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Week of November 30-December 4 Monday 11/30 1. Go over video notes for Roaring Twenties and F. Scott Fitzgerald Bio 2. Tomorrow we'll take F. Scott Fitzgerald: An American Dreamer Quiz using video notes. There will also be a few questions on Mr. C's Roaring Twenties Party Analolgy. 3. Today we'll introduce a Fitzgerald work with the theme of social status. Social status was a key theme in all of Fitzgerald's works. You'll meet Dexter Green and read about those dreams destined never to come true. From the first sentences of "Winter Dreams," Fitzgerald examined social classes. Assignment: Read p. 862 about Fitzgerald first. Read p. 840 both columns Read "Winter Dreams" pp. 841-859 and complete reading guide as you read! You can LISTEN to "Winter Dreams" HERE Or HERE (scroll down to Unit 5, Part 2, The American Dream) After tomorrow's quiz, you'll have reading time. Please have the story and as much of reading guide as YOU can completed by Wednesday! Jump to December Tab for Tuesday Week of November 23-25 Monday 11/23--Attendance in Zoom Keep Going with Comma-Related Errors! Comma Splice Error=using a comma where you need something STRONGER! Fix in 4 ways: create a fanboy, use a semicolon, use a period or use a colon (if it works) comma splices=using a comma between 2 sentences when you need something stronger like a period or semicolon run-ons=2 or 3 complete sentences run together with no punctuation sentence fragments=group of words that CAN'T stand alone as a sentence Here is your Cheat Sheat for definition/clarification 1. View: Comma Splices on the ACT (3:34) 2. View: Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices (2:42) 3. Comma Splices Exercise 1 4. Comma Splices Exercise 2 5, Screenshot and EMAIL me the results of Multiple Choice Quiz #2 → Still not feeling solid on Run-ons, Fragments, Comma Splices? Here's a little more practice you could do before tomorrow's assessments: Comma Splice Quiz Run-On Sentences Complete Sentence or Fragment #1 Complete Sentence or Fragments #2 Pick the Run-On Sentences Comma Splice or Fine? Tuesday 11/24--Attend in Zoom-- Grammar Lab Assessment Day Remain on Zoom/on camera while you complete these assessments! They will turn on at the start of Period 7 and off at the end of class. Stay until you finish. When you finish ALL SEVEN of the assessments, you are done for the day! Attend class tomorrow at 12:56! All of these assessments are in Google Classroom! Use your rules packet and online cheat sheets. Comma Assessments (I'll record better 1 of 2 of each total) 1. Complete and submit Comma Usage Assignment #1 at Quia. (18 pts) 2. Comma Usage at Quia (11 pts) 3. Complete and submit Comma Assignment #2 at Quia (11 pts)- 4. Comma Assignment #3 at Quia--this is another 18 point one Comma splices, Run-ons, Fragments Assessments (I'll record better 2 of these 3) 5. Comma Splices and Run-on/Fused Sentences (15 pts) *see the reminders at the top of this assessment below! 6. Comma Splice or Run on?(15 pts) see the reminders at the top of this assessment below! 7. Fragments, Run-ons, Comma Splices assignment (15 pts) Wednesday 11/25--YES! Attend BRIEFLY in Zoom--1:30 Dismiss Introducing: The Roaring Twenties View: (fill in this Listening Guide! Just pg. 1. I gave you a copy in folder. 1. The Roaring 1920s Part 1 (11:56) Introducing: The GREATEST AMERICAN AUTHOR to come out of that decad 2. View: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer Take notes on the 50-minute video on the 2-sided worksheet with brown photo in upper right corner that is in your folder. It looks like this: worksheet that goes with the video; The list of 8 tragedies and failures at the top are spread throughout the video. We'll go through that list together after break. 4. Click to Access: Video Part 1 (22:00) Video Part 2 (23:09) Read Follow up article on F. Scott Fitzgerald Happy Thanksgiving! Week of November 16-20-- Assignments posted in Google Classroom Monday 11/16--Attendance in Zoom View together: How Teachers Take Attendance in Zoom Grammar Lab: Hyphens, Dashes, Ellipsis and Parentheses If you are absent, here is the Pre-Test (hard copy provided in folder) First... Pretest. Take out the single 2-sided sheet labeled Colons, Dashes, Hyphens , and Parentheses. Read the rules for each of the 4 marks of punctuation. Open the key to see highlights on the rules side! After reading the rules and sample sentences, flip it over and complete the 2 sets of sentences. Check your answers. Here is the Pre-Test Key Now... View: How to Use Hyphens (3:18) View: ACT Boot Camp: Dashes (3:26) View: How to Use Ellipses (2:06) Remember: Hyphens=used internally within a word (sixty-seven). Dashes=within a sentence Next... Complete the stapled packet called Hyphens, Dashes and Ellipsis Packet If you didn't get a folder, here is the packet Carefully review the bulleted rules. Next, complete the back side of the first page. Read the rules on the next page, ESPECIALLY Rule 25W and the ▹Note Complete the next 2 pages of the packet. When you are finished with the packet, check your answers with this key Finally... Try This HYPHENS practice Tuesday 11/17--Attend in Zoom Grammar Lab Day: Hyphens, Dashes, Ellipsis and Parentheses First... In your folder, find the Dashes & Parentheses Worksheet Do the 16 questions on the first page. Then read carefully pp 2 & 3. See the highlights on the key below Complete the 12 sentences on the back using parentheses. Then check your answers with this KEY for that activity Next... 1. Using menu on the left at link below, work through Independent Lab at Khan Academy, completing JUST the 3 practice activities, not the videos. Answer the 4 questions in each practice activity, and you'll get 3 summaries like this "Keep going" one! ☛ ☛ ☛ Go to: Khan Academy Lesson on Dashes, Hyphens and Ellipsis Points Finally...(these will stay on until 8:00 pm) 1. Complete this Parentheses Usage Assignment at Quia. 2. Complete assessment at Quia on Hyphens, Dashes and Ellipses This is a 20-point activity. USE YOUR RULES & WORKSHEETS!! No need to guess! FIND EXAMPLES from worksheets! Wednesday 11/18--Attend in Zoom Comma on in for a comma lecture! We'll introduce the 14 rules for the most-tested mark of punctuation on the ACT! We'll use the first page of the packet. Please open up the Comma Poster in Google Classroom that will provide extra info on some of the comma rules. Add these extra notes to this packet. Assignment: Complete the full 2nd and 3rd sheets. Write the number of the commar rule, so 1-14. On the 3rd page of the packet, you'll see a 14 Comma Rules Quiz. Complete that page also. **Sorry, it looks like you didn't get one of the pages! Do JUST the 14 Comma Rules Quiz for tomorrow! Thursday 11/19--Attend in Zoom (Still editing 11/19!) Comma Lab Day! PRACTICE MAKES PROGRESS! The ACT is in 3 weeks!! With a CAN DO attitude-- practice with these all of these activities before assessments tomorrow. My expectation is that you will spend ALL of class today focusing on COMMAS!! If you don't finish in class, finish AFTER class. Screenshots due TONIGHT! You'll email me 4 Screenshots in ONE email from practice below. 2. Introductory Phrase or Clause 3. SWABIs 4. FANBOYS 5. Appositives 6. Interruptors 7. Screenshot results of this Multiple Choice--click on the link labeled Multiple Choice in the menu on the left! The screenshot will look like the one → 8. Screenshot results of this Practice commas here! (Yours will say Commas, not SV Agreement!) 9. Screenshot and send me the results for Last best practice here! (This one will look just like #8) 10.Screenshot and send me the results for Multiple Choice Quiz #1 Friday 11/20--Attendance taken based on completion of comma assignment Go to Google Classroom to find instructions about email that will outline details of attendance activity! Week of November 9-13 Monday 11/9 Early American Lit Test Pick up book, notes packets CELL PHONE IN BAG or LOCKER. Go 8 at a time. First 8 fill down the row next to trophy case, next 8 fill middle row, last group fill row closest to bathrooms. Tuesday 11/10 (Nursing Shadow 1:00 PM) Early American Lit Test Wednesday 11/11 & Thursday 11/12 & Friday 11/13 Veterans Day observation and 1st Quarter Achievement Assembly in SRB Grammar Lab: Colons and Semicolons POWER THROUGH WITH FOCUS!! Follow Grammar Lab Expectations: Cell phones out of sight Work QUIETLY and independently. There should be no talking until EVERYONE is finished. When you finish, work quietly on something else. REMAIN IN YOUR SEATS until the bell rings. DO NOT LINE UP AT THE DOOR! Another of the 6 most commonly tested marks of punctuation is the COLON. Your Objective: -To become familiar with the rules that govern the use of colons in well-written sentences -To develop basic skills in the use of colons in well-written sentences The following set of exercises are all for practice! Please don't EVER skip the practice activities I provide for you every week. You'll practice the skills you need for the assignments or quizzes. Remember that ALL of these skills will be tested on the ACT, Accuplacer, etc. Follow these steps IN ORDER! If you are absent, HERE is the Colon Packet for this lesson (keep scrolling--it's 6 pages) 1. Take Colon Packet from back shelf. After completing PUT EARBUDS in and... 2. View THIS video to correct your answers on 2-sided pre-test **HERE IS THE KEY FOR ANOTHER PAGE OF PACKET LABELED COLONS 3. View the Colon PPT 4. View Shaun on Colons 5. Then, View: ACT English Tips: Colons 6. Scroll down just a little to View this Grammar Revolution Video on Colons 7. Now Practice! There is MORE than one right answer for each!! 8. Here is a CHEAT SHEET with all of the rules and examples. Please remember this important rule: There MUST be a COMPLETE sentence before a colon! Now STOP and Complete BOTH the 9. Colon Assignment #1 at Quia for a grade. 10. Colon Assignment #2 at Quia for a grade. Both are worth 10 points. I'll record the better of the two. Both will contain feedback as you go. Keep GOING!! Do NOT SKIP or simply SKIM the practice activities! They are intended to help you master the skill!! 11. Do Colon Exercise 1 12. Do Colon Exercise 2 *Here is a Punctuation Guide for Colons * Here is a CHEAT SHEET with all of the rules and examples. Use the rules links above while you take the quizzes! Open several tabs with rules open if you need. I'll take the better score of the two colon quizzes below. Both are worth 16 pts. Please remember this important rule: There MUST be a COMPLETE sentence before a colon! 14. NOW Take Colons Quiz #1 at Quia (Instant feedback will be provided) 15. Take Colons Quiz #2 at Quia (No feedback will be provided until after all have taken). Keep GOING!! Grammar Lab: Semicolons Pick up semicolons and colons packet on back shelf. If you are/were absent HERE is the Semicolons packet (6 pages!) Introducing Semicolons (Important: Click to download this document above! Study it carefully!) What's the difference between a semicolon sentence and a FANBOYS sentence? (Click to open and review!) 1. View Using Semicolons PPT 2. View Sean on Semicolons 3. View ACT Grammar: Semicolons 4. Review Semicolon vs. Colon: Basic Review of the rule 5. Try the Semicolons and Colons Quiz You should DEFINITELY BE THIS FAR by end of THURSDAY! Grammar Lab: Semicolons Assignment: Drag all 4 screenshots into Google Doc & upload to Classroom. 1. Try Semicolons #1 at OWL Screenshot results to look like this → Note the difference between the 2 so you don't send 2 of same! 2. Try Semicolons #2 at OWL Screenshot results to look like this → 3. Try this CHALLENGING Semicolons and Colons & Commas practice quiz at Quia (just type in anything in the name box...this is for PRACTICE!) 20 pt Screenshot results to look like this → Look at ones you missed! 4. For a last practice, do the Semicolon assignment at Quia --This is PRACTICE at QUIA. DON'T skip it!! Screenshot results to look like this → Look at ones you missed! Did you do all of the practice? DO NOT SKIP THE PRACTICE!! 16 pt. Practice makes progress! Finally, complete these two 15-pt. assessments below. I'll record the better score of the two. **Keep the cheat sheets open. Here they are: Semicolons Rules What's the difference between a semicolon sentence and a FANBOYS sentence? Take:. Semicolon Quiz at Quia for a grade Take: Semicolons and Colons for a grade Friday 11/13 Expectations for Online Learning 1. Go through Online Learning Resources at Google Classroom 2. Read 2 emails I sent 3. Pick up folder and all materials 4. Look through materials *If you are absent, what arrangements are you making to pick up materials? Have a friend deliver to your doorstep OR pick up on a table in the entryway. LET ME KNOW!! Week of November 2-6 Monday 11/2 Welcome Amanda Schuette from SE Tech Tuesday 11/3 & Wednesday 11/4 Some of you picked up unit test review sheet on back shelf last Friday. There are still copies there. Here is online version: Unit Literature Test Outline Today you'll learn about the man who brought us these great aphorisms for life: 1. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." so.... 2. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." 3. "Our life is frittered away by detail....simplify, simplify!" Today, you will also take a quiet, SELF-guided tour through Henry David's Thoreau's "Walden"! Enjoy your journey! 1. Get a yellow lit book. If you are absent, Here is your copy of the textbook. 2. On back shelf pick up a packet. If you are absent, here is the Walden activity packet. 3. Turn to pg. 381. Read EVERYTHING on that page as an introduction. Then read pages 1 & 2 of your packet. Also please use pg 3 of the packet as your own READER'S NOTEBOOK to jot down some of Thoreau's aphorisms. As you work your way through reading the text, record thoughtful responses. Put in your Earbuds NOW for this SOLITARY trip to the woods. 4. Now that you have learned a little about Thoreau's background, before your trip to the woods, to learn more about Henry David Thoreau: View: Thoreau and Walden Pond (4:11) 5. Your trip begins on pg. 382 near the lovely maple leaf! I would suggest LISTENING to each section HERE and pausing the recording to answer the questions or reflect in the packet. (If this link doesn't take you directly to the recording for Walden, hit Command F for Find and type Walden. It's in Unit 3, Part 1, and is 22:13). I doubt that you will finish listening, reading and recording all of this today. We'll finish in class Weds, but stay focused until the bell rings and get as far as you can. When you finish packet, slide it under my door for a quick check. I will then give you an answer key to look through and add anything you might see that you didn't include. Thursday 11/5 Introduction to the Job Shadow Program: 1. View THIS VIDEO which will explain the responsibilities and expectations of the shadow program. 2. Watch Virtual Shadow tips (start at 2:20) 3. If your shadow has been scheduled (Nursing and Air Force), pick up your make up slip from under my door. Friday 11/6 FIRST, let's get organized for test. Grab folder, stickies, paper clips. Review for Unit Literature Test Outline *If you were absent on Thursday, you MUST watch the video before taking this quiz! 1. Complete this Virtual Job Shadow Quiz to demonstrate your preparedness for the experience. Finish the REST of this before exam! 2. After your journey, we'll return here together: (likely Weds.) View: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau-part 1 (7:35) View: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau-part 2 (9:32) View: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau part 6 at 3:57 (5:30) 3. Finally, read & view real-world applications of Thoreau's philosophy: A.. View: Learn to 'live deliberately' with 'Walden' game on Thoreau's birthday B.. Read Story #1 C.. View: Thoreau's cabin Redux: Tiny Homes & Happiness D. Story #2 Be sure to click thru the photos--the very last one is the cabin and Thoreau statue Thoreau's 200th Birthday Party (2017) Thoreau and Pink Floyd! Time lyrics The last lines of Walden: "Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." Explanation? Every morning a new day dawns, the sun comes up--but you don't see that dawn, or experience that light, unless you are out of bed and awake to see it! In the same way, there are many opportunities to become an enlightened person, to "see the light" of truth, to grow in learning and wisdom -- but we will receive that "light" only to the extent that we are awake to it, that is, open to receiving it, ready to hear or see. Last Year's Lesson Plans below 1. Show Job Shadow Calendar; see calendar on the board! 2. Check email for message from Kristy! 3. If/When you are scheduled, pick up make up slip, Interview Questions, Business Info form, and Employer Eval form on back counter. If you have shadowed... --Put your Interview Questions and Employer Eval form in folder. --Complete the QuickTopic Post --Pick up a STUDENT Evaluation form off the back counter (far right), complete it, then staple it to your Employer Eval form in your career folder. --Pick up a West Central thank you note & envelope in the box on the back counter. Follow instructions on the Job Shadow Assignments page under more... tab. Complete Fast Shadow Facts (hard copy) READ DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY! Acceptable Fast Shadow Facts Unacceptable Fast Shadow Facts =================================================================== Week of November 25-27 Monday 11/25 Finish Viewing: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer Click to open and take notes on the worksheet that goes with the video; If you are absent for class, WATCH it and do notes! Click to ACCESS THE VIDEO ONLINE Remember that you have to be logged out of YouTube for it to work! Tuesday 11/27 (9:00 am start) 1. Take F. Scott Fitzgerald: An American Dreamer Quiz using video notes. There will also be a few questions on Mr. C's Roaring Twenties Party Analolgy from last Friday. Today we'll introduce a Fitzgerald work with the theme of social status. Social status was a key theme in all of Fitzgerald's works. You'll meet Dexter Green and read about those dreams destined never to come true. From the first sentences of "Winter Dreams," Fitzgerald examined social classes. Assignment: Read p. 862 about Fitzgerald first. Read p. 840 both columns Read "Winter Dreams" pp. 841-859 and complete reading guide as you read! Wednesday 11/27(1:30 Dismissal) Reading Day: Continue Reading "Winter Dreams" and working on reading guide Here is a link to the story online. The disadvantage is that you don't have the page numbers and the benefit of the highlighting in the lit book. How are Dexter's two ambitions--achieving material success and winning Judy's hand--tied together? Why can't Dexter fully escape from Judy's magnetic charms? Work through ALL of these resources before Monday Quiz! 1. Winter Dreams Video Review (1:31) 2. View: Winter Dreams Analysis (10:13) 3. F. Scott & Dexter Similarities 4. What ever happened to Scotty Fitzgerald? Review literary analysis structure. See this site. See a visual representation here. Read and label lit analysis of "Winter Dreams" Monday 12/2 Go thru Close Reading worksheet Quick Review: Chronological Ordering of "Winter Dreams" events in groups Chronological ordering answers Get a lit book out of the cupboard and find your notes. Use both to Take Quiz over "Winter Dreams" at Quia When you finish, read the "Winter Dreams" lit analysis you got yesterday. Quietly read for pleasure when you finish. Wait until everyone is done to put books back in cupboard. Previous Weeks' Lessons Week of November 18-22 Monday 11/18 MUG: Hyphens, Dashes and Ellipsis Review Grammar Lab Expectations Using Hyphens and Dashes Cheat Sheet View: How to Use Hyphens View: ACT Boot Camp: Dashes View: How to Use Ellipses Together: How to Use Dashes Worksheet Remember: Hyphens=used internally within a word (sixty-seven). Dashes=within a sentence Now alone: Try This HYPHENS practice Using menu on the left, work through Independent Lab: Khan Academy Lesson on Dashes, Hyphens and Ellipsis Points Complete assignment at Quia on Hyphens, Dashes and Ellipses =============================== Tuesday 11/19 MUG: Intro to 14 comma rules in packet shared in class =============================== Wednesday 11/20 ACT Comma Practice: Comma-kazi! Grammar Lab Day: With a CAN DO attitude-- practice with these all of these activities before assessments tomorrow. My expectation is that you will spend ALL of class today focusing on COMMAS!! If you don't finish in class, finish AFTER class. Screenshots due TONIGHT! You'll email me 3 screenshots in ONE email from practice below. 2. Introductory Phrase or Clause 3. SWABIs 4. FANBOYS 5. Appositives 6. Interruptors 7. Multiple Choice--click on the link labeled Multiple Choice in the menu on the left! 8. Screenshot and send me the results for Insert the commas! see sample screenshot #1 to the right 9. Practice commas here! 10. Screenshot and send me the results for Last best practice here! see screenshot #2 to right 11. Multiple Choice Quiz #1 Keep Going! Comma Splice Error=using a comma where you need something STRONGER! Fix in 4 ways: create a fanboy, use a semicolon, use a period or use a colon (if it works) comma splices=using a comma between 2 sentences when you need something stronger like a period or semicolon run-ons=2 or 3 complete sentences run together with no punctuation sentence fragments=group of words that CAN'T stand alone as a sentence Here is your Cheat Sheat for definition/clarification 1. View with earbuds: Comma Splices on the ACT 2. : Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices 3. Comma Splices Exercise 1 4. Comma Splices Exercise 2 5, Screenshot and send me the rsults of Multiple Choice Quiz #2 see screenshot #3 to right REMEMBER: email me 3 screenshots in ONE email Still not feeling solid on Run-ons, Fragments, Comma Splices? Here's more practice you could do before tomorrow's assessments: Pick the Run-On Sentences Run-On Sentences Comma Splice or Fine? Comma Splice Quiz Complete Sentence or Fragment #1 Complete Sentence or Fragments #2 =============================== Thursday 11/21 Grammar Lab Assessment Day Go over last page of comma packet together Assessments: Use your rules packet. Assessments (I'll record better 2 of 3) 1. Complete and submit Comma Usage Assignment #1 at Quia. (18 pts) 2. Comma Usage at Quia (11 pts) 3. Complete and submit Comma Assignment #2 at Quia (11 pts)- 4. Comma Assignment #3 at Quia--this is another 18 point one Assessments (I'll record better 2 of 3) 1. Comma Splices and Run-on/Fused Sentences (15 pts) *see the reminders at the top of this assessment below! 2. Comma Splice or Run on?(15 pts) Feed see the reminders at the top of this assessment below! 3. Fragments, Run-ons, Comma Splices assignment (15 pts) =============================== Friday 11/22 Introducing: The Roaring Twenties View: (fill in this Listening Guide! I'll give you a copy. Keep in folder!) 1. The Roaring 1920s Part 1 (11:56) Watch in class Introducing: The GREATEST AMERICAN AUTHOR to come out of that decade: View: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer Take notes on the 50-minute video Click to open and take notes on the worksheet that goes with the video; If you are absent for class, WATCH it and do notes! We won't get all the way through on Friday. Return here to see how far we get. Click to ACCESS THE VIDEO ONLINE Read Follow up article on F. Scott Fitzgerald ============================== Week of November 11-15 Monday 11/11 and Tuesday 11/12 Today we'll learn about the man who brought us these great aphorisms for life: 1. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." so.... 2. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." 3. "Our life is frittered away by detail....simplify, simplify!" Before your trip to the woods, to learn more about Henry David Thoreau: View: Thoreau and Walden Pond (4:11) Today, you will take a quiet, SELF-guided tour through Henry David's Thoreau's "Walden"! Enjoy your trip to the woods!! 1. Get a big yellow lit book. If you are absent, Here is your copy 2. Get a Walden activity packet. 3. Turn to pg. 381. Read EVERYTHING on that page as an introduction. Then read first 2 pages of packet. Also please use the packet as your own READER'S NOTEBOOK to jot down some of Thoreau's aphorisms. As you work your way through reading the text, record thoughtful responses. 4. After your journey, we'll return here: View: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau-part 1 (7:35) View: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau-part 2 (9:32) View: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau part 6 at 3:57 (5:30) 5. . Finally, AFTER you finish the close reading activity and read these TWO Real-World Applications of Thoreau's philosophy: View: Learn to 'live deliberately' with 'Walden' game on Thoreau's birthday Story #1 Story #2 Be sure to click thru the photos--the very last one is the cabin and Thoreau statue Thoreau and Pink Floyd! Time lyrics Time at 2:07 Thoreau's 200th Birthday Party (2017) The last lines of Walden: "Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." Explanation? Every morning a new day dawns, the sun comes up--but you don't see that dawn, or experience that light, unless you are out of bed and awake to see it. In the same way, there are many opportunities to become an enlightened person, to "see the light" of truth, to grow in learning and wisdom -- but we will receive that "light" only to the extent that we are awake to it, that is, open to receiving it, ready to hear or see. Transcendentalism tells us that. For instance, in "Self-Reliance" Emerson wrote that "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." In that line, he is saying that we must trust our own thoughts, we must see and hear our own wisdom. We should not dismiss our own thoughts and replace them with the words of poets and people that society calls wise. The "luster of the firmament" would be like the reference in your quote to "the light which puts out our eyes." That light, the wisdom offered by the words of others, can be so bright that it blinds us -- and here I think he is saying that if we take someone else's words IN PLACE OF our own thoughts and in-ward knowing, we will not be able to be enlightened, but will suffer a different kind of darkness. It takes more than "the mere lapse of time" to bring us enlightenment. It takes our own attendance to the matter; it takes trusting our inward thoughts and experiences. Click to Access Notes for Literature Unit test Thursday Wednesday 11/13 Click to Access Notes for Literature Unit test Thursday 4. After your journey, we'll return here: View: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau-part 1 (7:35) View: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau-part 2 (9:32) View: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau part 6 at 3:57 (5:30) Thursday 11/14 and Friday 11/15 Literature Test Week of November 4-8 Monday 11/4 and Tuesday 11/5 Common Core focus: Text dependent Questions for "What is an American?" RI.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. RI.11-12.2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text. RI.11-12.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text Objective: You are no doubt familiar with the term "melting pot" used to describe America. Today you'll learn about the man and the literary work in which that phrase was first coined! The “melting pot” is one of the strongest images of America’s willingness to welcome and embrace people from many different countries, races, and religions, all hoping to find freedom, new opportunities, and a better way of life. The old "melting pot" metaphor is giving way to new metaphors such as "salad bowl" and "mosaic", mixtures of various ingredients that keep their individual characteristics. Immigrant populations within the United States are not being blended together in one "pot", but rather they are transforming American Society (and South Dakota! )into a truly multicultural mosaic. New Hindu Temple in Tea But first, we'll kick it back to when your parents were young to see how they might have learned about View: "The Great American Melting Pot" View: Six Americans Project: What does it mean to be an American? Read before viewing: Throughout our nation's history, the United States of America has been described as a "melting pot" of different people, cultures, and ideas. At the same time, we citizens are united under a common flag. Given a country so prominent on the world stage... and one with steep demographic diversity, what factors contribute to an "American identity?" Six Americans is an original, devised theatrical event that incorporates autobiographical material, sketch comedy, poetry, music, dance, and multimedia to explore the question, "What does it mean to be 'American'?" We will look at two "Letters" with the same title: Revolutionary Age: "What is an American?" written in 1782 by Michel-Guillaume Jean De Crevecouer Relevance Today: "What is an American?" written 235 years later in February 2017 by Immigration Lawyer Randy Feldman Read pg. 289 (Build Background and Active Reading) and pg. 294 (the blue box) View St. Jean De Crevecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer (stop at 2:06) View Intro and read or remember these notes on De Crevecouer (3:19) on the BACK of your packet Read the Epistle (Letter) together, then fill in the close reading activity. Answer Discussion questions on 3rd page of packet. ======================================================= Let's look at a poem about emigration written about the same time as the "What is an American?" letter See Collections book pg. 151, Read about Freneau Go to pg. 155. Published in 1795 "On the Emigration to America & Peopling the Western Country" by Philip Freneau Read the stanzas, read the paraphrase, then read the explication in the margins. Summary: A young man sets off from despotic Europe to find his happiness in the new world. He goes to tame nature's reign. At his approach, the unsocial Indians retreat further to the darker forests. He observes that the Mississippi should no longer be useless and idle. He finds no land so blessed as this one--free of kings and priests who enchain the mind, free of slavery. He refuses the east (Europe, Asia) and provides an optimistic vision of the bright future of America.....or does he? The tone of Freneau’s “On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country” seems very festive and positive. Is it? Though it seems to be built on the depictions of nature, this poem is a political verse. The poet expressed the Nationalism that was common during the era and that can be found in the works of J.Hector St.John de Crevecoeur and Benjamin Franklin. Brief analysis: A narrative poem describing emigration to American in general Description is full of the political views of the author Praises the potential of the new found land and its natural riches At same time, feels sorry for nature being threatened by actions of men to come Maybe surprisingly shows no sympathy for the retreating Indians Argue: Freneau expresses his hope for the future of America in his celebrated poem "On the Emigration to American and Peopling the Western Country," in which he utilizes idyllic imagery to describe the new country liberated from England. While the poem outwardly conveys a sense of optimism for the opportunities presented for America, Freneau's underlying message warns against the dangers of kings and religious power, although he expresses a similar tyrannical disposition toward the natives in the new land. If time allows... Read the 2017 essay "What is a American?" Discuss 3-2-1 at tables, and share out. 3=most important sentences in the essay 2=most powerful arguments 1=main similarity between the 1782 essay and this one from 235 years later. American spirit, slavery, open-mindedness, the American Dream,--melting pot, diversity. Wednesday 11/6 Read pp. 336, 340-342: Intro to Romanticism and Transcendentalism Read intro to from "Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson pg. 363 1. An aphorism is a tersely (briefly) phrased statement of a truth or opinion (a maxim, a proverb). An epigram is a concise, witty, and often paradoxical remark or saying (an epigram can also be a short, usually satirical poem with a witty ending). Note how Emerson’s writings can be viewed as both aphoristic as well as epigrammatic. Here are 7 aphorisms (or epigrams) from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” :
Record notes from THIS PRESENTATION. Return to lit book pg. 363--Published in 1841, "Self-Reliance" is an essay that urges readers to trust their own intuition and common sense rather than automatically following popular opinion and conforming to the will of the majority. Read and study the passage from "Self-Reliance" following these steps. 1. Open the AUDIO VERSION HERE (just 4 1/2 minutes). 2. Follow along on THESE Hard Copies as you listen--MORE THAN ONCE! Sorry about the quality. It's the best our copier could do. If you zoom in, it's a lot better! I included 2 copies of the essay. DO look at both, as there are good margin notes and comments on BOTH copies! 3. Complete this ANALYSIS. (I will also give you a hard copy). This is the kind of analysis you will have to do for AP! --Two themes to watch for: 1. Trust your own inner voice! 2. Avoid consistency as an end in itself: Being too consistent and blindly following someone else's ideas is not always wise. An idea or regimen to which you stubbornly cling can become outmoded tomorrow. Is Emerson's work relevant today? The answer, I believe, is resounding YES! Emerson's observations of his own society and of the individual's place in it still hold true today, more than one hundred years after his death. Throughout his work, Emerson emphasizes the value of and encourages the development of individuality, a celebration of both the mind and the spirit which, as the world grows more complex, is as applicable today as it was during Emerson's day.. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," he writes in Self-Reliance . See Emerson Quote Photo to the right for another RELEVANT bit of GROWTH MINDSET wisdom: If you’ve ever done any serious weight training you know that your muscles won’t grow if you keep on doing the same thing. They will max out! As in the gym, so it is in life. If you don’t stretch yourself, if you don’t get out of your comfort zone and do what you haven’t done before (whether that's in academics, athletics, activities, volunteerism, travel) you will never grow. So commit to raise the bar today, stretch your horizons, and you will stretch your life! Literature: from "Self Reliance" 1. Emerson Quotes 2. View this Student Project, which other than the pronunciation of Socrates, does a nice job of summarizing the piece. Click to Access Notes for Literature Unit test next week ================================================================= "Self Reliance"--Share analyses from slides and worksheet View: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Psychology of Self-Reliance ================== Thursday 11/7 and Friday 11/8 Today we'll learn about the man who brought us these great aphorisms for life: 1. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." so.... 2. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." 3. "Our life is frittered away by detail....simplify, simplify!" Before your trip to the woods, to learn more about Henry David Thoreau: View: Thoreau and Walden Pond (4:11) Today, you will take a quiet, SELF-guided tour through Henry David's Thoreau's "Walden"! Enjoy your trip to the woods!! 1. Get a big yellow lit book. If you are absent, Here is your copy 2. Get a Walden activity packet. 3. Turn to pg. 381. Read EVERYTHING on that page as an introduction. Then read first 2 pages of packet. Also please use the packet as your own READER'S NOTEBOOK to jot down some of Thoreau's aphorisms. As you work your way through reading the text, record thoughtful responses. 4. After your journey, we'll return here: View: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau-part 1 (7:35) View: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau-part 2 (9:32) View: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau part 6 at 3:57 (5:30) 5. . Finally, AFTER you finish the close reading activity and read these TWO Real-World Applications of Thoreau's philosophy: View: Learn to 'live deliberately' with 'Walden' game on Thoreau's birthday Story #1 Story #2 Be sure to click thru the photos--the very last one is the cabin and Thoreau statue Thoreau and Pink Floyd! Time lyrics Time at 2:07 Thoreau's 200th Birthday Party (2017) The last lines of Walden: "Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." Explanation? Every morning a new day dawns, the sun comes up--but you don't see that dawn, or experience that light, unless you are out of bed and awake to see it. In the same way, there are many opportunities to become an enlightened person, to "see the light" of truth, to grow in learning and wisdom -- but we will receive that "light" only to the extent that we are awake to it, that is, open to receiving it, ready to hear or see. Transcendentalism tells us that. For instance, in "Self-Reliance" Emerson wrote that "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." In that line, he is saying that we must trust our own thoughts, we must see and hear our own wisdom. We should not dismiss our own thoughts and replace them with the words of poets and people that society calls wise. The "luster of the firmament" would be like the reference in your quote to "the light which puts out our eyes." That light, the wisdom offered by the words of others, can be so bright that it blinds us -- and here I think he is saying that if we take someone else's words IN PLACE OF our own thoughts and in-ward knowing, we will not be able to be enlightened, but will suffer a different kind of darkness. It takes more than "the mere lapse of time" to bring us enlightenment. It takes our own attendance to the matter; it takes trusting our inward thoughts and experiences. Click to Access Notes for Literature Unit test Thursday Week of November 26-30 Monday 11/26 Remember these F. Scott & Dexter Similarities Did you finish reading "Winter Dreams" Literary Analysis? Store in career folder for easy access. Intro to The Great Gatsby: pick up book and packets Read Preface Read pg. 1 of packet Complete Character Diagram in packet using the display on the board Discuss the 4 settings--posters on board/map on pg. 206 Fill in character notes in packet Read to pg. 11 of Chapter 1. Answer first 13 questions. View first few minutes of movie just to get picture of characters in your mind. Assignment : Read Chapter 1 (Tuesday) and 2 (Wednesday). Answer discussion questions as you read. Listen Here! Gatsby Audio Files if you need to listen Tuesday 11/27 Kahoot for Chapter 1 View: Gatsby's American Dream Chapter 1 (5:04), a vlog from John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns Go through Chapter 1 discussion questions Assignment: Chapter 2 for tomorrow Wednesday 11/28 Review Kahoot Questions for Chapter 2 View: The Great Gatsby: Living the Dream in the Valley of Ashes (just through 2:00) View View Chapter 1 (to 10:03) and Chapter 2 (10:03 to 27:20) About the Gatsby quizzes: 1. You will get no feedback until everyone has taken each quiz, so check the following day. 2. If I see a cell phone any time during the class period, you'll forfeit that day's points. 3. The quizzes are all set for 15 to 20 minutes. If time runs out, you won't get more. 4. For most quizzes, you will be able to use your book (not each other!), but you WON'T have time to look up every answer without running out of time. Read carefully BEFORE class! Thursday 11/29 View: GG Chapter 1 Summary & Analysis View: GG Chapter 2 Summary & Analysis Take Great Gastby Quiz Chapter 1 & 2 (use BOOK, not notes packet) Assignment : Read Chapter 3 and 4 for Monday Answer discussion questions as you read Listen Here: Files that will download to iTunes Listen Here: Gatsby Audio Files if you need to listen Friday 11/30 Friday Focus on the Future Assignment: Read Chapter 4 for Monday 12/3 and Chapter 5 for Tuesday 12/4 Work on Job Shadow Activities: Work on finishing Job Shadow Assignments: Staple together the 3 items in red below (or whatever you have done) and put in my folder so I can take them home this weekend! 1. Post HERE at Quick Topic. (Read directions carefully!) 2. Write Thank You Note following THIS FORMAT. Give me 50 cents for stamp. 3. Give me your Student & Employer Evals stapled together 4. Make sure 20 interviews questions are completed 5.. Complete Business Info form 6. Complete Fast Shadow Facts (hard copy) READ DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY! 7. Upload 5 Images document to Google Drive folder I shared this week! It must look JUST like the example! Monday 12/3 View Chapter 3 Lecture -(15:00)-record definition for JUXTAPOSITION in discussion questions packet and mark that term in Chapter 4 pg. 75 Do Chapter 3-4 Summary & Analysis View Chapter 3 (24:19-46:33) "I'm Gatsby!" Kahoot for Chapter 3. View Chap 4 Lecture at 8:56 Kahoot for Chapter 4 View Chapter 4 --ending at "Your cousin will thank you." (46:48-56:00) Do Close Reading of pp. 79-83 about Daisy and Gatsby's past Discuss what "bombshells" are uncovered with this monologue. Fitzgerald had to drastically change this section of the novel's format; the rest of the book is written entirely from Nick's perspective. This is the only scene that gives us information outside of Nick's knowledge. Also look at the final paragraph of Chapter 4 where Nick kisses Jordan (not out of love, but because he was jealous that he didn't have someone to "haunt" him like Tom and Gatsby). Students ALWAYS argue that Nick does this because he realizes that he likes Jordan. But go back to the text! Phrases like "the girl beside me" and "wan, scornful mouth" give away his general disregard for who Jordan is---he just wants to have someone, at least temporarily. Take Chapter 3-4 Quiz at Quia Assignment for Tuesday 12/4: Read Chapter 5 and complete (use the handout I provide!) Close Reading Activity for Pivotal Chapter 5 Listen Here! Gatsby Audio Files if you need to listen Listen Here: Files that will download to iTunes DIDLS: The Valley of Ashes Previous Weeks' Lessons Week of November 19-21 Wednesday 11/21 Quietly read for pleasure. Happy Thanksgiving! Tuesday 11/20 Get a lit book out of the cupboard and find your notes. Use both to Take Quiz over "Winter Dreams" at Quia When you finish, read the "Winter Dreams" lit analysis you got yesterday. Quietly read for pleasure when you finish. Wait until everyone is done to put books back in cupboard. Monday 11/19 Today we examine a Fitzgerald work with the theme of social status. How are Dexter's two ambitions--achieving material success and winning Judy's hand--tied together? Why can't Dexter fully escape from Judy's magnetic charms? 1. Winter Dreams Video Review (1:31) 2. Chronological Ordering of "Winter Dreams" events in groups 3. View: Winter Dreams Analysis (10:13) 4. Go thru Close Reading worksheet F. Scott & Dexter Similarities Chronological ordering answers What ever happened to Scotty Fitzgerald? Review literary analysis structure. See this site. See a visual representation here. Read and label lit analysis of "Winter Dreams" Week of November 12-16 Friday 11/16 Friday Focus on the Future Jared Morken (SD Army National Guard) will visit all classes ================================ Thursday 11/15 Reading Day: Continue Reading "Winter Dreams" and working on reading guide Here is a link to the story online. The disadvantage is that you don't have the page numbers and the benefit of the highlighting in the lit book. ================================ Wednesday 11/14 Finish Fitzgerald Video and Notes Today we'll introduce a Fitzgerald work with the theme of social status. Social status was a key theme in all of Fitzgerald's works. You'll meet Dexter Green and read about those dreams destined never to come true. From the first sentences of "Winter Dreams," Fitzgerald examined social classes. Assignment: Read p. 862 about Fitzgerald first. Read p. 840 both columns Read "Winter Dreams" pp. 841-859 and complete reading guide as you read! Be prepared for discussion and quiz on Monday. ================================ Tuesday 11/13 View: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer Take notes on the 50-minute video Click to open and take notes on the worksheet that goes with the video; If you are absent for class, have no fear! The video is also available on YouTube, broken into short 9-minute pieces: Click to access the video online Read Follow up article on F. Scott Fitzgerald ================================ Monday 11/12 Intro to 1920s View: (fill in Listening Guide! I'll give you a copy. Keep in folder!) 1. The Roaring 1920s Part 1 (11:56) 2. To Live in the 20s--6 minutes of video clips from the 1920s depicting many aspects of the culture of the decade. 3. Life in the Roaring 1920s--(5:57) a student project 3. Bet You Didn't Know: Prohibition History(2:45) 4. Prohibition in the 1920s from CBS Sunday Morning --video dated out--fill in notes from story 5. Prohibition: The Nobel Experiment Week of November 5-9 Friday 11/9: No School! ================================ Thursday 11/8 Did you view the Comma Splice video yesterday? Do you understand the difference between comma splices, run-ons, fragments? If not, view: View: Comma Splices on the ACT View: Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices Assessments: Use your rules packet. I'll record the better 18 and the better 11 and the better 15. Do all SIX!! 1. Complete and submit Comma Usage Assignment #1 at Quia. (18 pts) Feedback 2. Comma Usage at Quia (11 pts) Feedback 3. Complete and submit Comma Assignment #2 at Quia (11 pts)--(no feedback) 4. Comma Assignment #3 at Quia--this is another 18 point one (no feedback). 5. Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences (15 pts) Feedback 6. Comma Splice or Run on?(15 pts) No Feedback ================================ Wednesdsay 11/7 #1→ ACT Comma Practice: Comma-kazi! Finish #17-32 on last page of comma packet. Grammar Lab Day: With a CAN DO attitude-- practice with these all of these activities before assessments tomorrow. My expectation is that you will spend ALL of class today focusing on COMMAS!! You'll email me 3 screenshots in ONE email from practice below. 2. Introductory Phrase or Clause 3. SWABIs 4. FANBOYS #2→ 5. Appositives 6. Interruptors Multiple Choice--click on the link labeled Multiple Choice in the menu on the left! Screenshot and send me the results for Insert the commas! see sample screenshot #1 to the right Practice commas here! Screenshot and send me the results for Last best practice here! see screenshot #2 to right Multiple Choice Quiz #1 Comma Splice Error=using a comma where you need something STRONGER! #3→ Fix in 4 ways: create a fanboy, use a semicolon, use a period or use a colon (if it works) View with earbuds: Comma Splices on the ACT Comma Splices Exercise 1 Comma Splices Exercise 2 Screenshot and send me the rsults of Multiple Choice Quiz #2 see screenshot #3 to right REMEMBER: email me 3 screenshots in ONE email ================================ Tuesday 11/6 Intro to 14 comma rules Do Comma Rule Sheet & practice packet that I will share ================================ Monday 11/5: 1:30 dismiss--33 min classes If you feel like you need review, Using menu on the left, work through Independent Lab. Skip the videos!: Khan Academy Lesson on Dashes, Hyphens and Ellipsis Points Skip the video:: Khan Academy Lesson Parentheses Complete assignment at Quia on Hyphens, Dashes and Ellipses Complete assignment at Quia on Parentheses ================================================================ Friday 11/2 MUG: Hyphens (-), Dashes (- -), Ellipsis (...), and Parentheses ( ) Using Hyphens and Dashes Cheat Sheet Hyphens, Dashes and Ellipsis Packet View: How to Use Hyphens View: ACT Boot Camp: Dashes View: How to Use Ellipses Try This HYPHENS practice Remember: Hyphens=used internally within a word (sixty-seven). Dashes=within a sentence Correct the last 2 pages from yesterday's packet. View: Using Parentheses How to Use Parenthese and Dashes Worksheet (I will provide hard copy in class). Thursday 11/1 Finish Early American Lit Test |
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