English II 2026-2027
For Monday 10/19:
REVISE: O’Connor paragraphs on your story
Start personal opinion essay
For Wednesday 10/21:
Read The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.
Mark in Parts I & II: imagery that makes you feel like a bug/things that repel — WHY does this happen to Gregor?
Part III: symbols and changes
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Frost/cummings essay (three paragraphs): Compare Mending Wall to Space being(don’t forget to remember)Curved…
1) What “doesn’t love a wall” and “wants it down”? [Frost paragraph]
2) Why does cummings allude to Frost’s poem in his? [cummings paragraph]
3) Do the two poems communicate similar ideas or attitudes about something? [paragraph 3 — comparison]
4) What role do modern science and “Billiard-Balls” seem to play in this for cummings? [paragraph 3 — comparison]
Vocabulary >>> Part IV Elements of Style: Words and Expressions Commonly Misused learn ALL WORDS/ERRORS +
sanguine, sardonic, insidious, euphemism, cogent, paradigm, august, vortex, quixotic, arable, hectare, potable, anthropogenic, salinization, reticent/reticence, rhetoric, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, consonance, simile, metaphor, homophone, hyperbole, anaphora, enjambment. caesura, antecedent, chiasmus, abstract (noun), utopia, renaissance, explicit, incessant, assimilate, precipitous, lucid, rudimentary, anachronism, fecund, temerity, furtive, ephemeral, itinerant, philistine, profligate, tenet, charisma, chimera, agnostic, static, panacea, ephemeral, itinerant, philistine, profligate, tenet, charisma, chimera, agnostic, static, panacea, parochial, taciturn, unctuous, vitriolic, hypothetical, emulate, bane, ambivalent, solicitous, soporific, colloquial, blank verse, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter + from EOS Glossary (in the back of the book): adverbial phrase, appositive, complement, colloquialism, conjunction, indirect object, nominative pronoun, predicate + ODYSSEY WORDS: agora, megaron, archetype, dissemble, venerate/venerable, prodigious, tantalize, guile, protagonist, antagonist, bane, chimera, charisma, philistine, vainglory, improvise, amulet, protean, epithet, timé, pandemonium, anon, asphodel, titanic, hekatomb, panacea, maudlin, disinterested, supercilious, laconic, taciturn, indolent, credulous, reticent, disapprobation, assiduous, loquacious, contemporary (n), abstract (n), noxious, dispassionately, arrant, licentious
Grammar, key terminology, and vocabulary items that we have discussed in class are on the AP Language & Composition Vocabulary Archive. While most of you will not take the AP Language exam until next year, it always helps to become familiar with these terms now (rather than cramming next year). The sooner you get started, the sooner (comparative degree) you will know all your terms.
Find Honors World Literature vocabulary HERE OR play to study on Quizlet!
Student Resources: English II
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Summer reading list for High School students
Access English II class writing archives to see what our readings and assignments are for this year, and to read sample pieces written by previous English II students.
QUARTER GRADING:
Participation = 30% (purely subjective, based on my perceptions of your initiative, interest, self-motivation, & tenacity)
Assignments = Revisions (20%)
Edits (20%)
Vocab/Multiple Choice tests= 15%
Timed essay grades= 15%
SEMESTER GRADING
Participation = 30% (purely subjective, based on my perceptions of your initiative, interest, self-motivation, & tenacity)
Assignments = Revisions & edits (20%)
Vocab/Multiple Choice tests = 15%
Timed essay grades = 10%
Exam = 25%
“The great skill of a teacher is to get and keep the attention of his scholar... To attain this, he should make the child comprehend...the usefulness of what he teaches him and let him see, by what he has learned, that he can do something which gives him some power and real advantage over others who are ignorant of it.”
— John Locke (1632-1704), on Education
Unfinished Pieces: Semester I
(updated 10/15/26)
Everett
Revisions = 21/36
Edits = 3/6
O’Connor essay: A Good Man is Hard to Find
Personal opinion essay: Coaches
UC College application
Common App
Junior Autobiography
7 Short application essays
2 Long application essays
Frost/cummings: Frost paragraph only (1 page/4 quotes to parse poem)
Blue poetry: 2 Nature; Ballad; Narrative
Frost paragraph ONLY for essay (see left)
Ari
Revisions = 18/36
Edits = 3/6
O’Connor essay: Greenleaf
Personal opinion essay: Sport Parents
Common App
Junior Autobiography
8 Short application essays
2 Long application essays
Frost/cummings: Frost paragraph only (1 page/4 quotes to parse poem)
Pink poetry: The Right Words
Green poetry: Haiku; Tanka; Tercets; Quatrains; Cinquain; Limericks
Blue poetry: 2 Nature; Ballad; Narrative
