Tuesday, April 7 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Turn in paper

*Books with Friends Intro

*Book picking and schedule creation

*Discuss Patrick Henry’s Speech (FOURTH BLOCK WILL DO THIS TOMORROW)

*Rhetorical Question and the implied answer

*Why use allusions in general, why the specific ones?

*“The Yellow Wallpaper” 799/packet

*While reading: minimum of five close read notes/annotations (comment/connection/question/etc) plus create two discussion questions about the story and a summary of your interpretation of the story, especially the ending of the story

*Due tomorrow

*Homework: “Yellow Wallpaper”

Wednesday, April 1 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Patrick Henry Speech check

*One Pager Presentations

*Final Writer’s Workshop time

*Third Person Pronouns

*Heading in the upper left corner

*Works Cited Page (only one entry for most)

*Fully Supported Thesis

*More Analysis than Summary

*Due Tuesday, printed out when class starts!

Have a good break!

Tuesday, March 31 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Reminder: Patrick Henry Speech close read and questions due tomorrow

*Writer’s Workshop

*Turning a second draft into a final reminders

*Pink: punctuation, capitalization, academic voice, format, other grammar or conventions

*Yellow: fluency, sentence structure (fragment, run-on, comma splice)

*Meet with me to confer on comments

*Examples of topic sentences, analysis, intros

*Paper due Tuesday!!

*One Pager Presentations

Monday, March 30 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: The Individual and Society: In writer’s notebook, write a quick list of ways that an individual can interact with society. Think of these ideas: can individuals change society? Can society change individuals? Can you exist without society? Can society exist without individuals? Are there different definitions of society that matter here?

*Patrick Henry Speech –I’d highlight in three or four different colors, if possible (HOMEWORK)

*Three rhetorical questions and the assumed answers from the speech.  Why include these questions? “Is this the part of wise men…” he wants listeners to think that, no, wise men search for freedom with open eyes, seeing truth.

*Allusion: find another mention of a literary/historical/biblical event.  Any thoughts as to why it would be included? Take a guess…

*How does this fit in the topic (the individual and society)?

*How do you see themes of independence or freedom in this speech? (Themes of the era)

*Writer’s Workshop:

*Work on revising for craft comments

*Issues noticed: Introduction information (fluency through intro, leading to thesis), unity when supporting thesis (topic sentences), depth of analysis (keeping analysis tied to topic sentences and thesis)

*I’ll be reading through for editing tonight

Friday, March 27 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Turn on your computer and print out your body paragraphs if you don’t have a paper copy

*Analysis vs. summary: need to print out a copy first

*You need two colors of highlighters or one highlighter and one colored pencil.

*Highlight everything that you feel is summary in one color, everything that is analysis in another color

—Work on changing from first draft to second draft, getting your analysis to be at least two times more than your summary (if not 3), adding more analysis, depth of analysis (not just that it proves your thesis, but WHY and HOW)

*Writer’s Workshop: second draft shared with me by end of block, final due Tuesday the 7th (because of break)

*Intros: Attention getter, Necessary Information (author’s name, title(italics), plot info related to thesis), Thesis

*All need to tie together, need fluency, one idea builds to the other

*Better analysis: tied to topic sentences, fully proving the thesis, take parts of the quote to explain

*Conclusions: restated thesis (new words/order, same idea), re-emphasize arguments (not summarize everything you said), explain ‘so what?’ and possibly tie back to attention getter

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Thursday, March 26 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Comma and semi colon rules (dependent and independent clauses): ACT Prep Slide 9

*Writer’s Workshop time

*Analysis Practice from yesterday (your analysis)

*Body paragraphs rough draft due tomorrow

*Work on Intro and Conclusion when body rough draft is complete

*Intros: Attention getter, Necessary Information (author’s name, title(italics), plot info related to thesis), Thesis

*All need to tie together, need fluency, one idea builds to the other

*Conclusions: restated thesis (new words/order, same idea), re-emphasize arguments (not summarize everything you said), explain ‘so what?’ and possibly tie back to attention getter

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*You will want to have your book that you have chosen to read finished by FRIDAY at the absolute latest: One Pager Presentations begin Tuesday!

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Wednesday, March 25 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Outline requirements

*At least three main points you are making to prove your thesis

*At least three specific pieces of textual evidence with page numbers (one for each point, minimum)

*A potential thought for an attention getter

*Necessary Information for Intro

*Work on outline if not completed, show me when you have all requirements, then work on BODY PARAGRAPHS FIRST!!

*Crucible Essay Assignment/writer’s workshop time ––first draft (typed –google docs would be best) due Friday (end), editing draft due end Monday, final due after Easter

*Writer’s Workshop Time

*How to write a paragraph: write together

*Support of thesis –direct, logical support in each paragraph –unity in paragraphs

*Development of ideas –specific and logical, fully explains the point

*Meet with me if you have questions on essay

*You will want to have your book that you have chosen to read finished by FRIDAY at the absolute latest: One Pager Presentations begin Tuesday!

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Tuesday, March 24 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Crucible Web due

*Crucible Test: work on your outline for your essay until all are done with the test

*I will need to see your outline at some point tomorrow (the earlier I see it, the more time you have to work on the body paragraphs themselves)

*Crucible Essay Assignment approx. due dates –first draft (typed or hand written) due Friday (end), editing draft due end Monday, final due after Easter

*You should be done with your choice book right now and working on your One Pager; we will begin talking about the next independent reading requirement in about five school days…

*You will want to have your book that you have chosen to read finished by Thursday at the absolute latest: One Pager Presentations begin Tuesday (one week)!

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Monday, March 23 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Small Group Discussion of Big Ideas

*Large group discussion on topics from next slide and End of Play (small group from Friday)

*Analysis Essay Choices

*Crucible Essay Assignment approx. due dates –first draft (typed or hand written) due Friday (beginning), editing draft due end Monday, final due after Easter

*HWK: Schoology: One more time, read through what is there (This will help prepare you for the test tomorrow!)

*Tangled Web Work Time: Web due tomorrow, you need to have details (if applicable) from Act 3 and 4

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Friday, March 20 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Life Lessons of The Crucible: In your WN, create a list of as many “lessons” as you can think of that can be taken from this play: both specific and general/universal.

*Continue small group discussion, adding these points to the sheet from yesterday:

*Focus Points

*How would this story be different in a different society?

*Topic: The Individual and Society

*Why is The Crucible a fantastic text to place in this topic?

*Movie/work time on web