Monday, November 7, 2016

Did you get out and enjoy the incredible weather?  Hope so!

Minnehaha Falls, November 5, 2016!!


Welcome to the 2016-2017 WHS school year!

Enjoy Summer Vacation!

English 11 Unit 7 Schedule for LAST THREE WEEKS OF Class!

Good Morning English 11 Scholars!

Only three weeks remain of this school year! Whew.

We will be working our way through Unit 7 in the textbook.  The final exam will cover Unit 7.
There are several significant scores during this unit: 2 Friday quizzes on the stories covered each week; presentation/PPT creation and presentation; final exam- assessment on Unit 7.  There may be some small daily work scores as well.

Bring your textbook each day.

Here's the schedule!

Periods 3,4 English 11  THIS WEEK!

Monday, May 23, 2016

Period 3: Day 2 Work time on presentation; finish Part 1; begin Part 2

Period 4: Day 3 Work time on presentation; finish Parts 1 and 2; present tomorrow!

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Period 3: Day 3 Work time on presentation; finish Parts 1 and 2; present tomorrow!

Period 4: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Period 3: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Period 4: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Period 3: Grade 11 Surveys! 

Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Period 4: Grade 11 Surveys! 

Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Friday, May 27, 2016

Peirod 3: Assessment on the stories/poems/article covered this week

Period 4: Assessment on the stories/poems/article covered this week

NEXT WEEK!

Tuesday,  May 31, 2016

Period 3: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Period 4: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Period 3: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Period 4: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Period 3: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Period 4: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Friday, June 3, 2016

Peirod 3: Assessment on the stories/poems/article covered this week

Period 4: Assessment on the stories/poems/article covered this week

Our LAST WEEK OF ENGLISH 11!

Monday, June 6, 2016

Period 3: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Period 4: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Period 3: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Period 4: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Period 3: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Period 4: Bring textbook! We’ll have a presentation, then read the selections together; then we’ll have another presentation and read the selections, etc.

Thursday/Friday, June 9/10

FINALS!   Unit 7 Assessment plus a final activity

 

Reminder: Part 1 and Part 2 Requirements:

Part 1:

a.     5 slides per author; include bullet pointed biographical information and images (consider information provided anyplace in your assigned pages; consider researching authors as well); see me with questions.

b.     Plot: 10 slides for each story or poem/article; include bulleted list of the events of the story or poem; include images; include an introduction to each character as well as a part of your plot sharing; see me with questions.

Part 2

Apply each ELEMENT of Fiction (below) to the longer/longest selection in your assigned pages (images and # slides as needed to be effective)

                                               i.     Setting

1.     Geographical (city, state, country, continent, planet, etc.)

2.     Time (day, month, season, morning/evening, etc.)

3.     Socio-economic characteristics (related to wealth, careers, culture, etc.)

4.     Specifics (room, temperature, age, etc.)

                                              ii.     Conflicts

1.     Internal

2.     External

3.     Nature, Society, Self, Others, etc.

                                            iii.     Symbolism – three or more

                                            iv.     Perspective- who is telling the story?

                                              v.     Character Analysis

1.     Dynamic characters?

2.     Static characters?

3.     Round characters?

4.     Flat characters?

                                            vi.     Themes – three or more possible themes

                                           vii.     Evaluative – Your thoughtful review of the piece: strengths/weaknesses

                                         viii.     "Wow" Excerpts  (3 short excerpts)– and explain why

              

 

AP Lang Extra Practice (Optional, but confidence and skill inducing for those available)

Good Morning, AP Lang Scholars!

Check your calendars.  An opportunity awaits you.

It is optional. I suggest you challenge yourself and give it a go.

Tuesday, April 26: 3:10-5:10  AP Lang & Comp. Practice test Section II: The Essays
     If you stay the full two hours and thoughtfully complete the three essays, I will stay until I have scored your essays and conferenced with you briefly about your results! If you cannot stay this day for the full two hours, pick one or more of the other dates.

Wednesday, April 27: 3:10-4:10  AP Lang & Comp Practice test Section I: The Multiple Choice
     If you stay the full hour and complete the 56 multiple choice questions, I will stay to correct your results and review the explanations commentary to any of the questions.  If you cannot stay this day for the full  hour, pick one or more of the other dates.

Tuesday, May 3: 3:10-5:10 A different AP Lang & Comp. Practice test Section II: The Essays
      If you stay the full two hours and thoughtfully complete the three essays, I will stay until I have scored your essays and conferenced with you briefly about your results!  If you cannot stay this day for the full two hours, pick one or more of the other dates.

Wednesday, May 4: 3:10-4:10: A different AP Lang & Comp Practice test Section I: The Multiple Choice
     If you stay the full hour and complete the 54 multiple choice questions, I will stay to correct your results and review the explanations commentary to any of the questions.  If you cannot stay this day for the full hour, pick one or more of the other dates.

Oh, btw, I'll have protein treats available for those who choose to meet this challenge. Perhaps some coffee as well.












Homework every day for the next two weeks!
Due at beginning of class for 5 points daily (full credit if on time and 50% or more correct)!

#1  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Thursday, April 21
#2  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Friday, April 22
#3  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Monday, April 25
#4  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Tuesday, April 26
#5  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Wednesday, April 27
#6  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Thursday, April 28
#7  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Friday, April 29
#8  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Monday, May 2
#9  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Tuesday, May 3
#10  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Wednesday, May 4
#11 M/C Passage and Questions   Due Thursday, May 5
#12  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Friday, May 6
#13  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Monday, May 9
#14  M/C Passage and Questions   Due Tuesday, May 10

AP Lang & Comp Periods 5,6

Good Morning AP Lang Scholars!

This week plan for a heavy dose of the so-called "synthesis" essay!

Monday: Work through THREE prompts!
   - Mark prompt
  - Read and mark sources
  - Decide position
  -Create introductory paragraph draft including:
         -- Hook (engaging! )
         -- Tranisition to thesis (well worded!)
        --  Analysis blueprint presented in parallel form (3+ reasons)

Periods 5,6 2016 WHAT? It's already February?!!

Good Morning!

FEBRUARY WEEK 1:

Monday, February 1:
Turn in your composition portfolio properly organized and complete; turn in your metacognitive 2-4 page piece justifying the letter grade you believe you have earned for composition so far this trimester. Metacognitive? Yes..........................

Finish the PRONOUN packet and turn in.

Tuesday, February 2:
Period 5: We'll view the first part of the great movie To Live as an introduction to the trimester 2 round of Lit. Circles: Expanding your Global Perspective (Literature with an Asian Perspective: India, China, Cambodia, Vietnamese, Japanese)
Period 6: Snow day.

Wednesday, February 3:
In Class Activities:
     1. Lecture notes on integrating quoted material in your introductions and in the remainder of your essay prose past, present, and future.
     2. Integrating quoted material practice activity(Creativity prompt partial response incorporating effectively the 4 methods of integrating quoted material --plus ellipsis--plus brackets).

Thursday, February 4:
     1. AP Exam M/C practice- large group and partners

Friday, February 5:
     1. AP Exam M/C practice- partner/timed

FEBRUARY WEEK 2:
Monday, February 8: 
          Current Events SHARE-OUT's with integrated quotation as attention getter and organization thread!  Three current events all related to one part of the world or all related to one general topic! (10 points). Take a position; make a claim; support the claim with the CE's!

Example Planning Notes for this Extemporaneous "Argument with Evidence" Presentation:

General Current Events Topic Area: China

President Harry Truman once said, “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”  Truman’s view on the consequences of suppression of freedom of expression epitomizes the current threat to the lives of journalists and booksellers in mainland China.  Several recent news releases exemplify the extent of the problem.

 

First of all, CNN reported Wednesday that a “Missing journalist appears to be in Chinese government custody.”  EXPLAIN THE ARTICLE……………..

Another example of the repressive reach of the Chinese government is alleged in a news release from Hong Kong to msn.com on January 6^th of this year: “Hong Kong Booksellers call for release of missing booksellers.”  EXPLAIN THE ARTICLE

Finally,  ongoing “Media Censorship in China” was showcased in an article published April 7^th of last year by the Council on Foreign Relations.  EXPLAIN THE ARTICLE

Clearly, the Chinese government’s alleged desire to stifle freedom of speech in China continues to instill terror in the hearts of its citizens.

Tuesday, February 9: 
          Finish CE presentations; preview literature circles T2

Wednesday, February 10: Embedded Health
                   HW: Skills packet #5 and reading/prep for FishBowl Round 1

Thursday, February 11:

Reading Groups Assigned & Realigned/Packets Distributed (MUST have 4 or 5 in group)

Group 1 Period 5: Balzac- Emily, Malia, Abigail, Mark, Adam
Group 1 Period 6: Balzac - Sonia, Michaela, Zack, Nick, Colleen
Group 2 Period 5: First They - Grace, Jenna, Ellie, Camryn, Blake
Group 2 Period 6: First They - Mary, Ellie, Niki, Sanchez
Group 3 Period 5: Nectar - Sofia, Eric, Fox, Patrick, Alex
Group 3 Period 6: Nectar - Felix, Logan, Kareen, Matt, Noah
Group 4 Period 5: Emperor - Peter, Brad, Iain, Nolan, Misha
Group 4 Period 6: Emperor - Kaitlin B., Maura, Karis, Whitney
Group 5 Period 5: Gangster - Bailey, Maddie, Lauren, Kaitlin G.
Group 5 Period 6: Gangster - Elizabeth, Suleika, Laura, Izabella

               Lit Circles silent reading day! You may not take books home yet!
                    Approximately 1/3 of your book (or more)!
                             (5 points participation score- only reading your Lit Circle book!)
                    HW: Skills packet #5 and reading/prep for FishBowl Round 1

Friday. February 12:
            Ms. Remakel will stop by to field questions about AP Registration Online Process 

              Lit Circles silent reading day 30 minutes; 20 minutes to meet in groups and plan Fishbowl
                             (5 points participation score)
                    HW: Skills packet #5 and reading/prep for FishBowl Round1

FEBRUARY WEEK 3:
Monday, February 15: No School
Tuesday, February 16:
              Tuesday: 1/2 period to read and work individually on prep for fishbowl; 1/2 period
                                      to meet in groups to plan details of the fishbowl
              Bumped to Thursday:
              Lit Circles FishBowl Discussion Round 1 (1/3 of your book)
                   Group 1 (20 minutes), Group 2 (20 minutes), Group 3 (10 minutes tbc)
                   HW: Skills packet #5 and reading prep for Fishbowl Round 2

Wednesday, February 17:
             Lit Circles   FishBowl Discussion Round 1
                  Group 4 (20 minutes), Group 5 (20 minutes); Group 3 (10 minutes),            
                  HW: Skills packet #5 and reading prep for Fishbowl Round 2 (next 1/3 of your book)

Thursday, February 18:
              Bumped from Tuesday:
              Lit Circles FishBowl Discussion Round 1 (1/3 of your book)
                   Group 1 (20 minutes), Group 2 (20 minutes), Group 3 (10 minutes)
                   HW: Skills packet #5 due tomorrow! Quiz.

Friday, February 19:
                  1/2 period Quiz on PRONOUNS packet and Skills Packet #5!
                  1/2 period Lit Circles silent reading day!
             HW: Reading/prep for Round 2 Lit Circles

FEBRUARY WEEK 4:  (22nd through the 26th)

Monday:  
        Silent Reading day  
        HW: Read!

Tuesday:
       Lit Circles Round 2:
             Group 3 (20 minutes), Group 4 (20 minutes), Group 5 (10 minutes)  
             HW: Read!

 Wednesday: 
        Lit Circles Round 2:
              Group 5 (10 minutes), Group 1 (20 minutes), Group 2 (20 minutes) 
              HW: Read!

Thursday:
        Lit Circles Round 3:
              Group 3 (20 minutes), Group 4 (20 minutes), Group 5 (10 minutes)
              HW: Read!

Friday: Lit Circles Round 4:
              Group 1 (20 minutes), Group 2 (20 minutes), Group 5 (10 minutes)
                    HW: Extemp CE
 

Periods 5 & 6 Composition Grades

Part 1 of your overall composition grade for this midterm:
Your writing portfolio will have at least eight major pieces in it:

• “Best Sentence” handout fully completed
• “Score Record” handout fully completed with your SELF SCORE included for each writing    (also peer and teacher scores & comments)
• Boorstin essay with at least one revision
• EDM essay with at least one revision
• Creativity essay with optional revisions
• Slim essay with optional revisions
• Compassion essay with optional revisions
•  5 Introductions from 5 disparate prompts.

50 points
Completion Score: Did you include all of the above, neatly organized, fully completed?

Part 2 of your overall composition grade for this midterm (evaluative/reflective piece 2-4 pages double-spaced):

Composition Letter Grade Justification Metacognitive Essay/Reflection:
Your piece should reflect on and evaluate the processes that you used and the products you submitted.  Questions to consider:

•     How did you brainstorm/prewrite/plan for any or all essays and/or revisions?
•     How did you plan the supporting evidence/examples for any or all essays?
•     Did you use any resources for the revisions? Why? Why not? Details?
•      What did you do with any feedback you were given? How did you use it/apply it?
•     Are your scores increasing? Decreasing? Why? How?
•     What went wrong?
•     What went right?
•     What might you do differently in the future?
•     What is your specific strength--or strengths--as a writer?
•     What is your specific weakness --or weaknesses -- as a writer?
•     Is anything missing?
•     Is anything late?   
•     Did you revise any pieces or portions of pieces that were not required revisions? Why? Why not?
•     Have you considered what is important? How?
•     Have you avoided what is important? How? Why?

The above list is simply a list of some questions to help you think about your writing; you do not have to answer these directly. Think. Write.

At some point in your reflection --in a separate block -- you will need to address three items:
1. What single, measurable goal should you set for yourself as a writer and what will you do to reach that goal?
2. Choose one sentence that you wrote; analyze why it is your best sentence so far.
3. What single grade (letter or percentage) should all of this work --all seven pieces --receive? Please remember that a C (75% means “average” -- you were asked to do something and you did that.  A “B” or “A” would obviously go beyond in various ways and to various degrees.

Honesty, insight, thoroughness are key.

100 points
Evaluative Percentage per Justification and Conference

Intro Prompts

Prompt 1: WISDOM: Write a persuasive essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies the assertion that “For in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow” (Ecclesiastes).
Prompt 2: SOLUTION/COMPROMISE: Choose a controversial local, national, or global issue with which you are familiar and use appropriate evidence in an essay that carefully considers the opposing positions on this controversy ad proposes a solution or compromise.
Prompt 3: OPINIONS: From talk radio to television, to popular magazines to Web blogs, ordinary citizens, political figures, and entertainers express their opinions on a wide range of topics. Take a position on the value of such public statements of opinion.
Prompt 4: CHARITABLE ACTS: Develop a position on the ethics of offering incentives for charitable acts and support your position with evidence from your reading, observation, and/or experience.
Prompt 5: BUY NOTHING DAY: The first Buy Nothing Day—a day on which people are urged to purchase no goods—was organized in Canada in 1992 as a way to increase awareness of excessive consumerism. Consider the implications of a day on which no goods are purchased. Then write an essay in which you develop a position on the establishment of an annual Buy Nothing Day.

Periods 5 & 6 AP Lang January 25-29

Good Morning!

It's great to be back in the great state of Minnesota!  I hope all went well with my substitute last week; email or ask any questions you may have about anythinng from last week.

This week:

Monday: Normally we would have current events today; however, this week we will move current events to Tuesday and journey to the auditorium today to view the WHS One-Act Play ("The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" by Mark Twain)!

Tuesday: Current Events!

Wednesday: Portfolio Conferencing 1/1 and Solo or Partner Skill Building Exercises

Thursday: Portfolio Conferencing 1/1 and Solo or Partner Skill Building Exercises

Friday: Portfolio Conferencing 1/1 and Solo or Partner Skill Building Exercises