Tentative 11th grade AP/ IB syllabus Fall 2014

Hove/ Van Norman

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Required Text: The McGraw-Hill Reader- will stay in the classroom

Required Novels: summer read: Into the WildScarlet Letter Into the Wild (summer read)(1st quarter)

Raisin in the Sun (2nd quarter)

Street Car Named Desire (2nd quarter)

Great Gatsby (3rd quarter)

Grapes of Wrath (3rd quarter)

Things Fall Apart (4th quarter)

Required Materials: Journal notebook for all notes and activities. Must be a spiral

notebook used for this class ONLY and must have five sections Three-inch binder- for this class, only Lined paper Pencils Variety of blue and black ink pens for essays and timed writing Notepad for taking notes- optional because of spiral Flash drive to back up all work Email address for turnitin.com Required novels in class while the literature study is in place Required writing handouts Yellow, green, blue and pink high lighters pens

Note: not all quizzes, discussions, and/or timed writings are listed in this syllabus.

All discussions must be made up with an essay if you are absentAll essays are due at the beginning of the class period. All essays must be handed to me before you leave for a school-related field trip. Again, there will be NO EXCEPTIONS for field trips for school activities.

This syllabus is subject to change....

Quote: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trial.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday/Tuesday July 21/22Common Core Standards:

(1) 11th RL.1: Cite strong evidence from Into the Wild to support your opinions during discussions and your written analysis of the work.

(2) 11th RL.2: Determine 2-4 themes from Into the Wild

(3) 11th RL.3: Examine Krakauer’s literary choices as he developed this true story and its settings, how he used the action such as flashbacks, and how he introduced each new character through McCandless’s journey.

(4) 11th W. 1: Write an argument supporting claims in your analysis of the main topics in this work using evidence such as quotes, reason, and even your own experiences.

Essential Questions:

(1) What does it mean to be a rebel?

(2) How dangerous id knowledge

Welcome to AP/IB English

Review syllabus (on my website)

Seating Chart- Fill out Name Plates and on the blank side write three

things you would like me to know Write a letter to yourself: What are your expectations, what

are you scared about, and what do you think will go well or as expected?

Set up folders with goals: Write goals about the expectations for this course and a

plan of action- keep in academic/ writing folder. Review IB rubric from last year and then staple into folder

Review Game: 40- minute timed writing: Question #2Ticket out: Hand me your name plates before you leaveOn a post-it note. Put your first and last name, period #, and one literary term you know well and will be using in your writing. Put the word, its definition, and scrabble points according to your nameplate.

Homework: read/annotate the Rhetoric handout and be ready to discuss by July 25

Work on summer assignment #4 due on August 6 and 7 and then Assignment #5 due August 11

Wednesday/ThursdayJuly 23/24- get out your name tagsView sample anchor essays (yesterday’s test) Use the IB rubric and use the coloring chart. Review the color marking as used last year.

Green- insight/evidence Blue-techniques used by the author’s writing

(whether it be you or another author) to show analysis of the work. What affect do these techniques have on the actual writing?

Pink- organization such as topic sentences, transitions, etc…

Yellow- Language such as academic language

Introduce Introduction Writing: Take notes in your spiral notebook

You must use two of the following in every single paragraph and it must be highlighted in pink every time:

Transitions

Appositives- A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun like Mrs. Hove, our favorite teacher, is super nice.

Compound sentences- This sentence contains at least two independent clauses. You can use coordinating conjunctions, semicolons, or just a colon.

Complex sentences – A sentence that contains an independent clause and a dependent clause.

Subordinate clauses- Is basically the same as a dependent clause. It begins with a subordinate conjunction like after, even though, once, until, while, or since and contains a subject and verb.

Prepositional phrases at the beginning of some of your sentences.

Think about always reading the same paper over and over again, and nothing is changed. That would get very boring, very quickly so you always want to put variety in your writing, especially in your word choice and sentence structure.

Visit Websites on DOC camera: This will be completed in class

After each site, have the students pair/share comments. If you are absent today, you are expected to visit these at home, and put some notes into your spiral.

Christophermccandless.info

Backtothewildbook.org

Wikepedia- Into the Wild

You Tube: Chris McCandless/Alexander Supertramp

Outsideonline.com- The January 1993 issue

Homework: work on your summer assignments. Assignments one and two are due on Friday .Get onto my website and on the left hand side underVocabulary will be a required lit. term list that you need in class by FRIDAY. Again, you are responsible to bring a copy of this list to class on Friday.

Ticket Out:

What essential tool did you take away from “ How to Mark up a Book”?

And how will you implement this into your annotation?

Get signed onto Edmodo and turnitin. Part of the process is using my website. You have an assignment on Edmodo already.

Friday, July 25:Bellwork: Read and annotate article, “ How to Mark up a Book” This is in your textbook so if you are absent, you will need to check out a text.

Hand in summer reading assignment #2 today and article annotations Discuss the Rhetoric Article- answer essential question,“ How does rhetoric affect your overall writing?”“ How have writers, past and present, brought about change in the world of persuasion?”“ What affect has advertising had on our way of purchasing and making decisions?”Put discussion notes into your spiral

Use my annotation sheet in addition if you want

Quiz #1 for Into the Wild (Use Socrative. Com Quiz #1)

You will have to make up on Monday if you are absent…

Lecture: Jonathan Krakauer and Chapters 1-7. If you are absent, you are still responsible for all lecture notes

Lit. Term List. Study for future test. Go over terms, and begin to find examples of each of the terms from examples in Into the Wild. Put these terms and definitions into your spiral notebook.Ticket Out:

Homework:

Continue to work on summer assignments due on the 4th, 5th, and 6th

Quote of the week, “ Experience is not what happens to you; It’s what you do with what happens to you.”Huxley

Monday, July 28: Discuss Chapters 7- 13 from Into the Wild (use questions from workbook)

If you were absent today:

Type a one-page essay (using MLA format) answering the following: Discuss Krakauer’s style of writing up to this point. Do the flashbacks and the implementation of Krakauer’s narrative throughout make the story more effective or less effective?

Question Techniques for Formative Assessment #1:

Standards for this week: DOK: highlighted

11.02. Analyze an author’s unstated ideas and analyzing evidence that supports those unstated ideas.

11.07: Use textual to develop and support an interpretation of a work from U.S literature.

11.15: Develop a thesis, cite sources where appropriate.

11.02. Analyze an author’s unstated ideas and analyzing evidence that supports those unstated ideas.

11.03: Draw conclusions about the author’s purpose, basic beliefs, and perspectives.

11.07: Use textual to develop and support an interpretation of a work from U.S literature.

Questions for Chapters 1- 5 . If you are absent, answer the following questions on paper and hand in when you return.

A) In these first few chapters, this story elicits strong reaction from several different people. Discuss the reactions, and how do you interpret their meaning?

B) Chapters 4 and 5 discuss McCandless’s true distaste for society. Discuss many of these dislikes and how he attempts to put himself back into society. What does that mean?

C) Discuss Krakauer’s style of writing up to this point. Do the flashbacks and the implementation of Krakauer’s narrative throughout make the story more effective or less effective?

D) How has this story affected you so far?

E) What do you think about the transitional quotes that are placed at the beginning of every chapter?

F) Identify a theme that has been expressed thus far into the novel. Supply supporting examples that support that theme.

Hand out Literary Term Set One – Quiz this Friday – Practice first. We will pronounce and review 10 of the terms to start. Students will get into partners and when I call out a literary terms, the teams will find an example of that word from Into the Wild.

Homework: As you are looking over your Into the Wild annotations,Look to make sure you have included the following:Chapters 1 and 2: Use this annotation guide:

a) Why are the maps important at the beginning of each of the chapters

b) The purpose of each short epigraph at the beginning of each chapter.

c) Chris McCandless’s character and personality traits- especially the changes.Chapter 3-7:

a) Importance of map in Chapter #4b) Why did people either love or hate Chris?c) Purpose of Chapter #4d) Purpose of Ronald Franz and why does he continue to

be important in this story?e) Evidence that Chris truly did prepare for this journeyf) The tone and attitude in Chris’s personal letters

Chapters 8-11

a) The function of this group of chaptersb) Why did McCandless leave trialsc) Chapter 8 and why people are so against Krakauerd) The purpose of the map in Chapter #9e) Outcasts and who are they and why are they considered

outcastsf) McCandless’s development in his personality

Chapters 12 and 13:

a) These are considered background chapters. What is learned in these background chapters, and why does Krakauer introduce background half way through the book?

b) Significant facts from his childhood and using psychoanalytical theory, what does Chris’s childhood have to do with the decisions he makes as an adult?

c) Did these chapters change your view of Chris McCandless now?

d) Have you changed since your childhood? How?e) His family membersf) Parents and Chris’s anger towards his parents. Why is this

important?Chapters 14 and 15”

a) Why does Krakauer put himself in the story at this point?b) How is Krakauer’s life related to McCandlessc) Does Krakauer experiences help him write this story?

Chapters 16- 18:

a) Was McCandless crazy, ignorant, and or selfish?b) Why did he real c) Were the berries truly toxic and did he want to die? ic?d) What mistakes did McCandless make on this journey?

Epilogue- Ticket Out question- This answer will go onto a post-it note

“What do you think of Chris now and what did you think of his parents visiting him in Alaska after his death?”

Tuesday, July 29: Essential Question: “ What is Success”

Lecture: Into the Wild Chapter 8 to the end of the book Review annotation handouts from yesterday

Using the yellow anthology: Read excerpt from Walden in class today.(yellow anthology book) You may check it out if you are absent today Be able to answer the essential question, “ How has Transcendentalism influence the literature we read today?”Homework: Get onto my website and down load excerpt from “Civil Disobedience” and have it read/ annotated by tomorrow.

Be prepared for formative assessment discussion. You will be allowed to use your spiral.

Essential Question: “ How has Transcendentalism influenced our literature today?”

Standards: DOK highlighted11.02. Analyze an author’s unstated ideas and analyzing evidence that supports those unstated ideas.

11.03: Draw conclusions about the author’s purpose, basic beliefs, and perspectives.

11.07: Use textual to develop and support an interpretation of a work from U.S literature.

11.12: Analyze the way in which a work is related to the themes, issues, political movements, and events of its historical period.

Wednesday, July 30/Thursday July 31: Open House ACT Bellwork: Sentence Structure

After practice, get into discussion groups and discuss similarities of style and purpose with Civil and Walden. Notes will be recorded into spirals.

Activity: Using both the excerpt from “ Walden” and from “ Civil Disobedience” compare and contrast both of these to Krakauer’s Into the Wild.Review Transcendentalism . I would take notes

How do all show examples of rebellion? How do all show examples of success? How do all of these show true identity? How do all these show the importance of nature and

importance of human development? How do each show the importance of community? How do these works all show transcendentalism?

If you are absent today, complete this assignment at home. You have read “ Walden” so you need to Google and read excerpt from “ Civil Disobedience” and then answer the questions to be handed in tomorrow.

Writing Lesson: How to write an analysis composition- AP style

Follow these steps:(1)Dissect your prompt and choose three keys would you will

use throughout your essay.(2)After really understanding what the question is asking you,

brainstorm ideas, prewrite, organize your ideas using a graphic organizer, plot out all your ideas.

(3)Arrange all your ideas like important points with the first one the most important as well as ending with an important point. If you have multiple points, then put those in the middle.

(4)Now put some style into your essay. Evaluate your language, word choice, and sentence structure.

(5)Decide how you will hold the audience’s attention

Requirements on every single essayAnd it must be highlighted in pink- starting today:

YOU MUST have at least two of these highlighted in every single paragraph and in all your essays this year:

Transitions

Appositives- A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun like Mrs. Hove, our favorite teacher, is super nice.

Compound sentences- This sentence contains at least two independent clauses. You can use coordinating conjunctions, semicolons, or just a colon.

Complex sentences – A sentence that contains an independent clause and a dependent clause.

Subordinate clauses- Is basically the same as a dependent clause. It begins with a subordinate conjunction like after, even though, once, until, while, or since and contains a subject and verb.

Prepositional phrases at the beginning of some of your sentences.

Activity/ Formative Assessment #2: Into the Wild:

NOTE: If you are absent for this activity, type a one-page answer to the following question, “What are Krakauer’s credentials for writing Into the Wild?”

Ticket Out: Write down one new fact you learned about Into the Wild today.

Homework: summer assignments

Friday, August 1: Explain how to do the rhetorical journal. (Weekly formative assessment . WE will complete one together. Always due on the block days- unless stated otherwise.

Must use the form off of my website or will NOT be accepted.

I will model an example under the DOC camera.

Quiz: Into the Wild

If you are absent, stay after school on Monday to make up a quiz.It is your responsibility to be in my office by 2:30 for this quiz or if you have class, then you may come in at lunch after you check with me.

Homework: Annotations will be checked on Monday for your entire bookSummer Assignment #3 is due MondayAssignment #4 is due on Wednesday and Thursday

Quote of the week, “ The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”Socrates

Monday, August 4: Hand in summer reading assignment #1 and #3 today ( annotations) I will call each row upQuiz #2 for Into the Wild- on the phone- Socrative.com

Lit. Term Quiz today

AP Writing Tip Lecture: Take notes in your spiral

Grabber statements. Go over the types of grabbers with examples.Complete an outline for a 1200 word essay for this prompt. You must completely write out the introduction complete with all its parts.

Absent: If you are not here today, please complete the writing at home and make up the quiz after school when you return. You may get the grabber notes form writing partner. You may email me for the make-up prompt.

Homework: Rhetorical Journal due

Tuesday, August 5:

Bell Work: From Grammar Girl: “ oops Dirty Words”Today go over definitions and practice using the words.

All of these notes and examples go into spiral. If you are absent today, please get words from partner and make up your own examples to go into your spiral.

Read, “ Blogs of War” in your textbook pages 77-80 in classAnswer questions about this piece on paper and hand in today

After reading, write a paragraph defending or arguing against using informal writing such as blogs or journals to inform the rest of the world what is going on. If you are absent, you may check out a book when you return to class.

Ticket Out:

If you were in the armed forces, would you find it important to write a blog and why or why not? This answer will go on a post-it note

Wednesday/ Thursday

August 6/7:

Bell Work:

Read from text Orwell pages 92- 96. “Politics and the English Language” (Appendix B) be ready to discuss the “Most important 4 questions for writers”. Check out a book if you are absent for this.Today’s Standards: Essential Question, “ How was McCandless prepared for this journey?” and why does this matter?

a) 11th W. 6: Use technology and internet to produce new information about McCandless’s travels

b) 11th W 8: Gather relevant information from multiple sources and integrate that information into text to maintain writing’s flow.

c) 11th W. 9: Draw evidence from informational texts to support research

Absent students: Please complete the following make-up assignment:It is important to know the area that McCandless was faced with. So, for your make up today, please spend one hour researching and getting familiar with the Stikine Ice Cap.

Type up at least one page on the credible research you discovered and make sure to cite your work. You will need at least two different types of sources. Then type another paragraph explaining the relationship of the Ice Cap to this story and be specific.

Lastly, research and find another story that had some of the same situations as what McCandless went through. In another paragraph, describe the situation of this similar story.

As always, this will be done in MLA format.

Rhetorical Journals due tomorrowSome sites may include in today’s research:

Outside magazine ABC news site February 12, 2009, “ Into the Wild Inspires

Adventurers, but at What Cost?” Terra Incognita Films The Post Gazette San Francisco Chronicle February 18, 1996 by Janice

Greene “ Walking in a Dead Man’s Tracks: Last man to see Chris

McCandless alive investigates his death in Alaska” September 20, 2007 Oprah Show Washington Post

August 8: Friday:

Today’s Writing Lesson: Outline PracticeABSENT STUDENTS:

Email me for timed writing topic if you were absent today……

Homework: continue to study literary term vocabulary

AND…. Get onto my website and

Read poem, “ Spell of Yukon” by Robert Service for Friday’s lesson

Be prepared to discuss: How did the poem help to visualize the setting in Into the Wild? And how does perception affect a setting in a story?

Homework: Rhetorical Journal due Wednesday/ThursdayFinal exam on Into the Wild will be Monday. The poem.

Quote of the week, “ I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.”Lucille Ball

Monday, August 11: Hand in first rhetorical journalFinal: Multiple-Choice Exam on Into the Wild –

If you are absent today, you will need to make up final exam next MONDAY in my office after school, so please make arrangements

Also, you will be assigned a group, so check upon returning to class.

Last 10 minutes: Summative Assessment: Alaska Family Journey- provide hand outToday first workday:

(1)Who is in your group?(2)What is your destination? Why this destination?(3) End result for this journey- what do you hope to accomplish?

(4) Date leaving and arriving

(5) Transportation

If you are absent, contact your writing partner to find out what group you are in or if you can join their group. Also, find out what they did in the group today so you can catch up.

Homework:Rhetorical Journals due Wednesday and Thursday

August 12: Work Day TWO: in the classroom today. You still need to do your part for 90 minutes even if you are absent today.

Students will work on Written purpose for the journey

Map

Budget for the $500

End result for this journey- what do you hope to accomplish?

Date leaving and arriving

Transportation

Character sketch for each member

Wednesday and Thursday

August 13/14: “Rant “about Into the Wild

You and your group will present a 4 minute rant speech supporting your claim if you think McCandless did the right thing and followed his heart or if he was selfish and ruined not only his life buy many others.

You will need to read your written speech in front of the class.

You will need to have a well-written introduction, which includes your claim

You will need to have subtopics and textual examples supporting your claim.

Remember this is a persuasive speech.

We will present them the last 30 minutes of class….

Also today we will read from our text,

“ Penalty of Death” pages 145- 150

Be ready to discuss your opinion on death penalty and support it with 2-3 credible sources you find this weekend

ABSENT: you may check out a textbook and do the assignment tomorrow. You will write up your RANT at home and give it to me tomorrow. Make sure it includes what I have asked. Friday, August 15:

Hand in final Alaska Family Journey Projects:

Need your rubric with work days completed

Need Budget

Need all Bios

Need journal

Need colorful and accurate map

Need weather reports for your journey

Bellwork: from last week’s poem: 10 minutes:

Get into small groups to discuss poem, “ Spell of Yukon”Discuss its purpose, link to Into the Wild, and how it shows success

Write purpose in your spiral. If you are absent, please complete this at home.

Hand in annotations of the poem, too.

Review “ How to find a Quote” Lecture FormatIf you are absent, complete this quote assignment at home

Summative Final Exam PART TWO: 25 minutes

Ticket Out:

Homework:

Get onto Edmodo and respond to discussion question about Scarlet Letter by Monday at 9 pm

Quote of the week, “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

Thomas Jefferson

Monday, August 18:

Literary Term White Board Quiz

Standards: DOK highlighted RIT .1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the two death penalty texts state. Draw inferences from the two texts.

W. 1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts using valid reasoning and relevant evidence.

RIT 6: Determine the author’s point of view and purpose in the two pieces about death penalty. Describe what rhetoric was used in both pieces to help convince.

Essential Question, “ How does our constitution support the death penalty?”

And “ How does the death penalty solve THE PROBLEM?”

Writing Activity today: Make up when you return from being absent.

Homework:

Emerson- “ Self-Reliance” from my websiteAnd read, “ A Narrative from the Life of Frederick Douglass” from

my website.Get a copy and then annotate both pieces for homeworkBe prepared for discussions

Homework: Get onto Edmodo and respond to discussion question by tonight at 9pm

August 19: Tuesday Discuss a few responses from the Edmodo question

Get Scarlet Letter novels from library

Get comp assignment and reading schedule today

Today’s lesson: Using readings from Emerson and Douglass (homework)

Discuss questions that I gave you for homework

Also, identify techniques/ rhetoric used by each author to write his or her pieces.

Ticket Out: How are Emerson and Douglass considered unique writers of their time? What techniques did they implement that were so different from the others?

Homework: NO Rhetorical journals due this week….

August 20/21: ASVAB testing during 1st and 3rd

Will not be in class today…..

Friday August 22:Preparation for Scarlet Letter:

Essential Question:“ How is a name significant?”“ How does public morality affect an individual?”From old, yellow textbooks read about Transcendentalism and about Hawthorne.From Hawthorne, read, “ Young Goodman Brown” in class. If you are absent, this is online on several different sites. Please read. Always check my website first.If you are absent, write up these answers about,“ Young Goodman Brown”Discuss:

irony Significance in names Themes Weakness of Public Morality Loss of Innocence Fear Female Purity Faith’s pink ribbons

Notes about Young Goodman Brown:Put into your spiral.

Ticket Out: Name one technique in “ Young Goodman Brown” that shows the author, Hawthorne, was a transcendentalist and implemented some of these beliefs into his writing.

If time allows: Do an outline for the following prompt:“ Using the pieces about the Death Penalty that we read earlier, make a claim towards the death penalty using notes from the text to support your claim. Then create an outline for 1200 word persuasive essay supporting this claim. Remember to use textual support.”

Check with me before you do this if you are absent today….

Monday August 25

IN the LAB todayQuote of the week, “ It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”Henry David Thoreau

Standards: DOK is highlighted Work with peers to promote civil, democratic discussions and decision-making, set clear goals and deadlines, and establish individual roles as needed.

11th SL. 2:

Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data.

11th SL. 4:

Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning, alternative or opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range of formal and informal tasks.

11th SL.5:

Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add internet.

Today we will research background information for Puritan writing as we prepare to read The Scarlet Letter

Go to lab and create a PowerPoint or Prezi presentation on the assigned topic. You will follow the 10-20 rule. You may not do more than 20 slides. You are only allowed 10 words per slide at the most. Choose your words carefully.

I will be assigning groups today Group #1: The Great Migration during the 17th Century when the Puritans journeyed to North America. Group #2: The religious ideas of the PuritansGroup #3: Types of punishments during the Puritan time periodAnd what were the offenses?Group #4: Puritan writing: provide the main techniques they used in their writing along with examplesGroup #5: Colonial life during the Puritan times such as family, work ethic, and clothing. Group #6: How did the Puritans view their faith? How did many of them change their faith?

Rhetorical Journals- Due the following week. Second week we

are NOT handing in rhetorical journals….

Students will share their Prezi and/or Power Points

If you are absent, you will complete your own Power Point Presentation about Group # 4’s topic, the writing. Make sure you explain as well as provide examples. Follow my 10-20 policy.

Ticket Out: If Chris’s sister told Into the Wild, how would this have changed the telling of the story?

Tuesday, August 26:

Bellwork: Hand out fairytale, “ Little Miss Muffet” Note: If you are

absent find “ Little Miss Muffet” on Internet and then write its meaning from one of the seven views listed below:

a) Sociologistb) Psychiatristc) Childd) Editorial Writer

e) Book Reviewerf) High School studentg) Militarist

How would the person you chose analyze the poem you read? What would their perspective be?

How to write an argumentative essayUse notes that I gave you last week about writing an argumentative to write the following timed writing: Complete an outline, which you will use tomorrow when you write the entire essay for a test grade.

Debate Topic: Choose from these lists: If you are absent, you may complete this at home.

Alcohol should be illegal. Children should provide room and board for their aging

parts. Smoking should be permitted in public places. Females are better students than males. Intelligence depends on environmental factors, not genetic

factors. Lawyers should make a higher salary than nurses. Everyone should plan his or her own funeral. Are Low-Fat Foods the Healthier Alternatives? Should Sodas and Sugary Snacks be sold in Vending

Machines at Schools and Bake Sales be banned? Controversial Topics

Education is not as important as riches. Television is a bad influence. Are the Olympic games a waste of money? Should kids between the ages of six and ten be dropped off

at the mall without adult supervision? Should minorities be allotted special rights? Should students be permitted to go to a PG-13 or R rated

movie? Is medical testing on animals right or wrong? Should dating tips be given in school? Should school students face a mandatory drug testing

session? Can US be called a safe country? Should boys or girls be permitted to have or attend a

sleepover party? Should the age to vote be reduced to 16?

Should any third party interfere in solving African issues? Is our nation prepared for another 9/11 attack? Is capital punishment morally acceptable?

Musical lyrics advocating violence should not be allowed. Do we have a fair taxation system? Is man going too far by means of genetic cloning? Does religion cause war? Afterlife: Is there life after death? Is honesty the best policy?

With your writing partner, discuss this topicCome to an agreement for this prompt

What will your clever grabber be? Then together write an introduction with enough

background information for your reader State your claim What will your subtopics be for each paragraph? What examples will you use from the book to support

each? How will you end this essay with a powerful clincher?

For your reflection, consider the following: What techniques did you use? What was an effective grabber? What was your clear thesis statement? Do you think you effectively argued your side about his

death?

August 27/28 Wednesday and ThursdayIn the LAB today

Argumentative Summative Assessment: Writing Standard 1: Argumentative and DOK is highlightedStandards: 11th W. 1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

1 b: Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that logically sequences claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.

1 c: Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases.

1 d: Use words, phrases, and clauses as well as varied syntax to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.

Using one of these topics from yesterday, combined with your outline, type (in MLA format) a 900-1100) developing an argumentative essay defining a claim for one of these topics and supporting your claim with two to three writing techniques that clearly convinces your reader to agree with you. You must find your own resources to support your claim. Like the AP synthesis essay, you will need to use four, with one being visual.Color mark using the four colors listed in the IB rubric. For category B, highlight your techniques in blue that you used as an author to convince your readers of your argument.If you are absent, you may complete your 900-1100 word essay at home with a topic of your choice. Please hand to me upon returning. You will have as many days as absent to make this up.

Homework:

Read chapters 1-4 in Scarlet Letter for Monday/ annotateLook for tone words, author’s style, and the development of characters

Friday, August 29: Watch the movie, Into the Wild- Only a few parts….

Introductory Lecture: Put notes into your notebook

Hawthorne background Scarlet Letter themes

Motifs

Characters

Annotate Chapters 1-4 next week. I will grade them on Tuesday

Quote of the week, “ Opportunities don’t just happen, you create them.”Chris Grosser

Monday, September 1: Labor Day NO SchoolEssential Questions: For this week

“ What is Sin?”“ How is sin different for genders?”“ How is public punishment for sins effective?”

Standards: DOK terms are highlighted

11th RL.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.

11th RL. 2:

Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

11th RL .3:

Determine two or more themes or 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 produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

11th RL 4:

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh,

engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)

Tuesday, September 2:Quiz released on Edmodo

Lecture and discussion for Chapters 1-4- put in notebookCheck annotations today

Need facilitator and a recorder….

Small discussion group questions today: Formative Assessment #1:

All your answers go into your notebook. If you are absent, You will type a 500-word essay explaining the importance of the setting and the impact it had on these chapters so far. Be specific with parts of the setting and explain their significance. For example, the rose bush.

Homework: Read the Custom-House summary on my websitePut your own summary and annotation notes into your notebook Rhetorical Journals this week

Read Chapters 5-8 for tomorrow and Customhouse summary

September 3/4

Share rhetorical journal. This is the last one of the quarterBell Work: From Grammar Girl and more “ dirty” words:If you are absent, get words from writing partner or email me. Then put you own examples into your spiral.Choose three students (randomly- using the phone) to create today’s Edmodo discussion question and have it to me by today at 9 pm. I will then post it on the site for your responsesResponses are due by Sunday at 6 pm

Formative Assessment #2:

Today we will review Chapters1-4 of Scarlet LetterPut all your review notes into your notebook

We will discuss certain sub points in Chapters 5-8. Students will find quotes to support each point in their text. Students will cite them correctly using MLA format.Ticket out: Use one of the sets of “ dirty” words in a sentence or two

Standard: 11 th W 1: DOK terms are highlighted Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

Writing Lesson: Introduce DBQ/Synthesis essay: Explain processPut these notes for “ how to write a synthesis essay” into your notebook. Get notes from partner if you were absent today.15 minutes: required brainstorming40 minutes to write the essay

40 minute: Timed Writing:After brainstorming for 15 minutes, answer AP Question # 1 Quote of the week, “ Success is not so much what we have, as it is what we are.”

Jim Rohn

Friday, September 5- LAB TODAY

Narrative Essay Summative Test : Today’s assessment will complete one of your three required common core assessments: Write a 1200—word alternative ending to Into the Wild or to Scarlet Letter if you have read ahead and know the ending.

This is to be typed and handed in at the end of the hour tomorrow

Narrative will be handed to Mrs. Hove on Monday.

If you are absent, this needs to be completed this weekend.

11th W. 3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

3a: Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation and its significance, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events.3b: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing,

3 B: Write description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to

develop experience, events, and character

3 C: Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole and build toward a particular tone and outcome (e.g., a sense of mystery, suspense, growth, or resolution).

3D: Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3e Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.

Homework: Read Scarlet Letter Chapters 5-10 by Monday

Monday, September 8Hand in Friday’s narrative

Lecture on Scarlet Letter Chapters: put into spiral notebook

Chapters 6-10.

WE will have discussion activities today to assess for Scarlet Letter.

If you are absent, You will type a 500- word essay on the following question. You may use notes and the books because I am expecting textual evidence in this essay:

Throughout America's history, there have always been laws that regulated citizens' personal behavior. Among the Puritans of the

18th century, for example, adultery was a serious crime, as The Scarlet Letter makes clear. Today we have laws forcing motorcycle riders to wear helmets, laws that make suicide illegal, and laws against speeding on an empty highway, among many others. Where should society draw the line between personal and political actions? Should society have the right to tell you how to behave on your own time? Why or why not? Be sure your group lists additional examples to mine. Support with other valid sources. This cannot just be your opinion.

Tuesday, September 9:Remember to have read through Chapter 15 by tomorrow

Discussions continue today .

If you are absent, type a 500-word essay on the following question. Be sure to include several examples and textual evidence:

The Scarlet Letter can be seen as a story of the conflict between a law or a sentence, on the one hand, and a personal code of ethics, on the other. Hester Prynne, for her objection to her community's laws against adultery, becomes an outcast, separated from regular social interaction. Create a 500-word essay about other cases in which a law or a legal sentence conflicts with a person's morality. Examples might range from draft resisters to potential jurors who cannot sit on a criminal trial because they object to the punishment that would be meted out if the defendant were found guilty.

You may want to consider potential dramatic moments in which law or sentence and morality conflict.

September 10/11 Wednesday and Thursday

From the Anthology, continue studying Puritan Writing:Read, “Sinners” from Edwards on pages 79- 81. (Yellow anthology).

If you are absent, please find “ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” online and read it for class. There are several sites in which you will be able to find this piece. Then write a 500-word essay

identifying the persuasive techniques Edwards used throughout the essay to convince his audience of his beliefs and plan to make them pure. If you are absent, for the AD part of class, Design a creative add on paper or poster board, if you have it available, that would visually convince the community to attend your services. Make this very colorful and visual.

Hand the AD in to day before leaving- This part will be completed in the LAB…

Homework: Make sure you have read through Chapter 22 by Monday through 15 by tomorrow, and start on those comp assignments.

Friday, September 12:Lecture on through Chapter 15- Take NotesMoving on to next time period:Use the yellow anthology to survey the text for examples on the following: If you are absent, you can find this information all online very easily. Isn’t technology great!Assign each group an area below. They will gather information about the topic or create a PowerPoint to be presented to the class tomorrow. IF you are absent today, you will be part of Group I: Romanticism Writing Style

The Power Point needs to include a detailed description of the time period and how it affected authors’ writing, the most common pieces of writing at this time, and examples of the writing, which clearly show the writing style. Yes, the 10-20 rule applies as always.Remember: Not more than ten words on each slide and may only have 20 slides total.(1) Romanticism Writing Style(2) Authors and examples of Romanticism writing(3) Transcendentalist writers and Transcendentalism examples(4) Realists writers during this time period and examples

of their work

Homework: Read Scarlet Letter chapters 16-22 by MondayComps 4 and 5 are due September 15

Comp is due #1 and #3 are due September 17/18 and

Read, “ Minister’s Black Veil” over the weekend- again it is on website

We will be using it for an assessment Monday

Quote of the week, “ Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is our to win or lose.”Lyndon Johnson

Monday, September 15: Hand in comps #4 and #5

Groups will take turns showing their information about the time period writings.Students will take notes in the spiral

Go over background and plot of “ Minister’s Black Veil”Having the piece in front of you, identify several similar writing techniques that Hawthorne used in both Scarlet Letter and “Minister’s Black Veil”

Share with the class

You can do this at home if you are absent today and then hand it to me when you return to class.

Homework: Finish reading Scarlet Letter by Wednesday or for some of you, start the novel and finish it by Wednesday- LOL

Tuesday, September 16:

In class read excerpt from Richard Armour’s parody of The Scarlet Letter. After reading it, discuss the piece.Now, with your writing partner, you will create a parody of any of the literary works we have read thus far. The parody should be long enough to show the entire story. Be sure to go over the elements of a well-written parody

We will continue to work on it tomorrow in the lab.

Finish reading Scarlet Letter by tomorrow

If you are absent, I don’t think you will find this parody online, but there are several examples of these types of parodies, so just read one example.

Then go ahead and create and type your own parody as directions state. This can be a parody of Into the Wild, Scarlet Letter, or any of your 10th grade novels from last year. NOTE: we will be finishing these in the lab on block day. So, if you will be here on block day, you can work on then.

September 17/18 Wednesday and Thursday in the LAB and you should be finished with the novel

Hand in Comp s#1 and #3 today

Students will be in groups for this activity.

Students will create their parody of one of the works we read.

For 30 minutes, we will go back to the classroom, get into groups of 4 and one group member will read their parody to the group.

Tomorrow is preparation time to study for the discussion final of Scarlet Letter. Yes, this is the dreaded JAR FINAL EXAM….

Friday, September 19: Hand in Comp #6Put exam questions on the DOC cameraStudents will answer them in their spirals

We will go over the answers at the end of class in preparation for Monday’s final exam

All answers are to be recorded in your notebook.

Comps #7 and #8 are due on Monday

Quote of the week, “ What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, September 22: Hand in Comps #7 and #8

First half of the class will choose a question from the jar to be answered with examples and support from the text.

Tuesday September 23: Hand in comp #2

Continue the Scarlet Letter final exam discussion questions.

September 24/25 Anyone still needing a final exam question may go today before the movie Then if time: Watch Pursuit of Happiness

September 26:

Go to lab today:

With your partner, get onto the website for Donorschoose.org

Read about the website, its purpose, examples of some of the projects

Over break, you and your partner will brainstorm a project you would like to have funded. This project needs to benefit a large group of people and be sure to narrow your audience. This project needs to be purposeful. This project will be something you will work with the rest of this year, if the class chooses it.

When we return from break, you will hand me your proposal for this project:

300-500 words explanation of your project- include how you came up with this idea, and why is it so important to you. It will not be due until that Friday in case you cannot get it typed up over break.

Use details to explain

Who is involved?

What group of people does it service?

What materials are needed?

How much will the funding be for this project?

How will you involve the rest of the class if your project is chosen?

After you hand in your proposals, a committee will choose the 2 best projects to work on the remainder of this school year. If yours is chosen, you will choose managers from each of my five classes.

There is no assigned reading over break. However, I want you to read for fun, and I want to hear all about it when you return.

You have worked so hard this 9 weeks, so please enjoy your break!!

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Data on Essay Scores using the IB Rubric:

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Methods of ElaborationIB/AP 11th grade Language Course

Hove

(1) Action Verbs: Use unique verb choice to present the action in your language

(2) Adjective and Adverbs : Use very unique, descriptive words to tell your reading what is happening. Choose very specific words to describe characters, setting, plot, and retellings.

(3) Allusions : This shows understanding. Use historical, biblical, or literary allusions to show your understanding.

(4) Analogies : Great way to present a comparison.(5) Anecdotes : This is a great type of grabber. Make it short. (6) Definitions: Never give the dictionary definition, but sometimes

words or ideas need to be defined for your reader.(7) Descriptors : Use three words in repetition to describe further(8) Dialogue : Sometimes this is a great way to deliver the plot, but don’t

over do it.(9) Examples : You always need examples to support your point. This also

shows that you truly understand. 10) Figurative Language: Is a HUGE word because so much fits under this umbrella. This is a simple way to add style to your writing: metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, and so many others…

(11) Quotations: This is imperative in an analysis to show support (12) Reasons: Again you need reasons. This is your third “ S”. This is the significance and purpose for what you just wrote.

(13) Sensory images: Always important that the audience is clear on what it looked like, but also the unique smell, the unusual sounds, the awful taste you will never forget, and what a unique feel it has.