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= English 3 =

Tutorials - Tusedays, 3:50-4:30 beginning 8/31/10
Welcome to English 3! On this page you will find weekly assignments and links to any and all necessary materials, as well as due dates for assginments and interesting facts for the week. The interesting facts may be used as Bonus Points on a quiz.

COUNTDOWN TO THE TAKS
=TAKS TUTORIAL SCHEDULES=
 * REMEMBER YOU MUST ATTEND 4 TUTORIALS DURING THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY OR 1 SATURDAY, 9-12.
 * PARENT SIGNATURE FORMS MUST BE RETURNED ASAP!!!!!!!

TAKS PRACTICE STUDY GUIDES

__The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain__
All of the following resources can be helpful while reading this classic tale or courage and freedom. Use these sources as needed. Just don't forget to document what you found and where you found it!

Huck Finn Short Video Summary

FREE AUDIO DOWNLOAD

Do you wish you could read the book in "real english"? Check out this site for the side by side view of the story. Huck Finn - Explained

Having trouble understanding the story? Do you need help? Check out this link Cliffs Notes Explanations

Want to see what Huck and Jim look like? Check out this link and see what Mark Twain had in mind Huck Finn Illustrations

LISTEN WITHOUT DOWNLOADING !!!! CLICK HERE

ARE YOU BRAVE ENOUGH TO USE THIS WEBPAGE!!!!!!!

== **﻿ //Commonly Confused Words// //Here is a list of commonly confused words along with the correct use of each word.//** ==

CCW # 3
==ESL EXTRAS ﻿ - Click here for extra help! == =__AOW'S SPRING 2011 -__ Articles of the Week Assignments=



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BREAKING NEWS: FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE NOW AVAILABLE!

CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR THE FALL 2010 SEMESTER EXAM SECHEDULE 

Exemption Policy This could be subject to change. Please ask regularly!

Students must have an 80 or higher average for the ENTIRE SEMESTER and less than 3 absences in order to be exempt.

Students may exempt the follwoing # of classes:

9th - 2

10th - 3

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">11th - 4

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">12th - ALL

Daily Routine:
= __ 1st 6 weeks ﻿<span style="background-color: #fffe00; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿ __ =
 * Read for 10 minutes ( time will increase in 2 minute intervals weekly until we reach 22 minutes)
 * 5 things - students will name 5 things they learned in the previous class period & this info with the class.
 * Vocabulary/ Grammar - we will review necessary vocabulary for the text and/or Grammar skills
 * TEK aligned lesson - While other parts of the daily routine may address State Mandated Curriculum spefic for English 3, the bulk of the learning/teaching will take place during this part of the class daily.

__<span style="background-color: #fffe00; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8/23-8/27 Assignments __

 * 1) Find something you like to read (book, magazine, newspaper, approved blog or web site, if you have interent on your phone or MP3 player). Bring this material daily.
 * 2) Complete the Folder Decoration Assignment <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Due: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-decoration: line-through;">A-day Sept 1 and B-day Sept 2 __//**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">﻿EXTENDED TIME !!! NEW DUE DATES: FRIDAY, SEPT 3 (A-DAY) & TUESDAY, SEPT 7 (B-DAY) **//__

__<span style="background-color: #fffe00; color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿8/30-9/3 Assignments __

 * 1) ====Article of the Week - Sessums, Kevin. "Kenny Chesney:My Playbook for Life." //Parade// 8 August 2010: 4-6. Print. <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Due Date: Friday, Sept 3media type="youtube" key="AlXDo5WhQXI?fs=1" height="385" width="640" ====
 * 2) A-Day Folders due.

= <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">__**Folders﻿﻿**__ = <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Folders should be kept up to date with ALL materials handed out in class accounted for within the folder. Currently all folders should have the following materials:


 * 1) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Course Syllabus
 * 2) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Interesting Facts About Me Sheet
 * 3) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Grammar Inventory Sheet
 * 4) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Reader's Inventory/ Writer's Inventory
 * 5) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Folder Decoration
 * 6) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">AoW #1 (Article of the Week) - My Playbook for Life
 * 7) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">"Omelas"
 * 8) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Vocabulary of Mood
 * 9) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Halo Lyrics
 * 10) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Finding Figurative Language
 * 11) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">AoW #2 - US Forces still in fight at end of combat mission
 * 12) ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Story of a Hour: Kate Chopin ====
 * 13) ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Character Predicts Chart  ====
 * 14) ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">AoW # 3 - Forget What you Know About Good Study Habits ====

<span style="background-color: #fffe00; color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">﻿9/7 - 9/11 Assignments

<span style="background-color: #fffe00; color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">. AoW # 2 - US Forces still in fight at the end of combat mission
 * <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Ask a minimum of 1 question per paragraph
 * <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Highlight 5-10 items per page
 * <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Answer both questions at the end with complete sentences.AoW#2

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Extra points roll over on to the next article or can be saved for Omitting one AoW Assignment.
[|spanish-english translator] 2. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Name Game Assignment <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿ Due Date: Friday Sept 10 <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff4b00; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff4b00; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff4b00; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Pick a food that starts with the same letter as your first name and/or what you go by[[file:Halo lyrics.doc]]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿Kate Chopin : Story of an Hour <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿ Due Date: Friday Sept 10 Story of an Hour

4. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿Finding Figurtive Language <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Due Date: Friday Sept 10

5. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿Halo Assignment <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Due Date: Friday Sept 10 media type="youtube" key="bnVUHWCynig?fs=1" height="385" width="640"
 * <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿Song was later given to Leona Lewis to sing
 * <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Composed by Ryan Tedder who used the same musical arrangement as Kelly Clarkson's "Already Gone"
 * <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">"Halo" is now a tribute to the late great Michael Jackson
 * <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Also a tribute to the 2010 Haiti earthquake
 * <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">sang on the television broadcast Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief featuring Chris Martin from Coldplay on the piano.

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Vocabulary of Mood: Vocab Activity <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Due Date: Friday Sept 10

<span style="background-color: #fffe00; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Making Thematic Connections :

<span style="background-color: #fffe00; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Short Story Analysis - Visual Presentation
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Literary Elements through creating a literary analysis of an American Literature short story.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Create and present an effectively present short story analysis to the class.

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<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Individual Reading Assignment

 * ==<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿C[[file:Using%20TP%20castt[1].ppt]]hoose a book that interests you. You may check a book out from the library, from your teacher, borrow from a friend, or buy your own. There is no regulation on what book you may choose except that it should be something you've never read before and it must be a novel. ==

Due: November 3rd (A days) or November 4th (B days). __**This is a MAJOR Grade!!!**__

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿AOW #5
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿Due: October 8th if turned in after October 13th, after school detention will be assigned.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Poetry <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿10/3 - 10/27
 * ==<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">TPCASTT Power Point ==

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿10/18 - 10/22 - Assignments

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">﻿﻿[|Interpretive Essay Guidelines.doc]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">List of American Poems
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Tips for Writing Interpretive Essay of a Poem.doc]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Common Themes in Literature.doc]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|THESIS STATEMENT1.doc]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|WEAVING QUOTES INTO YOUR WRITING.doc]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Sample Essay.doc]

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">﻿CCW QUIZ # 5

=Independent Speech Course:=

Assignment # 1: ﻿Due: Prior to 3/11/11

Read the following website. Take notes about speech organization. Create an outline for a speech topic of your choice. You may use a topic required in another course. Speech Outline

Assignment # 2: ﻿Due: Prior to 3/11/11 Read Section 2 of the following website. Take notes about "How to Deliever a Speech." Address each question concerning the venue of your future presentation.

Speech Venue

Assignment # 3: ﻿Due: Prior to 3/11/11

Read Section # 4 of the following website. Choose a format in which to deliver your speech, script, notes or memorization. Prepare your materials accordingly and present them prior to the formal presentation.

Delivering a Speech

Assignment # 4: ﻿Due: Prior to 3/11/11

Present your formal presentation.