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Wednesday, May 27th:
 * 1) Chapters 1-2

Wednesday, May 19th:
 * 1) Meet in the Computer Lab for the last day!
 * 2) 6 Word autobiography #2

Tuesday, May 18th:
 * 1) S-O-S: Fitzgerald's life
 * 2) Collect assignment.
 * 3) Homework: Discussion board entry on 20s lingo!
 * 4) T.S. Eliot: [|The Wasteland]
 * 5) [[file:Prufrock.doc]]
 * 6) [[file:Prufrock Homework.doc]]
 * HW: Please print out a copy of the Prufrock poem document. Annotate.
 * HW: Please turn in whatever books you have checked out for this class.
 * 1) Chapter 1 of //The Great Gatsby// tomorrow!

Monday, May 17th:
 * 1) Roll call and book call. Please have a copy of //The Great Gatsby// by tomorrow. For those of you who have requested to check one out from the Media Center, you will be able to do so tomorrow.
 * 2) Super mini research project on the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Due tomorrow!
 * 3) Please work on another 6 word autobiography to close out the year. Due Wednesday.
 * 4) We will be in the computer lab till Wednesday!

Monday & Tuesday:
 * Basic review**

Friday, May 7th:
 * 1) Scoring

Thursday, May 6th:
 * 1) Timed Writing: [|What I See in Lincoln's Eyes] by Barrack Obama

Wednesday, May 5th:
 * 1) Finish multiple choice

Tuesday, May 4th:
 * 1) Sample Multiple Choice

Monday, May 3rd:
 * 1) Finish car presentations
 * 2) Discuss health care

Friday, April 23rd:
 * 1) Read and further discussed Herrick's poem.
 * 2) Period 5 HW: Please read about transcendentalism in your textbook (pp. 1188, 146, 147)
 * HW: Please read the following poem and answer the questions. [[file:EmersonDays.doc]]
 * HW: Please print out the rough draft of our style analysis paper. [[file:JaneShaefferDouglas.doc]]
 * 1) Monday: Class time for project. Presentations on Thursday and Friday.

Thursday, April 22nd:
 * 1) Please send your Jane Schaeffer paragraphs to turn.essay.in@gmail.com. We will revise the essay tomorrow.
 * 2) Print out the following poem. Annotate. [[file:Herrick.doc]]
 * 3) Announcements:
 * Please print out another copy of the Spring Fling packet sheet. Mark off the assignments you chose to do so that evaluation of your packets will be done more swiftly. Thanks!
 * Presentations of the Car Project will happen next Thursday and Friday. You will have class time on Monday to work on this in your groups.

Wednesday, April 21st:
 * 1) Finish up group work.
 * 2) PROJECT: Car Sale!!! [[file:Help Ms P Buy a Car.doc]]

Tuesday, April 20th:
 * 1) Group work: Follow the Jane Schaeffer Style Analysis model to complete your designated paragraph.
 * HW: One person from the group, please type up the paragraph as a Word document, and email it to me.

Monday, April 19th:


 * 1) Analyze and Evaluate Douglass' diction. Cite at least 3 examples and how each effects the overall purpose of this passage.
 * 2) Analyze and Evaluate Douglass' detail. Cite at least 3 examples. Evaluate how each functions in the overall passage. How do they effect purpose?
 * 3) Analyze and Evaluate Douglass' point of view.
 * 4) Analyze and Evaluate Douglass' organization.
 * 5) Analyze and Evaluate Douglass' syntax. Cite at least 3 examples and how each effects the overall purpose of this passage.

Friday, April 16th:
 * 1) Quickwrite that turned into really good discussions: Defend, challenge, or qualify the proverb, //Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy//.
 * 2) Second page to the Douglass passage. Please read. Reread. Read it again! Chew on it! Be prepared to discuss on Monday.

Thursday, April 15th: TAX DAY!!!
 * 1) Syntax exercises. Please post your answers for #6 on the class discussion forum page.
 * 2) Finish reading the biographical information in the textbook about Frederick Douglass. Please be prepared to share tomorrow during class discussions what you thought was most interesting or most valuable from this page.
 * 3) What were the three reasons why we want to study Douglass' writings?
 * 4) Download and print out the following essay: [[file:Douglass Page 1.pdf]]
 * 5) Read and annotate.

Friday, April 2nd:
 * 1) Due: Visual argument paper.
 * 2) Passage 2: More non-fiction with documentation.
 * 3) Have a great Spring Break! READ, READ, READ!
 * 4) Don't forget: Spring Fling Package!

Thursday, April 1st:
 * 1) 20 page paper due.
 * 2) Timed synthesis essay AND rhetorical analysis essay.
 * 3) Project: Memorize the Gettysburg Address.
 * 4) April Fool's. ;D
 * 5) For real: Passage 1. Non-fiction with documentation.

Wednesday, March 31st:
 * 1) Textbook assignment.
 * HW: Textbook, pg. 313- 318 (questions 1-5) & pg 319 (questions 1-7)

Tuesday, March 30th:
 * 1) Discussion topic: "Cheating." Who, what, when, where, why?
 * 2) Visual argument discussion.
 * 3) Look through magazines for visual arguments.
 * HW: Find a visual argument. Write a 1-2 page analysis of the visual argument. DUE FRIDAY. Please attach a copy of the visual argument to the back of your paper.
 * Content (Analysis of visual argument): 5 points
 * Organization: 5 points
 * Mechanics/Language: 5 points

Monday, March 29th:
 * 1) Monday Media: "Admissions Office"

Monday, March 22nd:
 * 1) Reflection on Saturday's session.
 * 2) Synthesis Topic: Advertising!
 * 3) What is a visual argument?
 * HW: On your honor...give yourself 40 minutes to write an essay answering the prompt (analyzing Sanders' essay). Due tomorrow.

Friday, March 19th: COMPUTER LAB, COMPUTER LAB!!!

Thursday, March 18th:
 * 1) Period 4 is in the gym today for your registration assembly.
 * 2) Period 5: COMPUTER LAB!!!
 * 3) Zero Tolerance Synthesis Prompt: [[file:zerotoleranceprompt.pdf]]

Wednesday, March 17th:
 * 1) Passed out registration papers.
 * 2) Passed back DJs: Reflection exercise
 * 3) Filled out Participation Rubric
 * 4) Portfolios
 * 5) Reviewed Sample DJ

Tuesday, March 16th: EAP Testing!

Monday, March 15th: Staff Development Day!

Friday, March 12th:
 * 1) Passed back Bootcamp 2 test.
 * 2) Why did JFK choose to use archaic language? How did it effect the purpose of his speech?
 * 3) Why did JFK use so many biblical allusions? How did it effect the purpose of his speech? His audience?
 * HW: Work on grammar packet. Due Tuesday.
 * HW: Study rhetorical devices sheet. Test on Tuesday.

Thursday, March 11th:
 * 1) JFK's Inaugural Speech

Wednesday, March 10th:
 * 1) Reviewed (again) Grammar.
 * HW: Read the packet given to you in class today. **ANNOTATE JFK, Jr.'s Speech.** You can try and listen to the speech here: [|JFK Inaugural Speech]
 * 1) Answer questions (on a separate sheet, or typed) under the "Diction" and "Syntax" sections found on pages 55-56. //**If you are going to be absent tomorrow, please email me this assignment by midnight tomorrow.**// Or, you can turn in a hard copy via a friend.
 * 2) Please study the Glossary of Selected Tropes (artful diction) and Schemes (artful syntax). Test on Tuesday!!!
 * 3) Please continue to look over the A-F sources!

Tuesday, March 9th:
 * 1) Group presentations.

Monday, March 8th:
 * 1) //Let the Great World Spin// by Colum McCann excerpt. Studied his style.
 * 2) Grammar test.

Friday, March 5th:
 * 1) Thoreau dialogues...
 * 2) DJs due

Thursday, March 4th: Presentations and Fertile Discussions!



Wednesday, March 3rd: Group work time! Presentations tomorrow!

Tuesday, March 2nd:
 * 1) CSI Music: WHOOOO ARE YOU (Chris McCandless)? Whoo-hoo, whoo-hoo!
 * 2) A-F Sources handed out. Study them and start formulating your stance on Zero Tolerance.
 * HW: Continue with your Chris McCandless DJs. Due Friday.
 * 1) Group presentations start tomorrow.
 * 2) Be prepared...Bootcamp Test 2 coming up. Your Test 1 and Test 2 scores will be averaged.

Monday, March 1st:
 * 1) Reflection: What are your responsibilities these days? How many hours would it take for you to take care of each responsibility with excellence?
 * 2) Grammar quiz.
 * 3) Group presentations starting towards the end of class tomorrow. Project rubric:
 * Content, 10 points
 * Context-based, 5 points
 * Visual, 5 points
 * Group presentations, 5 points
 * HW: Print out the handouts for Week 5 (Synthesis Rubric + "Zero Tolerance" Sources) found on the Handouts page.
 * HW: Begin reading [|ChrisMcCandless.doc]. Warning: the document is 13 pages long. Start double-entry journals, at least 1 entry per page of reading. Due Friday.

REVISED: LOOKS LIKE WE'RE HAVING ISSUES WITH THE ZERO TOLERANCE SOURCES. WILL GIVE YOU ALL COPIES TOMORROW IN CLASS. peace.

Friday, February 26th:
 * 1) Collect rough drafts.
 * 2) Collect paragraphs. Quiz on Monday.
 * 3) Review sentence structure. Let's not settle for our class scores on the Bootcamp tests! Next week, you will take Bootcamp test #2, and Ms. P will average the two scores. Be happy.
 * HW: Please complete the Grammar Handout posted on the Handouts page.

Thursday, February 25th:
 * 1) Timed Writing! Prompt: "In //Walden//, Thoreau wrote, 'Our life is frittered away by detail.' In a well-organized essay, defend, challenge, or qualify this statement. Use evidence from your own reading, observation, or experience to support your position."
 * HW: Finish the rough draft and turn in tomorrow.
 * HW: Write a paragraph about the Winter Olympics **(or Thoreau's //Walden//)** that includes the following kinds of sentences (1 of each and please label with the accompanying letters after the end of the sentence):
 * simple (S)
 * compound (C), Note: How do you properly punctuate a compound sentence?
 * complex-compound (C-C)
 * periodic (P)
 * loose (L)
 * exclamatory (E)
 * imperative (I)

Wednesday, February 24th:
 * 1) Class discussion
 * 2) Thank you to our facilitators Thomas and Kimberly.

Tuesday, February 23rd:
 * 1) Timed Writing!
 * HW: Reflect on what you did in class today. How did it go?

Monday, February 22nd: >> **Quote from Walden:** >> "Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter" (line xxx) >> **Analysis/Synthesis/Evaluation:** >> Thoreau praises the independent lifestyle People who build their own houses or gather their own food hold a special significance of "doing it themselves" They are the true builders and the true makers in society They create rather than lazily hiring a carpenter to do the job >> **Quote A:** >> "He was there to represent spectatordom, and help make this seemingly insignificant event one with the removal of the gods of Troy." >> **Analysis A:** >> This is an example of how Thoreau uses allusions. He constantly uses allusions all throughout his writing. He makes references to mythology as well as to the Bible. These allusions give examples to compare his ideas with. It is really interesting to see how he does this in his writing. >> **Quote B:** >> "That if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours" (204). >> **Analysis B:** >> This is the big lesson Thoreau learned from his experiment. >> Is farming a job better suited for the uneducated or non-academics?
 * 1) Discussed the following tasks/questions:
 * The following is a sample DJ. Punctuate correctly:
 * How will Toulmin's structure help us write a rhetorical analysis essay? How will it help us write our position essay?
 * REVIEW the following sample DJ entries. Evaluate.
 * CONSIDER the following question, and answer. Justify your answer.
 * HW: Please figure out conclusively whether or not the following sentence needs commas:
 * They create rather than lazily hiring a carpenter to do the job.
 * HW: Please consider the following quote from Thoreau's //Walden// (Passage 5, lines 35-36):
 * "a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."
 * What does he mean?
 * Do you agree or disagree? How so? WHY?

Friday, February 19th:
 * 1) Style Analysis: [[file:styleanalysis.doc]]
 * 2) Toulmin discussion

Thursday, February 18th: > > **EXAMINE the following statements and CRITIQUE:**
 * 1) COMPUTER LAB TOMORROW! Meet there!
 * 2) Class discussion of the following points:
 * 3) **TRUE OR FALSE:**
 * When writing a style analysis essay, it is okay to use I, me, you.
 * When writing a rhetorical analysis essay, it is okay to use I, me, you.
 * When writing a position essay where they ask you to defend, challenge, or qualify providing examples and evidence from personal reading, experiences, etc., it is okay to use I, me, you.
 * "In this insightful account of her undercover research on the life styles of the minimum-waged, Ehrenreich provide color and style in a palette of subtle tones that entice the reader into her story magnificently. The way she uses language to convey her story gives a sense of life to the writing."
 * "She uses the powerful tools of language to reveal her altered perception of minimum-wage jobs."
 * "Ehrenreich's hints of her boredom is apparent to the reader."
 * HW: Download, print out, and read Chapter 2, "Analyzing and Constructing Arguments."
 * HW: Questions for tonight's reading. Please download, print out, and complete the handout. [[file:CH2ToulminArguments.pdf]]

Wednesday, February 17th: **COMPUTER LAB!!!**
 * 1) Please meet in the computer lab today.
 * 2) Please take some time to read discussion forum posts and catch up if you haven't posted entries in awhile. Remember, I am paying attention to what you write! Please contest, challenge, defend, qualify...!
 * HW: Please post a Nickel and Dimed DJ entry on your Class Period Discussion page.
 * 1) Nickel and Dimed DJs

Tuesday, February 16th:
 * 1) Collected Valentine's Day Tone Cards. Good job everyone! :)
 * 2) Class close-reading of Ehrenreich's essay.
 * HW: Please rethink (and redo if need be) your DJs for your textbook assignment from this past weekend. Due tomorrow.
 * 1) Please download (off of the Handouts page) and print out the excerpt from Ehrenreich's //Nickel and Dimed//. Focus on the first page, and write two DJ entries.
 * 2) Meet in the computer lab tomorrow!

Thursday, February 11th:
 * 1) Boot camp Test!!! How was it?
 * 2) S.O.S. of Walden. Please continue the discussion on the Home page Discussion page.
 * 3) **HW: Please read pp. 189-205, and keep [|double-entry journals]. Try and aim for at least 1-2 DJ entries for each page in the textbook that you read. Please answer questions 1-8 on p. 206.**
 * 4) Love PROJECT DUE on Tuesday. [[file:Love Poetry Project.doc]] I have wikimailed your secret tone word to you. If you did not receive one, please wikimail or email me (at vpark@tcusd.net), and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
 * HW: Have a good weekend. Read your classics!

Wednesday, February 10th:
 * 1) Peer Review #2
 * 2) Collected Blink essay
 * 3) Grammar Packet #4.
 * 4) 68% chance of Grammar test tomorrow...Use our wikispace to help each other study. If you're not sure about an answer to a question, you can a) email me, b) wikimail the entire junior class, c) use the discussion forum, or d) check the other class page.
 * HW: Please enter grammar answers for packets 3 & 4 on your class period page.
 * 1) DID YOU SOAPSTone the //Walden// piece?
 * 2) Be prepared to turn in the //Walden// Multiple Choice handout and/or the grammar packets tomorrow.

Tuesday, February 9th:
 * 1) Power Ranger's Timed Writing: Please review your colleague's essay on the Home page discussion page! Be sure to read each others' comments! [[file:PowerRanger.doc]]
 * 2) Grammar packet #3 about AV/PV and Shifting Verb Tenses (For those of you absent today, this document will not be uploaded until late tonight, so if need be, pick it up tomorrow in class.)
 * 3) Review of the Three Stages of the Writing Process
 * 4) Rough Draft #1 Peer REVIEW
 * Does it make sense?
 * Can you follow my argument?
 * Where did you get lost?
 * What do you need to know or want to know that I haven't told you?
 * Is my first paragraph irredeemably boring?
 * Can you tell what this paper is going to be about?
 * Is this example apt?
 * Is this quotation too long?
 * Can you think of anything else I could say here?
 * Does this sentence make sense to you?
 * Do you understand this point?
 * What should I do to connect these ideas?
 * HW: Please write about this peer review process on the HOME discussion forum page. BE SURE TO READ EACH OTHERS' COMMENTS!
 * HW: Finish your FINAL DRAFT. Due tomorrow! Please come to class with the final draft stapled to the top of all other drafts!
 * HW: Enter answers for last night's grammar packet #2 on the class page.

Monday, February 8th:
 * 1) Vocabulary quiz
 * 2) Syntax Handout Review: thank you to those who volunteered to write their model sentences on the board.
 * 3) Grammar: Progressive and Emphatic Forms
 * 4) Grammar girl: [|Active vs. Passive voice].
 * 5) Read Walden and answer questions
 * HW: Type your Rough draft #2 by tomorrow. If you are going on the APES trip, please email the rough draft (by midnight tomorrow). Otherwise, please staple the rough draft to the top of your packet and turn in tomorrow.
 * HW: Please read over the recent discussion forum responses.

Friday, February 5th:
 * 1) Review prepositional phrases assignment from yesterday.
 * HW: Log onto the class webpage and as a class, write the answers. Each student is responsible for working two questions.
 * 1) Reviewed Syntax Handout. Please complete the exercise for homework.
 * HW: Please find an example of either a loose or periodic sentence from any of the works we have covered thus far in the school year. List on our Home page discussion forum.
 * 1) Evaluated two more student essays. Please feel free to start discussion forum discussions regarding these essays.

Thursday, February 4th:
 * 1) Grammar Focus: Prepositional phrases
 * 2) Discussion: Why is it important to pay careful attention to syntax? How does a sentence change depending upon where the prepositional phrase is placed?
 * 3) Thank you Taylor for starting a discussion forum topic. Please check it out and contribute!
 * 4) Discussion/Analysis/Evaluation: Yo-Yo Pa's Kingsolver Essay
 * HW: Please read two more sample Kingsolver essays, and respectfully evaluate. Come up with a score. Be prepared to share tomorrow! [[file:HelloKittyKingsolver.doc]][[file:YoYoMaKingsolver.doc]]
 * HW: Please print out and bring to class tomorrow the syntax handout. [[file:syntax worksheet-1.doc]]
 * HW: Define the following words for your own personal study. Quiz possibly Friday if not Monday.

//Vocabulary: buffet, fallow, impounded, dilapidated, lichen, incarcerated, irrevocable, analogies, allusions, servitor, excursion, superfluous, wretchedness, transpire//

Wednesday, February 3rd: Timed Writing

Tuesday, February 2nd: Timed Writing

Monday, February 1st:
 * 1) Welcome to the new semester!
 * 2) Welcome to the new colleagues in each class!
 * 3) Stories with Holes!
 * 4) Tomorrow, we start BOOT CAMP. Please come to class in your best camouflage gear. ;)
 * 5) Review of Final.

Tuesday, January 26th:
 * 1) Miss S mini-lesson on MLA citations.
 * 2) What's the name of the wonderful website that helps us cite correctly?
 * 3) Peer review of final draft #2.
 * 4) What's in a conclusion? We no longer "restate" the thesis...What do we do?
 * HW: Turn in your FINAL DRAFT of the essay on the day of your final. Staple the last draft on top of all other drafts. ALSO, please email a copy to turn.essay.in@gmail.com, and in the subject bar of your email, please title it your class period, name, and Kingsolver. For example:
 * 4 Vickie P--Kingsolver
 * HW: Study for your final. Mostly multiple-choice, and a few short answer. Anything we have covered in the class is fair game for the cumulative final. A good way to review is to look through your English binder and go over terms, vocabulary (including rhetorical devices, forms, and strategies), lectures, style exercises, and readings.

Monday, January 25th:
 * 1) Final drafts due.
 * 2) Lesson: Review body and conclusion paragraphs
 * 3) Review Junior Class Assessment
 * 4) Continue discussion with Ms. S.

Friday, January 22nd:
 * 1) Collect Kingsolver M.C.
 * 2) Pass back timed writings. Reflect.
 * 3) What's the difference between a rhetorical analysis essay and a position paper? What kind of essay was the Kingsolver prompt asking you to write?
 * 4) Ms. S leads a class discussion. Thanks Ms. S for a very interesting discussion!
 * HW: Final draft of Kingsolver essay. Please type your final draft (no need to email the essay this time) and turn in with your rough draft (timed writing/outline) stapled behind it. Please come to class with everything prepared before walking into class. Otherwise, the assignment will be counted as late.
 * HW: Answer discussion forum question on "Home" page Discussion page.

Thursday, January 21st:
 * 1) Junior class final assessment.

Wednesday, January 20th:
 * 1) Timed Writing: Kingsolver prompt. Write Intro, 1 body paragraph, and outline the rest of your paper.
 * HW: Read your classic.
 * HW: Review Hawthorne's short story. Assessment tomorrow!

Tuesday, January 19th:
 * 1) Nathanial Hawthorne's "Minister's Black Veil"
 * 2) Read.

Monday, January 18th: HOLIDAY!
 * Read.

Friday, January 15th:
 * 1) Vocabulary quiz REDO.
 * 2) Collect Gladwell outlines.
 * 3) Kingsolver prompt. [[file:Kingsolver prompt.pdf]]
 * HW: Rewrite Kingsolver's prompt. In other words, use the "fool-proof" method of formulating a thesis that answers the prompt.
 * HW: Add your version of the rewritten prompt on your class period's discussion board.
 * HW: Finish vocab quiz by coming to definitive definitions of chiasmus and antimetabole. Bring with you a couple examples of each!

Thursday, January 14th
 * 1) Kingsolver piece.
 * 2) Voice lessons
 * 3) Qwizdom quiz!
 * 4) What's in a conclusion?

Wednesday, January 13th:
 * 1) Discuss: topics of body paragraphs for Gladwell piece.
 * HW: Keep working on your outlines.
 * HW: Review Kingsolver piece. We will have the multiple choice tomorrow.
 * HW: Download and print out Walden. Do a close-reading of Walden, but we will not discuss until early next week.
 * HW: Vocabulary
 * HW: Voice lessons

Tuesday, January 12th: COMPUTER LAB
 * 1) Continued discussion of introduction paragraph.
 * 2) Thank you R.F. for your sample introduction.
 * HW: Outline of the rest of our essay. The outline will be as detailed as you want it to be. Just make sure that your main points for each paragraph are clearly stated. I want to be able to see the logic of your paper.
 * HW: Review Kingsolver piece and be prepared to discuss tomorrow. Timed M.C. on Kingsolver piece on Thursday.
 * 1) Portfolios and most updated grade summaries.
 * 2) Introduction to teacherease password and account.

Monday, January 11th: COMPUTER LAB > In timed writings, what do we do with book titles? > What are the essential elements of an introductory paragraph? List. > --thesis > --summary of the topic > --title > --author > --topic > Reflect: How did you do on your timed writing last week? What would you do differently? > What is a hook? > What should ALWAYS follow a quote?
 * 1) Bell-ringer questions:
 * 1) Word document answers.
 * 2) Mini-lesson: the full-proof way to answer a prompt.
 * 3) Pass back last week's timed writing. Review of rubric and scores.
 * HW: Rewrite your intro paragraph.

Friday, January 8th:
 * 1) Vocabulary quiz.
 * 2) Timed Writing

Thursday, January 7th:
 * 1) Review multiple choice answers. Discuss rationale behind choices.
 * HW: Please do a close-reading of a passage from Barbara Kingsolver's //Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life//. [[file:Kingsolver.pdf]][[file:Kingsolver pg 3.pdf]]
 * HW: Voice Lesson 8. Check Handouts.
 * HW: Please review Gladwell's piece for tomorrow's timed writing.

Wednesday, January 6th:
 * 1) Vocabulary trade.
 * 2) Timed Multiple choice.
 * 3) Group answers to multiple choice.
 * 4) Collected persuasive paragraphs.
 * HW: Please download, print out, and then read the following handout on rhetorical analysis. [[file:RHETORICAL ANALYSIS.pdf]]
 * HW: Answer questions listed on the bottom of the handout on a separate sheet of paper.
 * 1) MORE VOCABULARY! These words will not be quizzed on until next week, but they are words found in the Kingsolver piece which you will read tomorrow. Please arrange with your group mates who will define what, and please share with one another.

//Vocabulary: manifest, psyche, tilled, provenance, obligate (adj.), petulant, nixing, metamorphosis, surreptitiously, culling, speciation, agnostics, compost, reiterate, temper (v.), elicit, incredulity, rueful, grudging, dispassionate, obsequious, bombastic//

Tuesday, January 5th:
 * 1) New Year's Theme!
 * 2) Monday Masterpiece on a Tuesday: What is a [|kouros]?
 * HW: Define vocabulary words. Work it out with your groups! May be in context...
 * 1) Vocabulary quiz on Friday, and Timed MC tomorrow.
 * HW: Print out reading passage __Blink__. Do a close reading.
 * 1) Write a persuasive paragraph in response to the paragraph you receive.

//Vocabulary: reminiscent, curator, antiquities, symposium, consensus, pastiche, adaptive, relegating, toggle, qualify, inductive, deductive, decadence, connoisseurship, entrepreneurship, rebuttal, refutation, esoteric, laypersons, intuitive, duplicitous//

Monday, MONDAY, January 4th, 2010:
 * 1) Reviewed and collected Winter Love Package
 * 2) Discussed persuasive paragraphs.
 * HW: New Year's THEME. [[file:newyeartheme.doc]]

Thursday, December 17th:
 * HW: Have a book choice by tomorrow!
 * 1) PLEASE CHECK WIKISPACES DURING THE WINTER BREAK REGULARLY!
 * HW: Please type the final draft of your persuasive paragraph on to your class period's Discussion Page.
 * 1) Timed Multiple-Choice: "Brainworms, Sticky Music, and Catchy Tunes." Read and answered questions. If you need a copy, please go to Handouts page.
 * HW: Please do a close reading of Annie Dillard's "Living Like Weasels." [[file:LivingLikeWeasels.doc]]Answer SOAPSTone.

Wednesday, December 16th:
 * 1) Finished presentations! Fantastic! Thanks everyone for working so hard.
 * HW: Write a postcard. Imagine that you have traveled to one of the countries or people groups learned about during the Amazing Race. Create a postcard that reflects the country/people group, and write a short note/letter to anyone in Room 503 about your experiences there. (Do not choose your own country.)
 * HW: Choose a book from the book list by Friday. A million bonus points for students who have the book with them on Friday.
 * 1) Period 4 only: Reviewed rhetoric, modes of discourse, rhetorical triangle, "style as a subset of rhetoric"
 * HW: Write a persuasive paragraph. Purpose: ANYTHING, but make sure it's something worth trying to convince me about. Audience: Ms. P. Keeping your purpose and your audience in mind, which mode(s) of discourse will be most appropriate? Which (ethos, logos, pathos) appeal(s) will you use?

Tuesday, December 15th:
 * 1) The WinterLovePackage has arrived! Unwrap this lovely gift: [[file:WinterLovePackage2.pdf]]
 * HW: Please choose a book from the following list to read during the Winter Holiday. [[file:ReadingList.doc]]

TUESDAY-FRIDAY: Work on your papers and work on your projects! Paper due on Monday. Presentations will be next Wed-Friday.

We will be meeting in the Computer Lab on Friday. Still a work day...just wanted to make the computers available to you, too.

Sigh...Monday, 30th:
 * 1) Test on Monday. Will cover pp. 65-Thomas Paine. Two grades: your grade & the average score of your group.
 * 2) Reviewed questions found on Home page.
 * 3) Reviewed [[file:amazingracerubric.pdf]].
 * 4) We will forgo Dumpster Diving presentations for awhile due to time constraints.
 * 5) DUE FRIDAY: Amazing Race Biography/History Research project.
 * 6) You will have time to work in groups this entire week.
 * 7) If you are traveling to Germany this year, please come see Ms. P to pick up your Travel Package.

Weeeeee Wednesday, 25th: MINIMUM DAY!
 * 1) Cheetahs
 * 2) John Mayer
 * 3) Baby, just say YES!
 * 4) Banana Cream Pie
 * 5) I like apples
 * 6) Tennis
 * 7) Nintendo
 * 8) Turkey Mermaid
 * 9) Sunday morning rain is falling
 * 10) Austin B.
 * HW: [[file:thanksgiving.doc]]

Turkey Tuesday, 24th:
 * PRESENTATIONS!** Make sure you've taken the time to provide constructive criticism for all those that presented today.

Mystic Monday, 23rd:
 * 1) Working Bibliography to be checked tomorrow!
 * HW: Vocabulary. Quiz on Wednesday OR next Monday.
 * 1) Presentations.
 * 2) Review Jonathan Edwards reading!

//Vocabulary: arduous, rectitude, facilitate, subsequent, eradicate, temperance, frugality, tranquility, chastity, APHORISM//

Finally Friday, 20th:
 * 1) QUIZ: vocabulary.
 * 2) Finish 4 Modes of Discourse.
 * 3) Brainstorm: Questions for interviewing. What makes for a good interview? Interviewer?
 * HW: Please read the following website about [|Primary Research]. Also, follow the links for "Interviewing" and formulating questions. **Take notes! Be prepared to share in class on Monday**. PLEASE SHARE ONE INSIGHT about primary research and/or interviewing on your CLASS PERIOD'S DISCUSSION FORUM off of the Home page! //Read the other comments, and share something new or different. Make a concerted effort not to repeat ideas already shared. Rather, build on each other's comments.//

Thorough Thursday, 19th:
 * 1) Amazing Race Research Project & Paper time-line:
 * Research Working Bibliography due 11/24
 * Interview notes to be shared on googledocs with turn.essay.in@gmail.com. Due 11/30.
 * Essay due 12/04.
 * Presentations on 12/09-12/11.
 * 1) Six minute REFLECTION. Students wrote/drew/graphed connections as they reflected on the quote we started the semester with. Check Home page.
 * 2) Group sharing and discussion.
 * HW: Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards in your //Elements of Literature// textbook. Start on page 44, and read through page 49. Answer questions 1-7. Also, informally, go through SOAPSTone. Be prepared to share.
 * HW: Study for your vocabulary quiz tomorrow.

Wow Wednesday, 18th:
 * 1) Presentations begin. (Not everyone will go. Only a couple presentations a day from here on out.)
 * 2) Finish lecture: 4 Modes of Discourse
 * HW: Please read the Discussion Forum postings for "Jonathan Edwards" research
 * HW: Please finish up on your comments for your colleagues' presentations. Read the rest.
 * HW: Check out [|dimdim.com]. Take either a video or photo tour of this free resource. How can this be a useful tool for future group and/or class projects?

Timely Tuesday, 17th:
 * 1) Lecture: 4 Modes of Discourse
 * 2) Review vocabulary
 * HW: Super mini research! Find out two facts about Jonathan Edwards, a famous American speaker from the early 18th century. **IF YOUR LAST NAME BEGINS WITH...find out information regarding his...**
 * **A-F: Early childhood**
 * **G-K: Schooling**
 * **L-R: Personal life**
 * **S-Z: Ministry life**


 * WE'RE IN THE COMPUTER LAB TOMORROW!**

Mix-up Monday, 16th:
 * LIBRARY TODAY!**
 * 1) The librarian--Mrs. Gordon--has kindly agreed to show us around the Media Center as we continue to work on our Amazing Race research projects. Please take full advantage of this rich resource! Also, please respect the library. Keep your voices down, and don't forget to push your chairs in after you're done.
 * 2) Download and print out: 4 Modes of Discourse. Check handouts page. You do not have to fill anything out--just have it ready and prepared for tomorrow's lecture.
 * 3) Bad news: No timed writing tomorrow! :)
 * HW: Define the vocabulary words listed below.

//Vocabulary: sin, cumbersome, condemnation, damnation, carnal, manifold, ineffable, manifestation, dolorous, anaphora//

FREAKY Friday the 13th! //**We're in the computer lab for the last time!**//
 * 1) Complete project.
 * 2) Please email your project as an attachment or as a shared google doc to me at turn.essay.in@gmail.com **Please make sure that you enter your names as the Subject line.**
 * 3) Time to research with partner for the Amazing Race.

Thrilling Thursday, Nov. 12th:
 * COMPUTER LAB ALL WEEK!**
 * 1) Review "On Dumpster Diving"
 * 2) Review Diction #6 & Diction #7
 * 3) Continue working on project

We remember Veteran's Day Wednesday, Nov. 11th:
 * NO SCHOOL! READ A GOOD BOOK!**

HW: Diction #7. Check Handouts page. HW: Voice Lessons. Check the page, and follow the usual drill on the "Discussion" page off of the Home page.

Testy Tuesday, Nov. 10th:
 * COMPUTER LAB ALL WEEK!**
 * 1) Discuss "On Dumpster Diving"
 * 2) Introduction to project: DUE at the end of class on FRIDAY. Presentations will be on a separate day.
 * 3) Visit the presentation online: [|Dumpster Diving]
 * 4) Reference: [|freegan]

My my my Monday, Nov. 9th:
 * COMPUTER LAB ALL WEEK!**
 * 1) Typingtest.com
 * 2) Post your speed and accuracy on Wikispaces!
 * 3) How do you create a new tab on a web browser?
 * 4) Introduction to Google docs.
 * HW: READ "ON DUMPSTER DIVING" and answer SOAPSTone. Be prepared to share tomorrow!

Fuzzy Friday, Nov. 6th:
 * Note: We're in the Computer Lab all next week!**
 * 1) Vocabulary quiz
 * 2) Collect Final/Rough drafts.
 * 3) Finish "Homeless" by Anna Quindlen
 * 4) Begin reading "On Dumpster Diving" by Lars Eighner. Find on Handouts page.
 * 5) Review Diction #6.

Thoracic Thursday, Nov. 5th:
 * Note: We're in the Computer Lab all next week!**
 * 1) "Homeless" by Anna Quindlen
 * 2) RESEARCH PAPER: Let's mingle!
 * 3) Revisit: "Race and Ethnicity" article. See Home page for details.
 * HW: Make sure you have posted your partner and people group on the Discussions page no later than tomorrow.
 * HW: Final draft + Rough draft for "Coming Home Again" essay due tomorrow. Please staple the final draft ON TOP of the rough draft. **Please have the essay completed, stapled, and ready to turn in before even walking into class on Friday!**
 * 1) **ALSO:** PLEASE EMAIL YOUR FINAL DRAFT TO ** turn.essay.in@gmail.com .**
 * **I have created a new email account for you to email a copy of your essay.** //This account is strictly for the purposes of submitting your papers. I will not check this account regularly, so if you have any pressing questions or need to get a hold of me about anything, please email me at my regular addresses.//
 * **This will give me the option of commenting on your papers electronically and sending them right back to you.**
 * **It also ensures an electronic copy will be saved in the case your hard copy is lost.**
 * **If you do not email a copy to me, I will count the essay as incomplete. You have till midnight on the day it is due to email it.** For example, if the paper is due on November 6th, you have till the close of the day (midnight, morning of the 7th) to submit it.
 * 1) Print out "On Dumpster Diving" by Lars Eighner. Find on Handouts page. You do not have to read it yet. We will try and start it tomorrow in class.

Wistful Wednesday, Nov. 4th:
 * 1) Review Reflection Questions from last night's homework.
 * 2) Go over Grammar Exercises
 * HW: Please post one of your sentences from last night's Grammar Homework on the Discussion page.
 * 1) SOAPSTone: "Homeless" by Anna Quindlen

Timed Tuesday, Nov. 3rd:
 * 1) Timed Writing
 * HW: Voice Lessons, Syntax Puzzle #4. Please post your answer and reply as usual on the Discussions page.
 * 1) Grammar Assignment: Check Handouts page.
 * 2) REFLECTION: Please think about and answer the following questions...
 * How did you approach the prompt?
 * Did annotating the text help? Yes/No? If yes, in what way(s)?
 * How long did you spend brainstorming? How did you brainstorm?
 * Regarding your approach to this timed writing, what worked for you? What would you do differently for the next one?

Mortal Kombat Monday, Nov. 2nd:
 * 1) "Coming Home Again" discussion: pp. 4-6.
 * 2) Please make sure you go over the article tonight. SOAPSTone!
 * HW: Diction #6. Check Handouts page.
 * HW: Print out a copy of "Homeless" by Anna Quindlen. Start close-reading!
 * HW: Vocabulary words listed below. Define. Part of speech. Write a sentence for each.
 * HW: Print out a copy of the Amazing Race Super-mini Research Project. Please report by Friday on the discussion page who your partner is and which people group you are covering. Please do not overlap people groups with another group in your class period.

//Vocabulary:// //dumpster, proprietary, apt, generic, foraging, scavenging, refuse, sporadic, dilettante, botulism, emulsify, boon, espouse, antimetabole, apostrophe//

Thursday, Oct. 29th:
 * 1) "Coming Home Again"

Wednesday, Oct. 28th:
 * 1) Period 5 only: Pass back Arie essay.
 * 2) "Coming Home Again"
 * 3) Vocab quiz tomorrow.
 * HW: Imitate Chang Rae Lee's sentence on the Discussion Forum. The sentence can be about anything.

Tuesday, Oct. 27th:
 * 1) India Arie Essay passed back.
 * 2) Launch Research Project
 * 3) "Coming Home Again" and questions
 * 4) Go over vocabulary. Quiz on Thursday.

Monday, Oct. 26th:
 * 1) Test
 * 2) Launch Research Project
 * HW: Voice Lessons, Syntax Puzzle #3. Please enter in your notebook log, and complete an entry on the Discussion page.
 * HW: Vocabulary. Please define each of the following words listed in italics. Write a sentence using the word.

//Vocabulary: rummage, grime, welfare, ferocity, bureau, crux, allay, bereft, parallelism, chiasmus//

Friday, Oct. 23rd:
 * 1) Begin discussing "Coming Home Again"
 * 2) Launch Research Project (ON MONDAY)
 * 3) No vocabulary quiz

Thursday, Oct. 22nd:
 * 1) Test Prep and Review
 * 2) Finish group presentations
 * 3) Revisit Close Reading
 * HW: Print and do a close reading of "Coming Home Again"
 * HW: Print the questions for the essay. Due Monday.

Wednesday, Oct. 21st: Thanks everyone for valuable discussions today. Tomorrow, we will resume with group presentations of "Ethnicity and Race" sections.

SUBSTITUTE Tuesday, Oct. 20th:
 * 1) Grammar of the Greats handout. Substitute will hand these to you. Due Wednesday. Have the entire class period to work on this.
 * 2) Students may work in groups if they like.
 * HW: [|Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips]. Scroll down the screen to lessons titled "Who vs. Whom," "Lay vs. Lie," and "Comma Splicing." Listen and/or read the grammar lessons. Take meaningful notes for each lesson.

SUBSTITUTE Monday, Oct. 19th:
 * 1) Collect Voice Lesson handouts.
 * 2) "Open Reading Day."

SUBSTITUTE MR. B Friday, Oct. 16th:
 * 1) "Open Reading Day" on Monday. Reminder to bring in your reading materials.
 * 2) Postponement of Vocabulary Quiz to later next week. Please start a new vocab list of ten words from your personal reading.
 * 3) Voice Lesson Handouts. [[file:Diction 4.doc]][[file:Diction 5.doc]]You may work in groups of your liking.
 * 4) Due Monday.
 * 5) Group presentations will resume on Wednesday. In the time remaining in class, you may work in your groups as needed.

Thursday, Oct. 15th:
 * 1) Started group presentations.

Wishful Wednesday, Oct. 14th:
 * 1) What are the salient points from your group's section? Determined the best way to present the information to the rest of the class.
 * HW: Go over the Ethnicity and Race article and come up with one thought provoking question for each section of the second chapter in preparation for our presentations tomorrow.
 * HW: Read //Elements of Literature// pp. 23-25. Answer a question on the Discussion forum.
 * 1) DUE TOMORROW: India Arie essay.
 * 2) Vocabulary quiz on Friday!
 * 3) Friendly reminder: You will have a free reading day on Monday. Start preparing what you will bring in to read.

Twisted Tuesday, Oct. 13th:
 * 1) Timed Writing.
 * 2) Listen and Analyze: India Arie's "I Am Not My Hair"
 * 3) Listen and Analyze: The Bruce Lee Band's "Don't Sit Next to Me Just Because I'm Asian"
 * 4) Group time! Ethnicity and Race article. Many of you have had trouble printing this document. Ms. P will try to make class copies of this text.
 * HW: Reread the lyrics of India Arie's song. Write a 1-2 page paper analyzing her lyrics. FINAL DRAFT DUE THURSDAY. Some questions to consider:
 * What is the main message?
 * How does she accomplish this message?
 * Who is the speaker?
 * Who is the audience?
 * What is the tone?
 * HW: Log on to the Discussion page and share your answers for Voice Lessons Puzzle #2.

Mollifying Monday, Oct. 12th:
 * 1) Five minutes of your life you'll never get back (extraneous cognitive load): Jason Mraz. Question: What is your obsession?
 * 2) Continued sharing last Wednesday's topic. Almost done in both classes. Will finish tomorrow.
 * 3) Timed Writing tomorrow! Vocabulary quiz on Friday. Reminder: I'll be out Friday-Tuesday.
 * HW: Read an article and find ten more vocabulary words (like last week).
 * HW: Race and Ethnicity article found on Handouts page. WARNING: It is LONG. For homework, **just read the second chapter given**. //You may want to print the entire document out two to a page and double sided just to help save paper. Also, please refrain from asking your other teachers if you can print it out in their classrooms. If you want a Media Center pass, please come see me. If you choose not to print this document out, please take good notes so that you'll have something with you when we discuss the article throughout the week.//
 * HW: Puzzle #2 is on the Voice Lessons page. Please follow the same directions as last week.

Fishy Friday, Oct. 9th:
 * 1) Vocabulary quiz
 * 2) Reviewed answers on worksheet.
 * 3) Will continue with Wednesday's sharing on Monday
 * HW: On the discussion page, please share your Voice Lessons sentence. Include a brief explanation for why you arranged the sentence the way that you did.

Thunderous Thursday, Oct. 8th: SUBSTITUTE Mr. Basgall today...
 * 1) Read //Elements of Literature// pp. 1-19
 * 2) Work on handout: [[file:worksheet1-19.doc]]

Wily Wednesday, Oct. 7th:
 * 1) Full name?
 * 2) Favorite food?
 * 3) Race/Ethnicity/heritage?
 * 4) Where were you born?
 * 5) Language(s) spoken?
 * 6) Early memory?

Timed Writing Tuesday, Oct. 6th:
 * 1) No timed writing today. Thank me later.
 * HW: Please read up on "Rigoletto" and take notes on your Monday Media page. [|RigolettoSynopsis]
 * 1) Close-Reading Notes.
 * 2) Did not collect assignment (about Elements of Literature reading) yet. Perhaps tomorrow.
 * 3) STUDY SKILL: Have you organized your binder yet? Have you included the list of rhetorical devices? May check tomorrow!
 * HW: READ. (Summarize. Question. Clarify. Predict!)

Mix up Monday, Oct. 5th: > "La ra, La ra"
 * 1) Reviewed and discussed "Home" page letter.
 * 2) Monday Media: Rigoletto: Act II, Scena ed Aria, "Povero Rigoletto!"
 * 1) Monday Media: Check "Voice Lessons" page and rearrange the phrases (written in bold) into a sentence. Write this on a piece of paper that will be your Syntax log.
 * 2) STUDY SKILL: PLEASE organize your English binder. May get checked some time this week.
 * 3) Cognitive Apprenticeship Group Work: Moved into groups. Each group was assigned a section from last Friday's reading homework out of the //Elements of Literature// textbook.
 * 4) Cognitive HW: Please complete the following tasks.


 * Summarize: In three sentences, give an overview of your pages.
 * Questions: Come up with three questions regarding the content of your section. Write sentences that require higher-order thinking. (Bloom's Taxonomy)
 * Clarify: Here are some questions to think about:
 * What was included?
 * Why was it included?
 * How was it included? How was the information organized?
 * Was anything left out?
 * Whose perspective?
 * Whose vantage point?
 * What is dominant? What is most important?

7. Vocabulary. Checked your lists. Created our Friday quiz templates. 8. Close-Reading: What are tropes and schemes? What are the questions we need to ask when analyzing style?

Forgiving Friday, Oct. 2nd:
 * QW: REFLECT on our class thus far.
 * 1) Finding a balance.
 * 2) All men are created equal. All men are created equally. What's the difference?
 * HW: Vocabulary assignment. 10 words found in context. Be sure to include on the last page your citations (MLA format).
 * HW: Read and take notes. Elements of Literature textbook pp. 1-19 and take notes that are meaningful to you.
 * 1) Quiz on Monday
 * 2) Close-Reading

Bonus: What's written on the base of the Statue of Liberty?

Thump thump Thursday, Oct. 1st:
 * 1) Read a colleague's paper and scored it.
 * 2) Read another colleague's paper and scored it, too.
 * 3) Collaboratively came to final scores.
 * 4) PRINT out a copy of "Your Rubric Thus Far" off the Handouts page. Log into the Discussion page and answer the question titled Rubric.
 * 5) CLOSE READING!
 * HW: Check back after 3 p.m.

Wistful Wednesday, Sept. 30th:
 * 1) Reviewed and scored a second model.
 * HW: READ something fantastic.

Temperate Tuesday, Sept. 29th:
 * 1) Continued calibration of rubric and scoring.
 * 2) Sample essay.
 * HW: Read!

Mighty Monday, Sept. 28th:
 * 1) Reflect: What are the distractions in your life? How can we clear them away when working on an important paper or project?
 * 2) Close-Reading lecture. To be continued tomorrow.
 * 3) Tuesday: Read around of first Timed-Writings
 * HW: Find an interesting article from a reputable news source. What did it talk about? Who was the speaker? What was the occasion? Was there a purpose? To whom were they speaking? Notice any interesting diction or syntax?

What a Wednesday, Sept. 23rd:
 * 1) Making meaning of rubrics.
 * HW: Please finalize your rubric items by tomorrow. Be prepared to share with the class.
 * HW: Find something to read that you would normally not be interested in reading. Read it.

Totally Tuesday, Sept. 22nd:
 * 1) Timed Writing.
 * 2) Discussion about timed writing topic.
 * HW: Read an article.

Mensa Monday, Sept. 21st:
 * 1) Reflect: How was your weekend? What did you read?
 * 2) Freewrite.
 * 3) Voice Lesson: [[file:Diction 2.doc]]
 * 4) Lecture: Close-Reading
 * 5) Great job on the Six Word Autobiographies everybody!
 * HW: Home-->Discussion topic. What's one book that you wouldn't mind reading again? Why? Are there any books that you can't stop revisiting?
 * HW: Print out the excerpt from "Where Nothing Says Everything" (Check Handouts page). Bring to class tomorrow.
 * 1) **HW: Read for fun. Have you ever read the //New Yorker// magazine before?**

Freaky Friday, Sept. 18th:
 * 1) What were the salient points from yesterday's discussion on learning?
 * 2) Why is it a good exercise to think about the salient points?
 * 3) Is everyday one word or two words?
 * 4) Finish 6 Word Autobiographies.
 * 5) **HW: Read for fun.**
 * HW: Go onto the Home: Discussion page and follow directions.
 * 1) **REMEMBER, WE'RE MEETING BACK IN THE CLASSROOM ON MONDAY!**

Thoroughly Thursday, Sept. 17th: > Learning does not happen without reflection. "Think about how you think." Why do you do what you do the way you are doing it? > Learning is the construction of knowledge. > Learning happens when your knowledge is challenged.
 * 1) DISCUSSION: Learning equals: Working memory-->Long term memory
 * 1) 6 Word Autobiographies

Wacky Tacky Wednesday, Sept. 16th:
 * 1) Reflection: How did the timed writing go yesterday? Discussion Forum. Respond to at least three different colleagues by sending them a message.
 * 2) Metacognition: Why is it important to think about how we think?
 * HW: Work on your 6 Word Autobiographies

Tempestuous Tuesday, Superhero Day, Sept. 15th:
 * 1) Timed Writing. For those of you who were absent today, you will make up the timed writing on a different topic the day you return.
 * 2) No HW, but thank you for checking.

Manic Monday, SCRABBLE DAY, Sept. 14th:
 * 1) Introduction to Apple computers and shortcuts
 * 2) Class wikispace scavenger hunt: TCHS website-->Staff-->Park-->class page-->class wikispace link
 * 3) Created wiki membership.
 * 4) Joined class wikispace.
 * 5) **HW: Please finish #4 on last Friday's Daily Note (see #4 below). Quiz on Close Reading tomorrow.**
 * 6) **HW: Answer the discussion topic found on the Home Page's [|Discussion Forum].**

Fantastic Friday, Sept. 11th: Period 5 only:
 * 1) Tissue box sculpture
 * 2) Menu items: Please have one colleague from each restaurant submit two new menu items to Ms. P via email by Sunday.
 * 3) Collect Diction exercise 1 & Course contracts
 * HW: Please go to the following article about Close Reading. Harvard Univ-Close Reading
 * Read the article.
 * Take notes.
 * Be prepared to share what you've learned on Monday.


 * ANNOUNCEMENT: Please be reminded that we will be in the Media Center Computer Lab starting on Monday. Please go there directly. DON'T BE LATE. BRING YOUR I.D. CARD.**

Thorough Thursday, Sept. 10th:
 * 1) Restaurants:
 * Atrocious Apples
 * Beefy Burrito
 * Cold Cantaloupe
 * Delectable Donut
 * Elegant Eggplant
 * Appetizing Avocadoes
 * Beneficial Bananas
 * Crispy Croissant
 * Delectable Dim sum
 * Exquisite Egg-rolls
 * Funny Fettuccini
 * 1) Syllabus in Review (Jigsaw activity)
 * 2) Collect signed contracts
 * 3) Diction exercise and discussion (diction, tone)
 * HW: tissue boxes due tomorrow

Wonderful Wednesday, Sept. 9th:
 * 1) Introduction to class wikispace.
 * 2) Tissue boxes due Friday: "This tissue box was given by..."
 * 3) Review: denote, connote, diction, syntax
 * 4) Debrief: How was the timed writing yesterday? Why did you do what you did the way that you did it?
 * HW: Print out Course Outline and Cheating & Plagiarism contract (found on the Handouts page). Read and sign. Parent signature required. Due tomorrow. 10 points each.
 * HW: Print out the Diction exercise found on the Handouts page. Print it out and answer questions 1 & 2. Due tomorrow. Be prepared to share with your esteemed colleagues.

Terrific Tuesday September 8, 2009:
 * 1) Turn in Reader's History Paper
 * 2) Timed Writin