Easter Break Assigned Work for my classes

Grade 9 ELA

• Read final novel for the year...yay! Forbidden City. You will enjoy it. You must also have completed the assigned China worksheet and have selected your Research Paper topic by your return from the break. You will be tested on your reading comprehension of the novel upon your return.
• Vowel Movements!!! Due upon our return from the Easter Break.

1201 English

• Complete your Midsummer Night's Dream Work booklet. It is due upon your return from the break.

3201 English

• Macbeth essay questions will be distributed prior to the break but are also posted here for quick reference:

1. A soliloquy is when a character in a play has a moment "out of time" within the framework of the script whereby he/she may address his or her own thoughts or the audience. Select one such piece in Macbeth and illustrate its importance to character and plot development.
2. Refresh your memory on what makes a Tragic Hero. Is Macbeth a tragic hero? Why or Why not? You must furnish your response with details and solid proof to support your answer.
3. Compare and contrast the character evolution of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
4. Define in your own words, "ambition". Illustrate, from the play Macbeth, a depiction of a variety of types of ambition from a variety of the play's characters.
5. Define in your own words, "supernatural". Demonstrate your knowledge of the significant elements of the supernatural found in the play Macbeth and explain the relevance of the supernatural to the plot.

Remember, you will have to write an essay on one of the above questions. You can craft one ahead of time and learn it or you can write an outline and prepare some choice quotes. Either way, you must have at least three quotations memorized to support your answer. I highly recommended that you check this blog regularly over the break in case I let fly with some hints or tidbits of info which you may find useful. Given that I have provided you with the test questions ahead of time, I fully expect ALL of you to pull your weight and come though on this test :]

• Baltimore's Mansion will be distributed before the break. You are to have it read over the Easter Break, it is an easy read, folks...no whining. Upon your return, you will have the following quizzes: Part II of A Catcher in the Rye; Part II of Macbeth ( about 20 selected response questions plus the above assigned essay question from which you will prepare ONE (1); and after a class of discussion on Johnston's novel, a test on it.

3203 Folk Lit

Your Field work assignment will be distributed before the break. You will be responsible for finding an informant and completing the biographical data section. This is your preliminary research and we will start stage two of it upon your return from the Easter Break.