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Students and parents: In an effort to streamline my classes and to make things easier to find, this blog will be phased out. Please use google classroom from now on to receive information about class and homework. If you need the class codes, please see me directly to get them.

The email with this account will be phased out as well. Please feel free to contact me at jlwells@aurorak12.org with any questions or concerns.

Friday March 23, 2018

NO SCHOOL. Enjoy your spring break!

Thursday March 22, 2018

Honors English 10: Today we watched the theatrical version of "Fences" to compare it to the original play.


English 10: Today students took a vocab quiz.

Wednesday March 22, 2018

Honors English 10: Today we watched the theatrical version of "Fences" to compare it to the original play.


English 10: Today students finished the questions for "Two Kinds" and we reviewed as a class for vocab.

HOMEWORK: vocab quiz tomorrow!!

Tuesday March 20, 2018

Honors English 10: Today students took the test over "Fences." If you were absent, please see me right away for make-up.


English 10: Today we continued to read "Two Kinds"

HOMEWORK: study for vocabulary quiz on Thursday

Monday March 19, 2018

Honors English 10: Today students were to complete their "Fences" study guides. Test tomorrow.

HOMEWORK: Review warm ups and study guides for "Fences" test

English 10: Today we started reading "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan.

HOMEWORK: Finish actively learn and study vocab

Monday March 12, 2018

Honors English 10: Today we finished Act one in Fences. 


English 10: Today we started reading and annotating the Diane Burns poem "Sure, you can ask me a personal question."

HOMEWORK: finish annotating the poem. Also start studying vocab list #1 for quarter 4. Here are the first 5 words:

1. abhor/abhorrence:  hatred, disgust

2. burgeon:  to grow, flourish

3. congenial:  pleasant, agreeable

4. destitute:  poor, in extreme poverty

5. elucidate:  to make clear, explain

Tuesday March 6, 2018

Honors English 10: Today students finished reading Act 1 Scene 1 in "Fences."


English 10: Students continued to work on reading "The Cold Equations"

HOMEWORK: continue working on the graphic organizer.

Here is a link to the text:

http://mrgravuer.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Cold+Equations+Adapted.pdf

Monday March 5, 2018

Honors English 10: Today students started reading "Fences" by August Wilson.


English 10: Today students received a graphic organizer for the short story, "The Cold Equations."

Monday February 26- Friday March 2

MAPS testing and scheduling

Friday February 23, 2018

Honors English 10: Today we went over the "rhetorical precis" outline. Students need to have two rhetorical precis done, one for each article by next Thursday.

HOMEWORK: Students need to have two rhetorical precis done, one for each article by next Thursday.

English 10: Today students received the outline for writing an argument analysis. 

HOMEWORK: students need an argument analysis written by next Thursday. 

Here are the directions and an example:

uWrite a paragraph analyzing the author’s argument. Use the following format:

u

1.Introduce the author and text.

2. Use a verb to describe the claim and give the claim.

3. Identify the audience

4. Identify the most powerful evidence in relation to the claim

5. Explain the appeals the author used to impact the audience

6. Explain the significance of the article

Example:

1 And 2: In Bob McDonald’s article, “How to effectively paint your hamster,” McDonald VIBRANTLY ARTICUALTES how hamsters that are painted enrich the lives of their owners and make for a unique pet.

3: The article is clearly intended for hamster owners that may be bored or looking for a different way to show off their pet.

4: The author uses statistics of hamster owners that say they have found new joy in painting their hamsters, stating that, “8 out of 10 owners involved in the study claimed they were happier with a painted hamster.”

5: To further his evidence, McDonald appeals to the emotions of his readers, providing anecdotes about hamster owners who found new intense love for their hamsters after painting them, inviting his readers to empathize with happy owners

6: Ultimately, this article is important for pet owners to consider new and unique ways in which to engage with their pets. 

Thursday February 22, 2018

Wells out for Man-up event.

Wednesday February 21, 2018

Honors English 10: Today students used the rubric to evaluate their novel review drafts to help guide their revisions. 

HOMEWORK: Novel reviews. Novel review due to turnitin.com by Feb. 23rd at 1:00am. If you worked with a partner, ONLY SUBMIT through one account. Make sure both names are on the assignment.


English 10: Today students took note on evidence to support claim.

HOMEWORK: From the articles you read last week, you need to go back through and find at least one example of each type of evidence. You need to do this for BOTH articles you chose

Find at least:

1 Quote

1 Anecdote

1 Comparison

1 Facts/statistics

1 Historical/Current Reference or comparison

Tuesday February 20, 2018

Honors English 10: Today groups with chapters 13-24 story board projects did their presentations.

HOMEWORK: Novel review. Have it 90% completed by tomorrow.


English 10:Today students reviewed appeals for argument.

HOMEWORK: From the articles you read last week, you need to go back through and find at least one example of each appeal. You need to do this for BOTH articles you chose

Find:

1 example of ethos

1 example of logos

1 example of pathos

Monday February 19, 2018

No school in observance of President's day.

Thursday February 15-16 2018

Mr. Wells is out these days. Students have articled to read and annotate. We will look at them next week.

Wednesday February 14, 2018

Honors English 10: Today students had their last work day for in-class work time to get novel reviews or storyboards done.

HOMEWORK: Novel reviews and storyboards


English 10: Today we kicked of the argument unit by analyzing a satirical piece based on The Lord of the Flies.

HOMEWORK: make up work, if you have any.

Tuesday February 13, 2018

Honors English 10: Today students had time to work on their novel review and story board.

HOMEWORK: Novel review and storyboards


English 10: Today is the LOTF test.

HOMEWORK: any makeup work. We start a new unit tomorrow!

Monday February 12, 2018

Honors English 10: Today we took a quiz over The Scarlet Letter. We then reviewed the whole novel for the novel review.

HOMEWORK: Novel review and story board project.



English 10: Today we reviewed for the Lord of the Flies test and vocab. The test tomorrow will cover: LOTF, characterization, character development, topic, theme and the recent vocab list (10 words). Basically, if you completed the graphic organizer and did the review in class today, you should be successful!

HOMEWORK: study for the test.

Friday February 9, 2018

Honors English 10: Today, students had time to read. Students must be finished with the text by Monday!

HOMEWORK: Finish The Scarlet Letter. Work on novel review and storyboards if you have not presented yours yet.


English 10: Today we finished LOTF. Students then had time to work on the graphic organizer for chapters 9-12.

HOMEWORK: Chapter 9-12 graphic organizer needs to be completed by class time on Monday. Vocab quiz going down on Tuesday.