Summer Vacation is Here!!

Dear Future Sophomores...

Now that you have read your hopes and dreams for your sophomore year, and you have competed your sophomore year, what do you think FUTURE sophomores entering Mrs. Phippen's English class should know?

What advice would you give them regarding this class?
What do you wish *you* had known about this class before you started?
What would you have done differently?
These will hang on the board for sophomores next year!!

This is the end...

Today is the first day of final exams. On Tuesday, there will be final exams for B1, B2, and B3. Students are out at 12:14pm.
     On Wednesday, there will be finals for A1, A2, and A3. On Thursday there will be finals for B4 (FIRST in the day at 7:45) and then A4 following. Students are out after A4.
  Each day is an early out day. The students will be released at 12:14pm each day.
Here is a link to the school calendar.
Friday is yearbook day. Yearbooks will be handed out at 11am. 
       Graduation is on Tuesday at UVU at 7:30pm.

What happens this week?

While school *is* winding down, we do still have classes, and we are still hard at work. 

     In honors English, we'll finish reading Pygmalion and your book reports are due on Wednesday.

     In English 10, we have book reports on Tuesday and Wednesday, and we'll read "The Thrill of the Grass" and you'll receive your take home final exam. While these are the last formal days of class, there are still days of finals to consider.

      The school calendar is accessible HERE. The *real* last week of school is May 28-31st. Do NOT confuse it with next week. You MUST still attend next week. It's finals week and all teachers are required to give final exams. Mine is worth 125 points. 

Do not fail to show up.

Flashback Friday

Flex is CATCH UP today!

All Late Work

All LATE Work is DUE Friday, May 18th, INCLUDING BOOK REPORTS. This is NEXT FRIDAY.

It's Wednesday...

Today in English 10, we read "Piano" by D.H. Lawrence, "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden and "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke. We discussed them and filled out a study guide.

You should READ your book and HAVE your book report NEXT TIME IN CLASS. If you do not, it will be LATE and half credit. There are NO MORE FLEX to make this up.  You NEED this book report to PASS THIS CLASS.

What's going to happen this week??

Day 6 (5/7a;5/8b) TODAY YOU GET THE DIRECTIONS TO THE BOOK REPORT!

We're going to go over "Once More to the Lake" and grade it (so it will go immediately into the computer)!  Comparison of poetry: "Piano," "My Papa's Waltz" & "Those Winter Sundays"

Day 5 (5/9a;5/10b) Finish the poetry. Grade the study guide.

Flex Tu 5/8 = "She's Everything" XC Link

Flex W 5/9 = "Then" XC Link

Day 4 (5/11a;5/14b) "The Thrill of the Grass"-- this is what you'll do your FINAL EXAM ON!!

Flex Th 5/10 = "Lovers in Japan" Link
Flex Fr 5/11 = Flashback Friday for those who need to make things up (Like "Once More to the Lake" or the comparison poetry.)

Directions for Movie Poster Book Report

You have known for 8 weeks that you must do a movie poster for your book report. You have even seen 5 movie poster examples. THIS IS DUE 5/15 for A day and 5/16 for B day.

Here is a list for the parameters:

1. It must be a standard size poster board which is no smaller than what the school library (or Wal*mart) sells. About 22"x28". If you can not afford a poster board, please come see me ASAP. You must include the TITLE of the book as the title of the movie.
2. You must include the DIRECTOR of the movie (it would be the AUTHOR of the book).
3. You must include a BLURB. This should be a quote from the book. It should be something one of the characters said.
4. You should give a CONTENT RATING of your book. It can be creative :)
5. We should be able to tell the GENRE of your book.
6. DO NOT COPY ANY OF THE EXISTING COVER ART. Do not simply blow up the book cover. You need to create something that demonstrates the book and looks like a movie poster.
7. You need to have a STAR rating (1-5 stars) of the book that you will defend in your oral report.

You will also give an ORAL REPORT where you will answer the following questions:

• Describe the antagonist and the protagonist.
• Where does your story take place?
• In one sentence describe the *basic* conflict.
• What is the THEME of your novel?
• Did you like or dislike the book? Why? Please be specific.    

Ithaka from C.P. CAVAFY

As you set out for  Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon-don't be afraid of them:
you'll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon-you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind-
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

Ithaka is reproduced here from C.P. CAVAFY SELECTED POEMS, edited and translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, © 1992 by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.