Tuesday-Day 171

1.1- Go and get your kite

1.2. Go fly your kite!

1.3 Have a great summer!

Monday-Day 170

1 MORE DAY TO GO........

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Finish The Hearth and the Salamander
3. Class meeting 300-330

It was a great year.  Sorry it was cut short.  Look forward to seeing you all in the fall!

Friday-Day 169

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Read The Hearth and the Salamander part 3: pages 21-39

Thursday- Day 168

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Check out this video  on "American Exceptionalism" (just the first 12 min...trust me)
3. Reading "Addicted to War"
    LINK
    -Read pages 1-2 (the introduction)
    -Then make a copy of the document below and read pages 3-11
4. Activity: Finding Evidence
    Addicted To War: Document

Make sure you put the document in the English folder for grading!!!!  You should have this done by Monday!

ALSO  HERE is the link to turn your upward mobility projects in if you have not already.  I will grade them today and as I grade I will mark them in the document as graded.  So those of you who add a project I will see it. :) 

Wednesday- Day 167

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Make sure you are keeping up with the work:

• Gatsby Essay should be done
• Upward Mobility recording should be done
• Pre-reading and Intro activity for Fahrenheit 451 should be done

Tuesday- Day 166

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Let's Begin the novel
3. Here are the sections of the novel:

- The Hearth and the Salamander
    - Part 1: 1-9
    - Part 2: 10-21
    - Part 3- 21-39
    - Part 4: 39-50
    - Part 5: 50-65

-The Sieve and the Sand
    - Part 1: 67-88
    - Part 2: 88-106

-Burning Bright
    - Part 1: 107-130
    - Part 2: 130-143
    - Part 3: 144-158

4. Assignment- Read 1-21
5. Resources: These will help you as you read
  - There is an HBO movie staring Michael B. Jordan if you want to watch it
  - Sparknotes (divided in the same sections above)
  - I am happy to talk- just email me!

Monday- Day 165

1. Take Attendance Here
2. What is FAKE NEWS?
    -It's a lot more than just "false information"
    -Let's take a look...
3. Read the article on Fake News above
    -Make a copy of this DOCUMENT and put it in your English Folder
    -Answer the questions! Simple Assignment should only take you 20 min.
4. Google Meet 300-330 pm
 

Friday- Day 164

1. Take Attendance Here
2. A video from Mr. Rossetti
3. We are going to begin reading Fahrenheit 451 today.  Please write the central ideas on the inside cover of your book.
- Central Idea 1: Censorship (limiting what people are able to see)
- Central Idea 2: Knowledge and Ignorance
-Central Idea 3: The role of technology in modern society 
- Central Idea 4: Dissatisfaction with life/how to change it
3. Please read the INTRODUCTION to the novel 

Thursday- Day 163

1. Take Attendance Here
2. LAST UNIT OF THE YEAR!!
    Phoniness, Phake News, and Phoriegn Policy
    - What will we learn about?
    - Introduction Reading: Why US Leaders Deceive Their Own People
    - Document to complete the activities below!!
           A. Brainstorm your own answers to this headline
           B. Explain the consequences for our country because of these actions
           C. Write down the Authors Main Claim
           D. Find 3 pieces of Evidence & Reasoning (that support the Main Claim)

Make sure your Gatsby Essay is done and in your English Folder
Make sure the Upward Mobility "Wevideo" and script are linked in the document we put on the blog from Monday May 4th!!

Wednesday- Day 162

NO attendance needed for Wednesday's anymore :)
1. Complete any missing work from the grade book
2. Complete the Upward Mobility project 
     The LINK to turn in your work is one Monday's blog post
3. Finish working on the "News Perspective" assignment from yesterday.

Tuesday-Day 161

1. Take Attendance Here
2. News activity- How important is it to look at several different sources of information?  All news is the same, right?  Complete the activity below where you will examine who two different news outlets cover the same story, but they cover it a little differently.
3. Perspective on the news activity

Monday- Day 160

So I finally cracked and let my wife cut my hair.....she did a pretty good job!!

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Google Meet @300 pm to 330 pm
3. OFFICIAL LAST DAY TO RECORD : Upward Mobility Project
    Your script should be done
    You should have created a Wevideo in which you read your script (audio only) and you added pictures that go along with your script.
     Today is the day to finish this Wevideo and turn it in!!! You will also turn in your script!
     
     HERE is the link to turn your projects in. Remember they are due TODAY, but we will begin grading them on Thursday May 7th (couple extra days for ya!!)

4. We will be starting a new and final unit on "American Foreign Policy" this week
     It is my favorite unit, especially paired with Rossetti's book "Fahrenheit 451"!! It sucks that we can't do this unit in person, because it is a great look at our society and how we live our lives.

HW- Make sure your Gatsby Essay and your Upward Mobility projects are done!

Friday-Day 159

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Let's continue with our new unit.
    Answer questions from The Pedestrian (the story you read yesterday)
    Here is another copy of The Pedestrian (you should already have this)


HW- Make sure your Gatsby Essay and your Upward Mobility projects are done!

Thursday- Day 158

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Read and annotate (make comments) on the short story The Pedestrian

Wednesday- Day 157

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Work Day- you are to work on the following:
    - Gatsby Essay
    - Upward Mobility Project
    - The Pedestrian reading and annotating 

Tuesday- Day 156

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Continuing the Upward Mobility Project
I am pretty sure all of you need more time to complete this script. Today is the extra day for that, much like we usually give you in class. SO PLEASE complete the script today. On Thursday we will talk about recording this.
   

At this point you should have done all of the “writing” parts above to have a full script concerning Upward Mobility in America.  If we go back and add up all the sentence requirements you should now have a script that is anywhere between 34 and 40 sentences. THIS is your script that we will soon be recording in some form to turn in this project!!! You are almost done!!!

Monday- Day 155

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Start of a new unit: We will look at the role technology plays in society and the impact censorship has on our society.  We are going to you thinking about the issues in the book before we actually start it.  Please complete the following:
      - Complete the "what's your position" document
      - Go to Schoology (yes, we are going to use Schoology) and complete the discussion thread
           - Post one response you have from your doc into discussion thread in Schoology
           - Please reply to two people's comments in the discussion thread
           - Posts and replies are due by MIDNIGHT THURSDAY

3. Google Meet @300 pm to 330 pm

HW-Make sure you complete the Gatsby Essay.  We will begin grading these on May 4th.

Friday-Day 154

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Day #5: Conclude your script that you have developed over the last several days. By giving your last “shout out” concerning YOUR OWN opinion on this entire unit and say something about gentrification.

This should amount to 8-10 sentences
AT this point (or over the weekend) you should be done with the written script. Next week you will be reading these in Wevideo and adding some pictures!! Almost done with this project, Gatsby and the UNIT!!!

Start Looking for the Fahrenheit 451 books we gave you before we left school. We will be jumping into those in May!!

We will be checking your progress on April 28th. Your script should be done at that point.

Thursday-Day 153

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Continue working on your Gatsby essay

• Finish the second body paragraph
• Finish the conclusion
• You are almost done (exhale and take a sigh of relief)

We will begin grading the Gatsby Essay on May 4th

Wednesday-Day 152 (Workday Wednesday)

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Continue making progress on the two projects you are currently working on

• The Gatsby Essay
• The Upward Mobility script/podcast

Tuesday-Day 151

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Continue working on your Upward Mobility Project
- Day #4 Discuss how some Americans were able to gain wealth while others were held back. (focus on the information from the Homestead Act, Sundown towns, and the Public Housing readings.
Here are the readings!
Homestead Act original article google doc (my version)
           Sundown Towns original article google doc (my version)
           Public Housing: “The Projects” original article #1 #2  google doc (my version)

This should amount to between 6-8 sentences

We will be checking your progress on April 28th. Your script should be done at that point.

Monday- Day 150

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Continue working on your Gatsby Essay
3. Go outside and enjoy the weather!!

• finish body paragraph 1
• begin working on body 2

4. Google Meet @300 pm to 330 pm-google meets might be down.  I am not sure why the link is not working.  We can try to meet, and I will continue to work on the problem.

We will begin grading the Gatsby Essay on May 4th

Friday-Day 149

Getting some sweet fluffy hair!!!

1. Take Attendance Here

2. Continuing the Upward Mobility Project

Day #3 Discuss the main ideas found in the “Housing Inequality” reading

- “Housing Inequality”

- This “summary” should amount to 5-6 sentences.

and remember all this writing goes in one document and will become your script for this entire project :)

Thursday- Day 148

1. Take Attendance Here

2. Continuing the Gatsby essay: Compose your introduction paragraph and begin  body paragraph #1 on Gatsby

We will begin grading the Gatsby Essay on May 4th

Wednesday-Day 147

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Today is a work Day.  Please work on the following:
- Upward Mobility Project
- Great Gatsby Essay

Tuesday- Day 146

1. Take Attendance Here

2. Continuing the Upward Mobility Project

Day #2 of the Project

Discuss Your findings from the housing/school spreadsheets

You should focus on the relationships between prices, school ratings, taxes, crime, ethnicity, etc. 
Name drop some towns and schools as you speak.

(remember you might already have written this summary in class in the packet we gave you)
if not....well WRITE IT AGAIN :)

This should amount to 10-12 sentences.

We will be checking your progress on April 28th. Your script should be done at that point.

Monday - Day 145

SORRY I DIDN'T HAVE BUNNY EARS....REINDEER CLOSE ENOUGH!!
Hope you all had a great Easter!

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Begin the Upward Mobility Project
     We will post what you should do each day in the blog but below is a complete document for the project with directions and everything you need to finish it and stay on task.  Also below check out this video where I explain the project (might help you better understand it!!)

Day #1 of the Project 

Create a document and call it “Script: Upward Mobility Project” and make sure to put it in your ENGLISH folder!

Today: In 3-4 sentences explain what “Upward Mobility” means in your own words

Here is the full explanation of the entire project!! With dates to stay on task, just like the Gatsby Essay. LINK

Here is my video explanation of the project!! LINK

3. If you want, we will have a live class session from 3:00-3:30. Here is the link to attend!
-Check with us, say hello!, ask questions, see one another!!

Friday - Day 144

Hi everyone!! Take the day off, YOU earned it :)  

Thursday- Day 143

1. Take Attendance Here
2. Make sure you are up to date with the Gatsby Essay

• Thesis is written
• Claim is written
• You have evidence from the text
• You found an article on the same TOPIC you are writing about
• You wrote a summary of the article
• You have evidence from the article to support the idea that the article agrees, changes, or challenges the argument you are making

We will be checking your progress on April 16

Wednesday-Day 143 (Work Day)

1. Today is a work day.  You should be getting caught up with what you are are missing.  You should do the following:

A. Upward Mobility Project (We just have to cover Gentrification and then we will begin the project on Friday.  I will make a video to explain the project along with written directions.)
      - Watch this VIDEO
- Read this article  “How Gentrification Takes Shape Across Chicago Neighborhoods”
      - Create a google document, call it "Gentrification Summary" and explain both the video and the article in about 8-10 sentences.  It's just a summary, no need to cite evidence.
         Make sure you put the document in your ENGLISH folder to be graded.

B. Continue with your Gatsby Essay or any other work that will still be accepted (here's a secret, it will ALL be accepted) YES DO ALL YOUR MISSING WORK!

2. Take Attendance Here

Tuesday- Day 143

1. We hope everyone is doing well
2. Take Attendance Here
3. Class Syllabus and Schedule for E-Learning (there is some important info here)
    You need to read and save this document...it has information about your grade, our office hours, the plan moving forward etc.  Take some time and really look at it!!

4. You are working on your Gatsby Essay (you should already have this)
     - you need to find an article from the internet on the same topic you are writing about and write a summary of the article.

Monday- Day 142

Mr. Diebold and I hope everyone is doing well.  Please take a second and look at what you need to complete today.

Take Attendance Here

Monday's ALL SCHOOL ACTIVITY

Complete ANY and ALL missing work (email us the link to that completed work)
Mr. D and I will be posting a schedule/syllabus outlining the upcoming schedule
Email us any questions you may have

Friday- Day 141

1. TAKE ATTENDANCE HERE!
2.  I know it has been a crazy two weeks.  Please spend about 30 minutes today completing any work from American Studies that you did not get done.  We will certainly back track a bit once we return to school!

Please email any and all questions.  We will get back to you within 24 hours.

Thursday- Day 140

1. TAKE ATTENDANCE HERE!
2. Video Message from Diebold - "Take a Walk and Exercise"

3. TODAY'S Lesson

   We are working on the final FOUR readings for this unit

    All four readings are linked HERE. (you should already have a copy)

Today you should do reading #4 "GI Bill from World War II"

This reading is a full article, the link is the the document you already have a copy!

Here's what I want you to do....ready???....I want a simple 8-10 sentence summary of this article.  Pick out the main points and summarize!! Type it right in the document!

NOW at this point you should have the first three readings all highlighted and the fourth one you have a summary....I WILL start grading these during Spring Break.  So consider the entire document due on the Monday we start Spring Break (March 30th)

Make sure the document is in your English Folder!!!

Please email any and all questions.  We will get back to you within 24 hours.

Wednesday-Day 139

1. TAKE ATTENDANCE HERE!
2. Find an article on-line that talks about the topic from Gatsby you have selected to write about. (spend about 20-30 minutes on this)

• Make sure you paste the link into the Gatsby Essay document (you should already have a copy of this)
• Read and annotate the article

I know that period 9/10 does not have their book (thanks lazy printing company).  Therefore, I found a digital copy of the book to help you.  Also, I gave a little summary of each chapter in order to help expedite your evidence finding.

Digital Copy of The Great Gatsby

Here is a summary of the chapters:

1- Intro to the characters as well as East and West Egg

2- Tom and Myrtle's party in the apartment

3- Nick goes to Gatsby's Party

4- Nick and Gatsby go to lunch and meet Wolfsheim and Jordan tells Nick about Daisy and Gatsby

5- Gatsby ad Daisy's date

6- Past about Dan Cody and Tom and Daisy go to Gatsby's party

7- The hotel and Myrtle is killed

8- Wilson kills Gatsby

Please email any and all questions.  We will get back to you within 24 hours.

Tuesday- Day 138

Gatsby Died??? Horrible Book!!  Who Do you think is most responsible for Gatsby's Death?

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

1. TAKE ATTENDANCE HERE!
2. Video Message #4 from Diebold "How to Clean a Toilet" oh yes my friends....

3. TODAY'S Lesson

   We are working on the final FOUR readings for this unit

    All four readings are linked HERE. (you should already have a copy)

Today you should do reading #3 "The Racist History of Minimum Wage Laws"

Directions are in the document linked above!

You should highlight for claims, evidence, reasoning

Please email any and all questions.  We will get back to you within 24 hours.

Monday- Day 137

1. TAKE ATTENDANCE HERE!
2. Gatsby Essay (please spend 20-30 minutes completing this)
    Complete PART 1

• Thesis creation
• Claim creation
• Find evidence

Please email any and all questions.  We will get back to you within 24 hours.

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

HEY!! IT'S THE WEEKEND!!! BUT JUST LIKE ANY OTHER WEEKEND SOME OF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN DOING YOUR WORK DURING THE WEEK.....SO YOU NEED TO COMPLETE THE GATSBY QUIZ AND THE FIRST TWO READINGS IN THE UPWARD MOBILITY DOCUMENT.

DO NOT FALL BEHIND....THAT'S WEAK

IF YOU SAW MR. ROSSETTI'S EMAIL YOU ALSO KNOW THAT WE ARE ALLOWING YOU TO TURN IN THE "AMERICANS ARE GREEDY WRITING" LAST CHANCE PEEPS.

Friday-Day 136

1. TAKE ATTENDANCE HERE!

2. Video message from Diebold "Put your lil' brothers and sisters to bed"

3. Upward Mobility Chart (for reference)

TODAY'S Lesson

4. We are now going to begin the final FOUR readings for this unit

    All four readings are linked HERE. (make a copy) directions are in the document!!

Today you should do reading #2 Why Did FDR’s New Deal Program (National Recovery Act) Harm Blacks?

Directions are in the document linked above!

You should highlight for claims, evidence, reasoning

***Special note, next week when we finish all four readings I will hold a Google Meet to talk about them!!  And more important to just say Hi and check in with all of you!! I will give you a heads up as to which day and time....NOT 8:00 am (you crazy Rossetti) :)

Please email any and all questions.  We will get back to you within 24 hours.

Thursday-Day 135

1. TAKE ATTENDANCE HERE!
2. Gatsby Quiz- Do Questions 8-14- this is a continuation of the doc you started the other day!  (spend 20 minutes on the quiz).  Please try to have it completed for MONDAY.
- If you want to discuss the quiz as you take it, Click HERE

Please email any and all questions.  We will get back to you within 24 hours.