Writing Rubrics

``If they would rather die,'' said Scrooge, ``they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides -- excuse me -- I don't know that.''

``But you might know it,'' observed the gentleman.

``It's not my business,'' Scrooge returned. ``It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!'' Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Let's show that we know it's our business! Let the desk and chairs overflow .

Links to Plans: Honors English (1st and 2nd Blocks) Pre-DP English (4A and 4B)

Essential Questions: How can studying racism enable me to:

1. learn what it looks like to engage in uncomfortable conversations about race for the purpose of understanding, appreciating, and celebrating differences?
2. identify my implicit biases and their impacts on my ability to understand, appreciate, and celebrate differences?
3. recognize ways Wilmington is/isn't evolving into a place of reconciliation between races, not division?
4. discover ways I can be an agent of positive change?
5. honor the dignity of all humans?

Resources: PBS Wilmington on Fire interview and excerpts; The 1619 Project, PBS interview and scenes , The Lost History of an American Coup D’État, A Guide to Wilmington’s African American Heritage; African American biographies and interviews; Talks to help you understand racism in America, Engaging Young People in Talks about Race and Racism , How Should I Talk about Race in My Mostly White Classroom?

Curriculum Objectives

Writing Rubrics

2022-23 Plans will be linked on Canvas as soon as possible. Until then, refer to Notebook Contents.

Honors English

Materials Needed

I hope you'll apply the message of the following poem to the process of reading and writing.

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,

When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,

Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,

In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

NYT PROMPT LINKS

SECTION ONE: WRITING PROMPTS INCLUDE:

1. Student Opinion Link

2. Picture Prompts Link

SECTION TWO: ARTICLES AND QUESTIONS INCLUDE:

3. Teenagers in the Times Link

4. Lesson of the Day Link

5. STEM Articles Link

SECTION THREE: MULTIMEDIA SECTION INCLUDES:

6. What’s Going On In This Picture? Link

7. Film Club Link

8. What’s Going On In This Graph? Link

SO MANY IDEAS...

Click on the 2021-2022 Daily Agenda Link to find the daily plans.

ESSENTIAL THEMES & QUESTIONS

1. PURPOSE: What is the purpose of _________? What is my purpose?

2. IDENTITY: Who am I at my core?

3. COMMUNITY: Who are the people I "do life with" and how do they affect my life?

4. TRUTH: What is the truth and how does it affect my life?

EOC Review

Spring Semester Plans: 1st and 2nd 4A & B

SO WHAT?

IF YOU ARE ABSENT, find out what you missed BEFORE the day you return. Look online, call a classmate, RemindText me BEFORE the day you return. DO NOT expect to find out during the few minutes before or after class.

COMMONLIT

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ESSENTIAL THEMES & QUESTIONS

(for you and literary characters)

1. PURPOSE:

What is the/my purpose of _________?

2. IDENTITY:

Who am I at my core?

3. COMMUNITY:

Who are the people I "do life with" and how do they affect my life?

4. TRUTH:

What is the truth and how does it affect my life?

SO WHAT DOES THIS MATTER?

THIS SITE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. IGNORE THE INFO BELOW. THIS SITE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS!

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”― Albert Camus]

Semester 1-2018

English 2 Day Plans and Honors 2 Important Links

Link to 2020 Expectations 1st & 2nd: Return pages 5 by Thursday, 1/30.

``But you might know it,'' observed the gentleman.

Let's show that we know it's our business! Let the desk and chairs overflow .

Links to Plans: Honors English (1st and 2nd Blocks) Pre-DP English (4A and 4B)

Essential Questions: How can studying racism enable me to:

Link to Parent and Student Resources :

Video Introduction to Parents, Letter to Parents, Updates , Daily Plans , Video Recaps

RemindText Codes: 1: ckdcbd 2: b42929 4: ka34e8

Spring Link to Lesson Plans