Sunday, April 1: Great Expectations

This Sunday, watch online, on your TV, or with the PBS app on your iPad. 



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/watch/index.html

Block Day, Week 33

* Pray

* Check Grammar

* Great Expectations Video

* First words of Cry, the Beloved Country, time permitting

HW: Get the novel: Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country: ISBN: 0743262174.
This is one to buy. You may purchase a paper copy or a digital copy for your iPad.

Wednesday, 3/28: Grammar

* Pray

* Grammar Comma Review

* Video

HW: Finish your Grammar Review
All classes: Bedford 32 a-j

1. Write rule
2. One example of rule from Bedford
3. One rule from your head . . . or your kidneys
   

Tuesday, 3/27

* Pray

* Finish Video

* Work on your CWP

HW: None

Monday, 3/26: CWP Work

* Take Roll

* Mr. Schwager will have a substitute at least for morning classes as he has a doctor's appointment.

* Correct your Grammar. Please do this on your own. See the answers below.

* Review the CWP Assignment on your own and work on your quarter 4 CWP.

- If you only reviewed one CWP, please read one more.

- Remember: consider contests.

- Here are the CWP instructions.

* Tea Party?

- If you would like a tea party in your class this week, please post a comment to this entry with your teacher's name, your name, period, and what you would bring.


HW: None

Block Day, Week 32: ICE, Grammar

* Pray

* ICE: Dickens

* When you finish, please work on your grammar.

Now that you have learned when to use the comma, you should also when you should not use the comma.  This week, consider comma abuse through overuse.
- Read 33a-h
- Take notes on all rules in blue
- Do ex. 33-1 letters and numbers

HW: Grammar Ex. 33-1

Wednesday, 3/21: G.E.: (In it) He brings good things to life.

* Prayer

* Read

* Discussion

For block day (if we finish early, we can begin)
* Now that you have learned when to use the comma, you should also when you should not use the comma.  This week, consider comma abuse through overuse.
- Read 33a-h
- Take notes on all rules in blue
- Do ex. 33-1 letters and numbers

HW: Finish reading Great Expectations ; review the character of your characters

Tuesday, 3/20: CWP Examples

* Pray

* CWP Examples: Please read at least one.

Seniors
Taylor Cohan. Story: A missionary adventure!
Genevieve Virden. Story: Sadness, sweetness, and light.
Sydney Gunther. Poems: Cautionary, riddling, and otherwise.
Stephanie Early. Story: The world through the eyes of an animal.
And A Clever Poem from Arianna Bellizzi: Chromophobate

Sophomores
Ohho Warintrakom. Story: A Dark Tale. 
Taylor Pope-Williams. Poem: What is a Christian?
Evan Rickel (note: intro. paragraph was cut out in upload). Story: Enter the World of Light and Dark Angels. 

* Read

* Video

HW: Read (finish Great Expectations to be ready for an ICE on block day)

Monday, 3/19/12: Reading, etc.

* Pray

* Return papers

* Discussion (ICE on Dickens at the end of the week)

* Video

HW: Read and review

Grammar: Comma Review 32-5

Thursday 3/8

* Pray

* Review Grammar

* Read Dickens

* Video

HW: Read

Wednesday, 3/7: Comma Coma

* Pray

* Grammar: Do ex. 32-5 pp 390-391; handwrite or work in your book.

* Read ch. 45 in Dickens

HW: Read ch. 46 in Dickens

Even Easier to Enter the Poetry Santa Cruz Contest

Fill out the form, print up your work, and we will send it all on Thursday (Mrs. Basilius has an envelope...see her and drop your work in there).

http://www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz/events/2011events/HSPoetrysubmissions.pdf

Blessings,

Mr. S

Tuesday 3/6: Dickens

* Pray

* Read Dickens

* Watch the Video

HW: Read ch. 44

Monday, 3/5

* Pray

* Dickens

* Video

HW: Read

So, you finished your CWP, no?

Then it's time to enter a contest: Bru, ha, ha...back to the house of pain; my tortures never end! 

Poetry Santa Cruz (teens only): Poetry, March 15, no fee, prizes (usually $100 and/or gift certificates to local bookstores)

William Saroyan (youth and teens only): Short prose (1-2 pg. fiction), March 5, $100, etc. 

Sylvia Burack (11th-12th grade only): Creative non-fiction, March 15, $1,500

Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest (satirize fake/scam writing contests): April 1, No fee, $3,600 in prizes

Allstate Journalism Award (print and video categories): No fee, thousands in prizes, 

Drum Roll:

Bulwer-Lytton (Worst Story Opening) Writing Contest: April 15, free, some prizes 

Prompt: Write the most wretched opening line or lines (less than 60 words) imaginable.  Avoid puns.  Be grammatically correct.  

Inspiration:

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

 --Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)

Winners: Here are examples of splendidly horrific writing.  

Send entries to:

-Lytton Fiction Contest

Department of English
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95192-0090 

OR

  - You may email your entry to srice@pacbell.net.  Make sure your grammar is correct...or you just might find yourself the subject of a new contest! Include your name, phone number, and address.  

       

     - Quiz: Can you tell the difference between a supposed best and worst writer (don't worry, not all Lytton wrote was bad...not all Dickens wrote was good, but it's still fun)?