English 4 & 4H: 2/27,28/13

Guiding Q

• How do you complete the process of writing a persuasive essay?

Bell Ringer

• The assigned "Identify your topic choice and justify how and why you chose this topic" is due today. You may include why you think you will be successful with this topic.

Activities

• Teacher will initial all topic choice work and return them to students immediately. Students will turn this in as part of their prewrite.
• Students will go over the student model essay on pages 719, 720
• Class discuss to identify the elements of the model that relate to their essay assignment and rubric for grading their assignment.
• Students will go over the process instructions and examples, pages 721 through 723.
• Each step has instruction and examples.
• There should be no question as to how to do this and what it looks like by the time we complete the instruction.
• Teacher explained the Venn diagram or chart process for mapping the pros and cons of the topic.
• The chart/Venn diagram is assigned
• Students were given the rest of the period to work.
• Handouts
• Persuasive Essay grading guide
• MLA Citation guide
• Students are recommended to go to "Citationmachine" on the internet
• Transitions and how they are used guide
• Reminders:
• Vocab test 3 is next class
• Evidence and Logic test is next class

Drama: 2/27,28/13

Guiding Q

• How do we evaluate a performance?

Activities

• Begin performances for those who did not perform at Olustee.
• Next project begins - Story Telling
• Assign the following
• Informal research: Students may choose from among the following choices
• Story telling qualities, processes, techniques
• Role of story telling in society - primitive to current
• Specific story tellers
• Personal story
• Students are to create a story that is original with them. Should be over 1 minute long.
• Published story
• Students are to tell a published story in their own words as though they were the narrator or part of the story.
• This can be a short story, an excerpt from a book, a movie or other published work
• Notes
• The goal of story telling is to gain the emotion of the story tied to the quality of the story, and all the acting skills possible that will draw the audience into the story

English 4 & 4H: 2/25,26/13

Guiding Q

• What are the elements and expectations of the persuasive writing process

Bell Ringer: Choose one

• Oscars: explain the win your agreed with most or disagreed with most - or -
• Explain what is the most important issue to you locally, nationally, or internationally regarding social, ecological, or political issues. Why is the issue important?

Activities:

• Take up Yakalot late for reduced credit
• Take up bell ringers "Opinion List" and "How do you cheat in an argument" for reduced credit
• Do improve Q and A prewrite assignment (get from teacher when you return to class)
• Introduce persuasive essay assignment (pages 718 - 723)
• Go over writing prompts with many examples
• Go over key traits with explanation
• Assign due next class: Choose your topic for the essay and justify why you picked the topic and why you think you'll be successful with it.

Posted on the board -- Grading requirements and expectations

• Prewrite worth 150 points: do all the following
• Your choice of topic with the process through which it was identified, picked, (justified)
• 3 part chart or Venn diagram: detailed and complete showing for, against, and same
• Gathered facts and research with documentation (including the facts you don't have to research and the reasons you have determined)
• Complete thesis statement with focus points
• Organize/outline
• Check for logic fallacies
• Rough draft -- fully edited
• Final Paper worth 150 points, based on the key traits page 718 (check the student model page 719)
• 1st paragraph background into thesis
• Identifies topic clearly
• Intro strong and memorable
• Thesis statement with focus points
• Supports with relevant and convincing evidence
• Anticipates and answers opposing views
• Good use of transitional words and phrases
• Reflects writer's commitment to his/her opinion
• Conclusion: summary or call to action
• Addresses audience directly
• Uses persuasive techniques effectively (logic fallacies will detract from total grade)
• Rhetorical devices: parallelism and repetition
• Vary sentence beginnings
• Edit for all conventions

Drama: 2/25,26/13

Guiding Q

• Completing the process

Bell Ringer

• The debate or other variations based on titles, actors, actresses, movies, TV shows, and/or themes

Activities:

• We are being interrupted by FCAT writes and will not see all classes.
• To whatever extent possible,
• We will attempt to complet all things Olustee like paperwork and thank you letters
• We will attempt to begin/complete classroom presentations
• We will begin to discuss what is coming next -- the group

English 4 & 4H: 2/21,22/13

Guiding Q

• How do you choose a topic

Bell Ringer

• Create a list of 30 opinions you hold, could be strong or weak or any topic or idea.
• Star the top 10 of the list as being most important
• Label the top five of the starred opinions from 1 (most important) to 5 (least important)

Activities

• Students are given today to make up any or all of the four tests we've taken so far for full credit.
• Students not testing are to complete the "Yakalot" assignment which is due today for full credit.
• After today will be for partial credit.

Drama: 2/21,22/13

Guiding Q

• What does it take to complete a quality production

Bell Ringer

• Finish all Olustee journals and observation journals

Activities

• Warm ups
• Scenerio, object, emotions
• Complete Olustee debrief
• Sign thank you letters
• Read, go over report sent to McMahon and "Ideas for Next Year" sent to Wilks and McMahon

English 4 & 4H: 2/19,20/13

Guiding Q

• What does it take to create a quality persuasion?

Bell Ringer

• Describe a "cheat" you have used to win an argument that may have been inaccurate or unfair.

Activities:

• Discuss bell ringer.
• Give red herring handout with matching assignment. Complete and turn in.
• Hand out "Using Evidence and Logic" for students to read, study, know. Tests will be based on the material.
• Hand out "Senator Yakalot to his Constituents"
• Assign: Students are to find as many of the fallacies on the Yakalot handout as possible. Number the fallacies based on what they are called in the "Using Evidence" handout.
• Give the rest of class time to work on this project.
• This is due by the end of the week.

Drama: 2/19,20/13

Guiding Q

• What does it take to create a quality performance?

Bell Ringer

• Related to all things Olustee, create lists of the following information: 1. What went well? 2. What needs to be improved? 3. What are things learned or ideas gained that will help us with our next performance?

Activities:

• Take up observation journals
• Discuss bell ringer and take notes for project book
• Set plan for class presentations
• Olustee follow through

English 4 & 4H: 2/13,14/13

Guiding Q

• What does it take to create a quality persuasion

Activities:

• Periods 1, 2, 3
• Read Gulliver's Travels beginning page 624
• Do all margin and end questions
• Period 5
• Listen to satire of a slave responding to his former master after the Civil War
• Analyze the reading in a journal/essay answering any/all/or related ideas to the following questions
• What did the slave think of his former master?
• What was the test the slave gave?
• How did the slave compare his slave life to his free life?
• What were the elements of persuasion?
• What technique(s) were used in the persuasion
• What outcome did the slave want and why? ** This one is most important

Drama: 2/13,14/13

Guiding Q:

• What does it take to create a quality performance?

Activities:

• Run down final checklists relating to all aspects of the performance
• Review schedules and set ups
• Distribute T-Shirts
• Deal with costumes
• Rehearse
• Remind: Final after school rehearsal today

English 4 & 4H: 2/11,12/13

Guiding Q

• What does it take to create a quality persuasion?

Bell Ringer

• What do you think is most curious, shocking, and/or interesting about Swift's "Proposal"? Explain.

Activities

• Share responses to the bell ringer.
• Complete "A Modest Proposal" reading
• Give time sufficient to finish answering the questions.
• Take up finished work.
• End of class is the end of turning this work in for full credit. Any of this work turned in later will be for partial credit.

Drama: 2/11,12/13

Guiding Q

• What does it take to create a quality performance?

Activities:

• Reminders
• After school rehearsals Tuesday and Thursday after school this week from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. It is very important that all attend.
• Diaries/journals must be turned in every day -- don't forget. After the last scolding, I expected to see a lot of work turned in. It hasn't happened.
• Assignment: Observation journal
• Pick an emotion and observe someone expressing that emotion.
• Give a detailed description what you see.
• Interpret/analyze what you see and what it means
• Reflect on your own feelings or whatever it might take for you to imitate or produce a performance with that emotion
• Students may do more than one as make up.
• Rehearsal
• Students went outside and  practiced volume, projection, and interacting at a level in which they can maintain all acting skills and be heard.
• Cheating - making sure you are turned toward audience

English 4 & 4H: 2/8/13

Guidng Q

• What does it take to create a quality persuasion?

Bell Ringer

• Prepare for vocabulary test 2: critique to inconsiderable

Activities

• Review vocabulary words
• Take up vocabulary 2 homework
• Take vocabulary 2 test
• Any remaining class time is to be spent on the following activities
• Last day to turn in "Declaration of Independence" extra credit vocabulary
• Last day for full credit for advertisement assignment
• Work on "A Modest Proposal" questions due after we complete the story

Drama: 2/8/13

Guiding Q:

• What is required to complete a quality performance?

Activities

• Call for T-Shirt payments
• Grade points: extra credit to all who come to after school rehearsals
• After school rehearsals are critical for performance success
• Will train after school next Tuesday and Thursday
• Expect even non performers to attend
• Volunteers will perform the week after Olustee
• Frank came to rehearse readers
• Students spent time in rehearsal.

English 4 & 4H: 2/6,7/13

Guiding Q

• How does satire work as a type of persuasion?

Bell Ringer

• Work on "Declaration" extra credit vocabulary assignment which is due today.

Activities

• Begin with 15 to 20 minutes of work time for projects due today
• Take up extra credit vocabulary assignment
• Take up completed advertisement project
• Peruse the "Rape of the Lock" in an effort to show students the satire, humor, and techniques used
• Read/discuss "A Modest Proposal" beginning with background information on Jonathon Swift, pages 608, 609
• Assign all margin questions and the end questions on page 620
• All classes completed the reading through the end of page 615
• Reminder: Vocabulary test 2 on Friday

Drama: 2/6,7/13

Guiding Q

• What does it take to create a quality performance?

Activities

1. Discussion grades, missing assignments, writing expectations
2. Take up late T-shirt payments
3. Rehearsal after school today
4. As of now
1. Students should be entering class in character and remaining in character throughout the period in stance, word choice, demeanor, mannerism, et al
5. Rehearsal time

English 4 & 4H: 2/4,5/13

Guiding Q

• What does it take to create quality persuasion?

Bell Ringer

• Work on "Declaration of Independence"  (DOI)extra credit vocabulary

Activities:

• Show some video of Rennaissance Fair and how relates to class with some sharing from those who went.
• Go over and assign ad assignments step 3 and step 4
• Step 4 is the summary conclusion of the project
• Completed project is due next class, but I will take it until the end of the week.
• DOI extra credit is due next class. Severe loss of credit begins immediately after.
• Students given until the end of the period to work on completing the two assignments

Drama: 2/4,5/13

Guiding Q

• What is required to complete a quality performance?

Activities

• Finalize food order, T-shirt order, transportation, and stations appointment
• Watch and discuss video of Rennaisance Fair and its various performers.
• Rehearse and prepare
• Required after school rehearsals next Thursday and Tuesday and Thursday of next week.
• Performance begins next Friday
• Be Ready!!

English 4 & 4H: 2/1/13

Guiding Question

• What does it take to shape a quality persuasion?

Bell Ringer

• Prepare for vocabulary 1 test.

Activities:

• Review for test
• Take up vocabulary homework
• Give vocabulary 1 test
• Outline two extra credit opportunities
• Declaration of Independence extra credit
• Due in two class days
• People who made A's can do up to 17 words from any highlighted word in the entire document.
• People who made less than A's can do up to all 35 words from the posted test word list for one point each
• Students use the form provided and will get 2 points for each word done.
• Students can get extra credit for going to the Hoggetown Rennaisance Fair

Drama: 2/1/13

Guiding Q:

• What does it take to create a quality performance?

Activities:

• Offer extra credit for anyone who goes to Hoggetown Rennaissance Fair
• Go over list of needs and expectations for performance
• Try to complete getting T-Shirt and other sign ups complete
• Rehearse