Poetry Terms Final

Our final exam is a test on the poetry terms we have been studying this month. Here is the list of terms in case you lost yours. Good luck!

English 3 Poetry Terms 2013

Mythology

For the next few weeks, we are going to be studying Mythology. Here is some information that you may find helpful:

The Olympians (These are the gods/goddesses that you need to know for the test. There will be other people on the test, but they will be in the stories we read. For each god/goddess, you must know both his or her Greek and Roman name. The first six on the list are brothers and sisters):

1. Zeus (Jupiter): King of the gods, god the the earth/sky/lightening
2. Hades (Pluto): God of death and of the Underworld
3. Poseidon (Neptune): God of the sea/horses/earthquakes
4. Hera (Juno): Queen of the gods, wife of Zeus, goddess of Marriage
5. Hestia (Vesta): Goddess of the hearth
6. Demeter (Ceres): Goddess of grain and growth
7. Ares (Mars): God of War
8. Athena (Minerva): Goddess of crafts
9. Apollo (Apollo): God of light, music, etc. Twin brother of Artemis
10. Artemis (Diana): Goddess of hunting and of the moon. Twin sister of Apollo.
11. Hermes (Mercury): Messenger of the gods
12. Aphrodite (Venus): Goddess of love and beauty
13. Hephaestus (Vulcan): God of fire and blacksmiths
14. Eros (Cupid): God of love
15. Persephone (Proserpine): Goddess of the spring, Queen of the Underworld
16. Dionysus (Bacchus): God of wine

Here are the two PowerPoints we went over in class:

The Olympians PowerPoint

Mythological Allusions PowerPoint

There is more helpful information to come!

Grammar: Semicolons

We will have a grammar quiz on semicolons on Monday, September 23rd. Here is the handout:

Semicolons

Here is a website that explains how to use semicolons and includes a video and a quiz.

Semicolon Website

Antigone

On Friday, September 6th we will start reading our first play, Antigone. It is an ancient Greek drama about a girl who has some crazy family problems and a run-in with the law. We will read the play together in class (it is in our textbooks) but here is an online version in case you are absent, miss something, or need to look back at a scene when you are doing your homework, etc.

http://thetalon.org/ANTIGONE.pdf

Happy Labor Day!

Because the benchmark is this Wednesday and Thursday (not Tuesday and Wednesday) we cannot have our Week 2 vocal. quiz on Thursday. Instead, we will have the Week 2 vocal. quiz on Monday the 9th (the same day as the part of speech grammar quiz). We will NOT skip week 3, however. The week 3 vocal. quiz will be on Monday the 16th.

Parts of Speech Review/How to Study for a Grammar Quiz

Many of you have asked how to improve your grammar quiz scores because you did not do well on the first one. First of all, the first quiz is over, so let's focus on getting ready for the next quiz. Our next grammar quiz is on Parts of Speech and will be on Monday, September 9th.

How can you do better on this quiz than you did on the last one? Try studying more, or in a different way:

If you didn't study at all, try studying. I suggest reading the handout I gave you and take some practice quizzes, then work on the skills you missed on the practice quizzes. You can try taking Cornell Notes from the handout and/or our class discussion then use those notes to study. You can go online to learn about the parts you don't know from the Cornell Notes.

If you did study last time, did you study every day? Studies show that studying every day for, say, fifteen to thirty minutes a day is better than studying for two hours the night before the test. Try studying a little every day leading up to the quiz. If there is a week before the quiz try this schedule (oe whatever works for you):

Monday night: Review the handout and see if you have any questions you want to ask in class tomorrow (we usually do a DO NOW about the grammar on Tuesday).

Tuesday night: Take Cornell Notes on what we discussed in class and on the handout. Review the DO NOW we did in class.

Wednesday night: Quiz yourself from your Cornell Notes and check off the ones you know. Study the ones you did not know by going online, reviewing your notes, etc.

Thursday night: Quiz yourself on the ones you did not know yesterday from your notes. Did you get some of them right? Now you can cross those off. Study the ones you still do not know.

Friday night: Take an online practice quiz. Study the ones you got wrong.

Saturday night: Quiz yourself on the ones you still do not know from your notes. Take another practice quiz if possible and/or just look up exercises on the ones you got wrong last night.

Sunday night: Review everything, but especially the things you still do not know. MAke sure you REALLY know the ones you say you know.

If you studied every night and still did not do well on the quiz, there are a couple of things that might be up. Did you understand the quiz? Did you follow directions? Did you put your name, date, and period on the quiz? HOW did you study? Did you go online and take practice quizzes? Did you write your own Cornell Notes based on the lesson and the handout? If you had questions or if there was something you still did not understand before the weekend, did you ask the teacher or someone else about it?

Try these tips - basically, do more (or do something better) than you did last time and your score should improve.

The Parts of Speech quiz will not have any writing on it, nor will it have any SAT-style questions (those two things were hard for some of you). It will basically be about twenty sentences. Each sentence will have one word underlined and you will be asked to identify the part of speech of that word. Here are a few sample questions (these will not be on the quiz, but they are very similar to the actual quiz questions). The answers are at the bottom of this post.

Parts of Speeh: Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, Interjection.

1. Ouch! That snake bit me!

2. The teacher told everyone in the class to bring his or her book to class every day.

3. The parrots flew quickly above the heads of the shoppers at the Farmer's Market.

4. I bought my prom dress at the dress store at the mall.

5. Marianne cried bitterly after finally getting a response to her letters from Willoughby.

How do you think you did? Did you study before you took this quiz? Right before? It's better to study, then wait a day or so and then take a quiz. If you take the quiz right after you study, you might get some answers right even though you don't really KNOW them yet. If you take a quiz before you have studied AT ALL you might not do very well. The answers are at the bottom of this post, so you can go check them now.

Finally, here are a few online practice quizzes. The first one is especially good and VERY similar to the one we are going to do in class. Study a little, take the quizzes, make a note of which ones you got wrong, and then study those again. Good luck!


Review: Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech Quiz

This one is only on noun, verb, adjective, and adverb

Finally, here is a Quizlet on the eight parts of speech with flashcards, a quiz, etc.

Here are the answers to the quiz:

1. This is an interjection. Interjections are usually followed by commas or exclamation marks. Watch a video about interjections here.

2. This is a pronoun. Pronouns like everyone are used instead of listing all of the names of each student in the class. Read more about pronouns here.

3. This is a noun. Heads are things. Watch a video about nouns here.

4. This is an adjective. But wait, isn't a dress a thing? So, it's a noun, right? Right - but in this case it is being used as an adjective; it is telling us what kind of store she went to. Watch a video about adjectives here.

5. This is an adverb. It tells us HOW she cried. Many adverbs end in -ly. Watch a video about adverbs here and read Marianne's story in Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility (there's also a great movie version with Kate Winslet as Marianne).

Back to School Night

Thank you to all of you who attended Back to School Night! If you couldn't make it, or would just like some more information, here is a copy of the handout I passed out:

Back to School Night Handout

Remember, if you have any questions, the best way to contact me is through my school email. If you want to check your child's grades, attendance, etc. please visit the Family Portal.

Thanks again!

Grammar: Parts of Speech

For the next two weeks (August 27 - September 6) our grammar point will be parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adverbs, etc.). Here is the handout:

Parts of Speech

And here are some practice quizzes you can take online:

Prepositions

Adverbs

Adjectives

Nouns

Verbs

The quiz will be on Monday, September 9th.

Grammar: Active vs. Passive Voice

On Monday, August 26th, we will have our first grammar quiz. It will be a multiple choice/true-false clicker quiz on Active vs. Passive Voice.

Here is a handout that explains Active vs. Passive Voice (it's a pdf):

Active vs. Passive Voice Handout

Basically, active voice is (almost always) better than passive voice. Here is a quick example.

(Active Voice): Sarah bought two tickets for the baseball game.

(Passive Voice): Two tickets to the baseball game were bought by Sarah.

The first sentence is clear and follows standard English. Make sure you can identify if a sentence is in active or passive voice and which one is better!

Vocabulary

On Monday, I will pass out the list of vocabulary words for the first eight weeks of school. We will have ten words each week. You can get the list from Google Docs here:

Vocabulary Words 1-8

And here is the website where you can find the definitions, learn & practice the words, play games, take practice quizzes, etc.

Vocabulary Website

There are 20 words in each unit, so we study the first ten words one week and then the last ten words the next week.

Every Monday we will have a quiz on the last week's words. August 19-23 is week 1, so the quiz will be on Monday the 26th. If there is no school on Monday, or if we are doing something (such as an essay) that takes the entire period, we will have the quiz on Tuesday.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Welcome!

Welcome to Ms. Naylor's 10th Grade English Class Website. Important links, information, and assignments will be added here, so make sure to bookmark this site and check back regularly.

I will pass out the course syllabus in class on the first day of school. Here it is in case you need another copy:

2013-2014 Course Syllabus

Fahrenheit 451

For Fahrenheit 451, we have 12 homework sheets due and one project. You can find the project sheet, homework sheets, reading schedule, and Final Exam Terms Checklist at Google Docs here:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Byj0T4Z090A1SHJVRF9CVnRBbWs&usp=sharing

Projects are due on Friday, May 17th.

Lord of the Flies

We are currently reading Lord of the Flies. Here is some information that might help you:

SparkNotes: Lord of the Flies

SparkNotes are NOT meant to take the place of doing the actual reading, but they can be helpful if you are having trouble understanding the novel, get confused about symbols or about character names, etc., and with studying/review. Check it out. [Be careful - copying ideas/sentences word-for-word from SparkNotes into an essay or other assignment is plagiarism (a form of cheating) and is to be avoided].

Lord of the Flies Reading Schedule

This is the reading schedule - it tells you what chapter to read each night and when the test, essay, etc. will be.

Vocabulary List: Lord of the Flies

Here is a copy of our vocab. list in case you need an extra. We will have one quiz after the first 12 words and one after we finish reading the novel (see the reading schedule).

When the study guide for the test is ready, I will upload that here, too. Let me know if there is anything else you need!