June 12

Yo yo yo. If you're doing the comparison assignment, it needs to be complete by tomorrow at 7 p.m.

Final Blog Assignment.

Hey guys. I hope you enjoy the last week of school. Here is the final extra credit assignment (you need to follow the instructions to receive any credit).

Compose a blog post in which you compare and contrast Othello and Tangled. You must include:
1. Topic sentences.
2. A discussion of the motif of envy in both the play and the film.
3. A discussion of chiaroscuro in the film and the play (look up what this term means and use the term).
4. A discussion of theme.
5. SPECIFIC examples from both the film and the play.

FRIDAY

1. Grammar Review
2. Workshop
3. Othello

Homework:
1. Final drafts due Monday; please turn in to turnitin.com by Tuesday evening.
2. Grammar final on Tuesday. :)

Wednesday

Readin' (act 1, scene iii) and rappin'



Homework:
1. Blog the first 10 sentences of one vignette.
2. Rough Drafts due tomorrow at the end of class.

Tuesday May 29

Today in class we did the following:
1. Review lit terms
2. Lit terms test
3. Quick-write
4. Othello: Act 1 scene i

Homework:
1. Finish grammar packet
2. Work on vignette
3. Vignette RD due at end of class on Thursday! :)

Friday May 25

1. Coding coding coding
2. Finish posters
3. Creative writing assignment

Homework:
1. Permission slips
2. Bring ID for Tuesday
3. Finish Joy Luck Club
4. LIT TERMS QUIZ TUESDAY

Weds. 5/23

1. Grammar Mammar.
2. Phillip's IOP
3. Questions on the first half of "American Translation".
4. Read "Without Wood".

Homework: Read the next vignette... :)

Tuesday

Today in class we did:
1. Grammar
2. Coding part of "The Voice from the Wall"
3. IOPS
Homework: Read "Rice Husbands" and "Four Directions"

Friday May 18

Today in class we had more I.O.P.s... HOORAY


Homework:
1. Read "2 Kinds".
2. Then, on your blog, write a three sentence summary of EACH story in the 26 Malignant Gates section (12 sentences total). The stories you need to summarize are: "Rules of the Game", "The Voice from the Wall", "Half and Half" and "Two Kinds".

Have a great weekend and good luck to anyone competing in the Sparrow Bowl this evening!

May 16 and May 17

WEDNESDAY:
Today in class we did the following:
1. I.O.P.s
2. Started coding Joy Luck elements.
Homework: Read "Moon Lady", prepare for quiz on first four vignettes (tomorrow).

THURSDAY:
1. Grammar
2. Quiz
3. Finish coding the passage
4. Read "Rules of the Game" together
Homework: Read "Voice from the Wall" and "Half and Half"

Monday 5/14

Today in class we had IOPs and began Joy Luck Club.

Homework:
Read "Joy Luck Club" (the first vignette)

May 9: Wednesday

Today in class we did IOP work.

***JUSTIFICATIONS DUE FRIDAY***

JUSTIFICATION INFO

Organization of Justification (USE THE HEADINGS LIKE I DO):

Thesis:

Give your thesis hear. Remember: what, how, effect.

Justification:

This is where you present a justification for your presentation. Consider: why did you choose the IOP format you did? What aspects of the text are you highlighting? How are you helping elucidate the author’s effect? **YOU MUST INCLUDE 5 quotations from the text in this justification AND these quotations must connect to your thesis.**

Score:

Give yourself a score for every category on the rubric and explain the score.

IOP INFO

Organizing Your IOP…

-Presentation should be organized.

Role Play/Creative Piece:

1.Introduce your topic (give us your thesis statement).

2.Present your creative piece.

3.Explain your justification, including a discussion of the text.

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Expose:

1.Introduce your topic WITH A HOOK!

2.Give your thesis.

3.Explain the points of your presentation. Your presentation should be broken up into points, like an essay. (For example: cars in Gatsby: break it up by cars).

4.Include a discussion of effect at the end.

**Remember to move through your visual aids as you go.

Tuesday the 8th of May

1. Grammar 8
2. Make posters.
3. Notes on posters.
4. Joy Luck. Start reading.

Homework:
IOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday May 3rd

We did grammar 7 and a timed writing today.
Your books need to be finished, with final book assignments completed for tomorrow.

Wednesday May 2

Today in class we did the following:
1. Discussed effect
2. Discussed paragraph structure for timed writing
3. Look at an example paragraph
4. Wrote outlines
5. Read

Homework:
Write a sentence on your blog for each of the following words: arid, assiduous, asylum, benevolent, camaraderie, censure, circuitous, clairvoyant, collaborate, compassion
AND... FINISH YOUR BOOKS FOR FRIDAY! :)

MAY 1 :)

Today in class we...
1. Did grammar 6.
2. Took a vocab quiz (SAT words 1-10)
3. Presented posters

Homework:
1. Bring books for tomorrow.
2. Finish books for FRIDAY!!!!!! Also, complete your last two assignments.

April 30

Today in class you finished posters, completed 3rd book group discussions.
Homework:
Assignments on 3rd 1/4 of the book due tomorrow.
Vocab Quiz Tomorrow.

****FINISH YOUR BOOKS FOR FRIDAY! :)

FRIDAY :)

Today in class we reviewed our 2nd Yeats poem. Then, we started group posters on choice reading books.
The posters should include:
1. Three examples of each motif
2. An effect for each motif
3. A character web: 10 characters, their relationships, 3 illustrations.

April 26

1. Review Grammar!
2. Group Meeting #2
3. Group Evaluation #2


Homework:
1. Next 1/3 of your book for Monday.
2. S.A.T. Vocab Quiz: Monday!

Monday April 23rd

HOORAY FOR MONDAY!!
Today in class we did the following:
1. Common usage (grammar packet p. 2)
2. Dashes (grammar packet p. 3)
3.  SAT Vocab Part 1: definitions and sentences
4. RIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :)



Homework:
1. Finish the 2nd quarter of your reading and 2 more assignments for Wednesday.
2. Don't forget to forecast!!! 
 INSPIRATION:

 

Wednesday April 18th

Today in class we...
1. Finished coding "Easter 1916"
2. Discussed the effect of paradox in the poem
3. Did a "write-like" for W.B. Yeats (seven lines including repetition, alliteration, allusion and imagery).
4. FORECASTING!!!!!!!!!!!

Homework:
YOUR GROUP MEETING IS TOMORROW. READ AND COMPLETE YOUR ASSIGNMENTS. :)

TAB!

DON'T FORGET TO TAB WHILE YOU'RE READING :)

Tuesday April 17th

Today in class we did the following:
1. Grammar Quarter 4 Pre-Test
2. Discussed poetic elements: rhyme, meter, etc. and "how to read a poem" (both hand-outs)
3. Read and coded the first two stanzas of Yeats' "Easter 1916".

Homework:
Keep reading your choice novels; your reading and your first two assignments need to be completed by Thursday. Our first group discussion will happen Thursday.

Monday 4/16

READ THE FIRST 1/4 OF YOUR CHOICE BOOK BY THURSDAY AND COMPLETE YOUR ASSIGNMENTS (BASED ON THE ROLES YOU SIGNED UP FOR).

The Great Gatsby
(You'll be tabbing: colors, setting, symbols)

The Color Purple
(You'll be tabbing: colors, clothing, symbols)

Catcher in the Rye
(You'll be tabbing references/allusions, setting, symbols)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
(You'll be tabbing: religion, dreams, symbols)

Animal Farm
(You'll be tabbing: rhetoric, music, symbols)

A Clockwork Orange
(You'll be tabbing: slang, media, symbols)

Wednesday

Today you turned in your essays. Yippy skippy!

We also did the following in class:
1. Introduction to Yeats
2. Introduction to Easter Uprising
3. "The Wind That Shakes the Barley"
4. Checked out bookie wooks.

Homework:
1. Bring reading books for Monday. See me if you need help getting one.
2. Re-writes will be due Monday. Hooray! :)

SUMMARIES

Click on the following titles to view the summaries:

The Great Gatsby
(You'll be tabbing: colors, setting, symbols)

The Color Purple
(You'll be tabbing: colors, clothing, symbols)

Catcher in the Rye
(You'll be tabbing references/allusions, setting, symbols)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
(You'll be tabbing: religion, dreams, symbols)

Animal Farm
(You'll be tabbing: rhetoric, music, symbols)

A Clockwork Orange
(You'll be tabbing: slang, media, symbols)

Monday 4/9

Today in class we did the following:
1. Grammar Review
2. Literary Present Practice
3. Writer's Workshops


Homework:
1. Study for your grammar test tomorrow.
2. Final drafts due Wednesday.

4/6

Today in class we did the following:
1. Grammar Review
2. Introductions... hooray!!!

Remember...

-Essay rough draft 4/9
-Final draft 4/11
-Grammar final 4/10

April 4

Today in class:
We turned in assignments and started our Cry essays.
Tomorrow, I will check your essay prep/thesis.

DUE DATES:
1. Rough drafts due Monday.
2. Final drafts due Wednesday April 11, 2012.
3. Re-writes due Monday April 16, 2012.
4. Grammar Final: Tuesday April 10, 2012.

Wednesday's Homework:

Code the following passage ON YOUR BLOG. You must include an identification of at least 5 different techniques and code at least 15 examples (not of each technique but distributed between the 5 you choose). Remember to consider: figurative language, repetition, sentence structure, structure of the passage, point of view, punctuation, dialogue, characterization, etc. YOU MUST CREATE A KEY TO RECEIVE CREDIT.


Note: This means you'll have to copy and paste the passage on your blog and then color code the different techniques you find. You can also make things bold, underlined, highlighted, whatever. BUT DO NOT FORGET A KEY.



Passage:
Jarvis sat, deeply moved. Whether because this was his son, whether because this was almost the last act of his son, he could not say. Whether because there was some quality in the words, that too he could not say, for he had given little time in his life to the savouring and judging of words. Whether because there was some quality in the ideas, that too he could not say, for he had given little time to study of these particular matters. He rose and went up the stairs to his room, and was glad to find his wife not there, for here was a sequence not to be interrupted. He picked up the Abraham Lincoln and went down to the study again, and there opened the book at the Second Inaugural Address of the great president. He read it through, and felt with a sudden lifting of the spirit that here was a secret unfolding, a track picked up again. There was increasing knowledge of a stranger. He began to understand why the picture of this man was in the house of his son, and the multitude of books.

Extra Credit Opportunity.

If you'd like extra credit, make a blog post addressing the following prompt.


How does Paton characterize the gender's differently in this novel? What is the effect of this difference? Do you think it is fair?

To receive extra credit you must include:
1. At least 11 sentences, including a topic sentence.
2. Two correctly introduce and cited quotations from the text.
3. A semicolon.
4. A clear explanation of the effect.

3/19

Today in class we did the following:
1. Review for state reading test
2. Discussed Cry 18-25
3. Tabbing Posters:
Create a Poster:
1. Find four examples of racism or gender roles (evenly distributed through the book) and put them on a poster.
2. Explain how Paton develops your motif.
3. Explain the theme Paton points to using the motif (it cannot be something lame like "racism is bad").


Homework: NONE!

**STATE READING TEST TOMORROW IN ROOM 422**

Tuesday March 13th

Today in class we did the following:
1. Grammar 8/Indie Clause Review
2. Discussed yesterday's hand-out
3. Quiz x 2

Homework:
Read 18-25 for Monday Monday Monday. HAPPY SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday March 12

Today in class you...
1. Took a state practice test
2. Finished Kony
3. Did 11-15 handouts for Cry

HOMEWORK:
1. You have a test on Cry Book 1 tomorrow as well as your Cry vocab. That means you need to finish reading Book 1 and study your vocab.

3/8

Today in class we...
Read Chapter 10 and did a vocab/plot review.

Homework: Read 11 and 12.

March 7, 2012

Today in class we had our final presentation, began the reflective statement and took our 5-9 quiz.

Homework:
1. Reflective statements due Thursday (not on blog... please bring in to class).
2. Rewrites due Friday.
3. Next Tuesday: you will have a Book 1 Quiz and a Vocab Quiz.

March 6, 2012

Today we had groups 4-7 present.

Please read 5-9 in Cry for tomorrow. There will be a quiz.

March 5

Group presentations 1-4

Homework:
Read 5-9 BY WEDNESDAY. There will be a quiz and your tabs will be checked.
Re-writes due Friday.

3/2

Today in class we...
1. Worked on Cry vocab (quiz next Friday)
2. Took a 1-4 quiz on Cry
3. Character Web/Illustrate one of the settings, using the author's description.

Homework:
Journal: How does Paton develop gender roles in the novels? How are the genders treated differently by Paton? How are the genders treated differently by South African society? What are the effects of these differences? Use at least two examples from the text in your answer.

Thursday 3/1

Happy March!!!
Today in class you...
-Did grammar #7
-Studied Cry Vocab
-Read Ch. 3
-Finished Power of One

Homework: READ CHAPTER 4 FOR TOMORROW. YOU WILL HAVE A QUIZ...

Tuesday February 28th

Group projects are due Monday (1-4) and Tuesday (5-8). When you present you must turn in your one page, single-spaced answer to your question (including your SIX sources).

Late LOTF papers are due Wednesday (with a late pass).

Monday February 27th

Today in class we did the following:
1. Read "Read Like a Professor"
2. Page 1 of Cry: practice tabbing, code the text
3. Work time: interactive oral presentations


Homework:
**TURN IN YOUR PAPER TO TURNITIN.COM by 11:59 p.m. (or use a late pass)

Groups 1-4: Present on Wednesday
Groups 5-8: Present on Thursday

Some information on the paper.

1. Use MLA formatting. Use the following as a guideline:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

2. Use the literary present. When you talk about the novel, use the present tense.


3. Contextualize your essay. Give us a brief intro to the book in your intro.


4. Have fun.


5. Turn it in to turnitin.com
ID: 4896258
PW: Glitterpony1

Power Structures

For tonight's journal, discuss how power is gained and maintained by particular individuals in The Lord of the Flies and The Power of One.
Consider:
1. Who is in control.
2. How these individuals took control.
3. How these individuals maintain control.
4. How the power structure is or is not destroyed.

Thursday 2/23

NEWS

1. Papers due MONDAY. You need to turn in a paper copy in class and turn it in to turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m. Monday night.

2. Journal for TOMORROW (on your blog): How are the power structures in Lord of the Flies different from those in The Power of One? How are they different? Be specific. Write at least 8 sentences.

3. Bring your ID tomorrow; bring tabs for Monday.

4. Interactive orals will start next Wednesday.

Papers and Papers and Papers and Papers

Hope your papers are going well. Remember each body paragraph should include:
1. Topic Sentence
2. Quote Introduction
3. Quote
4. Explanation of WHY quote is an example of the technique you're talking about.
5. Analysis of effect
6. More analysis


Email me at amanning@ttsd.k12.or.us if you have questions.

Thursday 2/16

Today in class we did the following:
1. Semi-colons
2. Using quotations
3. MLA
4. Green outline papers

Homework:
-Finish green papers
-Finish dictionaries

Each paragraph needs:
1. Topic sentence
2. Context for quotation
3. Quotation
4. Analysis of the quotation. Discuss the specific language of the text (PARSE EACH WORD). Be sure to explain why the quotation is an example of the specific technique you mention.
5. More analysis
6. More analysis
7. EFFECT!!


**Remember, you can either connect to theme in EACH body paragraph or use a paragraph at the end.

Wednesday 2/15

Today we started our paper... hooray!
We discussed:
1. Key Passage 8
2. How to make a thesis statement
3. Coding the text.

**By tomorrow, please be sure you've coded your key passage AND selected two or three critical elements that you think you'd like to discuss in your essay.

**Remember: all re-writes need to be completed by Friday; see me to schedule a time.

Tuesday February 14th

Today in class we did the following:
1. Finish technique posters and present.
2. Code the text: key passage 6
3. Tone tone tone tone tone tone tone tone?

Homework:
1. Identify 20 examples of techniques in either passage 7 or passage 9. Code the text and create a key.
2. Work on dictionaries (due Friday).

Friday February 10th

This weekend's homework (to be done on your blog):
1. Choose a key passage (either 2, 3, 4 or 5).
2. Find a symbol in your key passage and CITE a part of the text discussing the symbol.
3. Explain the effect of the symbol
4. Try to connect to a theme.


Happy weekend. Go Nuggets.

Today we took a grammar pre-test, practice apostrophes, discussed Passage 1, discussed theme (and got a theme handout) and practiced identifying themes.

**REMINDER: Please come in Monday after school if you want to re-write your essay; if that time doesn't work, see me to schedule another one.

Wednesday 2/8

What we did in class:
1. Page 1 Discussion
2. Writing about effects...
3. Partner practice with effects.
4. IB Learner profile

Homework:
Find an element or technique in the first key passage. Then, write a paragraph identifying the technique and explaining its effect. Your paragraph should be at least 7 sentences in length. Post the paragraphs on your blog before class starts tomorrow.

Remember:

• Embrace the fact that you have already read the entire book. Draw from other parts of the book to inform your analysis of the effect.
• Don't stop asking "what is the effect of this" until you absolutely can not dig any deeper. For example: Alliteration. What is the effect of this? Creates a rhythmic sound. What is the effect of this? Mirrors the sound of the ocean. What is the effect of this? Highlights the water locked setting. What is the effect of this? Associates the rhythmic consistency of the ocean to the programed nature of humans to follow a pattern. What is the effect of this? Creates an almost trance like mood. What is the effect of this? Develops the theme that human nature will always revert to a natural and instinctual pattern of behavior.

Here's an example from your academic tutor:

“Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. […] The naked crooks of his knees were plump, caught and scratched by thorns. He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat. He came forward, searching out safe lodgments for his feet, and then looked up through thick spectacles”

S – Alliteration:

C – Alliteration:

Th – Repetition:

Diction/tone – Adjectives that indicate disability/weakness:

All of the negative attitudes describing Piggy on the first page serve two purposes. First, it makes him unrelatable/unappealing to the reader. As Piggy will eventually progress to be the icon of the civilization we would like to hold as valuable, being described negatively makes that ideal more distant, demonstrating that our civilization isn’t as inherent as we would like it to be. Secondly, focusing on disabilities largely found in ‘developed’ societies, Golding identifies Piggy with all the weaknesses of the modern world. Being “plump” and having “thick spectacles” shows how Piggy is dependant on society to treat his shortcomings.

New Blog Set-Up Instructions

For those of you having trouble with the blog; please try using the following instructions (they're a bit different).

How to set up the blog...

1. Go to blogspot.com

2. Login in using your TTSD account. Your username is your esis login@ttsdstudents.org (example: 12amanning@ttsdstudents.org). Your password is your student ID number.

3. Click “continue”

4. Click “new blog”

5. Assign a title and domain name for your blog. Save your information.

6. Find my blog and follow it.

7 Email me your blog address. amanning@ttsd.k12.or.us

Tuesday February 7th

Today in class we completed the LOTF essays and began an analysis of the first page of Chapter 1.


Homework: Mark important authorial choices from the first page of Chapter 1 (on the paper, not in your book). Authorial choices can be ANYTHING. Here's what you could consider/mark:
-Figurative Language
-Sentence Structure
-Use of color
-Punctuation
-How each character is introduced
-Use of dialogue
-Narrative voice
Do not limit yourself to this list. Mark at least 15 choices.

Blog Set-Up

How to set up the blog...

1. Go to blogspot.com

2. Login in using your TTSD account. Your username is your esis login@ttsdstudents.org (example: 12amanning@ttsdstudents.org). Your password is your student ID number.

3. Click “continue”

4. Click “new blog”

5. Assign a title and domain name for your blog. Save your information.

6. Find my blog and follow it.

7 Email me your blog address. amanning@ttsd.k12.or.us

Journaling Rules

1. This journal should be for Advanced English 10 ONLY.
2. Do not put any personal information on your blog.
3. Do not put pictures on your blog.
4. Be ware of creepy people.
5. Never post anything inappropriate in your blog. Never post anything mean in your blog. Do not break school rules. Ask yourself: "would Kim Kardashian approve of what I'm posting?"; if the answer is yes, DO NOT POST.
6. Be sure to completely answer the prompt.
7. Prompts will be posted by 3 p.m. Your blog entry will be due BEFORE class starts the next day. Late entries will receive 1/2 credit.
8. Do not copy other people's blogs. This will result in a failing grade for the ENTIRE journal assignment. At the end of each quarter, you will copy and paste your entire blog into turnitin.com

First Day

HOMEWORK:
1. Have your parents fill out the google permission form:
https://sites.google.com/a/ttsd.k12.or.us/google-permission-form/

2. Set up your own Advanced English blog.

3. Become a follower to this blog.

4. Email Mrs. Manning your blog address at amanning@ttsd.k12.or.us

5. Complete the questions on the disclosure document and have your parents sign.

6. Prepare for the Lord of the Flies essay tomorrow.