My Promises to You
~ I promise that I will not ask you to do anything that you cannot do.
~ I promise that when I ask you to do something new, I will show you how.
~ I promise that if you do what I ask you to do, you will pass this course.
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Ms. A's English Page
Here's where you can find the lessons we work on during the school year. You can use this page to see what assignments you may have missed due to absence, or to review, or to make life easier when you've left your notebook in school. Some of these lessons will include the answers and reasoning we cover during class. Some of them will simply be the assignments.
The OdysseyFRESHMAN ENGLISH AMERICAN LITERATURE GRAMMAR WRITING Elements of Fiction Colonial Period 1650-1750 8 KINDS OF WORDS SOL Domains and 5 Kinds of SOL Writing PLOT NOTES Historical Notes PREPOSITIONS Analyzing the Prompt Sudden, Certain Death Native American songs & stories VERBS DESCRIPTIVE WRITING To Build a Fire Of Plymouth Plantation 3 Kinds of Verbs Using Concrete Language CHARACTERIZATION NOTES A History of the Dividing Line 4 Parts of Verbs Figurative Language Blues Ain't No Mockingbird The Crucible Forms of the Verb TO BE Freeze Frame SETTING NOTES Reason & Revolution 1750-1800 Southern Appalachian Verbs TALOS Antaeus Historical Notes 6 Verb Tenses PERSUASIVE WRITING POINT OF VIEW NOTES The American Language 5 KINDS OF SENTENCES NARRATIVE WRITING Trials Declaration of Independence 3 AV Patterns RESPONDING TO A QUOTE THEME NOTES The Middle Passage 2 LV Patterns EXPOSITORY WRITING all stories Franklin's Autobiography & Epitaph All 5 Patterns Steps to Better Writing IRONY NOTES Patrick Henry Speech SENTENCE PARTS 1 General to Specific The Sniper Romanticism 1800-1850 2 Kinds of Clauses 2 General to Specific
Historical Notes 5 Kinds of Phrases 3 General to Specific|
Background Notes Legend of Sleepy Hollow ...Prepositional Phrases 4 Perceiving Relationships Ancient Greece Alphabet Book Transcendentalism1800-1850 ...Noun Phrases 5 Supplying Specifics Judgment of Paris Definitions ...Verb Phrases 6 Finding the General Statement Part I: Moment of Crisis: Trouble at Home & Where is Odysseus? Emerson & Thoreau ...Adjective Phrases & Adverb Phrases 7 Writing a Topic Sentence Book 1: Athena Advises Telemachus Hawthorne & Poe COMBINING THE PARTS 8 Eliminating Unrelated Specifics Books 2-4 Telemachus Confronts the Suitors & Seeking Odysseus Whitman & Dickenson Semi-colons 9 Supplying Specifics Book 5: Calypso, the Sweet Nymph Historical Notes 7 Coordinating Conjunctions 10 Listing Both General Statement and Supporting Specifics Book 6: The Princess Nausicaa Biographies & Contrasts Subordinating Conjunctions 11 Using a General Statement and Supporting Specifics to Write a Paragraph Book 8: The Court of King Alcinous Whitman Poetry Appositives 12 Providing Connecting Information Part II: The Flashback: The Adventures of Odysseus Dickenson Poetry 13 Writing a Complete Paragraph Book 9: The Lotus Eaters & The Cyclops Realism 1855-1900 14 Positioning the General Statement Book 10: The Bag of Winds & The Witch, Circe Historical Notes 15 Writing a Paragraph With the General Statement at the End Book 11: The Land of the Dead Frederick Douglass 16 Writing a 'Sandwich' Paragraph Book 12: The Sirens & Scylla and Charybdis Follow the Drinking Gourd 17 Using Four Types of Specifics Part III: Resolution: The Return of the Hero Civil War Voices 18 Identifying Four Types of Specifics Book 16: The Meeting of Father and Son excerpt from Huckleberry Finn 19 Writing a Paragraph Using Facts and Statistics Book 17: The Beggar and the Faithful Dog excerpt from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 20 Writing a Paragraph Using Examples Book 19: Penelope, the Beggar, and the Nurse The Moderns 1900-1946 21 Writing a Paragraph Using an Incident Book 21: The Test of the Great Bow Historical Notes 22 Writing a Paragraph Using Reasons Book 22: Death at the Palace A Rose for Emily 23 Using Other Types and Combinations of Specifics Book 23: Odysseus and Penelope A Worn Path 24 Ordering Specifics The Novel In Another Country 25 Six More Ways to Order Specifics Generic Novel Study Secret Life of Walter Mitty 26 Applying What You've Learned Night Harlem Renaissance 1920s 27 Adding Transitions To Kill a Mockingbird Historical Notes 28 Practicing What You've Learned Animal Farm Poetry 29 Adding Other Connectors Treasure Island Painting 30 Adding Other Connectors Romeo & Juliet Music 31 Applying What You Know About Connectors Scavenger Hunt Novels 32 Proofreading the Paragraph Drama/Theater Notes Of Mice and Men 33 Trying It On Your Own Elizabethan Background To Kill a Mockingbird 34 Understanding the Essay Act I The Great Gatsby 35 Understanding the Essay Act II 36 Understanding the Essay Act III 37 Formulating a Thesis Act IV 38 Planning the Essay Act V 39 Writing the Essay Elements of Literature** 40 Building Better Introductions Textbooks 41 Analyzing Introduction Types Newspapers 42 Providing Transitions Essays 43 Learning to Conclude 44 Proofreading the Essay 45 Writing a Complete Essay 46 On Your Own
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