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Friday, Feb. 21st

2/21/2020

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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: 
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  • 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

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Tuesday, Feb 18th

2/18/2020

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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. ​

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Monday, Feb. 17th

2/14/2020

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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. 
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Friday, Feb. 14th

2/13/2020

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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 
  • Consider signing a petition for more accessibility at Skyline

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. 

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Thursday, Feb. 13th

2/12/2020

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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

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Wednesday, Feb. 12th

2/11/2020

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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. 

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2. Writing Workshop
  • Work on rough drafts. 
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Tuesday, Feb. 11th

2/7/2020

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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.  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
1. Writer's Notebook: "Spotlight Sentence"
"When Pop tell me he need my help and I see that black knife slid into the belt of his pants, I follow Pop out the house, try to keep my back straight, my shoulders even as a hanger; that's how Pop walks. I try to look like this is normal and boring so Pop will think I've earned these thirteen years, so Pop will know I'm ready to pull what needs to be pulled, separate innards from muscle, organs from cavities." 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' by Jesmyn Ward  

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2. Lesson: Using Evidence in your paper


​Plot Summary vs. Evidence 
  • Talk about the plot ONLY in context of your thesis. You USE plot elements to prove your point. 
  • Assume your audience knows the text. 

10 on 1 is still relevant
  • ​Why does this piece of evidence matter?  What is special, representative, important about it? 
  • How does this piece of evidence support or demonstrate my thesis? What do I see in this evidence that I want my reader to see too? 
  • How does this evidence confirm our expectations about this topic?
  • How does this evidence challenge our expectations about this topic?
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3. Writing Workshop
  • Work on rough drafts. 

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Friday, Feb. 5th

2/5/2020

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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.

The Masterpiece says: 
  • Rough Draft Friday, Feb. 14th 
  • Rough Drafts due Monday, Feb. 24th 


1. Test Prep Thursday Redo (1st Hour):  Multiple Choice

2. Snow/Winter Poems (2nd Hour)


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3. Writing Workshop
  • Show your thesis to Feliks
  • Work on rough drafts. 




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Thursday, February 4th

2/4/2020

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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.

The Masterpiece says: 
  • Rough Draft TBD​


1. Test Prep Thursday:  Multiple Choice 

​2. Writing Workshop
  • Show your thesis to Feliks
  • Begin rough drafts. 



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Wednesday, Feb. 5th

2/4/2020

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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.

The Masterpiece says: 
  • Rough Draft TBD​


1. Synthesis models 
  • Find the people in the room who read the same article as you.  Share reverse outlines. 
    • What else do you notice about the writing in the article? 
  • Partner with someone who read something different from you. Explain the organization and most interesting features of the text to your partner. 
  • Overall, what do you notice about the writing in these mentor texts (organizational structures and others). 
    • Ms. Feliks discuss--different ways to organize. 

2. Writing Workshop
  • Show your thesis to Feliks
  • Begin rough drafts. 




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