First and Second Period! I gave you Chimamanda Adichie's story but it's missing two pages. This means you don't have to do it this weekend. We will work on it Monday. Sorry about the mistake. Pass the word!
Fifth and Sixth Period!
Your only homeword is SSR and getting caught up if you are behind.
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Homework over Halloween Weekend!
Homework Questions: Chimamanda Adichie, "That Thing Around Your Neck"
Finish reading "The Thing Around Your Neck" and answer the following questions.
1. List obstacles the protagonist in the story faces.
2. What is "The Thing Around Your Neck"? Explain and offer an example to support.
3. Explain why the relationship between the protagonist and her boyfriend is complicated. Give at least 2 examples and explain the significance of each. (Explanations should be more than 1 sentence long!)
4. What keeps the protagonist from writing to her parents?
Circles of Influence Graphic Organizer: For anyone who has yet to complete the assignment.
Create a visual representation of the variety of cultural factors from your brainstormed list that affect you. The visual should be organized, beautiful, and showhow you are influenced by being a human, American, Grant student, member of your family, member of your friend group, Oregonian, or Portlander, or member of the human race. Choose at least 4 realms to represent using a combination of drawing and writing.
For example, if you draw a basketball and you list : "Sports: track, soccer, football, basketball" you should also write 2-3 sentences that say something like, "sports have influenced me as a cultural being by emphasizing the importance of being a team player, of working hard even when it hurts, and by showing me the value of competition--it pushes me to be better and stronger."
If you just want to draw, then there should be a paragraph explaining how the images represent cultural influences in your life.
1. List obstacles the protagonist in the story faces.
2. What is "The Thing Around Your Neck"? Explain and offer an example to support.
3. Explain why the relationship between the protagonist and her boyfriend is complicated. Give at least 2 examples and explain the significance of each. (Explanations should be more than 1 sentence long!)
4. What keeps the protagonist from writing to her parents?
Circles of Influence Graphic Organizer: For anyone who has yet to complete the assignment.
Create a visual representation of the variety of cultural factors from your brainstormed list that affect you. The visual should be organized, beautiful, and showhow you are influenced by being a human, American, Grant student, member of your family, member of your friend group, Oregonian, or Portlander, or member of the human race. Choose at least 4 realms to represent using a combination of drawing and writing.
For example, if you draw a basketball and you list : "Sports: track, soccer, football, basketball" you should also write 2-3 sentences that say something like, "sports have influenced me as a cultural being by emphasizing the importance of being a team player, of working hard even when it hurts, and by showing me the value of competition--it pushes me to be better and stronger."
If you just want to draw, then there should be a paragraph explaining how the images represent cultural influences in your life.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Homework Tuesday 28/Wednesday 29
Check Synergy and see if you have everything turned in. Check-in with me if you have questions or something doesn't seem right.
Read your SSR book. Remember that you should have finished on independent reading book this quarter.
Scroll down and read the last two posts to make sure that you are caught up on everything described below!
NO HOMEWORK if you are caught up (besides reading your independent book of course!)
Read your SSR book. Remember that you should have finished on independent reading book this quarter.
Scroll down and read the last two posts to make sure that you are caught up on everything described below!
NO HOMEWORK if you are caught up (besides reading your independent book of course!)
Friday, October 24, 2014
Homework Over the Weekend!
All Periods:
Period 1:
Make sure that you have finished filling out page #1 ( about Aleksandr Solshenitsyn) of the Writer Packet.
Periods 2, 5, and 6:
- Make sure that you have finished, or are close to finishing, an independent reading book. (SSR Book)
- Bring in edits of your Sports Columns by Wednesday at the latest for a grade change. (Disregard this if you haven't gotten it back).
- If you have not turned in a graphic organizer beautifully illustrating your "Circles of Influence," please do so ASAP.
Period 1:
Make sure that you have finished filling out page #1 ( about Aleksandr Solshenitsyn) of the Writer Packet.
Periods 2, 5, and 6:
- Make sure that you have finished filling out your page #1 of the Writer Packet starting with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
- Also read and take at least three notes on the chapter from Solzhenitsyn's book, "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Your notes should be the kind that spark intelligent conversation.
Monday, October 20, 2014
Due Tues. 21/Wed. 22
Your graphic organizer--illustrating who you are as a cultural being is due on Tuesday/Wednesday.
Remember that your images can speak for themselves, or you can allow words to paint a picture if you are choosing a more simple, less visual piece.
Your illustration should cover at least four (ideally five) areas of influence. These can be the circles we went over during class (Family/Friends, Neighborhood, City, State, and Country), or you can create your own, for example you could choose Media as one major realm of influence, or Sports, or Religion. Any of these ideas work.
The important thing is to consider how these influences have shaped your ideas about right and wrong, ugly and beautiful, success and failure, etc. We will be talking about these areas of influence in class.
I look forward to your work.
Sports columns will be returned Tuesday/Wednesday.
Don't forget to scroll down for important reminders!
If you missed Tuesday 21 or Wednesday 22, see the following journal prompts and make sure to complete them.
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Today you missed two important journal writes. One was aimed at examining yourself as a cultural being using your Graphic Organizer (illustrating your "Circles" of Influence--due today) as well as your definition of culture. We wrote about how culture has shaped our expressions and beliefs of power, money vs. happiness, definitions or success and failure, education (as a right not a privilege), hierarchy, aging, dying, manners, etc. Then we wrote about where those beliefs come from. Where does the messaging originate?
1/2 page
Next we wrote about a time when we had a "wake-up call" in nature. We used vivid language to write about an event or experience that served to shake us up or wake us up.
On Monday (were you absent?), we were introduced to the possibility of being on the radio show "The Moth". Producers will work with 4-7 Grant High School students who submit an application to participate as well as a 1-2 page story "pitch" describing a time when "Everything Changed". Students wrote for 15 minutes in their notebooks either fleshing out an idea or brainstorming a variety of ideas.
1/2 page at least.
We read and annotated a high-level text today by Alexandr Solshenitsyn. Students annotated and translated the writing into their own words. If you miss Tuesday or Wednesday you need to come in and read from the textbook (page 539-540) and then get the sheet from me called "One Word of Truth Outweighs the World". This text will be very important in this Unit so be sure to make it up!
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Remember that your images can speak for themselves, or you can allow words to paint a picture if you are choosing a more simple, less visual piece.
Your illustration should cover at least four (ideally five) areas of influence. These can be the circles we went over during class (Family/Friends, Neighborhood, City, State, and Country), or you can create your own, for example you could choose Media as one major realm of influence, or Sports, or Religion. Any of these ideas work.
The important thing is to consider how these influences have shaped your ideas about right and wrong, ugly and beautiful, success and failure, etc. We will be talking about these areas of influence in class.
I look forward to your work.
Sports columns will be returned Tuesday/Wednesday.
Don't forget to scroll down for important reminders!
If you missed Tuesday 21 or Wednesday 22, see the following journal prompts and make sure to complete them.
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Today you missed two important journal writes. One was aimed at examining yourself as a cultural being using your Graphic Organizer (illustrating your "Circles" of Influence--due today) as well as your definition of culture. We wrote about how culture has shaped our expressions and beliefs of power, money vs. happiness, definitions or success and failure, education (as a right not a privilege), hierarchy, aging, dying, manners, etc. Then we wrote about where those beliefs come from. Where does the messaging originate?
1/2 page
Next we wrote about a time when we had a "wake-up call" in nature. We used vivid language to write about an event or experience that served to shake us up or wake us up.
On Monday (were you absent?), we were introduced to the possibility of being on the radio show "The Moth". Producers will work with 4-7 Grant High School students who submit an application to participate as well as a 1-2 page story "pitch" describing a time when "Everything Changed". Students wrote for 15 minutes in their notebooks either fleshing out an idea or brainstorming a variety of ideas.
1/2 page at least.
We read and annotated a high-level text today by Alexandr Solshenitsyn. Students annotated and translated the writing into their own words. If you miss Tuesday or Wednesday you need to come in and read from the textbook (page 539-540) and then get the sheet from me called "One Word of Truth Outweighs the World". This text will be very important in this Unit so be sure to make it up!
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Friday, October 17, 2014
See Below!
Sports columns were due today. If yours is not turned in, getting it in is your job over the weekend.
For more information on what is expected of your Sports Column, please scroll down.
*Remember, you have a week to turn in revised copies of essays from the time I turn them back to you. That means many of of you have a revision deadline of this Monday the 21st of October for "My Name" vignette revisions. Bring your thoughtfully revised drafts along with all your other drafts to turn in for a higher grade.
No homework this weekend! Have a safe, healthy, productive weekend :)
For more information on what is expected of your Sports Column, please scroll down.
*Remember, you have a week to turn in revised copies of essays from the time I turn them back to you. That means many of of you have a revision deadline of this Monday the 21st of October for "My Name" vignette revisions. Bring your thoughtfully revised drafts along with all your other drafts to turn in for a higher grade.
No homework this weekend! Have a safe, healthy, productive weekend :)
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Due Thursday and Friday October 16/17
Sports Columns are due and should:
- be polished (typed--unless you received prior permission from me not to type)
- be formatted as a column
- include a picture
- have a beautiful, effective, and gripping title
- utilize the best of your vocabulary, imagery, and vivid language
- follow the profile format we worked on in class
- have been edited by at least two people, one for content and the other for writing mechanics
- include the editing sheet
- include the first and any other drafts.
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Monday, October 6, 2014
For Tuesday/Wednesday
- Choose a person whom you would like to write a sports column about. You can choose Muhammad Ali, or you may choose someone else.
Periods 1 and 2: we will work to peer edit your columns tomorrow. Columns must be formatted as such, and be accompanied by a picture or photograph. You must use vivid language throughout and title the columns creatively. Incorporate all five of the elements of a profile including a lede, a nut, a bio/background, back-to-present, and kicker.
Periods 5 and 6: Polished drafts are due on Friday!
Periods 5 and 6: Polished drafts are due on Friday!
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