Wednesday, 4/30: CWP, Part II

* Open

• Rome, Tuscany, Riviera Tour Meeting this Friday during Lunch in B22 (Schwager's room)
• Make sure you have the STAR testing app for your iPad.  If you don't have it, ask thy neighbor to help you. You will need it for the block day. 

* CWP Peer Edit #2 (2nd half)

• Description: Check the verbs.  Could they be more active, more punchy?  Are there verb and nominalization phrases (there is, there are) that we can edit?  How is the description?
• Punctuation: Are there any errors?  How is the sentence variety? Circle errors.

* Work on your CWP or Cry, the Beloved Country

HW: PRINTED Full FD of your CW; also submit to turnitin.com through Focus

Tuesday, 4/30: CWP RD Part I

* Open

• Rome, Tuscany, Riviera Tour Meeting this Friday during Lunch in B22 (Schwager's room)
• College Giveaway ($60,000; ends tonight)
• Tour Number: 1397124HJ

* CWP Peer Edit #1 (first half)

• Description: Check the verbs.  Could they be more active, more punchy?  Are there verb and nominalization phrases (there is, there are) that we can edit?  How is the description?
• Punctuation: Are there any errors?  How is the sentence variety? Circle errors.

* Work on your CWP or Cry, the Beloved Country

HW: Full RD of your CWP

Monday, 4/29/13: Lost Tools, Cry, CWP

*Open

* Lost Tools Review:

• per. 1,2,4,6

* Cry, the Beloved Country -- ch. 23 (J22)

* CWP (1/2 of RD for tomorrow, printed on paper)

HW: 1/2 or more of CWP RD

Block Day: Grammar, Lost Tools, etc.

* Open

• Period 2 (except one student) tells me that they already took the STAR twice (so, they took the English part recently in Bible).  Is this true for your period also?

* Grammar

• Write an example sentence for 
• one semicolon
• one colon
• one dash
• Review Lost Tools (or Monday, depending on how long we spend on punctuation)

* Cry, the Beloved Country

• J22: Chapters 23-25

* Work on your CWP

HW: Read and work on your CWP

Wednesday 4/24: Holtzclaw, Lost Tools, etc.

* Open

• A student left a small steak knife at the party...is it yours?
• If you wish a poster up anywhere in the round table, you may hang one of your choice (they are on top of the small freezer.
• Mr. Holtzclaw visits.

* Lost Tools

• Lesson Five Elocution A: Nominalization Pattern I: "There is"
• Do paper pages 74-75 (.pdf pages 84-85)

* Cry, the Beloved Country

HW: Continue with Cry, the Beloved Country

Tuesday, 4/22: J21

*Open

* Grammar

•  In the Grammar section of your binder: please compose three sentences that require commas (only one of these may be a list).
• Write your sentence on the board. 
• Let's look at it together.
• Bottom the editor: Newspaper malapropism.

* Finish Video (some classes)

* Work on J21 (through ch. 22)

HW: J22

Monday, 4/22: Paton

 

* Open

* Finish Video

* Work on J21 (through ch. 22, due Wednesday)

* If complete, please work on your CWP

HW: Do--20

Block Day: Party! Quiz, Survey, and Movie

 

* Open

* Quiz

• Memorization
• Reading

* Take the Bible awards survey, please.  Take the survey(s) of the class(es) you know best.  

• Sophomores

• Freshmen 
• Juniors
• Seniors

* Pahr-tahy

* Movie

HW: J21--ch. 18

Wednesday 4/17/13: Review

* Open

• Any Questions about A.L.I.C.E.?  
• Video (if wished for per. 4): http://www.responseoptions.com/
• Quiz on block: memorization and reading questions

* Study your paragraph first. 

* Work on your J20

* Notes: I won't be checking more journals until I catch up with my essay grading.  Keep up with your journals, though.  I will collect some and see others at the binder check.  Each chapter's assignment is the same. 

HW: Schwager: J20 (through ch. 17); review for your quiz

Tuesday 4/16: Paton

* Open

• 4th period training today

* Part signups

• Write your name and what you will bring...then write it down for yourself as I must erase this each period. 
• I will give 1-2pts of extra credit (homework category) for those who bring something to the party.

* Paton

• Video
• Continue on to journal 

HW: Do one chapter (#15 for Schwager's students)

Monday, 4/15: Paton

Nita Gizdich

* Open

• Reading Quiz on Block
• Memorization Quiz on Block

• Party on Block: Local Yokels
• Food
• Make it yourself or find something with local flavor

• This requirement does not apply to paper, supplies, etc.

• Think about signups for tomorrow

* Reach chapter together

* Paton video

HW: J20 -- 14

Block Day: Paton, Resume

* Open

* Please make sure your names and period are on you poster.

* Paton notes:

• Ch. 1: Contrast, Symbol, Theme, Allusion in the land
• Ch. 2: Characterization
• Ch. 3: Exposition (learning of the city)
• Ch. 4: Poetic Description (opening paragraphs); syntax, point of view;
• Ch. 5: Theme: Race. "The tragedy is that they are not mended again" (56).
• Ch. 6: Theme: Forgiveness; city
• Ch. 7: Theme: John Kumalo, race; Msimangu: "I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating" (71).
• Ch. 8: Narrative perspective; notice how the third-person perspective becomes interpretive, almost intrusive, in its foreboding omniscience ("Have no doubt it is fear in their eyes..."(77)).
• Ch. 9: Vignette: This is a sketch of life that does not directly relate to the main character's search for his son. This is a technique Paton picked up from another writer with social concerns, John Steinbeck.
• Ch. 10: Theme: Loss ("from every house something was gone" (93)), Despair (bottom of 99), forgiveness (101).
• Ch. 13: Reference (Isaiah 42:6; 42:16; 40:28; 40:30-31); motif (fear); symbol (golden); allusion ("transfigured" and "lifted")

* Read ch. 13 together

* Resume

* Begin video

HW: J20 (Paton-17) due Tuesday

Wednesday, 4/10: Paton

* Open

* Reminder: Memorization: Copy your paragraph into your binder, please (even if you have already printed it).

* Check J19; discuss

* Writing: Résumé (we will work on this on our block day, but this is to get you thinking and, perhaps, briefly started)

• Choose to begin one of the following:
• Pages Template: Modern Photo Resume
• Linkedin.com profile

• Include information that will be helpful for
• College applications
• Recommenders (college)
• Summer jobs

* Paton and J20

HW: J20 (do through ch. 12 for block)

Tuesday, 4/9: Paton

* Open

* Review more chapters with discussion

* Work on Journal 19

* Finish early?  Work on your Q4 CWP, due May 2. 

HW: J19

Monday 4/8/13: Paton

* Open

• Review Paton work
• Memorization Quiz in Two Weeks

• Review J18 

* Nails

• What is apartheid?  "Apart-hood" in South Africa (1948-1994). 
• Why are family relationships so important to the well-being of a nation?

* Read the introduction to your novel (if you have not yet).  Take notes on the historical context of Cry, the Beloved Country. 
 
* Begin Journal 19 (chapters 6-10)

• For each chapter: copy a quotation you think rich, insightful, or nicely composed.  Explain the significance of the quote in more than one sentence. 
• Choose one word that is new or strange to you from each chapter.
• Add the word to your vocabulary list.
• Define it.  

* Finish early?  Work on your Q4 CWP, due May 2.

HW: J19 ch. 6-7