English+II+Honors

Welcome to the English II Honors wiki page - a place where you can find useful documents and resources as well as have online discussions about the class.

Vocabulary


= Summer Reading (September/October) = ** Welcome to the English II Honors 2013 Summer Community of Readers! ** Below is a copy of the English II Honors summer reading assignment:
 * If you are experiencing any problems with your Nook, please call 671-5595 and ask for Jim O'Boyle in the technology center, or email joboyle@ltps.org. **



= The Romantic and the Gothic: Frankenstein (October/November/December) - pushed due to Sandy =

Above is a free ebook of Frankenstein for your Nook! Please download.

To download: Connect your Nook to your computer, so it will be like an external drive. Open the above file, click on save, and find your Nook on "My Computer" before saving.

Below are all the course documents for this unit.



As you do your research for the topic assigned to you, you may find this clipboard of resources helpful: []

= Poetry (November/December/January) = We will use //The Norton Anthology of Poetry// for this unit of study. To access the companion website for the anthology, please visit [].

Poetry Out Loud (to be updated)
Our class will participate in the prestigous Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud is administered in partnership with the State Arts Agencies of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The dates for the competition are as follows:

Through December 14: Classroom competitions December 14: Deadline for submitting POL classroom winners to Ms. Henderson Prior to winter break: Grade-level competitions, 9th and 11th grade (Guidance Career Center) Prior to winter break: Grade-level competitions, 10th and 12th grade (Guidance Career Center) January 10: SCHOOL COMPETITION (auditorium)

Regionals in February States in March Nationals in April

[|Poetry Out Loud Official Web Site]

= The Short Story (January) =

= Antigone (February) = Presentations on origins of Greek drama and Oedipus review:

Here is a pdf file of Antigone to download onto your Nooks:



Antigone debate:

**Othello (March)**

=Madame Bovary (April)=

=One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (May/June)=