Brian's Song, Day 4 (4A)

Today's Objective: Students will review conflict while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Conflict (n.): a problem

Generally speaking, characters encounter any one of six major types of conflict in literature.

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Blustery
Grim
Stoic
Befuddled
Quell
Imperceptible
Dwindle
Sprawling
Vibrant
Exuberantly
Enervated

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Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the phrase "I'm pregnant" on page 84.

BRING YOUR REVISED DRAFTS FOR TEACHER REVIEW!!!

Waiting for Godot, Day 4 (E10 3A)

Today's Objective: Students will review conflict while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Conflict (n.): a problem

Generally speaking, characters encounter any one of six major types of conflict in literature.

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Agitatedly
Manifests
Broods
Feverishly
Indifferent
Vexed
Sententious
Anguish
Triumphantly
Insignificant

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Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up through page 45.

For next class, bring in your REVISED ROUGH DRAFTS (which you should have edited using the peer review suggestions you received in class). We will hold one-on-one student/teacher conferences to address any remaining problems that you might be encountering.

Friday, March 11 (E9)

Today's Objective: Students will discuss and analyze bias and figurative language.

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Today's SAT Word: Rebut (v.): to refute or to respond to an argument.

"After John McCain gave his speech, Barack Obama was given the opportunity to rebut."

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Today's Warm-Up Question: What is "bias?"

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Today's In-Class Reading Assignment: Margaret Sanger's "Town Hall Meeting" speech from 1918.

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Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.

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Tonight's Homework: Take any one of the bias tests located on the following website: www.TinyURL.com/BiasTest.

E-mail a copy of your results to john.meehan@pgcps.org by Tuesday, March 15.

STAGE ONE of your persuasive projects is also due on Tuesday, March 15. You will need to have indicated which person you will be addressing your persuasive letter to, and what topic you will be addressing.

Hamlet I.v and II.i (E10 4B)

Shakespeare is challenging! But it will gradually begin to make sense -- STICK WITH IT!!!



Warm Up:

Take the first seven minutes of today's class to work with a partner and peer review a fellow student's rough draft.

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ACT I QFR CHARTS were due for submission during today's class!

If you missed today's class, please submit your QFR chart upon your return.

Completed QFR charts will be returned at the beginning of our next class. DON'T LOSE THEM!

Remember: Each QFR chart is a major assessment grade that is worth up to 20 points.

You will need to type the information they contain into one, giant QFR chart for submission at the conclusion of the play.

IF YOU LOSE A QFR CHART, YOU *ARE STILL RESPONSIBLE* FOR INCLUDING ANY LOST INFORMATION INTO YOUR QFR CHART AT THE END OF THE PLAY.

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Here are a handful of really helpful links to help you make sense of this challenging new text.

Click here to view our in-class presentation notes (updated daily).

Click here for a "modern English" line-by-line translation of the text.

Click here for a how-to guide on making sense of Hamlet's soliloquies.

Click here for the SparkNotes character analyses and scene summaries of the play.

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Homework: For next class, bring in your REVISED ROUGH DRAFTS (which you should have edited using the peer review suggestions you received in class). We will hold one-on-one student/teacher conferences to address any remaining problems that you might be encountering.

Brian's Song, Day 3 (E10 2B)

Today's Objective: Students will review characters and characterization while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.

The protagonist of the Halo games is Master Chief.

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Typified
Bewildered
Drones
Residual
Fatalistically
Undercurrent
Bashful
Spastic
Balefully
Tentative
Timidly

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Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the phrase "chilled metal" on page 61.

STAGE FOUR of your Q3 projects (rough draft for peer review) is also due next class!

Death of a Salesman, Day 3 (E10 1B)

Today's Objective: Students will review characters and characterization while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.

The protagonist of the Halo games is Master Chief.

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Correspondence
Spewing
Commission
Remiss
Resentment
Exhibitions
Ridden
Caliber
Magnificent
Timidly

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Tonight's Homework: Finish reading Act 1.

STAGE FOUR of your Q3 projects (rough drafts for peer review) are due in our next class!

Wednesday, March 9 (E9)

Today's Objective: Students will study and analyze audiences and biases in order to continue discussion of methods of persuasion.

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Today's SAT Word: Bias (n.): an pre-existing opinion or preference

In order to make the most persuasive argument possible, we will need to understand our audience's biases.

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Today's Warm-Up Question:

Would you SUPPORT going to school for an extra 90 minutes each day if it meant that we would only have four days of school each week? Defend your argument!

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Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.

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Tonight's Homework:

Write a BCR (one paragraph) in which you identify a bias that you hold and explain how that bias affects the way you behave and/or react when dealing with matters relating to that issue.

Waiting for Godot, Day 3 (E10 3A)

Today's Objective: Students will review characters and characterization while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Protagonist (n.): the main character (or the person who we find ourselves "rooting for") in a story.

The protagonist of the Halo games is Master Chief.

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Pantomime
Convulsed
Subsides
Firmament
Witticism
Luminous
Prosaic
Fervently
Indignantly
Consternation

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Tonight's Homework: Finish reading act 1.

Bring in paper copies of your ROUGH DRAFTS for next class -- we will take part in a peer edit!

Death of a Salesman, Day 2 (E10 1B)

Today's Objective: Students will review tone and mood while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Mood (n.): the overall "feeling" or atmosphere of a particular scene.

The author's tone shapes the mood of a story.

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Today's Warm-Up Question: In your own words, what has transpired thus far?

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Chamois
Regulation
Inventory
Scrim
Subsiding
Scandalized
Mending
Agitation
Aura
Ignoramus

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Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the words "Ben is gone" on page 37.

Bring in stage THREE (rough draft) of your Q3 project!

Hamlet I.iii and I.iv (E10 4B)

Shakespeare is challenging! But it will gradually begin to make sense -- STICK WITH IT!!!




Warm Up:

Re-read Hamlet's "Oh that this too too sullied flesh would melt" soliloquy. Many readers have observed that Shakespeare's plays are actually written as giant poems.

Which text feature most clearly identifies this speech as a poem?

A. it uses a regular rhyme

B. it uses of a fixed number of syllables per line

C. it features a soliloquy

D. it identifies dramatis personae

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Here are a handful of really helpful links to help you make sense of this challenging new text.

Click here to view our in-class presentation notes (updated daily).

Click here for a "modern English" line-by-line translation of the text.

Click here for a how-to guide on making sense of Hamlet's soliloquies.

Click here for the SparkNotes character analyses and scene summaries of the play.

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Homework: For next class, bring in your ROUGH DRAFTS -- we will take part in a peer edit.

Brian's Song, Day 2 (E10 2B and 4A)

Today's Objective: Students will review tone and mood while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Mood (n.): the overall "feeling" or atmosphere of a particular scene.

The author's tone shapes the mood of a story.

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Today's Warm-Up Question: In your own words, what has transpired thus far?

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Deteriorating
Perusal
Exterior
Interior
Sheepishly
Muted
Beaming
Maniacally
Conglomeration
Bellowing

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Tonight's Homework: Read from page 18-35 (up to the word "Pic-")

Bring in stage THREE (rough draft) of your Q3 project.

Monday, March 7 (E9)

Today's Objective: Students will study methods of persuasion and rhetorical strategies in action while reading Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

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Today's SAT Word: Lobby (v.): to appeal to a person in power.

"For our final project for this quarter, we will attempt to lobby a public official."

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Today's Warm-Up Question: Should mandatory parenting classes be required for new and expecting parents?

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Today's In-Class Reading Assignment: "I Have a Dream" Speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Today's Lesson Notes: Click here.

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Tonight's Homework: Read and analyze the argument between Ni-Kan and her mother on page 98 in your textbook (paragraphs 2-6). In a BCR, explain what kind of argument (methods of persuasion / style of rhetoric / fallacies) Ni-Kan uses. Also, explain what kind of argument Ni-Kan's mother makes.

Waiting for Godot, Day 2 (E10 3A)

Today's Objective: Students will review tone and mood while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Mood (n.): the overall "feeling" or atmosphere of a particular scene.

The author's tone shapes the mood of a story.

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Today's Warm-Up Question: In your own words, what has transpired thus far?

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Cringing
Conciliating
Recoiling
Preemptory
Jaded
Inevitable
Flabbergasted
Resolute
Falter
Ostentatiously

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Tonight's Homework: Finish reading up to the words "I'll be back" on page 23b.

Stage THREE of your projects (the rough draft) is due next class!

Brian's Song, Day 2 (E10 4A)

Today's Objective: Students will review tone and mood while continuing to read their first Q3 text.

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Today's SAT Word: Mood (n.): the overall "feeling" or atmosphere of a particular scene.

The author's tone shapes the mood of a story.

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Today's Warm-Up Question: In your own words, what has transpired thus far?

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Today's New Vocabulary Terms:

Deteriorating
Perusal
Exterior
Interior
Sheepishly
Muted
Beaming
Maniacally
Conglomeration
Bellowing

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Tonight's Homework: Read from page 18-35 (up to the word "Pic-")

Stage THREE of your project (the rough draft) is due next class!