Orange Day

COLLEGE PREP
1. Vocabulary Test
2. College Essay: Introduce (again) the three FCAs for the college essay due on Tuesday...they are VOICE, LEAD, and SENTENCE VARIETY...the essay is due on Tuesday, and this one is your "free choice" college essay....we went over what I meant by "sentence variety," so if you missed or are confused, see me on Monday....we read "I am a dynamic figure," "Shakespeare," and "BC."

HONORS ENGLISH
1. Guest Lecture-Dr. Mark Pelletier: The origins of awesome
2 Collect Beowulf papers
3. Beowulf: "Epic hero convention" groupwork and discussion....notes and discussion on "The battle with Grendel's mother"...read the last section for homework, and know that on Tuesday we will have a test (knowing the Anglo Saxon history, Beowulf terms, short answers, thought questions, etc). Please bring your books to class (like you want to carry them around anyway....)

ENGLISH 12
1. Vocabulary Test
2. College Essay: Your final essay is due on Tuesday....it can be of a topic of your choice as long as YOU are the main subject, and it is about YOU. The three FCAs for this paper are LEAD, VOICE, and SENTENCE VARIETY...we spent a good deal of time going over the sentence variety aspect of this paper....make sure you have one (underlined) sentence in your paper that addresses each of the following: Adjective, Appositive, Prepositional Phrase, Participle Phrase. Remember, this is sentence lead variety. Dont misunderstand what we are doing, and if you have questions, come see me. If no more than 2 people are missing their essays on Tuesday, you may have the reward of some festive fun. Yeay.