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** Please note some changes I made to this week's blog entry. Also, please stay with the P&P reading. Because we have so little time left, there is NO time for cramming it in.
Welcome back! I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving. It is hard to believe that we have only three weeks until the END of the semester; we have a lot to do (I know you are up to the task!).
Monday:
- P&P Discussion #1: Groups identify characterization/irony/satire
- For Friday, Read to page: 273. The chapter text begins as follows:
"I have been thinking it over again, Elizabeth," said her uncle, as they drove from the town; "and really, upon serious consideration, I am much more inclined than I was to judge as your eldest sister does of the matter...'
- Discuss Hamlet project.
- Read Act-1 Hamlet
Hamlet Project Rubric: Download file
Hamlet Summary: Download file
Funny Cartoon: Download file
Act-I (Please print this out if you don't have the book)" Download file
We will be reading Act-I and cutting lines in class to show you what will be expected for your final project.
Tuesday:
Finish Act-I/Hamlet (If we don't finish in class, read for homework for Wednesday.
Wednesday:
Assign Acting Companies (Groups will form and will pick their own acting directors. You will draw straws for first dibs on acts/scenes).
Close Reading: Horatio's Monologue
Thursday:
- Collect Researched Argument Papers
- P&P Multiple Choice AP Questions
- Question Analysis
Friday:
Hogarth Art/Satire/P&P (Just have it read; there is no homework for this).
Homework:
Work in your groups! Get those lines cut down and scenes analyzed.
We ARE going to have a rhetorical device final activity, in which groups will work together to identify rhetorical devices. We'll do this next week.
All lessons subject to change at teacher's discretion .
Monday:
- Pass back outlines
** In your papers, please make sure that you avoid generalizations or over-simplification of issues. Avoid using phrases like "always" "never" "all", etc. There are many sides to the complex issues you are writing about, so make sure you recognize that.
- Discuss generalizations/assumptions in writing
- Close reading/analysis of the excerpts in the packet (Green, Hazlitt, etc.)
HOMEWORK: Tomorrow we will have a timed writing on the Hazlitt piece. Also, remember that your peer editing is on Wednesday. I expect everyone to have a typed paper!
- Please register to turnitin.com if you have not already.
- Rhetorical Device Tracking Journal due Friday
- Socratic Seminar Assignment on IM for Friday (Finish the Book).
Tuesday:
- Review Style Analysis
Diction, Syntax, Organization, Detail, POV. I would suggest that you focus on 2-3 of these for the timed essay.
- Hazlitt Timed Writing (ELA11W7)
Wednesday:
Researched Argument Peer Editing.
Thursday:
Teacher Writing Conferences/Paper Revisions
Friday:
Collect Rhetorical Device Tracking Journal
Final Socratic Seminar on Invisible Man.
Homework for Monday, Dec. 1:
Please buy the Text Pride & Prejudice
Link to Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Barnes-Noble-Classics/dp/1593082010/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225900944&sr=1-4
First Reading Assignment will be due on Monday, December 1st. Read to the end of chapter: 15 (page 214 in my text version). We will have a Socratic Seminar, so be ready to discuss. Please keep sticky notes/tabs in your book where you notice rhetorical devices, use of irony, paragraph/chapter juxtaposition, etc.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Standards and EQ's Below:
Please go to the following link to access your assignment, which is due Saturday Midnight.
http://jamisonenglish.typepad.com/jamison_english/saturday-nov-8-2008-assignment.html
All lessons subject to change at teacher's discretion.
Agenda:
Monday:
Media Center/Entire Class
- I expect you to gather your materials (FAQ, Annotated Bib, Sources) and start working on your initial, working outline and your notecards.
Download this for notecard and bib card examples:
Tuesday:
I have reserved another Media Center day, but may not use it (depending on how much you get accomplished on Monday). If we do not work in the media center, we will go over the AP Mult. Choice questions from the Mid-Term exam.
Wednesday:
- Bring your Little Brown Handbook. We will have a grammar lesson today.
- Check note cards and bib cards.
- In Class Reading: Several excerpts for rhetorical analysis. You will have a timed writing on Friday on one of the reading from today and tomorrow.
HOMEWORK: IM to page 478 due. I will collect the rhetorical device journal next Friday. This can be in bullet format and should be about two pages, no more.
Thursday:
- Continue in-class analysis of excerpts (Hazlitt, Lincoln, Green, etc.)
- Answer questions in class.
- Hot seat for thesis statements.
Friday:
Check Formal Outline
Timed Writing - a Rhetorical Analysis.
strong>Standards and EQ's:
1. EQ’s: How can reading varied texts give students knowledge, power, confidence, and increased understanding of the world in which they live?
2. How does understanding the context of a novel help you understand the author’s purpose?
Evaluate past AP student writing (ELA11W3.g) (ELA11W3.j)
Essential Q: What is the purpose for analyzing style in writing? How can you identify rhetorical devices in literary passages?
Timed Writing/Rhetorical Analysis (ELA11W7)
* All lessons subject to change at teacher's discretion.
Students, as we go through this week, you should be working on your research paper. Try to follow the schedule I gave you, and remember that the notecard, bib card, and copied source check is next week, Nov. 12. I will try to get us a library or lab day one day next week, but I cannot guarantee it. You must pace yourselves and work independently.
Agenda:
Monday:
Debate: The Big Election! Please come to this class prepared to discuss several sides of the issue. I realize that the class is not quite evenly matched, so some will need to qualify.
Articles: "The Right to Offend" in class reading.
Homework: Wednesday your IM double journals are due. IM Reading due (see last IM entry).
Tuesday: Teacher work day/Voting. Students OFF
Wednesday:
Agenda:
- Collect double journals
- Discuss article "The Right to Offend". Brief writing activity.
- In class group grading of corp. spons/body image synthesis essays.
HOMEWORK: Get sleep tonight. Tomorrow you will have the multiple choice part of your mid-term and the reading part of your essay for the mid-term. Students, we will only write ONE essay for the mid-term (another synthesis essay).
Thursday:
Mid-Term Mult. Choice
Essay Prep/Reading the Synthesis essay excerpts.
Friday:
In class timed writing for mid-term: Synthesis essay.
Standards and EQ's:
1. EQ’s: How can reading varied texts give students knowledge, power, confidence, and increased understanding of the world in which they live?
2. How does understanding the context of a novel help you understand the author’s purpose?
Evaluate past AP student writing (ELA11W3.g) (ELA11W3.j)
Essential Q: What is the purpose for analyzing style in writing? How can you identify rhetorical devices in literary passages?
Timed Writing/Synthesis Essay (ELA11W7)
Homework:
- Please read to page 382 for Wednesday, Nov. 5th.
- Complete a double journal in which you write eight thorough, thought-provoking entries (typed, please). Entries should show student mastery of the plot, rhetorical strategies, and conventions.
See below for a sample:
Download file
AP Language
Lessons: Oct. 27– 31
All lessons are subject to change at teacher’s discretion.
Monday:
For the Socratic Seminar Monday, there is NO homework due. Just be ready to talk.:-)
Agenda:
- Pass back timed writing.
- Discuss researched argument paper schedule and due dates. Click this link for the Cobb County Research Guide.
http://www.cobbk12.org/~schoolimprovement/curriculum/langarts/ResearchGuide/contents.html
Download the Researched Argument Paper Schedule:
Download file
Invisible Man Socratic Seminar
1. EQ’s: How can reading varied texts give students knowledge, power, confidence, and increased understanding of the world in which they live?
2. How does understanding the context of a novel help you understand the author’s purpose?
HOMEWORK: Make sure you have chosen the top three essays in the collection I gave you on Friday. We will discuss the srong/weak points tomorrow.
Tuesday:
Read and Evaluate the argument essays. Identify strong/weak points, and use this to strengthen your own writing.
- Discussion about the Dec of Ind. and Burgess pieces. Group check on homework.
Evaluate past AP student writing (ELA11W3.g) (ELA11W3.j)
Essential Q: What is the purpose for analyzing style in writing? How can you identify rhetorical devices in literary passages?
HOMEWORK: Make sure you have read and annotated the "Conversation about Body Image" pieces. Tomorrow we will have a Fishbowl Debate about these pieces.
Wednesday:
Fishbowl (a Serious Mini-Socratic Seminar, more like a debate) on the Conversation pieces.
Homework: Reread the Conversation pieces. Tomorrow you will write a timed essay on the body image topic.
Thursday:
Timed Writing/Synthesis Essay (ELA11W7)
Friday:
Synthesis Essay Hand out take-home essay prompt.
- Analyze essay prompts
There will be NO timed writing on Thursday; however, you will write an essay next week on one of the articles from this week (Burgess, the Atlantic article, Dec. of I) so make sure you read them.
Invisible Man Reading Assignment: Read to page 250 for next Monday, Oct. 27.
AP Language
Lessons: Oct. 20 – 24
All lessons are subject to change at teacher’s discretion.
Monday:
Agenda:
- Pass back MLK papers. Writing Mini lesson and discussion about AP paper expectations.
Invisible Man Socratic Seminar
1. EQ’s: How can reading varied texts give students knowledge, power, confidence, and increased understanding of the world in which they live?
2. How does understanding the context of a novel help you understand the author’s purpose?
HOMEWORK: Review The Week: read one of the three articles listed and be ready to discuss on Friday.
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/89799/3/Did_the_debate_save_McCain
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/89863/3/Joe_the_Plumber_vs._Obama
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/89781/3/The_debate_over_Bill_Ayers
Tuesday:
Don't forget - we will have another socratic seminar on the Dec. of Ind. and the Burgess piece on Wednesday.
- Finish Group 2 Invisible Man Socratic Seminar.
Rhetorical device activity:
Students will get into groups and analyze excerpts from literature. They will identify rhetorical decives and report choices to the class.
Wednesday:
Class Discussion: Burgess, Is America Falling Apart and Dec. of Independence
- Grade argument papers/evaluate past AP student writing (ELA11W3.g) (ELA11W3.j)
Essential Q: What is the purpose for analyzing style in writing? How can you identify rhetorical devices in literary passages?
Homework: There will be NO timed writing tomorrow; however, you will write an essay on one of the articles from this week (Burgess, the Atlantic article, Dec. of I) so make sure you read them.
Thursday:
Continue with class discussions about articles. Introduce Synthesis essay. (ELA11W7)
Friday:
Discussion: The Week Articles
Synthesis Essay Introduction and PowerPoint
Read to page 172 for MONDAY
Socratic Seminar Preparation:
1. Prepare 5 thoughtful multiple choice questions that have to do with the following: 1. tone 2. syntax 3. Diction 4. Symbolism 5. Allusion
2. Prepare an answer key (typed, please).
Annotated Bibliography: Due this Friday
- 10 sources/entries
- MLA format/1" margins, heading, page numbers on top right with last name, etc.
- Source/Publication information in bold on top of the paragraph, in MLA format.
- Paragraph/annotation double spaced: Should include a summary and an evaluation of the article. How will this article be useful for your researched argument paper? Would you suggest that someone else use this article for his/her research?
- No Works Cited necessary since you have all the source info above each article.
Brief paragraph or two at the beginning of the annotated bib. State your purpose and goals in doing this particular research project.
Reflection: one brief paragraph: What do you think the purpose is for doing an annotated bibliography? What did you learn from this process?
This project should be printed and stapled before class. I will not accept any emailed annotated bibs. If you need to use my computer or printer, you may - just BEFORE SCHOOL. I get here at 7:40AM.
Lessons: Week of Oct. 13-17, 2008
AP Language
All lessons subject to change at teacher’s discretion.
Monday, Oct. 13:
Finish presenting Ads from Thursday...
Invisible Man Socratic Seminar (no homework except for the reading).
1. EQ’s: How can reading varied texts give students knowledge, power, confidence, and increased understanding of the world in which they live?
2. How does understanding the context of a novel help you understand the author’s purpose?
Vocab Quiz Friday on last two units (7-8).
ANNOTATED BIB DUE FRIDAY
Tuesday, Oct. 14:
1.Essential Questions: How can students establish a clear thesis and then remain focused throughout their writing?
2.How does the focus/thesis relate to the purpose and audience of a piece of writing?
3. How can you recognize the elements of an effective argument (when grading other papers)?
Agenda:
- Review Argument (ELA11W3.g) (ELA11W3.j)
- Analyze 2008 AP Free Response Question with student sample essays
- Groups Write Introduction and Thesis Statements/Hot Seat Presentation
HOMEWORK:
Due Friday:- Read and Annotate "Is America Falling Apart" (I will make a copy for you)
- Read and Annotate Excerpt from "The Declaration of Independence"
Wednesday, Oct. 15:
- PSAT/Early Release
Thursday, Oct. 16:
Agenda:
-Quick writing warm up (ELA11W2), (ELA11W3.a)
- Lit terms/Group Activity: Students will analyze excerpts from literature with the goal of identifying separate lit terms within the texts.
Essential Q: What is the purpose for analyzing style in writing? How can you identify rhetorical devices in literary passages?
- Present Findings/Discuss
- Discuss Readings assigned on Tuesday
Vocab Quiz Friday on last two units (7-8).
Friday, Oct. 17:
Agenda:
Collect Annotated Bib ELA11W6.f(ELA11W6 - Research and Technology) (ELA11W5) Technical Writing (ELA11W6.c)
- Vocab Quiz Units 7-8 (all words)
- Timed Writing - Argument (ELA11W7)
EQ: What is the purpose behind Annotated Bibliographies? How can creating an annotated bib help students to become better researchers, writers, and critical thinkers?
Class, the quiz will be on last week's words and on the first ten words of this week's unit. I think it is unit 5-6.
Lessons: Week of Oct. 6-10, 2008
AP Language
All lessons subject to change at teacher’s discretion.
Monday, Oct. 6:
Students, please buy the text Invisible Man. I would like you to get the version
with ISBN # 0-679-73276-4. First reading assignment: to page 70 by Monday, Oct. 13.
˜ Turn in MLK final Paper
˜ Finish Frank Test
Return Timed Essays/Discuss Writing Strategies (ELA11W1) Organizational Structure, (ELA11W1.a)
˜ Lesson: Style Analysis with PowerPoint
HOMEWORK: Bring Little Brown Handbook on Wednesday.
1.Essential Questions: How can students establish a clear thesis and then remain focused throughout their writing?
2.How does the focus/thesis relate to the purpose and audience of a piece of writing?
Tuesday, Oct. 7:
- Initial Writing Activity: Reflection on Peer Editing/Paper Writing ELA11W7.a, ELA11W7.b, ELA11W7.c
- Lit terms/Group Activity: Students will analyze excerpts from literature with the goal of identifying separate lit terms within the texts.
- Groups Present/Discuss Findings
HOMEWORK: Bring Little Brown Book tomorrow. Ad Assignment due Thursday. Vocab Quiz Friday.
Essential Q: What is the purpose of peer editing? What are the steps students need to take in order to effectively edit their writing?
Wednesday, Oct. 8:
- American Flag Warm Up
- Grammar: Appositives PowerPoint and LBH work (ELA11C1), (ELA11C1.a), (ELA11C1.b)
- Analyze Ads (I am providing the ads. You will use this lesson to prepare you for the assignment due tomorrow) Groups present/Poster
Essential Q’s:
1. Why do students need to know the proper use of the English language?
2. How can learning the elements of grammar help students to become better writers and speakers?
Thursday, Oct. 9:
- Quick writing warm up (ELA11W2), (ELA11W3.a)
- Ad assignments due/Students will briefly present their ads.
- AP Test Prep
Format of the exam
What to expect
Mult choice q’s
HOMEWORK: We start Invisible Man tomorrow, so make sure you have your books!
Friday, Oct. 10:
- Vocab Quiz (last two units)
- Start Invisible Man
o Ralph Ellison Discussion
o About the text/Style
o What to look for
o Reading Schedule
o African-American Voices in Prose
1. EQ’s: How can reading varied texts give students knowledge, power, confidence, and increased understanding of the world in which they live?
2. How does understanding the context of a novel help you understand the author’s purpose?
Click below for your second and final Frankenstein blog assignment, which is due Sunday, Oct. 5th, at Midnight.
http://jamisonenglish.typepad.com/jamison_english/frank-assignment-2.html
* All lessons subject to change at teacher's discretion.
MLK Prompt: How does King use rhetorical strategies to persuade his audience that the need for civil rights in Birmingham is now?
Please choose at least three techniques and cite specific quotes to support your claims.
Frankenstein Reading Dates: Finish Frankenstein by this Friday. Final Test, This Friday. The test will be multiple choice for plot, with a couple short essay questions. (ELAALRL1) ELAALRC1 25 Books
Frankenstein Essential Q: How can students analyze literature from a rhetorical point of view? In what rhetorical devices is the author particularly proficient, and how do these devices affect the tone of the novel?
Monday:
Diagnostic Testing/No Class
Tuesday:
- Finish Visual Rhetoric PowerPoint
- Group work on Analyzing Ads
AD EQ: How can analyzing ads for speaker, audience, context, and purpose help the reader to understand the true intent behind the ad? How can this new knowledge help you to become a better writer and a smarter consumer?
Ad Assignment (ELA11LSV1) You will present your ad analysis on Tuesday.
Thursday, Oct. 9th, bring an advertisement that "speaks" to you, that persuades you to buy the product it is selling. Why is the ad effective? In a typed one-page analysis, identify the following:
1. speaker (who is really selling the product?)
2. audience (who is the target market for this product and why?)
3. subject (what is the ad about?)
4. what is the context? (selling cigarettes today and selling them fifty years ago are two different issues...)
5. intent (what is the intent of the ad?)
Wednesday: I will be in a Vertical Teams conference all day, so I would like you to work on your MLK papers and/or continue reading your Frankenstein text.
HOMEWORK: Bring typed MLK paper for peer editing tomorrow!!!
Thursday:
MLK Paper Peer Editing. Make sure you bring your TYPED paper to this Crucial class. (ELA11C2 MLA form) (ELA11C2 grammar) (ELA11W3)
Peer Editing EQ: How can students write clearly and with purpose? Why is it important to engage in peer editing? How can you best help your classmates write their BEST paper?
Class, we peer edit to give someone else a chance to review our work; we need someone else to see mistakes that we have missed. Often, a fresh pair of eyes can also breathe life into prose, fix organizational puzzles, and ask relevant questions about the paper's argument. You must take this peer editing seriously; no one is any better than anyone else, and each person deserves a thorough editing session.
Friday:
Frankenstein Final Test. (ELA11W2 literary analysis/writing)
Agenda:
A little Billy Collins Poetry Analysis
Visual Rhetoric PowerPoint
Notes to the PowerPoint: Download file
I collected the weekly research assignment
HOMEWORK:
You should be working on your MLK papers.
Due Sunday Midnight: Please click on the link to access your first Frankenstein blog question. You will post a comment on the site...http://jamisonenglish.typepad.com/jamison_english/Frankenstein1.html
STANDARDS:
Agenda:
- Finish presentations (GREAT JOB!)
- JFK Timed Writing "In what way does the diction and syntax contribute to the tone? I gave you several options for tone, diction, syntax, etc.
No vocab quiz tomorrow.
Due Sunday Midnight: Please click on the link to access your first Frankenstein blog question. You will post a comment on the site...http://jamisonenglish.typepad.com/jamison_english/Frankenstein1.html
Click below for Standards:
Agenda:
Vocab Quiz
Frankenstein Quiz
Presentations
Class - since we have to miss so much class because of the GHSWT and the Diagnostic Testing, we are going to have an online discussion about Frankenstein. You'll go to my other blog: http://www.jamisonenglish.typepad.com/
and will follow the directions for the reading. Don't do anything yet; I have not updated this blog. In the next day, you'll get your first blog question and the reading schedule for Frankenstein. Please keep reading; the next assignment will be to the end of the book.
HOMEWORK: Get a good night's sleep - you have the GHSWT tomorrow.
Research Assignment (article annotation) due Friday. No vocabulary quiz Friday; we'll continue with vocab next week.
AP Language:
* Please bring your MLK work tomorrow, so you can work on your essay in class after your quizzes and the lit term presentations.
Agenda:
Lit term presentations
9th Lit:
Agenda:
vocab
DGP
Parts of Speech exercise
Pass back Short Story Projects and read aloud snippets from stories
4th: Collect Literary Circle homework
HOMEWORK:
vocab quiz 5 Friday
AP Lang:
Again, I am sorry I had to miss class today. Tomorrow we will have our vocab quiz and will do our first session of Lit. Terms Presentations. I can't wait! I know you'll do a fabulous job.
Since we will be doing Lit Term Presentations on Monday as well, the Frankenstein reading will be moved to Tuesday.
9th Lit:
Vocab Unit 4 Review/Critical thinking activity
Reading Comprehension using Vocab 4 words
Thesis statement mini-lesson with examples: you analyzed thesis statements
In-class reading of novels
HOMEWORK:
4th: Read to page 60 and do your lit term sheet. vocab Quiz tomorrow
5th: vocab quiz tomorrow
AP Language:
Good job on Santa Ana close reading!
JFK Close Reading
JFK Group Analysis
9th Literature:
Vocab
Grammar/DGP
Grammar Activity/Challenge - Creating sentences with parts of speech. Good Job!
Novel Reading
HOMEWORK:
Vocab Quiz 4 Friday
** Regarding the Lit Term Projects** - Class, I have an apt. at an orthopedic surgeon on Thursday. This was the ONLY day I could get except for Mid October, so I have to take it. I am sorry, but I have to move the first part of our lit term presentations to Friday and the second half to Monday. I know there are a couple of you who were going to plan on going Thursday and were going to be absent on Friday: you can go on Monday.
Early Release Day...
Today we had a shortened class:
- Grammar - Simple sentences and Fragments
- PowerPoint
- Work in Little Brown Handbook
FAQ Due tomorrow.
Lit Term Presentations due Thursday/Friday
Change in a date:
MLK Paper: will be due for peer editing on Tuesday, Sept. 30 and final due Friday, Oct. 3
* Bring your Little Brown Handbook tomorrow.
Agenda:
Pass back response papers
- logical fallacy/claims quiz
- close reading/Santa Ana
HOMEWORK:
Wednesday, your FAQ is due.
Thurs/Fri/Lit Term Presentations
for Monday, read to page 273 Kaplan Frankenstein. Be ready for a brief reading quiz and an involved class discussion.
Please download the following two documents on claims and logical fallacies. There will be a brief reading quiz Monday on the main terms/points. ** I will give you a couple hints later this weekend.
The handout on types of claims is long; please make sure you simply get the main idea and know the names of the main kinds of claims.
Agenda:
Vocab Quiz
Frankenstein Mult. Choice/Close Reading
HOMEWORK:
You should be working on your FAQ and your LIt Term Projects, which are both due next week.
* Tomorrow, we will spend our time in the Media Center. Please bring what you need to work on either your lit. term projects, your MLK papers, or your research weekly work.
Agenda:
Discuss MLK argumentation/effectiveness
Pass out MLK Rubric: Download file
Grade sample essays from past AP argument prompts.
Homework:
Research for Friday
Vocab Quiz Friday
Frankenstein Reading (Kaplan to page 151).
Click Below for the MLK Prompt:
AP:
Frankenstein Mult. Choice AP Practice
Frank Reading
9th:
Vocab
DGP
Finish EOCT Practice Test
Pairs work on Short Stories
Agenda:
Finish MLK Groups
Lesson on Argument/Organization
Class discussion
PowerPoint: MLK Analysis
Homework: See previous entry for Frankenstein reading.
Another research article due Friday
FAQ due next week (I changed the due date to 9/17
There will not be a lit term quiz this friday, but there will be a vocab quiz on unit 3
For Next Friday: Please read to page 151 in the Kaplan version. If you have another version, it is the chapter that starts with:
"Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope and fear."
AP Language:
Bring your MLK work on Monday so we can finish the rhetorical analysis.
Today I collected your research proposals, your Frankenstein dialectical journals, and I looked at your annotated bib entry #2.
Vocab Quiz #2: You guys ACED it! Great Job!
MLK Group rhetorical analysis.
9th Lit and Comp.:
SUASI!!
vocabulary quiz 3
EOCT practice test
HOMEWORK:
Continue working on your short story projects, which are due NEXT FRIDAY (Sept. 12).
AP Language:
You do not need your books tomorrow.
Agenda:
Vocab
Work on Research Projects
Tomorrow, we will take our vocabulary quiz and will work on MLK
9th Lit:
Agenda:
Vocab
DGP
Work on Short Stories:
- Character Analysis
- Direct/Indirect Characterization
- Story Outlines
Tomorrow, you will have your vocabulary quiz: 3
* Bring the MLK piece and the Clergy Letter*
Agenda:
Today we talked about the modes of persuasion, including Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.
I passed back your F451 papers, and then we did a persuasive activity in which groups presented and voted for the best, most persuasive group.
Tomorrow, we will start with our close analysis of the MLK. Be ready! You do not have to answer any questions for homework; just read and make annotations.
Homework:
Remember, your research proposal is due this week. Also, do your research for this week and your first Frankenstein reading with mini-dialectical journal (see previous entries).
CHANGE IN FRANKENSTEIN: Because of the book shortage (Kaplan Version) the first due date for Frank will be this coming Friday, not Tuesday. If you cannot find the Kaplan version, you certainly may use another version.
* You do not need your books on Tuesday, but please bring print-outs of the MLK letter that I have uploaded here, and also bring your Frankenstein books.
Please download the following two items and read this weekend. Read the letter from the Clergy first. The MLK letter is also in your Norton, if you have it at home. The version below is not perfect; there are several typos and a few changes in punctuation) but it is the best one I could find online.
MLK Letter: Download file
Clergy Letter (read this first): Download file
Agenda:
Vocacb Quiz
Lit Term Quiz #1
Close reading and discussion/Sagan. Good job, class!
Frankenstein: For Friday, read to page 51 in the Kaplan version. This is to the end of chapter I. The first words of page 51 are "When I had attained the age of seventeen...". I want you to do a mini-dialectical journal for this first reading: take three quotes that have a similar effect. Write about those quotes (incorporate some of your new knowledge of rhetorical devices). Typed, please.
You do not need your textbooks tomorrow. I have copies.
Please see yesterday's blog for any info you may need.
Just a note: I am very happy with your F451 papers so far. Great job!
Remember to study for the terms quizzes tomorrow and that your response papers are due.
** Class, you do not need to bring your textbooks tomorrow.
I apologize, but I am going to have to miss tomorrow as well. You should work on either your response papers, your lit term presentations, your Frankenstein, or your terms (for the quizzes Friday). I will be in for the second half of tomorrow if you need me and will for SURE be here Friday.
CHANGE: Since I was absent today and you did not get your promised lab time, the response paper will now be due Friday. Make it good! :-) Remember, even though the format is not as structured, the level of professionalism must be high; make this a polished paper which demonstrates your ability to proof for mistakes, to write in MLA format, and to synthesis readings into one piece, using smoothly incorporated quotations as evidence.
Frankenstein: For Tuesday, read to page 51 in the Kaplan version. This is to the end of chapter I. The first words of page 51 are "When I had attained the age of seventeen...". I want you to do a mini-dialectical journal for this first reading: take three quotes that have a similar effect. Write about those quotes (incorporate some of your new knowledge of rhetorical devices). Typed, please.
Friday:
Vocab Q:1
Terms Q:1
* You don't need texts. Bring your response paper materials to the lab with you tomorrow. We will be meeting in the 200 hall lab.
Buy the Frankenstein Novel (Kaplan is best, but if you want to use another edition you may) by Friday. Our first reading assignment will be due next Tuesday. Page TBA
Agenda:
Finish Z Presentations
Discuss F-451 Mult Choice Questions
Tomorrow, we will finally get to the Sagan piece after our time in the lab, so be ready to get in your groups for a SOAPSTONE analysis.
HOMEWORK:
First response paper due Thursday.
Vocab quiz 1 Friday
Lit Term Q:1 Friday
** You do not need to bring your books tomorrow. Do bring both the Sagan and the Staples essays.
Please buy the Kaplan version of Frankenstein. We will start reading this week (I will post the first reading assignment in the next day or so).
Agenda:
Lesson on first week terms. Click for the handout: Download file
Timed Writing: F-451 Assessment.
Tuesday, we will finish the Zinsser presentations and will have a class discussion on both essays (Sagan/Staples).
Wednesday, you go to the lab for the first half of the period.
Thursday: First Response paper due.
Friday: Vocab quiz and Lit Term Quiz #1
** Bring your F451 books on Monday for your timed writing final assessment.
Revised tropes/schemes handout: Download file
Agenda:
Zinsser Presentations. Great job so far! We will finish these on Monday OR Tuesday, so be sure to bring your presentation materials on both days.
F451 Assessment: Hint! Be sure to carefully read from page 140 to the end. What is the tone? Notice some analogies, allusions, details, and choice of diction and how these rhetorical devices contribute to the tone.
Assignments:
Carl Sagan: Read the essay "The Abstraction of Beasts", which I gave you today.
Click below and answer the questions:
* You do not need textbooks tomorrow.
Agenda:
Vocab
Lit term group assignments/words
Orwell close analysis
Homework:
Presentations for Zinsser tomorrow!
** You do not need your textbooks tomorrow.
Zinsser Presentations will be held on Friday. Please make sure that you trouble-shoot any technology issues before class. ** Remember that in PowerPoint presentations, you need to save all image and multi-media files in the same place as the PowerPoint file, or when you present, they won't show up. So, if you transfer all files to a jump drive, make sure you transfer all pictures, audio files, video, etc. to the jump drive as well. Test this before class.
Agenda: Writing Tips PowerPoint: I took examples from your essays, so hopefully you will be able to learn from this and make changes in the next one.
Media Center for Project.
HOMEWORK:
First research assignment due Friday:
- Find two articles from websites including but not limited to: elibrary elibrary, Galileo , google scholar, the newspaper, periodicals, etc.
- On ONE of the articles, make notes (annotations) that will help you to remember later what the article is about. When we start to write our researched argument papers, you will need these notes to jog your memory.
- Type a one paragraph annotation below the source (MLA format). Entry should be about 4-5 sentences of summary with an evaluation of the article. How will you use this article for future research? I know you are just beginning, so I would choose two different topics (if you are unsure) and read both. See what interests you.
- Bring both articles and the one typed annotation on Friday.
- Cobb Virtual Library URL: http://cvl.cobbk12.org
CVL User Name: cobbhs
CVL Password: three
GALILEO Password: trainband (valid 5/15/08 to 8/31/08)
fallback (valid 8/31/08 to 12/12/08)
F451 Assessment on Monday:
- For this assessment, I will choose an excerpt from the text and will ask you to write an essay analyzing the excerpt and relating it to the text. You will be able to use your book during the assessment. This weekend I will give you some hints as to the section of book and certain rhetorical devices you should be noticing.
LIterary Terms Presentation Groups/Words Selection:
Tomorrow you will draw numbers and will decide.
Orwell: Bring your work to class tomorrow.
** You do not need your text books tomorrow. You will have half the period (or about half) to Quietly work in the Media Center. Tomorrow, we will discuss Orwell, get vocab books, and possibly discuss your first timed essays in the beginning of class.
CHANGE IN DUE DATE:
I was able to secure a lab for August 27, so your first reponse paper will now be due August 28th.
Agenda:
Discuss Argument/Issues
Lab - Zinsser Project
HOMEWORK: Research article due Friday. Zinsser projects due for presentations Thursday.
** You do NOT need your textbooks tomorrow. Bring your Zinsser books tomorrow.
Agenda:
Warm up: Quick write on Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"
Handouts: Rhetorical terms
Close Reading, Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"
HOMEWORK: Read the Orwell piece if you forget this weekend.
Be working on Zinsser projects.
Download for potential research topics. Of course there are others not listed; if you think of another one, please run it by me first.