Week of November 30-December 4
Monday 11/30 Introduction to The Great Gatsby Read and Highlight pg. 1 of packet Complete Character Diagram in packet/on board Discuss the 4 settings/posters/map on pg. 206 of book. Fill in character notes F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby is a tragic love story, a mystery, and a social commentary on American life. The Great Gatsby may be the most popular classic in modern American fiction. Since its publication in 1925, Fitzgerald's masterpiece has become a touchstone for generations of readers and writers, many of whom reread it every few years as a ritual of imaginative renewal. The story of Jay Gatsby's desperate quest to win back his first love reverberates with themes characteristically American and universally human, among them the importance of honesty, the temptations of wealth, and the struggle to escape the past. Click on December tab for Tuesday lesson Week of November 23-25 Monday 11/23--Attendance in Zoom To prepare for tomorrow's assessments: 1. Are your Roaring Twenties Notes completed? 2. Are your F. Scott Fitzgerald-American Dreamer Video Notes completed? 3. Did you watch "Bernice Bobs Her Hair?" 4. Read together and highlight the "BB Her Hair" worksheet in folder. 5. Did you watch the "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" analysis? View: "Bernice" Discussion (at 3:50) 6. Did you read the lyrics and LISTEN to the song "Bernice Bobs Her Hair?" You MUST because it will be included on the quiz tomorrow! "Bernice" is such a popular story that a band wrote a song about it! Read the Lyrics to Bernice Bobs Her Hair by Divine Comedy (1993) as you LISTEN. 7. Complete this Kahoot Challenge on "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" 8. Complete this Kahoot Challenge on the F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography Movie *Tomorrow's assessments will be on ONLY during your class period. You must be on camera in Zoom with me during the assessments. If you aren't finished at the end of class time, stay on. If you close out without finishing, you won't get back in. *Of the 400+ students who have taken "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" assessment, the MEAN/AVERAGE time in the quiz is 8:45. Of the 400+ students who have taken "F. Scott Fitzgerald Bio" assessment, the MEAN/AVERAGE time in the quiz is 14:21. Tuesday 11/24--Attend in Zoom In class Assessment Day: In Zoom and On Camera. Feel free to stay as long as you need to finish! 1. Take F. Scott Fitzgerald: An American Dreamer Quiz and Roaring 20s Video Notes using 2 sets of video notes in your folder. and 2. Take "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" quiz at Quia using summary notes in your folder. Wednesday 11/25--Attendance check in Zoom-1:30 Dismiss Make up day in Zoom. Did you miss or not finish yesterday's 2 assessments? They must be done BEFORE you leave for Thanksgiving break! Zoom on in or come on in! Week of November 16-20, 2020 Assignments posted in Google Classroom If you were absent and didn't have someone deliver a folder, it's on the table outside of Jody's office ready for pick up. Monday 11/16--attendance in Zoom! Introducing: The Roaring Twenties We do: View: How Teachers Take Attendance in Zoom You Do: **Sorry! Right off the bat, we have a problem! The person who helped me run handouts missed the fact that this Listening Guide packet was 2-sided! So, I've shared a Google Doc with you in classroom. As you View: fill in the Listening Guide in folder. You have just pg. 1 and 3 in your folder; you're missing 2. The whole thing is in a Google Doc in Classroom). You will use these notes for an assessment later on! 1. The Roaring 1920s Part 1 (11:56) 2. 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 so it will likely just spin, but the transcript of the video is below. Fill in notes on pg. 2 and 3 of packet from the story at this site! 5. Prohibition: The Nobel Experiment (no notes--just watch & listen!) Tuesday 11/17--attendance in Zoom! 1. Go through notes from yesterday together to make sure you didn't miss anything. 2. Introducing: The GREATEST AMERICAN AUTHOR to come out of the Roaring Twenties: 3. 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 on Thursday. 4. Click to Access the Video Part 1 Part 2 Online (23:09) I'll only expect you to finish what we'd get to in class. Wednesday 11/18--Attendance in Zoom In Zoom, go over answers for first part of video. Finish Viewing: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer Click to Access: 1. Video Part 1 2.. Part 2 Online (23:09) Read Follow up article on F. Scott Fitzgerald Thursday 11/19--CIVIL Engineering Shadow at 1:00 pm! In Zoom, go over answers for rest of F. Scott Fitzgerald Video Remember that you just learned that F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories and novels are based on personal experiences and very often deal with social status. Think about it: Have you ever received a bad haircut? Did you ever cut your own hair when you were little? How did you feel? Today we'll look at a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that is almost 100 years old but could just as easily have been written about teenagers today. Teens in ANY era struggle with SOCIAL STATUS & trying to FIT IN. Some go to great lengths to fit in. In "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," we see... 1. how young women were regarded in the 1920s, 2. how tempting popularity can be, and 3. how DANGEROUS it is to compromise your values just to fit in. Introduction to "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." We can't underestimate the historical significance and controversy about Bobbed Hair Bernice is just flirting with the idea of cutting her hair, but beneath the playfulness is the theme of the painfulness of growing up, of being a young woman trying to define herself among the pressures of boyfriends and girlfriends. Listen CAREFULLY to Henry Fonda's Introduction to the movie (to 2:28). The main characters are Bernice, Marjorie and Warren. VIEW the short story (length is 47:50). You really should watch the whole thing in one sitting! At the start of the movie, you see girls at a party using jelly beans for lip color! Questions to think and talk about: 1. Through the character of Marjorie, does Fitzgerald paint a flattering picture of the flapper? Is she misguided, a superficial flirt or a feminist? 2. Who would you prefer to have as a friend--Marjorie, Bernice, or Warren? What are the most striking character traits of each person? 3. Does Bernice change for the better or for the worse over the course of the story? Was the “sophisticated” environment that Bernice enters corrupting or character building? 4. Does this story have a “happy ending?” Did Marjorie deserve her fate? Friday 11/20--No attendance in Zoom Required, but.. To prove participation for the day, go to Google Classroom where you'll find instructions about a brief response related to the shocking ending of this story! Activity will be posted at the start of 2nd period after my first period planning. The activity MUST be completed by 3:30 or absence will be counted for your class period and 0 recorded for activity. Finish Bernice Bobs Her Hair MOVIE Read the "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" Summary IN YOUR FOLDER!! View: "Bernice" Discussion (at 3:50) "Bernice" is such a popular story that a band wrote a song about it! Read the Lyrics to Bernice Bobs Her Hair by Divine Comedy (1993) as you LISTEN. Week of November 9-13 Monday 11/9 (Air Force Shadow 11:00 AM) Grammar Lab: Semicolons If you are/were absent HERE is the Semicolons packet 1. View Using Semicolons PPT 2. View Sean on Semicolons 3. View ACT Grammar: Semicolons 4. Review Semicolon vs. Colon: Basic Review of the rules 5. Finish Semicolons Pre-test packet from Friday. Go back to the camel page to the ones we DIDN'T do. Also pick up SINGLE sheet practice on back shelf. **If you have questions about ANY of the sentences in the following exercises PLEASE ask!! :-) 6. Try the Semicolons and Colons Quiz 7. Now practice using semicolons Tuesday 11/10 (Nursing Shadow 1:00 PM) 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 Wednesday 11/11 Veterans Day observation and 1st Quarter Achievement Assembly in SRB Grammar Lab: Hyphens, Dashes, Ellipsis and Parentheses Using Hyphens and Dashes If you are absent, here is the Pre-Test (hard copy provided in class) Here is the Pre-Test Key (coming soon!) 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 Do Hyphens, Dashes and Ellipsis Packet together If you are absent, here is the packet and here are the keys Try This HYPHENS practice Thursday 11/12--REFRESH PAGE FREQUENTLY! Grammar Lab Day: Hyphens, Dashes, Ellipsis and Parentheses We do: Correct paragraph in yesterday's packet If you are absent, here is the How to Use Parentheses and Dashes Worksheet we will do in class (hard copy on speaker table) Do both exercises. If you are absent, here is the KEY for that activity You Do: 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. You'll get 3 Summaries like this Keep going one! ☛ ☛ ☛ Go to: Khan Academy Lesson on Dashes, Hyphens and Ellipsis Points 2. Complete this Parentheses Usage Assignment at Quia. 3. 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! So sorry. With so many students absent right now requiring correspondence and uploading of worksheets and keys, I did not get an alternate quiz ready today in order to drop a lower score. If you want to do a 2nd one, you must let me know TODAY (right now in an email) so I can add that to my to-do list for tonight and then report here during ER on Friday. 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 5. Go through Job Shadow Resources at GC (FSF, QuickT) *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. Week of November 2-6 Monday 11/2 Welcome, Amanda Schuette from Southeast Tech!(Per 3, 5, 6) Tuesday 11/3 MUG: (Mechanics, Usage & Grammar) Grammar Lab 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! 1. Take Pre-test from back shelf. After completing PUT EARBUDS in and... 2. View THIS video to correct your answers on pre-test 3. View the Colon PPT 4. View Shaun on Colons 5. Then, View: ACT English Tips: Colons 7. Now Practice! There is MORE than one right answer for each!! 8. Take this 4-pt. Quiz from the MLA Style Center 9. Finally, 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! One last rule: When using a quotation of 3 lines or longer, use a COLON to introduce it, not a comma. Now STOP and Complete BOTH the 1. Colon Assignment #1 at Quia for a grade. 2. 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. Wednesday 11/4 MUG: Colons. We do together: 1. 2-sided colon worksheet. You Do: Do NOT SKIP or simply SKIM the practice activities! They are intended to help you master the skill!! 1. Scroll down just a little to View this Grammar Revolution Video on Colons 2. Read What is a colon? 3. Do Colon Exercise 1 4. 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. 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! 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! If you did not finish one of YESTERDAY's assignments, do those TODAY!! Links above under Tuesday or on Google Classroom. -- Take Colons Quiz #1 at Quia (Instant feedback will be provided) --Take Colons Quiz #2 at Quia (No feedback will be provided until after all have taken). ======================================================================== 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 *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. MUG: Introduce Semicolons (Important: Click to download this document! Study it carefully!) What's the difference between a semicolon sentence and a FANBOYS sentence? 2. Pre-test with semicolons and colons ======================================================= Last Year's Lessons 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. If you have shadowed, complete the QuickTopic Post If you have shadowed, 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. If you have shadowed, 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. Reminders: Complete Fast Shadow Facts (hard copy) READ DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY! Acceptable Fast Shadow Facts Unacceptable Fast Shadow Facts Upload 5 Images document to Google Drive folder I shared this week! It must look JUST like the example! =================================================================== Week of November 25-27 Monday 11/25 Intro to The Great Gatsby: pick up packets Read and Highlight pg. 1 of packet Complete Character Diagram in packet/on board Discuss the 4 settings/posters/map last page of packet Fill in character notes Tuesday 11/27 (9:00 am start) F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby is a tragic love story, a mystery, and a social commentary on American life. The Great Gatsby may be the most popular classic in modern American fiction. Since its publication in 1925, Fitzgerald's masterpiece has become a touchstone for generations of readers and writers, many of whom reread it every few years as a ritual of imaginative renewal. The story of Jay Gatsby's desperate quest to win back his first love reverberates with themes characteristically American and universally human, among them the importance of honesty, the temptations of wealth, and the struggle to escape the past. Though The Great Gatsby is less than two hundred pages, there is no bigger read in American literature. What I do for YOU: 1. Provide audio version 2. Provide discussion questions to guide your reading 3. Show you summary and analysis videos of most chapters 4. Show you the movie as we read 5. Provide review with Kahoots for most chapters What YOU need to do: 1. READ THE BOOK! If you struggle to read, LISTEN to the audio version! 2. Tune in to all of the review View: Intro to The Great Gastby Begin Reading Chapter 1. Answer discussion questions. Assignment: Finish Chapter 1 Listen Here: Files that will download to iTunes Listen Here! Gatsby Audio Files if you need to listen Wednesday 11/27 (1:30 Dismissal) View Chapter 1 (to 10:03) View: Gatsby's American Dream Chapter 1 (5:04) Kahoot for Chapter 1 Assignment:Read Chapter 2 for Quiz over Chapter 1-2 on 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 Previous Weeks' Lessons Week of November 18-22 Monday 11/18 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, 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 =============================== Tuesday 11/19 Finish Viewing: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer If you are absent, finish viewing and taking movie notes Click to ACCESS THE VIDEO ONLINE =============================== Wednesday 11/20 Remember: F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories and novels are based on personal experiences and very often deal with social status. Have you ever received a bad haircut? Did you ever cut your own hair when you were little? How did you feel? Today we'll look at a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that is almost 100 years old but could just as easily have been written about teenagers today. Teens in ANY era struggle with SOCIAL STATUS & trying to FIT IN. Some go to great lengths to fit in. In "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," we see... 1. how young women were regarded in the 1920s, 2. how tempting popularity can be, and 3.how DANGEROUS it is to compromise your values just to fit in. Introduction to "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." We can't underestimate the historical significance and controversy about Bobbed Hair View Henry Fonda's Introduction to the movie (to 2:28), pause to discuss 3 key characters: Bernice, Marjorie and Warren, then view the short story. Questions to think and talk about: 1. Through the character of Marjorie, does Fitzgerald paint a flattering picture of the flapper? Is she a misguided, a superficial flirt or a feminist? 2. Who would you prefer to have as a friend--Marjorie, Bernice, or Warren? What are the most striking character traits of each person? 3. Does Bernice change for the better or for the worse over the course of the story? Was the “sophisticated” environment that Bernice enters corrupting or character building? 4. Does this story have a “happy ending?” Did Marjorie deserve her fate? =============================== Thursday 11/21 Finish movie! Read the "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" Summary IN YOUR FOLDER!! View: "Bernice" Discussion (at 3:50) "Bernice" is such a popular story that a band wrote a song about it! Read the Lyrics to Bernice Bobs Her Hair by Divine Comedy (1993) as you LISTEN. =============================== Friday 11/22 In class Assessment Day: 1. Take F. Scott Fitzgerald: An American Dreamer Quiz and Roaring 20s Video Notes using 2 sets of video notes in your folder. and 2. Take "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" quiz at Quia using summary notes in your folder. Week of November 11-15 Monday 11/11 Veteran's Day 1. View History 2. View Military Kids 3. View Tribute MUG: Commas If you wish to retake a hyphens, dashes, elllipsis assessment, pick up another practice activity, then come to ER on Friday for re-take. Intro to 14 comma rules Do Comma Rule Sheet & practice that I will share =============================== Tuesday 11/12 Continue with 14 Comma Rules packet we started Monday Practice Commas at Owl Online Writing Lab: For a completion grade, send me Screenshots of scores for SWABIs, FANBOYS, Interruptors. Send all 3 screenshots in 1 email. See the Show my score! example to the right. Include #10 on each screenshot! 2. Introductory Phrase or Clause 3. Screenshot score SWABIs 4. Screnshot score FANBOYS 5. Appositives 6. Screenshot score Interruptors =============================== Wednesday 11/13 Finish #17-32 on last page of comma packet. GRAMMAR LAB DAY RULES APPLY TODAY! Phones in caddy. I see, you forfeit. Now--with a CAN DO attitude-- practice with these activities to prepare for assessments! Before you leave class today, complete the activities below BEFORE YOU LEAVE CLASS: 1. Multiple Choice send me a SCREENSHOT of results from upper right corner click on the link labeled Multiple Choice in the menu on the left! (see example #1)→ 2. Insert the commas!--send me a SCREENSHOT see example #2 to right #2→ DRAG AND DROP the comma in this one! 3. Multiple Choice Quiz #1 . send SCREENSHOT (see example #3 to right) #3→ DON'T do the assessments below without completing practice and screenshots FIRST!! Assessment: (I'll record the better 18 and the better 11. You'll do two more tomorrow.) Use your rules packet! 1. Complete and submit Comma Assignment #1 at Quia. (18 pts) 2. Comma Usage at Quia (11 pts). When you finish, work on Job Shadow Pieces! =============================== Thursday 11/14 Grammar Lab: 1. Screenshot: Multiple Choice Quiz 2. Screenshot Commas: Exercise 1 (to recieve credit, your screenshots for #2 and #3 MUST look like the one to the right that includes the # of questions completed. Do the screenshot WHEN you click answer for last question!) 3. Screenshot: Commas Exercise 2 Assessment: (I'll record the better 18 and the better 11 and the better 15.) 4. Complete and submit Comma Assignment #2 at Quia (11 pts)--(score only for feedback) 5. and Finally Comma Assignment #3 at Quia--this is another 18 point one (score only for feedback). When you finish, POST to QuickTopic HERE if you have shadowed! Pay close attention to the guidelines for responses! =============================== Friday 11/15 Comma Splices View on your own!: Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices 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 Assignment: Complete these practice activities: Hey! They are all really short!! Practice makes Progress!! Pick the Run-On Sentences Run-On Sentences Comma Splice or Fine? Comma Splice Quiz Keep Going! Please do NOT skip the practice! Complete Sentence or Fragment #1 Complete Sentence or Fragments # Comma Splices Exercise 1 Comma Splices Exercise 2 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) see the reminders at the top of this assessment below! 3. Fragments, Run-ons, Comma Splices assignment (15 pts) When you finish, work on job shadow pieces. =============================== Week of November 4-8 Monday 11/4 Finish O Pioneers (last 15 minutes). If you are absent, the movie is accessible on Youtube "Pioneers, O Pioneers" poem by Walt Whitman was the inspiration for Willa Cather's novel title. Whitman's poem was written as a tribute to the pioneers who had set out in search of a more fulfilling life by settling in the American West. Throughout the poem, Whitman pays homage to the pioneers' courage and fearless choice to set out to find a brighter future. View: Levi's Commercial --this is Walt Whitman's poem "O Pioneers" Kahoot and "Plainswoman" Kahoot =============================== Tuesday 11/5 Assessment Day Reminders Complete Assessment on "Plainswoman" and O Pioneers at Quia Use notes packets from both works. =============================== Wednesday 11/6 Return ACT tests and discuss scores and preparation First, the cold hard truth: Is a 14 on the ACT a good score? A 14 is definitely low. It places you in the bottom 12th percentile nationally out of the almost 2 million students taking the ACT this year. Is a 15 on the ACT a good score?A 15 isn't very competitive. It places you in the bottom 17th percentile nationally out of the 2 million students taking the ACT this year. Colleges for an 18 ACT Here is the cold, hard truth. More truth about the ACT How does West Central stack up? Score not improving? Dealing with Low ACT Scores Here are solutions to Math on 1165D test Here are English & Math Solutions for 1163E Here are 15 important Math concepts to know for ACT =============================== Thursday 11/7 MUG: Hyphens, Dashes, Ellipsis and Parentheses Review Grammar Lab Expectations Using Hyphens and Dashes Cheat Sheet How to Use Hyphens ACT Boot Camp: Dashes How to Use Ellipses Remember: Hyphens=used internally within a word (sixty-seven). Dashes=within a sentence Hyphens, Dashes and Ellipsis Packet Try This HYPHENS practice =============================== Friday 11/8 Grammar Lab Day: Review Grammar Lab Expectations MUG: Hyphens, Dashes, Ellipsis and Parentheses Using Hyphens and Dashes Cheat Sheet Together: How to Use Parenthese and Dashes Worksheet Now alone: Using menu on the left, work through Independent Lab: Khan Academy Lesson on Dashes, Hyphens and Ellipsis Points When you finish the assessment below, IF YOU HAVE SHADOWED, organize your shadow pieces on the LEFT side of your folder in this order. These pieces help raise your grade once entered! I started looking for them in folders that are so unorganized that I gave up! 1. Interview Questions 2. Stapled Evals 3. Business Info Form 4. Fast Shadow Facts 5. 5 Images **Have you posted to Quick Topic? Complete assignment at Quia on Hyphens, Dashes and Ellipses Friday 11/1 Continue O Pioneers at 40:00. If you are absent, the movie is accessible on Youtube at O Pioneers Watch to 1:19. Week of November 26-30 Monday 11/26 Intro to The Great Gatsby: pick up book and packets Read pg. 1 of packet Complete Character Diagram in packet/on board Discuss the 4 settings/posters/map last page of packet Fill in character notes Tuesday 11/27 Read Chapter 1. Answer discussion questions. Assign: Finish Chapter 1 Wednesday 11/28 View Chapter 1 (to 10:03) View: Gatsby's American Dream Chapter 1 (5:04) Kahoot for Chapter 1 Read Chapter 2 for Quiz over Chapter 1-2 tomorrow.. Answer discussion questions as you read. Listen Here: Files that will download to iTunes Listen Here! Gatsby Audio Files if you need to listen Thursday 11/29 View: Great Gatsby Chapter 2 Summary View: Living the Dream in the Valley of Ashes (JUST through 2:00) View Chapter 2 (10:03-27:20) Kahoot for Chatper 2 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 or suspect contact with a cell phone any time during the class period, you'll forfeit that day's points. Is seeing, holding, hiding, sitting on, touching, feeling, looking at a cell phone worth losing 25 points? Are you so addicted you can't go 48 minutes without it? 3. The quizzes are all set for 15 or 20 minutes. If time runs out, you won't get more. Prepare for each quiz by READING and answering the discussion questions. 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. Answer the questions WITHOUT the book and then check if you have time. Read carefully BEFORE class! Take: Chapter 1-2 Quiz at Quia. Assignment: Read Chapter 3 for Monday and Chapter 4 for Tuesday. Read this weekend! Friday 11/30 Friday Focus on the Future 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! Acceptable Fast Shadow Facts Unacceptable Fast Shadow Facts 7. Upload 5 Images document to Google Drive folder I shared this week! It must look JUST like the example! ===================================================== Previous Weeks' Lessons: Wednesday 11/21 "Bernice" is such a popular story that a band wrote a song about it! Read the Lyrics to "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by Divine Comedy (1993) as you LISTEN. Read "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" Summary View: "Bernice" Discussion (at 3:50) In class Assignment: Take "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" quiz at Quia using summary notes. As soon as you finish this quiz, hand me the story summary, =================================================== Tuesday 11/20 View "Bernice Bobs Her Hair " =================================================== Monday 11/19 Find and review notes over 4 short videos over life in the 1920s. Quickly review F. Scott Fitzgerald's Biography video notes. Take open notes Quia Quiz over 1920s Intro and F. Scott Fitzgerald Remember: F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories and novels are based on personal experiences and very often deal with social status. Have you ever received a bad haircut? Did you ever cut your own hair when you were little? How did you feel? Today we'll look at a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that is almost 100 years old but could just as easily have been written about teenagers today. Teens in ANY era struggle with SOCIAL STATUS & trying to FIT IN. Some go to great lengths to fit in. In "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," we see... 1. how young women were regarded in the 1920s, 2. how tempting popularity can be, and 3.how DANGEROUS it is to compromise your values just to fit in. Introduction to "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." We can't underestimate the historical significance and controversy about Bobbed Hair View Henry Fonda's Introduction to the movie (to 2:28), pause to discuss 3 key characters: Bernice, Marjorie and Warren, then view the short story. Questions to think and talk about: 1. Through the character of Marjorie, does Fitzgerald paint a flattering picture of the flapper? Is she a misguided, a superficial flirt or a feminist? 2. Who would you prefer to have as a friend--Marjorie, Bernice, or Warren? What are the most striking character traits of each person? 3. Does Bernice change for the better or for the worse over the course of the story? Was the “sophisticated” environment that Bernice enters corrupting or character building? 4. Does this story have a “happy ending?” Did Marjorie deserve her fate? =================================================== Friday 11/16 Friday Focus on the Future Jared Morken (SD Army National Guard) will visit all classes =================================================== Wednesday 11/14 and Thursday 11/15 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 *On Monday, we'll take quiz over 1920s intro videos and F. Scott Fitzgerald video =================================================== Tuesday 11/13 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 2. To Live in the 20s--6 minutes of video clips from the 1920s depicting many aspects of the culture of the decade. Watch in class 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 ===================================================== Monday 11/12 You will need earbuds or headphones on Tuesday! Many of you need a little more practice with 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 View this document for definition/clarification Do practice pages together Assignment: Complete these practice activities: Repairing Run-On Sentences 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 Now complete one more 15 point Fragments, Run-ons, Comma Splices assignment. I'll record the better of the 3. ===================================================== Friday 11/9: No School! ===================================================== Thursday 11/8 Comma Splices View: Comma Splices on the ACT View: Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices Comma Splices Exercise 1 Comma Splices Exercise 2 Multiple Choice Quiz #2 Last best practice here! Assessment: (I'll record the better 18 and the better 11 and the better 15.) 3. Complete and submit Comma Assignment #2 at Quia (11 pts)--(no feedback) 4. and Finally Comma Assignment #3 at Quia--this is another 18 point one (no feedback). 5. Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences (15 pts) 6. Comma Splice or Run on?(15 pts) ===================================================== Wednesdsay 11/7 #1→ Finish #17-32 on last page of comma packet. Now--with a CAN DO attitude-- practice with these activities to prepare for assessments! Before you leave class today, complete: Multiple Choice send me a screenshot of results from upper right corner (see example #1) click on the link labeled Multiple Choice in the menu on the left! Insert the commas!--send me a screenshot--see example #2 to right #2→ Practice commas here! Multiple Choice Quiz #1 . send me a screenshot (see example #3 to right) #3→ DON'T do the assessments below without completing practice and scdreenshots FIRST!! Assessment: (I'll record the better 18 and the better 11. You'll do two more tomorrow.) Use your rules packet! 1. Complete and submit Comma Usage Assignment #1 at Quia. (18 pts) 2. Comma Usage at Quia (11 pts). ===================================================== Tuesday 11/6 Continue with 14 Comma Rules packet we started Monday Practice Commas at Owl Online Writing Lab: For a completion grade, send me Screenshots of scores for SWABIs, FANBOYS, Interruptors. Send all 3 screenshots in 1 email. See the Show my score! example to the right. 2. Introductory Phrase or Clause 3. Screenshot score SWABIs 4. Screnshot score FANBOYS 5. Appositives 6. Screenshot score Interruptors ===================================================== Monday 11/5-1:30 dismiss; 33 minute classes Intro to 14 comma rules Do Comma Rule Sheet & practice that I will share ===================================================== Friday 11/2 Complete Assessment on "Plainswoman" and O Pioneers at Quia Use notes packets from both works. Thursday 11/1 Finish O Pioneers (last 15 minutes). If you are absent, the movie is accessible on Youtube "Pioneers, O Pioneers" poem by Walt Whitman was the inspiration for Willa Cather's novel title. Whitman's poem was written as a tribute to the pioneers who had set out in search of a more fulfilling life by settling in the American West. Throughout the poem, Whitman pays homage to the pioneers' courage and fearless choice to set out to find a brighter future. View: Levi's Commercial --this is Walt Whitman's poem Do analysis of "The Pioneers" poem in packet "O Pioneers" Kahoot and "Plainswoman" Kahoot |
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