Wednesday, 5/7

* Open

• Roots

• levi	light	alleviate, levitate, levity
  liber, liver	free	liberty, liberal, liberalize, deliverance
  liter	letters	literary, literature, literal, alliteration, obliterate

   

• Grammar Review Sheets: 21, Agreement
• Reno's classes, finish the remaining two pages

HW: Resume applications; rewrites; make sure your binder is sweet 

• Reno's classes: quiz covering final chapters of CBC and SVA

Tuesday, 5/6/14

* Open

• Roots

• juven	young	juvenile, rejuvenate
  lau, lav, lot, lut	wash	launder, lavatory, lotion, ablution, dilute
  leg	law	legal, legislate, legislature, legitimize

   
• Reno's classes:
• Do Ex 21-2 (page 2 on your PDF); check your answers with a neighbor

• Block Day: We will be working on resumes.  So, please get a job application from the company you would like to work for this summer, and bring it with you on block day.  If you already wrote an application for Health, or if you will not be working this summer, then you will begin a high school resume to use for college applications when you are a senior.

* Interesting article on Africa at the WSJ.

• How do perspectives concerning Africa today reflect perspectives you found in Cry, the Beloved Country.  
• This is the kind of thought the WSJ article is responding to. 

 

• Reno: hand back SAT essay #1 on Leadership (rewrites must be MLA formatted and typed; they are due next Tuesday)
• Per 4 - choose either to rewrite it for a second grade OR choose for me to grade your Cry essay instead
• Per 7 - choose either of your two essays to rewrite

HW: -- 36 (finish the book!)

A boy stands in front of wind turbines at the Ashegoda Wind Farm, near a village in Mekelle, Tigray, 780 km (485 miles) north of Addis Ababa, October 25, 2013. Reuters.

Monday, 5/5/14

* Open

hydr, hydra, hydro	water	dehydrate, hydrant, hydraulic, hydraulics, hydrogen, hydrophobia
ignis	fire	ignite, igneous, ignition
ject	throw	deject, inject, project, eject, interject
join, junct	join	adjoining, enjoin, juncture, conjunction, injunction, conjunction

*Grammar

• 21-2 (section k)
• Reno - Go to Focus and open "Bedford 21: SVA Practice" 
• Do Ex 21-1 on the PDF
• Also, underline the simple subject(s)
• NOTE: On the right column you will see the Bedford rule being tested.

* CBC

HW: CBC -- 35

Block Day

* Open

• Roots

• hema, hemo	blood	hemorrhage, hemoglobin, hemophilia, hemostat
  here, hes	stick	adhere, cohere, cohesion, inherent, hereditary
  hum, human	earth, ground, man	humus, exhume, humane

   

•   Quiz (oral review)

* Review Grammar

* Do Ex. 21-2

* Schwager Only

• Rewrites
• Due next week, block
• Typed, MLA Format
• Fix your errors
• Make sure you have specific support
• Consider literature and history

• Underline your thesis

• 500 Words or longer: include your computer's word count. 
• Upload to turnitin.com next week
• Video

HW: CBC--34

Character Awards

Please vote for your character awards!

Senior https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BMYRQFM
Juniors https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BTZYKWB
Sophomores https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BMQ9YZX
Freshman https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BMWXTK7

Thank you,

Mr. S

Brooke, Domenica, Zephone, Kyla

Savi and Alex

Patrick, Bobby, John S., and John W.

Reann and Macie

Will and Grace

Ryan De Los Santos

Wednesday, 4/30

* Open

•  Roots

• greg	herd	gregarious, congregation, segregate, gregarian
  hypn	sleep	hypnosis, hypnotherapy
  helio	sun	heliograph, heliotrope, heliocentric

   
• Grammar
• Do ex. 21-1 letters and numbers (you may simply write the noun(s) and verb(s) that agree...you do not need to copy the entire sentence) 

* CBC

HW: CBC--32

Tuesday, 4/29

* Opening

• Roots: Copy the three sets of roots, definitions, and example words into your notes

• graph, gram	write, written	graph, graphic, autograph, photography, graphite, telegram
  grat	pleasing	congratulate, gratuity, grateful, ingrate
  grav	heavy, weighty	grave, gravity, aggravate, gravitate

* Grammar

• Go to 21-1 (Grammatical Sentences, 21)
• Read and copy rules for 21b-k (lots of rules)
• Compose or copy at least one example sentence for each rule. 

* CBC Discussion

* Work in Class

HW: CBC Ch. 31

Monday, 4/28: Bittersweet Homecoming

Assignment:

• Review your reading
• Answer the new questions for chapters 29-30 (add to the standard journal responses you already have)

Journal 18, chapter 29 addition (please answer each part of each question in complete sentences):

1. Why do you think Absalom marries? 
2. What sin does Stephen Kumalo commit against his brother, John?  Why does he commit it?  What did he intend to say that he did not, in fact, say to John?
3. On what unexpected note does this chapter end? 

Journal 18, chapter 30 addition (please answer each part of each question in complete sentences):

1. This is the first chapter of the last book (or section) of this novel.  How does it parallel the opening of the previous two books?  How does it differ? 
2. What appears to have happened to Gertude (Stephen Kumalo's sister)?  What evidence can you find (yes, there is a trace of faint evidence...use your detective skills!)? 
3. When Kumalo speaks to his friend, Kumalo tells him how it is he still believes (despite losing so much).  What does Kumalo believe in?  How does he still believe?  What does his friend remind Kumalo about suffering?

* If you finish in class, continue into chapters 31-32 (due Wednesday).

HW: J18, Ch. 29-30 (both standard and added questions completed)

Example: Village in South Africa

Block of Crying

* Open

* Grammar

• First, just read this background: "One of the wise and awful truths which this brown-paper art reveals, is this, that white is a colour. It is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. When, so to speak, your pencil grows red-hot, it draws roses; when it grows white-hot, it draws stars. And one of the two or three defiant verities of the best religious morality, of real Christianity, for example, is exactly this same thing; the chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not seen."

• Now, please copy and punctuate the following: "Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming like Joan of Arc. In a word God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously I had almost said so gaudily as when He paints in white."

• How Important Does Jane Austen Remain in British Culture?
• Mail
• Money
• Grammar Grazing at the Guardian

* CBC...review the chapter notes

• Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)

* Read together and work in class

* Video

HW: CBC -- 30

Wednesday, 4/23

* Open

•  Grammar

• First, just read this background: "One of the wise and awful truths which this brown-paper art reveals, is this, that white is a colour. It is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. When, so to speak, your pencil grows red-hot, it draws roses; when it grows white-hot, it draws stars. And one of the two or three defiant verities of the best religious morality, of real Christianity, for example, is exactly this same thing; the chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not seen."

• Now, please copy and punctuate the following: "Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming like Joan of Arc. In a word God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously I had almost said so gaudily as when He paints in white."

* CBC...review the chapter notes

• Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)

* Read together and work in class

HW: CBC --28

Tuesday, April 22

Open

• Welcome back!
• Please take a look these next two Europe trips:
• June, 2015: Spain and Portugal
• June, 2016: The Britannia
• If you are interested, please email: marcusschwager@mvcs.org.  I will let you know when we have a tour meeting to learn more.  Also, talk to folks who went on the Italy trip (like Emily or Savy or Jesse or Rachel or Jimmy). 

• Scroll down for some poetry pics! 

* CBC...review the chapter notes

* Work in Class

HW: CBC -- 26

Keith

Frances

Chelsea

Avery and Lily

Parker and Bronson

Alyna

Maddie

Evan

Don't Block the Chalk!

* Open

• Quiz
• Touring Europe Together
• Genocide, take one: Rwanda
• Genocide, take 2: Santa Cruz

* Prefix Quiz #2

* Essay

• Check journals

* Chalk on the walk

HW: CBC--24; rejoice!

The resurrection miracle depicted by the miraculous painter, Fra Angelico.

Wednesday, 4/9/14

* Open

• Notice that there is a new link down on the right for our novel. 

* Return Quiz

* CBC

HW: CBC--22 and make sure you bring your chalk

Cry, the Beloved Country

Opening idea: Journal 17 (1 page): What is a most lovely land that you have walked?  Describe it.

Author: Alan Paton (South African writer; first published in New York, 1948)

Background

• Introduction to South Africa
• Overview: Operation World
• Overview: CIA Report 
• Overview: United Streaming
• Notes today from Britannica Online
  
• Apartheid
• Nelson Mandela

Reading Journal 18

• 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. 

Tuesday, 4/8/14

* Open

•  Please correctly punctuate the following sentence:
• I enjoy reading Alan Patons book Cry the Beloved Country.

* CBC

• Notes
• "MOTIF: A conspicuous recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, a reference, or verbal formula, which appears frequently in works of literature" (Dr. Wheeler). 
• Compare with theme.
• Share journal responses

* Work in class

HW: CBC--20

You May Not Want to Go to This, But...

"Celebrate National Poetry Month on April 10, 2014, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
WATSONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 275 MAIN STREET, SUITE 100

The evening will be devoted to a diversity of voices as all are invited to step up to the mic and share their work.
Music by Emily Bording and family. Refreshments. Door prizes. Fun.

Supported by the Friends of the Watsonville Public Library and with a grant from the Arts Council of Santa Cruz County."

Never Did I Ever Expect to Create a Link to Oprah.com

Here is a link to Paton's glossary for Cry, The Beloved Country

Monday, 4/7/14

* Open

• Review prefixes in your notes

* Per. 1: Essay Peer Review

• Peer Review
• Write: "PR" and your name at the bottom of the first page. 
• Estimating Word Count
• Count the words in five lines.
• Divide by five.
• Get an estimated word count per line for this writer.
• Multiply by the number of complete lines in the essay (usually about 28 lines per page).  Count opening lines of paragraphs but not closing lines if incomplete.  
• Aim for 350-500 words for a 5/6 on the SAT
• Underline the thesis if it is not underlined.

• Is it an argument?  Tell them. 

• Circle words that exhibit strong vocabulary.
• Circle any punctuators that are not periods.  
• Draw a sad face if there is more than one exclamation.  
• Draw a skull and crossbones if there are any hearts.  
• Draw dripping blood if the writer wrote "the end" at the conclusion. 
• Write down one thing you appreciate about this student. 
• Return it to the owner.

 * CBC

HW: CBC -- 18

Cry, the Beloved Country Graffiti in Soweto Township, South Africa, 1985 by David Turnley from from Black Star. (A reference to Alan Paton's great 1948 novel: "Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear.")

Rubric Collaboration for Teachers

Hi teachers!


Agenda:

• Sign in on the clipboard, please.

• Training
• Benefits
• Clarity
• Consistency
• Direction
• Labor saving?

• The .pdf copy of the rubric
• Alternative: Blog copy of the the SAT Rubric
• Essay Examples from the College Board

• Essay Scoring: Shared Folder for Teachers

• Rigby (paper)
• Tarr
• Reno
• Schwager 

• Shared Notes  

• The rubric assumes at least 25 minutes of time to write.  You could have as much as you like, but 25 is a fair minimum to apply it.  25 minutes is good training as the SAT will remain 25 minutes until current freshmen are juniors (then it will be 50 minutes).  So, 25 minutes is good...and longer allotments are also good preparation. 
• Labor saving?  Or not?
  
• The grade percentages on the rubric are from the honors English II course.  If you teach freshmen or regular sophomores, you would want to give higher grades for a lower quality performance.  I would recommend keeping the same 1-6 number references constant so that students learn the rubric.  Here is a basic summary of the grades you could apply:
  
• Junior--Senior Students (and honors sophs)
• 6 = A
• 5 = B
• 4 = C
• 3 = D
• 2-1 = Failure
• Freshman--Sophomore Students
• 6-5 = A
• 4 = B
• 3 = C
• 2 = D
• 1 = Failure

• Rewrites
• Percentage
• Timing

It's an honor and blessing to work with you; I'm so stoked to see us growing together in this challenging but vital subject!

Block

* Open

• Review out

* Prefix Quiz

* Essay

• Peer Review
• Write: "PR" and your name at the bottom of the first page. 
• Estimating Word Count
• Count the words in five lines.
• Divide by five.
• Get an estimated word count per line for this writer.
• Multiply by the number of complete lines in the essay (usually about 28 lines per page).  Count opening lines of paragraphs but not closing lines if incomplete.  
• Aim for 350-500 words for a 5/6 on the SAT
• Underline the thesis if it is not underlined.

• Is it an argument?  Tell them. 

• Circle words that exhibit strong vocabulary.
• Circle any punctuators that are not periods.  
• Draw a sad face if there is more than one exclamation.  
• Draw a skull and crossbones if there are any hearts.  
• Draw dripping blood if the writer wrote "the end" at the conclusion. 
• Write down one thing you appreciate about this student. 
• Return it to the owner. 

• Your review
• Circle and change three words in your essay (either due to choice or spelling) 

* Review chapters

* Work in class. 

HW: CBC--16

Wednedsday, 4/2

Open

• Last prefixes = )
• syn–, sym– = together, with
• trans– = across, beyond
• ultra–, out– = beyond
• vice– = in place of 
• Shakoshi

* Cry, the Beloved Country

• Take five notes on the life of Nelson Mandela (mvcs, mustangs)
• Class Discussion

* Read

HW: CBC -- 14; prefix quiz

Tuesday, 4/1

* Open

• Prefixes
• re–, retro– = back, again
• se– = apart
• sub–, suc–, suf– = below
• super–, sur– = over, above
• Confirm two from yesterday
• mal–, mis–,= bad
• pro– = before, in favor of  
• Sadly, it looks like it will rain Friday...so we will focus on the book and do some of our essay work then.  Keep your chalks in your locker, please.  

* Take Notes on Apartheid (mvcs; mustangs)

* Work on Chapters 11-12 while I check your work.

HW: CBC 11-12

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.   

His house is in the village though;   

He will not see me stopping here   

To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

My little horse must think it queer   

To stop without a farmhouse near   

Between the woods and frozen lake   

The darkest evening of the year.   

He gives his harness bells a shake   

To ask if there is some mistake.   

The only other sound’s the sweep   

Of easy wind and downy flake.   

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.

Choral Interpretation

Monday, 3/31: Apartheid

* Open

• Prefixes
• mal–, mis– = bad
• peri– = around
• poly– = many
• post– = after
• pre– = before
• pro– = before, in front of

• Note: Prefix Quiz on Block Day
• Matching...all prefixes on the list

* Notes today from Britannica Online

• Apartheid
• Nelson Mandela

* 25 minutes: Cry, the Beloved Country work in class

• Essay Makeups

HW: CBC --10

Crying Over the Beloved Book

Friends,

I forgot to add chapters beyond four to my introductory scan of Cry, the Beloved Country.  Some students had ordered the book, but it had not arrived. Thus, I am changing the due date for the coming chapters so:
Monday: CBC--7
Tuesday: CBC--10

Our next in class check will be on Tuesday.

All the best,

Mr. S

SAT Essay Word Count: Shoot for 450 Words

More words do not give you a higher score, but fewer words will give you a lower score (as you cannot adequately develop your idea). 

Higher scoring essays will usually be 350--450 words in length.  For most of you, that means you should shoot for close to two full pages of writing. 

Block of Easy

Open

• Prefixes

• hyper– = above
  hypo– = under
  il–, im–, in–, ir–, non– = not
  inter– = between
  intra– = within

   

* Recitation

* Cry, the Beloved Country

* Essay Writing

SAT Essay

• —  “Christian thought stands outside the opposition that is presumed within either a metaphysics of ontological hypotaxis (such as any idealism describes) or a metaphysics of ontological rupture (such as postmodernism professes); it knows only the beauty of being’s parataxis, its open, free, serial, and irreducible declaration of glory; it grasps being neither as an immobile synthesis that stands over against and sublates every utterance, nor as the sheer cacophony of aleatory violence, but as rhetoric, the outward address and proclamation of the God who has eternally spoken, who speaks, and who will speak, the God who “others” himself in himself and contains and surrenders otherness as infinite music, infinite discourse.”
       –Adapted from David B. Hart’s The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
  —  Assignment: Is an ontological peace defensible against postmodernism’s insistence on an inescapable ontological violence at the heart of things? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

 * Cry, the Beloved Country

HW: CBC -- 7

 

Wednesday, 3/25: Rain, rain--beautiful rain!

* Open

de–, ex– = out of, away from
extra– = beyond, outside
hetero– = other
homo– = same

 * Let's read poems and takes of beauty...and take the essay on block day.

* CBC

HW: CBC -- 7


Source: http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/2014/03/16/cartoons-day-changes-sat/42796/

Tuesday: CBC and SATishness

* Open

• circum– = around
  co–, con–, col–, cor– = with
  contra–, counter– = against

* Check J18 while you work

* CBC

* SAT Preparation Review

• In-Class Essay Rubric (SAT, College Board)

• Score of 6

  An essay in this category demonstrates clear and consistent mastery, although it may have a few minor errors. A typical essay:
  
• Effectively and insightfully develops a point of view on the issue and demonstrates outstanding critical thinking, using clearly appropriate examples, reasons and other evidence to support its position
• Is well organized and clearly focused, demonstrating clear coherence and smooth progression of ideas
• Exhibits skillful use of language, using a varied, accurate and apt vocabulary
• Demonstrates meaningful variety in sentence structure
• Is free of most errors in grammar, usage and mechanics
•  
• Practice SAT Prompts

• 2013, Prompt 4

• Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
• Too often, people—especially young people, who may not have settled on a firm identity yet—try to imitate others, because it is easier to do so than to develop their own unique individuality. They focus on trying to imitate what seems attractive or desirable in others. But imitating others is never a good idea: when we imitate others, all we do is harm our ability to develop our own individuality.

• Assignment: Is imitation of others always harmful? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. 

What to focus on:

• Pasta
• Point of view
• Examples
• Transitions

• Sauce
• Number (word count)
• Choice of verbs, nouns, and modifiers
• Sentence Structures

HW: CBC -- 5 (that means read chapters 4-5 and do J18 ch. 4-5)

Prayer

Please pray that if there are any people still alive in the debris from Saturday's landslide in Oso, Washington, that they would be found and rescued.  Pray for the families affected.

CBC Notes

Monday, 3/24/14: Novel Work

Open

• Prefixes

• ben–, bon–, eu– = good

  brev– = short

  caco–, dys– = bad, abnormal

  ceiv–, cept–, capt– = take

   
• Prayer
• Recitation

* Poetry

* Place (J17)

* Cry, the Beloved Country
 

• Introduction
• Just to read and note the basic situation of South Africa (note 5 facts from each)
• Overview: Operation World
• Overview: CIA Report
• Apartheid: Britannica Plundering

• Journal 18 (running for all chapters)

• 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. 

HW: J18 through ch. 3 (due Tuesday)

Block Apartheid!

Open

• Prefixes for today (find three words for each; be prepared to explain their etymology)

• anim– = life, spirit
  ante– = before
  anti– = opposite
  auc–, aug– = increase
  aud–, aur– = hear
  auto– = self

   
• The List of Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes 

• Share J17

• Introduction
• Just to read and note the basic situation of South Africa (note 5 facts from each)
• Overview: Operation World
• Overview: CIA Report
• Apartheid: Britannica Plundering

• Read the ch. 1-2 together.

• Journal 18 (running for all chapters)

• 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. 

HW: J18 through ch. 3 (due Tuesday)

Wednesday, 3/19/14

* Open

     * Grammar: copy these prefixes and definitions into your notes.  Find and write down at least three words that illustrate their meaning: 

a–, an– = not, without
ab– = away from
ad– = toward, addition

* Poems

* Journal 17 (1 page): What is a most lovely land that you have walked?  Describe it.  

* If you finish early: Cry, the Beloved Country introductory notes.  

• Introduction (pages below as time permits this week)
• Just to read and note the basic situation of South Africa (note 5 facts from each)
• Overview: Operation World
• Overview: CIA Report
• Overview: United Streaming (teacher will play when all students are ready)

HW: J17

Cheese Queens!

Do you happen to have?

Book: Percy Jackson's Ranger's Apprentice?

Or an old iPhone 4 hard case you are going to throw away?

Tuesday, 3/18/14

* Open

• Recitation
• Pray

* Share Poems

* St. Patrick's Breastplate 

* The Joys of Satire

* Work on your Poetry Drawing

* Finish our Video (Schwager)

HW: Finish your Drawing (J16)

Monday, 3/17: St. Patrick's Day

* Open

• New seat; new companions
• Take Notes: Saint Patrick
• Feastday: March 17
  Patron of Ireland
  Birth: 387
  Death: 461
• His hymn: St. Patrick's Breastplate
   

• 
• Recitation Quiz: not this week but the end of next week.

* Journal 16: Begin an Illustration that Would Fit with Your Best Poem to Share with the School.

* Upcoming Reading

• Course Text: Please get a copy of our novel, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (ebook or printed books are fine; this is not a free book). 
• Course Plan 

HW: Work on J16 (should show evidence of 1/2 hour or more of work by tomorrow; blank or lined paper is fine)

 

Next Wednesday's Schedule

Block Day: Party

Open

• Grammar: Identify rhetorical techniques that strengthen the power of this passage: 
• "We can hear him read now, just as he did that summer day, when we were busy quilting upstairs, and he lay near the door, his voice rising denunciatory and thrillin—strong and loud as the roar of wind and waves, then soft and soothing as the balmy airs that quivered the morning-glory leaves about his gray beard. His was a strange eloquence at times, and he was undoubtedly a man of genius" ("Johnny Appleseed." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 11 March 2014. Web. 11 March 2014.).
• Recite
• Pray
• "On Fragments" by G. K. Chesterton 
• In your notes, answer this question: How is bread and cheese invoked differently here than in the essay on cheese? 

• "The Rolling English Road" by G. K. Chesterton

* Party

* Binder Check

HW: None

Reminder

A representative from Yale will be conducting an informational session in the MSPAR (over in the middle school) from 11:40-12:15.  Please communicate with your Advisory teacher if you would like to come join us in the MSPAR.

Tuesday, 3/11/14

* Open

• Grammar: Please punctuate the following sentence:
• "We can hear him read now just as he did that summer day when we were busy quilting upstairs, and he lay near the door, his voice rising denunciatory and thrillin—strong and loud as the roar of wind and waves then soft and soothing as the balmy airs that quivered the morning-glory leaves about his gray beard. His was a strange eloquence at times and he was undoubtedly a man of genius" ("Johnny Appleseed." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 11 March 2014. Web. 11 March 2014.).
• Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed
• Recite
• Pray
• John Chapman "Johnny Appleseed" (1774-1845)
  
  In 1806 the legendary husbandman began planting and tending apple trees along the Ohio River, navigating with a pair of lashed-together canoes.  He was equally interested in preaching biblical messages and, in the course of his travels.  Thomas Holme's Journal of a Year's Residences in America (1818), written while Chapman was spreading his evangelical seed, offered this reassuring firsthand observation: He once wrote, "I have traveled more than 4,000 miles about this country, and I have never met with one single insolent Native American." Chapman was quick to preach the Gospel as he traveled, and during his travels he converted many Native Americans, whom he admired. The Native Americans regarded him as someone who had been touched by the Great Spirit, and even hostile tribes left him strictly alone ("Johnny Appleseed." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 11 March 2014. Web. 11 March 2014.).

* Schwager's classes: Collect Rewrites

• You must also submit your CWP and Rewrite to turnitin.com to receive credit.  

* Party Signups on Board

• Chesterton's Essay

*  Contests

• March 15: Poetry Santa Cruz (any subject)

HW: Contest Entry; Organize your Binder





"We can hear him read now, just as he did that summer day, when we were busy quilting upstairs, and he lay near the door, his voice rising denunciatory and thrillin—strong and loud as the roar of wind and waves, then soft and soothing as the balmy airs that quivered the morning-glory leaves about his gray beard. His was a strange eloquence at times, and he was undoubtedly a man of genius" ("Johnny Appleseed." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 11 March 2014. Web. 11 March 2014.).

Monday, 3/10/14

* Open

• Access your turnitin.com account
• Recite
• Pray

* CWP

* Turnitin.com

•  UP to Two Assignment to Submit
• CWP
• Rewrite

Mr. Schwager's Students:

• Per. 1 
  Course: 7802433
  Password: 201H

•  Per. 3
• Course: 7802442
• Password: 203H 

Mr. Reno's Students:

• Per. 4
• Course: 7803215
• Password: 204H

• Per. 7
• Course: 7803222
• Password 207H

* Rewrites or Contest work

HW:

• Rewrite (due Tues for Schwager)
• Reno due dates
• (Tues) CWP - MLA formatted hard copy (submit soft copy to turnitin.com)
• (Wed) Rewrite - "Once by the Pacific" (submit soft copy to turnitin.com)
• (Block) Binder check

Block of Paper Ashes

* Open

* Presentations

• Take notes
• Next, take notes on the presentations from the other period

* Rewrites reviewed

• Review poem
• Due Tuesday
• Must submit to turnitin.com on or by Monday night
• Typed
• MLA format

* Work on your CWP

* Finished?  Work on your contest entry.

HW: CWP

Wednesday, 3/5: Ash Wednesday

* Open

• Grammar: Punctuate:
• "Yet even now declares the Lord
  return to me with all your heart
  with fasting with weeping and with mourning
  and rend your hearts and not your garments” (ESV Joel 2.12).
• All hail Queen Katie! 

* Papers

* Present

* The Quarterly Creative Writing Portfolio (CWP) 

* Contest Work

HW: CWP; Contest Work

A few of my favorite things...

Bible Study

• Go through the Bible in five years with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.  Four generations (grandmother Ruth June, my mother Jeannie, myself, and my children) have enjoyed his wise teaching.  The podcast series is now on Song of Solomon.  You can also get the app on your phone; if you do, you can just go to any chapter you wish.  The icon looks like this:

Some asked me about the book I read recently that I enjoyed.

It is Manalive by G. K. Chesterton.  It is free on iBooks!

Turnitin Course Codes

1. Go to turnitin.com.
2. Log in with your own login information (mvcs).
3. Now login to our course using the codes below:

Mrs. West's Students:

• Honors English 201
• Code: 10348725
• Pass: mustangs

•  Honors English 203
• Code: 10348752
• Pass: mustangs

• Honors English 204
• Code: 10348762
• Pass: mustangs

• Honors English 206
• Code: 10348769
• Pass: mustangs

• Honors English 207
• Code: 10348778
• Pass: mustangs

Tuesday, 3/4

• Pray

• Recitation: Robert Frost

* Writing this Week: The Quarterly Creative Writing Portfolio (CWP)

* Joy to the Group

HW: Finish Poster