Announcement

Brave New World Test ... will be Friday 11-30-12 ... we will have 1 more day of class discussion/review on 11-27 when we return!

Block Day

Tuesday and Block Day we worked on how to integrate IN-TEXT citations into our writing and worked on creating a Works Cited page according to MLA FORMAT. We used the articles we gathered in the library last Monday 11-5-12. The Purdue OWL site was the template we used (linked in the helpful links on the blog's right hand column).

Papers were passed back.

We also reviewed for the Vocabulary Quiz ... page 71 in the Vocabulary Book as well as evens for "Completing the Sentences" and odds for "Choosing the Right Word".

Friday:
Vocabulary Quiz Lesson 6 (51-80 on Scantron)
Brave New World Quiz (90-100 on Scantron)

Tuesday 11-20 BNW Quiz #2 ... Chapters 10-end (Multiple Choice Format also)

Tuesday 11-20 TIE DAY and Turkey Trot
Wednesday 11-21 ... it was announced NO SCHOOL

Tuesday 11-27-12 Brave New World TEST (Multiple Choice and Essay)

Sophomore Retreat Wednesday 11-28 and Thursday 11-29 ... let your teachers know the day you will miss their class!

Tuesday 11-13-12 ... details for now till Thanksgiving...

Today in class we'll work on the articles printed in the library a week ago ... we'll create a thesis statement and integrate the words from the article into our voice ... practicing MLA FORMAT. We'll use the Purdue University OWL site as our guide.

The final installment of Brave New World is due in class today.

Block Day will include BNW discussion and vocabulary review.

Friday: Vocabulary Quiz and BNW Quiz

TONIGHT ... BONUS at Chapman University The Last Flight of Petr Ginz. PLEASE DO CONTACT the University before driving all teh way there to make sure:

1. It is not sold out
2. It is still happening

I only know what I see online, things may have changed since the information was posted on the website. A phone number is located on the bottom of the page linked here.

If you go, please print this post and have it signed by an event organizer. Have your picture taken at the theater also. Staple your admission ticket to this post and bring to me BEFORE SCHOOL WEDNESDAY. I'll give you a bonus assignment based on the movie.

What's going on BEFORE THANKSGIVING?
Next week...BNW quiz on Tuesday 11-20
Grammar and BNW discussion

PAPER #2:
Drafts were due last night ... rubrics due in class today. Final drafts due 12-1-12. I'll do my best to have comments made on all rough drafts by the end of teh day Wednesday before Thanksgiving...

Schedule Change

We needed to discuss Brave New World MORE before having a quiz so I pushed this week's quiz back to next week...BOTH Vocabulary and BNW.

NEW SCHEDULE:
Paper Rough Draft STILL due Monday 11-12 by 11:59 OM on turnitin.com

Tuesday 11-13
Bring Rubric to class
Brave New World ... complete reading and complete final WS

Friday 11-16
Vocabulary Quiz 6
Brave New World Quiz (1-9)

Tuesday 11-20 BNW Quiz 2 (10-end)

Tuesday 11-27 Brave New World TEST (MC and ESSAY)

Paper Final Draft 12-1 Bring Rubric to class 12-3

VOCABULARY TEST 4-6 NOW ... FRIDAY 12-7

New information about In My Hands and Grammar Quizzes will be posted before Thanksgiving

Brave New World...Review Sessions/Question and Answer Time

Tuesday and Wednesday morning NEXT WEEK...11-13 and 11-14

7:10 AM

Tuesday 11-20

7:10 AM

Brave New World Discussion Topics

Block Days 11-7 and 11-8

1. In what year does the story take place?
Let's do the MATH to find out what that means by OUR calendar!

2. How were people made? How did they make "Alphas" different from "Betas", etc?

3. How were people taught?

4. What do YOU THINK it means to be human?
Would you classify the life created in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center to be human or not? Explain with COW.

5. What new SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY (relative to 1932 when the book was written AND compared to our world today) is mentioned in the book?

6. What is the role of books in the story?

7. How is the Savage Reservation a FOIL to the World State?

8. How does Huxley describe America? Do the words "savage" and "reservation" give you any indication of his concept of the USA?

9. People that doe not fit into society: Bernard, John, Linda, Lenina, and a minor character Helmholtz.

Block Days 11-7 and 11-8

Papers will be passed back in each block.

Vocabulary Lesson 6:
Tuesday we completed Synonyms and Choosing the Right Word (evens). Block day we complete Antonyms and Completing the Sentence (odds).
Friday's Quiz will be multiple choice.

Blocks 2 & 6 ... ALL Pre-Writes are graded so we discussed the PAPER ROUGH DRAFT due Monday. Blocks 4 and 5 will be covered no later than Friday.

The October 16th Blog Post has all details for the paper...a link to the rough draft rubric is here...look for 20122013PersonalNarrative Document on the Papers Page of the Website.

Friday we'll have the BNW quiz that we did not have block day...Block Day we discussed BNW.

Maus and Diaries Make -Up Test

Wednesday 11-7-12 at 7 AM

Monday Library Project

Monday we'll get practice working with the SAHS library resources for research...yes, practice on quotations and punctuation.

The Vocabulary Story lesson 6 will be collected. In class the project below will be completed.

HOMEWORK due Tuesday ... BNW reading assignment #2
Block Day ... BNW Quiz

LIBRARY RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT:

Goal:
1. Become MORE familiar with the research tools the SAHS library offers
2. Become MORE familiar with MLA format for citing sources BOTH...
A. In -Text
B. Works Cited Page

Your Task Involves:
Visit the SAHS homepage and follow the STUDENTS tab
Go to Library Media Center and click on Student Resources
Use BOTH ProQuest and CQ Researcher for this assignment (Note passwords on the papers posted by the computers...write them down so you can use them at home!)
Visit The Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) for MLA formatting assistance

What will you do today - before class time ends...
STEP 1: Research in BOTH ProQuest and CQ Researcher ONE of the following individuals. You are looking for articles that give insight into why the individual you are researching was courageous.

Irena Sendler
Henryk Slawik
Oskar Schindler
Jan Karski
Raoul Wallenberg
Miep Gies
Hannah Senesh (Szenes)
Rudolf Kastner
George Mandel (Mantello)
Father Jacques de Jésus (born Lucien Bunel in 1900)
Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara
Jan Zwartendijk
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
Janusz Korczak (AKA Henryk Goldszmit)
Jaap Penraat
Maria Kotarba
Irena Gut
Jan Dobraczyiski
Ivan Vranetic
Jaap Penraat
Gilberto Bosques Saldivar
Carl Lutz
Gisi Fleischmann


STEP 2: Print out and active read each article. Your FOCUS: Character traits of the person you are researching that helped him or helped her act with courage.
Keep in mind the definition of courage. According to www.Dictionary.com, courage is “the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.”
Look at Yad Vashem’s website to see the criteria they use for declaring someone, like all the people on this list, Righteous Among Nations. (http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/index.asp)

STEP 3: Create works cited page to assist you with the step for tomorrow in class....
Go to the Purdue University OWL
Find the link on the left column for Works Cited: Citing An Electronic Resource
Scroll down to An Article from An Online Database … use this guideline to create a citation for EACH source. ALL works cited pages are in ABC order.

Friday 11-2 Brave New World Discussion

We completed Grammar Book page 7575 #s 6-10

We then discussed the concept of HOW and WHY the World State was created the way it was...the UTOPIA was designed with the "ideal population like an iceberg...1/9th above the water line and 8/9ths below it". We discussed the idea of the caste system and how people were created to be more or less intelligent than another.

I posed the question...what if all the Alphas...the 1/9th, were placed on an island together? We discussed this...the book will also in later chapters...

Block Days

Block Days we started to discuss Brave New World and read various from the Upfront magazine.

We started to work on Rules for Punctuating Quotations on pages 755-757 in the grammar book.

Friday: Brave New World Reading WS PART 1 is due tomorrow

Over the weekend:
TURN in Pre-Write Part 2 by 11-3-12
READ comments on Paper #1 FINAL DRAFT and Pre-Write #1

Due Monday:
Vocabulary Story Lesson 6 ... topic in previous post about Vocabulary before Thanksgiving.

Bonus Opportunities

I am getting emails about writing contests that you may like to participate in as a BONUS OPPORTUNITY. The deadline, requirements, and due date of each contest is unique. If you are interested, see me and I will let you know what is "live" at the time of your inquiry.

ALL BONUS writing contests need to go through me ... I must see and submit the student work for it to count.

Dear Mr. President Essay Contest

Library of Congress Letters About Literature

The End oF October

Monday papers were returned and we discussed Maus and the Diaries before Tuesday's Test.

Tuesday TEST on Maus and Diaries. After the test there will be time to read the NEW Upfront Magazine or Brave New World

Block Days: Bring Grammar Book for Punctuation Review!

CHECK comments made on PAPER #1 by Block Day. See me if you have any questions. Let's learn from mistakes and not do the same for PAPER #2.

Friday BNW Reading WS (Part 1) due. It can be found on the Brave New World page of the class website.

Saturday 11-3-12 PART 2 of the Personal Narrative Pre-Write due to turnitin.com

NEXT WEEK: Monday 11-5-12 Vocabulary Story Lesson 6 due - see last week's vocabulary post from last week for details.

Block Days and Friday

Block Days we discussed Inventions and the role they played in Human History ... leading up to our reading of Brave New World next week...

We discussed Maus (discussion questions) and the diaries

Friday:
Turned in Langer Diary Questions, returned some papers, took vocabulary quiz 5
Time to read BNW after quiz

Next week:
1. Maus and Diaries Test Tuesday
2. BNW Reading Assignment #1 Due Friday
3. Saturday 11-3 Paper Pre Write #2 uploaded to turnitin.com

Tuesday 10-23-12

Today we completed Vocabulary Book page 63 (11-20). Then we discussed the MAUS discussion Questions and the Diaries.

Individual blog posts list KEY assignments we put in our planners on Monday.

Brave New World

Assignments posted on the Brave New World page of the Class Website.

You are to complete the Reading WS 20122013 document.

The OTHER document will be for in class discussions...this is a document from which I may use questions for a literature quiz or your test or semester exam.

FIRST reading Assignment due Friday 11-2-12 (UP TO and INCLUDING Chapter 3)
SECOND assignment due Tuesday 11-6-12 (Chapters 4-9)
THIRD assignment due Friday 11-9-12 (Chapters 10-14)
FINAL assignment due Tuesday 11-13-12 (Chapters 15-end)

We'll have a quiz on block day 11/7 or 11/8 (depending on your block) and another on Block Day 11/15 or 11/16. The quizzes will be 10-20 questions in Multiple Choice or fill in the blank format.

Vocabulary Assignments Before Thanksgiving

Friday 10-26-12 Multiple Choice Quiz on Lesson 5

Monday 11-5-12 Vocabulary Story Lesson 6

Details:
As always...type, double space, Times New Roman 12 point font
Your story needs a title - in italics
Your story MUST be at least 3 paragraphs ... it needs a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Use 10 words from lesson 6 (put in bold)
Indicate word count at the end ... aim for 500-750 words

TOPIC:
Start your story with .... It hit me like a ton of bricks.
Include ALL the following phrases (use on bold):
Got a screw loose
Sharp as a tack
Nail it down
On the level
Flew off the handle

Friday 11-9-12 Vocabulary Quiz Lesson 6 (Multiple Choice)

Friday 11-16-12 TEST lessons 4-5-6 (Multiple Choice)

Klaus Langer Diary Questions

Cut and Paste and put into a WORD DOCUMENT. Bring to class on Friday 10-26-12.

1. In what year was Klaus Langer born?
2. In what year did WWII begin?
3. Klaus Langer was part of a Zionist youth group. What is a Zionist youth group?
4. What was Kristtallnacht?
5. Why did Kristallnacht cause Klaus' normal life to come to a "crushing halt" (12)?
6. The Langer family tried to emigrate from Germany to other countries. What troubles did they encounter in the process?
7. What is the HITLER YOUTH? Who became members?
8. In your opinion, is Klaus Langer's diary emotional? Is it matter-of-fact? How would you describe the way he recorded history?

For historical facts, research the Holocaust Encyclopedia on the USHMM website.

Monday 10-22-12

Today we took the GRAMMAR quiz and went over due dates until Thanksgiving. I'll post all relevant information by Block Day.

We also completed 1-10 on page 63 from the vocabulary book.


TONIGHT: Turn in Pre-Write Part 1 for the Personal Narrative (turnitin.com)

Today: I collected the Diaries responses from Friday's Blog Post. I did not collect the response from the FRONT of the MAUS Discussion WS. We'll discuss in class tomorrow. COMPLETE the back for BLOCK DAY.

Friday:
Vocabulary Quiz Lesson 5 (Multiple Choice Format)
Klaus Langer Diary Questions

COMING UP NEXT WEEK:
Maus and Diaries test Tuesday 10-30-12
Brave New World Reading WS (Up to and including Chapter 3) 11-2-12
Pre-Write Personal Narrative Part 2 due 11-3-12 (turnitin.com)

SO SO Sorry...

I picked up the Grammar Quizzes when I thought I was getting the rubrics...therefore the sub will be giving you a MAUS WS and two diary entries to read.

Homework:
Monday we'll have the Grammar Quiz you planned to take today
Be prepared (with you notes from class today) to discuss the FRONT side of the MAUS Discussion Question WS ... Complete the BACK for BLOCK DAY.

Due Monday:
Active Read the Diary of Petr Ginz and his sister Eva Ginzova
Answer the following Questions:
1. What is a Ghetto in WWII?
2. What are the Nuremberg Race Laws?
3. How did Hitler die?
4. What was the difference in the FEMALE vs MALE diary in terms of TONE, MOOD, VOICE?
5. How did Petr and Eva try to hold out hope?

Historical Information can be found searching the Holocaust Encyclopedia on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Website (www.ushmm.org).

A BONUS related to a film about Petr Ginz...ATTEND the film showing at Chapman University in Orange on November 13th at 7 PM. Call ahead to check on availability and to make sure the program is still running as scheduled!

*** If you go, have your ticket signed by an employee and have your picture taken outside the building. I'll give you a few questions to answer based on the film screening. Bring your paperwork to me BEFORE school the next day.