"Find Your Inner Skunk"

Poetry Mini-Unit

Guidelines for Poetry Portfolio

Sample Poems

"Evangeline"

Vocab for part the first

Vocab for part the second

My Prelude

Holocaust Hero Info:

Reader Responses

Alicia Syllabus

The Cage Syllabus

Das Tagebuch

Connection Project

My Hero -- paper info

Joseph Campbell's monomyth

Three Point Demons
Tools for Good Writing
Spelling

Past Homework

Edgar Allan Poe

Summer Reading

IRAs

Independent Reading Assignments

Virtues and Vices

 

Golden Imprints Art

Golden Imprints Writing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to Mrs. Curran's Web Page

Announcements

Report cards were issued Wednesday, 3/27.

Grades Below 70:  Any student who scores below 70 on an assessment has the opportunity to re-submit the work to raise his or her grade to a 70 as long as he or she makes arrangements to do so within one week of the original assessment. Although I will give feedback on what the revision reflects (in terms of a grade), nothing above a 70 can be recorded, in fairness to others.

About the Website:  Links to key curriculum pages are listed on the left.  Those in larger type are relevant to current instruction; those with smaller type are for reference later in the year. Students and parents are encouraged to check the site often for homework, class updates, and supplementary information.

HOMEWORK

Homework Policy:

Homework is not busy work.  It is not punishment.  And, it is not optional.  Every homework assignment is worth four points.  Those submitted one day late are given two points.  Anything afterward receives no points.  At the end of the trimester, all assignments are combined to form a test grade, with a weight of 2.  Please do not underestimate the effect of timely homework on your overall grade. Note:  This policy does not apply to longer-term assignments, i.e., IRA's journal entries, essays, and major papers.

Final Assignment of the Year:  Poetry Portfolio

Due Thursday, June 12. 

Must be submitted before Holiday Hill. 

For guidelines and sample poems, click on link at left.

 

New Assignments:

  • Prelude (due 6/5) extended to 6/6 -- BUT -- must be submitted before you leave on the band/orch. trip! Minus 10 points if late.  Do not email me Friday afternoon!
  • Poetry Portfolio (due 6/12)

Work on each nightly

Week of 6/2:

Due Monday:  Sentence worksheet for vocab words.  Click here for vocab sheet and the sentences worksheet.  vocab I - 12345   Quiz Wednesday.  Prelude due ThursdayExtended to Friday -- Lake Compounce people submit by 7 AM. See link at left for guidelines, sample, and worksheet

Tuesday:  Study for vocab quiz tomorrow.  Prelude due ThursdayExtended to Friday -- Lake Compounce people submit by 7 AM. See link at left for guidelines, sample, and worksheet

Wednesday:  Prelude due ThursdayExtended to Friday -- Lake Compounce people submit by 7 AM.  See link at left for guidelines, sample, and worksheet

Thursday:  Prelude due tomorrow.  Must be submitted before 7 am.

Week of 5/26:

Due Thursday: Das Tagebuch -- all entries.  See link at left for listing

Due Friday:  Reader response #4.  See link at left for options

Canceled:  Book Quiz!

Coming next week:  quiz on Evangeline vocab part I

Week of 5/19:

Due Friday:  Reader Response #3.  Remember, you have several options.  Check out the link at left for a review of the guidelines.

Enhance Das Tagebuch entries at home.  See link at left for a review of all the questions.  I'm collecting this next week for a grade!

Week of 5/12:

Due Monday:  Talk back to the "ticket" for Monday's Socratic Seminar.  Lost yours?  Click here for ticket.  Terezin poems    Did you miss class?  If so, you'll need the background to our seminar.  click here for a copy of my lecture notes:  Terezin lecture notes 

 

Due Friday:  Connection to art, music, poetry.  Essay must be submitted that day, even though we will not complete all the presentations then.  They will continue into next week.  See link at left for guidelines.

On Friday:  Spelling for RED, GREEN, and BLUE classes only.  Commonly misspelled words list 5.  (Nothing for purple this week.)

Monomyth Paper Revision Schedule

Purple:  due Fri., May 9

Blue:  due Tues., 5/13

Red:  due Wed., 5/14

Green:  due Fri., 5/16 

Week of 5/5:

Remember to enhance Das Tagebuch entries at home. See link at left for questions

Monday: work on reader response #2 due Friday; See link at left for options

Tuesday: Purple people only:  monomyth revision due tomorrow

Thursday: quiz on book tomorrow.  Alicia chapters 1-12; The Cage chapters 1-19

                  reader response #2 due tomorrow.  See link at left for options

Monomyth Paper Revision Schedule

Purple:  due Wed., 5/7

Blue:  due Tues., 5/13

Red:  due Wed., 5/14

Green:  due Fri., 5/16