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.