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Monday, March 2nd

2/28/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Announcements:

Let's Talk about upcoming due dates
- Tri 2 Final Portfolio, due Monday March 9th
  - Check for missing assignments!
- Next week: in-class essay on Ernest, multiple choice check-in
Send me a satire: video, images, songs?
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Contemporary Satire
2. Background information (50 Things by Topic)

Look over your research and circle what is most important to our background knowledge of the play. Present.

2. Video

3. Incongruity Game

Everyone stands in a circle. One person begins by doing an everyday activity, such as combing her hair. The person to her right asks, “What are you doing?” She then continues to comb her hair but says she is doing something completely different, such as giving her cat a bath. the person who asks must now spontaneously begin to pantomime giving a cat a bath.. Thenext person asks, “What are you doing?” The game continues around the circle until everyone has had an opportunity to pantomime an activity.
- What was the most humorous moments?
- Was it the ridiculousness of hearing and seeing two completely incongruous things?
- Were situations that were more exaggerated or extravagant than real-life, everyday activities more comical?

4. Read Act 1

5. Act 1: Writer's Notebook
What is being targeted? What satire techniques are being used here? How do the techniques contribute to meaning?

Friday, Feb. 28th

2/25/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Announcements:

Send me a satire: video, images, songs?
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Test Prep/Poetry Friday

2. Background information (50 Things by Topic)

4. Video

5. Victorian Manners Quiz

Tuesday, Feb. 25th

2/24/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Announcements:

Send me a satire: video, images, songs?
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Finish Elements of Satire

Apply the elements of Satire to one of the pieces we viewed today.
- Write an analysis paragraph about how the satirical elements work to create the meaning of the text.
- Tik Tok
- Modern Warfare
- Papa John

Monday, Feb. 24th

2/23/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Announcements:

Send me a satire: video, images, songs?
Final Drafts due today to Google Classroom: Monday, Feb. 24th
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Elements of Satire

Apply the elements of Satire to the video at the end. Write a paragraph about which elements you see and share.

2. Revise/Edit Papers

Signal in/announce author and text
- Book Title
- "Chapter or article title"
Check MLA format
- Works Cited
- In-text citations
Edit for fluency & wordiness.
Answer reflection questions attached to the document and submit.

Friday, Feb. 21st

2/21/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Curious Duck says:

Final Drafts due Monday, Feb. 24th
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Poetry Friday: Harlam Renaissance and Langston Hughes

Pick a poem
Spend 6 minutes reading and annotating
Pick one line or sentence to share with your table.
Your table mates talk about that line, then you get the "last word."
Go around the table.

2. Revise/Edit Papers

Tuesday, Feb 18th

2/18/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Baby Chick says:

Tuesday, Wednesday--Get feedback from Feliks on a specific aspect. Conferences or turn you paper in.
Final Drafts due Monday, Feb. 24th
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. 1st Hour: See an example
Tip: Linger with your texts!

Back up claims with specific evidence.
How do the texts talk to each other?
How do they compliment and complicate each other?
How does this symmetry or tension between your texts lead you to your fresh, innovative claim?

2. MLA review--

General principles to remember:
- Signal in and out
- Authorizing (an ethos move)
In-text citations
Works Cited

3. Finish Rough Draft. Confer with Feliks in class or share your paper with a note for targeted feedback.

Monday, Feb. 17th

2/14/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Tiny kitten says:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday--Get feedback from Feliks on a specific aspect. Conferences or turn you paper in.
Final Drafts due Monday, Feb. 24th
Deadline for forms & payment for Stratford trip is Friday, March 6th
- Make sure you have a birth certificate or a passport!

1. Small Group Paper Workshop

Using our Criteria for Success, workshop each others' papers.
- The best use of a peer is often to give them something focused to comment on that they can help you with.
- Offer suggestions/not criticism.

2. Tip: Linger with your texts!
Back up claims with specific evidence.
How do the texts talk to each other?
How do they compliment and complicate each other?
How does this symmetry or tension between your texts lead you to your fresh, innovative claim?

3. Finish Rough Draft. Confer with Feliks or share your paper with a note for targeted feedback.

Friday, Feb. 14th

2/13/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Tiny kitten says:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday--Get feedback from Feliks on a specific aspect. Conferences or turn you paper in.
Final Drafts due Monday, Feb. 24th
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1. Love Poetry Tournament

Step One: Establish criteria for winning poem.
Step Two: Tables--read around poems and decide which one goes onto the next round. Write down on the back the key criteria that caused it to win.
Step Three: Groups of 8--same process.
Step Four: Mega group

2. Small Group Paper Workshop

Using our Criteria for Success, workshop each others' papers.
- The best use of a peer is often to give them something focused to comment on that they can help you with.
- Offer suggestions/not criticism.

Thursday, Feb. 13th

2/12/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Baby Pig in boots says:

Rough Draft Friday, Feb. 14th
Friday: bring a contender for love poetry tournament.
Final Drafts due Monday, Feb. 24th
Submit a song for our Valentine's Day playlist tomorrow!

1. Criteria for Success for our Synthesis Papers

2. Writing Workshop

Work on rough drafts

Wednesday, Feb. 12th

2/11/2020

Goals:
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Baby Pig says:

Rough Draft Friday, Feb. 14th
Friday: bring a contender for love poetry tournament.
Final Drafts due Monday, Feb. 24th
Read one of the Mentor Texts below for tomorrow (Wednesday). Reverse outline and take notes and be prepared to discuss how it uses evidence.
- "Nick Carroway is Queer and in Love With Jay Gatsby"--Mya Nunnally (reading one text through a lens)
- "The Tenacity of Hope"---Natalie Standiford (evaluative comparison between two texts
- "What Really Makes Katniss Stand Out? Peeta, Her Movie Girlfriend"--Linda Holmes (reading a text through a lens)
- "What We Hunger For"--Roxanne Gay (reading through a lens? Synthesis around a topic? also--trigger warning on this text)

1. Mentor Texts

How is your article organized? Create a group reverse outline.
What do you notice about how it uses evidence?
- Share out with the class. Let's begin working on our success criteria for this paper.

2. Writing Workshop

Work on rough drafts.