Homework Due Wednesday, March 26

Come up with three possible essay exam topics using tales and songs from the list of everything we've read during this unit.

Homework for the week of March 17-21

Students should be working on their Folk Tale Final Drafts. We will be addressing common errors in class this week. Final drafts are due Monday, March 24. Final drafts should be neat and reasonably error-free. They may be typed, but it is not required. Please do not type your son's final draft for him--it is a bad habit to get into; he must learn to do his own writing/typing. He has plenty of time. He should be chipping away at it this week, as there is no other English Homework. Skip lines (write on every other line) or use double-spacing on final drafts.

Homework Due Thursday, March 12

Read "The Wicked Stepmother" and answer questions in your composition book. Also answer this question: What are the main differences between this story and "The Juniper Tree"?

Homework Due Wednesday, March 12

Read "Tam Lin" and answer questions in your composition book.

Weekend Homework? Maybe... March 8-9

Work on writing your Folk Tale; rough drafts are due at the end of class monday, and we will have about 45 minutes to work on it during that class period.

Homework Due Thursday, March 5

Read "Mr. Fox" and answer stock questions in your composition book, plus this: what is the "it was only a dream" in "Mr. Fox"?

Homework Due Wednesday, March 5

Answer the following question in your composition book:

Do you think the young soldier in "The Plains of Waterloo" is Willie Smith (or Reilly), or is impersonating him; why do you think so (based on the lyrics)?

Homework Due Tuesday, March 4

Read "The Three Little Gnomes in the Forest" and answer stock questions in composition books.