Resources for Mid-Year Exams

Click here for all the vocabulary words and for literature quizzes.

RAFT #3: Vocabulary List

Role: Pretend you are an eleventh Grade English Teacher
Audience: Eleventh Grade English Students
Format: A five-word vocabulary list with word, part of speech, and definition
Topic: Choose five words from your independent reading that you think an eleventh grader likely would not know (or not know well) and that you think would be useful for an eleventh grader to know.

RAFT #2 (T2): Book Advertisement

Term Two RAFTs

#2 (Due Wednesday, November 23, 2011)

Role: advertising executive

Audience: other high school students

Format: 8.5” x 11” magazine advertisement

Topic: You will create a magazine advertisement for the book you are currently reading or one of the books you have read earlier this year. Include the following in the ad: title of the book; author of the book; art depicting a main topic, theme, or conflict; statement of a main topic, theme, or conflict; a quotation from the book. (If you use an image that you did not create you must cite the source on the back or you will receive a zero for the assignment.)

Example (note: the example includes all the necessary elements except the author’s name)

"Lord of the Flies (1990 film)." Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 20 Nov 2011. Web. 23 Nov 2011.

 

RAFT #1 (Term 2)

Role: Yourself as a book critic
Audience: Your classmates in 2207
Format: An informal talk with notes (the notes will contain your position with supporting reasons and evidence)
Topic: Would you recommend the book (or a book) you have read in independent reading? (Who would you or would you not recommend it to?)

Be prepared (with notes) to talk in class on Thursday, November 10.

Grendel Grendel Grendel

Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981) is an animated film written and directed by Alexander Stitt based loosely on the novel Grendel by John Gardner.

Grendel Grendel Grendel - Part 1 (an introduction to the role of monsters in Western civilization)

Grendel Grendel Grendel - Part 7 (based loosely and in part on chapter six)

Grendel: Reading Check Chapters three & four

Chapter three and four

These two chapters focus on Hrothgar and the Shaper.

What does Grendel observe about Hrothgar and his empire?

What does he think and feel about what he observes?

What does Grendel observe about the Shaper and his songs?

What does he think and feel about what he hears?

Independent Reading RAFT #4

Role: Yourself (as a student) or The author of a book you have read during term one

Audience: Mr. James Cook

Format: Formal business letter (click here for directions and model)

Topic: Convince me that the time I have given to you to read independently this term has been valuable. In other words, convince me that the experience of reading and the particular books you have read have been valuable to you. Or, taking the role of author, convince me that your book should be taught in eleventh grade English at Gloucester High School. Convince me that reading your particular book will be a valuable experience for all eleventh graders.