Pre-AP English II: Ray Bradbury's "Coda"

If your edition of Fahrenheit 451 does not include the section titled "Coda" after the story, please read it here, online, before coming to class in the morning. (I'll have a few copies printed out that you can use in class.)

Pre-AP Classes: Reading Assignments

Pre-AP English II: You should read through the break at the bottom of page 92 of Fahrenheit 451.

English I (Pre-AP): You should read through Chapter 9 of Ender's Game.

English I (Pre-AP): Romeo & Juliet Reading Assignment (4/18)

Be sure to read the following prior to class:

• Act 4, Scene 5


• Act 5, Scenes 1-3

Links take you to "No Fear Shakespeare" online; be sure to read the Shakespeare side.

Pre-AP English II: Caesar Reading Assignment (4/18)

For class tomorrow, read the following passages from Julius Caesar:

• 3.1.31-91


• 3.1.157-290

Links take you to "No Fear Shakespeare" online; be sure to read the Shakespeare side.

English I (Pre-AP): Reading Assignment (4/17)

Be sure to read the following prior to class:

• Act 3, Scene 3


• Act 3, Scene 5

Links take you to "No Fear Shakespeare" online; be sure to read the Shakespeare side.

Pre-AP English II: Caesar Reading Assignment (4/17)

For class tomorrow, read the following passages from Julius Caesar:

• 1.2.45-end


• 2.1.78-219


• 2.1.242-318

Links take you to "No Fear Shakespeare" online; be sure to read the Shakespeare side.

Pre-AP English II: Reading Assignment: Julius Caesar 1.2

Please be sure to have read Julius Caesar 1.2 prior to coming to class tomorrow.

Here's the "No Fear Shakespeare" paraphrase, but be sure to read the actual Shakespeare version.

Pre-AP English II: Othello Reading Assignment (4/2)

4/2 Update: The summarizing will take place tomorrow, 4/3.

Please make sure do the reading over the weekend so that on Monday you can summarize what happens in Act III, Scene 1, 2, and 3 through DESDEMONA's line:

Emilia, come -- Be as your fancies teach you:
Whate'er you be I am obedient.
Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia

This is Act 3, Scene 3, Line 88-89 in my copy of the text. Yours should be somewhere around that.

Pre-AP English II: Othello Reading Assignment (3/28)

Please make sure you can answer the following question before coming to class tomorrow:

What advice does Iago give Cassio so he can regain his post as Othello's Lieutenant?

The answer will be found in the section of the play where we left off today. Read from IAGO's line

You or any man living may be drunk at a time, man. I tell you what you shall do.

to CASSIO's line

Good night, honest Iago.
Exit

Pre-AP English II: Othello Reading Assignment (3/27)

Make sure you've read Act 2, scenes 1 and 2, before you come to class tomorrow. You'll need to summarize both scenes.

(Links above take you to an online edition of No Fear Shakespeare. You're welcome.)

Pre-AP Students: Reading Assignment Reminder

Pre-AP English I: It is part of your Personal Legend to read through page 42 of The Alchemist by tomorrow.

Pre-AP English II: You need to have read through Chapter 3 of Lord of the Flies by tomorrow so you can participate in the Socratic Seminar question writing assignment in class. I will bring audiofiles of chapters 4 and 5 if you want copies to help you with next week's reading assignment.

Pre-AP Reading Assignments for Week of Oct. 3-7

By Monday, Oct. 3, Pre-AP I students should have read the following parts of The Illusionist:

• The introduction
• The preface
• Through the * on page 21

Pre-AP II students should have read the first chapter of Lord of the Flies, "The Sound of the Shell."

By Oct. 10, Pre-AP I students should have read through the * on page 60. Pre-AP II students should have read to page 58 (chapters 2 & 3; "Fire on the Mountain" and "Huts on the Beach").