AGENDA 11/30

Style Revision PowerPoint: make changes to your body paragraphs by following some of these guidelines

Style Revision PowerPoint as a .pdf for easy viewing

Pass out Rhetorical Historical Paper Scoring Guide and review FLT Sheet and Final Essay Checklists as needed

HW: Continue to draft and revise your rhetorical historical research paper for content and style. Due 12/8! Bring all paragraphs tomorrow--we'll be working on conclusions.

AGENDA 11/29

Read "Hounding the Innocent" by Bob Herbert aloud

Return to yesterday's quickwrite & preview questions

After we read, jot down answers on your quickwrite sheet:

1) What answers did you find to your subtitle/title questions?

2) What surprises you?

3) What parts did you think were persuasive?

Review final essay requirements for research paper and discuss Focused Learning Targets (FLTs) explored during the writing of this paper. Research paper due 12/8!

HW: Continue to work on rhetorical historical research paper. Review the FLTs and decide which elements you need help with. Bring all body paragraphs to class tomorrow for style revision!

AGENDA 11/28

Pre-reading activities:

Quickwrite--Write for five minutes and consider any or all of the following questions: What do you know or what have you heard about the topic of racial profiling? Have you, or has someone you know, been detained by police or security, because of appearance? How do you think someone might react to being questioned or detained by security or police because of appearance? How widespread of a problem do you think this is today--where/when do you think it happens?

Prereading questions: 1) What is the purpose of this essay? 2) Who is the intended audience and how did you draw that conclusion? 3) Turn the title and all subtitles into questions that could be answered?

HW: Continue drafting your fall rhetorical historical research paper! Bring ALL body paragraphs for style revision on Wednesday!

AGENDA 11/22

WORK TIME: Complete Revision Activity and Reflection, begin drafting 2nd body paragraph section, etc.

Revision activity: using your body paragraph, get four highlighters (pink, yellow, blue, and green) and color-code your draft following my sample

Yellow: highlight opening claim (description of how this source is similar to/different from other sources)

Blue: direct quotations, specific details from work, and citations in parentheses

Green: description of impact of genre and/or decisions made to suit a particular audience (e.g, Since this is a children’s book…or Because this is a political cartoon…)

Pink: underlying emotions and tone words (highlighted as individual words) and full sentences describing purpose and motivations

1) Based on your color-marking and viewing Pust's sample, what do you need to develop in your draft? (e.g., I need to include citations, I need to add more discussion of genre because I don't have enough green, etc.)

2) What do I need help with? (e.g., I don't know how to cite a video, I am not sure what the underlying emotions of this source are, etc.)

HW: For WEDNESDAY, bring the following:

1) Today's body paragraph, color-marked

2) Reflection questions answered, stapled to the back

3) Clean copy of your revised paragraph (revise based on color-marking between now and Wednesday to incorporate the things you said you needed in your revision)

4) A SECOND body paragraph(s) section discussing a different source or discourse community, with all of the above components in mind (it should already be "revised" to meet the components we highlighted for)

For MONDAY, bring a 3rd body paragraph section.

NOTE: I will distribute Uh-Oh slips to anyone who does not have these items on Monday. If you are absent on Wednesday, you will automatically get an Uh-Oh slip if you do not have the items complete and with you at the start of the period on Monday.

AGENDA 11/21

Vocabulary Quiz over words from Ragged Dick

Revision activity: using your body paragraph, get four highlighters (pink, yellow, blue, and green) and color-code your draft following my sample

Yellow: highlight opening claim (description of how this source is similar to/different from other sources)

Blue: direct quotations, specific details from work, and citations in parentheses

Green: description of impact of genre and/or decisions made to suit a particular audience (e.g, Since this is a children’s book…or Because this is a political cartoon…)

Pink: underlying emotions and tone words (highlighted as individual words) and full sentences describing purpose and motivations

1) Based on your color-marking and viewing Pust's sample, what do you need to develop in your draft? (e.g., I need to include citations, I need to add more discussion of genre because I don't have enough green, etc.)

2) What do I need help with? (e.g., I don't know how to cite a video, I am not sure what the underlying emotions of this source are, etc.)

HW: For WEDNESDAY, bring the following:

1) Today's body paragraph, color-marked

2) Reflection questions answered, stapled to the back

3) Clean copy of your revised paragraph (revise based on color-marking between now and Wednesday to incorporate the things you said you needed in your revision)

4) A SECOND body paragraph(s) section discussing a different source or discourse community, with all of the above components in mind (it should already be "revised" to meet the components we highlighted for)

For MONDAY, bring a 3rd body paragraph section.

NOTE: I will distribute Uh-Oh slips to anyone who does not have these items on Monday. If you are absent on Wednesday, you will automatically get an Uh-Oh slip if you do not have the items complete and with you at the start of the period on Monday.

AGENDA 11/18

Grammar Practice: Parallelism

Prepare for vocabulary quiz by reviewing words from chapters 1-27 of Ragged Dick, and working on the Jumble and Crossword puzzle

Transform REALM or SOAPSTone Notes into body paragraph(s)

HW: Study for quiz. Body paragraph(s) from one set of research notes or discourse community due on Monday, typed and with MLA parenthetical citations

AGENDA 11/15

Seminar: Ragged Dick

Ambition/Dreams; Success; Teenagers; Role Models

HW: SOAPSTone or REALM notes due on Friday for 2 more research sources - typed and in MLA format, complete with citations. Continue to revise introduction as needed.

AGENDA 11/14

Introduction revision: Use highlighters to identify the five necessary components in a partner's paragraph. Then write 2 concrete comments to help your partner revise his/her introduction draft.

See my sample with highlighting

Prep for tomorrow's seminar on Ragged Dick by tagging four quotations with the tape flags I gave you in class.

TOPICS for seminar (find one quotation from the book that pertains to each topic--flag it with the sticky note I gave you so it's easy to find in tomorrow's discussion):

SUCCESS: Does hard work + education still equal success, as Alger believes?

TEENAGERS: How have teenagers changed or stayed the same since Ragged Dick's time (170 years ago)?

AMBITION/DREAMS: How important is it to have specific goals or dreams to work toward?

ROLE MODELS: How much impact can a good role model have? Can someone be successful without any good role models in his/her life?

HW: Revise introduction drafts as needed to include all 5 components and prepare for tomorrow's seminar.

AGENDA 11/9

Check SOAPSTone & REALM Notes: Uh-Oh Slips for people who don't have them ready

Introductions PowerPoint

HW: Grammar Quiz on pronouns tomorrow! Review of Pronouns #1 with Rules and Review of Pronouns #2--make sure you know the four types of errors and how to explain what an antecedent is and to give an example. Typed draft of introduction due MONDAY. Return signed Uh-Oh slips tomorrow or Monday.

AGENDA 11/8

Ragged Dick reading quiz - 5 T/F and one short answer question

Finish modeling REALM Notes, Page 1 and REALM Notes, Page 2

Complete draft of REALM Notes for Period 3

Complete draft of REALM Notes for Period 4

Pust's sample REALM Notes

HW: Bring 4 research notes tomorrow (1 REALM and 3 SOAPSTones; 2 of each; or 3 REALM notes and 1 SOAPSTone) for progress check. Grammar quiz over pronouns on Thursday.

AGENDA 11/7

Stamp & check SOAPSTone writeups. Remember that SOAPSTone analysis for this assignment needs to be typed, an include an MLA formatted header at the top, the title, and an MLA format citation for each source you discuss. SOAPSTone writeups should be done in complete sentences and include specific details/direct quotations from your research sources. Further, you should add appeals to logos, pathos, and ethos at the end of your SOAPSTone analysis for each text (see SAD handout for clarification on the rhetorical appeals).

Sample SOAPSTone + Appeals writeup from Period 3

Sample SOAPSTone + Appeals writeup from Period 4

NOTE: ALL STUDENTS must have SOAPSTones stamped and checked by this Wednesday or I will need to alert parents and advisors that you have fallen behind in your research project.

Introduce REALM Notes, Page 1 and REALM Notes, Page 2

Model REALM Notes using excerpt from The Daily Show - "Intro to Hurricane Katrina." Discuss the impact of the audience, examine details, discuss the bias/values/ethos of the "author," and explain limitations and motivations operating on this text. Remember that since this is a political satire, it will poke fun not at the victims of the tragedy, but instead find a humorous angle to mock people in power to help provoke change. Also, because this airs so soon after the tragic events of Hurricane Katrina, one of the limitations Stewart has to think about is how to distance his audience emotionally from the hurricane and provide a humorous relief/viewpoint on the situation, which he does by alluding to past historical political blunders.

REALM Notes Part 1 Draft from Period 3

REALM Notes Part 1 Draft from Period 4

Pust's Sample complete REALM Notes including MLA formatting

HW: Finish reading Ragged Dick - short quiz tomorrow over the end of the book. Complete a set of typed REALM Notes with an MLA citation and header at the top, for a 4th research source for Wednesday (we'll finish modeling this together tomorrow). Remember, as you choose sources, look for a variety of genres and discourse communities: have you examined a visual source yet? A film? A primary source? A map, chart, graph, or table? An objective news source? A political cartoon? An opinion piece? A speech? A humorous or satirical text or image? Do you have sources from multiple perspectives or target audiences? If not, keep looking, or see me for help!

AGENDA 11/4

NOTE: The links on this site will likely be unavailable for most of the weekend. If you need a handout, please email jpust@smmusd.org and I will send you the attachments.

Grammar Practice: Pronoun Review #1, Pronoun Review #2, and Pronoun Rules

Remember that the antecedent is the thing to which the pronoun refers. For example, in the sentence, "Mrs. Pust went to the store to buy groceries for her family," the pronoun is "her" and the antecedent is "Mrs. Pust."

Review SOAPSTone analysis and sample SOAPSTone + Appeals writeup we did together for Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival in class

Sample SOAPSTone from Period 3

Sample SOAPSTone from Period 4

Work time: THREE SOAPSTone + Appeals analyses due on MONDAY. Finish reading chapters 25, 26, and 27 of Ragged Dick for class on TUESDAY. Expect a short reading quiz over the end of Ragged Dick on Tuesday. Grammar quiz over pronouns on Wednesday or Thursday of next week.