I have made a change to the due dates for your research project.

The annotated bibliography is due on Monday February 24.

Part 1 of the Research Project is now due on Tuesday February 25.

You may pick up your graded papers (including writer’s notebooks and SSR logs) tomorrow after 10:30 am.  Any assignments not picked up by the time I leave school tomorrow will be recycled.

The Dream Comes True by Sir Edmund Hilary

Tiger of the Snow by Tenzing Norgay

Below are the pages for the last 2 non fiction pieces of this unit.  Please read the first two introductory pages as well, so that you have the background information necessary to construct meaning.  Your reading focus should be tone, POV, and imagery.   A SOAPSTone would be exceedingly helpful for studying purposes.  There is no page 30, don’t freak out.

pg 43 pg 42 pg 41 pg 36 pg 39 pg 40 pg 35 pg 34 pg 33 pg 32 pg 31 pg 29 pg 28 pg 44

Monday, January 13th, 2:30-3:15 (Unless I have a staff meeting.  I won’t know until that day)

Thursday, January 16th, 2:30-3:15

Friday, January 17th, 2:30-3:30

You will get your final exam review sheet during class on Monday.

I hope you have all had a wonderful and enjoyable break.  I have missed you!

We will be starting our next unit on Monday when we return to school.  We will be reading the novel Lord of the Flies.  I have copies that you may use if you choose.  However, we will be annotating as we read, so you may want to purchase your own copy to make annotating easier.  We will be moving through the book VERY quickly, so if you want to purchase your own copy, it is better to do it sooner rather than later.

Enjoy these last few days of break.  Finals will be here before we know it!  Yikes!

Writing Workshop Rubric

I know this is a warning you have heard many many times, but it bears repeating in the hopes that one day it will finally sink in.

Anything and everything that you post on social media becomes public record…permanent public record.  And that means that everyone has access to it, forever.  That abstract idea may not mean anything to you at this exact moment in time, but I assure you, some day it will.

For example, you may, some time in the near future, need a letter of recommendation for National Honor Society, or a recommendatory signature for acceptance into AP Lang, or perhaps, you will want to join a highly competitive and selective leadership program at Fordson…the list goes on.  If you have posted inappropriate and disrespectful (and largely untrue) things about teachers on social media, those teachers are going to be reluctant to provide these favors to you.

Those kinds of postings demonstrate a lack of maturity, self awareness, and most importantly, RESPECT, which are character indicative qualities that teachers take fairly seriously.  A good rule to live by is “if you wouldn’t say it to their face, don’t post it online”.

I hope that in the future, when you feel the need to vent on social media, you will stop and think about the lasting ramifications such a rant might have.

Sincerely,

Ms J

The formal paper is now due on Monday, November 25.

The unit exam is on Tuesday, November 26.

Impromptu and binder quiz is on Monday, November 25.

Literary letters are due by Tuesday,  November 26.

Since we stopped doing SSR a few weeks ago, you only have 1 exit ticket due by Tuesday, November 26.

You are going to create a multi-flow map for Act III of Julius Caesar.  Remember, a multi-flow map shows cause and effect.  I have attached a sample of what I want your homework to look like.  In, Act III of a Shakespearean Tragedy, things go from bad to worse, but the bad thing causes the worse thing to happen (look at the example, this will make sense, I swear.).  Be specific and precise, NO WORD VOMITING!

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