1. Quarter Two

2. Take some time to answer the following questions: What is social justice? What is fairness? What are some examples of issues in American regarding social justice? Provide examples from both the present and past. Regarding the issues from the past, how do you think these issues were resolved? Regarding the current issues, how do you think these can be resolved? Would you fight for any of these issues? Why/why not? MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 TH, 2015

3. What are human rights? What can and should we do when they are violated? TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27 TH, 2015

4. Identify the error(s) in the following sentences. Once you’ve done that, write the sentence correctly on your paper. 1.After the man’s affair, he was faced with compunction from his friends, so he became lonely. 2.When the Petersons failed to make their mortgage payments, the bank manager showed no compunctions and he quickly foreclosed on the couple’s home. 3.When the nurse saw the man’s cut in the ER, she went into a state of revulsion and ran out of there. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29 TH, 2015

5. Parallel Structure (Parallelism): is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern, you create a parallel construction. Fix the following two sentences to create parallel structure: 1.Ellen likes hiking, the rodeo, and to take afternoon naps. Ex: Ellen likes to hike, attend the rodeo, and take afternoon naps. 2.My dog not only likes to play fetch, but also chase cars. Ex: My dog not only likes to play fetch, but he also likes to chase cars. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 TH, 2015

6. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 TH, 2015 COPY EACH TOPIC BELOW, AND RATE YOUR KNOWLEDGE (1 = I know almost nothing about this / 5 = I am an expert!) 1.Mark Twain 2.The antebellum south 3.Reconstruction 4.Jim Crow 5.Satire 6.Irony 7.The hero’s journey 8.Realism & Romanticism

7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been banned in many schools throughout the nation. What are your feelings on book banning/censorship? Are there books/topics that you think are justifiable to ban? Do you agree or disagree with the quote below from the author Laurie Halse Anderson: “Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them” TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 TH, 2015

8. Create one sentence with an appositive phrase about Huck. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13 TH, 2015

9. Make two columns, listing Huck’s clear likes and dislikes as he reveals them in the first couple chapters. What things does he have trouble understanding ? MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16 TH, 2015

10. What characteristics of Huck are revealed in chapters 12-18? Jim? MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 TH, 2015

11. Create a sentence using a participial phrase as a sentence opener. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 ND, 2015

12. Create a sentence using a participial phrase as the sentence closer. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 RD, 2015

13. Create a sentence with a participial phrase as a subject-verb split. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 TH, 2015

14. Read the following sentences. Each one contains a misplaced modifier. Once you’ve identified the misplaced modifier, rewrite the sentence on your paper correcting the error. 1.Having finished the assignment, the TV was turned on. 2.Hiking the trail, the birds chirped loudly. 3.The robber ran from the policeman, still holding the money in his hands. MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 TH, 2015

15. What do you know about Transcendentalism and/or Henry David Thoreau? FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 TH, 2015

16. Respond to this excerpt from the introduction letter of Ender’s Game: Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody’s dazzling language—or at least I hope that’s not our reason. I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not “true” because we’re hungry for another kind of truth: The mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself. MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 TH, 2015

17. What do you do to get involved in current issues? If you are not involved in anything- what’s holding you back? Is it apathy or something else? MONDAY, JANUARY 4 TH, 2016