Humanities III, Freshman English : 2017

Grades

I made an alphabetical spreadsheet with your Double-double quiz and Christmas Blessing points on it. It's alphabetical, then I took a few letters of your first name and reversed them.

This does not show your overall grade as it's not the real gradebook. But it should help you get an idea of recent scores.

Any blank is a 0, a.k.a., academic suicide (if not resolved quickly).

Link to your recent scores.

Enjoy,

Mr. S

The Final Exam Preparation Guide

Date and Time: Thursday, Dec. 14, 12:37 pm

Duration: 48 Minutes

1. Midsummer Short Essay (30 min.)

Open Book (you do need to bring it)

2. 25 or Fewer Questions on the Following (15 min.)

Punctuation (know your 20 rules and how to use them)
Thesis

_____________________________________________

Things To Study

The Midsummer Guide

Writing Notes

Thesis (fill-in)
Thesis (answers)
Do you remember what C, S, E stands for in writing?

Punctuation:

Commas

Semicolons and Colons

Dashes

Thursday, Dec. 7

Grammar: Use commas in a sentence featuring a nonrestrictive clause.

Return Quizzes

Review

Review Stories

Student Work in Class on Midsummer

HW:

Finish Reading Play and Answer all Questions.
We will see this with the binder check on Tuesday.
Quiz on Monday: Punctuation, Midsummer

Tuesday, December 5

Opening:

Punctuate: Excuse me--did the middle of my sentence interrupt the beginning of yours?

Dashes

(hyphen, en-dash, em-dash reviewed)

Rule 1: Use dashes in the place of commas or parentheses in a parenthetical remark for dramatic effect

Rule 2: Use a dash in the place of a colon for dramatic effect.

Rule 3: Use a dash to interrupt and change direction in a sentence.

Legend:

50% Grammar (25 pts)
50% Glory (excellently appropriate to your audience)

Handout

HW: Questions

Thu., Nov. 30

Opening Grammar: Look Over the Handout

Semicolon and Colons

Check In On the Legend While You Work on the Colon Handout and Create 4 or more sentence examples.

HW:

Quiz Tomorrow:

You will provide sentence examples from among the 17 rules (comma, semicolon, colon)
Midsummer (review your study guide questions and answers)

Fully Finished Legend and Map Due Next Thursday (Dec. 7)

Tue., Nov. 28

Punctuate: Daryl Sarah and Jake the fastest runners in our class voted for a track team but Lisa Frank and Jack who aren’t so speedily endowed voted for disc golf.

Rule 3: Use a semicolon in place of a comma in rare instances when there are already many commas in a sentence. Compose one example sentence yourself.

Book Check Out

Begin Reading Act III, Scene 1

Work on Your Legend

HW:

Rewrites and Your Story are Due on Thursday
Finish Reading Act III, Scene 1

Note

If you create your legend and map (and do your rewrite, for those who are rewriting) over break, your life will be easier for the last dash to the semester’s end. Your choice.

Tuesday and Thursday (Nov. 14 and 16)

Tuesday

Punctuate: I will not eat green eggs and ham I will not eat them Sam I am.
Act I
HW: Review the Creative Writing Assignment

Thursday

Punctuate: The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures indeed he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Semicolons:

Rule 1: Use a semicolon to separate independent clauses with related ideas (but not with a coordinating conjunction and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet)
Rule 2: Use a semicolon and comma to separate independent clauses joined by a conjunctive adverb (accordingly, furthermore, moreover, similarly, also, hence, namely, still, anyway, however, nevertheless, then, besides, incidentally, next, thereafter, certainly, indeed, nonetheless, therefore, consequently, instead, now, thus, finally, likewise, otherwise, undoubtedly, further, meanwhile).
Compose two sentences on your own that illustrate each rule.

Return Papers and Review

If you wish to rewrite, see the guidelines here. You have until Tuesday of your return to turn this in.

Midsummer Reading

HW: Finish Reading Act 2, Scene 2 (MIT offers a free online text here).

Answer Questions for Act 2 Scene 2

Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017

1. Writing Assignments:

Essay Practice

This is the essay you wrote last week. You may rewrite it during class this week. Nic, give yourself one hour to write it when you able. You may use your novel as you write.

Upcoming: Christmas Blessing

This is your next creative writing assignment. You will have several weeks to write it and make accompanying art.

2. A Midsummer Night's Dream Reading Guide

You will begin answering questions Friday or Monday.

HW: None

Wednesday, Nov. 8

1. Grammar (from Tuesday)

2. Journal Discussion in Class (from yesterday)

3. Introductory Notes (review play characters and such)

4. Read Together

HW: Essay Review

Tuesday, Nov. 7

1. Grammar: punctuate (all one sentence)

"Now fair Hippolyta our nuptial hour
Draws on apace four happy days bring in
Another moon but O methinks how slow
This old moon wanes" (1.1.1-4)

2. Midsummer Pre-reading Journal Prompt:

Is there such a thing as true love? What distinguishes good and true love from infatuation or simple desire? When is the right time for someone to marry? How can you distinguish someone you should marry from someone you should not marry? How much say do you think your family should have in your marriage timing and choice?

3. Video: Act 1. Watch from the opening to the point when Bottom the Weaver is reprimanded by his wife (this is not in the actual play, but only in the movie).

4. If you finish watching Act I, discuss the journal prompt.

HW: Review Your Essay Sheet. We will have rewrites on Thursday (those not writing will be creative writing).

Tueday and Thursday, Oct. 31, Nov. 2

* Opening Grammar to Fix

The best poetry then comes from the roughest speech?

Perhaps said the pfifltrigg. As the best pictures are made in the hardest stone.

* Review the PSAT

* Review errors in the book for fun.
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Essay Practice: Prepare for this essay on Tuesday; write this essay in class on Thursday.

Homework: None

Want to Listen to a Good Sermon?

Lucan and I listened to this one recently; it's very good.

Title: Sexual Purity
Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8
Pastor: Dave Hatcher
Listen (or Read)

More Good Sermons

The PSAT is Wednesday

The SAT and the ACT are the key standardized tests colleges will look at to see if you fit the academic profile of their school. Of the two, the SAT is the more commonly required. The PSAT helps you prepare for the SAT.

9th graders need this overview.
10th graders need this overview.

We will review this a bit in class.

Checklist:

Please remember to be at school by 7:30am.

What to Bring on Test Day:

No. 2 pencils with erasers (mechanical pencils are not allowed)
Acceptable calculator (see attached document)
Your Student's Social Security number
Your email address (optional)
Photo ID: St. Abe's will provide this for you.
College Board school code: 050281

Incidentally, that school code (050281) will be the same for every PSAT, SAT, AP test, and other time any college or whatnot asks for your "school code" or "CEEB code" for St. Abraham's.

Remember that on Thursday you will have a short comma quiz.

Thank you,

Mr. Schwager and Mr. Kelman

Thursday, 10/19/17

1. Grammar Practice from the Board

2. Review page 2 of the comma handout

Handout on Commas
Page 2 requires knowledge of restrictive and nonrestrictive appositive modifiers.

In short:

"Restrictive" elements narrow down the specificity as you read.

The writer C. S. Lewis was gifted. ("The writer" is less specific than "C. S. Lewis," so the latter words narrow down or specify the noun, and it's a restrictive situation needing no commas).

"Nonrestrictive" elements don't narrow the noun down. The specific (person, place, item) is stated first, and the words or phrases add extra info.

C. S. Lewis, the writer, was gifted. ("C. S. Lewis" is already entirely specific, so the fact that he's a "writer" is just more information, making it nonrestrictive and requiring commas).

3. In class: Make five sentences featuring restrictive and five sentences featuring nonrestrictive commas.

HW: Copy rules and provide examples for all comma rules on page 3 of our handout on commas.

To Quiz or Not to Quiz, That is the Question

Not to quiz this Friday, because you have not had art in one month, and your art teacher requested the day.

I'm sure you'll all be depressed. I'll have Kleenex for you on Thursday.

Enjoy,

Mr. S

Coordinate Vs. Cumulative Adjectives

Resources to help you understand coordinate and cumulative adjectives:

Brief and Simple: Get it Write
More Expansive: Grammar 101

Enjoy!

Mr. S

Quarter 1 Binder Check

Here is what I should see in a binder:

1. The Thesis: Firm, Fitting, and Fetching (student fill-in copy)

The Thesis: Firm, Fitting, and Fetching (with teaching notes)

2. Thesis Quiz

Thesis Retake (for those who retook the quiz)

3. The New SAT 12 Pt - 3 Score Rubric

4. Prompt #1 Training: LA Times Article: "Let There Be Dark"

With 4 Sample Student Essays (included in link above)

5. Prompt #2 Training: Dana Gioia: "Why Literature Matters"

3 Sample Student Essays

6. Your Own Essay with Corrections

7. Class Notes on Essay Development: Claim, Support, Evaluate

8. Class Notes on Commas

9. Handout on Commas

10. Grammar Practice from the Board

10/12/17: Comma Coma

1. Fix the Daily Grammar Practice Sentence

2. Hand out MLA Comma Rule Sheets

3. Comma Assignment #1: On your own lined paper, for each of the 10 rules

Copy the rule
Make example sentences for each of each type of example given and for each letter
Due Date: 10/17 (beginning of class, as every assignment for this class)

4. Binder Check

HW: Finish Comma Assignment #1 (Rule Sheet from North Greenville University)

Image result for comma coma

Rubrics

These are the essay rubrics we use:

1. The New SAT Essay; 12 point (for rhetorical analysis papers)

2. The Original SAT essay; 6 points (for more open-ended prompts less analysis dependent)

The Original SAT with Grade Percentages

3. Advanced Analysis Writing: 9 points (for literary analysis)