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JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: David Bowie's "Let's Dance" and Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust"] 

AGENDA: 
1. Journal
2. Observations on Week 1/feedback on journals, assignments, and overall performance so far
4. Vocabulary and grammar
5. Literature Analysis Requirement
5. Poetry 
6. "The Right to Your Opinion" follow-up & implications

HOMEWORK:
1. If you haven't created a course blog and emailed it to me yet...DO IT. 
On your blogs, post the video with link to your six word memoir as well as a write up explaining the thought process of creating your six words and an in-depth explanation of how those six words represent your life, beliefs, philosophy, etc.. Entitle the post: My six words

Happy Friday!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. CFA Review-Kahoot

2. Time to work on essays

*Please take home your 3D LOTF maps today*

REMEMBER: Your final essays are due next week. 

Period 2: JUNE 10th

Period 3: JUNE 8th

No late essays accepted. The INSTRUCTIONS for the essay and items needed for submission are located in Course Docs. Read them before panicking.

If you have questions over the weekend, please contact me at the following email address:

ksewell@mail.brandman.edu

Good morning!

Here is the agenda for today:

-Work on your essays!!!!

-Now that you have your fourth source, you can update your works cited

USE YOUR TIME WISELY

Good morning!

Here is the agenda for today:

-You have the next two full class periods to begin working on your essays!!

Remember: your final draft will be due JUNE 8 (Period 3) and JUNE 10 (Period 2)

USE YOUR TIME WISELY!!

Good morning Honor's students!

Please take out your tablets and log on.

Here is the agenda for today:

-Research for fourth source for your essay.

Guidelines:

1. Do not pick the first source you come across, explore your options

2. No, I do not care what you say, Wikipedia is not a valid research base for supporting arguments. 

3. It might be useful to research interviews with Golding, psychological perspectives on Human Nature/research studies, or even read more in depth on the perspectives of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.

4. I found three articles that might be of interest to you:

-The Independent: Lord of the Flies is still a blueprint for savagery
-The Stanford Prison Experiment
-William Golding's Lord of the Flies: Man's Capacity for Evil (Teen Ink)

Once you have found a source, READ THROUGH IT. Then fill in your organizer with supporting evidence from that article.

If you finish that you have two options (none of which include sitting on your phone/tablet doing useless things):

-Fill out the organizer with support from the novel
-Start working on tonight's homework

HW: Tonight, I would like you to write a rough draft of your thesis statement. This means you have to decide what position you are going to take on human nature.

Remember, a thesis does not use personal pronouns and it is specific- outline the reasons you are going to support with evidence in your essay.

Write it on the essay packet using one of the outlines provided.

Heads up: tomorrow you will be working on your rough drafts!

Good morning! 8 DAYS LEFT!!!

Turn in your works cited to the basket and turn on your tablets.

Here is the agenda for today:

-Read article #2/complete organizer
-decide on position

HW: Tonight, complete the organizer for LOTF by finding supporting evidence in the novel. Remember, you might want to consult your theme worksheets!

TGIF charming English students!

Please take out your tablets and go to the class blog home page.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Discuss Ch.12 journals

2. Weekend assignment/essay packet

3. Read/analyze article #1, fill out organizer

HW: Using the three sources you already have, please format a rough draft Works Cited page (you will add your fourth source before final submission).

Typed and printed, DUE MONDAY (email it to me if you have printer issues)

Good morning English tribe!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. FINISH LORD OF THE FLIES



HW: Please post your final journal (for Chapter 12) to your blogs by tomorrow, we will discuss responses to the end of the novel in class. Journal prompt is located under Course Docs>LOTF>Journal prompts


REMINDER: LOTF symbol tracking, civilized/uncivilized charts, and LOTF vocabulary is all due TOMORROW. Please make sure all of these items are complete, staple them together in this order:

-Journals, vocabulary, symbol tracking, and your civilized/uncivilized chart-

For every day it is late, you will lose five points off your grade. This will include weekend days. 

Hello Honor's English students!

I am sorry that I could not be here today... a friendly reminder to use your tablets appropriately and GET YOUR WORK DONE


-Once you have completed your assigned reading for LOTF Ch.11, please respond to the following questions on your individual blogs! Whatever you do not finish in class becomes homework!!

Questions:

1. What does Ralph's group decide they must do?
2. In what ways are the twins "seeing Ralph for the first time" before going to Castle Rock?
3. Why is the boy's attempt to get back Piggy's specs and get the other boys to maintain a signal fire bound to fail?
4. Why do you think Roger pushes the rock off the cliff?
5. How is the destruction of the conch symbolically significant?
6. For most of the boys, what are the reasons they want a chief? What does a chief do for them?
7. Come up with two ORIGINAL questions you would ask Jack if you could.
8. In a minimum of two solid paragraphs, write a diary entry on the state of the island and the boys at this point in the book.

REMINDER: bring blankets and pillows tomorrow for our "read in" day.

Good morning! 

Please take out your tablets and go to the blog home page.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Citation Warm up


http://padlet.com/wall/tiy495kjcqzy

2. Review Chapter 10 questions (please go to your individual blogs and pull up your responses)

3. Ch. 8-10 Review.....go to Kahoot It website!


HW: Please respond to the Chapter 10 journal for LOTF


REMINDERS:

- ALL LOTF journals, vocabulary, and symbol tracking are DUE FRIDAY
-I will be out tomorrow, bring your tablets and check the class blogs for tomorrow's plan/activities
- THURSDAY..read in day?

Hello Honor's students!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: follow the link below and respond to the following questions-

Write your reaction to the death of Simon. How did it make you feel? Who is most to blame? Why didn't Ralph try to stop it?

*Directions: double click on the wall to add your post it, include your name on your response*

http://padlet.com/wall/ab27kcrd1ann

2. Chapter 10- the shell and the glasses (you will need your symbol tracking sheets for this and your tablets) 

Directions: working in partners, you will read the first half of Lord of the Flies, Chapter 10 (6 pages). Preview the Common Core questions (located in Course Docs>Lord of the Flies> Ch.10 questions). Read the chapter together.

You may start answering the questions as you read, POST TO YOUR BLOGS. Follow the directions  carefully-cite evidence and answer thoroughly.



HW: Finish Ch. 10 and the corresponding questions over the weekend. I will check your blogs TUESDAY.

Good morning!

Please take out your tablets and fire them up

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Tablet Check/Reset/Microsoft Accounts

-TONIGHT: DOWNLOAD OFFICE 2013 TO YOUR TABLETS.

2. Warm up: text citations

Using your tablets go to the following link:

http://padlet.com/wall/8jwiqnkb79mt

You will be writing the correct in-text citations on a post it.

3. LOTF Chapter 9- A View to a Death

HW: Complete the Who's to Blame worksheet/pie chart tonight for homework. Located in Course Docs>LOTF.

DUE TOMORROW

TODAY IS THE DAY!!!!!!

Here is the agenda:

1. Turn in theme HW

2. Tablets/set up

HW: Use your tablets to look up the definitions for Chapters 9 and 10 for LOTF

I would encourage you to play around with your tablet tonight, do your settings, READ THE PAMPHLET and remember to TURN IT OFF AND CHARGE IT ALL NIGHT!!!

Happy Minimum Monday!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: Chapter 8 Journal

2. Independent Work Time

-Missing assignments
-Theme worksheet
-Symbol Tracking
-LOTF vocabulary

REMINDER: BRING PERMISSION SLIPS AND ID CARDS FOR TABLETS TOMORROW!!

Happy Friday!!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Finish Chapter 8

2. Cookie Island Activity

HW: Theme/Quote analysis worksheet DUE 5/19!!


Planning ahead: since I will not see all of you Monday, make sure you complete the Chapter 8 journal and catch up on your symbol tracking sheet (pig's head) and the civilized/uncivilized chart. Remember, you are turning all of those items in at the end of the novel. 

Good morning Honor's students!

Please submit your MLA papers to the basket.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: In-text citations

2. Read Chapter 8!!

HW: Chapter 8 vocabulary and most importantly....REST UP for tomorrow!