Previous+Homework+Assignments


 * September**

__Letter to the Publisher Assignment__ Dear editor, The short story //Charles// by Shirley Jackson has mistakenly been put in the //adventure// themed section of the upcoming 9th grade textbook. We know this is mistaken. Please write a letter arguing the thematic section the story truly belongs in by selecting one from the following category and arguing why it belongs there. Additionally, please include your reasons with supporting textual evidence for why you think the story belongs in that section more than any other. Feel free to write this as a formal or informal paragraph—however many examples you might need to effectively argue your point.
 * Wednesday, October 8th**

Using an example from the poem, "My Father is a Simple Man" by Luis Omar Salinas, how would you best describe (//characterize//) the speaker or the father of the poem? (Choose either the speaker or the father.) https://www.utexas.edu/staff/hfsa/pdfs/HFSASummerWritingWorkshopSession1Reading1.pdf http://bookbuilder.cast.org/view_print.php?book=42579
 * Wednesday, October 1st**:

Vocabulary for //Charles//. Define the following words, put a synonym down to help you remember as well as any prefixes, roots, suffixes that are present in the word. Make sure you include everything necessary; see the example below! The words: insolently, elaborately, reassuringly, simultaneously, incredulously, scornfully, reformation, awed, cynically, unsettling, renounced, maneuvered, warily, raucous, lapses.
 * Wednesday, October 1st:**

Invariably (adv) Definition: Not changing; constant Synonyms: Always; Without exception Root: (Latin) //Variabilis//, meaning variable or changeable Prefix: i//n-// means "not" Suffix: -//able// means "can be done"; //-ly// means "characteristic of"
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