (adj): excessively proud; conceited

brevity (n): shortness of time/duration; the quality of expressing much in a few words

dapper  (adj): neat and trim in appearance (esp. for a man)

schadenfreude (n): satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune