Persuasive Practice

Today we reviewed the persuasive appeals with a short video analysis, a look at last night's homework, and a bit of revision of yesterday's warm-up.

On to Persuasion

We began the day by reviewing claim and support in the warm-up. After that, we moved on to the notes on page 596. Students should do the close reading questions on 597 for homework (add them to the work we did with the article on page 595).

Claim & Support, Cont.

Today we practiced analyzing claim and support with a couple short articles on cyberbullying. After that, and a few more examples, we went over the homework from last night, especially number 4, which students had a chance to work on in class.

Unit 6

Today we got started with Unit 6, taking the notes from page 594, and then working with the text on page 595. Students read the text, paraphrasing the claim and summarizing the author's reasons and evidence in a graphic organizer like the one on page 594. They should finish this, along with Close Read #4, for homework.

"Mango Street" Continued

Today we finished our work with "The House on Mango Street" and just started "My Name."

Two Stories

Today we finished our look at Pat Mora's "Sonrisas" and continued with Sandra Cisneros' "The House on Mango Street."

"The Open Window" & "Sonrisas"

In the first half of the period, we finished our work with "The Open Window," and students handed this in.

We then transitioned into our work with Pat Mora's poem "Sonrisas." We will continue this tomorrow.

"The Open Window"

Today we used our short period to have a look at Saki's short story, "The Open Window" (p. 562 in the textbook), doing margin questions A, B, and C, and reading the whole story before we ran out of time.

Wrapping Up "The Lost Boys"

Today after a warm-up and some discussion of the questions, students did the rest of the vocab work on page 555 and I collected the homework.

"The Lost Boys"

After a quick vocab review in the warm-up, we spent the rest of the period reading the story. Students added margin question D to their papers and should complete questions 4, 6, and 7 (p. 554) for homework.

"The Lost Boys"

Today we talked a bit about Sudan and reviewed author's purpose before starting "The Lost Boys" and doing margin questions A & B. We will finish the story tomorrow.

Paraphrase and Prereading

After a bit more paraphrase practice, I collected the Unit 5 CRs and handed back OMM essay revisions/reflections. Many of these were incomplete and must be resubmitted. We wrapped up the period with a look at the vocabulary on page 547.

More Paraphrase Practice

Today we reviewed paraphrase and practice a bit, then reviewed our website evaluation and MLA sheet. Students had the last part of the period to finish the notes and summary on the CDC nutrition article we worked with on Friday.

Plagiarism

In preparation for the joint PE/English research project, we spent today examining plagiarism and how to avoid it.