Friday, Jan. 31 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: ACT Prep writing discussion
• Writer’s Workshop Time: 
• Write this in ACT Prep section
• ACT writing practice– Information Accessibility (explanation on next slide)
• • Overall Prompt:  At this moment in time, there is more information more readily available to more people than ever before. Smartphones can instantly provide directions to your destination, when even 10 years ago you had to look up directions before you left and/or bring along a map. Researchers from all over the world are able to pool their knowledge to advance their fields more quickly. Many libraries have broadened their collections to include subscriptions to online/electronic databases as well as printed works. Greater access to information is generally seen as a positive advance, but what are the consequences of making so much knowledge available to so many people? Based upon the ever-increasing amount of information in the world and the ever-broader access to it, it is worth examining the implications and meaning of easy access to information in our lives.
  • Read and carefully consider these perspectives.  Each suggests a particular way of thinking about the prompt:
    
    Perspective One: With increased ease of access to information, we lose the incentive to gain knowledge ourselves. By outsourcing our memories of facts and other information, we are becoming less intelligent.
    
    Perspective Two: Greater access to information allows us to avoid memorizing facts and, instead, use our brains for higher-level thinking. This efficiency leads to a more prosperous and progressive world for everyone. 
    
    Perspective Three: The more people who have access to more information, the greater the chances of collaboration and thus further advances in human knowledge. This is good because it pushes us toward new, unimagined possibilities.
    
    Write a unified, coherent essay in which you evaluate multiple perspectives on the increasing accessibility of information.
• Collect ACT essay
• Things I’m looking for with this first essay: Intro –thesis (position on paper); Body Paragraphs –topic sentences, supporting details, logical flow of ideas (w/in and between paragraphs); Conclusion –restate thesis
• 10 minutes Independent Reading
• Expert group work time –presentations start Tuesday!!
• Make sure you have a note sheet for your classmates for the presentation
• Note Sheet should highlight the most important portions of your presentation: What will people need throughout the semester about your era (literary techniques, literary terms, characteristics of the era, characteristics and beliefs of movements and eras, etc)
• Give me one copy and I will make a class set

Tuesday, Jan. 28 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Share blackout poem 
• Binder division; Join Google Classroom: s3orfzv
• Expert Groups
• Find out Era
• Begin researching
• Choice Book
• First Quarter: Any book from the list, needs to challenge you though (if one you want to read is not on the list, talk to me and you’ll submit a ‘proposal’ to me).
• End result: Creative One Pager 
• Library- if necessary and your group is ok with you leaving

Monday, Jan. 27 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: find your seat (pick a seat…for now…max 3 per group)
• Expectations
• https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/58/1f/36/581f36edf2353818db4c9196a22f20ae.jpg 
• Blackout “poetry” explanation of yourself, an important idea to you, or just a creative thought
• http://newspaperblackout.com/about (video intro)
• http://www.bitrebels.com/design/newspaper-blackout-poems-a-creative-way-to-write-poetry/ (basic examples)
• http://lindaksienkiewicz.com/blackout-poetry/ http://www.logolalia.com/alteredbooks/ (colorful examples)
• Binder- need one ASAP (some of you have one from last year?) 
• Expert Groups explanation
• Ranking for Expert Group preferences by end of block (on a sheet of paper where you list top five)
• What is English 11/American Lit?
• “Survey” course, Eras
• Common Themes (the BIG focus)

Tuesday, Jan. 21 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: College and Career Stuff
• https://login.xello.world/
• Do the Matchmaker; Favorite 3 careers and 3 colleges
• Presentation Work Time
• Self (and peer if applicable) evaluation should be shared with me Thursday or Friday (at the absolute latest)
• Presentations: (this will be the order list randomizer gave me, if anyone wants to volunteer to go earlier, let me know)
• Derek, Jared, and Simon
• Adrianne
• John
• Victoria
• Anna and Gretchen
• Kiara
• Lainie
• Amy
• Nicole
• Adriana
• Ike
• Cali
• Addie and Anesa
• Presenting tomorrow: Derek, Simon, Jared; Adrianne; others?? 

Monday, Jan. 21 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Final work time on paper
• Paper collection (order: rubric, paper (works cited page last page of paper) –paper clipped together)
• Presentation work time
• Time it when you practice –tell me the time after you have run through it at least twice out loud
• 12 projects to present –need to know times
• Order of presentations end of tomorrow (volunteers and then random.org for rest of list): 
• Peer Evaluation (partners) and Self Evaluation –due by Thursday
• PRACTICE GIVING PRESENTATION

Friday, Jan. 17 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Presentation work time (if your paper is in its third draft form)
• Writer’s Workshop –FINAL DAY IN CLASS IS MONDAY
• 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!

Thursday, Jan. 16 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Quill Activities (either of the assigned packs)
• Writer’s Workshop
• Intro and Conclusion Examples
• Work cited page
• Rubric check
• Support thesis throughout
• 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!
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Wednesday, Jan. 15 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Quill Diagnostic: where are your grammar/convention areas of focus?
• Writer’s Workshop: Reminders on paper:
• Work cited page
• Rubric check
• Support thesis throughout
• 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!
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Tuesday, Jan. 14 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Analysis Revision ‘Answers’
• Work Time on presentation and/or paper
• 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 5 and 9 pages (including the works cited page)
• Meet with me when called up or if you have other questions
• Reminders on paper:
• Work cited page
• Rubric check
• Support thesis throughout
• 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!

Monday, Jan. 13 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Works Cited Page reminder (Anthology entry) –shared with you
• Writer’s Workshop
• Conferences NEED TO CONFER WITH ME THIS WEEK 
• If we are conferring tomorrow, make sure your draft is in Turnitin before 6 tonight!
• Thesis is the first line of the document if no intro
• Reminders on paper:
• Work cited page
• Rubric check
• Support thesis throughout
• 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!
• Analysis Revision Practice
• Intro and Conclusion talk
• Introduction needs: attention getter, necessary information(selection titles, authors and eras) and your thesis (hopefully your main theme is in your thesis)
• 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!