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Assignments for December 2019

 

Date Class Work Homework Due Today

Week 14

Mon

12/02

 

Writer's Workshop: Working with the prompt.

  • Identify the main idea. 

    • What idea/ideas must you absolutely address in the thesis

  • Annotate the prompt .

    • Distinguish context from directions

    • Circle verbs (do)

    • Underline direct objects (what)

  • General Do/What graph

    • What does the prompt ask for

    • Identify each step individually

  • Specific Do/What graph

    • What will I do to answer the prompt (formulate your answer)

    • Rewrite General Do/What with specifics

  • Based on today's activity, rewrite your thesis claim from your first in-class essay.  Directions:

    • Write the thesis on a separate piece of paper since you will submit it tomorrow.

    • Rewrite the original work.

    • If your thesis is so unresponsive it's unsalvageable, then you may start fresh.

    • Remember attention to syntax and diction. 

    • No run-on sentences - break it up if you need to.

 

Tues

12/03

 

The Declaration of Independence (textbook page 138) - analysis of the work as a rhetorical masterpiece (the perfect essay). 

Rhetorical considerations (time period, audience, purpose, etc.)

Preamble

Declaration of Natural Rights

List of Grievances

Resolution of Independence

  • Complete Colonial Packet.  Due on Friday.  No late work and no Redemption

  • Begin study for Unit Test on Friday.

Rewritten thesis claim fro first in-class essay.

Wed

12/04

Some more of that nasty Do/What Stuff

  • Complete Colonial Packet.  Due on Friday.  No late work and no Redemption

  • Begin study for Unit Test on Friday.

 

Thurs

12/05

 

An Omission from the Declaration (pkt. 28)

"Was the Sage a Hypocrite" (Reading Packet p. 29)

 

Voices of The Other:

"Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" (1784) by Ben Franklin (pkt. 24)

 

READ: "Letters from John and Abigail Adams" (pkt. 31)

Phillis Wheatley's letter to Reverend Samson Occum (pkt. 32)

  • Complete Colonial Packet.  Due on Friday

  • Begin study for Unit Test on Friday

 

 

Fri

12/06

Unit Test

  • Bring to class on Monday:

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • The Scarlet Letter Homework Packet

    • The Scarlet Letter Reading Packet (Word or PDF)

Colonial Packet

Week 15

Mon

12/09

Let's meet in the library

Second CAASP Interim Assessment Block (IAB) Listen/Interpret

  • Bring to class every day:

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • The Scarlet Letter Homework Packet (Word) or (PDF).  

    • The Scarlet Letter Reading Packet (Word or PDF)

 

Tues

12/10

Vocab 6a Deno/Conno

 

 

  • Bring to class every day:

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • The Scarlet Letter Homework Packet (Word) or (PDF).  

    • The Scarlet Letter Reading Packet (Word or PDF)

 

Wed

12/11

Journal 7a:

Do you believe mankind is basically "good" or is mankind more prone to evil?  You must commit to one or the other choice.  Make sure you support your opinion with at least two examples from history.

 

The importance of exposition - read chapters 1 and 2. Discuss setting, mood, and tone.  What does your knowledge of the Puritans add to your understanding of character?

 

The Scarlet Letter

Exposition - setting context for the work to unfold:

"The Prison Door": Mood and tone.

How does the author create this mood?  Emerging themes?

  • Bring to class every day:

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • The Scarlet Letter Homework Packet (Word) or (PDF).  

    • The Scarlet Letter Reading Packet (Word or PDF)

  • The opening chapter of a novel might be the most important chapter of work.  These first words help acquaint the reader with the world of the novel, provide a certain emotional or physical environment, and offer a voice and a tone to the work.  How does Nathaniel Hawthorne create this world? Please use a Reader's Response to answer this question and please construct your response with a full thesis claim.  Look to your past Reader's Response to evolve your response. Due Friday, December 13.

 

Thurs

12/12

The Scarlet Letter

The Biggest Sinner Group Activity Present

 

  • Study for Vocab 6a Quiz (see Quizlet)

  • Bring to class every day:

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • The Scarlet Letter Homework Packet (Word) or (PDF).  

    • The Scarlet Letter Reading Packet (Word or PDF)

  • The opening chapter of a novel might be the most important chapter of work.  These first words help acquaint the reader with the world of the novel, provide a certain emotional or physical environment, and offer a voice and a tone to the work.  How does Nathaniel Hawthorne create this world? Please use a Reader's Response to answer this question and please construct your response with a full thesis claim.  Look to your past Reader's Response to evolve your response. Due Friday, December 13.

 

Fri

12/13

Vocab 6a Quiz

Peer review for Readers Response

  • Bring to class every day:

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • The Scarlet Letter Homework Packet (Word) or (PDF).  

    • The Scarlet Letter Reading Packet (Word or PDF)

Reader's Response due.

Week 16

Mon

12/16

 

The Scarlet Letter

The Biggest Sinner Group Activity Preparation

 

  • Bring to class every day:

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • The Scarlet Letter Homework Packet (Word) or (PDF).  

    • The Scarlet Letter Reading Packet (Word or PDF)

 

Tues

12/17

The Scarlet Letter

The Biggest Sinner Group Activity - Presentation:

Opening arguments

Debate and Tag-out

Closing remarks

  • Bring to class every day:

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • The Scarlet Letter Homework Packet (Word) or (PDF).  

    • The Scarlet Letter Reading Packet (Word or PDF)

 

Weds

12/18

Vocab 7a Deno/Conno

 

Journal 8a

Yesterday our class debated who ranks as the biggest sinner in The Scarlet Letter.  What did you learn from this activity on an academic level?   What did you learn on a personal level?

 

The Scarlet Letter

Moral Wilderness Project

Unit-T

Thesis Claim

Cite Evidence

Mean/Matter with rhetoric.

  • Bring to class every day:

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • The Scarlet Letter Homework Packet (Word) or (PDF).  

    • The Scarlet Letter Reading Packet (Word or PDF)

  • Consider your assigned character for the Biggest Sinner debate.  What is that character's sin.  How is that sin symbolically represented? Please use a Reader's Response to answer this question and please construct your response with a full thesis claim.  Look to your past Reader's Response to inform your response. Due Friday, December 20.

 

Thurs

12/19

The Scarlet Letter

Moral Wilderness Project

  • Bring to class every day:

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • The Scarlet Letter Homework Packet (Word) or (PDF).  

    • The Scarlet Letter Reading Packet (Word or PDF)

  • Study for Vocab 7a Quiz (see Quizlet)

  • Consider your assigned character for the Biggest Sinner debate.  What is that character's sin.  How is that sin symbolically represented? Please use a Reader's Response to answer this question and please construct your response with a full thesis claim.  Look to your past Reader's Response to inform your response. Due Friday, December 20.

 

Fri

12/20

Vocab 7a Quiz

Moral Wilderness Project

  • Bring to class every day:

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • The Scarlet Letter Homework Packet (Word) or (PDF).  

    • The Scarlet Letter Reading Packet (Word or PDF)

 
Reader's Response due

Winter Recess

December 23 - January 3