English 2 – Semester 1 • Mr. Thompson Periods 2 & 7 — to check your grade, click here For classroom policies & expectations, click here Return to my home page The Book of Fred - The summer reading assignment for English 2 was Abby Bardi's The Book of Fred. Writing assignments for this novel will be collected on the first day of school (August 19) and discussion activities, vocabulary work, and writing activities will be based on this reading. To see the summer assignment due on the first day, click here. For more about the book and its author, click here. For the speech assignment, click here. For the narrative writing assignment, click here. We'll read and discussed several stories from our literature textbook: "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket" "The Final Assault" "The Dream Comes True" "The Monkey's Paw" "The Masque of the Red Death" Here are the terms that you should know and be able to use: plot, theme, foreshadowing, fact vs. opinion, moral, folktale, symbolism. For our second novel, we're reading John Knowles' book A Separate Peace. More information, including due dates for chapters, is listed below: Chapters 1-5: Wednesday, October 7 (quiz) Chapters 6-9: Wednesday, October 14 (quiz & quote log due) Chapters 10-13: Wednesday, October 21 (quiz & quote log due) Click here for short videos about Phillips Exeter Academy, the author's alma mater and the inspiration for the novel's setting. Click here for the paper assignment. Vanity Licence Plate Assignment Click here for the Acrobat PDF file you'll need for this activity. Open it up, fill in a combination of seven letters, numbers, and spaces, and print it out in color. Fahrenheit 451 Our final novel for the semester is Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Quizzes on the book's three sections will take place on November 12, November 16, and November 20. Quote logs will also be due on these days.