Mr. Richard Kiesel
International School of Broward
3100 N. 75th Ave
Hollywood, FL 33024
Phone: (954) 987-2026
Email: rkiesel@isbcharterscgool.org
Fax:
(954) 987-7261
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Achieving student progress requires flexibility to ensure a class’s unique needs are met. For this reason, please be aware
these assignments are subject to change. Your student will always be notified of such changes in class.
Dear Parents,
I continue to meet with students on Monday and Wednesday afternoons from 3:20-4:15 PM for
special tutoring sessions, especially for French- and Spanish-speaking students who may need
assistance with English vocabulary, reading, and writing assignments. All students are welcome! No
additional or special fee is assessed for this tutoring help.
Parents are always welcome to schedule a conference to discuss a student’s progress. I would always
want, however, for the student to be with us when we meet. Please contact me through the office
and fill out the Parent Conference Request Form. Thank you.
Students will continue to need access to a functioning printer. Students will not have access to the
computer lab during regular class time, so they may need to make special arrangements to use a
school computer or printer.
English II Homework for the Week of December 1
Friday, November 14: TEST: Nouns and Pronouns. Bring Elements of Literature!!
Monday, November 17: Introduction to Greek drama and the Greek theater. Read Elements of
Literature, pp. 685-687. Assign: drama term review.
Tuesday, November 18: Review drama terms. Assign: Antigone vocabulary.
Wednesday, November 19: Discuss Antigone vocabulary and background of the Oedipus cycle. Elements
of Literature, pp. 688, 689.
Thursday, November 20: Quiz: Drama terms and Antigone vocabulary. Continue Oedipus cycle.
Friday, November 21: Read Antigone, pp. 692-698, Prologue and Parodos, and complete study guide
questions 1-5.
Monday, November 24: Read Antigone, pp. 700-705, Scene 1 and Ode 1, and complete study guide
questions 6-13.
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Tuesday, November 25: Read Antigone, pp. 707-713, Scene 2 and Ode 2, and complete study guide
questions 14-24.
November 26-28—Thanksgiving Holiday
Monday, December 1: Quiz Antigone, pp. 692-713 including vocabulary. Read Antigone, pp. 716-726,
Scene 3 and Ode 3 and Scene 4 and Ode 4, and complete study guide questions 25-37.
Tuesday, December 2: Read Antigone, pp. 728-737, Scene 5, Paeon, and Exodos, and complete study
guide questions 38-50.
Wednesday, December 3: TEST: Antigone, including background on Greek theater, vocabulary, plot,
characterization, and themes.
Thursday, December 4: Complete Study Guide vocabulary items 1-10 for “The Cold Equation” and
vocabulary crossword puzzle, which also includes items from “The River, the Bass, and Sheila
Mant.”
Friday, December 5: Review vocabulary items; Study Guide Dialogue for “The Cold Equation” completed!
Monday, December 8: Quiz: Content, vocab for “The Cold Equation,” narrative elements and plot
diagram.
Tuesday, December 9: Due today: Vocabulary items 1-10 and writing prompt 11 on study guide for “The
River, the Bass, and Sheila Mant.”
Wednesday, December 10: Due today: Complete study guide questions 12-22 for “The River, the Bass,
and Sheila Mant.”
Thursday, December 11: TEST on short story content, vocabulary, narrative elements, and plot diagram
Friday, December 12: Review for Semester I Midyear Final Exam.
Monday, December 15: Semester I Midyear Final Exam, Part I.
Tuesday, December 16: Semester I Midyear Final Exam, Part II.
Wednesday, December 17:
Thursday, December 18:
Friday, December 19:
English III Homework for the Week of December 1
Tuesday, November 25: TEST: American Romanticism including poetry terms.
November 26-28—Thanksgiving Holiday
Monday, December 1: Read Arpin, “The American Renaissance, A Literary Coming of Age,” pp. 206ff. pp.
and complete vocabulary items 1-12 and study guide questions 13-21 including
transcendentalism and the Dark Romantics.
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Tuesday, December 2: Complete Vocabulary Development for Emerson, “from Nature” and “from SelfReliance”, pp. 218ff. Read Emerson, “from Nature”, and Emerson’s Aphorisms, p. 222. Complete
study guide items 1-32.
Wednesday, December 3: In class Read Emerson, “from Self-Reliance”, pp. 224ff. and complete textual
analysis on print-out and study guide questions 33-40..
Thursday, December 4: Complete Vocabulary Development for Thoreau, “from Walden” and “from
Resistance to Civil Government”.
Friday, December 5: Read “from Walden”, pp. 232ff. and complete study guide questions 1-18.
Monday, December 8: Read “from Resistance to Civil Government”, pp. 248ff. and complete study guide
questions 19-25.
Tuesday, December 9: TEST: Arpin, “The American Renaissance” and Emerson and Thoreau
Wednesday, December 10: Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, ch.1-8.
Thursday, December 11: Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, ch.9-15.
Friday, December 12: Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, ch.16-24.
Monday, December 15: Semester I Midyear Final Exam, Part I.
Tuesday, December 16: Semester I Midyear Final Exam, Part II.
Wednesday, December 17: TEST on The Scarlet Letter
Thursday, December 18:
Friday, December 19:
English IV Homework for the Week of December 1
Tuesday, November 25: TEST: Macbeth, vocabulary, content, themes, life and times, the Globe.
November 26-28—Thanksgiving Holiday
Monday, December 1: Read Milton biography, pp. 435-437 (including “On His Blindness”) and
introduction to Paradise Lost, pp. 438, 439.
Tuesday, December 2: Quiz: “On His Blindness”. Complete vocabulary worksheet for Milton, “The Fall of
Satan” from Paradise Lost.
Wednesday, December 3: Read Milton, “The Fall of Satan” from Paradise Lost and complete study guide
questions 1-12.
Thursday, December 4: Continue “The Fall of Satan” and complete study guide questions 13-16
Friday, December 5: Quiz: Milton, “The Fall of Satan” from Paradise Lost.
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Monday, December 8: Read Main, “The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century,” pp. 468ff. and in
class complete study guide vocabulary 1-5 and study guide questions 6-20.
Tuesday, December 9: Complete Swift, “A Modest Proposal” vocabulary development worksheet
Wednesday, December 10: Read Swift, “A Modest Proposal,” pp. 502ff. and complete skills practice and
vocabulary development worksheet
Thursday, December 11: Continue Swift, “A Modest Proposal,” pp. 502ff.
Friday, December 12: Quiz: Swift, “A Modest Proposal”.
Monday, December 15: Semester I Midyear Final Exam, Part I.
Tuesday, December 16: Semester I Midyear Final Exam, Part II.
Wednesday, December 17-19: Shakespeare, Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Monday, January 5: Read Pope, “Before You Read,” Heroic Couplets,” and from An Essay on Man, pp.
521-524.
Tuesday, January 6: Read Pope, from “The Rape of the Lock,” pp. 526ff. and complete study guide
questions 1-12.
Wednesday, January 7: Read Pope, from “The Rape of the Lock,” pp. 526ff. and complete study guide
questions 13-20.
Thursday, January 8: Read Voltaire biography. Complete Voltaire, from Candide vocabulary (etymology)
questions 1-16 and introduce Voltaire’s satire.
Friday, January 9: Read Voltaire, from Candide, pp. 536ff. and complete study guide questions 17-25.
Monday, January 12: TEST: The Restoration and 18th Century (Main essay, Swift, Pope, and Voltaire).
Tuesday, January 13: Read Henry, “English Romanticism,” pp. 620ff. and complete study guide
questions, 1-9.
Wednesday, January 14: Read Thomas Gray biography, p. 599 and “Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard,” pp. 600ff. Follow directions for study guide question 1 [on separate sheet of loose
leaf notebook paper].
Thursday, January 15: Continue Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” pp. 600ff. study guide
questions 2-5, including vocabulary for Gray, “On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold
Fishes” (photocopy).
Friday, January 16: Read Gray, “On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes” (photocopy) and
complete study guide questions 6-8.
Monday, January, 19: Martin Luther King Day—NO SCHOOL!