Mrs. Doherty's Homework Webpage
Welcome back to school! :) I hope you had a fun and relaxing summer.
For English 12, Honors 9, and English 9 classes:
SOME HELPFUL STUDY HINTS FOR HOME:
1. Study your notes for a few minutes every night. This is helpful since the grammar and essay-writing strategies taught in class are sequential. Please don't let the information "snowball."
2. Test yourself at home. As we work on our vocabulary definitions and grammar/mechanics worksheets, you will already have the correct answers recorded on your handouts. Cover up those answers with a sheet of paper and try to complete those worksheets again.
3. Write your vocabulary words and definitions on index cards and keep a file at home. Study just one word a day until you have the meaning and usage in your memory and can use the word in a sentence of your own.
4. Check the internet. For years teachers have been putting their grammar and literary theme worksheets online for their students to use for practice. Do an internet search by grammar principal or literary theme. Study those webpages and do those worksheets too.
5. Check your grade on mygradebook.com regularly. You will be given your login and password information for mygradebook within the first 2 weeks of school.
The study strategies will help you maintain your momentum in school as an ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN YOUR OWN LEARNING AND ACADEMIC SUCCESS. I am sure you will find these strategies helpful at home.
English 12: Due August 23rd and 24th. Read "The Ant and The Grasshopper" page 6 in the textbook. Prepare journal/reading log notes to hand in to me first thing.
English 12: Due August 27th and 28th: Vocabulary Quiz. Study the first 10 words on the vocab handout.
Honors 9: Due August 24th: Read pages 1-7 in your textbook. Write down the thoughts that pop into your head as you read.
English 9: Due August 23rd and 24th: Read "The Utterly Perfect Murder" in your textbook. Write down the thoughts that pop into your head as you read the story.
English 9: Due August 29th and 30th: Read "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" in your textbook.
Honors 9: Due August 30th: Read "Tales about Beginnings" on pages 8 and 9 in your textbook.
English 12: Vocabulary quiz on Sept 6th and 7th: Study words "chromosome" to "Epiphany."
English 12: Due Sept. 6th and 7th: Read the handout on Myth and Legend. Also, read pages 24 - 29 in the textbook. There might be a reading quiz. Please be prepared. Also, don't forget about the vocabulary quiz on Sept. 6th and 7th.
English 9: Due Sept. 6th and 7th: Read the story on page 40 of the textbook.
English 12: Due Sept. 12th and 13th: Read pages 30 - 40 in your textbook.
English 9: Due Sept. 21st and 24th: Please bring to class with you your outline for your Myth/Field of Dreams essay. You will be writing your 5-paragraph essay in class.
English 12: Due Sept. 25th and 26th: Vocabulary Quiz "Equinox" through "Gamete." Also, bring your Beowulf/Field of Dreams essay outline with you to class. You may start the essay at home and bring that in along with the outline if you wish, but you don't have to start the actual essay before class if you don't want to. The important thing is to bring the outline to class.
English 9: Due Sept. 25th and 26th: Read the story on page 92 of your textbook. Remember to always study your grammar notes a little every night.
English 12: Due Sept 27th and 28th: Read pages 44 through 53 in your textbook. There will probably be a quiz.
English 12: Due Oct. 5th and 8th: Finish Grammar worksheets. This is good prep for the SAT. I will be collecting the worksheets first thing in class.
English 12: Due Oct 15th and 16th: Vocab quiz. Study "inculcate" to "Lugubrious"
English 9, Honors 9, English 12: The last day of the 1st quarter is October 19th. I will close my gradebook then so I may report my grades to the office. If you have been absent at any time this quarter, please check your grades online to make sure you have made up any work you may have missed. It is part of your class responsibility to check you grades online regularly. You won't be able to make up any work you missed due to illness after October 19th. You all received your password and login information in the middle of September.
Honors 9: Due Oct 8th: Bring in to class with you the articles you found on the internet regarding Ancient Artwork. Make sure the articles have fewer pictures than works.
English 12: Due Oct 17,18:
Read the story starting on page 109 of your textbook.
Honors 9 and English 9: Extra Credit day is Tuesday Oct. 30th from 3:45 to 5:30 in Mrs. Doherty's classroom. This session is optional. Students who wish to attend must agree to stay the entire session unless an adult comes to pick you up. I may not release a student before 5:30 unless I am releasing the student to an adult.
English 9: Due Oct. 30th and Oct. 31st: Read the story starting on page 217 of your textbook. There might be a pop quiz.
Honors 9: Due Oct. 31st: Vocabulary quiz. Study the word list starting with the word "hieroglyphics."
Honors : Due Nov. 2nd: Bring to class your 1st draft of your Literature Review on the subject of Ancient Forms of Artwork. You should already have the printouts you found for class before we went to break. Be sure to write at least 5 paragraphs in your 1st draft of your literature review.
English 12: Nov. 7th and 8th: Please don't forget about your vocabulary quiz.
Honors 9: Due Nov. 8th: Your completed Literature Review of at least 5 paragraphs covering the information you found regarding ancient forms of artwork.
English 12: Nov. 9th and 12th: You will be writing your Decameron essay in class. You may have on your desk your outline, chosen historical context printouts from the Decameron webpage, and the author's, Boccaccio, biography.
Honors 9 and English 9: Nov. 9th and 12th: Grammar quiz covering Adverb Phrases and Adjective phrases.
English 9: Due Nov. 7th and 8th: Read the short story handout, "March 2000 The Taxpayer."
English 9: Due Nov. 13th and 14th: Read the short story handout "Stu". There might be a surprise quiz.
English 12: Due Nov 19th and 20th: Read pages 228-231 in your textbook.
English 12: Due Nov. 28th and 29th: Vocabulary quiz. Study "omnipotent" through "plasma" on your vocabulary list.
English 12: Dec. 4th and 5th: Be sure to use your classtime wisely as you work with your partner to read Hamlet and complete your comprehension questions. On Dec. 4th and 5th you will have a reading quiz covering a passage from Act 1 of Hamlet.
English 12, English 9, Honors 9: Due Dec 6th and 7th: Online Time magazine independent reading assignment. Assignment handouts were given to you during class. If you need another assignment handout, be sure to get it from me well before the assignment due date. This assignment is too big to be left to the last minute.
English 9: Due Nov. 28th and 29th: Read the first 20 pages (pages 7 - 27). There will probably be a quiz.
English 9: Due Nov. 30th and Dec 1st: Read to page 47 in Mockingbird.
Honors 9 and English 9: Dec 10th and 11th: Grammar test covering verbal phrases, action verbs, linking verbs, predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives, direct objects, indirect objects, adjective/adverb phrases.
English 12: Due Dec. 17th, 18th: Vocabulary quiz "polymer" through "soliloquy". Also, be ready for a quiz on Hamlet Act 2.
English 9: Due Dec 12, 13: Read to page 107 in Mockingbird. Please remember that the standard homework for class is to read the next 20 pages of the novel we are studying before the next class period.
English 9: Due Dec. 14th and 17th: read to page 127 in Mockingbird.
Honors 9: Due Jan. 10th: Have your research notes complete with quotes from the internet sites to put into your "In The Beginning" essay. You will be able to use your notes and "in The Beginning" book while writing your essay in class. During 1st period you will be presenting your research to the class for Mr. James to grade and give feedback.
Extra credit day is Wednesday, Jan 9th from 3:45 to 5:30.
English 9: Due Monday January 14th: It is best to have finished To Kill A Mockingbird by Jan 14th before starting to take your finals. There will be an essay question about Mockingbird on the English 9 final exam.
English 12: Finish before the start of exam week: I gave you all a handout with practice essay questions for the final exam. If you were absent and did not receive one, please see me to get the handout from me. Also, get through Hamlet. You will see that the practice essay questions all have to do with the play and Hamlet's motivation.
English 9: Due Jan 25th and Jan 28th: Finish reading Book 9 of the Odyssey.
Honors 9: Due Jan 25th: Read book 10 of the Odyssey in your copy of The Odyssey.
English 12: Due Jan 25th and Jan 28th: Read throught page 8 at least of the Jane Austen handout, "The Watsons." There might be a reading quiz.
Honors 9: Due Feb. 1st: Read Book Eleven of The Odyssey.
English 12: Due Feb. 1st: Read the first 20 pages of Pride and Prejudice. For example, if your copy of the novel starts on page 5, read to page 25.
English 9: Due Feb. 1st and 2nd: Read Book 21 of The Odyssey starting on page 546 in your Literature book.
English 9: Due Feb 11th and 12th: Review Book 21 of The Odyssey and read Book 22 of The Odyssey. Both Books are in your Lit. text. There will be a reading quiz covering both Books 21 and 22.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO STUDENTS AND PARENTS: It is VERY IMPORTANT that in the next few weeks to follow in February and March that you watch the due dates of your assignmnts and assessments. If a student knows he or she will be absent on the day of an assessmet and assignment due date, the student must take the test and hand in any assignments before the absence. I will not take late work. It is the students responsibility to take care of class work before the planned absence.
English 12: Due Feb. 13th: Read to page 65 in Pride and Prejudice.
English 9 and Honors 9: Due Feb 14th and 15th: Grammar test covering all the material on the last test (you have a copy of the last test in your binders. We went over the correct answers in class. Study the last test and the new grammar notes from the 2 weeks before Carnival Break.
English 9 and Honors 9: Due Feb. 18th and 19th: You will be writing an in-class 5-paragraph essay on The Odyssey. This will be an analytical/interpretive essay discussing the major themes and symbols in The Odyssey. You will receive the essay question on the day you will be writing the essay in class.
English 12: Due Feb 15th and 18th: Read to page 85 in Pride and Prejudice.
English 9: Due Feb 20th and 21st: Bring all your grammar notes to class. Be sure you have all the grammar notes you have taken since the beginning of the year.
Honors 9: Due Feb 19th: Bring all your grammar notes to class with you.
English 12: Due March 3rd and March 4th: Vocabulary quiz on the last 5 words on your vocab list. This isn't hard. :)
English 12: Due Feb. 27th and 28th: Read to page 105 in Pride and Prejudice.
English 9, Honors 9, English 12: Due April 3rd and 4th: You will be writing an in-class essay discussing your findings covering the Independent Reading Assignment #2. If you lost your handout or were in class to get one, see me and I will give you one.
English 12: Due March 3rd and 4th: Read to page 125 at least in Pride and Prejudice.
English 12: Due March 5th and 6th: Read to page 145 in Pride and Prejudice.
English 9 and Honors 9: Now that we have started reading Julius Caesar in class, it is important to remember that you are still required to review the dialogue we read in class. Be sure to take time to do this at home. You will have reading quizzes based on those passages.
English 12: Due March 11th and 12th: Read to page 185 in Pride and Prejudice.
Honors 9: Due March 10th: Invent a typical AP essay question based on a reading from any story you choose in your Lit textbook.
English 9 and Honors 9: Due March 13th and 14th: Your course selection forms already entered into the computer. Bring me a printout showing me that you have entered all your chosen courses for next year.
English 12: In-class essay on Pride and Pejudice on April 14th and 15th: I handed out the sample essay questions for study. 3 out of the 5 essay questions on the handout will be on the test. You may throw out one and then write on the other.
English 9 and Honors 9: Hint: The could be a reading quiz on April 14th and 15th covering what we read together in class on April 8th, 9th and 10. Remember that you are still responsible for reviewing every night anything we have read together in class in Julius. Reading quizzes will always come from what we have read together in class.
English 9 and Honors 9: Due April 28th and 29th: Julius Caesar recitations. Remember these must be memorized. You won't be able to have notes in your hands to read from.
English 12, : Essay test May 19th: You will receive a short mystery to read in class then you will be asked to identify the standard elements of a mystery. Be sure to study the handout I gave you listing the elements of a mystery,
English 9 and Honors 9: Test on May 13th: Grammar test on pronoun usage, who and whom, and pronouns in elliptical clauses.
May 19, 20: essay on Julius and honor for all english 9 classes
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