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Instructions for the self-selected research project: 1. Look at the handout I gave you: 2. Please print out your infographic - IN COLOR -put your name on the BACK of the infographic, unless it is part of the infographic. 3. Bring to class on Tuesday with: -annotated sources -works cited. -Paperclip EVERYTHING together.

Monday - Meet in library to finish your infographic and research project. Tuesday - Share infographics. Wednesday - Writing lab day. Re-visit and revise your This I Believe essay OR practice drafting a college essay. Look over the wiki page and scroll down to sample prompts. Choose one and draft an essay. Link here. Thursday - Reading day. Share commencement speeches or observational essays that have not been read. Friday - Go over drafts, college essays, etc.. =//Please return your Hope in the Unseen books...and they MUST have your name and number in them! //=
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 * Week of May 27 **

Monday - No School - Memorial Day. Tuesday - Book collection. Discuss research findings and read about synthesis. Go over writing "bugaboos" and basic strategies for essays. We will use //Models for Writers//. Wednesday - Work on creating an infographic based on your research. It will be due on **Tuesday June 3.** Thursday - "Stalker" essays are DUE. Read in class. Friday - Continue "stalker" essay reading. Good writing assignment. Monday - 1. Begin working on The "Observation" Essay. Go over assignment. PERIOD 7 must RE-PICK! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">23. Brief review of the book for the test. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday - **No School.** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday - //A Hope in the Unseen// TEST. Please hand in your question on the index card. **Period 7 must re-pick your Observation Essay subjects! Homework:** Formulate a higher level question about some idea, concept, process, operation, etc. that has always intrigued you. For Examples: Why are bats disappearing? How is glass made? What are the ramifications of the recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action? Why is soccer so overlooked in the United States? How does a word become "bad?" Have your question READY on Thursday. Please put it on a standard sized index card. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday - //Basic Research Skills - report to the library. Mrs. Bond will be instructing you.// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday - Library day. Work on finding sources to answer your question. This activity will help you with research skills that you will need in future academic endeavors.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Week of May 19 - Please return your Hope in the Unseen books...and they MUST have your name and number in them! **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday -Read article on affirmative action. Respond in writing. Hand in on Tuesday. Remainder of class: SSR day. **You must read** up to chapter 14 by Tuesday. That means you need to read Chapters 11, 12, 13 and 14 by Wednesday. There will be an extensive quiz on Wednesday prior to your computer lab activity. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday - Hand in response to affirmative action. Activity - Watch affirmative action debate. HW: finish the book by Thursday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday - **Project due from last Wednesday.** **You may turn it in today OR tomorrow.** Activity: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">.Educational Family Tree. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday - READING DAY for periods 1 & 4. Periods 5 & 7, you will have presentations of projects and some reading time. Bonus point "quiz" on rhetorical devices tomorrow - Friday. You will receive two bonus points if you respond correctly to all the questions. //Worth playing for? (What is the allusion here????)// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday - Bonus point quiz. You can only gain from this activity. Discussion of the book. Present your findings from the project and the education tree. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday - Look at some speeches and techniques. Note that quiz has been moved to TUESDAY. SSR rest of class. Homework: Read chapter 6. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday - <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Formal quiz up to chapter six. Look at race. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Reading Day. Homework: Read chapter 7. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday- Writing lab day. Activity: You have two assignments - one you may do as homework, one you may do in class. Your choice. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">1.finalize your speech and be prepared to deliver it on Friday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">2. AHITU project. Click here: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Choose one of the assignments. One. Homework: Read chapter 8. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday - Peer editing of speech. Make sure you have your revised (3) speech ready to read to your peers. Reading day. possible quiz. Homework: Read chapter 9. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday - Periods one and four, please report to the AUDITORIUM. Vocabulary quiz 20 - **last quiz.** Deliver speeches. All final drafts are due with the yellow rubric, the draft, the revision and the final. Homework: Read chaper 10.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Week of May 12 - TEST HAS BEEN MOVED TO NEXT WEEK! **
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday - Introduce //A Hope in the Unseen.// Power Point. Reading homework: Chapter 3 (up to page 76). Homework: bring your speeches to class on Tuesday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday - Homework: Read up to chapter 4. Work on peer editing of speeches using RHETORICAL devices!!!! IF time permits, rest of class is SSR. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday - Writing lab day - **Revise your speeches, paying CLOSE attention to incorporating rhetorical devices, especially ones that address sound elements. Make sure to look at the rubric (archived from last week) for grading - I have also handed out yellow sheets to many of you.** For further information on what types of rhetorical devices work well in speeches, [|check this out:] Not only is this page awesomely helpful, the site itself is GREAT for writers. It's Hyatt recommended and approved! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday - **Quiz on the book thus far.** All revised speeches due. NO revision = no credit. //You must show me both the draft and the revision.// Homework: Read up to chapter 5. SSR remainder of period. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday - vocabulary quiz 19. //A Hope in the Unseen// - finishing up power point. Wewill discuss the idea of race in this book. Homework: Read chapter five. <span style="color: #160045; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">Goodbye Seniors! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday - One Poem, One Stoga. Link to Claude McKay's [|poem "Spring in New Hampshire"]Please hand in questions from DOS. (copy of them here: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Week of April 28 - Be prepared for pop quizzes! There will be several reading checks during this unit. Speeches due this week. **
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday - Poems due. No EXCEPTIONS. Go over commencement speeches.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Assignment: find a topic for your speech. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday - Draft your speeches. Your assignment is here:
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Also your grading rubric: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Look at both of them for ideas and guidance. Homework: You will "dib" terms to find used in other speeches. Create a document you can share on the doc. cam. that clearly illustrates the term being used. We will organize this before you start drafting.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday - Speech drafts due. No draft = no points. Go over the rhetorical terms. You will report out on what you found. Watch Ted Talk: //The Three A's of Awesome.// Complete the accompanying worksheet as you watch the speech.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday - vocabulary quiz 18. Begin reading //A Hope in the Unseen.// After reading the first chapter (1-23), make a list of assumptions about Cedric, his school, his community. **Homework: Read Chapters 2 & 3.** Worksheet to be uploaded soon.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Monday - Finish DOAS. WAtch play. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Tuesday - Watch play. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Wednesday - Watch play. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Thursday - Introduction to speeches. Speech writing 101. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Friday - No quiz! Finish power point. Rest of class, look up rhetorical terms and find examples of them in actual speeches. Place on a word document and bring the TUESDAY after Spring Break. (you will have a p.c. cart in the room and PLEASE put your computers back where they belong and make sure they are plugged in so they can charge for the next class. Thank you.) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Happy Spring Break! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday - //Read Death of a Salesman.// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday - // Continue with Death of A Salesman. // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday - 1. Writing a monologue activity. Click here for instructions: Please note: your monologue may be as short as 25 seconds.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Week of April 7 - Welcome to Marking Period 4 **
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">2. Please find a significant passage in Death of a Salesman that "speaks to you" in some way - negative or positive. For example, I am always touched by how Linda refers to Willy as a little boat in a harbor. Find the passage (full text of the play is onl line) and cut and paste it at the bottom of your monologue. Note the Act and scene and line (if you have line info). Be prepared to discuss your choice sometime in the future. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday -. Maybe some clips from the film so you have a visual understanding of the play. Present your monologues. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday - vocabulary quiz 16. F <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px;">inish with //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px;">Death of A Salesman. //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Project Presentations <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday - //Read Death of a Salesman.// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Begin Act I. Fill out yellow sheet (can download here if you lost it: <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday - Continue with Act I and your yellow sheet. Answer assigned question in your notebook//.// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday - Writing activity on your independent read. YOU MUST BE FINISHED YOUR READING. This activity will be timed and graded. Click here for the assignment: <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">


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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday - Continue with //Death of A Salesma//n. Maybe some clips from the film so you have a visual understanding of the play. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday - vocabulary quiz 16. Continue with //Death of a Salesman.// Finish Act I. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday - Ideas for Essay Substitute.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Week of March 17 - SUBJECT TO CHANGE **
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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Media Literacy Review. SSR remainder of period. Study guide for "quest" - Look over information on the Media Literacy page. I have placed an asterisk next to the files you want to review. **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday - //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Media Literacy Exam // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday - Present alternative to essay projects. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday - Finish looking at Media Literacy projects. //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Death of a Salesman overview. //
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday - Vocabulary quiz 15. Good Writing Presentations. Rest of class - //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Death of a Salesman. //
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of March 10 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday -Watch and deconstruct //GASLAND.// Post viewing questions: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What did you learn? 2. If Josh Fox were to visit our class, what question would you ask him? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">. Some background information:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 1.5;">Tuesday - Watch and deconstruct //Gasland.// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Post viewing questions:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What did you find interesting in today's section? 2. Of all the people interviewed in this segment, who had the most ethos? Why? 3. What do you think of the government leasing public lands to private corporations?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - Watch and deconstruct Gasland. Typed **<span style="color: #000007; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">homework **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**:** Choose a question from each section of your documentary grid: Authors and Audience, Messages and Meanings, Representations and Reality. Answer it in typed form. Have for class on Thursday. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 1.5;">Thursday - Gasland discussion. Approach from a media literacy standpoint. HW: answer the question you had from day one of viewing. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 1.5;">Friday - Vocabulary quiz 1//4.// Model Good Writing. SSR remainder of period. For homework, decide what you will produce/create as a substitute for the test essay.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday - Reading Day. Bring in your independent read. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - Reading Day. Bring your independent read to class. Introduction to Documentary. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - Web Activities: Writing Review in computer lab. Go over MLA formatting, Word shortcuts, Netiquette.Literacy on the Net. The art of Thank You. How to compose an email, etc. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday - Thank you notes due. Read and review. Netiquette, if time//.// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 1.5;">Friday - Vocabulary quiz 13. //SSR// remainder of period. BRING YOUR INDEPENDENT READ TO CLASS. At this point you should be 1/3 - 1/2 through your book. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday - Must have your book chosen for independent read. Where TEENS hang out on line according to [|FO] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">[|RBES] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 1.5;">Magazine. [|Top spots] for social media.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of March 3 **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 1.5;">Week of February 24 **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Frontline PBS Documentary:[| //Generation Like.//] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - //Generation Like.// Discussion. Rest of class: SSR <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday - General writing review: student samples, MLA formatting, Word tips, etc. Loose guide for the project. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday - <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> Share reality TV projects. (DUE TODAY - no extensions, no exceptions) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday - Vocabulary quiz 12. SSR of your independent read. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday - - Share annotated articles. If time, listen to Clio radio ads. If time, article on how to create a print media ad. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday - Delayed opening. Shortened classes: Housekeeping: pass back assignments, go through notebooks and portfolios.. Course selection guide. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday - Watch [|TEDx Talk] about reality (will be posted on Wednesday or handed out in computer lab) Work on project. Due THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday - Begin in room to view power point on reality TV. Go to the library to choose next independent read. Go to the library and choose a book for next independent read. MUST have it for MONDAY. Counts as a grade! **Homework:** Begin your independent read. You only have three weeks to complete your book. Make a wise choice! Rest of period, work on your ad assignment. (distributed in library) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday - Vocabulary quiz 11**.** SSR. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday - Go over Super Bowl Ads and deconstructions. FINAL draft of 1984 essay is due with all required paperwork. Introduction to and appeals of advertising. (click on the link for the power point - it is the Power Point that says ) **Homework:** find a half or full page color magazine advertisement or an ad from a newspaper. Cut it out. On a separate piece of paper, type out and identify the following: Product, advertiser, source and date, primary appeal according to Fowles. Due: Thursday; Friday if there is a snow day on Wednesday. //<span style="color: #ff003a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">If we do have a snow day Wednesday, much of the remainder of the week will be amended/modified/changed but there will still be a vocabulary quiz on Friday. // Wednesday - Looking at Branding and Marketing. Aldiarticle. Article on Reality TV. Reality TV project assignment. Watch [|TEDx Talk] about reality tv. Homework: find an article related to media literacy. Choose from the following sites: New York Times, Philly.com, Huffington Post, Time Magazine, CNN, FOX News. Your article can be about: mass media, advertising, bias in journalism, marketing or anything related to media literacy. Please annotate for: audience, purpose, speaker, any rhetoric you see, personal connections. (at least five margin notes) Please highlight and be prepared to share on Tuesday February 11.
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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of February 3 - Snow Day on Monday **

Thursday - Review appeals and go over ads from magazines.

Friday - Vocabulary quiz 11. Share annotated articles. - None of this happened due to emergency snow closings!

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Monday - Midterms <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday - Midterms <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday - Revise //1984// essays in the computer lab.
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<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Final drafts are due Monday. What I am collecting: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">1. rough draft (marked up) with green peer edit sheet <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">2. first revision - marked up with notes and a second revision if you have one... AND... <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">3. final draft with blue rubric <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Your essay should be 2 full pages or more. It should have at least two quotes from 1984 and maybe one from an outside source. Include a Works Cited. A full rubric can be viewed here.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Thursday - What is Media Literacy: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Friday: Please bring your revised draft to class today. Share with peeers for ten minutes for last minute changes, ideas, etc. Friday. How to deconstruct media.Watch advertising [|CLIO]winning ads: [|2009 U.K. winner.][|BMW.] [|Super Bowl commercial site]. Homework: Watch a Super Bowl commercial and deconstruct. Activity with advertisement. Watch this [|video]. Worksheet: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Please use the worksheet. No worksheet = no credit unless you are absent. Due Monday. Midterm Review information: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Sentence types: OWL (Purdue writing lab) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">[|all types] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">[|declarative] <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">[|simple/compound]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Reading Strategies:

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Last minute tips and helpers:

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Midterm Review: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Midterm Terminology:

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18px;">Please also read some of the articles on the 1984 page in preparation for the essay. At the bottom of that page you will find several articles related to thematic ideas in the novel. Choose a strand/theme and read about it.

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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Monday - Dr. MLK Day - no school <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Tuesday - No school - snow day. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Wednesday - No school - snow day. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Thursday - Review for midterm. Go over terminology. At this point, you should have been looking over the articles posted on the 1984 page. You will have had a full week to read at least two of them. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Friday - English midterm at 9:30 in the cafeteria. Please bring two number 2 pencils.
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Monday - projects due. Present in class. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Tuesday - Bill of Rights activity. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Wednesday - Revision of your 1984 essay. Focus on digging deeper, proving your thesis, incorporating powerful quotations, etc. Must have for Thursday. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Thursday - Change of plans! You do NOT need to have your essay for class. We will begin midterm review. BUT, please note that you should continue to work on your essay. The revision will be due the Wednesday AFTER midterms. (January 29) <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Friday - Midterm review. Terminology and concepts. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Thursday - Review of //1984.// Reading of important passages/discussions of important ideas. Please continue to follow the reading schedule! <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Friday - Bill of Rights activity - CANCELLED due to SNOW DAY
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Monday - go over //1984// project/writing requirements.SSR. Please check out these resources before you begin drafting your essay. Purdue [|OWL]. From the [|University of Minnesota.] And this one. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Tuesday - Goldstein's book questions. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Wednesday - Essay assignment. Y**ou should be finished the boo**k. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Thursday - proofing, editing and revising of essay. No draft = no credit. Go over how to "re-vision" by comparing Orwell's first draft to his final draft. Also a review of MLA paper writing. Some sites we will look at: Purdue Writing Lab - [|OWL.] And [|From U of Arkansas] <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Friday - work on your essay revision and project. Rubric is and on the 1984 page.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Monday - <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Due to the two hour delay, we will annotate on Thursday or Friday. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Reading and discussion. Annotation of Orwell's first few pages - recognizing rhetoric and style. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Tuesday - Free write. Cartoons in packet. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Wednesday - Computer lab. Writing assignment: <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Thursday - <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Quiz on Book I**. J <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">igsaw work with groups based on discussion responses from Wednesday followed by whole class discussion. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Friday - No vocabulary quiz. SSR - on Language. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to view this and take notes if you need to! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Tuesday- Book distribution - 1984. Reading schedule. Images: <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Thursday - 1984. Quiz. Continue with Power Point - Politics of the English Language. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Friday - Vocabulary Quiz #10 (last one til after the midterm) Go over 1984 packet. Watch 60 minutes video on North Korea: [|Video 60 Minutes]. Watch [|Two Minutes Hate.]


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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Monday - Go over writing errors: [|Google Doc]

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Pre-reading activity and camera hunt. Does privacy matter? TED talk: media type="custom" key="24509626" <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;">NPR - Law bioscanner:

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**<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Week of November 18 ** <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">Monday - Review effective sentences, readings from Thu/Fri of last week, and specificity. Writing activity. If time, **style** activity. <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">Tuesday -Quiz on sentences. Begin 1984? <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">Wednesday -Writing Lab - 245B. Begin 1984 <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">Thursday - Share findings, continue with media literacy. Advertising. <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">Friday - vocabulary quiz #9. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">For some reason, the link to the memoir assignment dropped from the memoir page. I will re-post it on Monday when I have access to the file. In the meantime, here is an overview of what is due on Tuesday: ** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Part I - MLA citation of book, a quote and up to a page on why you chose the book. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Part II - Find a reputable book review. You are to cut and paste the review (making sure to cite the source/author) and then react to it. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Part III - Find a significant passage in the book. Scan or copy into a word document and then annotate.


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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Monday - Brief Quiz on History of English. Looking at style. In class activity. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Tuesday - MEMOIR ASSIGNMENT IS DUE. NO EXCEPTIONS!!!! <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Effective sentences - chapter 9 in Models for Writers. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Wednesday - Writing Day - meet in 245B. Reflection of assignment: TBA in class. This will be a TIMED, graded write. It is due at the end of class - no exceptions. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Thursday - Read about Argument: pages 539-546 in Models for Writers. Then read the "The Piracy of Privacy" on page 587. Respond to: Questions for Study and Discussion: #s 1,2,3 5. Answer in neatly composed complete sentences. Sub will collect at the end of the period. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Friday - vocabulary quiz #8. Models for Writers. Read "Marketing Ate Our Culture" on page 594. Complete the writing assignment #1 on page 601. Your response doesn't have to be a complete essay, but do cover what the prompt asks. If you do not finish in class, complete for homework over the weekend. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Monday - The History of English. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Tuesday - no school <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Wednesday - Writing day. This I Believe essay. Must have a draft for Thursday. No draft = no points. Place in your folder for a later date to revise. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Thursday -Peer editing day. Look at model essays. Go over "demons" in writing based on memoir assignment. Top three answers from last week's question: <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Friday - **no vocabulary quiz!** If time, finish with History of English.Review the unit test. Read "Keep it Simple" in Models for Writers p. 90
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Monday -. Due November 4. Review for unit test.Sustained Silent Reading of the memoir you are reading.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Tuesday - Unit test.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Wednesday -Go over Memoir Assignment. This I Believe essay activity: Go to the page to the left for This I Believe and link to the website. Read one of the essays from the featured section. Then create a Word Document and create a list of 20 beliefs you have. From that list and from the brainstorming activity we did last week, choose one and draft an essay. Your essay should be short, simple, concise, and focused. It should be 1 - 1.5 pages. Make sure to save and print out for Friday.

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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Friday - vocabulary quiz #7. Revise personal essays. No draft = no points. After peer edit, Models for Writers: "Be Specific" page 90. If time, SSR. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Week of October 21** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Monday - No annotation this week! Continue with presenting Power Points and learning terminology. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Tuesday - Finish up on Power Points. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Wednesday: This I Believe power point and assignment. Generate topics. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Wednesday - SSR for rest of period. Bring the book you are reading! <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Thursday - Syntax/sentence modeling activity. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Friday - vocabulary quiz #6. Possible review sheet for test. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Monday 10/14 - annotation due. Share findings. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Tuesday 10/15 - Final peer editing for memoir. Bring to class. Due Thursday. Read a few more samples of good memoir writing. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Wednesday 10/16 - Rhetorical terms assignment. You will be placed into a group and assigned rhetorical terms from the handout. With your "team" you are to define the term and then find at least two examples of the term in use. Create a power point to present to the class on FRIDAY! The key to success for this project is to divvy up the work equally. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Thursday 10/17 - Hand in your final memoir. Make sure to have the following attached to it: 1. first draft 2. revision 3. final copy 4. yellow peer editing sheet 5. final rubric. Go over remaining brush strokes and practice. Rest of class is reserved for silent sustained reading of your book. HW: Study for your vocabulary quiz. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Friday 10/18 - Vocab quiz #5. Review assignment for the memoir you are reading. You may find it on the MEMOIR page. Present Power Points on rhetorical terms. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">No annotations on Monday! <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Monday 10/7 - annotation due. Share findings. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Tuesday 10/8 - Rhetorical terms handout. You are responsible for learning definitions. We will go over them in class on Friday. Please bring your book for SSR. More tips on memoir writing. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Wednesday 10/9 - revise memoir. Final draft due next week. After revision, time to look up rhetorical terms. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Thursday 10/10- Tone activity. Go over tone words and identify tone in music. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Friday 10/11 - Vocab quiz #4. Review rhetorical terms. Go over annotation assignment for the week. SSR - silent sustained reading. Please bring your memoir to class. (The one you are reading, not your written one).
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Monday 9/30 - Annotation due. Share findings. Due: permission slip for your memoir. If you lost your slip, you may download one here: <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Tuesday 10/1 - Share word journals. Using those as springboards, brainstorm memoir topics. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Wednesday 10/2 - Draft memoir. Must hand in on Thursday. **No draft, no credit.** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Assignment and Rubric: <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Thursday 10/3- peer editing in writing groups. Practice brushstrokes: work on absolutes and appositives. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Friday 10/4 - Vocab quiz #3. Introduce rhetorical terms. This week's annotation: follow instructions from last week, but add: 1. a question you have 2. a one to two sentence summary at the end of the article. Please note: Do NOT use comments from the Editorial Board. They are too short! Six word memoir activity. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Pep rally for period 7. You will take your vocabulary quiz on Monday.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Monday 9/23 - Annotation due. Share articles.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tuesday 9/24 - Memoir vs. autobiography. Read excerpts and discuss writing. In class: read one of the memoir excerpts and note a few great lines or a short passage. If you haven't finished in class, take home. Please make sure to return to me. Be prepared to discuss in class tomorrow.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wednesday 9/25- Meet in room 245B. Work on word journal in the computer lab. Due Tuesday 10/1. Assignment:

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Thursday 9/26- Choose a memoir as an independent read. Meet in library.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Friday 9/27 - Vocab quiz #2. Introduce brushstrokes. Go over annotation requirements for 9/30. I have posted a sample on the ANNOTATIONS page for your convenience. What I am looking for this week:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. An editorial from the NYTimes or from the Wall Street Journal. Do NOT use a blog - be careful that you find an editorial/opinion piece. If it looks too short, it is.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. The rhetorical triangle identified and explained. Be thoughtful.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3. The ONE primary rhetorical appeal. Highlight and justify.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">4. Noting one to two words you are unfamiliar with. Highlight them and look them up after you read the article. Go back and see if your knowledge of the word makes the passage easier to understand. If possible, react to the actual word.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">5. The author's information. Highlight and comment on his/her ethos.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">6. A personal connection to the article. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Week of September 16

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Monday 9/16 - <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">1. Quiz on Power Point. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">1. First annotation. Share articles. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">2. Draft of your Burning for Perfection essay <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Homework: bring in a baby photo of yourself. Go over assignment requirements: <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Tuesday 9/17 - Writing from a different perspective, writing as a specific speaker, identifying point of view. Baby monologue drafting. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Wednesday 9/18 - Room 245 - writing lab. Write your baby monologue. Due at the end of class! This includes mounting it and having it ready for presentation and display. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Thursday 9/19 - Share monologues. Go over denotation vs. connotation. (moved to Friday) <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Friday 9/20 - **First vocabulary quiz**. Study the first five words. Word activity. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Monday 9/9 - Please make sure you have turned in your letter. //O// <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">//utliers// Test. You must have joined the wikispace by the end of today. Test format: multiple choice (2o questions), short answer and essay. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Tuesday 9/10 - Record Book Talks - amended assignment. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Wednesday 9/11 - Gallery Book Talk Walk. When finished, TED talk on Grit OR Espada poem, depending on time. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Thursday 9/12 - Picture Day. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Video on Grit: Angela Lee Duckworth, TED talk:
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[] <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 1.5;">OR Poem on success: Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Espada poem: [], [] <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">If time, Found Poem from //Outliers.// <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Friday 9/13 - Power Point on rhetorical appeals. Go over annotation expectations. Use //Outliers// excerpt as a model. Analyze and complete worksheet on opening chapter of //Outliers.// Review the rhetorical triangle. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">HOMEWORK: Annotate your first article. See this page for more information on purpose of this assignment and list of publications. What I am looking for in this first annotation: <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">1. Identify the rhetorical triangle <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">2. Make a personal connection <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">3. Identify a rhetorical appeal and explain what it is and how it is employed. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">list of approved sources: // The Atlantic // // Byliner.com // // Discover // // The Economist // // Forbes // // Fortune // // Harper’s Magazine (__not__ Harper’s Bazaar) // // National Geographic // // The National Review // // The New Republic // // The New York Times // (Op-Ed section only) // The New Yorker // // Smithsonian // // Vanity Fair // // The Wall Street Journal // (Op-Ed section only)

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Tuesday 9/3 - Welcome Back. Course Overview. Homework: Letter to Mrs. Hyatt - due any time before Friday 9/6. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Wednesday 9/4 - //Outliers// review handout. Go over more expectations, receive handouts, etc. (vocabulary, rhetorical terms, annotations, etc.) <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Thursday 9/5 - No School. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Friday 9/6 - Review Book Talk expectations. Break out into groups. You may hand in your letter if you like
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