English Ten Periods 3, 4

1. Be sure to finish your précis for the "How to Be AN Active Reader" article. It is a 4-6 sentence summary of the author's main points and purpose. 2. Respond to the following writing prompt: Write about a Journey/Quest that YOU or A Family member has taken. Perhaps it was a journey to learning how to do something; or a trip from another state or country. What obstacles did you encounter? Discuss. 3. Don't forget to keep reading in your Independent Reading Novel.

English Ten Period 5

1. To completely finish your SOAPS Sheet. 2. Complete an additional twenty or more pages of reading in your independent reading novel; and have no fewer than four (4) reading entries. 3. To complete your response to the Quest prompt. 4. Finally, please bring Enrique's Journey to class on Thursday.

English Ten Periods 3, and 5

Now that you have written a letter to a close friend, loved one or sibling about a topic, talent or interest or hobby that you have, you will write ANOTHER letter. Select one of the following audiences for your letter: Dr. Woods (Principal) or Mr. Lewis or Mr. Park (Assistant Principals; OR a student in the third (3rd) or fourth (4th) grade; or a potential employer. Write a new letter to the audience that you select. You will need to make changes perhaps in organization, how you use language in your letter to your new audience. It may be shorter or longer than your original letter. Be sure thought, that you discuss the same talent, hobby, interest or skill that you have in the second letter as well. Your letter may be handwritten or typed.

English Ten Periods 3, 4 and 5.

Think of a subject, or hobby, or interest that you have, and have some experience with. Compose a letter to a friend, close friend, in which you discuss/describe your hobby, talent, interest or experience. Your letter should be a full page long, and should have at least one FULL paragraph devoted to a discussion of your talent; hobby, interest.

Please click on the above link for the Rewrite Instructions Regarding Your First Essay, "A Time When I"

English 1C

For our next class, please peruse the introduction of our Critical Thinking Text, and complete the following exercises 1.4 pg xxviii, 1.7, pg. xxxii. read and annotate all of Chapter 1 paying careful attention to pages 22-23. complete exercise 1.6 on page 12; and 1.9 on page 18.

English 1C El Camino Spring 2014

For next week, January 25, 2014 1. In up to a page, respond to the following prompt: What is critical thinking (in your own opinion)? And...what keeps us from thinking critically? 2. Download, using the link to the right, the essay, "Why Men Reason Poorly." Read it, mark and underline, "A-Hah!" moments or parts of the text that strike you as important, meaningful, and sound. 3. Purchase a single subject notebook or composition book for use as your journal. 4. Bring a physical object that represents or symbolizes you. Be prepared to share.