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Sunday, November 16, 2014

English 11 weeks of November 17 and 24

By Thursday, visit http://www.actstudent.org/testprep/descriptions/readdescript.html

Read the information regarding the Reading portion of the ACT. You should also click on the link : Read more about Reading Test content.


Send me an email with your name as the subject plus Reading; in the body of the email write a 6 word summary of what you learned.

Monday

Complete the following survey:


Visit the following satirical websites




Weird Al Yanchovic: http://www.weirdal.com/


Select an example of satire – email me a link as well as the purpose of the example. Put your name and satire as the subject line.

Tuesday – Review “What is Satire?”. Notes on irony. Introduction to Mark Twain.

Wednesday – “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain

Thursday – Collecting text from “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

Friday – “The Lowest Animal” by Mark Twain

Monday – Collecting text from “The Lowest Animal”


Tuesday – Working with Latin root words

Wednesday - 2nd hour only - Cultural exploration.

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