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