Remember: Reading book daily!
Monday - Pre Assessment writing returned with Sentence Fluency rubric. Create Learning goal for Sentence Fluency based on score received on rubric. Homework: Read and highlight Sentence Fluency article based on learning goal.
Tuesday - Introduction to learning goal group - grammar trivia. Share goal and highlighted elements from homework.
Wednesday - Memoir definition. Excerpt from Glass Castle. Receive and decorate writing notebook. Homework: update what you are currently reading on www.goodreads.com.
Thursday - What is truth? Answer and discuss. Homework: 100 words on Choose a color-list memories connected with that color.
Friday - Reread color entry, underline one idea. Rewrite in class. Sentence fluency groups - identify a sentence to improve - scale self and put on learning goal.
Ms. Luttke
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Technical Writing week of September 9
Monday - identify elements of 5 Components of Writing. Share rubric.
Tuesday - Audience - key questions. Apply to sample writing.
Wednesday - Notes on audience. Activity - writing to audience of same level.
Thursday - Notes on audience. Activity - create a set of instructions.
Friday - Activity - revise instructions. Share out.
Tuesday - Audience - key questions. Apply to sample writing.
Wednesday - Notes on audience. Activity - writing to audience of same level.
Thursday - Notes on audience. Activity - create a set of instructions.
Friday - Activity - revise instructions. Share out.
Monday, September 2, 2013
English 11
You will need the following for class:
Writing instruments
Paper
Pleasure reading book
Binder/folder for storing papers - can be used for other classes
Writing instruments
Paper
Pleasure reading book
Binder/folder for storing papers - can be used for other classes
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Middle School games
National Geographic games
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/
Vocabulary games
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
Scholastic reading games
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/games/?esp=CORPHP/ib/////NAV/Kids/Tab/STACKSGames////
Free Rice - vocabulary challenge
http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/4646
Reading Ring
http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_ReadingRing.html
Mystery Reading
http://www.superpages.com/enlightenme/superthinkers/pages/index.html
Spelling game
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/sc.cgi?A1=s&A2=2
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/
Vocabulary games
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
Scholastic reading games
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/games/?esp=CORPHP/ib/////NAV/Kids/Tab/STACKSGames////
Free Rice - vocabulary challenge
http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/4646
Reading Ring
http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_ReadingRing.html
Mystery Reading
http://www.superpages.com/enlightenme/superthinkers/pages/index.html
Spelling game
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/sc.cgi?A1=s&A2=2
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
English 11 students complete DRA project at Sylvester
My 8th hour English 11 class is at 95% college readiness in reading. Therefore, they completed a project at Sylvester library that allows students to quickly identify books at their reading level.
See more at http://sylvesterlibrary.wordpress.com/
See more at http://sylvesterlibrary.wordpress.com/
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Reading Strategies practice
The Long Road to Putting a Woman in the
White House
1 It would take 44 years after American
women won the vote in 1920 for a major party to
seriously consider nominating a woman
presidential candidate. And it would be another 44 before a
woman could be called a legitimate
contender for the highest office in the land.
2 Republicans made history in 1964 when
Margaret Chase Smith was among the party’s potential
nominees. Elected to the House of
Representatives in 1940 to fill the unexpired term of her late
husband, Smith went on to serve four more
terms in the House and four in the Senate. She came to
national prominence in 1950 when, in a
speech on the Senate floor, she denounced the “fear,
ignorance, bigotry, and smear” campaigns
being waged by Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The party’s
eventual 1964 nominee, “Mr. Conservative”
Barry Goldwater, was trounced by Lyndon Johnson in
the general election.
3 In 1972 Shirley Chisholm, the first black
congresswoman, became the first black woman to seek
the nomination of a major party. Running as
a Democrat under the slogan “Unbought and Unbossed,”
Chisholm finished fourth in a field of 20
candidates at the party’s convention. The nomination went to
George McGovern who lost to Richard Nixon
in a landslide.
4 The most notable presidential hopefuls
since Chisholm were Democrat Pat Schroeder in 1988,
Republican Elizabeth Dole in 2000 and
Democrat Carol Moseley Braun in 2004. All three had long
records of public service, and Dole had
already held two Cabinet positions—Secretary of
Transportation under Ronald Reagan and
Secretary of Labor under George H.W. Bush.
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5 Schroeder, Dole and Moseley Braun all
dropped out before the primaries, in part because of the
difficulty they had raising campaign funds.
But their candidacies indicated that public opinion was
changing. It was only a matter of time until a
woman had a real chance at becoming president of the
United States.
6 Sen. Hillary Clinton entered the
presidential race in 2008. Clinton advanced further than any other
woman in a presidential contest as she vied
against Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Women have little hope of ever becoming
president.
B. Women make better presidential candidates
than men.
C. Women must increase their participation in
Congress before running for president.
D. Women have made significant strides in
competing for the presidential nomination.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Reading strategies practice
Read the passage '
Mary Edwards Walker: Civil War Doctor' and
answer the question below:
Mary Edwards Walker: Civil War Doctor
Mary Edwards Walker: Civil War Doctor
1 Mary Edwards Walker, one of the nation’s 1.8 million women veterans, was the only one to earn
the Congressional Medal of Honor for her service during the Civil War. She, along with thousands of
other women, was honored in the newlydedicated
Women in Military Service for America Memorial
in October 1997.
2 Controversy surrounded Walker throughout her life. She was born on November 26, 1832, in
the town of Oswego, New York, into an abolitionist family. Her birthplace on the Bunker Hill Road is
marked with a historical marker. Her father, a country doctor, was a free thinking participant in many
of the reform movements that thrived in upstate New York in the mid1800s.
He believed strongly in
education and equality for his five daughters: Mary, Aurora, Luna, Vesta, and Cynthia (there was one
son, Alvah). He also believed they were hampered by the tightfitting
women’s clothing of the day.
3 Walker became an early enthusiast for Women’s Rights, and passionately espoused the issue of
dress reform. She discarded the unusual restrictive women’s clothing of the day. Later in her life she
donned full men’s evening dress to lecture on Women’s Rights.
4 In June 1855 Walker, the only woman in her class, joined the tiny number of women doctors in
the nation when she graduated from the eclectic Syracuse Medical College, the nation’s first medical
school and one which accepted women and men on an equal basis. She graduated at age 21 after
three 13week
semesters of medical training for which she paid $55 each.
5 In 1856 she married another physician, Albert Miller. At their wedding, Walker wore trousers
and a man’s coat, and later decided to keep her own name. Together they set up a medical practice
in Rome, N.Y., but the public was not ready to accept a woman physician, and their practice
floundered.
6 When war broke out, Walker came to Washington and tried to join the Union Army. Denied a
commission as a medical officer, she volunteered anyway, serving as an acting assistant surgeon —
the first female surgeon in the U.S. Army. As an unpaid volunteer, she worked in the U.S. Patent
Office Hospital in Washington. Later, she worked as a field surgeon near the Union front lines for
almost two years (including Fredericksburg and in Chattanooga after the Battle of Chickamauga).
7 In September of 1863, Walker was finally appointed assistant surgeon in the Army of the
Cumberland for which she made herself a slightly modified officer’s uniform to wear, in response to
the demands of traveling with the soldiers and working in field hospitals. She was then appointed
assistant surgeon of the 52nd Ohio Infantry. During this assignment it is generally accepted that she
also served as a spy. She continually crossed Confederate lines to treat civilians. She was taken
prisoner in 1864 by Confederate troops and imprisoned in Richmond for four months until she was
English 11 2nd semester exam Page 2 of 28
exchanged, with two dozen other Union doctors, for seventeen Confederate surgeons.
8 She was released back to the 52nd Ohio as a contract surgeon, but spent the rest of the war
practicing at a Louisville female prison and an orphan’s asylum in Tennessee. She was paid $766.16
for her wartime service. Afterward, she got a monthly pension of $8.50, later raised to $20, but still
less than some widows’ pensions.
9 On November 11, 1865, President Johnson signed a bill to present Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
with the Congressional Medal of Honor for Meritorious Service, in order to recognize her
contributions to the war effort without awarding her an army commission. She was the only woman
ever to receive the Medal of Honor, her country’s highest military award.
10 In 1917 her Congressional Medal, along with the medals of 910 others, was taken away when
Congress revised the Medal of Honor standards to include “actual combat with an enemy.” She
refused to give back her Medal of Honor, wearing it every day until her death in 1919. A relative told
the New York Times: “Dr. Mary lost the medal simply because she was a hundred years ahead of
her time and no one could stomach it.” An Army board reinstated Walker’s medal posthumously in
1977, citing her “distinguished gallantry, selfsacrifice,
patriotism, dedication, and unflinching loyalty to
her country, despite the apparent discrimination because of her sex.”
11 After the war, Mary Edwards Walker became a writer and lecturer. She toured here and abroad
lecturing on Women’s Rights, dress reform, health, and temperance issues. Women’s clothing, she
said, was immodest and inconvenient. She was elected president of the National Dress Reform
Association in 1866. She was also something of an inventor, coming up with the idea of using a return
postcard for registered mail. She wrote extensively, including a combination biography and
commentary called Hit and a second book, Unmasked, or The Science of Immortality. She died in
the town of Oswego on February 21, 1919, and is buried in the Rural Cemetery on the Cemetery
Road.
12 A 20¢ stamp honoring Dr. Mary Walker was issued in Oswego, N.Y., on June 10, 1982. The
stamp commemorates the first woman to have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and
the second woman to graduate from a medical school in the United States.
“Mary Edwards Walker, Civil War Doctor” from www.northnet.org, A Women of Courage profile written and produced by the St.
Lawrence County, NY Branch of the American Association of University Women. Used by permission.
1. Which technique does the author use to convince the reader that Mary Edwards Walker deserved the
Congressional Medal of Honor?
A. an appeal to emotion
B. bandwagon
C. an appeal to authority
D. testimonial
See Luttke for correct answer.
Mary Edwards Walker: Civil War Doctor' and
answer the question below:
Mary Edwards Walker: Civil War Doctor
Mary Edwards Walker: Civil War Doctor
1 Mary Edwards Walker, one of the nation’s 1.8 million women veterans, was the only one to earn
the Congressional Medal of Honor for her service during the Civil War. She, along with thousands of
other women, was honored in the newlydedicated
Women in Military Service for America Memorial
in October 1997.
2 Controversy surrounded Walker throughout her life. She was born on November 26, 1832, in
the town of Oswego, New York, into an abolitionist family. Her birthplace on the Bunker Hill Road is
marked with a historical marker. Her father, a country doctor, was a free thinking participant in many
of the reform movements that thrived in upstate New York in the mid1800s.
He believed strongly in
education and equality for his five daughters: Mary, Aurora, Luna, Vesta, and Cynthia (there was one
son, Alvah). He also believed they were hampered by the tightfitting
women’s clothing of the day.
3 Walker became an early enthusiast for Women’s Rights, and passionately espoused the issue of
dress reform. She discarded the unusual restrictive women’s clothing of the day. Later in her life she
donned full men’s evening dress to lecture on Women’s Rights.
4 In June 1855 Walker, the only woman in her class, joined the tiny number of women doctors in
the nation when she graduated from the eclectic Syracuse Medical College, the nation’s first medical
school and one which accepted women and men on an equal basis. She graduated at age 21 after
three 13week
semesters of medical training for which she paid $55 each.
5 In 1856 she married another physician, Albert Miller. At their wedding, Walker wore trousers
and a man’s coat, and later decided to keep her own name. Together they set up a medical practice
in Rome, N.Y., but the public was not ready to accept a woman physician, and their practice
floundered.
6 When war broke out, Walker came to Washington and tried to join the Union Army. Denied a
commission as a medical officer, she volunteered anyway, serving as an acting assistant surgeon —
the first female surgeon in the U.S. Army. As an unpaid volunteer, she worked in the U.S. Patent
Office Hospital in Washington. Later, she worked as a field surgeon near the Union front lines for
almost two years (including Fredericksburg and in Chattanooga after the Battle of Chickamauga).
7 In September of 1863, Walker was finally appointed assistant surgeon in the Army of the
Cumberland for which she made herself a slightly modified officer’s uniform to wear, in response to
the demands of traveling with the soldiers and working in field hospitals. She was then appointed
assistant surgeon of the 52nd Ohio Infantry. During this assignment it is generally accepted that she
also served as a spy. She continually crossed Confederate lines to treat civilians. She was taken
prisoner in 1864 by Confederate troops and imprisoned in Richmond for four months until she was
English 11 2nd semester exam Page 2 of 28
exchanged, with two dozen other Union doctors, for seventeen Confederate surgeons.
8 She was released back to the 52nd Ohio as a contract surgeon, but spent the rest of the war
practicing at a Louisville female prison and an orphan’s asylum in Tennessee. She was paid $766.16
for her wartime service. Afterward, she got a monthly pension of $8.50, later raised to $20, but still
less than some widows’ pensions.
9 On November 11, 1865, President Johnson signed a bill to present Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
with the Congressional Medal of Honor for Meritorious Service, in order to recognize her
contributions to the war effort without awarding her an army commission. She was the only woman
ever to receive the Medal of Honor, her country’s highest military award.
10 In 1917 her Congressional Medal, along with the medals of 910 others, was taken away when
Congress revised the Medal of Honor standards to include “actual combat with an enemy.” She
refused to give back her Medal of Honor, wearing it every day until her death in 1919. A relative told
the New York Times: “Dr. Mary lost the medal simply because she was a hundred years ahead of
her time and no one could stomach it.” An Army board reinstated Walker’s medal posthumously in
1977, citing her “distinguished gallantry, selfsacrifice,
patriotism, dedication, and unflinching loyalty to
her country, despite the apparent discrimination because of her sex.”
11 After the war, Mary Edwards Walker became a writer and lecturer. She toured here and abroad
lecturing on Women’s Rights, dress reform, health, and temperance issues. Women’s clothing, she
said, was immodest and inconvenient. She was elected president of the National Dress Reform
Association in 1866. She was also something of an inventor, coming up with the idea of using a return
postcard for registered mail. She wrote extensively, including a combination biography and
commentary called Hit and a second book, Unmasked, or The Science of Immortality. She died in
the town of Oswego on February 21, 1919, and is buried in the Rural Cemetery on the Cemetery
Road.
12 A 20¢ stamp honoring Dr. Mary Walker was issued in Oswego, N.Y., on June 10, 1982. The
stamp commemorates the first woman to have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and
the second woman to graduate from a medical school in the United States.
“Mary Edwards Walker, Civil War Doctor” from www.northnet.org, A Women of Courage profile written and produced by the St.
Lawrence County, NY Branch of the American Association of University Women. Used by permission.
1. Which technique does the author use to convince the reader that Mary Edwards Walker deserved the
Congressional Medal of Honor?
A. an appeal to emotion
B. bandwagon
C. an appeal to authority
D. testimonial
See Luttke for correct answer.
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