English 4 CP: Friday/Monday: 10/31 and 11/3/14

Standards
*LAFS.6.L.1.2: Editing conventions
*LAFS.1112.SL.1.2: Multiple sources of information

Essential Questions
*How do punctuation marks really work?
*How do you determine who was the real Shakespeare?
*How does the context of history impact literature?

Agenda

BELL RINGER
* Discussion: The war of distraction. Compartmentalize and break into bite size pieces as a technique to overcome the issue. No writing or assignment, just listen carefully.
1. Taking notes: The following notes were given, then modeled in class on pages 287, 288 in the lit book
a. Don't copy, especially long passages
b. Use abbreviations (like esp. for especially)
c. Use short cuts (Underlined R in your notes can mean Renaissance - put a reminder in your margin) also, consider the vowel short cut (Write lmnt instead of element. You can still read the word.)
d. Pick the main points: prioritize
e. Look for things that would be good test questions (you know your teachers and their habits)
f. Retell or restate or put the information in your own words (be sure you translate)
g. Relate the information to something you already know (make connections)
2. Continue: Give all the rules for all the punctuation marks with an example for each rule. This is a cheat sheet that students will be allowed to use on open notes test, and will be a turn in assignment as well.
a. Period; b. Question mark; c. Exclamation mark; d. Comma; e. Colon; f. Semicolon; g. Quotation mark; h. Parentheses; i. Underlining/italics; j. Apostrophes; k. Dashes; l. Hyphens; m. Ellipses; n. Bracket/braces
3. Overdue make up work: Read, research, and explain who was the real writer of the Shakespearean plays. Some people believe it was Shakespeare. Some believe it was another nobleman, and Shakespeare just got the credit. All that is needed is the following.
a. Give 3 points from the Shakespeare was Shakespeare side with a website
b. Give 3 points from the someone else wrote the plays side with a website
c. This is NOT a long persuasive essay, just 6 points and 2 websites.
4. Overdue make up work: The essay regarding last 9 weeks.
5. Continue reading, taking notes, discussing historical context to literature (pages 287 to 297 in Lit book)