I've really enjoyed getting to know you over the last semester, and looking forward to the variety of shorter units we'll cover in Spring, leading up to the exam. I'm so impressed by both the writing and discussions we've been able to have, and excited for the next four months (!) until you're seniors.
Due to the MLK holiday and the planned staff professional development day on Friday, we will meet only once, on Wednesday.
WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Reading comprehension passages (all 11th graders will be working on these this week). Go over final exam responses. Receive "Paper Tigers" article for discussion next week.
Due: n/a
Homework: Please read "Paper Tigers" by Wesley Yang. Jot down your ideas in response to discussion questions 2-9 at the end of the article and be ready to discuss on Monday.
Be ready to write an argument prompt in class during next Wednesday's class.
Next week, we'll have the first Current Event quiz on Friday, covering the "10 Things" e-mails from Sunday, January 27 - Wednesday, January 30.
Monday, January 21, 2019
Sunday, January 13, 2019
January 14 - 18
It's finals week! We'll continue reviewing the general information on the Study Guide, practice argument prompts/outlining, take the final, and then
enjoy a three-day weekend.
MONDAY: (B-day) Journal warm-up (10th fallacy). Context and SOAPS for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, which is generally rated the #1 speech in the United States in the 20th Century. We'll look at it with a rhetorical analysis lens, reading the text and watching the speech. Review rhetorical analysis terms utilized by King in the speech. View a sample argument prompt and brainstorm, in groups, an outline response.
Due: Continue filling out Study Guide with your class notes.
Read and annotate MLK's I Have a Dream speech, noting the rhetorical strategies. Also: what is he arguing for, specifically? Please bring the paper copy of the text of the speech with notes and questions.
Homework: Study for the final; go over argument notes and the Study Guide.
TUESDAY: (0 period final, special schedule, all periods meet) Journal warm-up. Review "baseball" in teams.
Due: Study for the final using the Study Guide and your argument notes.
Homework: Study for the final using the Study Guide and your argument notes.
FRIDAY: 8:00 - 9:55 Fifth period final.
MONDAY: (B-day) Journal warm-up (10th fallacy). Context and SOAPS for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, which is generally rated the #1 speech in the United States in the 20th Century. We'll look at it with a rhetorical analysis lens, reading the text and watching the speech. Review rhetorical analysis terms utilized by King in the speech. View a sample argument prompt and brainstorm, in groups, an outline response.
Due: Continue filling out Study Guide with your class notes.
Read and annotate MLK's I Have a Dream speech, noting the rhetorical strategies. Also: what is he arguing for, specifically? Please bring the paper copy of the text of the speech with notes and questions.
Homework: Study for the final; go over argument notes and the Study Guide.
TUESDAY: (0 period final, special schedule, all periods meet) Journal warm-up. Review "baseball" in teams.
Due: Study for the final using the Study Guide and your argument notes.
Homework: Study for the final using the Study Guide and your argument notes.
FRIDAY: 8:00 - 9:55 Fifth period final.
Enjoy the three-day Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday!
I'm looking forward to Spring Semester with you.
I'm looking forward to Spring Semester with you.
Monday, January 7, 2019
January 7 - 11 Happy New Year!
Hello, and welcome back!
I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday. I read Just Mercy, In the Country We Love, and started Calypso by David Sedaris. I saw Wreck it Ralph with my family and enjoyed watching the results of my apparently horrible choices on Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the choose-your-own-adventure movie written by Charlie Booker. I also enjoyed finally getting caught up on my subscription of Wired magazine - and the grading, of course. The Rhetorical Historical papers were an absolute pleasure to read, and overall the introductions and conclusions were especially well-executed and impressive.
I know it's a tough sell to go from two weeks off to preparing for finals, but you'll make it! Here are some notes, and the agenda:
NOTES:
I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday. I read Just Mercy, In the Country We Love, and started Calypso by David Sedaris. I saw Wreck it Ralph with my family and enjoyed watching the results of my apparently horrible choices on Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the choose-your-own-adventure movie written by Charlie Booker. I also enjoyed finally getting caught up on my subscription of Wired magazine - and the grading, of course. The Rhetorical Historical papers were an absolute pleasure to read, and overall the introductions and conclusions were especially well-executed and impressive.
I know it's a tough sell to go from two weeks off to preparing for finals, but you'll make it! Here are some notes, and the agenda:
NOTES:
- No quiz this week.
- Please bring your Grapes of Wrath library book with you to turn in.
- Last day to turn in any late work for partial credit: Friday, January 11th at 11:59 p.m.
FORMAT OF THE FINAL:
I consider the research paper you just wrote to be more important than a final since it took a great deal of research, analysis, and drafting to earn a good score. The final will be worth approximately 10% of your grade. Part I will be a 50-question multiple choice quiz (50 points in the tests/quizzes category) and in Part II you'll write an outline response to an argument prompt (50 points in the writing category).
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Receive Study Guide and go over the format of the final. Fallacies notes and practice exercises in groups. Satire notes, videos, sample AP prompt. Review argument basics and receive practice prompt to outline.
THURSDAY: Journal warm-up. Last fallacies notes and group practice. Go over Adversity argument prompt answers. If time: induction and deduction in argument.
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Receive Study Guide and go over the format of the final. Fallacies notes and practice exercises in groups. Satire notes, videos, sample AP prompt. Review argument basics and receive practice prompt to outline.
Due: n/a
Homework:
Write a brief, outline response in phrases to the Adversity argument prompt, and bring it with you for Thursday.
Please bring your Grapes of Wrath book if you haven't already turned it in.
Write a brief, outline response in phrases to the Adversity argument prompt, and bring it with you for Thursday.
Please bring your Grapes of Wrath book if you haven't already turned it in.
Due:
Please bring Study Guide with you to class.
Write a brief outline response to the Adversity argument prompt.
Please bring your Grapes of Wrath book if you haven't already turned it in.
Please bring Study Guide with you to class.
Write a brief outline response to the Adversity argument prompt.
Please bring your Grapes of Wrath book if you haven't already turned it in.
Homework:
Continue filling out Study Guide with your class notes.
Read and annotate MLK's I Have a Dream speech, noting the rhetorical strategies. Also: what is he arguing for, specifically? Please bring the paper copy of the text of the speech with notes and questions for Monday.
Continue filling out Study Guide with your class notes.
Read and annotate MLK's I Have a Dream speech, noting the rhetorical strategies. Also: what is he arguing for, specifically? Please bring the paper copy of the text of the speech with notes and questions for Monday.
Friday, December 14, 2018
December 17 - 21
It's the last week before a well-deserved break! We'll add some more argument notes this week, enjoy a current event day, and finish the Rhetorical Historical Research Paper.
MONDAY: Journal warm-up. Go through the process of writing an introduction in detail. Whiparound - thesis statements. Discuss how to craft good body paragraphs. You'll want 4 - 5 total. Time on laptops to work on the paper, individual help.
Due: If you have a full rough draft, please bring it for credit. If you don't, or are confused, we will go through everything on Monday.
Homework: Work on revision of paper. The due date is Friday, December 21 before class.
Please bring The Grapes of Wrath with you to turn in on Wednesday.
Please make sure you can access your paper electronically for Wednesday. Please bring a laptop if you have one.
WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Peer review of Rhetorical Historical drafts in rounds. Go over final requirements of paper with checklist. How to insert pictures/visuals. If time, argument notes: fallacies.
Due: Be sure you can access your paper electronically.
Homework: Finish the Rhetorical Historical research paper and submit it to Turnitin.com before class on Friday, December 21.
FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Special current event day: the textalyzer bill.
Due: Finish the Rhetorical Historical research paper and submit it to Turnitin.com before class.
Homework: None.
MONDAY: Journal warm-up. Go through the process of writing an introduction in detail. Whiparound - thesis statements. Discuss how to craft good body paragraphs. You'll want 4 - 5 total. Time on laptops to work on the paper, individual help.
Due: If you have a full rough draft, please bring it for credit. If you don't, or are confused, we will go through everything on Monday.
Homework: Work on revision of paper. The due date is Friday, December 21 before class.
Please bring The Grapes of Wrath with you to turn in on Wednesday.
Please make sure you can access your paper electronically for Wednesday. Please bring a laptop if you have one.
WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Peer review of Rhetorical Historical drafts in rounds. Go over final requirements of paper with checklist. How to insert pictures/visuals. If time, argument notes: fallacies.
Due: Be sure you can access your paper electronically.
Homework: Finish the Rhetorical Historical research paper and submit it to Turnitin.com before class on Friday, December 21.
FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Special current event day: the textalyzer bill.
Due: Finish the Rhetorical Historical research paper and submit it to Turnitin.com before class.
Homework: None.
Have a wonderful Winter Break!
Have fun and relax with family and friends.
I look forward to seeing you in 2019!
Have fun and relax with family and friends.
I look forward to seeing you in 2019!
Monday, December 10, 2018
December 10 - 14
Hello, AP! Just a reminder, no current events quiz this week. Here's what's on the agenda:
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Discuss ending of the book. Watch various film adaptations of the book, student version. Graded Socratic Seminar based on The Grapes of Wrath Socratic Questions.
Due: Finish Chapter 30 of The Grapes of Wrath and complete the Socratic Seminar questions.
Homework: Please continue working on the Rhetorical Historical body paragraphs, and bring your Grapes book with you on Thursday.
THURSDAY: (Shorter day for Class Comp schedule.) Journal warm-up. Read sample body paragraphs from the class. Go over the introduction and conclusions for the Rhetorical Historical paper. Time to work on laptops, with individual help if needed.
Due: Please continue working on the Rhetorical Historical body paragraphs, and bring your Grapes book to class.
Homework: Please complete a full rough draft of the Rhetorical Historical paper. Print out a hard copy and bring it with you to Monday's class for a peer edit.
Sunday, December 2, 2018
December 3 - 7
It's December! This week, we'll continue with the Rhetorical Historical Research Paper, lay the foundation for Argument with notes and practice, finish Grapes of Wrath, enjoy a current event extension of Grapes (excessive force used by police) and begin prep for a Socratic Seminar next Tuesday.
MONDAY: Journal warm-up. Collect Source Packets. Notes: Argument notes. Grapes of Wrath/current event discussion: what to do about the argument that police use excessive force. Is Black Lives Matter effective or not?
Due: Finish the Step 3 of the Rhetorical Historical Research Paper, the Source Packet, for Monday. Please print it out and bring it to class with you.
Homework: Please finish Chapter 26 and 27 of Grapes of Wrath. Find the various scams in Chapter 27.
WEDNESDAY: (Mogilefsky out at all-day English Department meeting) Receive Source Packets back. Receive example of working SOAPS notes into body paragraphs. Work on laptops and take the class period to type SOAPS notes you've chosen into body paragraphs that support your working thesis.
Due: Grapes, Chapter 26 and 27.
Homework: Please read Grapes, Chapter 28 and 29.
FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Quiz covering vocab, grammar, reading (last quiz of 2018). Check-in about Rhetorical Historical Research Paper. Argument notes: fallacies. Fallacies group exercises.
Due: Grapes, Chapter 28 and 29.
Homework: Finish The Grapes of Wrath (read the last chapter) and complete the Grapes of Wrath Socratic Seminar questions for Tuesday.
MONDAY: Journal warm-up. Collect Source Packets. Notes: Argument notes. Grapes of Wrath/current event discussion: what to do about the argument that police use excessive force. Is Black Lives Matter effective or not?
Due: Finish the Step 3 of the Rhetorical Historical Research Paper, the Source Packet, for Monday. Please print it out and bring it to class with you.
Homework: Please finish Chapter 26 and 27 of Grapes of Wrath. Find the various scams in Chapter 27.
WEDNESDAY: (Mogilefsky out at all-day English Department meeting) Receive Source Packets back. Receive example of working SOAPS notes into body paragraphs. Work on laptops and take the class period to type SOAPS notes you've chosen into body paragraphs that support your working thesis.
Due: Grapes, Chapter 26 and 27.
Homework: Please read Grapes, Chapter 28 and 29.
FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Quiz covering vocab, grammar, reading (last quiz of 2018). Check-in about Rhetorical Historical Research Paper. Argument notes: fallacies. Fallacies group exercises.
Due: Grapes, Chapter 28 and 29.
Homework: Finish The Grapes of Wrath (read the last chapter) and complete the Grapes of Wrath Socratic Seminar questions for Tuesday.
Sunday, November 25, 2018
November 26 - 30
Welcome back! In addition to sleeping and getting outside, I enjoyed reading your Rhetorical Historical Proposals and the rhetorical analyses of Grapes, Chapter 14. I was really impressed by the willingness of the class to wrestle with the complexities involved in both of these assignments, and I really appreciate that.
In our four weeks before the big break at the end of December, we'll work on the Rhetorical Historical paper in steps, finish The Grapes of Wrath, discuss and debate many related issues (Black Lives Matter, government-provided healthcare, rent control or the guaranteed income proposal), and enjoy a Socratic Seminar discussing some of the bigger questions sparked by The Grapes of Wrath. I'm excited for a lively month with everyone.
Here's what's on the agenda for next week:
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Go over last in-class rhetorical analysis style essay in full - read it together and analyze it, review results. (As always, if you're not happy with your score and you received a "6" or less (85%), you're welcome to type up a revision and submit it to the link on Turnitin.com by 12/31/2018.) Pass back Rhetorical Historical proposals. Receive Step 3, the Source Packet, and view a Hurricane Katrina example response. View different types of sources: for this research assignment you will need a variety, including "source" or original documents, as well as heavily biased arguments. Review how to use the library's databases. Time on laptops to begin research.
Due: Please read Chapters 22-25 of The Grapes of Wrath.
Homework: Please read Grapes, Chapter 26, pages 478-514.
Study for the Current Events Quiz.
THURSDAY: Journal warm-up. Current Events/reading quiz. Receive vocabulary sheet for next week's quiz. Analysis of visual arguments. View sample of SOAPS for Hurricane Katrina paper. Work on research for Source Packet, receive individual help if needed.
Due: Please read Grapes, Chapter 26, pages 478 - 514.
Homework: Finish the Step 3 of the Rhetorical Historical Research Paper, the Source Packet, for Monday. Please print it out and bring it to class with you.
In our four weeks before the big break at the end of December, we'll work on the Rhetorical Historical paper in steps, finish The Grapes of Wrath, discuss and debate many related issues (Black Lives Matter, government-provided healthcare, rent control or the guaranteed income proposal), and enjoy a Socratic Seminar discussing some of the bigger questions sparked by The Grapes of Wrath. I'm excited for a lively month with everyone.
Here's what's on the agenda for next week:
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Go over last in-class rhetorical analysis style essay in full - read it together and analyze it, review results. (As always, if you're not happy with your score and you received a "6" or less (85%), you're welcome to type up a revision and submit it to the link on Turnitin.com by 12/31/2018.) Pass back Rhetorical Historical proposals. Receive Step 3, the Source Packet, and view a Hurricane Katrina example response. View different types of sources: for this research assignment you will need a variety, including "source" or original documents, as well as heavily biased arguments. Review how to use the library's databases. Time on laptops to begin research.
Due: Please read Chapters 22-25 of The Grapes of Wrath.
Homework: Please read Grapes, Chapter 26, pages 478-514.
Study for the Current Events Quiz.
THURSDAY: Journal warm-up. Current Events/reading quiz. Receive vocabulary sheet for next week's quiz. Analysis of visual arguments. View sample of SOAPS for Hurricane Katrina paper. Work on research for Source Packet, receive individual help if needed.
Due: Please read Grapes, Chapter 26, pages 478 - 514.
Homework: Finish the Step 3 of the Rhetorical Historical Research Paper, the Source Packet, for Monday. Please print it out and bring it to class with you.
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