WEEK 6

Welcome! 

This is another catch-up opportunity. You'll have TWO weeks to get this work done.

First, a couple of reminders: One, look at the spreadsheet every week. If anything's missing I'll add a margin note here. And two, even if you've earned full credit for something, scroll down and look it over for comments.

Here's your work...

1. Frontier Vocab (Five words from a book of your choice)

2. ATTC Essay #1...How is Lucie the "Golden Thread" of Book the 2nd? I'll let you decide how to interpret that phrase golden thread. Limit your discussion to the first two books of ATTC.

• 600 words MAXIMUM
• Lit Analysis formatting (title and author in the intro P, incorporate a few quotes)
• No revisions on this one, so proof it carefully.
• Did you see that the word count is a maximum, not a minimum? Just making sure you saw that.

3. Read "Book the Third." 

4. Continue the key event summaries that you did for "Book the Second." 

5. Did you see that the word count was a MAXIMUM, not a minimum? 600 max. Just making sure again.

Have a great two weeks!

WEEK 5

Welcome to week 5. 

Here's your work...

1. Frontier Vocab...Something different!  Compose a piece of original writing on any topic just long enough to include TEN of your previous frontier words. Highlight each word. Yes, this will probably be a terrible piece of writing, especially if you are able to cram ten words into one paragraph (which you're welcome to try). The writing needs to make sense though. We're not literary savages, after all. 

2. ATTC “Book the First” questions:

I. Discuss the personification of each: a.The woodman, Fate   b.The farmer, Death   c.Saint Antoine   d.Hunger

II. Discuss (a brief paragraph for each) the following symbols:  a.The mill   b.The cask of wine

III. Who is Jacques?

IV. Describe the wine shop keeper and his wife.

V. Develop this topic sentence into a full paragraph: “Chapter 6 of Book the First is good evidence that the Romantic influence was still strong in Dickens’ time.”  Include a direct quote in your paragraph.

3. Read "Book the Second" and continue the chapter summaries. Keep adding them to what you've done so far.

4. LBGB...

• Read the "Style and Usage" section of chapter 3. 
• Look at these usage pairs and write a correct sentence using each (You may use my examples as models, but write your own):

            a. affect / effect
            b. assure / ensure / insure
            c. compose / comprise
            d. farther / further
            e. i.e. / e.g.
            f. me / myself

5. Revise the Frankenstein essay if necessary (If I didn't change it in the spreadsheet to Frank essay FD, then you need to revise it again).

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

WEEK 4

GOOD MORNING!

A refresher on title formatting: BIG items (books, plays, movies, etc.) get italicized. SMALLER items (chapters, short stories, poems, songs, etc.) get "quotes." And formatting is never mixed, so don't use both just because you forget which is which.

This week we'll be starting our next novel: Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities.
Here's your work for the week:

1. Frontier vocab (5 new words)

2. Revise your Frankenstein essay.

3. Read the Victorian Age introduction on p.485-489. Write a synopsis (a couple of sentences is fine) for each of these: Realism, Naturalism, the Victorian novel, historical fiction, horror, and short fiction. 

4. Read ATTC, Book the First. ATTC is divided up into three books, each with its own set of chapters. "Book the First" makes up the first six chapters of ATTC. "Book the Second" and "Book the Third" make up the rest, and each "book" starts the chapter numbering over. That can be a little confusing at first. 

The complaint I hear most often about this book is that it starts slowly. I tend to agree. If you find that to be true, just be patient. Once it gets going, it really gets going. The first time I read it I quit after the first few chapters. And I was an English teacher! Then I heard a story about a 7th grade girl who would jump off the bus in the afternoon and run home to read ATTC. So I thought, if she liked it that much I must have missed something, so I tried it again, and she was right. I loved it. But I had to get over that early hump before it picked up. 

5. Chapter summaries: Write out 4 key events or ideas from each chapter from "Book the First". Label it clearly.

6. No LBGB this week. You're welcome.


Have a lovely week.