Freshmen: Today we continued our focus on Compare and Contrast, and applied that technique to an analysis of character, plot, theme, and setting in both Speak and Lord of the Flies. We also discussed your grandparent project interviews. Read for 20 minutes tonight and Wednesday; vocab due Friday, LAL due December 9, and your GPP is due 12/17.
Sophomores: Today we focused on both Irony and Prediction. Remember: The Alchemist and seminar prep due next Monday, vocab due this Friday, and LAL due December 9.
CNF: Today we read Chapter 3 from Freakonomics; seminar on Thursday.
Basketball: Practice will be held at Judge today.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Monday, November 29
Freshmen: Today we had a Socratic Seminar where we discussed Speak and Lord of the Flies. Bring both of these books next period as well, since we will continue our discussion in some fashion then. Read for 20 minutes tonight and work on your Letters About Literature assignment.
Sophomores: Today we focused on our end of the semester project. See me with any questions. Finish The Alchemist and your seminar prep by Monday.
CNF: Today we had our seminar on information asymmetry.
Basketball: We are at Sunnyside all week. We will end at 5:30 each day, except for Tuesday - we will end at 5:45 that day.
Sophomores: Today we focused on our end of the semester project. See me with any questions. Finish The Alchemist and your seminar prep by Monday.
CNF: Today we had our seminar on information asymmetry.
Basketball: We are at Sunnyside all week. We will end at 5:30 each day, except for Tuesday - we will end at 5:45 that day.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Tuesday, November 23
Freshmen: Today we read Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts in Models. Read it and answer questions 1-6. Finish Lord of the Flies and Speak for Monday, 11/29, and your seminar prep as well. Keep reading, working on Letters About Literature, and your Grandparent Project - interview due the block day after Thanksgiving.
Sophomores: Today we talked about Personal Legends. Keep reading, working on Letters About Literature, and your Echoes of the Tao assignment.
CNF: Today we concluded So Much So Fast and began our seminar.
Basketball: Weather permitting, we are at 1700 South and 1100 East.
Sophomores: Today we talked about Personal Legends. Keep reading, working on Letters About Literature, and your Echoes of the Tao assignment.
CNF: Today we concluded So Much So Fast and began our seminar.
Basketball: Weather permitting, we are at 1700 South and 1100 East.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Monday, November 22
Freshmen: Today we introduced the rhetorical device of compare and contrast. Read for 20 minutes tonight. Keep working on your grandparent project, your Letters About Literature essay, and your letter to the editor assignment.
Sophomores: Today we practiced research writing by taking the 5 Facts someone else gathered about a certain topic related to The Alchemist and writing a short essay. Continue to read, work on your Letters About Literature, and vocab.
CNF: Today we continued viewing So Much So Fast - we will conclude it and run a seminar over two days.
Basketball: Normal time at Sunnyside tomorrow. Tuesday, we will be at the Sugarhouse Stake Center until 5:30 PM.
Sophomores: Today we practiced research writing by taking the 5 Facts someone else gathered about a certain topic related to The Alchemist and writing a short essay. Continue to read, work on your Letters About Literature, and vocab.
CNF: Today we continued viewing So Much So Fast - we will conclude it and run a seminar over two days.
Basketball: Normal time at Sunnyside tomorrow. Tuesday, we will be at the Sugarhouse Stake Center until 5:30 PM.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Friday, November 19
Freshmen: Today we introduced the Letters About Literature project. Go to the LAL website, view the prompt and parameters, look at the questions under the How to Enter tab and take some notes. You may want to look at past winners' letters, too. After you finish your essay, print and fill out the entry coupon and place it and your essay in an unsealed, stamped, addressed envelope. You may hand it in to me any time on or before December 9.
Sophomores: Today we introduced the Letters About Literature project. Go to the LAL website, view the prompt and parameters, look at the questions under the How to Enter tab and take some notes. You may want to look at past winners' letters, too. After you finish your essay, print and fill out the entry coupon and place it and your essay in an unsealed, stamped, addressed envelope. You may hand it in to me any time on or before December 9.
CNF:
Basketball: Remember, we have normal practice tonight. Be to JM tomorrow at 7:30 for the intrasquad, parent meeting to follow. Pictures are Sunday at 12:30.
Sophomores: Today we introduced the Letters About Literature project. Go to the LAL website, view the prompt and parameters, look at the questions under the How to Enter tab and take some notes. You may want to look at past winners' letters, too. After you finish your essay, print and fill out the entry coupon and place it and your essay in an unsealed, stamped, addressed envelope. You may hand it in to me any time on or before December 9.
CNF:
Basketball: Remember, we have normal practice tonight. Be to JM tomorrow at 7:30 for the intrasquad, parent meeting to follow. Pictures are Sunday at 12:30.
Sophomore Culture Night Extra Credit
Hi. If you went to this and want to earn a little extra credit, do this: Write a 1 page, typed double-spaced reflection on the night, and explain how knowing more about the world's cultures can help you be a better reader of world literature.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Freshman English Grandparent Project Example
Hi. Some of you asked for me to post my sample Grand Parent Project on the blog, so I am posting the two that I have completed so far.
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“I’ll Be Home For Christmas, You Can Count on Me…”
-For all of the Bairds, but especially for Betty and Bob
Betty Jane Baird has had a lot of Christmas mornings in her life, most of them wonderful. But one Christmas Day stands out as being especially great – the Christmas of 1945. Betty had spent the previous two Christmases – and almost three entire years - without her husband, Bob, who was serving in the US Air Corps in England. But with World War II over, many of our boys were coming home, and Betty was no different than the thousands of other young women anxiously awaiting the return of her husband.
“He’d promised me for weeks that he’d be home for Christmas,” she told me. “But for about two weeks before Christmas, we didn’t hear anything from him. This was very unusual, because we heard from him all the time.”
Christmas morning came, and Betty spent the morning with Bob’s parents. She was living with them at the time. Then around noon, the phone rang. It was Bob. He told her he was at Fort Douglas – he’d gotten in last night, but had to be “mustered out” before he could leave. “He’d said he’d be home for Christmas, and he just made it,” Betty said, laughing her trademark laugh. “We hadn’t heard from him for so long because he’d come home from England by boat, even though he was in the Air Corps.” As we spoke, neither of us could figure out why air corps would get sent home by boat when almost everyone else came home by plane, but that’s the military for you. Maybe there really is something to all those jokes on “MASH”…
That day, Bob’s parents drove Betty up to Fort Douglas to pick him up, as she didn’t have a car. After visiting with family and friends for much of the day, the young couple had to go buy Bob underwear and socks. “And those things were hard to come by in those days, you know, because of the war,” she said. Apparently, while the rest of the corpsmen were reusing their old underwear and socks on the long boat ride home, Bob just threw his overboard once they became dirty. So while Bob got the stereotypical worst gift you can get for Christmas – underwear and socks – Betty got the best gift she could have asked for.
That Christmas was just one of many they shared together. When I asked Betty about those that followed, as a mother and grandmother, she often used the word routine. I am sure, given the first few Christmases she spent as a young married woman, the normalcy of the Christmases that followed seemed wonderful. But even those normal events had a Baird twist to them.
For example, getting the tree was quite an event, she said. The entire family went together, and given the personalities of Bruce, Brett, and Marsha, let alone Bob, I can imagine the experience was both excruciating and fun. I have heard stories about going to multiple tree lots come hell and high water (and snow) to find the perfect tree. Once they found it, the family would drive home, holding the tree alongside the car through the open windows. They’d then decorate the tree with tinsel and glass balls. “They didn’t have all that fancy stuff we have nowadays,” Betty said. Afterward, when the kids weren’t around, Betty went about straightening the tinsel, getting everything just so.
And it’s not just the tree decorating that’s changed over the years, she told me. Christmas for her as a young girl was much different from how it is today, she said. Betty grew up during the Great Depression, and gift-giving was much more modest. She remembered that one year, both she and her brother, Bob, wanted a bike. And they got one for Christmas. One. Which meant they had to share. It was a boy’s bike, a blue and white one speed. “It didn’t impress me,” she said, and that’s probably a good thing, as she didn’t get to ride it much.
Betty also remembered that her mother sewed a lot at Christmas time, and that the kids always had clothes – dresses, PJs, coats… these were the kinds of things she remembered getting. She also said the family always had a tree and a good dinner on Christmas day – chicken, or sometimes rabbit, which her father raised, fresh bread, and cakes. The important thing was the family was together.
Togetherness was what got her through what she called “a tragic Christmas” – the Christmas of 1956. She was bed-ridden that year, due to terrible arthritis in her hips. This made preparation for Christmas hard. She hadn’t done any Christmas shopping before the arthritis got bad because they were waiting to get Bob’s bonus check. Bob had to kneel by her bed as they wrote the list. He then did all the shopping, “and it must have turned out all right.” Christmas morning, they had to carry Betty out to the tree so she could watch the kids open their gifts, but she could only stay out there for about an hour before having to be carried back to bed.
But for the most part, Christmas has been blessedly predictable: trees and family, meals and home. And this is something that continues to this day as we gather together at her house – her children and grandchildren, and now her great grandchildren. Coming to Grandma Betty’s for Christmas feels like coming home, like Grandpa Bob did 63 Christmases ago. It’s a feeling exemplified by that beautiful war-song lyric, which could have been written by him, or by any of us: “I’ll be home for Christmas/ You can plan on me/ Please have snow and mistletoe/ And presents on the tree/ Christmas Eve will find me/ where the love-light gleams/ I’ll be home for Christmas/ If only in my dreams.”
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Magi and Shepherds, and a Room at the Inn
-By Jeffrey Marshall Baird, For Grandma Great
O. Henry’s story, “The Gift of the Magi,” describes a young couple celebrating Christmas by sacrificing their most prized possession for each other. O. Henry writes,
The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
Marjorie Crofts – Grandma Great, now – loves and understands this story, because like the magi, she wisely understands the sacrifice entailed by Christmas. It is something she has lived.
The most memorable Christmas for Marjorie, the one she said she would relive again if given the chance, was the Christmas of 1945. This was a Christmas that was special to many people, as it marked the first Christmas after the end of World War II. Like many young wives, Marjorie had sacrificed and spent the previous two Christmases without her beloved husband, John M., who sacrificed for his country by serving in the Navy in the Philippines.
Marjorie had been living in Provo during the previous year, finishing school, and came up to Salt Lake to get him. Caught in a bad storm, they had to stop in Panguitch on the way down south to see her parents and ended up spending Christmas in a motel with little Muriel, who was two.
“We didn’t own a home,” she said, “so we ended up staying in the motel for a month or so.” Like another young couple on a long-ago Christmas, they were seeking shelter, and fortunately, this time, there was room at the inn.
This marked the first of many memorable Christmases John and Marjorie spent together. These were times made special not so much by the gifts they gave each other, but by the love they felt for one another. But that’s not to say there weren’t some interesting gifts.
One year, though “he never was a shopper for clothes,” John brought home a couple of dresses for Marjorie to try on. “One,” Marjorie recalled with a smile, “was kind of sparkly,” and the other was nice, too. She was supposed to see which one fit, and they both did. Evidently, John was hoping to figure out which one she liked best so he could give it to her for Christmas, but he didn’t tell her that. “So,” she said, laughing, “I ended up with two new dresses.”
Perhaps an even better gift was the year John gave her a new wedding ring, since she has worn through a few. He had the diamond from the old one placed in a necklace, and he also gave her some earrings. John, being wise, no doubt gave wise gifts.
But John wasn’t always so wise at Christmas time. One year, he was supposed to be helping her stuff the stockings and whatnot on Christmas Eve, but instead fell asleep. “Well,” she said, “I had a book for him under the tree, and I just figured, if he’s going to go to bed instead of helping me, I was going to unwrap his book and start reading it then and there.” Which she did. No doubt, John stayed awake the next year, lest he lose out on the chance to open another gift.
While the magi gave the wisest gifts, the first to worship on Christmas morning were the shepherds – and wouldn’t you know it, the shepherds played a role in one of Marjorie’s Christmases too. She told me about the Christmas when she was five, and her family was going to Ephram to visit her grandparents. Well, they piled in the old Model T Ford with the canvas windows, placed heated rocks in the floorboards to keep them warm, and made their pilgramage. Unfortunately, Marjorie came down with the chicken pox, and when it was time to go home she was still sick, so her parents left her in Ephram. She stayed the winter and, finishing the second half of first grade in the basement of Snow College. “I got my college education early,” she said.
When spring came, she went home with her uncle who worked as a sheep shearer – they were heading in the direction she needed to go, and took her into their fold. And here I have lamely related to you some eventful chronicles of a not-too foolish woman who has wisely sacrificed for her family, someone who has made love the greatest treasure of her house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who have given gifts, Marjorie is the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as she are wisest. Everywhere she is wisest. She is Grandma Great.
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“I’ll Be Home For Christmas, You Can Count on Me…”
-For all of the Bairds, but especially for Betty and Bob
Betty Jane Baird has had a lot of Christmas mornings in her life, most of them wonderful. But one Christmas Day stands out as being especially great – the Christmas of 1945. Betty had spent the previous two Christmases – and almost three entire years - without her husband, Bob, who was serving in the US Air Corps in England. But with World War II over, many of our boys were coming home, and Betty was no different than the thousands of other young women anxiously awaiting the return of her husband.
“He’d promised me for weeks that he’d be home for Christmas,” she told me. “But for about two weeks before Christmas, we didn’t hear anything from him. This was very unusual, because we heard from him all the time.”
Christmas morning came, and Betty spent the morning with Bob’s parents. She was living with them at the time. Then around noon, the phone rang. It was Bob. He told her he was at Fort Douglas – he’d gotten in last night, but had to be “mustered out” before he could leave. “He’d said he’d be home for Christmas, and he just made it,” Betty said, laughing her trademark laugh. “We hadn’t heard from him for so long because he’d come home from England by boat, even though he was in the Air Corps.” As we spoke, neither of us could figure out why air corps would get sent home by boat when almost everyone else came home by plane, but that’s the military for you. Maybe there really is something to all those jokes on “MASH”…
That day, Bob’s parents drove Betty up to Fort Douglas to pick him up, as she didn’t have a car. After visiting with family and friends for much of the day, the young couple had to go buy Bob underwear and socks. “And those things were hard to come by in those days, you know, because of the war,” she said. Apparently, while the rest of the corpsmen were reusing their old underwear and socks on the long boat ride home, Bob just threw his overboard once they became dirty. So while Bob got the stereotypical worst gift you can get for Christmas – underwear and socks – Betty got the best gift she could have asked for.
That Christmas was just one of many they shared together. When I asked Betty about those that followed, as a mother and grandmother, she often used the word routine. I am sure, given the first few Christmases she spent as a young married woman, the normalcy of the Christmases that followed seemed wonderful. But even those normal events had a Baird twist to them.
For example, getting the tree was quite an event, she said. The entire family went together, and given the personalities of Bruce, Brett, and Marsha, let alone Bob, I can imagine the experience was both excruciating and fun. I have heard stories about going to multiple tree lots come hell and high water (and snow) to find the perfect tree. Once they found it, the family would drive home, holding the tree alongside the car through the open windows. They’d then decorate the tree with tinsel and glass balls. “They didn’t have all that fancy stuff we have nowadays,” Betty said. Afterward, when the kids weren’t around, Betty went about straightening the tinsel, getting everything just so.
And it’s not just the tree decorating that’s changed over the years, she told me. Christmas for her as a young girl was much different from how it is today, she said. Betty grew up during the Great Depression, and gift-giving was much more modest. She remembered that one year, both she and her brother, Bob, wanted a bike. And they got one for Christmas. One. Which meant they had to share. It was a boy’s bike, a blue and white one speed. “It didn’t impress me,” she said, and that’s probably a good thing, as she didn’t get to ride it much.
Betty also remembered that her mother sewed a lot at Christmas time, and that the kids always had clothes – dresses, PJs, coats… these were the kinds of things she remembered getting. She also said the family always had a tree and a good dinner on Christmas day – chicken, or sometimes rabbit, which her father raised, fresh bread, and cakes. The important thing was the family was together.
Togetherness was what got her through what she called “a tragic Christmas” – the Christmas of 1956. She was bed-ridden that year, due to terrible arthritis in her hips. This made preparation for Christmas hard. She hadn’t done any Christmas shopping before the arthritis got bad because they were waiting to get Bob’s bonus check. Bob had to kneel by her bed as they wrote the list. He then did all the shopping, “and it must have turned out all right.” Christmas morning, they had to carry Betty out to the tree so she could watch the kids open their gifts, but she could only stay out there for about an hour before having to be carried back to bed.
But for the most part, Christmas has been blessedly predictable: trees and family, meals and home. And this is something that continues to this day as we gather together at her house – her children and grandchildren, and now her great grandchildren. Coming to Grandma Betty’s for Christmas feels like coming home, like Grandpa Bob did 63 Christmases ago. It’s a feeling exemplified by that beautiful war-song lyric, which could have been written by him, or by any of us: “I’ll be home for Christmas/ You can plan on me/ Please have snow and mistletoe/ And presents on the tree/ Christmas Eve will find me/ where the love-light gleams/ I’ll be home for Christmas/ If only in my dreams.”
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Magi and Shepherds, and a Room at the Inn
-By Jeffrey Marshall Baird, For Grandma Great
O. Henry’s story, “The Gift of the Magi,” describes a young couple celebrating Christmas by sacrificing their most prized possession for each other. O. Henry writes,
The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
Marjorie Crofts – Grandma Great, now – loves and understands this story, because like the magi, she wisely understands the sacrifice entailed by Christmas. It is something she has lived.
The most memorable Christmas for Marjorie, the one she said she would relive again if given the chance, was the Christmas of 1945. This was a Christmas that was special to many people, as it marked the first Christmas after the end of World War II. Like many young wives, Marjorie had sacrificed and spent the previous two Christmases without her beloved husband, John M., who sacrificed for his country by serving in the Navy in the Philippines.
Marjorie had been living in Provo during the previous year, finishing school, and came up to Salt Lake to get him. Caught in a bad storm, they had to stop in Panguitch on the way down south to see her parents and ended up spending Christmas in a motel with little Muriel, who was two.
“We didn’t own a home,” she said, “so we ended up staying in the motel for a month or so.” Like another young couple on a long-ago Christmas, they were seeking shelter, and fortunately, this time, there was room at the inn.
This marked the first of many memorable Christmases John and Marjorie spent together. These were times made special not so much by the gifts they gave each other, but by the love they felt for one another. But that’s not to say there weren’t some interesting gifts.
One year, though “he never was a shopper for clothes,” John brought home a couple of dresses for Marjorie to try on. “One,” Marjorie recalled with a smile, “was kind of sparkly,” and the other was nice, too. She was supposed to see which one fit, and they both did. Evidently, John was hoping to figure out which one she liked best so he could give it to her for Christmas, but he didn’t tell her that. “So,” she said, laughing, “I ended up with two new dresses.”
Perhaps an even better gift was the year John gave her a new wedding ring, since she has worn through a few. He had the diamond from the old one placed in a necklace, and he also gave her some earrings. John, being wise, no doubt gave wise gifts.
But John wasn’t always so wise at Christmas time. One year, he was supposed to be helping her stuff the stockings and whatnot on Christmas Eve, but instead fell asleep. “Well,” she said, “I had a book for him under the tree, and I just figured, if he’s going to go to bed instead of helping me, I was going to unwrap his book and start reading it then and there.” Which she did. No doubt, John stayed awake the next year, lest he lose out on the chance to open another gift.
While the magi gave the wisest gifts, the first to worship on Christmas morning were the shepherds – and wouldn’t you know it, the shepherds played a role in one of Marjorie’s Christmases too. She told me about the Christmas when she was five, and her family was going to Ephram to visit her grandparents. Well, they piled in the old Model T Ford with the canvas windows, placed heated rocks in the floorboards to keep them warm, and made their pilgramage. Unfortunately, Marjorie came down with the chicken pox, and when it was time to go home she was still sick, so her parents left her in Ephram. She stayed the winter and, finishing the second half of first grade in the basement of Snow College. “I got my college education early,” she said.
When spring came, she went home with her uncle who worked as a sheep shearer – they were heading in the direction she needed to go, and took her into their fold. And here I have lamely related to you some eventful chronicles of a not-too foolish woman who has wisely sacrificed for her family, someone who has made love the greatest treasure of her house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who have given gifts, Marjorie is the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as she are wisest. Everywhere she is wisest. She is Grandma Great.
Thursday, November 18
Freshmen: Today we started an overview of narrative essays. Read for 20 minutes tonight; remember, vocab due December 3. Your extra credit poem or essay revisions are due next week.
Sophomores: We began reading The Alchemist today. Check the due dates on the blog. A 12 item seminar prep is due the day of the seminar, as well as the completed Echoes for this particular book. Vocab due December 3, 5 Facts due Monday.
CNF: We continued our film analysis.
Basketball: Normal schedule today; remember, intrasquad at 7:30 Saturday with a parent meeting to follow. Pictures are on Sunday at noon.
Sophomores: We began reading The Alchemist today. Check the due dates on the blog. A 12 item seminar prep is due the day of the seminar, as well as the completed Echoes for this particular book. Vocab due December 3, 5 Facts due Monday.
CNF: We continued our film analysis.
Basketball: Normal schedule today; remember, intrasquad at 7:30 Saturday with a parent meeting to follow. Pictures are on Sunday at noon.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
10% Solution Cheat Sheet
The 10% Solution Cheat Sheet
To find your word count:
1. Click Tools.
2. Click Word Count.
3. Type in how many words your document is below your name.
4. Subtract 10%. The total is your goal (Draft 2 = Draft 1 – 10%).
5. Write down your goal below your current total. Meet or exceed it – don’t settle for close.
6. WHEN FINISHED, BELOW YOUR FIRST TWO NUMBERS, WRITE DOWN THE FINAL WORKD COUNT FOR YOUR DOCUMENT.
To perform the 10% Solution:
1. Click Edit.
2. Click Find.
3. Enter the syllable you are searching for.
For each syllable you search for, ask…
1. Do I keep it?
2. Do I cut it?
3. Do I change it?
*Whatever you decide, the decision should be made with this goal in mind – improving your piece.
**Remember that cutting or changing may require changing other things as well – see the big picture.
Syllables to search for:
-ly of that
Pronouns: I, he, she, etc. -ion was
Were very about
-ing By How (case sensitive)
And (case sensitive) But (case sensitive) Because (case sensitive)
To find your word count:
1. Click Tools.
2. Click Word Count.
3. Type in how many words your document is below your name.
4. Subtract 10%. The total is your goal (Draft 2 = Draft 1 – 10%).
5. Write down your goal below your current total. Meet or exceed it – don’t settle for close.
6. WHEN FINISHED, BELOW YOUR FIRST TWO NUMBERS, WRITE DOWN THE FINAL WORKD COUNT FOR YOUR DOCUMENT.
To perform the 10% Solution:
1. Click Edit.
2. Click Find.
3. Enter the syllable you are searching for.
For each syllable you search for, ask…
1. Do I keep it?
2. Do I cut it?
3. Do I change it?
*Whatever you decide, the decision should be made with this goal in mind – improving your piece.
**Remember that cutting or changing may require changing other things as well – see the big picture.
Syllables to search for:
-ly of that
Pronouns: I, he, she, etc. -ion was
Were very about
-ing By How (case sensitive)
And (case sensitive) But (case sensitive) Because (case sensitive)
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The Alchemist Reading Schedule 2010
Here is the schedule for The Alchemist. We are going to do more writing while reading this book, so you still need to be sure to balance your time well. Read everything up to and through the page number indicated on the due date.
November 16/17: Begin book.
November 24: Page 68 due.
December 6: Book due; Final seminar.
***As you read, you should take notes using the the guide sheet on Socratic Seminars. I would like you to have a minimum of a dozen items to discuss the day of the seminar.
November 16/17: Begin book.
November 24: Page 68 due.
December 6: Book due; Final seminar.
***As you read, you should take notes using the the guide sheet on Socratic Seminars. I would like you to have a minimum of a dozen items to discuss the day of the seminar.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Monday, November 15
Freshmen: Today we concluded our discussion of how documentaries are like essays. We have shifted our focus now from essays in general to specific essays; right now our focus is on narrative essays. Don't forget to finish Speak and Lord of the Flies for 11/29.
Sophomores: Today we had a seminar on the final section of The Power of One and also discussed your triple entry journals. For next period, you need to have The Alchemist and complete your peer mark assignment for your peer.
CNF: Finish chapter 2 from Freakonomics and have a dozen notes in preparation for the seminar.
Basketball: Normal practice this week - after school until 5:30. Wednesday, the bus will leave Judge at 2:50. I want everyone on it.
Sophomores: Today we had a seminar on the final section of The Power of One and also discussed your triple entry journals. For next period, you need to have The Alchemist and complete your peer mark assignment for your peer.
CNF: Finish chapter 2 from Freakonomics and have a dozen notes in preparation for the seminar.
Basketball: Normal practice this week - after school until 5:30. Wednesday, the bus will leave Judge at 2:50. I want everyone on it.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Friday, November 12
Good luck to the football team!
Freshmen: We continued to explore the notion of the documentary as the cinematic equivalent of the essay, despite your logorrhea. Read for 20 minutes this weekend - remember, both Speak and Lord of the Flies are due next week.
Sophomores: Go to turnitin.com. If you submitted a compare and contrast essay, you will have been assigned someone's at random. Read it, and make 6-12 comments on it regarding their lead, conclusion, use of citations, and anything else that jumps out at you. This is due next block period. Due Monday is The Power of One, your seminar prep, and your triple entry journal.
CNF: We began reading Chapter 2 from Freakonomics; we will finish it, and 12 notes for our seminar on Wednesday, on Monday.
Basketball: Practice is 7:55-9:45 at Judge on Saturday morning. Normal time today.
Freshmen: We continued to explore the notion of the documentary as the cinematic equivalent of the essay, despite your logorrhea. Read for 20 minutes this weekend - remember, both Speak and Lord of the Flies are due next week.
Sophomores: Go to turnitin.com. If you submitted a compare and contrast essay, you will have been assigned someone's at random. Read it, and make 6-12 comments on it regarding their lead, conclusion, use of citations, and anything else that jumps out at you. This is due next block period. Due Monday is The Power of One, your seminar prep, and your triple entry journal.
CNF: We began reading Chapter 2 from Freakonomics; we will finish it, and 12 notes for our seminar on Wednesday, on Monday.
Basketball: Practice is 7:55-9:45 at Judge on Saturday morning. Normal time today.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Tuesday, November 11/9 or Wednesday, 11/10
Freshmen: We began a study of how the documentary is the cinematic equivalent of the essay form by viewing "Spellbound." Read for 20 minutes Tuesday and Wednesday. Vocab is due Thursday.
Sophomores: Due Thursday: Vocab. Due Friday: Essay to turnitin.com. Due Monday: Finish The Power of One, your seminar prep, and your triple entry journal.
CNF: We concluded Bigger Stronger Faster and focused on Bell's thesis that cheating is simply a by-product of being an American.
Basketball: We concluded tryouts today and will post the roster tomorrow around 10 AM.
Sophomores: Due Thursday: Vocab. Due Friday: Essay to turnitin.com. Due Monday: Finish The Power of One, your seminar prep, and your triple entry journal.
CNF: We concluded Bigger Stronger Faster and focused on Bell's thesis that cheating is simply a by-product of being an American.
Basketball: We concluded tryouts today and will post the roster tomorrow around 10 AM.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Monday, November 8
Freshmen: Today we focused on schema connections. Read 20 minutes tonight and Tuesday; vocab due Thursday. Find a publisher for your essay - due in two weeks.
Sophomores: Today we focused on emerging themes in the Tao. For Thursday, finish Chapter 5 vocab. For Friday, submit your essay to turnitin.com. For Monday, have our book and your seminar prep finished.
CNF: Today we began the film Bigger, Stronger, Faster and discussed why our culture tends to view cheating in sports as worse than cheating in other areas.
Basketball: Today is the first day of tryouts; we will finish at 5:30 today and tomorrow up at Sunnyside.
Sophomores: Today we focused on emerging themes in the Tao. For Thursday, finish Chapter 5 vocab. For Friday, submit your essay to turnitin.com. For Monday, have our book and your seminar prep finished.
CNF: Today we began the film Bigger, Stronger, Faster and discussed why our culture tends to view cheating in sports as worse than cheating in other areas.
Basketball: Today is the first day of tryouts; we will finish at 5:30 today and tomorrow up at Sunnyside.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Friday, November 5
Freshmen: Today we published your essays via sharing. Read for 20 minutes; bring your copy of Models for Writers Monday.
Sophomores: Today we focused on the belief statements about Doc and Geel Piet, and also discussed the Crystal Cave as it relates to King Arthur and The Power of One. Keep reading - chapter 22 is due Monday; the book the following Monday.
CNF: Today we conducted a seminar on Who Killed the Electric Car?
Sophomores: Today we focused on the belief statements about Doc and Geel Piet, and also discussed the Crystal Cave as it relates to King Arthur and The Power of One. Keep reading - chapter 22 is due Monday; the book the following Monday.
CNF: Today we conducted a seminar on Who Killed the Electric Car?
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Thursday, November 4
Freshmen: Today we wrapped up our overview of our seven step essay process. Tonight you should focus on polishing and editing, and tomorrow we publish. Be sure to include a bibliography with your final draft - go to www.easybib.com for a simple tool you can use. I will collect your 3x5s as well as your interview/survey with your final draft. Read for 20 minutes; vocab is due next Thursday as well.
Sophomores: Today we focused on the wisdom Geel Piet and Doc. Continue to read; get your film viewed and essay written. Remember, vocab chapter 5 is due on 11/11.
CNF: Today we wrapped up our viewing/discussion of the electric car, and will have a seminar tomorrow. Bring your notes.
Sophomores: Today we focused on the wisdom Geel Piet and Doc. Continue to read; get your film viewed and essay written. Remember, vocab chapter 5 is due on 11/11.
CNF: Today we wrapped up our viewing/discussion of the electric car, and will have a seminar tomorrow. Bring your notes.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Monday, November 1
Freshmen: Today we focused on Step 6: Revision. You are to read your essay out loud to yourself with a pen in your hand and revise based on the questions posed in class today. Read for 20 minutes Monday and Tuesday. Vocab due 11/11; Letter to the Editor due 12/16; read Speak and Lord of the Flies by 11/29.
Sophomores: Today we had a seminar on the middle portion of The Power of One. Upcoming dates: Chapter 22 due 11/8; chapter 5 vocab due 11/11; essay due 11/12; finish The Power of One and final seminar prep by 11/15.
CNF: Today we began Who Killed the Electric Car? If you find out, call the local police.
Sophomores: Today we had a seminar on the middle portion of The Power of One. Upcoming dates: Chapter 22 due 11/8; chapter 5 vocab due 11/11; essay due 11/12; finish The Power of One and final seminar prep by 11/15.
CNF: Today we began Who Killed the Electric Car? If you find out, call the local police.
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