English 11 December 19 assignment

Visit the following website for your Learning Target area:

Generalization: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/ReadStrat12.html


Details: https://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/308.HTM

Inference: http://www.slideshare.net/rwenhancement2010/reading-comprehension-strategy-inference

Next!

Visit Goodreads and update your book progress. Also, check your 2014 Reading Challenge. Remember, you must complete two books this semester.

English 11 week of December 15

Now that you have identified your Learning Target for Reading Strategies, find a website that will help you learn more about your target area (Details, Inference, etc) BY THURSDAY:

1.Send Ms. Luttke an email

2. The subject should be your Learning Target area

3. In the email, provide a link to the website and a 6 word summary of what you learned.

All Satire projects are due on Friday. Presentations will be completed in class on Friday.

Homework Monday night–

Hours

3,5,8 – identify 5 examples of satire in your format and send yourself an email with the links. Make sure to cc Luttke on the email.

Friday – Post test for Narrative Writing – Satire.

Technical Writing week of December 15

Monday – conference with Luttke

Tuesday – work on Research paper

Wednesday – rough draft due

Thursday – revise

Friday – final draft due

English 11 week of December 8

By Thursday of this week you will complete ACT Reading test practice at http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/reading/read_01.html

I expect you to choose 3 of the 5 passages,  and send me your results. You will need to keep track of what questions you get correct. In the email send me you a breakdown of each Passage and correct out of 10, as well as a total correct out of 30.

English 11 week of Dec 1

by Thursday, email Luttke what 1 element of human nature you want to see changed and create a hyperbole OR understatement for that element of human nature.
Example:
I would like to see people stop being hypocritical.
Understatement: I rarely see any adult who smokes telling the younger generations to not start smoking.
Hyperbole: Humans always follow their own advice - no matter what the consequences.

M and T - The Lowest Animal
W - Calvin and Hobbes War cartoon
Th -
F -

Technical Writing week of December 1

M - finish up minor issues with Topic Proposal
T - discuss identifying information
W and Th- work on getting information
F - discuss introduction. Revise due date for intro.

English 11 weeks of November 17 and 24

By Thursday, visit http://www.actstudent.org/testprep/descriptions/readdescript.html

Read the information regarding the Reading portion of the ACT. You should also click on the link : Read more about Reading Test content.


Send me an email with your name as the subject plus Reading; in the body of the email write a 6 word summary of what you learned.

Monday

Complete the following survey:

http://goo.gl/forms/xwuJ4usUYp

Visit the following satirical websites

The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/

The Spoof: http://www.thespoof.com/

The Daily Show: http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/

Weird Al Yanchovic: http://www.weirdal.com/

Faux News: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/faux-news-alert-best-websites-for-fake-news-satire/

Select an example of satire – email me a link as well as the purpose of the example. Put your name and satire as the subject line.

Tuesday – Review “What is Satire?”. Notes on irony. Introduction to Mark Twain.

Wednesday – “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain

Thursday – Collecting text from “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

Friday – “The Lowest Animal” by Mark Twain

Monday – Collecting text from “The Lowest Animal”

Tuesday – Working with Latin root words

Wednesday - 2nd hour only - Cultural exploration.

Technical Writing week of November 17 and 24

Monday - continue searching for topic. Receive information regarding Topic Proposal.
Tuesday - Mrs. Schumm presentation on Elibrary databases
Wednesday - Thursday - Work on Topic Proposal
Friday - Topic Proposal due

Monday - talk about Topic Proposal. Go over next steps in Research Paper
Tuesday - Work on research paper.
Wednesday - No class. Happy Thanksgiving!

English 11 week of November 10

By Thursday, complete the activity on transitions at

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/writing/persuasiveflash/transitionalwords.htm

In an email send me a screen shot of your results at the end of the activity.

Monday – finish Walter Mitty. Cut and paste vocabulary in notebook.
Tuesday - Notes on Satire,  think of examples. Difference between parody and satire.

Wednesday  – Begin examples of satire on handout. Homework: use handout and complete examples 2 and 3:

Use for Example #2 - http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-83-of-web-content-unfit-for-human-consumptio,37389/

Use for Example #3 - http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-45-of-all-randomly-paired-freshman-roommate,37394/

Thursday – Collecting text – Calvin and Hobbes

Friday – Collecting text – Calvin and Hobbes

Technical Writing week of November 10

Monday – feedback from Luttke on Analytical Report

Tuesday – Analytical report revisions

Wednesday – Analytical report due. Share information

Thursday – Friday – Begin research paper

English 11 Week of November 3

By Thursday, send Luttke a message on Goodreads evaluating a book you read the first 9 weeks. Message should include title, author, genre, one sentence summary, and two sentences on your opinion of the book. It should be written in paragraph format. Remember to use transitions to allow for flow!

Monday - Essay returned, final grades, Pre test for Narrative Reading - Satire. Homework - Satire vocabulary - due Wednesday.

Tuesday - Friday - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty movie

Technical Writing week of November 3

Analytical Report

            The word “analysis” is actually very simple in meaning. It means to break something into its component parts, to see how it is put together. Still, for many students, it is a mystery word, a process that is something like an old-fashioned meat grinder. You put the meat in one end, and it comes out all chopped up on the other end. What happens in between the ends can sometimes seem mysterious, especially if a student is trying to get a handle on just what it is.

            Analytical reports call on you to answer questions, to ask why something happens, which product is best, or is an idea good. Analytical reports call for research, interpretation, and recommendation. And when you work within particular professional contexts, analysis often means very specific things involving your particular skill set and expertise.

            More than any other type of technical writing, analytical reports call on you to use critical thinking skills. They require you to analyze a problem, to analyze the work that has been done before on that problem, and to recommend a solution. Analytical reports also call for self-criticism and objectivity on your part to come to the best solution.

Objective: Explain the strategy of a website that you investigate and write a report identifying your research and make a recommendation of how and why Luttke should use this website over others in it’s category.

Report must include, but is not limited to:

1.     Introduction

2.     Main page of website – it’s purpose, allure, points of entry for other pages.

3.     Identity created by the website – elements that create a sense of continuity based on theme, color, mood, and tone.

4.     Ways to apply the information (identify audience with age range and gender; usefulness of website)

5.     Interpretation of usefulness of website design- your interpretation

6.     Comparison of this website to others in its category or interest area.

7.     Conclusion – overall effectiveness of website – your interpretation.

*You must include a presentation map – “screenshot” of the main page of your website, and other pages of the website as you reference them in your analysis.

*Title will be the website name and URL

*You should include a graphic when comparing your website to other similar websites.

*You will use APA formatting for sources and Works Cited

English 11 week of October 27

If you would like additional practice on hyphens and dashes, you can take the quiz at 

http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2guides/guides/pep/index-eng.html?lang=eng&page=punct_4_hyphens_dashes_quiz

If you would like credit for completing this activity – email me a screenshot of your results.

Monday – Essay, Read Guidelines for “Writing an Essay of Comparison” (Sebranek 193). Provide assignment – choose author to write about.

Read more: http://www.ehow.com/how_5012335_write-statement-compare-contrast-essay.html

Writing a good introduction at http://www.ehow.com/how_6372054_write-comparison-essay-introduction.html

Irving (174)
Hawthorne (249)
Poe (277)

Tuesday – Begin drafting comparison essay. Thesis submitted via email by the end of class.

Introduction:

1^st sentence:

Grab readers attention

            Use an unusual fact about author

            OR

            Open-ended question for reader

            OR

Broad statement about an issue in the stories: Hawthorne – secrets humans have in their heart; Irving – fear; Poe – the worst in people.

2^nd and 3^rd sentence:

Narrowing focus

            Introduce each story – remember put “Title” in quotations.           

Final sentence:

Thesis:

The stories __________________________________________ and ____________________________

by ______________________________________ have similarities and differences in tone, text structure, and writing style.

Wednesday – Rough draft due by the end of class.

Works Cited

Last Name, Author's first. "Title of Your Story Here." 2007. Elements of Literature.

Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2007. Pages #-#. Print.

"Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Mr. Carter's Site, 2014. Web. 28

Oct. 2014. <http://www.apw.cnyric.org/webpages/scarter/first.cfm?subpage=9372>.

Poe, Edgar A. "The Masque of the Red Death". N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.

Thursday – Conference with Luttke

Friday – Wrap up final draft.

Technical Writing week of October 20 and 27

Monday – editing of argumentative email. Review email.

Tuesday – Send email. Notes. Team Fair. Understand evaluation process. Homework: Watch Font video – sent to you through email.

Wednesday – Receive assignment sheet and project planning sheet.

Thursday – Friday – Work on project

Monday – Presentation of project. Voting. Quiz.

Tuesday – Evaluations due. Copies of winning project.

Wednesday – Review for midterm

Thursday – midterm exam.

Friday – identify a website you visit often.

English 11 Friday, October 17

2. Choose links to help you improve understanding:

Spelling:

Spelling - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/660/01/

Spelling rules - http://grammar.about.com/od/words/tp/spellrules.htm

            Practice of ie words - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/2/1/46/

Vocabulary (Word usage):

 http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/dictskill.cfm

Writing Style – http://teachers.lakesideschool.org/us/english/ErikChristensen/WRITING%20STRATEGIES/LiteraryStyles.htm

Style and Tone - http://www.wheaton.edu/Academics/Services/Writing-Center/Writing-Resources/Style-Diction-Tone-and-Voice

Grammar:

Possessives - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/2/1/46/

Commas -https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/01/

Powerpoint presentation - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/692/1/

Inversion sentences - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/609/03/

Literary Devices:

Similies - http://literarydevices.net/simile/

Understatements - http://literarydevices.net/understatement/

Metaphors - http://literarydevices.net/metaphor/

3.  On the back of your Memoir Pretest identify what you learning area you looked at and ONE thing you learned:

Example:

Spelling -I learned the difference between -ible and -able.

4. Return your Memoir Pretest to Luttke

English 11 week of October 13

Monday - Listening to "Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar A Poe. Homework: Hyphen and Dashes worksheets.

Context clues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85QcLiXBm6A
"Masque of the Red Death" audio at http://ia700301.us.archive.org/26/items/short_ghohor_001_librivox/ghohor001_masque_poe_gmh.mp3



By Thursday: You are to read another short story of your choice by Poe. Here are the instructions:

1. Home page for website at http://poestories.com/index.php

2. Go to stories page and choose a story to read. Identify tone, text structure, and writing style; provide two examples to support.

Since it’s a print source page number references are not required, but you must included a works cited source at the bottom of your page for proper references.

3. Look at the Credits page for information on how to create your MLA source.

Sourcing for poestories page:

Poe, Edgar A. "Title of story by Edgar Allan Poe - Poestories.com."Poestories.            

     Robert Giordano, 27 June 2005. Web. 08 Oct. 2014.

Tuesday - Identify Tone, Text Structure and Writing Style - provide two examples for each for support.

Wednesday - The Raven poem (Holt 297); Poe's Process (Holt 302)
Audio version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLSmhpwLdEQ
Simpson's version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlgQQgDhH7U




Thursday - Comparison matrix of Poe stories

Friday - Rappacini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne at http://www.popcornflix.com/rappaccinis-daughter/327425bf-e09d-4201-91d2-7f650da7b805

Technical Writing week of October 13

Monday - Drafting persuasion school issue
Tuesday - Revisions - dialogue with Luttke
Wednesday - Final revisions
Thursday - Sent

English 11 week of October 6

Monday - Wrap up identifying Tone, Text Structure, Writing Style in "The Devil and Tom Walker". View Disney version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at http://ishare.rediff.com/video/entertainment/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow-1949-disney-masterpieces-full-movie-youtube/7392560
Homework: Students should read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow PROVIDE THEM WITH A COPY – They can find examples for Tone, Text Structure, and Writing style by highlighting or underlining them in the text.

Tuesday - Finish video, student choice. In single subject notebook: identify Tone, Text Structure, and Writing Style in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Provide examples for each.

Wednesday - Comparison matrix of Washington Irving. Homework: Student identify an area to work toward self-guided learning based on results of Memoir pretest. Areas include spelling, vocabulary (word usage), Writing style/tone, Grammar (Possessives, commas, hyphens, dashes), or Literary Devices (simile, metaphor, understatement). Due Friday!

Thursday - Video - The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe.

Friday - Finish Poe video. Write a brief description overall of what you discovered in your self-guided learning.

Technical Writing week of October 6

Monday - Complete Code of ethics for Technical Writing on Shamrock Learning System. Create 3 multiple choice questions with answers that could be used on an exam on your Google doc for your Ethics top . Please provide the answers.

Tuesday - Logical Fallacies presentation; Stereotypical Language presentation.

• • Identifying your audience
  • Technical Writing
  • Sophomores - Seniors
  • 
    Choose an issue at the high school the concerns you and you would like to have changed or improved.  You will be writing persuasively to your audience identifying the issue and how you would like it changed or improved and why.
    
    First, identify who will read the document. Primary and secondary readers. Then determine the audience's level of knowledge toward the issue. Next determine the audience's role and attitude toward you, your suggestion, and the concern. Also, what form does your audience expect and will respond to you? Lastly, what do you anticipate your audience doing and why?
• • Problems - students will not be able to address a concern; students will not be timely with their concern; the audience will not respond to the students' concerns.

Wednesday - Identify issue at school you would like to address - persuasive writing.
How to write a thesis at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/01/
Need more help, try http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/thesis-statements/

Thursday - identify audience and work through their expectations and knowledge of issue
Friday - compose email to audience addressing issue and a solution
Monday - editing email, revising and sending.

Technical Writing week of September 29

Monday - Wrap up work on presentations.
Tuesday - Friday - Group presentations on ethics

English 11 week of September 29

Final drafts for memoirs are due this week!

Assignment is:

Monday – In lab. Students choose a memoir entry they have written to develop into a final draft. Begin typing.

Tuesday – In class with laptop cart. Students work through editing with peer. 

Wednesday – In class with laptop cart, EXCEPT 8^th hour in lab. Student correct draft turn in:

            Rough draft with editing sheet attached

            Final typed draft

            Rubric on the back of the assignment sheet

Thursday – Listen to The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving in class. Audio at http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/ml_lit_gr11/resources/applications/Audio_Selections/audioPlayer.jsp?id=11_devil.xml

Friday – Questions regarding The Devil and Tom Walker:

            Predicting and what surprised you about the story

            What is the tone of the story and give examples.

Punctuation Mistakes #2: Quotation Marks and End Stops from Dailygrammartips

Readers frequently ask whether to place commas, periods, question marks, and exclamation points inside or outside closing quotation marks.

Note: This post illustrates American usage.

Periods and Commas

The period and comma are always placed within closing quotations:

Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death.”

“If you are going through hell,” said Sir Winston, “keep going.”

In Act II, scene 2 of Julius Caesar, Caesar tells Calpurnia that “cowards die many times.”

Introduce a quotation with says or said only if the words were spoken. Alternatives to says include:states, writes, notes, comments, observes, concludes, reports, maintains, and adds.

If the quotation is introduced with a verb like says, follow the verb with a comma. If the word is introduced by the word that, do not put a comma after that.

The demands of technical writing often require that the period be placed outside quotation marks. The Chicago Manual of Style gives this example of how to deal with printed instructions when a period within quotation marks could be misinterpreted:

Click on Save As; name your file “appendix A, v. 10”.

Question Marks and Explanation Points

When the quoted material is a question or an explanation, the appropriate marks go inside the quotation marks:

He shouted, “Run, the zombies are coming!”

She asked, “Where’s the best place to hide?”

If the framing sentence is a question or an exclamation, the end marks go outside the closing quotation mark:

I just love the way he says, “fit to be tied”!

Did you hear the inspector say, “Label all dangerous chemicals”?

Although proponents of one convention or another claim that “logic” is on their side, punctuation is an arbitrary notational system. It was invented to clarify written expression. Conventions vary from country to country and from generation to generation. It’s possible that American punctuation conventions may change at some time in the future.

For the present, however, if you are writing nontechnical content for an American publisher, put the periods and commas inside the closing quotation marks.

Put question marks and exclamation points inside the quotation marks if they belong to the quotation; put them outside if they belong to the framing statement.

The Serial Comma

Perhaps one of the most widely contested style choices is the use of the serial, or Oxford, comma. The serial comma is used to separate three or more elements in a list. Consider these examples:

1. He bought apples, pears, and eggs. (Serial Comma)
2. He bought apples, pears and eggs. (AP Style)

Many in the industry argue that the serial comma adds a certain grace and ease to sentences by giving the reader and writer a clean visual separation between different elements. Those who are opposed to the serial comma argue that it is unnecessary and clutters up the sentence. As a writer, you will undoubtedly encounter editors who are both passionately for and against its use during your career. Try to be accepting of other people’s differences, no matter what your own personal feelings on the subject may be.