Unit III:
Essential Questions:
1. How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
2. Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
3. To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
4. When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
5. How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
Monday, Nov. 29, 2021
Bell Ringer: Your job was to find or write a poem to share about a seasonal topic like fall, hunting, thanksgiving, thankfulness, harvest, migration, turkeys, ducks, deer, etc. and to bring a copy of the poem to class on Monday, Nov. 29.
Write a 6-word story inspired by your poem. Share both with a neighbor. Attach your poem to this document and turn it in along with your 6-word story.
Special Announcement: Ms. Baker, the new HS technology teacher, is revitalizing Catalyst, the school newspaper. She is hoping for both print and digital versions of content in the near future. She also wants to make the whole thing more student-run/lead and is looking for writers, editors, and content creators. If you are interested please contact her or you can let me know and I will pass her name onto you.
Before Moving Forward: Have you turned in the Text Analysis? Reading Ladder? Career Plan?
Essential Questions for Unit III: Ethics
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
How does reading literature cultivate empathy?
Chapter 7: Ethics
As a class, read pp. 410-412
CLASSWORK: OPENING ACTIVITY 1: Using the shared Google Document, that everyone can see and edit, classify actions as either “very bad," "kind of bad,” or "not so bad.” Be prepared to share your reasoning.
HOMEWORK: OPENING ACTIVITY 2: Read through the 5 ethical dilemmas on pp. 413-414 and determine WHAT you would do and WHY in each situation. Try to consider all possible implications of your choices. Complete this assignment on your own paper. Record your responses in the second column. On Wednesday, you will discuss your responses in pre-selected groups. Then you will fill in columns 3 and 4. Be ready! :)
OTHER HOMEWORK:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021
Antigone by Sophocles:
Essential Questions:
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
What is the relationship between divine (religious) law and civil (man's) law in Antigone, and where does conflict arise?
How does reading literature cultivate empathy?
Class Work:
Essential Vocabulary Practice Unit III: Ethics: Review the words and definitions. Use class time to complete the homework.
OTHER HOMEWORK:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021
From yesterday: Bell Ringer? Essential Vocab. Classwork/Homework?
Essential Questions:
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
How does reading literature cultivate empathy?
OPENING ACTIVITY 2:
FIRST: Review the results of OPENING ACTIVITY 1: Classifying Actions on a Likert Scale. Do they shed light on ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS 1 and 2?
CLASS WORK: In your pre-selected group, discuss the 5 ethical dilemmas you responded to yesterday for homework. (During this discussion, you might actually change your mind, and that's okay. In fact, being open to others' opinions and truly listening to their reasonings are marks of an open-minded and willing-to-grow person. Closed minds, like closed buds, can never reveal their full beauty or potential.) Record your responses in COLUMN 3. If you have not changed your mind, you may copy and paste what you have in column 2 into column 3. (Note: You do not have to have a consensus in your group. You are recording YOUR responses and reasons.) Afterward, come back together as a class to discuss.
OTHER HOMEWORK:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021
Bell Ringer: Write two sentences demonstrating parallelism. Parallelism is the use of elements in a sentence that are grammatically the same, for example, the same part of speech, like all adjectives, all nouns, all -ing verbs, etc.
This method adds balance and rhythm to sentences, giving ideas a smoother flow and thus persuasiveness, because of the repetition it employs.
Examples of Parallelism:
Jane always says, "like father, like son."
Bill then responds, "easy come, easy go."
Whether in class, at work, or at home, Shasta was always busy.
Flying is fast, comfortable, and safe.
They got together, conversed, and dispersed, but to no avail.
He came, he saw, and he conquered.
He wanted to have a new house to live in, and a new car to drive.
The applicant was approached through telephone, email, and snail mail.
Their new teacher was neither a Catholic, nor an Anglican.
His favorite foods are chocolate bars, potato chips, and soft drinks.
The new airline claims to be fast, efficient, and safe.
Essential Questions:
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
How does reading literature cultivate empathy?
AGENDA:
Finish discussion of Kohlberg.
Review the handout on Lawrence Kohlberg's Six Stages of Moral Development to determine where on the continuum your own reasoning places you.
Homework: Record the STAGE # and an explanation in COLUMN 4.
OTHER HOMEWORK:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Friday, Dec. 3, 2021
Independent Reading Day
In your Reading Ladders, many of you indicated that you needed more class time to read, that you were given more class time last year, and that is the reason why you are reading less this year. So...here you go. I will try to be better about tucking in reading time as we go forward.
(This is also a good time to check school tool and Google Classroom. The two weightiest assignments are the Reading Ladder (the only one in the category "Independent Reading" so far this quarter) and the Text Analysis (Essays and Tests count as 50% of the quarter average and so far this is the only one this quarter). The midpoint of the second quarter is in 10 days, December 13th.
Mon., Dec. 6 - Tues., Dec. 7, 2021
Essential Questions:
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
What is the relationship between divine (religious) law and civil (man's) law in Antigone, and where does conflict arise?
How does reading literature cultivate empathy?
Antigone by Sophocles
As you listen to today's lecture, complete the pre-reading activity and Class Notes on Sophocles, Greece, Greek Theater, Oedipus, and Antigone. The Word Banks will help you. :)
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021
Essential Questions:
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
What is the relationship between divine (religious) law and civil (man's) law in Antigone, and where does conflict arise?
How does reading literature cultivate empathy?
Examine the structure of the play:
Prologue/Parados (Song accompanying the entrance of the Chorus. Chorus provides background)
Scene 1/Ode 1 (An Ode is a song chanted by the Chorus. The Chorus reacts and responds to Scene I)
Scene 2/Ode 2 (Chorus reacts and responds)
Scene 3/Ode 3 (Chorus reacts and responds)
Scene 4/Ode 4 (Chorus reacts and responds)
Scene 5/Exodus (Chorus provides commentary and interpretation and exits.)
Background to Antigone: After finding out the truth, that he killed his father and married his mother, Oedipus asks to be sent into exile, but Creon says he must stay until the will of the gods has been revealed. Oedipus remains in Thebes for some years until Creon and the Theban elders decide he should be exiled. By this time, Oedipus wants to remain in Thebes, but his sons do nothing to help him. Oedipus goes off with his two daughters, Ismene and Antigone, cursing his ungrateful sons, Eteocles and Polyneices. The old man finally dies at peace in Colonus. When his daughters are assured that no mortal may approach the hidden tomb of their father, they return to Thebes.
Creon rules in Thebes until Oedipus' sons decide that they should have their father's throne. Creon sides with Eteocles, and Polyneices is exiled. Angry and defiant, Polyneices raises a force among the Argives, his wife's people. These troops storm the seven gates of Thebes. At one of the gates, the brothers meet and slay each other, fulfilling their father's curse. Creon has Eteocles buried with full state honors. But he decrees that Polyneices shall go unburied as an enemy of the state. This was a very harsh sentence in the eyes of the ancient Greeks because their holiest law required the performance of certain burial rites.
As the play begins, it is the day after the battle. Antigone decides to defy Creon's decree and bury her brother.
Divide parts and read the Prologue and Parados, pp. 189-195 aloud.
See Reading Chart: Antigone, Ismene, Chorus
Homework:
Answer corresponding text-based questions, citing strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well inferences drawn from the text.
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021
Divide parts and read Scene I and Ode I, pp. 196-204 aloud.
See Reading Chart: Choragos, Creon, Sentry, Chorus
Homework:
Answer corresponding text-based questions, citing strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well inferences drawn from the text.
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Fri., Dec. 10 - Mon., Dec. 13, 2021
Antigone by Sophocles
Essential Questions:
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
What is the relationship between divine (religious) law and civil (man's) law in Antigone, and where does conflict arise?
How does reading literature cultivate empathy?
Consider Essential Question #6 more specifically:
In the conflict between legitimate governmental authority attempting to do what it thinks is best for society and an individual who believes she has a moral responsibility to her dead brother, which one is in the right?
Agenda:
Reread Ode 1 and examine the paraphrase for each stanza. In the box titled “illustrations,” provide 2-4 Google images for each stanza.
Check-in and discuss the corresponding text-based questions for Scene I and Ode I.
Be sure that you have turned in the Google images for Ode 1
Divide up parts and continue reading Scene II and Ode II aloud, pp 205-___.
See Reading Chart
Homework:
Answer corresponding text-based questions, citing strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well inferences drawn from the text.
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Tues, Dec. 14, 2021
Antigone by Sophocles
Essential Questions:
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
What is the relationship between divine (religious) law and civil (man's) law in Antigone, and where does conflict arise?
How does reading literature cultivate empathy?
Consider Essential Question #6 more specifically:
In the conflict between legitimate governmental authority attempting to do what it thinks is best for society and an individual who believes she has a moral responsibility to her dead brother, which one is in the right?
Agenda:
Check-in and discuss the corresponding text-based questions for Scene II and Ode II.
Divide up parts and continue reading Scene III and Ode III aloud, pp 205-___.
See Reading Chart
Homework:
Answer corresponding text-based questions, citing strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well inferences drawn from the text.
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Wed., Dec. 15 - Thurs., Dec. 16, 2021
Antigone by Sophocles:
Directions:
In Class: Read about Rhetorical Appeals: https://sites.google.com/site/writingwithpete/rhetorical-appeals
In Groups: As part of the quiz on Antigone, find 3 examples of ethos, 3 examples of pathos and 3 examples of logos from the play. Record the quote, the parenthetical citation (author’s last name and p. #), the speaker, the addressee, and a brief explanation of how it demonstrates the appeal. (Hint: Scene 3 - the argument between Creon and Haimon, is loaded with examples. See pp. 216- 224 [gray books] or pp. 511-516 [purple books]).
Complete Quiz for Prologue - Ode 3
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Fri., Dec. 17, 2021
Antigone by Sophocles
Essential Questions:
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
What is the relationship between divine (religious) law and civil (man's) law in Antigone, and where does conflict arise?
How does reading literature cultivate empathy?
Consider Essential Question #6 more specifically:
In the conflict between legitimate governmental authority attempting to do what it thinks is best for society and an individual who believes she has a moral responsibility to her dead brother, which one is in the right?
Agenda:
Review questions from the quiz before turning in.
Divide up parts and continue reading Scene IVand Ode IV aloud, pp ___-___.
See Reading Chart
Homework:
Answer corresponding text-based questions, citing strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well inferences drawn from the text.
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Monday, Dec. 20, 2021
Antigone by Sophocles
Essential Questions:
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
What is the relationship between divine (religious) law and civil (man's) law in Antigone, and where does conflict arise?
How does reading literature cultivate empathy?
Consider Essential Question #6 more specifically:
In the conflict between legitimate governmental authority attempting to do what it thinks is best for society and an individual who believes she has a moral responsibility to her dead brother, which one is in the right?
Agenda:
Check-in and discuss the corresponding text-based questions for Scene IV and Ode IV.
Divide up parts and finish reading the play, Scene V and Exodus aloud, pp ___-___.
See Reading Chart
Homework:
Answer corresponding text-based questions, citing strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well inferences drawn from the text.
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021
Antigone by Sophocles
Prepare for the Final Exam on Antigone:
Make sure you can identify all of the characters: Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles, Polyneices, Creon, Haimon, Sentry, Messenger, Eurydice, Chorus, Choragos, Teiresias.
Be sure to review ethos, logos, and pathos.
Review Antigone by completing the 20-question Google Form Quiz.
Crossword puzzle
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021
Antigone by Sophocles
Essential Questions: What is the relationship between divine (religious) law and civil law in Antigone? Where does conflict arise?
Consider this more specifically:
In the conflict between legitimate governmental authority attempting to do what it thinks is best for society and an individual who believes she has a moral responsibility to her dead brother, which one is in the right?
Complete 60-question Final Exam on Google Forms
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. Remember that the requirement is 4 books, one per quarter. The goal is 10 books by the end of the year.
Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021
Film Clip: Sopholces a Christmas Story: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sophocless-a-christmas-story
Film Premiere: Greek Tragedy Masterclass on Film: Antigone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Qi3RjODIk
Mon., Jan. 3, 2022
Bell Ringer: Read your independent reading book for 10 minutes.
Essential Questions for Unit III: Ethics
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
How does reading literature cultivate empathy?
As a way to recall and review Antigone, read the poem, "Pride" by Dahlia Ravikovitch
"Pride" by Dahlia Ravikovitch
preview the questions
read the poem
independently answer questions
share responses with a partner
review as a class
turn in
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 2nd required book is due by Jan. 21st.
Tues., Jan. 4, 2022
Bell Ringer: Read The New York Times opinion article. Highlight at least three resolutions that resonate with you in some way. Use the comments button to explain why/how.
Afterward, share responses with the class.
Finish discussion of "Pride" by reviewing correct answers with the whole class.
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 2nd required book is due by Jan. 21st.
Wed., Jan. 5, 2022
Antigone Essay
THINK: all men make mistakes,
But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong,
And repair the evil. The only crime is pride.
Review the outline and rubric in Google Classroom:
Begin your essay with a statement about the negative effects of excessive pride and stubbornness or the helpful effects of open-mindedness and listening.
Add thesis: "This is demonstrated in at least two works: Antigone by Sophocles and (list title and author of 2nd book). OR This is demonstrated in both literature and real life.
In the first body paragraph explain with specific and ample detail how the importance of listening and learning is revealed in Antigone. Use at least 3 quotes that you cite with author and page number. Provide context before each quote and commentary afterward.
In the second body paragraph either use one of your independent reading books to demonstrate the verity of your thesis statement in the same way that you used Antigone OR select an example from your own life or observations you have made regarding history or current events.
Write a 3-5 sentence conclusion that wraps up your analysis, clinches your thesis, and expresses the importance of your findings.
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 2nd required book is due by Jan. 21st.
Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022
Snow Day!!
Friday, Jan. 7, 2022
Work on Antigone essay
The first two paragraphs of your Antigone Essay are due by our next class. The final draft of your essay is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, Jan. 11th.
Tips for the Creon paragraph: 3 parts
Creon demonstrates excessive pride in many ways.
As a result of his stubborn pride, three people die.
In the end, even though the knowledge comes too late, Creon learns to be humble and wise.
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 2nd required book is due by Jan. 21st.
Mon., Jan 10, 2022
You should have the first two paragraphs written. Your job for today is to finish your essay. It is due at the beginning of the period tomorrow. Use the rubric as a check sheet for self-revision.
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 2nd required book is due by Jan. 21st.
Tues., Jan. 11, 2022
Two Hour Delay. No first-period class.
Wed., Jan. 12, 2022
How many of you will be attending the BOCES visitation tomorrow? For those of you who will be here, it will be an Independent Reading Day.
Antigone essay:
Print and attach a rubric. Turn in both the hard copy and electronic copy.
Essential Vocabulary:
Use Quizlet to practice with the vocab from Unit III: Ethics. There will be a vocab. quiz tomorrow.
For class today and for homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 2nd required book is due by Jan. 21st.
Thurs., Jan. 13, 2022
Complete Vocab Quiz for Unit III: Ethics. (Google Quiz)
"A Contribution to Statistics" by Wislawa Szymborska, pp. 464-465
As a class, do a word association map for the word statistics. See an example:
https://cuppacoffeebean.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/word-association-final.png
Together read "A Contribution to Statistics" by Wislawa Szymborska
Form groups of 2 to 3. Complete the 5 questions on page 4. Finish for homework.
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 2nd required book is due by Jan. 21st.
Fri., Jan. 14, 2022
BOCES Visitation Day
All others: Independent Reading Day.
Tues., Jan. 18, 2022
"A Contribution to Statistics" by Wislawa Szymborska, pp. 464-465
Together review the 5 questions on page 4.
In your group, finish completing the questions on the study guide.
As a class, review and discuss.
Share excerpts from David J. Smith's If the World Were a Village.
Turn in.
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 15 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 2nd required book is due by Jan. 21st.
Wed., Jan. 19, 2022
Essential Question: How do I progress and how do I demonstrate that progression in Independent Reading this school year?
Today:
Update your Independent Reading Log 2021-2022 in the Google Classroom. Pay close attention to the directions there.
If you are ready to choose your next book, make a selection from my classroom. You may choose from the carts in the hall or the two smaller shelves in my room, just not from the green bookshelves behind my desk. Record the title and author of your book on the Reading Log.
Read!
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 20 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 3rd required book is due by the end of the third quarter, April 1st, 2022.
Thurs., Jan. 20, 2022
Bell Ringer: Write two inverted sentences. An inverted sentence is when the verb comes before the subject. This is done to put more emphasis on the verb.
Not only is he difficult to understand, but he is also funny.
Never have I understood less about women.
Scarcely have they been on time.
So expensive was the ticket that we couldn't attend the show.
Sentences that begin with "here" or "there" are also inverted.
There lives the evilest woman that ever lived.
Here is the job you dreamed of.
There is plenty of room to grow.
There, in Room 3303, are the best students in the building.
Essential Questions:
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's? Other people's? The larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
Complete the pre-reading activity on "Traveling through the Dark" by William Stafford. Read the poem. Then answer the questions for:
Understanding and Interpreting - Answer any 3 questions.
Language, Style and Structure - Answer any 2 questions.
Connecting, Arguing, and Extending - Answer both questions.
6-word story
Theme statement
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 20 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 3rd required book is due by the end of the third quarter, April 1st, 2022.
Fri., Jan. 21, 2022
Review study guide for "Traveling Through the Dark."
Read Independent Reading Book.
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 20 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 3rd required book is due by the end of the third quarter, April 1st, 2022.
Mon., Jan. 24, 2022
Essential Questions:
What are the three parts of the ELA Regents and how can I prepare for it?
Agenda:
Complete Part 1, Passages A (fiction) and B (poetry). Thirteen questions total.
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 20 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 3rd required book is due by the end of the third quarter, April 1st, 2022.
Tues., Jan. 25, 2022
Essential Questions:
What are the three parts of the ELA Regents and how can I prepare for it?
Agenda:
Complete Part 1, Passage C (non-fiction). Ten questions total.
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 20 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 3rd required book is due by the end of the third quarter, April 1st, 2022.
Wed., Jan. 26, 2022
If you took it home with you, turn in Part 1 practice.
"An American Childhood" by Annie Dillard
See 6 Essential Questions on Document
Read the excerpt from "An American Childhood" by Annie Dillard and begin the discussion by asking students to highlight in a different color the sentence or part they liked best and to copy and paste it into the chat. Share responses and reasons for selecting it.
Students should then complete the questions as marked.
Provide a theme statement and an appropriate 6-word story that captures the excerpt's essence.
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 20 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 3rd required book is due by the end of the third quarter, April 1st, 2022.
Thurs., Jan. 27, 2022 -
COVID DAY: I will not be in class today. You will have a substitute. Look for the following assignment under "Unit III: Ethics."
You have two days to complete the following assignment. It is due on Friday by the end of class.
Examine the handout on "A&P" by John Updike: review the essential questions, note the hyperlinked pictures. (They are there for extra help and insight once you have completed reading the story.) Preview the questions at the bottom of the document.
Read the story. If you have headphones, you may follow along as you listen to the recording of the story. (The audio - https://video.link/w/m17Wb - to the story begins at 3:59 and ends at 18:50.) Or read the story silently to yourself. Then thoroughly and thoughtfully answer the questions that follow. Be sure to highlight your answers.
All questions, including the theme statement, 6-word story, and 5 hashtags are due by the end of class on Friday.
If you finish early, as always, work on Independent Reading.
Feel free to email me with any questions. I will respond as soon as I am able. cclements@lowvilleacademy.org
Please be on your best behavior and keep yourself and others safe by wearing your mask properly (covering your mouth and nose).
Fri., Jan. 28, 2022
COVID DAY: I will not be in class today. You will have a substitute.
“A&P” is due today by the end of the period. (If for some reason you are unable to make this deadline, please email me and let me know.)
Some of you were unsure about what I meant by a hashtag. Simply put, a hashtag is an easy way for people to categorize, find and join conversations on a particular topic. The hashtag is used to highlight keywords. For example, a hashtag from “The Chase” by Annie Dillard might be #besttimeofmylife or #redheadedmanismyhero.
If you finish early, as always, work on Independent Reading.
Some of you owe the Part 1 Regents practice. Please finish this and turn it in to the substitute.
Feel free to email me with any questions. I will respond as soon as I am able: cclements@lowvilleacademy.org
Please be on your best behavior and keep yourself and others safe by wearing your mask properly (covering your mouth and nose).
Mon., Jan. 30, 2022
COVID DAY: I plan to return to school tomorrow! We will have much to review and talk about!! Be ready!!!
Look for the following assignment under "Unit III: Ethics."
It is due by the start of class on Tuesday.
Examine the handout on "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov: review the essential questions, answer the anticipatory set questions, note the hyperlinked pictures. (They are there for extra help and insight once you have completed reading the story.) Preview the questions at the bottom of the document.
Read the story. If you have headphones, you may follow along as you listen to the recording of the story. (https://video.link/w/CzhZb - It takes about 20 minutes.) Or read the story silently to yourself. Then thoroughly and thoughtfully answer the questions that follow. Be sure to highlight your answers.
All questions, including the theme statement, 6-word story, and 5 hashtags are due by the start of class on Tuesday.
If you finish early, as always, work on Independent Reading.
Feel free to email me with any questions. I will respond as soon as I am able. cclements@lowvilleacademy.org
Please be on your best behavior and keep yourself and others safe by wearing your mask properly (covering your mouth and nose).
Tues., Feb. 1, 2022 - Fri., Feb. 4, 2022
Review Day...in this order:
"An American Childhood" by Annie Dillard
"A&P" by John Updike
How do people react when people do not conform to societal norms?
For hashtags, here is a model: a tweet from Jerry ("Through the Tunnel")
Tweet: #onmyown
Explanation: Jerry not only trains to swim through the tunnel but also completes the task without his mom's approval. Independently and courageously, Jerry overcomes his fears as he swims through the tunnel, an accomplishment that leads to his maturity.
Try to make your hashtags cover the length of the story (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution).
Brainstorm other examples of irony for "A&P"
His grand gesture of sympathy for the girls — his quitting — goes unnoticed.
Although he is able to astutely observe and understand others ("sheep," "queen"), he must now think about his own motivations.
Sammy's impulsive actions will have long -lasting consequences.
Sammy chose the harder route, not the easier one.
3. "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
After review - 10 Question, M/C Quiz - Google Forms
Lastly, correct Part 1 Regents Practice for an additional grade.
Class Work/Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 20 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 3rd required book is due by the end of the third quarter, April 1st, 2022.
Mon., Feb. 7, 2022
Substitute Plans:
Students are practicing with Parallel Structure. I have left you with handouts to distribute. If a student is absent, please put his/her name on a packet and place it in the Period 1 folder, in the bin, on my desk.
Here is the information I posted to my students this morning in Google Classroom Stream:
I will not be in the building today until noon. If you have any questions, you can try and connect with me in the afternoon or you can always email me. Mr. Steckley will be your substitute teacher.
Today you will be practicing with Parallel Structure. Read over the first two pages of the packet carefully. It provides good reminders about recognizing and using parallelism in your writing. For your next paper, you will be expected to write focus area sentences that demonstrate this writing skill.
Complete Parallel Structure Exercises 3 and 5.
If you finish the work by the end of the period, please turn it in to Mr. Steckley. Otherwise, complete it before tomorrow’s class.
If you finish early, read your Independent Reading Book.
Feel free to email me with any questions. I will respond as soon as I am able. cclements@lowvilleacademy.org
Please be on your best behavior and keep yourself and others safe by wearing your mask properly (covering your mouth and nose).
Tues., Feb. 8, 2022
Transition to "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
Quick Write: Think about some holiday and/or religious traditions you observe in your family. In 6 to 8 sentences describe some of these traditions you and your family observe. Be sure to consider why you have these traditions and/or where they originated from.
What do you think of when you read the title, "The Lottery"?
The story of "The Lottery" is about a small American town in the 1950s that holds a lottery every June after school lets out.
Before we read the story, we're going to hold a little lottery of our own that imitates the lottery in the story. To do so, please:
Form families of 2-5 members.
Come up with a name for your family and put it on the Smartboard.
Decide who the "head" of your family will be.
I will play the role of Mr. Summers who runs the lottery each year.
Each head family member, draw a slip of paper from the "black box." (Done by a single student, who draws for all.)
Now each member of the winning family draws a slip of paper.
So let's read to find out just what the winner of the lottery receives.
Follow along as you listen to a reading of "The Lottery" by A.M. Holmes: http://www.wnyc.org/story/a-m-homes-reads-shirley-jackson/
The recording of the story takes about 19 minutes: 3:15 - 22:07
Homework:
Complete text-based questions 1-4, the 5 hashtags, and the 6-word story.
Wed., Feb. 9, 2022
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
How does reading literature cultivate empathy?
"The Lottery" Agenda"
As a class, discuss questions 1-4.
In the families formed yesterday (they may need to be subdivided), complete the rest of the questions (5-9), and the theme statement for the story. Any questions not completed in class are to be completed for homework.
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 20 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 3rd required book is due by the end of the third quarter, April 1st, 2022.
Thurs., Feb. 10, 2022
Class discussion of "The Lottery" - questions 5-9, 6-word story, theme statement, 5 hashtags
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 20 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 3rd required book is due by the end of the third quarter, April 1st, 2022.
Fri., Feb. 11, 2022
Finish discussion of Question #9 and theme statement
Complete 20-question Google Forms Quiz on "The Lottery."
Class Work/Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 20 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 3rd required book is due by the end of the third quarter, April 1st, 2022.
Mon., Feb. 14, 2022
Review Parallel Structure -activity.
Introduce: This I Have Learned Narrative Essay Prompt -
For homework, complete the statement of something you have learned in your 15-16 years of life. Consider how you could tell the story of how you learned it.
On Tuesday, share these statements with a neighbor and pick up with Focus Area Sentences (p. 4) and the Rubric (p. 5).
Homework:
Read your Independent Reading Book for at least 20 minutes each day. The requirement for the year is 4 books, 1 per quarter. The goal is 10 books for the year. Your 3rd required book is due by the end of the third quarter, April 1st, 2022.
Tues., Feb. 15 - Fri., Feb. 18, 2022
Writing Days Tuesday -Thursday.
Paper Due Friday: Print a hard copy, staple rubric to the back, highlight and label focus area sentences on both the hard copy and electronic copy, turn in both hard copy and electronic copy.
Monday, Feb. 28, 2022
The Friday before vacation, we had a snow day. On that day you were going to print your “This I Have Learned Essay” and highlight your focus area sentences. You will, instead, do that today.
Before printing, examine the rubric to make sure that your essay reflects the criteria. Edit, add, delete, adjust accordingly.
Next, make sure that you have included all seven (7) of the focus area sentences.
Once you are satisfied, sign out on the whiteboard to the library (5 at a time) and go and print your essay.
Back in the classroom, highlight and label your seven focus area sentences, staple the rubric to the back of your essay, and turn it in.
Check Schooltool. Do you owe any other assignments? If so, get cracking. Tomorrow is the midpoint of Quarter 3.
If you have no back work, spend the rest of the time reading your Independent Reading Book.
Any time that is left after discussing the poem, celebrate Black History Month by watching clips from the Broadway musical, Hamilton: Hamilton is a sung-and-rapped-through musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda. It tells the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. The show draws heavily from hip hop, as well as R&B, pop, soul, and traditional-style show tunes. It casts non-white actors as the Founding Fathers and other historical figures. Miranda described Hamilton as about "America then, as told by America now."
Black History Month: https://asalh.org/about-us/origins-of-black-history-month/
(Blocks 1 and 2 Even, show Hamilton piece and explain the connection to Amanda Gorman.)
For all, discuss and show Gorman's Superbowl poem. What was her first word???
(While you write listen to some Jazz. Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music, linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions.It has been called the purest expression of American democracy; a music built on individualism and compromise, independence and cooperation. It can be traced from the gritty streets of New Orleans to Chicago's south side, the speakeasies of Kansas city and to Times Square.)
Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2018
Essential Questions:
How does Jackson use rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, to achieve her purpose?
More specifically: How does Jackson employ irony to convey a central idea?
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
With a partner or partners, share and compare your responses to questions 1-5; then, together, complete questions 6-9.
(Hang on to your Quick Write on traditions. We'll be talking about these later.)
Homework:
Finish study guide questions if you didn't get them done in class.
Also, finish the theme statements and examples of irony for both "A&P" and "The Lottery" for Friday.
Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019
Essential Questions:
1. How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
2. Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
3. To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
4. When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
5. How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
Class discussion of study guide and Quick Write on traditions.
Homework:
Outside Reading
Theme statements and irony examples for both "A&P" and "The Lottery."
Friday, Dec. 20, 2019
See Essential Questions Above.
For both "A&P" and "The Lottery"
On the chart on pp. 3 and 4 of your irony essay packet, share and discuss your theme statements: UpDike's irony illustrates _________________________________________.
Jackson's irony illustrates _____________________________________.
Share and discuss the chart with 3 examples of irony from each story: Be sure that you provided the quote/evidence (with context), the significance (how/why it is ironic), and the impact (how it reveals the central idea/theme). After the holiday break, you will be using the completed chart to write an essay analyzing an author's use of irony in literature.
Complete the 15 question quiz on "The Lottery."
Homework:
Outside Reading - New Date for ORB project (the chart) is Monday, Jan. 13, 2020.
Thursday, Jan. 2, - Friday, Jan. 3, 2020
Essential Questions:
1. How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
2. Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
3. To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
4. When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
5. How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
As a class make sure that the first three charts are filled in. You need a theme statement and three example of irony for "An American Childhood," "A&P," and "The Lottery."
Also, share traditions with a partner (maybe update them, after your holiday break), and complete quiz on "The Lottery."
Homework:
Bring outside reading book to class tomorrow. New Date for ORB project (the chart) is Monday, Jan. 13, 2020.
Friday, January 3, 2020
Outside Reading Day
Monday, January 6, 2020
Essential Questions:
1. How do we tell "right" from "wrong"?
2. Can there be a universal understanding of what is "right" or "wrong"?
3. To what extent do age, culture, and other factors affect our ethical decisions?
4. When making ethical decisions, whose needs should be most important? The individual's, or other people's, or the larger society's?
5. How do rhetorical strategies, including resources of language, enable the speaker or writer to achieve his or her purpose?
"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
Class Procedure:
Read the story and answer the study guide questions for homework
Additional Homework:
Study for Vocab Quiz on Unit III: Ethics. (It will be Wednesday.)
1. Civility (n)- politeness, courteousness, respect
2. Conciliatory (adj)- intended to lessen another’s anger; appeasing
3. Fallacious (adj)- misleading or deceptive
4. Fallible (ajd)- capable of being mistaken; imperfect
5. Reconcile (v)- to bring back into agreement; harmonize
6. Ultimatum (n)- a demand or threat that is final
7. Adherent (n)- a follower of a person or idea; a disciple
8. Avarice (n)- desire for wealth; greed
9. Dubious (adj)- doubtful; uncertain; unconvinced
10. Convene (v)- to call together, to assemble; gather
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
See Essential Questions Above.
Check-in and review the questions for "The Bet" and take the 10 question, M/C quiz.
Fill in the irony chart on p. 4 for "The Bet."
Homework:
Outside Reading - New Date for ORB project (the chart) is Monday, Jan. 13, 2020.
Study for Vocab Quiz on Unit III: Ethics. (It will be tomorrow.)
Wednesday, Jan. 8 - Friday, January 10, 2020
First: Take Vocab Quiz on Unit III: Ethics.
Essential Question: How do writers, like Dillard, UpDike, Jackson, and Chekhov employ irony to help convey a central idea/theme?
This will be a 4 paragraph essay: introduction, 2 body paragraphs (one for each short story that you select) and a conclusion.
Write the essay following directions on the handout, using two of the given stories: "An American Childhood," "A&P," "The Lottery," "The Bet."
Be sure to incorporate the Tips for Effective Writing (orange sheet in reference section) in your essay. Review ways to tighten, strengthen, and stylize your essay. Plus 1 for each successful use of a focus area sentence. Be sure to highlight it and label it in the margin.
Essay is due Thursday, January 16th, by the end of the day. (But on Monday, we begin our new unit, so there will be no additional class time after Friday.)
Other Homework:
Outside Reading - New Date for ORB project (the chart) is Monday, Jan. 13, 2020.
Monday, January 13, 2020
Turn in Outside Reading Chart for ORB#2 by 3:10 today.
Tomorrow we begin Unit IV: Thinking about Rhetoric and Argument.
See 6 Essential Questions Above
"An American Childhood" by Annie Dillard
As I check in your homework, begin completing the chart for examples of irony in "An American Childhood." Be sure to provide the quote/evidence (with context), the significance (how/why it is ironic), and the impact (how it reveals the central idea/theme). You will be using the completed chart to write an essay analyzing authors' use of irony in literature.
Homework:
Independent Reading
Complete the chart on irony for "An American Childhood."
Monday, Dec. 2 - Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019
This I Have Learned Essay
Essential Question: How do I write a personal narrative with focus area sentences?
Clarify Writing Prompt and Focus Area Sentences:
Prompt: What have you learned in your 15-17 years of life? In a story, explain not only what you have learned, but how you reached your understanding, and if you have grown, how you have grown.
Discuss the importance of writing creatively. Flashback to the fairytale assignment at the beginning of the year. See: THE ENDURING ALLURE OF FAIRY TALES: And why it’s important to keep telling them. https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/cbs/the-enduring-allure-of-fairy-tales.html
Review reminders on p. 3.
Remember to include the 7 focus area sentences.
Read over the rubric to yourself.
The assignment has been posted in the Google Classroom.
Narrative Essay is due Friday, at the beginning of class.
Order of Paper:
Paper: 500 words; 12 pt. font; double spaced; title at top; 7 focus area sentences highlighted
Heading on left side of paper:
Full Name
English 10, per. ___
Ms. Clements
"This I Have Learned" Personal Narrative Essay
Dec. 6, 2019
2. Rubric
Other work:
Antigone was written around 441 BC, yet its messages endure. How do the play's themes and characters reverberate in headlines and popular culture, reflecting the misuse of power, the effects of being too proud, the nobleness of courage, and the evils of stereotyping?
For Thursday, find a current event, song lyrics, or film clip that connects to the characters or themes of Antigone.
Today:
Friday, Dec. 13, 2019
See Essential Questions Above.
Class Procedure:
Check in and discuss the 6 questions under "Understanding and Interpreting."
On the chart on p. 3 of your irony essay packet, complete the theme statement: UpDike's irony illustrates _________________________________________.
Fill in the chart with 3 examples of irony from the story: Be sure to provide the quote/evidence (with context), the significance (how/why it is ironic), and the impact (how it reveals the central idea/theme). After the holiday break, you will be using the completed chart to write an essay analyzing authors' use of irony in literature.
Homework:
Outside Reading
Chapter 4: Thinking about Synthesis
Friday, December 15, 2017
Read Chapter 4: Thinking about Synthesis (pp. 87-89)
Homework: Complete the Drawing on a Source activity (pp. 89-90)
Monday, December 18, 2017
Read Chapter 4: Thinking about Synthesis (pp. 91 -92), taking a few minutes to complete Forming an Initial Opinion
In class and for homework, read an excerpt from “The Case against High School Sports” by Amanda Ripley and complete Understanding Ripley’s Argument.
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
As a class, discuss your findings for Understanding Ripley’s Argument.
With a partner, read “The Case for High School Sports” by Kai Sato and “High School Sports Aren’t Killing Academics” by Daniel Bowen and Collin Hitt. Complete the Comparing Sources activity for both sources.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
With a partner, read “Do Sports Build Character or Damage It?” by Mark Edmundson and analyze the graph on Comparative Test Scores. Complete the Comparing Sources activity for both sources.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Friday, December 22, 2017
Draft of an argument essay