Friday, Jan. 19 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: make sure project is sent to me as well as your self/peer evaluations

*Presentations:

*Joey and David

*Luke and Linda

*Bryce and Elliot

*Susan and Jada

*Justin and Leo

*Calvin 

vGrace

vNate and Luke

vJared

vWyatt

vEllie

vMcKenzie

vKatie 

Thursday, Jan. 18 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: make sure project is sent to me as well as your self/peer evaluations

*Presentations:

*Jenna and Gracie 

*Seth and Antonio 

*Mikala and Ashley 

*Katelyn 

*Kaitlin

*Bryce and Elliot 

*Susan and Jada 

*Luke and Linda

*Justin and Leo

*Calvin 

*Joey and David

Fourth:

*Alethea and Rachel

*Mackinzie

*Macy

*Kasey

*Alicia

*Nate and Luke

*If time, we continue on…

*Jared

*Wyatt

*Ellie

*McKenzie

*Katie

*Grace 

Wednesday, Jan. 17 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Discuss ACT info

*Presentation Work Time

*Self (and peer if applicable) evaluation should be shared with me Thursday or Friday (at the absolute latest)

*Presentations: (this is the order list randomizer gave me, if anyone wants to volunteer to go earlier, let me know)

*Charli -Wed

*Lane and Dawson -Wed

*Joey and David -Th

*Jenna and Gracie -Th

*Kaitlin -Th

*Luke and Linda -Th

*Mikala and Ashley -Th

*Katelyn -Th

*Bryce and Elliot -F

*Susan and Jada -F

*Antonio and Seth -F

*Justin and Leo-F

*Calvin -F

Livy -Wed

Alethea and Rachel -Th

Mackinzie -Th

Macy -Th

Kasey -Th

Alicia -Th

Nate and Luke –Th

Grace -Fri

Jared -Fri

Wyatt -Fri

Ellie -Fri

McKenzie -Fri

Katie -Fri

Tuesday, Jan. 16 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Final paper work time: 40 min (if needed)

*Presentation work time

*Time it when you practice –tell me the time after you have run through it at least twice out loud

*13 projects to present –need to know times

*Order of presentations (volunteers and then random.org for rest of list):

*Peer Evaluation and Self Evaluation –due by Thursday

*PRACTICE GIVING PRESENTATION

*Collect Papers (rubric clipped on front of paper DON’T FORGET WORKS CITED)

*ACT Prep: Reading and English

Monday, Jan. 15 Agenda

*Presentation work time (if your paper is in its third draft form)

*Writer’s Workshop

*Reminders on paper:

*Work cited page

*Rubric check

*Support thesis throughout

*At this point, you should be working on second draft of ENTIRE paper or even possibly your third draft

*You need to self edit.  I am not reading and looking for grammar/spelling/punctuation –YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!

*Print out your paper for self editing (if you want to highlight for summary and analysis, it could be helpful)

*Have someone else read your paper and help you out.*** 

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

*Only information in your story that directly ties to quote given and thesis!! Don’t just tell what happens in the story UNLESS IT CONNECTS TO THE DIRECT QUOTE!

*If you have met with me, work on the issues I brought up with you as you revise.  If you haven’t met with me, you should still be revising, but focus on your self revisions and editing!

Friday, Jan. 12 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Works Cited Page reminder (Anthology entry) –shared with you

*Writer’s Workshop

*Conferences NEED TO CONFER WITH ME TODAY, or MONDAY (AT THE LATEST) –however the paper is still due on Tuesday

*Reminders on paper:

*Work cited page

*Rubric check

*Support thesis throughout

*You should be done with rough draft of ENTIRE paper

*If you are worried your paper is too long…the average for this paper is between 6 and 10 pages

*You need to self edit.  I am not reading the whole paper looking for grammar/spelling/punctuation –YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!

*Have someone else read your paper and help you out. 

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

*Only information in your story that directly ties to quote given and thesis!! Don’t just tell what happens in the story UNLESS IT CONNECTS TO THE DIRECT QUOTE!

*If you have met with me, work on the issues I brought up with you as you revise.  If you haven’t met with me, you should still be revising, but focus on your self revisions and editing!

Wednesday, Jan. 10 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop: if you are conferring with me today, work on that first (read comments in Turnitin)

*Writer’s Workshop

*Conferences NEED TO CONFER WITH ME today, Thursday, Friday or Monday (AT THE LATEST, second meeting preferably) –meeting with me on Friday? I expect a second draft at least…

*Reminders on paper:

*Work cited page

*Rubric check

*Support thesis throughout

*You should be done with rough draft of ENTIRE paper (except intro and conclusion)

*If you are worried your paper is too long…the average for this paper is between 8 and 11 pages including works cited

*You need to self edit.  I am not reading the whole paper looking for grammar/spelling/punctuation –YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!

*Have someone else read your paper and help you out. 

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

*Only information in your story that directly ties to quote given and thesis!! Don’t just tell what happens in the story UNLESS IT CONNECTS TO THE DIRECT QUOTE!

*If you have met with me, work on the issues I brought up with you as you revise.  If you haven’t met with me, you should still be revising, but focus on your self revisions and editing!

*Analysis Revision Practice

*Presentation Work Time (at various times throughout the hour, depending on where you are with the paper)

Tuesday, Jan. 9 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Work time on Ind. Book Presentation (20 min)

*Writer’s Workshop/Writing Conferences

*PUT YOUR THESIS AS THE FIRST SENTENCE OF YOUR PAPER (unless you have written an intro, in which case, the thesis should be the last line of the intro)

*At the end of today, you SHOULD be done with rough draft of the body: I will be looking through the papers that have been uploaded to Turnitin the evening before you are conferencing

*You need to self edit.  I am not able to read through your whole paper, looking for grammar/spelling/punctuation –YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!

*Have someone else read your paper and help you out. 

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

Monday, Jan. 8 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Summary vs. Analysis –find this handout and re-read it

*Work on Body paragraphs

*Remember to follow TIQA while writing, or at least remember to analyze each quote –explain why/how it proves your point

*Each body paragraph should have at least 2 quotes with in-text citations. 

*No first-person pronouns! (unless in a direct quote)

*If you finish your body paragraphs, work on your introduction

*When you have a draft that you are ready to confer about, upload it to Turnitin and sign up for a conference for tomorrow.

*Remember, Turnitin doesn’t update in real time, so only upload it when you aren’t going to work on it more (and you have all of your body paragraphs drafted)

*PUT YOUR THESIS AS THE FIRST SENTENCE OF YOUR PAPER (unless you have written an intro, in which case, the thesis should be the last line of the intro)

*Ind. Book Presentation work time

*If you haven’t worked on this in a bit and you have a few paragraphs of the rough draft done, I would suggest working on this for a chunk of time

Friday, Jan. 5 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: OMM Big Ideas Assessment –print out if typed

*Perspective Journals collected at beginning of the hour Monday!

*Things to remember/think about during Writer’s Workshop time

*Today you should be finishing your outline (if you haven’t yet) and then starting the rough draft of your body paragraphs

*Each body paragraph point on the outline should have at least 2 quotes with in-text citations. 

*Your goal is to fully prove your complete thesis with in-depth analysis for BOTH stories: you should be proving a similar theme, potentially other similarities, and contrasting the stories either only through era characteristics, or also through theme treatment

*Most of the papers will have the comparing be the theme and the contrasting be the era specifics, but the strongest papers will go more in-depth on both the theme and the era (potentially similarities and differences for both)

*Work on Body paragraphs

*Remember to follow TIQA while writing, or at least remember to analyze each quote –explain why/how it proves your point

*Each body paragraph should have approx. 2 quotes with in-text citations.

*Blogging about Lit Presentation work time (if/when you have some body paragraphs written)

Thursday, Jan. 4 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: End of book discussion with small group

*Share from yesterday

*End of Book Questions

*Foreshadowing, Figurative Language, Symbolism, and Tragic Hero (talk about these things)

*Work on questions, post in at least two literary terms notes (foreshadowing, similes, metaphors, symbols, personification), answer tragic hero question, add to big idea notes

*Make sure for American Dream and one of your other two big ideas that you have a theme connected to that idea and two pieces of textual evidence that show each one perfectly (WITH PAGE NUMBER)

*Big Idea Notes Sheet:

*I’m going to check your big idea notes while you are working on the perspective journals/working on your final analysis paper

*To be prepared for the assessment on Friday you need:

*A theme (message) about the American Dream shown in the book and a theme (message about one of the other two ideas you traced

*Two pieces of evidence for each theme that you can analyze to develop your theme. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PAGE NUMBERS AND TEXTUAL EVIDENCE WRITTEN DOWN ON A SHEET (CAN BE THE BIG IDEA SHEET OR ANOTHER)

*Writer’s Workshop: Finish looking through the story, taking notes on how each shows themes, what literary ideas come up, how each shows its era (LOOK AT YOUR NOTES, I WILL NOT TELL YOU THE ERAS’ CHARACTERISTICS) –DEPTH OF THEME

*You should be done taking notes (re-reading, highlighting, actual notes) by middle of class today (at latest)

*Share a document (ON GOOGLE DOCS, if you haven’t/are making your outline on a different document) with me that is or will be your outline (Thesis through body paragraph section is what is due tomorrow).

*Outline: if it isn’t done, it becomes EXTREMELY IMPORTANT homework that must be completed by Friday end of block at ABSOLUTE LATEST

Wednesday, Jan. 3 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Small Group Discussion on sheet and big ideas

*Read Section 5 and 6

*Perspective journal: either half page for 5 and half for 6 (switching perspectives), or full page for both together (one person’s perspective)

*Perspective Journals due Monday: should have 1-16, 17-31, 31-53, 53-65, 66-83, 84-end {full page} (or 84-98 and 99-end)

*Discussion on the end of the book tomorrow

*Open NOTE assessment, NOT open book

*Thesis and Note-Taking

*Work on figuring out theme/thesis, taking notes, and starting the outline

*Thesis check: your rough draft thesis must be checked by the end of the end of the hour at the latest (rough draft thesis most likely will change)

*Outline Reminders

*Final Paper thesis check and work time (paper or ind. book proj.)

Tuesday, Jan. 2 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Intro to Final Essay

*you should know of what stories you are analyzing and have copies of them by tomorrow (end of block)

*Rough Draft Thesis due by middle of block tomorrow

*Add your name to the list with the titles of the stories you are writing about (if you need a copy, talk to me)

*Work Time: themes, ideas for thesis: checked mid block tomorrow

*Finish Part 4 (74-83)

*Perspective journal on all of 4 (can be Lennie, Crooks, Candy –George isn’t in the section till end of 4, so don’t pick him).  All perspective journals will be collected Monday.

*Perspective Journal #5 (66-83)

*Begin work jotting down answers to questions (1-8) on sheet then add this to the ‘power’ question (8) on sheet: Why does Curley’s wife verbally attack Crooks the way she does at the end of section 4?

*Also add this to the power question: What does this section, or the book in general say/show about marginalized people? Who in the book would fall into that category? How/Why? How can that idea fit into any of the big ideas you are tracing?

*Hwk: Make sure you have finished your independent book and are posting your last post on your blog by Thursday; thesis check tomorrow, mid-block; perspective journal (66-83)