Week Four Assignments due 6/29/13
1) Weekly Literature Blog Entry (20%)- For this weeks reading, you were to read or review either Washington's Up From Slavery or Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. In a 100 or more word post, discuss one particular episode that stood out to you from one of the works and then make an application or connection to something in one of the works that you have already read this summer. Please make sure you include which author and which part of his work you are discussing. Provide textual evidence (quotes) from the work to allow your blog reader to understand your thoughts. In completing your posts, make sure you are adding to the discussion. No two students should have the same comparisons.
2. Blog responses (10%)- After completing your post, you must respond to two other students posts. You must respond to students who have written about a different author and work posting something of additional value. Students will only receive credit for responses to works they did not use in their original post. Students may respond to additional posts if they like.
3. Reading comprehension quiz (20%) - Follow the link to the W.W. Norton website and take the reading quiz for Douglass or Washington's narrative. Answer the complete set of questions. Email results to your teacher at ([email protected]) . http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/africanamericanlit2e/ch/B_Slavery/quiz.aspx
4. Vocabulary (15%)- Go to the Sheppards software website and practice SAT/GRE practice Quiz Set 4 Vocab until you score at least a 80%. Post to the blog you create an entry using at least 3 words from this list. Write down in your grammar log any words and definitions that you were unable to answer correctly on the quiz. http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/vocabmania.htm
5. SAT Reading review (15%)- Go to the SAT website and do the first set of 8 practice SAT reading questions. If you do not answer a question correctly, write down the question and correct answer in your grammar log. SAT weblink: http://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/sat-practice-questions-passage-based-reading?practiceTestSectionIDKey=QuestionType.PASSAGE_BASED_READING
6. Your Blog (20%)- Reading slave narratives should find one counting blessings and becoming challenged to overcome struggles in our own lives. Try to imagine yourself in some of these situations. How would you have felt? What would you have done? Knowing that you do not have life as bad, how does that challenge you to do something in your life?
Extra Credit Activity:
Write a book review of 500 words or more on one of the two narratives. Email this to your teacher.
2. Blog responses (10%)- After completing your post, you must respond to two other students posts. You must respond to students who have written about a different author and work posting something of additional value. Students will only receive credit for responses to works they did not use in their original post. Students may respond to additional posts if they like.
3. Reading comprehension quiz (20%) - Follow the link to the W.W. Norton website and take the reading quiz for Douglass or Washington's narrative. Answer the complete set of questions. Email results to your teacher at ([email protected]) . http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/africanamericanlit2e/ch/B_Slavery/quiz.aspx
4. Vocabulary (15%)- Go to the Sheppards software website and practice SAT/GRE practice Quiz Set 4 Vocab until you score at least a 80%. Post to the blog you create an entry using at least 3 words from this list. Write down in your grammar log any words and definitions that you were unable to answer correctly on the quiz. http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/vocabmania.htm
5. SAT Reading review (15%)- Go to the SAT website and do the first set of 8 practice SAT reading questions. If you do not answer a question correctly, write down the question and correct answer in your grammar log. SAT weblink: http://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/sat-practice-questions-passage-based-reading?practiceTestSectionIDKey=QuestionType.PASSAGE_BASED_READING
6. Your Blog (20%)- Reading slave narratives should find one counting blessings and becoming challenged to overcome struggles in our own lives. Try to imagine yourself in some of these situations. How would you have felt? What would you have done? Knowing that you do not have life as bad, how does that challenge you to do something in your life?
Extra Credit Activity:
Write a book review of 500 words or more on one of the two narratives. Email this to your teacher.