*+Mouw

Welcome to Mr. Mouw's Class tmouw@westernchristianhs.com

**Use the ToC to jump to your class!** toc

media type="custom" key="20572708"

English 9
media type="custom" key="20527888" width="80" height="80"

rescind - to repeal, revoke forestall - to prevent, hinder incredulous - skeptical, shocked, disbelief ambiguous - open to more than one interpretation emulate - to copy, to imitate diverge - separate, split into different directions muster - to call together

puerile - childish nonchalant - appearing calm and relaxed nuances - subtle differences archaic - old, out of date obscure - unclear, unknown inept - having no skill, clumsy disingenuous - not sincere, not honest

untoward - unexpected and inappropriate regale - to entertain, often with food subservient - submissive, less important fastidious - very concerned with detail apathy - lack of interest or concern jaded - made tired or cynical by experience

Eng 9 Files and Assignments
Syllabus:

Second semester begins with a unit covering famous Short Stories. Week 1 includes: //Most Dangerous Game// and //The Jade Peony//.
 * Second Semester **
 * Week 1:**

In week 2 we are covering //The Gift of the Magi, The Interlopers, The Man to Send Rain Clouds,// and //The Old Man and the Temple.//
 * Week 2:**

Week 3 we did some activities concerning the riddle-type ending of //The Lady, Or The Tiger?.// Then we were assigned to groups. These groups of students will teach their classmates a short story next week. This demanding assignment asks the students to consider their choices carefully and to think like a teacher. What is most important about their short story? How will they teach it to their classmates in a meaningful and challenging way? Next week a different group will teach each day, so a new short story will need to be read by the rest of the class each night.
 * Week 3:**

Students teach short stories.
 * Week 4:**

Short Story Unit Test is on Wednesday! Review sheet:
 * Week 5:**

After the Short Story unit, we are beginning a unit on grammar usage.

Usage/grammar unit. Both sides of handout due Tuesday. Pronoun/antecedent handout due Friday.
 * Week 6:**

We start this week with a recap of the previous studies followed by the new section: Misplaced Modifiers.
 * Week 7:**

This week we finish up our Usage Unit. We'll be reviewing common sentence errors: Fragments, Run-Ons, and Comma Splices. There will be a test over this short unit on Friday. Notes for the unit:
 * Week 8:**

This I Believe essay
 * Week 9:**

The Odyssey and Greek Mythology
 * Week 10:**

Begin reading The Odyssey. Spring Break
 * Week 11:**

Continue reading the Odyssey. Fill out plot handouts as you read.
 * Week 12:**

Second half of The Odyssey
 * Week 13:**

Finish The Odyssey
 * Wee 14:**

Begin reading Ender's Game. We need to read fairly quickly. Expect about 10 pages of reading every night! That's not too much, but it will be consistent.
 * Week 15:**

After a presentation on Bullying by Officer Pollema and Mrs. De Groot, Chapter 10 was due on Tuesday, Chapter 11 is due on Thursday, Chapter 12 is due on Friday.
 * Week 16:**

Chapter 13 is due on Monday. There will be a quiz. We will read the entirety of Chapter 14 (the climax of the novel) in class.
 * Week 17**:

Study Guide:

media type="custom" key="20572712"

English 11
media type="custom" key="20528028" width="90" height="90"

Eng 11 Files and Assignments
Syllabus:

Second Semester Second semester begins with a look at Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, and Transcendentalism. We start by looking at Edgar Allen Poe's //The Fall of the House of Usher// and //The Raven//. We briefly looked at the ideas of Mary Shelley's //Frankenstein//.
 * Week 1:**

In week 2 we looked at works by Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne. We read //The Devil and Tom Walker// and //The Minister's Black Veil//. Along with the reading, we wrote our own parable as well.
 * Week 2:**

Along with restarting our weekly vocabulary lessons, we began looking at the texts and ideas of Transcendentalism. We read //Nature// and //Self-Reliance//, two essential works by Ralph Waldo Emerson and //Walden// by Henry David Thoreau. We also began a poster project that compared the ideas of Transcendentalism to Biblical ideals.
 * Week 3:**

On Monday and Tuesday we discussed the Christian response to Transcendentalism. Along with reading poetry for homework, we then watched the movie "Dead Poets Society".
 * Week 4:**

Writing/Reflection assignment for Dead Poets Society
 * Week 5:**

Test over the Romanticism/Transcendentalism unit on Thursday.
 * Week 6:**

Notes:

Review Sheet:

Wednesday: go to the following link and answer the questions on paper or a Word document. When you're finished, I have an additional question you need to answer at the end.
 * Week 7:**

Webquest for Gatsby: []

When finished, open the following picture and answer the question: []

14.a. What are your reactions to the amount of money in the world and how you see it distributed? b. List 3 things you find particularly interesting. c. Look at the household income of the United States (in the billions section). What statements can you make based on that distribution?

We continued reading Gatsby. Chapter 3 is due on Monday.

Chapter 3 due Monday. Chapter 4 due Wednesday.
 * Week 8:**

Chapter 5 due Tuesday. Chapter 6 due Wednesday. Chapter 7 due Friday.
 * Week 9:**

Vocab words on Thursday Great Gatsby test on Friday. Notes:
 * Week 10:**

Modernism notes:
 * Week 11:**

If interested, T. S. Eliot's 4 Quartets is fascinating Christian poetry:

**Week 12:**

Modernism Quiz

Begin reading Fahrenheit 451. Part 1.
 * Week** **13:**

Continue reading F451. Part 2.
 * Week 14:**

Test will be next Tuesday. Here's some materials for study.
 * Week 15:**

First journal due Monday: At 2 different points in the book (Ch. 3 and the end), take time to simply write a reaction to what you have read (1/2 to 1 page long).
 * Week 16:**

Things to include: Details you find especially disturbing Questions you have Reaction/emotions you feel toward Mother Comparisons: Dave’s life with your own

We will discuss (and hand in) your reactions through Ch. 3 on Mon

Lots of reading this week. Chapters 2-3 were due on Monday. Chapters 4-7 are due on Thursday. Epilogue due on Friday. We'll also watch clips from interviews done with Dave Pelzer, the author. Notes:
 * Week 17:**


 * Child Called It Newspaper Project**

Study Guide

English 11 Vocab words

 * Week 17:**
 * facetious** - meant to be funny, not serious
 * avarice** - extreme greed
 * stalwart** - a hardworking and reliable member of a team
 * anomalous** - outside of normal
 * prognosticate** - to predict the future


 * Week 16:**
 * meticulous** - very careful and precise
 * enigmatic** - puzzling, difficult to understand
 * mollify** - to reduce the severity of
 * amenable** - persuadable, changable
 * prolific** - producing many things


 * Week 15:**
 * perpetual** - constant and unchanging
 * incriminate** - to cause someone to look guilty
 * penance** - self-punishment or regret for one's sins
 * stagnant** - unmoving, still
 * patronage** - financial support or attendance


 * Week 14:**
 * aesthetic** - the quality of looks and beauty
 * falter** - to stumble
 * tamp** - to pack or push down
 * suffuse** - to spread over/through something
 * trifle** - a small amount of something OR something of little importance


 * Week 13:**
 * cacophony** - harsh mixture of sounds
 * luminescent** - glowing, low temp
 * proclivity** - natural tendency to like something
 * tactile** - perceptible to touch, touchable
 * feign** - to fake, to pretend


 * Week 11&12: no vocab words**
 * Week 10:**
 * portentous** - significant, very important
 * tumult** - loud, confusing noise
 * garrulous** - very talkative, rambling
 * rancor** - intense hatred
 * superfluous** - more than necessary


 * Week 9:**
 * jaunty** - lively, self-confident
 * innumerable** - too many to be counted
 * laudable** - praiseworthy
 * repose** - state of rest, tranquility
 * ingratiate** - gain favor with somebody


 * Week 8: no vocab words**
 * Week 7:**
 * supercilious** - behaving arrogantly
 * extemporizing** - to speak without preparation
 * peremptory** - insisting on obedience, authoritative
 * oculist** - eye doctor
 * contiguous** - sharing a common border, neighboring


 * Week 6:**
 * evince** - to display, reveal
 * retroactive** - apply to or referring to the past
 * obfuscate** - to be evasive, unclear, or confusing
 * progeny** - offspring, children
 * insidious** - having a gradual, harmful effect


 * Week 5: no vocab words**
 * Week 4:**
 * precedent** - example that serves as basis for later action
 * stipend** - money paid for services to cover expenses
 * panacea** - cure for all ills, answer to all problems
 * mawkish** - excessively and sickeningly emotional
 * satiate** - to satisfy completely


 * Week 3:**
 * winsome** - charming, attractive
 * conducive** - making an outcome likely or possible
 * surmise** - to think something is true without supportive evidence
 * delineate** - sketch in words, describe
 * altruistic** - unselfishly concerned with the welfare of others


 * Week 2:**
 * precocious** - advanced, developed ahead of time
 * discordant** - not agreeing, not in harmony with
 * zenith** - the highest point, pinnacle
 * antiquated** - old, out of date
 * cajole** - to urge, coax, persuade


 * Week 1: no vocab words**

media type="custom" key="20572714"

College Composition
media type="custom" key="20631747"

College Comp Files and Assignments
Syllabus:

- Goals Paper due Friday - Grammar Quiz 1 on Friday
 * Week 2:**

In week 3 we will begin our Art Analysis essay. For Monday (9/10): - Rough Draft of Art Analysis due - Grammar
 * Week 3: **

Week 4 will begin with Friday's grammar quiz. Then we'll move on to Literary Analysis. Students will choose from a selection of short stories and develop an argument based on their reading of the text. Due Wednesday: Art Analysis final draft.
 * Week 4: **

Here's the outline format for the Art Analysis Essay:
 * Introduction: including background information
 * Thesis statement.
 * Body: (combine similar answers from your Analysis question sheet to use as specific evidence)
 * Three paragraphs: (every body paragraph should have at least these 6 sentences)
 * Topic Sentence
 * Evidence
 * Analysis sentence
 * Evidence
 * Analysis sentence
 * Summary sentence
 * Conclusion
 * Restate thesis
 * Last remarks

Week 5 we have picked out our short stories and will begin the process of analyzing them and writing argumentative literary analysis essays. Each day this week, while you are writing your rough draft, I will conference with each student one-by-one, giving them specific, individualized help on paper writing.
 * Week 5:**

Assignment sheet:

Remember: E very body paragraph should have //at least// these 6 sentences. You may use more than 2 evidence examples in your body paragraphs.
 * Topic Sentence
 * Evidence
 * Analysis sentence
 * Evidence
 * Analysis sentence
 * Summary sentence

The 6th week of College Comp we'll be reviewing and editing the rough draft of the Literary Analysis. The final draft is due on Monday, Feb 25.
 * Week 6:**

On Tuesday, we'll begin another grammar unit. We'll also begin the Extended Definition essay. During this week, we spent the majority of our time on grammar instruction.
 * Week 7:**

This week we will be writing our Extended Definition Assignment Extended Definition Rough Draft due on Thursday. Extended Definition Final Draft due on Friday.
 * Week 8: **

Grammar notes: Problem Solution essay
 * Week 9:**

**Week 10:** Grammar notes:

Rough Draft due Friday. Final Draft due Monday.

This week we will look at comma usage and transitions as we lead up to our new essay assignment. This week we are beginning our Movie Argument Essay based on the movie //The Pursuit of Happyness//​.
 * Week 11:**

In this short week, we finished watching //The Pursuit of Happyness//.
 * Week 12:**

This week we will write and revise our Movie Argument Essays. Rough draft due Thursday. Final draft due Friday.
 * Week 13:**

We are finishing the Movie Paper. In this short week we will begin the initial steps of our lengthy Research Paper.
 * Week 14:**

**Week 15:** 30 notecards, with facts from your sources, are due each day this week.

The last notecards should now have been turned in, and we are working on organizing those notecards into an outline for our paper. This will make the actual process of writing the paper a lot easier. Outline is due on Thursday of this week.
 * Week 16:**

Write rough draft for Research Paper.
 * Week 17:**

We are revising our rough drafts. Final draft due Wednesday.
 * Week 18:**