12/18 WEDNESDAY

Scholar Start: Free write WEDNESDAY! Please post to the blog

Zac here are your words: Swim, Shoes, Kittens, Giraffe, command, bucket, sweater

Can't think of what to write about? Write about how Grumpy Cat would celebrate Christmas.

A great source for how to cite MLA in-text: Purdue OWL

12/17 Tuesday

Tuesday, December 17

Agenda: 

6th period will be doing Achievement week.

2nd period will keep drafting their essays.

12/16 Monday

Monday's my FAVORITE!

                                    
1.Which of the following is a metaphor?

A. He was a peacock, strutting around  the house.

B. Her hair was as soft as silk.

C. It was like I was a bird, tiny and frail.

D. She was soaked like a sponge.

2. Which of these is an example of dramatic irony?

A. Romeo killing himself when Juliet is not really dead

B. Sarcasm

C. The woman hitting her husband over the head with a leg of lamb in "A Lamb to Slaughter"

3. Which of the following are "figurative language"

A. Similes

B. Metaphors

C. Imagery

D. All the above.

Agenda:

-Scholar Start

-Glows/Grows

-General Announcements

-Share Essays

Achievement Week Coaching Tomorrow!

12/11 WEDNESDAY

Please respond to the scholar start with a blog post. 

Agenda:
Scholar Start
Glows/Grows
Research outline

Please make a copy of the Research outline

12.10 TUESDAY

BE SURE AND MAKE YOUR LEADER PREP FOLDER!

12/9/2013 MONDAY

Scholar Start: If you haven't posted a thesis revision comment to the person  below AND above yours in the comments section of Thursday's post, please do so now.  If you have, feel free to take this time and revise any other student's thesis.

Agenda:
Scholar Start
Independent Reading
Post to today's Comments
Continue Drafting

We are going to aim for drafts to be due on Friday the 13th, when we will be peer reviewing.  Remember, we will not have time in class on Thursday, because we will be doing ACHIEVEMENT WEEK in class.

Remember, there are only nine more days before IA2.  Let's make our class time COUNT!

ProQuest-This is an excellent resource to use to find sources!

12/5 THESIS STATEMENT

PLEASE POST YOUR THESIS STATEMENT TO THE BLOG AS A COMMENT.

12/4/2013

What would a good writing prompt be? please post two.

11/25-Monday

Thursday 11/21 RESOURCES TO USE

For those who were absent, today we went to the Library.  If you missed class, you will need to renew your book as soon as possible.  If the last time you renewed your book was when we went to the library as a class, you will be late.

Citation Machine is an excellent resource for creating MLA style citations necessary for your paper.

Here is an Example of what my research page looks like.

Wednesday 11/20

Argumentative Rubric

Tuesday 11/19

 


Is today’s society a reflection of societies found in literary dystopias?

Rubric to the argument

11/18: START ARGUMENTITIVE

Today we are going to be reviewing parts of an argument.
Then you will be completing a "REAL" paragraph.
Teacher Model


2nd Period REAL PARAGRAPH
6th Period REAL PARAGRAPH

Chapter 16 "A Brave New World"

Compare and contrast attributes of "The World State" with American Society.

11/14 A Brave New World

Please get Your Chromebook




Today's Reading

11/13: SOMA (A Brave New World)

We will finish reading the excerpt from yesterday. (follow the Link)

SOMA-Here we will take a look at the drug this society uses.

Here is a link to today's documents.




In what ways is the "World State" similar to today's society? How is it different?

11/7/2013: A Brave New World: Chapter 1

Agenda:

Scholar Start: listed above.
Brief discussion on the reading (followed by finishing Chapter 1)
Comment on the blog.

11/1 Comma Test!

Free Write Friday!

We finally had our Comma Quiz today.  If you were absent, you will need to come in and make this test up.

10/30/2013-Comma practice.

Scholar Start^

Today we will be doing some more comma practice!  This is the work we did today! We will be working towards a better score on our COMMA TEST we will be taking FRIDAY.

A reminder, the next GSA workshop is on November 9th, and if you are interested in applying, I would HIGHLY recommend registering for one. They can be a terrific way for you to figure out what you need to do for your application/audition.  Remember, applications/portfolios/manuscripts are due in less than two months! So if you are interested, it is necessary that you start NOW. 

10/29/2013

Scholar Start^

Classes, you were assigned a graphic organizer on Irony, it will be due on Thursday.

9/20/2013

We finished up color archetypes today.

9/30: Cupid and Psyche

Scholar start: Let's imagine the Walt Disney Ride "Its a Small World" has now been changed to depict the dark side of the world.  Describe this new ride.

Discussed "Cupid and Psyche" for archetypes.  Please write a paragraph explaining how one archetype is expressed in the story (it's full of them).

9/23/2013 Archetypes continued.

Scholar starts are imbedded in the PREZI.

9/18-9/19

9/18 Scholar start:  Think of examples of things that keep happening over and over again in movies/books/tv.  List as many as you can!

9/19 Scholar start: You spend a lot of time around your teachers at school? What do you think they are like outside of school? Describe what you imagine their lives are like.

We have started discussing Archetypes. The Prezi will be posted once we complete it. 

Scholar Start: Coke or Pepsi? why?

We had 15 minutes of independent reading and then we responded to the following questions:

What is the title of the book you are reading? What are some things you are questioning about the book at this point? What are some inferences you have made about the book so far, and what evidence are you using to back that up?  What is the main conflict, and how has the author been developing over time?

9/12/2013

GUYS! PLAN PREP TODAY! WOOT WOOT!

Don't forget to bring a book to class tomorrow! And don't forget about the PLAN test on Tuesday!

9/11/2013

Scholar start: In my grandparents time, they would ask "Where were you when they attacked Pearl Harbor?"  In my parents time, they would ask, "Where were you when JFK was shot?"  In my time, I have been asked, "Where were you on 9/11?"  What major American tragedy do you think that you will face in your time?



Today we talked about the proper way to annotate; This is different from the way I showed in class, but it is one terrific way! If you are annotating correctly, it will help you figure out the meaning of a poem.

I asked 6th period to write a second reaction to the poem, after we had reviewed it a second time.

Remember, 9/12/2013 we will be in the Library during my class for PLAN prep! I know you guys will knock the PLAN test out of the park!

9/10/2013: The Horses.

Today we are going to continue to talk about symbolism and allegory.  We will read, annotate, and comment on a poem called The Horses.


This should be an entry in your composition book!

9/9/2013

Scholar Start: In the story, Prince Prospero wants to try and escape death by closing him and his guests off from the illness sweeping their nation.What happens when we close ourselves off to others?

Today in class we finished reading "Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe.  For Homework, we are filling out questions 1-16, and we are filling out the back questions on symbolism.