Week of May 27:

Period 2: Bring your polished drafts to continue peer-editing. Bring your completed dialogue journals for Persepolis.  Final, final drafts are due Thursday.

Dates and Times

All students should be finished with Persepolis by the end of the week. Question packets need to be turned in at that time.

Period 6: Bring your drafts for Peer-Editing!

Period 7: Final Drafts of your research papers are due Wed. Thurs. (the 21st and 22nd respectively).
On Friday we will have a socratic seminar and discuss Persepolis.

Period 2: your first but complete draft needs to be in class and ready to edit on Thursday. We will spend half the class peer-editing and the other half the class in a socratic seminar using your questions.

Your final project will be to create your own graphic novel depicting a major political struggle that has affected your life. We will discuss this in class.

Due Dates:

Period 2: Your outlines are due at the end of class tomorrow. We will work on them together during class.
Period 6: Your first draft of your research paper is due Monday.
Period 7: Your first draft of the research paper is due Friday. Come ready for peer editing.

All of you: We will continue to work on Persepolis. You need to have the entire packet of discussion questions filled out up to the chapter "Wine" (page 102). We will discuss on Friday.

I look forward to reading your research!

Outlines are due on Monday.

• Use your notecards to arrange a structure for your writing that makes sense,  is interesting, and is original. Remember, the "voice print" of your research will be mostly in the organization. Your analysis may state what is evident, but you are not composing a paper based on what you think. Rather, you are composing a paper based on what you have FOUND.  The way you present the information will be the way you cast a light on your subject.
• Everybody read to page 72 in Persepolis.
• We will finish our in-class writing on WWII on Monday.

Have a great weekend!

Period 6-7:

Come with your annotated bibliographies (if you haven't already turned them in) as well as 3-4 printed articles. We will be making notecards tomorrow and if you don't have articles, you will not be able to participate in this important activity!

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Period 7: Make sure you complete your 6-10 line found poem derived from all of the WWII writing you have done. Write it in your notebooks ready for Monday.

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Research Project—Sophomore English

This project is designed to help you explore an event, issue or topic related to WWII or the Middle East. The project is made of multiple components for which you will be responsible. You will see due dates and descriptions of each component below as well as the points attached to each step.  You will not get full-credit for any of the components if they are late.

1.    Annotated Bibliography-- due May 5

·      Your sources must be in alphabetical order, typed, and MLA formatted.

·      Your annotations should be at least one paragraph in length.

·      Sources can be images, articles, videos, etc.

You must have 6-10 sources 6=C , 10=A+

_____________/ 100 points

         2. Notecards—15 -- Due:  Tuesday May 8/ Wednesday May 9

·      Each notecard should represent an essential fact about your event.

·      Each notecard should have a quote, statistic, fact, or expert opinion on one side and the source you used on the other side.

·      Do not use Wikipedia.

             _______________/75 points

          3. Typed 3-5 page double-spaced MLA formatted Research Paper Due: Monday May 12

________________/ 75

peer-editing sheet_________/25

     4. Begin Creative Presentations May 15/16

      Your research will be presented to the class. You must include:

·      Visual Aid __________25 points

·      An Essential Fact-Sheet 10 “Need to know Facts”_________25 points

·      5-10 minute creative and informative presentation in which you “teach” your

event successfully __________25 points                                 

Final Draft due:  May 22/23___________/50

Total: ___________________________ /400