Today's Objective: Students will continue pre-writing their Q1 final projects.
Today's SAT Word: Format (n., v.)
A proper layout, to put things in a proper layout
"In today's class, we reviewed the standard format for our end-of-quarter assignments."
Today's Video: "Essay Basics" | Formatting Your Essay
Mr. Meehan has posted video walk-throughs for each stage of the essay writing process on YouTube. These will help you break down proper document formatting, introductory paragraphs, body paragraphs, and conclusion paragraphs.
To view these videos, visit: www.YouTube.com/MeehanEnglish.
Today's Warm-Up Question: Today we took a brief quiz to review the formatting guidelines of our upcoming project. See Mr. Meehan to make this assignment up if you missed today's class.
Today's Lesson Notes: Today's class was modified to allow for Q1 Benchmark Exams.
REMINDER: Quarter 1 summative writing project guidelines are available for pickup IN CLASS.
A digital copy of these guidelines is available for download here.
Tonight's Homework:
Continue working on your Q1 final compositions. Remember:
- Completed compositions must be submitted BOTH by printed hard copy and by e-mail to john.meehan@pgcps.org no later than FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 5 p.m.
- YOU MUST submit your composition BOTH as a hard copy AND as an e-mail by the assigned due date. Failure to submit EITHER one or the other will result in an automatic 50% ("E") grade for the project.
- This project will count for roughly 25% of your overall assessment grade for the marking period.
- There will be no extensions given on this project.
Today's Objective: Students will continue pre-writing their Q1 final projects.
Today's SAT Word: Format (n., v.)
A proper layout, to put things in a proper layout
"In today's class, we reviewed the standard format for our end-of-quarter assignments."
Today's Video: "Essay Basics" | Formatting Your Essay
Mr. Meehan has posted video walk-throughs for each stage of the essay writing process on YouTube. These will help you break down proper document formatting, introductory paragraphs, body paragraphs, and conclusion paragraphs.
To view these videos, visit: www.YouTube.com/MeehanEnglish.
Today's Warm-Up Question: Today we took a brief quiz to review the formatting guidelines of our upcoming project. See Mr. Meehan to make this assignment up if you missed today's class.
Today's Lesson Notes: Today's class was modified to allow for Q1 Benchmark Exams.
REMINDER: Quarter 1 summative writing project guidelines are available for pickup IN CLASS.
A digital copy of these guidelines is available for download here.
Tonight's Homework:
Continue working on your Q1 final compositions. Remember:
- Completed compositions must be submitted BOTH by printed hard copy and by e-mail to john.meehan@pgcps.org no later than FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 5 p.m.
- YOU MUST submit your composition BOTH as a hard copy AND as an e-mail by the assigned due date. Failure to submit EITHER one or the other will result in an automatic 50% ("E") grade for the project.
- This project will count for roughly 25% of your overall assessment grade for the marking period.
- There will be no extensions given on this project.
Today's class was modified to accommodate for the Career Day speakers. We reviewed proper formatting for our Quarter 1 projects
Online Extra:
Mr. Meehan has posted video walk-throughs for each stage of the essay writing process on YouTube. These will help you break down proper document formatting, introductory paragraphs, body paragraphs, and conclusion paragraphs.
To view these videos, visit: www.YouTube.com/MeehanEnglish.
Tonight's Homework:
Continue working on your Q1 final compositions.
BRING A ROUGH DRAFT WITH YOU FOR NEXT CLASS.
Remember:
- Completed compositions must be submitted BOTH by printed hard copy and by e-mail to john.meehan@pgcps.org no later than FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 5 p.m.
- YOU MUST submit your composition BOTH as a hard copy AND as an e-mail by the assigned due date. Failure to submit EITHER one or the other will result in an automatic 50% ("E") grade for the project.
- This project will count for roughly 25% of your overall assessment grade for the marking period.
- There will be no extensions given on this project.
Today's Objective: Students will continue pre-writing their Q1 final projects, and students will differentiate between sentences and fragments.
Today's SAT Word: Differentiate (v.)
To point out the differences between two (or more) items. To contrast.
"In today's class, we differentiated sentences from fragments."
Today's Video: "This Is Halloween" (From "The Nightmare Before Christmas") by Danny Elfman
We have chosen this video today because it serves as a perfect introductory piece to the world of Halloween Town in "The Nightmare Before Christmas." It starts with a big, wide, shot and zooms through the town in order to introduce each of the supporting characters (briefly) before landing on the main character himself.
Today in class, we will be studying how to compose an introductory paragraph, and our introductory paragraphs should end up looking a lot like the written equivalent of the video we've watched -- moving from WIDE to NARROW in order to give a quick overview of the material we will be covering throughout the rest of our composition.
Today's Warm-Up Question:
Create a chart like the one you see below. Then BRAINSTORM as many themes from each of the stories that we’ve read as you can possibly think of and start filling them in!
Interlopers H. Bergeron Sound of Thunder The Pedestrian Montgomery Boycott
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
REMINDER: Quarter 1 summative writing project guidelines are available for pickup IN CLASS.
A digital copy of these guidelines is available for download here.
Online Extra:
Mr. Meehan has posted video walk-throughs for each stage of the essay writing process on YouTube. These will help you break down proper document formatting, introductory paragraphs, body paragraphs, and conclusion paragraphs.
To view these videos, visit: www.YouTube.com/MeehanEnglish.
Tonight's Homework:
Continue working on your Q1 final compositions. Remember:
- Completed compositions must be submitted BOTH by printed hard copy and by e-mail to john.meehan@pgcps.org no later than FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 5 p.m.
- YOU MUST submit your composition BOTH as a hard copy AND as an e-mail by the assigned due date. Failure to submit EITHER one or the other will result in an automatic 50% ("E") grade for the project.
- This project will count for roughly 25% of your overall assessment grade for the marking period.
- There will be no extensions given on this project.
Today's Objective: Students will continue pre-writing their Q1 final projects, and students will differentiate between sentences and fragments.
Today's SAT Word: Differentiate (v.)
To point out the differences between two (or more) items. To contrast.
"In today's class, we differentiated sentences from fragments."
Today's Video: "This Is Halloween" (From "The Nightmare Before Christmas") by Danny Elfman
We have chosen this video today because it serves as a perfect introductory piece to the world of Halloween Town in "The Nightmare Before Christmas." It starts with a big, wide, shot and zooms through the town in order to introduce each of the supporting characters (briefly) before landing on the main character himself.
Today in class, we will be studying how to compose an introductory paragraph, and our introductory paragraphs should end up looking a lot like the written equivalent of the video we've watched -- moving from WIDE to NARROW in order to give a quick overview of the material we will be covering throughout the rest of our composition.
Today's Warm-Up Question:
Create a chart like the one you see below. Then BRAINSTORM as many themes from each of the stories that we’ve read as you can possibly think of and start filling them in!
Interlopers H. Bergeron Sound of Thunder The Pedestrian Montgomery Boycott
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
REMINDER: Quarter 1 summative writing project guidelines are available for pickup IN CLASS.
A digital copy of these guidelines is available for download here.
Online Extra:
Mr. Meehan has posted video walk-throughs for each stage of the essay writing process on YouTube. These will help you break down introductory paragraphs, body paragraphs, and conclusion paragraphs.
To view these videos, visit: www.YouTube.com/MeehanEnglish.
Tonight's Homework:
Continue working on your Q1 final compositions. Remember:
- Completed compositions must be submitted BOTH by printed hard copy and by e-mail to john.meehan@pgcps.org no later than FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 5 p.m.
- YOU MUST submit your composition BOTH as a hard copy AND as an e-mail by the assigned due date. Failure to submit EITHER one or the other will result in an automatic 50% ("E") grade for the project.
- This project will count for roughly 25% of your overall assessment grade for the marking period.
- There will be no extensions given on this project.
Today's Objective: Students will continue pre-writing their Q1 final projects, and students will differentiate between sentences and fragments.
Today's SAT Word: Differentiate (v.)
To point out the differences between two (or more) items. To contrast.
"In today's class, we differentiated sentences from sentence fragments."
Today's Soundtrack: "Say" by John Mayer
We have chosen this song today because it echoes a repeating chorus that you should "say what you need to say." Since we are studying sentence structure and learning how to write our very own 600-word compositions, this is a great musical reminder of the job we need to do.
Today's Warm-Up Question:
What CHALLENGE do you think you will be writing about for your Q1 Final Project?
Be sure to consider:
1) WHAT the challenge was
2) HOW you responded to the challenge
3) WHAT you learned from the experience
Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.
REMINDER: Quarter 1 summative writing project guidelines are available for pickup IN CLASS.
A digital copy of these guidelines is available for download here.
Tonight's Homework:
Continue working on your Q1 final compositions. Remember:
- Completed compositions must be submitted BOTH by printed hard copy and by e-mail to john.meehan@pgcps.org no later than FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 5 p.m.
- YOU MUST submit your composition BOTH as a hard copy AND as an e-mail by the assigned due date. Failure to submit EITHER one or the other will result in an automatic 50% ("E") grade for the project.
- This project will count for roughly 25% of your overall assessment grade for the marking period.
- There will be no extensions given on this project.
Today's Objective: Students will begin the pre-writing process for their Q1 final compositions.
Today's SAT Word: Brainstorm (n., v.): A planning exercise to help generate ideas before a project.
"As a class, we started to brainstorm different possibilities for our final project."
Today's Warm-Up Question:
What do you think of when you see the phrase "Civil Rights?"
Today's Lesson Notes:
Quarter 1 summative writing project guidelines are available for pickup IN CLASS.
A digital copy of these guidelines is available for download here.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Montgomery Boycott" by Coretta Scott King (story begins on p. 125)
*We will not be reading this story in class. Students are strongly encouraged to read this story on their own, as it will really help you recognize some broader themes to include in the first quarter essay.
Tonight's Homework:
Begin working on your Q1 final compositions. Remember:
- Completed compositions must be submitted BOTH by printed hard copy and by e-mail to john.meehan@pgcps.org no later than FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 5 p.m.
- YOU MUST submit your composition BOTH as a hard copy AND as an e-mail by the assigned due date. Failure to submit EITHER one or the other will result in an automatic 50% ("E") grade for the project.
- This project will count for roughly 25% of your overall assessment grade for the marking period.
- There will be no extensions given on this project.
Today's Objective: Students will begin the pre-writing process for their Q1 final compositions.
Today's SAT Word: Brainstorm (n., v.): A planning exercise to help generate ideas before a project.
"As a class, we started to brainstorm different possibilities for our final project."
Today's Warm-Up Question:
What is the biggest CHALLENGE of the writing process for you?
Today's Lesson Notes:
Quarter 1 summative writing project guidelines are available for pickup IN CLASS.
A digital copy of these guidelines is available for download here.
Tonight's Homework:
Begin working on your Q1 final compositions. Remember:
- Completed compositions must be submitted BOTH by printed hard copy and by e-mail to john.meehan@pgcps.org no later than FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 5 p.m.
- YOU MUST submit your composition BOTH as a hard copy AND as an e-mail by the assigned due date. Failure to submit EITHER one or the other will result in an automatic 50% ("E") grade for the project.
- This project will count for roughly 25% of your overall assessment grade for the marking period.
- There will be no extensions given on this project.
