Saturday, May 24, 2014

Periods 6/7

Periods 6 and 7:

Dialogue journals for Persepolis are due on Wednesday.

All unfinished drafts are due Wednesday.

By Wednesday you need to have read to page 44 in The Alchemist.There will be a quiz on Friday.

Bring materials to class on Friday to work on your graphic novels.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

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.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

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.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

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!

Saturday, May 10, 2014

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!

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

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!

Friday, May 2, 2014

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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.