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