Thursday-Friday: May 22-23, 2014
We reviewed pronoun selection.
DQs:
Evaluating Reb:
- How did he do raising Danny?
- Is he a good father?
Whole-book questions:
- What is a tzaddik?
- What does it mean to be a friend?
- What is the function of silence?
- Web Page
- Close Reading: Pages 46-51
- WN: Hasidism in America
- Hasidic History and Danny Saunders
- Four Characters and Four Themes
- You and the Book
Objective test on The Chosen.
Pagetracker for The Chosen turned in.
Review: Three Pronoun Rules:
- Subject (nominative)
- Object (objective)
- Follows “to be” (nominative)
We added “who” to the nominative list and “whom” to the objective list.
Nominative Case
Or Pronouns that are Subjects
|
Objective Case
Or Pronouns that are Objects
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I
He
She
We
They
Who
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Me
Him
Her
Us
Them
Whom
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2nd Page on Pronouns (pages 168-169 & 174-175) (see file #59). This is part of the packet given out last class for which there is a link. We did the 25 sentences in the Chapter 8 Review on pages 174-175.
You and the Book (see file #60). Or click here. Fill this in for chapters 14-15. Thursday: May 15, 2014
Sentence Parts: We finished marking everything in Practice Sentences #5.
We watched Part IV of Hasidism in America. If you were absent, search for the series on Youtube.com and watch Part IV. Or click here. Take notes on the Hasidism in America chart.
DQs:
What is Danny struggling with?
What broader issues are boiling over?Tuesday: May 13, 2014
Sentence Parts: We talked about helping verbs and marked everything in the first ten sentences of Practice Sentences #5.
DQ: Analyze and describe Danny’s situation in chapters 8-9.
Four Characters; Four Themes Friday: May 9, 2014
Sentence
Parts Packet: We
identified linking or action verbs and direct objects or compliments in practice
sentences #1 & #2 in the grammar packet.
We
watched Part III of Hasidism in America. If you were absent, search for the series on
Youtube.com and watch Part III. Or click here. Take notes on the Hasidism in America chart.
DQ: Is Reb Saunders a great man?
We watched the intro to Fiddler
on the Roof.
Wednesday: May 7, 2014
DQ: Who is Danny Saunders? (based
on chapters 3-4)
We
watched Part II of Hasidism in America.
If you were absent, search for the series on Youtube.com and watch Part II. Or click here. Take notes on the Hasidism in America chart.
Hasidic
History and Danny Saunders
Using two sheets of printer paper
folded in half, create a brochure that presents the information David Malter
relays to his son, Reuven, in trying to explaining Danny Saunders. Include the
following:
- Front Cover: that presents the overall theme.
- Six Informational Sections: Each with a topical theme; each with bullet points (6) or explanatory paragraphs (2).
- Back Cover: Present a Claim and Three Sub-claims of your own about Danny based on the information in your brochure.
The Six Informational Sections:
- Poland
- The Chmielnicki Uprising
- A Guy Named Israel
- The Ba’al Shem Tov (same guy)
- Tzaddiks
- Solomon or Maimon
Monday: May 5, 2014
SAGE
testing.
Chapters 5-6 in The Chosen should be read by next time.Thursday: May 1, 2014
SAGE testing.
Chapter 4 in The Chosen should be read by next time.
Sentence Parts: Add this information to your packet on pages 3-4.
Linking Verbs
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Be Verbs
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Sense Verbs
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G.R.A.B.S
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Be
Been
Being
Is
Am
Are
Was
Were
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Look
Smell
Taste
Feel
Sound |
Grow
Remain
Appear
Become
Seem
|
Helping Verbs
| ||||||
Be
Been
Being
Is
Am
Are
Was
Were
|
Do
Does
Did
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Have
Has
Had
|
Will
Would
|
Can
Could
|
Shall
Should
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May
Might
Must
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We identified prepositional phrases in practice sentences #2.
WN: Hasidism in America
Use one full page for this. Today we watched Part I of Hasidism in America. If you were absent, search for the series on Youtube.com and watch Part I. (Or click here.) Take notes in your Writers Notebook using the table below.
Part I
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Part II
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Part III
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Part IV
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DQ:
What feel do we get for Reuven’s personality in chapter 2?
Close Reading: Pages 46-51
(Use two full pages in your WN.)
Details (words, phrases, sentences)
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Meaning (connotation, denotation, character development, interpretations)
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Four Complex Observations:
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Friday: April 25, 2014
SentenceParts Packet (see file #56). We marked prepositional phrases in practice sentences #1.
VideoClip of Oprah visiting a family of Hasidic Jews.
Web Page
· On a blank sheet of paper, design what could be an opening page for a web site presenting the information on pages 3-5 in chapter one.
· Provide “links” on the opening page.
· On the back, put the content for the links.
DQ:
What is the significance of the baseball game in chapter 1?
Wednesday: April 23, 2014
Things
Fall Apart
Packet for 4th Period:
- WN: What drives Okonkwo?
- WN: Figuring out Okonkwo
- WN: Informational Essay Brainstorming
- WN: Okonkwo's Dilemma
- Three Men--Three Levels of Enlightenment
- WN: Okonkwo Thinks
- One Man's Outcast is another Man's Convert or The Clan vs. Christianity
Pagetracker for The Chosen (see file #55).
Monday: April 21, 2014
SAGE Testing.
Wednesday-Thursday, April 16-17, 2014
WN: Okonkwo Thinks
It was noted earlier that, “Okonkwo was not a man of thought but of action” (69). Using at least four direct quotes from pages 152-153, analyze the quality of Okonkwo’s reflections. Is he thinking deeply or just reacting? Is he thoughtful or just impulsive? Is this a step forward or backward for Okonkwo as a thinker? 3/4 of a page.
"One Man's Outcast is another Man's Convert" or "The Clan vs. Christianity" (see file #54)
Tuesday, April 14, 2014
WN: Okonkwo's Dilemma
What do we learn about Okonkwo from the way he deals with his banishment? (three paragraphs, three observations, ¾ of a page)
Three Men--Three Levels of Enlightenment (see file #53)
We read chapter 17 together in class.
Friday: April 4, 2014
WN:
Informational Essay Brainstorming
Based on the events of chapters
10-13, write an informational essay in which you explain how Ibo culture is
defined by its:
- Law
- Religion/Superstition
- Ceremony & Ritual
Details
|
Larger
Observations
|
Concluding
Statement
|
Law
|
||
Religion/Superstition
|
||
Ceremony &
Ritual
|
||
Overall complex
statement concerning all three categories:
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Wednesday: April 2, 2014
Review
of major events in chapters 7-9.
WN:
Figuring out Okonkwo
Based on the events of chapters
7-9:
Actions of
Okonkwo (10)
|
What seems to
drive him (6)
|
Claims (4)
|
Overall complex
claim about Okonkwo:
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Monday: March 31, 2014
Review of major events from
chapters 1-6.
We listened to an audio of
chapter 7.Thursday: March 27, 2014
SAGE testing continued during class time.
Keep up on the reading schedule for Things Fall Apart. For Friday you should read the Day #2 assignment, which is chapters 4-6.
WN: What drives Okonkwo?
Include:
- A claim
- Two sub-claims
- A counter-claim
- A rebuttal
Evidence (4)
|
Sub-claim (2)
|
Claim (1)
|
Evidence
|
Counter-claim
| |
Evidence
|
Rebuttal
| |
Write out: Your three support paragraphs. Do not write an intro or conclusion.
Tuesday: March 25, 2014
First day of SAGE state testing.
In Things Fall Apart, complete the first day’s reading assignment
(chapters 1-3) for next class.Friday: March 21, 2014
Poetry Packet turned in:
- The poems heavily annotated
- Poetry Close Reading forms (2)
- WN: Madness (fire) and the Wall
- WN: “Say Not the Struggle…” quiz
Quiz on “Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth”
Poetry test
Check out copies of Things Fall Apart
Pagetracker for Things Fall Apart (see file #52).
Thursday: March 20, 2014
DQ:
What epitomizes Emily Dickinson’s poetry? What themes, what attitudes, what poetic devices, what personality?
Epitomize: To be typical of.
We explicated “Terrance This Is Stupid Stuff”
Background/Foundation:
· The poem is a conversation between Terence and his friends.
· A. E. Housman 1859-1936
· English classicist (scholar of ancient Greek and Latin), poet, ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time.
We explicated the following poems in groups using another sheet of Poetry Close Reading and then shared the information with the class. You should do enough Poetry Close Readings to fill up two of the sheets.
Explicate one of the following poems:
Tuesday: March 18, 2014Explicate one of the following poems:
- “Departmental” by Robert Frost
- “Our Hold on the Planet” by Robert Frost
- “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy” Evening by Robert Frost
- “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman
- “A Noiseless, Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman
- “O Captain! My Captain!” (about the death of Abraham Lincoln) by Walt Whitman
- “If You Were Coming in the Fall” by Emily Dickinson
- "We Learned the Whole of Love” by Emily Dickinson
- “The Naked and the Nude” by Robert Graves
Note:
Bring headphones
next week for use during the SAGE test.
Explicate
& Memorize:
“Say Not the Struggle Naught
Availeth”
Memorize this poem: Quiz Thursday; test Friday.
We
explicated “The Naked and the Nude”.
Argument
Essay with New Texts:
Write an argument essay in
response the prompt at the top of your Google Drive “Greeks” document.
Fire and Ice quiz—If you were absent, make this up with me as soon as possible.
Poetry Terms: We filled this in.
Much Madness is Divinest Sense: We read and took notes on this poem.
Mending Wall: We read and took notes on this poem.
WN: Madness and the Wall
Organize an argument essay that responds to the following prompt: What do “Much Madness” and “Mending Wall”
suggest is the root source of conflict between people?
Evidence (4)
|
Sub-claim (2)
|
Claim (1)
|
Evidence
|
Sub-claim
|
Counter-claim
|
Evidence
|
Sub-claim
|
Rebuttal
|
Wednesday: March 12, 2014
Sage
Practice: We did
a practice test for the upcoming SAGE state language arts test. If you were
absent, you should go to: Sageportal.org and take the 10th grade writing and
reading tests to familiarize yourself with the feel of the test.
Assignment:
Read the rest of
the Robert Frost poems and annotate in a way that demonstrates your
understanding of the poems.Monday: March 10, 2014
Test
on Fahrenheit 451
Sophomore
Writer’s Notebook for Fahrenheit 451
1.
Pages
3-24 Themes
2.
WN:
Pages 24-48 Claims
3.
WN:
Bradbury Video Notes and Quotes
4.
Against
the Tyrants of Imagination (marked)
5.
Highlights
from Plato’s Cave
6.
WN:
Plato and Fahrenheit
7.
WN:
Montag’s Leap
8.
WN:
Fire, the Chase, Men as Books
9.
Themes:
Fahrenheit 451
We started a poetry unit.
· Read and annotate the first three poems by Robert Frost.
· We did not use this, yet.
· We did not use this, yet.
DQs:
What are the prominent themes in
pages 145-165? Cite passages.
What is Bradbury’s final
statement? Is it optimistic or pessimistic?
WN:
Fire, the Chase, Men as Books
Re-read pages 145-152 and
complete an Idea-Build that includes 2 evidences and 1 sub-claim for each of
the three sections mentioned above. Then come up with an overall claim for all
three sections.
Evidence (6)
|
Sub-claims (3)
|
Claim (1)
|
DQs:
·
What
do we learn about Montag by his stop at Mr. Black’s house?
·
.
. . by his last visit with Faber?
·
Explain
significant aspects of the transformation Montag experiences as he flees the
city.
WN:
Montag’s Leap
After leaving Faber’s house, Montag
continues to undergo a great transformation. Comment on images and thoughts that
help describe that transformation on pages 139-145.
Images/Thoughts
|
What meaning they
convey
|
DQ:
What can we conclude about
Beatty’s and Montag’s values from their actions in pages 110-129?
Essay
Topic:
What do Fahrenheit 451 and Plato’s cave allegory say about human nature?
Must
do:
·
Come
up with a cool claim! One claim that synthesizes the ideas of both texts.
·
Multiple
sub-claims/support paragraphs.
·
Minimum
3 quotes from Fahrenheit and 3 from Plato.
·
Claim and sub-claims in blue.
·
Write
an intro that:
o
Is
meaningful and engaged from the first sentence and develops a line of thinking
that ends with your claim.
o
Don’t
just play around in your intro; say something, but not your claim until
the end.
·
Italicize book titles. Tuesday: February 25, 2014
DQs:
· What does Montag’s confrontation with the ladies reveal about them and him?
· Evaluate Beatty’s rhetoric in his badgering of Montag.
Quote ten ideas in the Cave allegory that you feel have a correlation in Part II of Fahrenheit 451. Explain the correlation.
Paragraph # and Quote
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Correlation in Fahrenheit 451 (you can paraphrase)
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Friday: February 21, 2014
“Against the Tyrants of Imagination” (see file #46)
Wednesday: February 19, 2014
Essay Prompt:
Technology encourages shallowness.
Write a unified essay in which
you use evidence from Fahrenheit 451 and your own life
experience to perform the following tasks. Explain what you think the above
statement means. Describe instances in which technology encourages depth.
Discuss what you think determines when technology encourages shallowness.
In other words:
·
Write
an intro on the topic of how technology encourages shallowness.
·
Acknowledge
the opposite view.
·
Present
evidence (support paragraphs) that proves technology encourages shallowness.
Notes:
·
Do
everything the prompt asks you to do.
·
Include
at least 3 quotes from Fahrenheit 451.
·
Highlight
claims and sub-claims in blue.
·
Acknowledge
complexity in your arguments. Don’t be either/or in your argument posture.
·
Immediate
context for quotes.
·
Add
to your “Greek” file.
New
Blog for This Class:
o suthyssophomoreenglish.blogspot.com
WN:
Pages 24-48 Claims
For each of the following sections,
make a Claim/Evidence statement
Example: Clarisse is making
Montag think honestly. Her observation that he is not in love is something he
reluctantly admits to himself.
1.
24-28—the
hound and Captain Beatty
2.
28-31—Clarisse
3.
31-32—Beatty;
Clarisse gone
4.
32-35—Montag
questions; Beatty questions
5.
35-40—The
woman with the books
6.
40—Driving
back to the fire house
7.
41-42—Montag
arrives home
8.
42-48—Guy
and Mildred; Clarisse dead; the hound
WN: Bradbury Video Notes and Quotes
· Include quotes by Bradbury and notes about his life and his thoughts on Fahrenheit 451.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLuDOEuwwso
Pages 3-24 Themes (see
file #45)
Monday: February 10, 2014
Essay
prompt: Ambition
·
What
do we learn about the nature of ambition from chapter 24?
·
On
your Google Drive “Greeks” file, prepare the following:
Evidence (6 quotes) Sub-claims (2-3) Claim (1)
Notes:
·
Context
for all quotes!
o
Describing
this dilemma, Victor explains, “I hate bumping my head…” (97). This explains…
·
Proper
page format (see above)
·
Avoid
“Since the dawn of time” hooks.
·
Avoid
1st person (I, we)
·
Where
does the claim go?
·
Sub-claims:
Flexible placement option on this essay.
o
Anywhere
in support paragraph.
o
Highlight
in Blue.
We turned in Frankenstein books.
We turned in Frankenstein pagetrackers.
We started Fahrenheit 451; check out a book from me.
Pagetracker for Fahrenheit 451 (see file #44).
10th
Packet for Frankenstein turned in.
1.
Pre-reading
for Frankenstein
2.
WN:
Profile of Walton
3.
WN:
Movie Notes
4.
WN:
Praising or Criticizing Victor
5.
WN:
Victor’s Handling of the “Wretch”
6.
WN:
Creator vs. Creation
7.
Significant
Moments: The Monster
8.
WN:
Rejection
9.
WN:
Chapters 16—A Change
10. Close Reading: Chapters 17 &
20
11. Close Reading: Chapter 23
12. Frankenstein Themes