About Homework

Students always have access to their homework through blogs. The main blog should be checked over the weekend for the upcoming weekly agenda, which contains a reminder of the reading assignment, as well as any homework assignments or announcements common to all classes I teach. However, this class blog for the 9G class, that I call 9MLit12, will have much information right here. Homework will be abbreviated as "HW" below.

HW1 - a two-part writing assignment about your reading habits and how you spend your personal time, available on the main blog.

HW2 - a response to the updated questions to the article handed out during week one called Planets Galore, a link to which you can find below in the article post.

HW3 - About section one (pages 3 to 46) of Night. 1. describe a scene (setting or location) you read about in this part of the book. It should be about one paragraph long and include sensory details and how you feel about it. 2. Look at page 7 again where Moishe the Beadle is pleading with the Jews in the synagogue to leave. If you were there, would you have listened to him? Why or why not?

HW4 - This homework is on Night section two (pages 47–84), and is due on Thursday, 3 March 2011.

1.      Describe what happened between the dentist and the author. What ended up happening to the dentist?

2.      There was a young French woman working in the warehouse who surprised him by comforting him in German after he was beaten. What reason did she later give for doing this? Where did they later meet? Why had she not been sent to a concentration camp?

3.      One day the author saw something his work leader did not like. To make sure he’d be quiet, what did the work leader do? For how long was the author quiet about it?

4.      There were times when the author was forced to look directly at other prisoners who had been hanged for breaking rules right after they had been hung. One time it was particularly upsetting. Why?

HW5 - This will be on section three of Night (pages 85 - 115). Follow this link or go to the e-learning platform. There are 8 questions and 25 answers due Thursday 3/10.

HW6 - Article - When Rich People Do Stupid Things. Attached questions due 3/14.

HW7 - This descriptive writing task is on the main blog and e-learning platform: due 3/14.

Second Marking Period (term 5 of this academic year)
HW8 - article: One Hundred Years of Multitude due 3/31 (questions attached, see link below)
HW9 - blog creation: blog up using blogger.com with link to main class blog (this one) and one other link (first gadget), two other gadgets, a welcome post, and one reflective post for the homework that week. Every Friday after that there must be at least one additional reflective post saying what you learned or what went through your mind while you were reading something for our class that week.
HW10 4/14 Article: Lady Gaga Gets Garbled on Malaysian Radio (plus Singapore ArtScience museum

HW11 5/6 Article: 10 Natural Wonders of the World to See Before They Disappear Reaction only: 250 words

HW12 5/13 Reflective posts on your blog 

Third Marking Period

HW13 6/3 Reflective posts on blog (need parts 1, 2 and 3 of Fahrenheit 451)

HW14 6/8 autobiographical writing - 4 scenes from your life; 300-600 words each (25% each) - these were due over the last 2 weeks (2 early life scenes 2 weeks ago and 2 recent life scenes last week) and please choose 1 scene and revise it. It is due 6/10 as your formal assessment (exam writing) - extendable by individual request.

HW15 6/15 D-day article (250-word reaction only)

HW16 6/17 Business letter can be turned in Monday (available on blog and e-learning over weekend) or done in class Monday for 20 minutes.

Have a great summer! You deserve it.