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**ECA English 9 ** 2010-11 Assignment calendar page with links **My IP address (for SynchronEyes):** 192.168.32.194

[|Expectations & course description] [|Assignment outline for 1st semester] [|ECA Student Handbook] Grammar & writing resources [|Poetry Out Loud] [|Online dictionary] [|Pronunciation Dictionary] [|The ECHO (ECA's webzine)] [|Blogs, requirements & rubric] [|Poetry recitation rubric] [|Poetry essay rubric] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Lord of the Flies e-text (in case of emergency)] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Animal Farm e-text]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Course documents, resources, & English-related links: **

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Class of 2015 Resources:__** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Audio version of //The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time// here

__**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Current assignments and updates **__<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (for old assignments, visit the old assignments page)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Final exam resources:** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your final exam essay will be a commentary, like the essay you wrote at the end of the //Lord of the Flies// unit. You should review these tips on structuring a commentary several times before you take the exam: [|Structuring Commentary Essays]. Also, take a few minutes to look over this sample commentary on //Julius Caesar//: [|JC S]<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|ample Commentary, 61-3] Here are the notes about the main ideas of all four texts that we drafted in first and second periods - I haven't had time to edit these yet, so feel free to browse the results from both classes' brainstorming: [|Main ideas, Semester 2 texts]

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your English final will take place from 11:30 - 1:30 on Monday, 6 June. View the complete schedule: [|Final exam schedule, Sem 2 10-11.doc]

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Optional TCI commentary essay:** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you are writing the optional TCI commentary, you should select your passage and use the structure outlined above in the "Structuring Commentary Essays" document. Essays must be e-mailed to me by midnight on Sunday (no need to use turnitin.com this time). If you need any help editing your paper, feel free to send me a draft this afternoon - but please send it as early as possible.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">WEEK of 16 - 20 May: **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Due Tuesday / Wednesday: **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read through page 158 of TCI, and answer one of the 4 wiki discussion questions posted (no more than 10 responses per question, please).


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Due Thursday / Friday: **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read through page 198 of TCI **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">. **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">WEEK of 9 - 13 May: **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Due Monday / Tuesday: **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read through page 65 of TCI.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Due Wednesday / Thursday: **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read through page 90 of TCI, and finish your vocabulary paragraphs.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Due Friday / Monday: **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read through page 124 of TCI.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">WEEK of 2 - 6 May: **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Due Tuesday / Wednesday: **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project presentations for //Animal Farm// due in class today


 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Due Thursday / Friday: **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read through page 34 of TCI (//The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time//) and read (or finish reading) the article "A parent's account" (linked on Tuesday/Wednesday's date on the assignment calendar)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Due Wednesday / Thursday:** Read through page 90 of TCI, and finish your vocabulary paragraph