ERWC - Senior English

The slides below (5 slides in total) are from Monday's work - 8/24

To  view the daily go to the weekly agenda listed after these slides (8/24-8/28)

Semester I

Weekly Agenda

Monday 8/24

• Blog #1 - Failing: instruction are on Canvas

  • In order to submit your post, copy the URL and paste it on Canvas.

Tuesday 8/25

• Unit 1 - What's Next

  • Article: If you want to go to college, learn to fail first (follow instructions on my PowerPoint)

    • Assessing yourself

    • Making Predictions & Asking Questions

    • Growth Chart

Wednesday 8/26

• Mrs. Hinojosa - absent

  • Do the following for today: The LB Tigers have written your obituary Broncos. How will you respond. Come up with a clever response: an idea would be to make a Michael Jackson style video in which you, the Broncos, come back from the grave and shred the Tigers (you know the video “Thriller”). Bonus for extra creative responses. 

• (pushed to Thursday) Unit 1 - What's Next

  • Article: Hidden Intellectualism (read & annotate)

  • Intertextual connection: two case studies - Junior & Holden

  • The Catcher in the Rye - introduction

    • Holden

    • WWII

    • Salinger

    • Read chapters 1 & 2

Thursday 8/27

• Unit 1 - What's Next

  • Article: Hidden Intellectualism (read & annotate)

  • Intertextual connection: two case studies - Junior & Holden

  • The Catcher in the Rye - introduction

    • Holden

    • WWII

    • Salinger

    • Read chapters 1 & 2

• Key question: How does Holden respond to failure?

Friday 8/28

• Broncos Respond to Tigers - It's game day!

• Unit 1 - What's Next

  • continued from Thursday

    • Read chapters 1 & 2 (The Catcher in the Rye)

Sat/Sun

• Unit 1 - What's Next

  • The Catcher in the Rye - read chapters 2-5

  • Focus: Holden's avoidance patterns

    • "productive struggle vs avoidance"

    • Key question: does Holden embody the module's argument (failure/success)?

Semester I

Weekly Agenda

Monday 8/17

• Well, I will not be in class for the first 3 periods today. 

• Today, you will check the following website: californiacolleges.edu

  • this site will show you if you are on track to go to a 4 year college or UC. It wil also show you your current GPA. Take 10 minutes to review the site. It will also show you what you are missing, in regards to your A-G requirements.

• Your main lesson today involves a writing assignment that eventually  will be part of your senior portfolio.

  • Please answer the 6 questions on the slides posted on Canvas [Unit 1 - Self Portrait]. I will review this with you tomorrow. Type your responses on a Google Doc. Don't submit till I review with you first.

Tuesday 8/18 -

• Brief review of californiacolleges.edu (1st & 2nd period only)

• Unit 1 - Self Portrait (review of notes)

  • Discussion of student sample

  • Begin writing your essay

Wednesday 8/19

• Finish writing your Self-Portrait Essay

Thursday 8/20

• Blogging [edublogs.org]

  • set up your account

  • link account to the class blog

  • Blog #1 - Failing

Friday 8/21

• Blog #1 - Failing ... continued

Sat/Sun