Honors Final Thought Exercise

You will choose a poem we have used for TPFASTT or a painting we've used OPTIC technique on to write this thought exercise. I have provided links here for you to ALL the poems and paintings. You may do research, too, if you would like. :) It is NOT necessary. This will be due after the break! It's a DOUBLE thought exercise, so it's worth DOUBLE the points!

Here are the poems:

• "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas
• "Holy Sonnet X" by John Donne
• "The Starry Night" by Anne Sexton
• "To a Friend Who's Work has Come to Triumph" by Anne Sexton
• "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by William Carlos Williams
• "Musee des Beaux Arts" by William Auden

You may choose one of these paintings:

• "Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh
• "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by Brueghel
• "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo Da Vinci
• "Girl with the Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer

Directions: Write a 2 paragraph thought exercise.

You will have ONE thesis statement (ex: In "Musee des Beaux Arts," Auden looks at suffering through the eyes of old master painters and regular people to show humanity in the circle of life."

     Both paragraphs will talk about the circle of life and how humans deal with it.

     However, one might deal with "regular people" (and use EVIDENCE/QUOTES) from the poem white the other paragraph might deal with old master painters (using evidence/quotes from the poem).

You *should* have a triangle paragraph paper, but if you don't, I'll include it here:

In your FIRST paragraph, instead of writing a conclusion, your sentence will transition from the first idea in the essay to the second idea in your essay. This is the *perfect* place for a compound, complex sentence. 

Please also include these patterns (somewhere in your work):

• IC, cc IC
• IC; IC
• DC, IC
• IC DC
• DC, IC, cc IC.

This will be due after the break! It's a DOUBLE thought exercise, so it's worth DOUBLE the points!

Happy Christmas, and I hope the new year will be better than last!

There's a semester final on all of this? Really?

Yep. And it will be after the break.
Need to study? Start with your sentences:



Then... review IC DC and DC, IC


Then Try the compound/complex sentences... And... Then we'll talk about the short stories and Animal Farm. :o)

Honors English 10: Semester Review

the 3 Gift Book Report

1. Symbol: The gift represents the central symbol of the book (there can be more than 1 symbol). You need to explain why you chose what you did by using facts, details (quotes) from the book.

2. Plot point from the book (What the character needed, wanted or used). Tell us the point of the item, where it happened in the book, and give us details.

3. Main character: This item is to explain or represent the main character. Use facts, details (quotes) from the book.

Quiz for H English (TGI Friday!)

1. What do you know about Vincent VanGogh?

• Where did he live?
• What was his painting style?
• How did he die?

2. What is a compound/complex sentence?

Write ONE about Vincent VanGogh.

• 2 (two) bonus points if you can list ALL the combinations!

3. What does it mean to do a "cold" reading of a poem?

Honors English

You should have turned in a thought exercise on your outside reading book.
We are entering the best unit of the year! Poetry & Pop-Culture!


If you are missing something, please come talk to me! We covered Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night," and tomorrow we'll do "The Starry Night."

Animal Farm, today

     We covered Chapter 6, 7 and part of 8.

The notes are available HERE
     Do you need the AUDIO version of Animal Farm (for your mp3)? Link HERE.
     Do you need a version to send as a pdf to your e-reader? Link here

Your book report is due NEXT WEEK. Here are the directions:

What is going on in Animal Farm? I've missed something

Are you missing NOTES on Animal Farm?

Check out THIS LINK. They're all here.

If you need chapter 1 notes, they are available here.