February 12, 2018 Daily Agenda

Monday, February 12^th:

Period 1:

Go over the official title of your presentation

Show two tedtalks on the “Teenage Brain!”

Turn in your grammar homework Module 2, activities 2 – 5

Period 3:

In library with Ms. Payne to select their classes for next year.

Period 4:

Kahoots!

The Wind God

Cyclops

Circe

Vocabulary

Period 5:

Agnes of God:

Jasmine - Agnes

Elizabeth – Doctor

The Body:

Angel

Yaslynn

The Flick

Avery – Chandler

Sam – Vlad

Madaline – Rose

The Hereafter:

Katherine

Ivonne

The Medium

Brana – Client

Jessica – the Medium

Orphans

Kedase – Harold

Daylan – Treat

Francisco – Phillip

Period 6:

Pair up! Get your books out and we are going to do a scavenger hunt in Act 4, Scene 1

Page 192:

Identify the figurative language used:

What is it?

Who says it?

What is the person describing?

What is being compared to what and what is revealed by the comparison?

Page 194

There are three examples of figurative language:

Personification, metaphor, simile, imagery, allusion
There is also a motif, which is a recurring symbol

1. Identify the motif that is being used:

What is it? What type of figurative language is it?

Who says it?

Who or what is the person describing?

What is being compared to what and what is revealed by the comparison?

2 and 3 on page 194 are not motifs but are figurative language. Answer the questions.

Act 4, Scene 2

Page 196

There are three examples of figurative language:

1.     Identify the figurative language.

2.     

3    Who says it?

4.     Who or what is the person describing?

5.     What is being compared to what and what is revealed by the comparison?

Page 198

There are three examples of figurative language:

One of them is a motif. Identify the motif. What is the character comparing another character to?  What does the comparison reveal about the character’s feelings toward the other?

1.     You know the drill

     

Page 200

There are four examples of puns and syllogisms

Page 202

There are three jokes on page 202. What are they?

Page 204

There is an apostrophe on this page.
What is it? Why and how is it being used?

There are examples of imagery and the motif on this page.

1.     What is the example of imagery?

2.      Describe the imagery. What does the character's use of this imagery reveal about his present state of mind.

3.     What is the motif?

February 9, 2018 Daily Agenda

Friday, February 9^th:

Period 1:

Group 6:

“Greg Ousley Is Sorry for Killing His Parents. Is That enough?”

Nick, Ashley, Katherine C.

Group 7:

“Greg Ousley….”

Last page of the L.A. Times’ article

Katherine Q. Cheyenne, Gabrielle

Period 3:

Theatre Games:

T.V.

Yessenia, Jay, Bryan, Giselle, Madeline

Amanda, Dennis, Ilan, Allisa, Annmarie

Worked with:

“Fashionistas”

Yessenia, Yadira

Period 4:

Open your books to page 667

Milan:

Review:

The men were taking twine from the Cyclops’ bed to tie themselves under the middle of a trio of big sheep.  Odysseus had to hold onto the biggest ram by his hands because there was no one to tie him up to a ram.

Reader:

Milan

When Dawn spread out her fingertips of rose  - personification

Carrion: road kill, a dead animal

Rogue: a criminal

Fold (noun) a group of animals or the sleeping quarters of animals like sheep or goats

Adversary: an enemy

Weird: the original weird is fate!

Who told the Cyclops about his fate?

David

Telemus the Wizard foretold the Cyclops that he would be blinded by a man by the name of Odysseus.

What type of man was the Cyclops expecting?

David – he was expecting a giant man.

The Cyclops was defeated not by a big man of brawn but by a small man of great intellect.

The Cyclops prayed to his father Poseidon to curse Odysseus, that he would not get home, or that it would be a long time of hard sailing for Odysseus to get home, and when he did reach home he would be faced with  bitter days and the loss of his companions.

February 6, 2018 Daily Agenda

February 6^th:

1^st Period:

Presentations:

Group 1: Henry, Leonela, and Benedict
“Kids are Kids – Until They Commit a Crime” pages 87 – 88

Critiqued the presentations

Students took notes and will submit at the end of the presentations.

Group 2:

Precious’s computer froze and lost the slides

3^rd Period:

Theatre Games:

1,2,3,4,5 – The Entire Class

Worked briefly with Alinah and Taylor

Worked with:

Ublester and David on ‘Thirteen Ways to Fail Your College Interview”

4^th Period:

Read “The Lotus Eaters”

Page 658

What happens to people who eat the lotus flower?

The people lose their will to go home. They just want to eat the lotus flower and stay on the island.

Taylor:

This is a P.S.A. – which warns people not to engage in drugs and alcohol.

Some scholars believe that the lotus flower might have been marijuana because it made the marijuana users lethargic and apathetic.

Milan

Lethargic: lazy, you just want to lay around

Adolfo and Taylor and David

Apathetic: showing little animation or emotion; indifferent

Page 660 The Cyclops

Reader:

Adolfo

Bough: tree branch

Yessenia:

Cavern is a large cave

Ewes: female sheep

Ram: a male sheep

 The first thing the Cylcops does is place a huge mult-ton slab of rock in the cave’s opening. After he makes his dinner, he sees Odysseus’s men in the firelight.

Adolfo!

Explained why the Cyclops got an attitude with Odysseus.

Why did the Cyclops ask Odysseus where his ships were?

Adolfo – Because Cylcops would have destroyed it!

And why did Odysseus lie about it?

David and Adolfo knew that was the Cyclops’ intention – to destroy the ship!

Acted out the Lotus Eaters:

Milan, Adolfo, Julian, Alejandra, Julia

Period 5:

Worked on the casting for Into the Woods

Period 6:

Check out Side by Side Hamlet

 Begin presenting

May 25, 2015 - May 29, 2015 Weekly Agenda for 11th Grade English

Monday, May 25th: 

Memorial Day

Tuesday, May 26th:

Warm-up Activity:

Converting Active Voice to Passive Voice:

Passive voice should not be used very often; however, it is used when the action is done by an unknown agent.

Formula:

Active Voice = Subject + Verb + Direct Object

Jonathan hit the ball.

Passive Voice = Direct Object + To Be Form of Verb + Preposition + Subject

The ball was hit by Jonathan.

Are the following statements in active voice or passive voice? If they are in active voice, convert them to passive voice.

1.     They will automatically blame feminism for not doing anything about it.

2.     By the time they begin to actually take action it will be too late for anyone.

3.     It is insane how they expect women to dress.

1.     Feminism will be blamed for not doing anything about this problem.

2.     Action will be taken but it will be too late.

3.     It is insane how women are expected to dress.

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Wednesday, May 27^th:

1^st Period:

Turn in books

Briefly went over how to do the presentations

2^nd Period:

Turn in books

Two Senior Presentations today:

Lupo – The Dangers of Social Media

Christian – Obesity in the Middle and Lower Classes

Thursday, May 28th: 

1st Period: 

Showed the class Lupo Benatti's power point slides. 

Worked on their research paper. 

2nd Period: 

Worked on their research paper

May 18, 2015 - May 22, 2015 Weely Agenda for Contemporary Composition

Monday, May 18^th:

1^st Period and 2^nd Period:

A minimum of fifteen note cards are due today by midnight.

Looking ahead:

Wednesday, May 20^th:  Research paper outline due.

Friday, May 22^nd: The first draft of the research paper is due.

                     

Tuesday, May 19th: 

1st and 2nd Periods: 

Work on outlines which are due tomorrow

Finish up notecards

Wednesday, May 20th: 

Not here today. Sub.
Students worked on outlines and rough drafts of paper.

Thursday, May 21st: 

Went over format of outlines again.

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This is one way to do an outline:

            l. Topic Sentence

                        A. First Claim

                                    1. Development of first claim

                                                a. Evidence

            ll. Topic Sentence

    

 I. The Dream Act will be a great help for undocumented students raised in the U.S. 

                        A. The Dream will help the U.S. to have highest proportion of college

                              Graduates in the world.

1.     Economic Benefits of having higher number of college graduates

a.     Greater economic stability

b.     Higher tax base

2.     Military Benefits of having higher number of college graduates

a.     Better trained soldiers

                                                                                            i.     Evidence

b.     Greater military strategists

                                                                                            i.     Evidence

c.      Greater military technology

                                                                                            i.     Evidence

This is the WRONG WAY TO DO THE OUTLINE!!!!!!

Main Idea: The drinking age should be lowered

Evidence: People aged 18 are responsible. (Not!!!!)

Friday, May 22nd: 

Final draft due today!
Work on rough draft in the library! 

May 11, 2015 - May 15, 2015 Weekly Agenda for Contemporary Composition

Monday, May 11th: 

1st and 2nd Periods: 
Work on the letter of intent and begin your research!

Tuesday, May 12th: 

1st and 2nd Periods:
Work on the letter of intent and begin your research!

Wednesday, May 13th: 

Field Trip to the Mark Taper Forum to see Immediate Family

Do research for research paper in class today!

Thursday, May 14th: 

In the library doing research for research paper!

Friday, May 15th: 

1^st Period:

Work day on note cards and research

2^nd Period:

Went over bibliography cards and note card format.

Went over passive/active voice

Went over objective case pronouns, nominative case pronouns, and prepositions

 

 

 

2015 Junior Project Information and Time Line

Junior Project Information and Time-Line

Friday, May 8^th:

Today your letter of intent is due. It must be:

1.     Typed

2.     12 font

3.     1.5 spacing

4.     One and a half pages to two pages in length

5.     Must be in business letter format

6.     Must include information about yourself

7.     The subject you wish to research

8.     Why you are attracted to this subject

9.     A paragraph defining plagiarism: Why it is unethical, the consequences of plagiarizing and a promise you will not plagiarize.

Note cards:

            The note cards must be in appropriate MLA format. If you are not sure how to do that, go to owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource.

            Fifteen note cards are required for this junior project.

            Each card is worth twenty-five points

            You must have at least three different types of sources:

                        Minimum of one from a reputable book

                        Minimum of one from a reputable journal

                        Minimum of two from a reputable internet source (.edu, .org, .gov)

                        You may also use documentaries

                        You may also use primary sources

Instead of writing the note cards on 5 by 8 note cards, please write them (or type them) on a sheet of paper. FOLLOW THE SAME FORMAT, BUT PLACE THEM ON A SHEET OF PAPER.  Please draw a box around each note card in order to differentiate each one. (Please be aware this is unconventional and most teachers and/or professors will insist you use index cards. Paper is just my eccentric preference.)

You may turn in your individual note cards as soon as you are finished with them. Please number them sequentially and date them; this is to help me keep track of them.

BIBLIOGRAPHY CARDS: You must have a bibliography card for each source you use. Please use MLA format for each card.

Due dates for the junior projects:

All note cards will be due:                    May 18^th

Rough draft of research paper:             May 22^nd

Final draft of research paper:                May 29^th

Power Point:                                          May 27^th:

Presentation with Power Point:            May 28^th, May 29^th, June 1st