Monday December 12, 2016

English 10: Today we read and analyzed The Bet by Chekhov.

English 9: Today students had all period to work on their final projects. Final projects are due Wednesday.

Home work: work on final projects! Due Wednesday December 14, 2016.

Friday December , 2016

English 10: Today we read an excerpt from Black Boy by Richard Wright. We then responded to questions and students developed their own themes.

English 9: Outlines are due by the end of class. Final project due Wednesday.

Thursday December 8, 2016

English 10:Today we worked on make up and revision.

Home work: All make up and revision is due tomorrow, Friday December 9, 2016

English 9: Today students worked on their final projects.

Home work: Outline due Friday. Project due Wednesday.

Wednesday December 7, 2016

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Tuesday December 6, 2016

English 10: Today students worked on their poem annotations and graphic organizer. Then, students crafted their own 25 line poem in which they captured a moment in their life where they felt stereotyped.

Home work: Annotated poem, graphic organizer and your own crafted poem are all due tomorrow.

English 9: Today I went over the final project for quarter two. Students were then given time to work on this. Here is an example of the document I gave students:

English 9 Quarter Two Final Project Due Wednesday December 14.

For your quarter two final project, students will need to:

1.       Make a claim about the effects of media use on young people.

2.       Defend it with at least 4 pieces of evidence from the articles we have read.

3.       Decide a format that best gets their claim and evidence across

Outline. Due Friday December 9.

Your claim about the effects of social media:

Evidence from “Growing up digital”

1.       Text evidence #1: “

2.       Describe the type of evidence and explain how it defends your claim.

3.       Text evidence #2: “

4.       Describe the type of evidence and explain how it defends your claim.

Evidence from article of your choice:

1.       Text evidence #1: “

2.       Describe the type of evidence and explain how it defends your claim.

3.       Text evidence #2: “

4.       Describe the type of evidence and explain how it defends your claim.

Format. Describe the format you are going to use and defend why it is the best format for your project. It could be a news-paper article, YouTube video, screen play, formal essay, comic strip, satirical essay etc. You just need to prove to me that this is a good format to get you point across.

Here is the list of other articles you may use. You need to include the source or sources you use at the end of your project. The best ways to find these articles are to google the title. Some of the links don’t always work. Articles you may use:

“Is Google making us stupid? What the

internet is doing to our brains.” Carr, Nicholas, (2008).

“Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad

Thing” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/us/20in

ternet.html?scp=5&sq=macarthur+digital+media&st=n

yt

“Teenage social media butterflies may not be such a bad

idea” http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/18/science

/la-sci-socially-connected-kids-20100518

“ A Tunisian on the role of social media”

http://gov20.govfresh.com/a-tunisian-on-the-role-of-social-

Monday December 5, 2016

REMINDER TO ALL STUDENTS: Any make up work or revisions for quarter two are due this Friday December 9!!

English 10: Today students read and annotated the poem "Sure, you can ask me a personal question."

English 9: Today students identified claim and evidence in videos.

Thursday December 1, 2016

English 10: Today students worked on answering questions about "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan. This was done in small groups.

English 9: Today students took note on claim and how to support claim with evidence. We then identified evidence in different texts.

Reminder: You satire packet (Video graphic organizer, annotated article and article graphic organizer is due tomorrow.