Block Day ~ Can you FLOW?

*Open

• Suffixes
• ice - condition, state, quality
• id, ide - a thing connected with or belonging to.

*Grammar Review from Bedford

• Exercise 39-1 Directions: Edit the following sentences to correct errors in punctuation, focusing especially on appropriate use of the dash, parentheses, brackets, ellipsis mark, and slash. If a sentence is correct, write “correct” after it. Answers to lettered sentences appear in the back of the book. 

1. The old Valentine verse we used to chant says it all: “Sugar is sweet, / And so are you.”
2. In studies in which mothers gazed down at their infants in their cribs but remained facially unresponsive, for example, not smiling, laughing, or showing any change of expression, the infants responded with intense weariness and eventual withdrawal.
3. There are three points of etiquette in poker: 1. always allow someone to cut the cards, 2. don’t forget to ante up, and 3. never stack your chips.
4. In Lifeboat, Alfred Hitchcock appears [some say without his knowledge] in a newspaper advertisement for weight loss.
5. The writer Chitra Divakaruni explained her work with other Indian American immigrants: “Many women who came to Maitri [a women’s support group in San Francisco] needed to know simple things like opening a bank account or getting citizenship. . . . Many women in Maitri spoke English, but their English was functional rather than emotional. They needed someone who understands their problems and speaks their language.”

*Debate

• EQ: What is Flowing?

• A: Flowing is a specific way to take notes when listening to a debate.
• Watch this video and brainstorm arguments for one of these topics as a class debate.

• Should women be allowed in combat?
• Should Monte Vista stop having a dress code?
• Are selfies dumb?
• Should it be illegal for kids under the age of 5 to play video games?
• Should violent video games be banned?
• Is Twitter really better than Instagram? (or Facebook, etc...)
• Do school uniforms help the learning environment? 
• Should the U.S. give federal emergency funds to Nepal in their time of need? 

*Check for understanding: Did the team continue to address each of the main THEMES throughout the debate?

* The New SAT

• The new essay will be 50 min. and feature a passage to analyze.  Your study of persuasive argument (ethos, pathos, logos), research, article evaluation, annotations, and debate preparation are excellent analytical groundwork. 
• The new SAT will have a new scoring rubric. 
• You will be scored in three areas:
• 1. Reading: How well do you understand WHAT the text actually says?
• 2. Analysis: How well do you understand HOW it says what it says?  How well are you applying the prompt to the text in your essay (the analytical task)?
• 3. Writing: How well do you write (good structure, grammar, spelling, word choice)?
• In each of those three, you will receive a score of 1 to 4.  Instead of combining the three, you will have three separate numbers (such as 3,2,2).  To make matters a bit more complicated, you have two readers whose individual scores combine.  Thus, you will actually see something between 2 and 8 for each of the three categories when you actually take the test.  Yes, quite a few changes.
• Now look over the sample SAT rubric. 
• Review more details about what the new SAT will ask you to do. 

HW:

• Read your outside reading novel.
• Read over the sample SAT passage and example essays.