9/12/12 Scribe Period 3

Scribe for 9/12/12 Period 3

Homework:

·         Memoir 3 due on Monday

·         Read, annotate, and have three questions for “This Way to the Gas Chambers” by tomorrow.

o   Include cultural background of the author, and add this to your analysis.

o   Make connections to the guiding questions, literary devices, other questions, and connections.

SAT Questions?

·         Exercise III

o   Number 2: potion, potable

o   Number 4: possible answer could be:

§  Evil is sitting in the open, but we don’t truly see it.

Memoir 2 Peer Editing

·         Spent most of class period on this, short period because of PLC day. Each person edited two other people’s work.

End of Class!

Scribe for September 12, 2012 Period 5

Scribe for September 12, 2012

by: Lauren Tusa

English 9 Honors Period 5

Welcome to class!

If your computer is broken, please report it to Mrs. Smith or on the sheet on the chalkboard at the front of the room.

*Always plug in your computer at the end of class."

Annotations for The Interlopers or The Open Window by Saki were passed back.

SAT Questions that were discussed in class:

• Do all the exercises but the essay exercise
• Exercise 3, Number 1, Letter F: president is before something was put in place or established, or one who sits in front.
• Exercise 3, Number 2: the world to fill in the blank is potable, meaning drinkable.
• Exercise 3, Number 3: the root somn or "to sleep", so the words to replace are insomnia (not able to sleep) and sleep.
• Exercise 3, Number 4: "secretly working" can be work from within, or being possessed by evil

Next, we peer edited our memoir 2's, with our rubrics out and at the ready. Make sure when peer editing you give compliments but also more constructive criticism so that the author of the piece is able to reflect on what to change for next time.

HOMEWORK:

Memoir 3 will be due Monday for peer editing.

Read, annotate and have 3 questions for This Way to the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen. Don't forget to do background information on the author of this short story, Tadeusz Borowski

Have a great day!

Period 3 Class Scribe

Today is September 11, 2012, the 11the anniversary of the terrorist attacks mainly on the Twin Towers.

Below is a link to today's agenda                    https://docs.google.com/a/lpsk12.org/presentation/pubid=1ThuyFhV9QLWSK_22n10U7cNyJD0D4Fp44taMvA7fTE&start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.g1c35b9bc_2_0

Today in class we...

• Split into groups of three or four based on what short story we read(The Interlopers or The Open Window) and discussed our annotations and questions.
• Subsequently had a class discussion about how the short stories were a motivator for social change, the morals of the stories, and our opinions of them.
• The Open Window
• We come across "widows" of opportunity and if we wait too long we will lose our chance
• We tend to give trust easily to characters until we are proven otherwise
• This is why we believed the girl's story even though it seemed incredible
• The Interlopers
• The worst can bring out the best in us
• Fate determines what we do 
• Were handed back SAT tests and exercises 
• Watched the music video for "Smells like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana
• Here is the link to the music video in case you feel like watching it again
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
• Smith also asked us to look up the lyrics to the song so that we could analyze the song
• Here is the link to the lyrics
• http://www.lyricsfreak.com/n/nirvana/smells+like+teen+spirit_20101055.html
• How did this motivate us? What was the message?
• Be unique
• "Fight the man"
• Hello= Wake Up!
• How do(es) music/music videos inspire social change?
•  it makes you feel something
•  inspires change; change is natural
• Had relatively quiet work time to do
• our memoir
• SAT work

                                 

HOMEWORK!

• Memoir 2 DUE TOMORROW!
• SAT exercises DUE FRIDAY 

Scribe 9-11-12 Period 3

First off, we looked over google calendar in Ms. Smith page online and figured out how to find homework and agenda. 

Next we talked about Saki and his writing Open Windows and Interlopers. Themes: People are not always what they seem. Cant always trust the characters. 

Homework: Memoir 2 MUST BE ON GOOGLE DOCUMENTS. SAT exercises and questions. Writing conference.

Scribe for Period 3, 9/10/12

Today our class briefly went over the SAT #2 words (don't worry, they are still due on Friday) and the short stories "The Open Window" and "The Interlopers".

SAT #2 Words

We read through the SAT words out loud and looked at the exercises. Exercises 1-4 are virtually the same thing as last weeks lesson, but exercise 5 is different. For exercise 5, we talked about how the best way to  read it was to read the two paragraphs that are shown before the actual passage is. Also, on the SAT quiz this week, there will be a couple of questions about the exercise 5 passage as well as the words definitions and parts of speech. The SAT #2 words and exercises are found on pages 25-35 in our Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT book.

Short Stories

For homework, we had to choose either "The Open Window" or "The Interlopers", two somewhat dark short stories written by the author Saki, to read and annotate. We were to find some cultural background information on him before we started reading.We have to do the typical 3 questions, connections, and literary devices.

The rest of the period was used as a work day, all of the students either working on their Saki background info, their annotations, their SAT words, or their memoir #2.

Links: The Interlopers:

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Inte.shtml

The Open Window:

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/OpeWin.shtml

The Weeks Agenda:

https://docs.google.com/a/lpsk12.org/presentation/pub?id=1ThuyFhV9QLWSK_2-2n10U7cNyJD0D4Fp44taMvA7fTE&start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.g1c35b9bc_2_0

Homework: "The Interlopers"/"The Open Window" annotations due tomorrow, memoir #2 due Wednesday, and SAT #2 words due Friday

Scribe: 9-10-12 Monday Period 5

        The first day of the fourth week of school: Monday the 10th. Today we had a substitute teacher.

To start things off we went through the 15 words of SAT 2 (on page 25). The words are impotent, 

antithesis, maelstrom, emendation, chagrin, bauble, diaphanous, labyrinth, gloat, impediment, bestial, 

effete, shard, bland, and nihilism. The test over the SAT 2 words is on Friday. The homework for today 

is to read either the short story Interlopers or the short story Open Window by Saki, annotate it, and ask 

three higher-level questions about the text. Be sure to think about the question for the semester: "How 

can literature be a motivator for social change?". Also, you need to do the SAT 2 exercises (due 

Friday). In class, we worked the background for the author Saki. We also worked on reading and 

annotating the short stories. If we finished with that, we got to work on the SAT 2 exercises. 

Scribe: 9/7/2012 - Period 5
Hello everybody! Happy Friday!
The good news? The weekend is finally here! The bad news? That doesn't mean you don't have homework. But don't worry! It's not hard! So, Memoir 2 is due on Wednesday, so you should work on that over the weekend. Also, if you want to get ahead, you could also start working on your SAT 2 exercises, which will be due next Friday.
So, today in English, we turned in our SAT 1 exercises, and then we took the SAT 1 quiz. After we finished our quizzes, we did a "Reality Check", which is basically where we answer a few simple questions to tell Smith more about ourselves and our lives, since obviously, she can't sit down and talk with every single one of us one-on-one. Here were the questions:

• "How's it going?"
• "What's one thing that is going well for you? Tell me about it."
• "What's one thing that is challenging for you? Tell me about it."
• "How can I help?"

Then, after that, we walked around and randomly peer edited two memoirs, using the given rubric to evaluate and leave comments on what things were good and what things needed to be changed or improved. We have the weekend to make any necessary changes.

Here's the Week 3 Powerpoint, in case you want to see what's in store for you next week.

Have a great weekend everybody!