Welcome Back!

Glad to have you back on our journey through English 11...Gillmore Style.

So far we have...

• Reviewed run-on sentences. What are the two types?
• Analyzed an EOL prompt using an excerpt from The Signers...an prompt that I meant to use during A Pioneer Never Quits unit. Uh oh, where does all the time go?
• Reviewed your semester test.

Now, for the rest of the week:

1. Grammar Time: Review of parallel structure.
2. Review the EOL prompt.
3. Complete a prompt using Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay," which will serve as a starting point for our next thematic unit.
4. Assign an essay modeled after an EOL writing prompt.

What is in our near future?

• Completing your assigned essay.
• The Materialism Unit during which we will read F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
• Analyzing your annotated bibliographies for your Natural High Day paper.

Reminders:

• You have to read six books this nine weeks. As a class, we will read The Great Gatsby and Night this nine weeks, so that means you are responsible for reading four novels of your choice.
• Expectations/Length Requirements:
  1-299 pages = 1 book
  300-599 pages = 2 books
  600 + pages = 3 books
• I will post assessment options soon...just as soon as I get that all decided!

Once again...welcome back!