Pants on the Ground

Additional Resources: Put This on a Billboard: Droopy Pants Can Kill

April Assignment Schedule

Some students may still be completing revisions to their last essay. Please be sure they are submitted by our next class meeting. Other than that, no assignments are due for Tuesday, April 13.

April 13

Practice Placement Exam

April 15
Journal: Discuss a time when you lost or thought you lost something or someone forever.

New Essay-- Many communities are considering a ban on sagging pants-- take a position on this issue in a 5-paragraph essay.
Brainstorming

Lab: Drafting time
Homework: Draft 1 of Essay 3, due April 20
Assemble all work for conferences

April 20

Essay 3 Draft 1 Due

Discussion of PPT 2
Student Conferences- Please have all work assembled for our meeting

April 22

Group Essay Critique

Lab: Revisions

Homework: Revisions to essay; drafts 1 & 2 of essay 3 due April 27

April 27

Practice Placement Exam

Essay D2 Due

April 29
Test Prep and Strategy Review

Lab- Revisions

May 4

Final Exam* Tentative

May 6

Essay 3 Draft 3 Due  

Portfolio Review

May 11/16 

Final classes & registration for Fall 10

DNA Tells Students They Aren't Who They Thought

Please respond to each of the following questions in separate posts of 4-6 sentences each.  Then respond to two of your peers' comments, for a total of five comments overall.

I'd like you to consider the following:

1. What do you think it means when Ms. Best says, "Maybe we haven't progressed as much as we thought we had." Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
   
2. Pick one quote from the article and analyze it. Explain what the is author saying and what their statement says about their attitude toward race. 
3. Do you think this type of study encourages us to becomes more unified or does it encourage us to look for differences? Explain.

NY Times Article:  DNA Tells Students They Aren't Who They Thought

Introduction Styles

Please take your introduction to your 2nd essay and rewrite it twice, using 2 different introduction styles from our handout. Please post below.

Power Point Presentations: The Five Paragraph Essay and Writing a Thesis Statement

• Power Point Presentation 1: The Five Paragraph Essay
• Power Point Presentation 2: The Thesis Statement

Additional Resources for Reading Elie Weisel's Memoir, Night

Here are some resources to add to your background knowledge of the Holocaust and Night. 

Please be aware that some of the imagery is graphic and disturbing.

• Vocabulary List to Print
• Visual Resources
• National Holocaust Museum 
• National Holocaust Museum Encyclopedia 
• Elie Weisel interviewed by Oprah  & Slide Show/Text "Inside Auschwitz"

Assignment Schedule: March/April

March 2:  Class 11

Journal: Did your family expect that you would attend college? Was this goal encouraged within your schools?  What would people who knew you in your earlier life say if they knew you were in college?

Novel Prep: Discussion of the Holocaust and the novel Night by Elie Weisel

Essay Workshop: Peer critique  & Modes of Description

Homework: Read Novel to page 40 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

Revise your essay-- 3rd draft due March 4

March 4: Class 12

Journal: Discuss a time when you were wrong for something you did, said, or thought. How did this situation come about and what was the end result for you?

*Essay 1 drafts 1-2-3 due

The 5-paragraph essay format

Lab: Draft 1 of Essay 2

Homework: Homework: Read Novel to page 40 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

Draft 1 of Essay 2 due March 11

March 9th: Class 13

Journal: Discuss a time when you stood by and did nothing.

Novel Discussion pages 1-40

Writing Workshop: Intros & Conclusions

Homework: Homework: Read Novel to page 65 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

March 11th: Class 14

Journal: Discuss an event in your life that has caused a change in you. 

*Essay 2 draft 1 due

Lec: Intros & Conclusions Cont'd/Thesis Statements

Lab: Writing intros & conclusions with thesis statements

Homework: Homework: Read Novel to page 65 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

March 16th: Class 15

Journal: If you could do whatever you wanted to right now, what would you do? 

Novel Discussion to page 65

Writing Workshop: Essay 2 Critique

Homework: Homework: Read Novel to page 97 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

Essay 2, draft 2 due next class (March 23^rd)


March 18: No Class

March 23rd: Class 16

Journal: No Journal

*Essay 2, draft 2 due

Practice Placement Exam

March 25th: Class 17

Journal: You're at the gates of heaven and you have to talk your way past the velvet ropes. Go.

Lec: NYT Article

Lab: Blog

Homework: Read Novel to page 112 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

March 30: Class 18

Journal:
Essay 2 Discussion & model texts

Homework: Read Novel to page 112 + TSR Journal Entries and 2 Discussion Questions

Essay 2, draft 3 revisions due next class (March 30)

April 1: Class 19

Journal: A time you thought you had lost something/someone forever...

Novel Discussion to page 112

Movie viewing: God on Trial

*Essay 2, drafts 1-2-3 + Rubric due today

April 2-11

Spring Break- No Class