College Composition (Period 6) Assignments

Final Draft of your Research Paper (7-8 pages MLA with a Works Cited page)

Oral Presentation (Final Exam)
100 points!!!

Subtopic #3 Typed (Introductory Paragraph) 

2-2 1/2 pages typed of your research paper SUBTOPIC #2 (MLA in-text citations and formatting, but no header) 

Revise your introductory paragraph (from peer-editing)
***make sure you do not have a header

Bring your world lit. textbook

Bring The Things They Carried and World Lit. Book

Research Paper (First 2 pages) 2-2 1/2 pages typed MLA style (with in text citations). This is just a draft.

Everyone: Bring World Literature Textbook

Kairos People--Write your introductory paragraph to your first subtopic

Revise your Introductory Paragraph for your Subtopic #1 (Typed) 

Kairos People-don't forget to make-up your Things They Carried Test (50points)

• you may make it up any day after school, just let me know when you plan on staying
• the grade will become a "0" if you do not make it up

Finish reading The Things They Carried pp. 173-233 

Bring food for the THANKSGIVING FOOD DRIVE (Extra Credit!!!)

• "Speaking of Courage" Handout (Questions & TPR)

• Read "Notes" pp. 149-154
• Read "In the Field" pp. 155-170

Bring The Things They Carried and your Outside Reading Book

• 3 Research Articles (Alemany Website) --if you haven't done so
• Outline for your subtopic #1
• Introductory Paragraph (typed)--MLA, 12pt. font, Times N.R., Double-Spaced, 1 inch margins.

• Research Paper Outline: Subtopic I (do not do "thesis" or "conclusion")
• 3 Research articles from Alemany's Library Research Databases

• Finish reading "Stockings," "Church," and " The Man I killed" from The Things They Carried.(pp. 121-130 if you were in class)
• Finish questions for the above chapters (handout)

• Bring The Things They Carried
• Read "The Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong" pp. 85-110
• Complete the Grammar Worksheet on Semicolons and Colons

TPR- 4 Quotes from ch. 7 "How to Tell a True War Story" pp. 64-81 

• Choose your research topic (Vietnam/Vietnam War)
• Find 3 sources (websites or research articles from our school's database)

        ****Print out 3 handouts on your topic, no Wikipedia
                ****.org, .gov., .edu only

• Read "Enemies" & "Friends pp. 59-64 in The Things They Carried
• Finish your TPR (if you didn't in class)
• Bring 2 books

Finish reading Ch. 4 if you haven't done so 

• Read "Spin" pp. 30-26
• Read " On a Rainy River" pp. 37-58

Quiz???? Boohooohaha

• Finish reading Ch. 1 The Things They Carried (pp.12-25)
• Read Ch. 2 "Love" (pp. 26-29)
• Bring 2 books (The Things They Carried & Outside Reading)

Bring The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (5pt. book check)

Bring The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (5pt. book check)

Bring The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (10pt. book check)

• Movie Permission Slip (Dear America....)
  
• Bring KR, notes, and assignments for MIDTERM (ALL ESSAY)
• Bring outside reading book (after testing)
  

Finish reading chapter 25 of The Kite Runner
Quiz???

Read Ch.23-24 of The Kite Runner

Finish reading Ch. 22 The Kite Runner

·        Courage/ Bravery                                          

·        Loss of Country/The Immigrant Experience

·        Forgiveness and Redemption

·        Guilt/ Regret

• Read Ch. 21 The Kite Runner
• Bring KR & Outside Reading Book

• Read ch. 20 in The Kite Runner
• Bring both books

Read chapter 19 of The Kite Runner
Bring both books

Read ch. 16-17 of The Kite Runner
***We read ch. 16 in class

Finish reading ch. 12 of KR (Quiz???)
Bring both books :)

Vocabulary Unit 2 Quiz: The Kite Runner


****See attachment

Bring both books!!!! (all the time)
Finish reading Ch. 9 The Kite Runner

Bring your independent reading book 

Finish reading The Kite Runner Ch. 8

Type your in class paragraph about The Kite Runner/ Baba and Amir

• MLA format (Times N.R., 12 pt. font, double spaced, header, etc.)
  
• Create your own original title
• perfect the paragraph we wrote as a class

• Finish reading The Kite Runner Ch. 7 (pp. 65-79)
• Bring your outside reading book

Bring your outside/independent reading book (5pt. book check)

Choose an INDEPENDENT READING BOOK and bring it to class

• one that you haven't read
• interests you
• 150-250 pages
• FICTION

Quiz!!!!

• The Kite Runner chapters 1-6
• Afghan Terms
• Afghan History

Read The Kite Runner chapters 5 & 6 !!!

Read The Kite Runner chapters 3-4 

Vocabulary Quiz & History of Afghanistan

1. 

affluent-

2.      notoriously-

3.      unscrupulous-

4.      reveries-

5.      atrophied-

6.      quelled-

7.      garrulous-

8.      furtive-

9.      valiant-

10.  feigned-