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!