H English, Active Voice

Choosing one of Act III's prompts, please write in ACTIVE VOICE.
Here's a reminder of the difference between passive voice and active voice.
Here's a BUNCH of links to help you with active voice:
http://www.towson.edu/ows/activepass.htm
http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/activevoiceterm.htm
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-voice.htm

How to convert BE/being verbs to POWERFUL (doing) verbs
How to eliminate being/passive verbs.

What are we doing next?

Here's a link to the February calendar for regular English. 
Here's a link to the A/B Calendar for the district.

The Importance of Being Earnest: Essays

Essay 1 (sample) You MUST write an 8 sentence paragraph... On a separate sheet of paper.

Sample organizer Essay 2

Sample triangle for Act 1 question 3

Turn in a completed PARAGRAPH. It should have 8 complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.

Looking for a copy of The Importance of Being Earnest?

You can find it here (on a pod-cast, mp3)
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/book/the-importance-of-being-earnest-by-oscar-wilde

Here it is from Project Gutenburg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26226

Here's the PDF version I'll be using in class
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/oscar-wilde/importance-of-being-earnest.pdf

Here's the Spanish edition in pdf 
Audio in Spanish

The Importance of Being Earnest

Own a Kindle? 
It's FREE right now! Here's the link.
Using another reader? Here's a link to another eBook from ProjectGutenberg

Full text of The Importance of Being Earnest:
At SparkNotes.com
At CELT (The Corpus of Electronic Text--Corpus meaning BODY)
At eNotes
At GradeSaver
Background info at Wikipedia

But you were gone, Phipp!!

What did you miss if you were gone on Monday?
1. You should have written an paragraph with a group.
2. You should have written a letter to Mrs. Phippen:

• What do you like a bout this class? Be specific (assignments, activities, books)
• What have you learned this year? (Be specific)
• What do you wish we would do (that we have or haven't done)?
• What would you change about this class--Don't say no reading or writing! This is English!

What if you were gone on Tuesday or Wednesday?

We talked about "Death of the Author" and why the author matters.

Then we watched the A&E Biography on Oscar Wilde.

Choosing a Mystery

Honors English Term 3: Read/View Theater

"Sell me your book," Book Report Directions

For your book report this quarter, you will "sell" your book to your classmates. You may choose to do this in several ways. Choose ONE:

• Create a movie poster. It should look good, have key characters, a symbol from the book, and a "blurb." It should also have a rating. (See samples in class). You will need quotes to support your choices.
• Create a soundtrack for your book. You should have a plot outline of key moments, a CD of the songs (if you need help with the CD, come talk to me), and key lyrics highlighted to demonstrate your knowledge of the book. You will need to play parts of this for the class. You will need quotes to support your choices.
• Create a commercial to sell your book. There are a variety of these available to see. Try this one at Amazon.com for The Fault in our Stars. Here's the book I bought  my husband for Christmas: Tess Gerritsen's Last to Die a Rizzoli & Isles mystery.
• Create a book display like the professionals do to promote or sell your book. It would have a poster, blurbs, items/symbols, and other interesting items about your book. You will need quotes to prove you read it!

Ready to choose a book? We'll talk more about quality mysteries!

What's New in 2013?

Lesson Plan for the 1st day back to school:

1. Calendar review (see this link)
• How does this term work?
• What work goes on this quarter, and what goes on Term 3?
• When's the next holiday?
• How do I change classes?
• What do you mean I might change sections/class periods?
2. Let's talk BOOK REPORTS for Term 3

• What must I read?
• How many pages?
• Reading level?
• When do I need to have this book CHOSEN?
• When do I need to have FINISHED reading this book?
• What is the book report like for this book?
3. Let's review sentence structures! :)
• We'll go over basic structures...
  
4. Let's KILL someone: Daily mysteries
• Review CLAIM
• Review WARRANT
• Review EVIDENCE
5. QUICK WRITE:

• Write about the mystery scenario using ALL the sentence structures
• IC
• IC, cc IC (or IC; IC)
• DC, IC (or IC DC)
• DC, IC, cc, IC (or IC, cc IC DC)
• Make sure your 4 sentences describe what happened in the scenario.
• Make sure you have capitals, periods, commas, and you use paragraph style.
6. Validation:

• Free write & discussion
• What was the BEST thing that happened over the Christmas break? WHY? (describe)
• What was the WORST thing that happened over Christmas break? WHY? (describe)
• If you could CHANGE one thing, what would it be? WHAT & WHY--How would you do it differently?
• If you could DO SOMETHING OVER, what would it be? What ACTUALLY happened, how would you do it (differently/same, etc.)
• REMEMBER: Who, What, When, Where, Why, HOW, etc.