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Daily Plans and Homework 2019 (first semester of 2019-2020 school year)

Week 16

Monday, 12-2

Research paper (informative-surprising) source review

* See this video about the CRAP test of sources. (This is a clever way to remember what I've been telling you about good sources. The Powtoon was based on this California State University, Chico publication.)

* See this OWL site about MLA8 works cited and give a final look at your works cited page. (Focuses: 1. when to use access date. (Not required in MLA 8)

2. Review of Easy Bib's mistakes.)

* See again your peer editing guide. It is also the grading guide for the essay.

From CRAAP Source Evaluations to Evaluative Essay Details:

See this evaluative essay guide sheet.

APA Style Vs. MLA

* See this APA template to examine the "reverse outline" of Kent Kimball's essay about the best car for college.

* Reverse outline an evaluative essay. Consider using Laura Peterson's and/or Deric Shettler's essay. Just use one that is similar to what you desire to do in your evaluative essay. Find them here.

HW: Choose topic for evaluative. Continue revision of research paper.

Wednesday, 12-4

Declare topics for evaluative essays.

Examine the following:

* For basic rules about APA references, see this.

* Examine APA in-text citations and references.

* For details about in-text citations, see this page at the OWL.

* Test your knowledge of APA style with this interactive quiz.

* See this APA template, copy it, and insert all parts you can for your evaluative essay assignment. (You'll start this as a guided, in-class assignment today.)

* Rework your research paper and, by the end of the block, turn in your research paper peer editing checklists and submit your 2nd draft of the research paper on Classroom.

Then work on evaluative essay and memory books.

Evaluation Matrices

Discuss evaluation matrices.

See this and this for examples. (You don't need to have the specifics yet, just the items to compare and the list of criteria that you intend to use to compare them.)

Explore APA info in the left sidebar.

Discuss working the matrix into the essay. See

Continue working on evaluative essay (analysis and evaluation) and memory book.

HW:

1. Create a matrix that includes the products/schools/other you will evaluate and the criteria on which you will base your evaluation. Due Friday.

2. Find three sources and create an annotated URL list for your evaluative essay.

Friday, 12-6

Discuss final essay exam.

See the evaluation rubric.

Examine a closed form and an open form final exam.

Work on memory book. Submit installment 8 on Classroom.

Show annotated URLs.

Week 17

Monday, 12-9 (NHS at food bank)

Submit memory book (all nine chapters) due on Classroom.

On paper or Chromebook, list 3 of the main things you've learned this semester.

example: 1. Developing ideas: Considering audience and purpose to determine the best genre for communicating. 2. Usage: identifying and correcting run-ons and fragments. 3. Artistry: showing rather than telling.

HW: Create outline for final exam.

Wednesday, 12-11 Final in-class essay.

Work on evaluative essay.

Friday, 12-13 Evaluative essay due. Memory book all nine chapters due. Work on senior memory books.

Week 18

Monday, 12-16 Open to compile senior memory books. Optional: Submit another draft of research paper.

Wednesday, 12-18 Senior memory books due

Share books with classmates. Turn in text books.

Thursday, 12-19 NHS gone to Salvation Army (doesn't affect our classes).

Friday 12-20 Continue sharing memory books with classmates.

Anticipated NOON DISMISSAL for StuCo activity.

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Week 15

Monday, 11-25

Review electronic source citations at the Purdue OWL.

Do this MLA review quiz and this one. Write down the items you miss and write the correct answers. Show me. Then polish source citations.

Peer edit research paper using this guide. Then revise and submit on Classroom. Work on senior memory book if extra time is available.

Follow-up from Friday:

Check remaining notes: 8, 19, 20, 21

Check remaining students' 3 polished source citations in MLA style.

Show 7th installment of senior memory book.

Wednesday, 11-27 - Sunday, 12-1: Thanksgiving Break

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Week 14

Monday, 11-18

Final draft of a of v due.

Using this form, edit TWO sophomore character sketches.

*10 annotated URLs due.

Review highlights of ch. 8.

Note-taking for one source due by end of block. You are simply showing me that you have a system and that you know how you will take notes;.

Also show me poll/interview questions by end of block.

If not previously finished, see on screen Colton Droge's surprising reversal (Droge - Oil) informative essay. Discuss interview/poll question. (Interview questions/poll plan due Wednesday.)

Also see beginning of Lindsey's essay on the psychology of color.

See again the research paper checklist with due dates.

HW:

1. Have you read and taken notes on chapter 8 (informative/surprising essay)? Chapter 19 (Asking questions, Finding Sources)?

2. By Friday, show notes on ch. 8, 19, 20, 21.

Wednesday, 11-20

See OWL sample MLA paper. Discuss MLA style.

Discuss ch. 19.

See Google Scholar for more reliable sources.

Review use of the Purdue Owl for MLA style.

SEE AGAIN THE RESEARCH PAPER checklist

Check the following:

STAGE 1

___ Annotated URL list with at least 10 URLs

___ Note-taking system - Show me how how you are taking notes for research

___ Notes for one source completed to demonstrate chosen note-taking method?

___Text book notes ch. 8, 19

___ interview or poll questions

HW: Read and take notes 20 (Evaluating sources), and 21 (Incorporating sources into your own writing).

Friday, 11-22

Show all notes: 8, 19, 20, 21

Show me 3 polished source citations in MLA style.

Show 7th installment of senior memory book.

Continue work on note-taking.

Open to work on research paper. Write rough draft. See checklist for due dates.

Show me the rough draft of the research paper with sources cited.

HW: Read ch. 22 (Citing and documenting sources). No notes due, but turn in at least three MLA source citations (works cited) by end of Friday's block to demonstrate understanding of MLA style for Works Cited (as explained in ch. 22).

Week 13

Monday, 11-11

Have you submitted the angle of vision draft?

Informative/Surprising

*Discuss a notetaking system for the digital age AND my recommended method (slugs in margins or, better, on note cards) and maybe color by subtopic or by question.

*Review Kansas Library Card data base use.

* Explain annotated URL list. Here's a sample. Ten or more annotated URLs will be due Friday.

Create your notetaking plan.

*Using one of your sources, create an example of your notetaking plan; be ready to show me your notetaking plan during today's class.

*Show me an annotated URL list with at least three sources. Then create at least three note cards. Continue gathering information for informative/surprising.

DOES EVERYONE HAVE A KANSAS LIBRARY CARD?

Wednesday, 11-13

Review informative/surprising assignment. See on screen Rachel Peuchen's unique approach to I-search. Review: How do you create an I-search?

See on screen Colton Droge's surprising reversal (Droge - Oil) informative essay.

Work on informative/surprising essay. (Gather sources.)

HW: Prepare 6th installment of senior memory book for Friday.

Friday, 11-15 (MUSICAL CAST PERFORMING)

Show me the 6th installment of the senior memory book.

3 or more annotated URLs due.

HW:

Coming next week: Research paper (informative/surprising) checklist with due dates. 10 or more annotated URLs due Monday, 11-18.

RESEARCH PAPER ROUGH DUE MONDAY 11-25. (Peer editing day. Be ready.)

Week 12

Monday, 11-4

Establish Kansas Library Card.

Review our discussion of informative but surprising essay. A few topics of the past include:

*history of Salina baseball: It was a bigger deal than you know.

*Prescription drugs are more of a problem than illicit drugs.

*Identity theft: You'll be surprised about the demographics of ID theft.

*Homework: Helping or hurting

*The link between obesity and increasing consumption of fast food. Is this the main factor in America's rising obesity?

*Why dieting typically doesn't work (and what does work).

*Diabetes: the disease that will bankrupt America

*CTE: the risks are even greater than we had thought

*Social media is distracting you more than you think. Are you an addict?

And here are a couple I've read about recently:

The average age of a widow is 59. (I need to vet this stat, but if it's true, why is that if the average life expectancy of a man in the U.S. in 2016 was about 76.1 years?)

Marijuana is medically much more dangerous to the teen brain than has been previously known.

What are your three topic ideas?

Briefly preview text ch. 8.

Begin looking at Wyatt Rutherford's "Numb Nation" essay (Option B).

HW: Finish reading Wyatt Rutherford's "Numb Nation" I-search (a subset of Option B) essay. Read and take notes on ch. 8 of ABGW.

Wednesday, 11-6

Check notes on text ch. 8 of ABGW. Declare updated research topics.

Then answer the following questions:

1. What will be your topic for this informative/surprising essay?

2. What do you classmates think is the common view of this topic?

3. What are 10 things you already know about the topic?

4. What are 10 things you would like to know?

5. What surprise(s) do you anticipate?

HW: Read all example of informative/surprising essays on the Asst. Sheets/Models page of this website. Start in class. Finish as homework.

Read and take notes on ch. 19 for Monday.

Friday, 11-7

Open to work on senior memory book.

Installment 5 of senior memory book due.

HW reminder: Read and take notes on ch. 19 of ABGW.

Week 11

Monday, 10-28 Ch. 1-4 movies due.

Show ch. 1-4 movies on screen.

Write the rough draft (best draft you can write before I see it) of the analysis of Angle of Vision.

See together the fragments, comma splices and fused sentences PowerPoint at at Chomp Chomp. Scroll down to the sixth presentation on the page.

So exercise 3, fragments at Chomp Chomp.

Do exercises 1 and 2 -- Comma Splices and fused sentences -- at Chomp Chomp.

HW: Finish analysis of A of V.

Wednesday, 10-30

Show any remaining ch. 1-4 movies on screen.

Peer edit all of angle of vision essay - positive, negative, analysis (with emphasis on analysis).

Finish the fragments, comma splices and fused sentences PowerPoint .

Do Comma splices exercise 3 at Chomp Chomp.

HW: Prep for frag/RS test; Revise A of V.

Friday, 11-1

Submit all parts of angle of vision essay.

Take fragments, comma splices and fused sentences test 1 and review answers.

Introduce research paper. Choose possible topics over weekend.

HW: Write down three possibilities for your surprising research paper and bring them to class Monday.

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Week 10

Monday, 10-21 NO School - In-service

Wednesday, 10-23

In-class mid-term - due end of class.

Friday, 10-25

Read analysis portions of angle of vision essays on the Asst. Sheets/Models page of this website.

Discuss approaches to angle of vision analysis.

Analyze one student volunteer's descriptions on screen. (words, figurative language, sentence structure, added or omitted details, other)

Work on the following: finalize descriptions; then write the analysis portion of the angle of vision essay.

If time permits, work on the senior memory books.

HW: Finalize descriptions, using this checklist; Finish work on ch. 1-4 movie.

Week 9

Monday, 10-14

Comma test #2

Angle of vision

*Individually, rewrite your first angle of vision after discussing with me.

*Then pair to rewrite the second angle of vision as we did with the first.

*Continue work on positive and negative descriptions.

*Both positive and negative angle of vision descriptions due on or before Wednesday, 10-23.

Mid-term

*Introduce Wednesday, 10-23's in-class mid-term essay and work on outline. See Marissa's midterm and Marissa's exit exam on the Asst. Sheets/Models page.

HW: Read Catherine Conley's exit exam on the Asst. Sheets/Models page.

Create outline for mid-term before Wednesday, 10-23.

Wednesday, 10-16 (Mr. McClure gone.)

Continue work on Angle of Vision descriptions. Work on movie. Work on senior memory book installment #4.

HW: Memory book chapter. Continue movie production.

Friday, 10-18 (Mr. McClure gone.)

Work on ch. 1-4 movie.

Fourth installment of senior memory book due.

Week 8

Monday, 10-7

Reminder: Get started on your ch. 1-4 presentation.

Scholarship essays: Return scholarship essays. See one on screen. (Mention revision opportunity.)

Angle of Vision:

See 1-2 current students' angle of vision experiments on the overhead screen. Work on showing and not telling, adding fig language, adding and mitting details and revising sentence structure.

HW:

*For Wednesday: Revise a classmate's first a of v paragraph, making the paragraphs show, as we did in class.

*For Friday, revise scholarship essays. Be thorough.

*Prepare senior memory book installment for Friday.

Wednesday, 10-9

Grammar and Punctuation: See commas at Chomp Chomp. Focus on commas with conjunctions.

1. See the "coordination and subordination" PowerPoint on this web page.

2. See the commas portion of the "punctuation" PowerPoint on this web page.

3. Do COMMA exercises 1, 2 and 3 on this web page. You'll need to scroll WAAAAY down past apostrophes.

4. If you need my help, ask. Be ready for a comma quiz Thursday.

Angle of Vision: Submit revised version of positive or negative angle of vision paragraph on Classroom. Discuss the reflection technique to write the opposite view.

Senior Memory Book: Work on senior memory book chapters if time permits. Fourth installment due Friday.

HW:

1. Create a final draft of a of v #1 and . If you haven't already done so, read all examples on the Asst. Sheets/Models page of this website.

2. Prepare revision of all scholarship essays.

Friday, 10-11

Scholarship essays due in final draft.

A of V: Write the opposite view in rough

Comma test #1.

Senior memory book installment #4 moved to Friday next week.

Week 7

Monday, 9-30 PT conferences; no school

Wednesday, 10-2

Any questions about 1-4 review? Mention that there will be several multiple mark questions.

Begin angle of vision - 2 descriptions

Introduce Angle of Vision assignment. Start by reading again concept 8 (pp. 52-57) and see the book's angle of vision assignment on p. 82 and 83. Then see the Angle of Vision Assignment Sheet. Discussion the places you've been and what you might describe.

See, on the Asst. Sheets/Models page, the examples of other students' work. Notice the showing (action and powerful descriptive diction) rather than telling. Focus on Rachel's description in class. Announce a place you'll probably describe.

HW: Tentatively choose a small slice of life in a specific setting for your angle of vision descriptions.

Friday, 10-4

Test 1-4

Examine plans through end of October. Focus on ch. 1-4 movie.

See more descriptive examples on screen.

Go outside to work on description.

HW: Write first setting description. Note the models to see the desired length and narrative/descriptive style.

Week 6

Monday, 9-23

Assign ch. 1-4 movie project. Due Oct. 23.

Show ch. 4 notes and discuss ABGW ch. 4.

Group to evaluate best fulfillment of U.R. Riddle assignment.

Parent letter final due in envelopes Wednesday.

HW: Continue work on parent letters. Final due Wednesday. See items due Friday.

Wednesday, 9-25

Parent letter final drafts due.

Finalize parent letters, print, sign and address envelopes.

Mail parent letters.

Review ch. 1-4 ABGW.

Continue U.R. assignment. Chosen ones read. All - rank the letters according to most positive angles of vision without damaging ethos.

HW: See items due Friday. Finish 1-4 review sheet.

Friday, 9-27

Installment 3 senior memory book due. Add to running list. Be sure to label.

Finish and submit all 3 scholarship essays (long, medium, short in that order). Be sure prompt and word count are above all essays in ALL CAPS AND BOLD.

Week 5

MONDAY, 9-16 TEACHER IN-SERVICE; NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

Wednesday, 9-18

Focus: Believe/doubt about homework.

See an August 28, 2019 news story about banning homework on weekends. See editorials about a couple of August 2019 bills to ban homework here and read here. View the fact or fiction video here and see a video in Tagalog in which an author of the bill says the proposed fine for giving homework on weekends was not intended to be in the bill. And here's one more article about typical classwork in the Philipines. See this graph about homework time around the world. Discuss.

Play believing/doubting game with in-class practice paragraphs about this topic. See text page 33-34 and read the believe-doubt material aloud together. Using the material in the green box as an example (and working homework "facts" that you discover online), believe and doubt that homework should be banned for k-12 students in the Philippines. If you like, also address whether similar laws should be introduced in the U.S.

HW:

*Write (finish) your believe/doubt assignment.

*Write short, short scholarship essay.

Friday, 9-20

Discuss U.R. Riddle recommendation (ch. 3, p. 54). Write the UR Riddle recommendation in class.

Discuss the Filippines homework believe/doubt assignment. Show a couple of believe/doubt items on the screen. Revise. Submit to Classroom.

HW: Read and take notes on ABGW ch. 4.

WEEK 4

Monday, 9-9

Discuss the longer in-class essay that was written on Friday. Show several on the screen.

Key elements:

1. Catchy opening.

2. Interesting content. (Tell stories but don't make the story everything.)

3. Rather, relate to the prompt, and make a point.

4. Ask for money without asking. (Indicate your need, but be subtle.)

Transition to shorter scholarships.

Review the ACES method using this Youtube video. Apply to SHORT scholarship essay. Focus: Closed form with punch.

Today's focus: short, short essays (task #3). Assignment - Write a scholarship essay of approximately 250 words and no more than 299 words. Tailor this to one of the scholarships for which you might apply. Identify that scholarship and write the prompt at the top of the short, short essay. You may choose from the items I present to you, or you may find your own scholarships.

If time permits, work on your chapter for your memory book for this Friday.

HW: Due Friday. Read ABGW ch. 2 and 3 and takes notes on both for Friday.

Wednesday, 9-11 (Mostly work day; afternoon class gone for Hansen)

Examine parent letter on screen.

Work on memory book. Get ahead if you can.

Prepare short, short essay.

Revise parent letters and/or closed to open.

HW:

Due Friday:

Read ABGW ch. 2 and 3 and take notes.

Installment 2 of sr. memory book.

Final draft of closed to open.

For Wednesday next week: Find a scholarship that requires a SHORT scholarship essay and write that essay.

Friday, 9-13

Examine 2 parent letters.

Check notes on ch. 2 and 3. Discuss.

Work on memory book installment 2. Submit by end of class.

Closed to open revisions due today (if you are revising).

HW: Read ABGW ch. 4.

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Monday, 9-16 NO SCHOOL

Wednesday, 9-18

Introduce ch. 1-4 presentations.

Finish the last of the scholarship letters, an essay of 300-500 words (task #2). Put this one in the same document as the other two. Be sure to include the required length, the length of your essay, and the prompt in bold before EACH essay. Show me your drafts when you have them ready. Then submit all 3 on Classroom by end of class.

HW: Work on senior memory book. Third installment of memory book due Friday. Work on ch. 1-4 presentations.

Friday, 9-20

*Show me three chapters of Senior Memory Book.

Work on 1-4 presentations.

HW:

Make suggested revisions to parent letters (and any additional changes that will improve the letter).

Parent letter final due Monday, 9-23

WEEK 3

Wednesday, 9-4

Discuss chapter 2 of ABGW (moved later)

See returned closed to open and revise.

Discuss connection between parent letter and long scholarship essay.

Peer edit parent letters. Use this document.

* Revise parent letters after the peer edit.

Introduce scholarship/college entrance writing.

*Examine samples of scholarship writing on overhead, and discuss subject matter and rhetorical problems involved in writing a short scholarship essay.

HW: Revise parent letter. Outline longer scholarship essay.

Friday, 9-6 BLOCK day

Submit parent letter on Classroom.

Write in-class longer scholarship (similar to Hansen) essay. See scholarship/college entrance writing. The pertinent info for today is in red. Due by end of block.

HW:

Read the rest of the scholarship/college entrance writing assignment sheet.

Prepare installment 2 of senior memory book for next Friday.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Move this to research paper section:

Read in class "Writing to Inform" from Joining the Conversation. Take notes. Focus: We are partially writing to inform but mainly writing reflections when we write scholarship essays.

Discuss briefly "Writing to Inform" from Joining the Conversation.

WEEK 2

Activities: avoiding plagiarism, ways to publish, senior memory book.

See the syllabus section on plagiarism and discuss pp. 569-70 of ABGW. Focus on table 21.1 on p. 570.

Monday, 8-26

Tweak closed - open paragraph for MLA style and diction.

Submit drafts of closed to open continuum paragraphs via Classroom.

Display Kendall Schlesener's and Kate Weis's senior memory book. Any questions about senior memory book?

Discuss parent letter.

*See Mark McClure's rough draft of parent letter.

*Read Mark's final open form letter to parents.

*Read Brady's letter. (See Asst. Sheets/Models)

Rough outline of letter due end of class. Letter due Wednesday, 9-4 . You will peer edit that day.

HW: Read ch. 2 and take notes. Due Wednesday, 9-4

Wednesday, 8-28 All sophomores and seniors gone to Bethany.

* Spot check ch. 2 notes.

* Discuss ch. 2. What are the key concepts?

*Plan your parent letter. (Outline and determine whether to use open or closed form.)

HW:

* Parent letter draft 1 (typed) will be due Tuesday right after Labor Day.

Friday, 8-30

Mr. McClure gone.

Work on senior memory book installment 1. Submit on Classroom by end of class. Work on parent letter. Take notes on ch. 2.

HW: Parent letter rough and ch. 2 notes due Wednesday, 9-4.

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WEEK 1

Monday, 8-19

Opener: Senior year

What's next? Closing one chapter and beginning another.

Finish well but keep eye on enjoying the experience.

Discuss Homework: Mine

Discuss Salina Tech enrollment.

Take attendance.

Sign up for:

* Google Classroom

* Remind (Teachers' and students' texting app)

Comp Block 1

To: 81010

Message: @486aac

Comp Block 7

To: 81010

Message: @a9fdee6

* Lastpass (if it's not blocked)

Examine this schedule for the semester (called "overview by week" in the left sidebar).

Discuss water, phones, bathroom, attendance, due dates.

Pass out ABGW text books for use in class today. Read pages 6-7 together.

Do the group work on p. 8.

Read 8-11 together. Address questions.

Choose a group (or be assigned) to write together 200-400 words using one of the following prompts:

1. Write a closed-form paragraph explaining the closed to open continuum.

2. Write a delayed-thesis explanation of the closed to open continuum.

3. Write a thesis-seeking paragraph about the closed-open continuum.

4. Write an open-form response to the closed-open continuum.

Choose one of the following to do so:

a. Using an analogy, explain the closed-open continuum.

b. Write a story in which two or more characters ponder the closed-open continuum.

c. Write an ode to the closed-open continuum.

HW: 1. Read course syllabus before Wednesday.

Wednesday, 8-21

Pass out text books and record book numbers.

Briefly discuss course syllabus.

Complete Remind and Google Classroom sign-ups.

Do the group work listed on Monday's schedule. (20 minutes)

Flash each groups' paragraphs on the screen and discuss what they were attempting to do and where the writing actually falls on the closed to open continuum.

Regardless of the position on the continuum, did the groups' paragraph do the following:

*Explain or make reference to closed and open forms ?

*Explain or make reference to the forms in between the poles?

*What could be done to make each groups' writing clearer and more interesting?

Group work: Take 10 minutes to revise. After revision, read paragraphs aloud in your groups, and discuss the paragraph now better achieves its purposes.

Sharing time: Explain to the rest of the class the changes to the previous draft and why these changes improve the writing.

Discuss Senior Memory Book (one way we'll "publish"). First installment due next Friday.

HW:

Read remainder of ABGW ch. 1. Make a list of major points discussed in the chapter and write as many notes as you'll need to do the following: (1) prepare for a test at the end of chapter 4, (2) be able to explain those major concepts to your classmates during class discussion. You will be graded on your ability to contribute to our discussion and explain concepts presented in the chapter.

Friday, 8-23

Old business:

Are the following complete?

*Sign up for Google Classroom?

*For Remind?

*SalinaTech enrollment?

New business:

Discuss remainder of ch. 1.

Finish discussion of the remainder of the practice closed-open paragraphs.

Choose an item to have ready for senior memory book next Friday. Begin working on it.

HW: What would be the best approach (point on the continuum) to explain the closed-open continuum to someone who has never heard of this concept? Choose that point on the continuum and, in 200-400 words, write your best explanation. Due Monday.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION BEYOND THIS POINT

Week 3

Monday 9-2 NO SCHOOL - Labor Day

Wednesday 9-4

Show and discuss ch. 2 notes.

* Peer edit parent letters. Use this document.

* Revise parent letters after the peer edit.

HW: Read ch. 3 and take notes for Friday.

Final draft of closed to open.

Friday, 9-6

* Submit "final" draft of closed-open.

* Preview upcoming "stuff."

* Intro believe/doubt in-class exercise.

* Intro angle of vision.

* Review remainder of ch. 2 of ABGW.

Check ch. 3 notes and discuss ch. 3.

HW: Read and take notes on ch. 4. Revise parent letter according to peer's recommendations for next class.

Week 4

Monday, 9-9

* Intro believe/doubt.

HW:

Parent letter (Final due Wednesday, 9-11.)

Work on final draft of closed to open for Friday.

Wednesday, 9-11 (Band state fair day)

* Preview upcoming "stuff" for Friday and Monday.

* Review ch. 1 and 2.

Check ch. 3 notes and discuss ch. 3.

HW: Read and take notes on ch. 4 for Thursday, 9-6.

Friday, 9-13

Open to work on senior memory book chapter. See memory book details on the asst. sheets/models page of this web site. Due by end of class.

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REALLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION BEYOND HERE

(These are the plans from last year in reverse order.)

Week 17

Tuesday, 12-4

Research paper (informative-surprising) source review

* See this video about the CRAP test of sources. (This is a clever way to remember what I've been telling you about good sources. The Powtoon was based on this California State University, Chico publication.)

* See this OWL site about MLA8 works cited and give a final look at your works cited page. (Focuses: 1. when to use access date. 2. Easy Bib's mistakes.

* See this grading guide.

* Turn in your research paper peer editing papers and research notes and submit your 2nd (final?) draft of the research paper on Classroom by the end of class.

From CRAAP Source Evaluations to Evaluative Essay Details:

APA Style Continued

* See this APA template to examine the "reverse outline" of Kent Kimball's essay about the best car for college.

* Reverse outline an evaluative essay. Consider using Kendall Schlessener's and/or Deric Shettler's essay. Just use one that is similar to what you desire to do in your evaluative essay. Find them here.

* For basic rules about APA references, see this.

* Examine APA in-text citations and references.

* For details about in-text citations, see this page at the OWL.

* Test your knowledge of APA style with this interactive quiz.

* See this APA template, copy it, and insert all parts you can for your evaluative essay assignment. (You'll start this as a guided, in-class assignment.)

Review annotated URLs.

Work on evaluative essay and memory books.

HW: Find three sources and create an annotated URL list for your evaluative essay. Prepare JTC notes (if you haven't already done this).

Thursday, 12-6

Show ch. 8 JTC notes.

Evaluation Matrices

Discuss evaluation matrices.

See this and this for examples. (You don't need to have the specifics yet, just the items to compare and the list of criteria that you intend to use to compare them.)

Explore APA info in the left sidebar.

Discuss working the matrix into the essay. See

Continue working on evaluative essay (analysis and evaluation) and memory book.

HW:

1. Create a matrix that includes the products/schools/other you will evaluate and the criteria on which you will base your evaluation. Due Friday.

2. Review ch. 8 of Joining the Conversation. Focus on 295-306. See p. 296 and 320 for suggestions about a product evaluation. See again 313 - 319 for APA style.

Friday, 12-7 Work on memory book (all nine chapters) on Classroom.

Show annotated URLs.

Week 18

Tuesday, 12-11

Submit memory book (all nine chapters) on Classroom.

Discuss final essay exam.

See the evaluation rubric.

Examine a closed form and an open form final exam.

On paper or Chromebook, list 3 of the main things you've learned this semester.

example: 1. Developing ideas: Considering audience and purpose to determine the best genre for communicating. 2. Usage: identifying and correcting run-ons and fragments. 3. Artistry: showing rather than telling.

HW: Create outline for final exam.

Thursday, 12-13 Final in-class essay.

Work on evaluative essay.

Friday, 12-14 Evaluative essay due. Mrs. Wright visiting to take care of semester 2 enrollment. Work on senior memory books.

Week 19

Tuesday, 12-18 Open to compile senior memory books. Optional: Submit another draft of research paper.

Wednesday, 12-19 NHS gone (doesn't affect our classes).

Thursday, 12-20 Senior memory books due

Share books with classmates. Turn in text books.

12-21 NOON DISMISSAL Continue sharing memory books with classmates.

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Week 16

Tuesday, 11-27 Discuss common revision needs for research papers. Discuss use of figures (for polls, charts and photos, etc.) and introduce details of evaluative essay. Discuss again evaluative essay options. Students, declare evaluative essay plan.

HW: Work on draft 2 of research paper - due Thursday/Friday.

Read pp. 300 - 323 in Joining the Conversation, "Writing to Evaluate." Take notes. Be sure to address narrowing your focus by asking questions, the steps in conducting your evaluation, using evidence to support judgments, the steps in preparing your draft and the steps in reviewing your draft.

Thursday, 11-29

Check notes on "Writing to Evaluate" from Joining the Conversation. Discuss.

Explore APA style. See this sample APA essay at the Purdue OWL. Or see this one which is used at Illinois State University; you might find it more detailed. See this video about basic APA format.

*Discuss parenthetical source citations and APA style references.

*See this source from the University of Rhode Island for information about what to include in the reference citation. *See this OWL web page to review in-text APA citations.

Optional: This video is very specific about how to use Microsoft Word to format in APA style. You can probably adapt the video for use with Google Docs. If you need a video that is specific to Google Docs, here's one. It's not as detailed, but it will get you started.

Not optional: *Test your knowledge of APA style with this interactive quiz.

See this APA template, copy it, and insert all parts you can for your evaluative essay assignment.

HW: Find three sources and create an annotated URL list for your evaluative essay.

Friday, 11-30

1. Clean up anything not finished this week.

2. Peer edit research papers one final time.

3. Rest of period: Work day for senior memory book.

HW: Using the peer editing review that we completed Friday, revise your research paper one more time and re-submit it to the draft 2 slot by the beginning of Tuesday's class.

Reminder: Work on senior memory book.

Tuesday, 12-4 Research paper final draft due.

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Week 15

Tuesday, 11-13

Follow-up from Friday:

Check remaining notes: 8, 19, 20, 21

Check remaining students' 3 polished source citations in MLA style.

Show 7th installment of senior memory book.

Did anyone miss RS test #2 on Friday?

Check due dates on this checklist.

HW: Continue work on research paper.

Thursday, 11-15

Carried over from Friday:

Do this MLA review quiz and this one. Write down the items you miss and write the correct answers. Show me. Then polish source citations.

Continue work on note-taking.

Open to work on research paper. Write rough draft. See checklist for due dates.

Friday, 11-16

Open to work on research paper. Show me the rough draft of the research paper with sources cited.

HW: Memory book installment 7.

Tuesday, 11-20

Peer edit day for research paper. Peer edit using this guide. Then revise and submit on Classroom. Work on senior memory book if extra time is available.

Wednesday, 11-21 though Sunday, 11-25:

Thanksgiving Break

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Week 14

Tuesday, 11-6

*10 annotated URLs due.

Review highlights of ch. 8.

Complete comma splices and fused sentences Exercise 3 at Chomp Chomp before taking the Google form run-on sentence test.

Note-taking for one source due by end of block. You are simply showing me that you have a system and that you know how you will take notes;.

See OWL sample MLA paper. Discuss MLA style.

Block 8: See on screen Colton Droge's surprising reversal (Droge - Oil) informative essay. Discuss interview/poll question. (Interview questions/poll plan due Thursday.)

Also see beginning of Lindsey's essay on the psychology of color.

See again the research paper checklist with due dates.

HW:

1. Have you read and taken notes on chapter 8 (informative/surprising essay)? Chapter 19 (Asking questions, Finding Sources)?

2. Revise A of V. Highlight changes. Submit on Classroom by Friday.

3. By Friday, show notes on ch. 8, 19, 20, 21.

Thursday, 11-8

Show me poll/interview questions by end of block.

See RS quiz 1 on screen and review.

Do lesson 3 of run-ons at Chomp-Chomp.

Discuss ch. 19.

See Google Scholar for more reliable sources.

Review use of the Purdue Owl for MLA style.

SEE AGAIN THE RESEARCH PAPER checklist

HW: Read and take notes 20 (Evaluating sources), and 21 (Incorporating sources into your own writing).

Friday, 11-9 (musical cast performing)

Show all notes: 8, 19, 20, 21

Show me 3 polished source citations in MLA style.

Show 7th installment of senior memory book.

Take RS test #2.

HW: Read ch. 22 (Citing and documenting sources). No notes due, but turn in at least three MLA source citations (works cited) by end of Friday's block to demonstrate understanding of MLA style for Works Cited (as explained in ch. 22).

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Week 13

Tuesday, 10-30

Angle of Vision

See my notes on angle of vision essays. Revise for Thursday.

See Trinity's and Ellie's analyses on screen.

Informative/Surprising

Read Reader's Digest informative/surprising essays.

*Discuss a notetaking system for the digital age AND my method (slugs in margins or, better, on note cards) and maybe color by subtopic or by question. *Review Kansas Library Card data base use.

* Revisit annotated URL list. Here's a sample. Ten or more annotated URLs will be due Friday.

Create your notetaking plan.

*Using one of your sources, create an example of your notetaking plan; be ready to show me your notetaking plan during today's class.

*Show me three annotated bib notes. Continue gathering information for informative/surprising.

DOES EVERYONE HAVE A KANSAS LIBRARY CARD?

Thursday, 11-1

Final draft of a of v due.

Review informative/surprising assignment. See on screen Wyatt Rutherford's I-search. Review: How do you create an I-search?

See on screen Colton Droge's surprising reversal (Droge - Oil) informative essay.

Work on informative/surprising essay. (Gather sources.)

HW: Prepare 7th installment of senior memory book for Thursday.

Friday, 11-2

Show me the 7th installment of the senior memory book.

3 or more annotated URLs due.

Run-on and fragment quiz 1.

HW:

Coming next week: Research paper (informative/surprising) checklist with due dates. 10 or more annotated URLs due Monday, 11-6.

RESEARCH PAPER ROUGH DUE FRIDAY 11-16

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Week 12

Tuesday, 10-23

Discuss informative/surprising essays. See Droge oil essay beginning.

Declare topic/guiding question for informative but surprising essay.

Using this form, edit one or more sophomore character sketches.

Show me memory book chapters as you evaluate sophomore essays.

Thursday, 10-25

Finish all sophomore character sketches.

Examine sentence lifts from mid-term essays.

Show memory book chapters as you evaluate sophomore essays.

Declare updated research topics.

Then answer the following questions:

1. What will be your topic for this informative/surprising essay?

2. What do you classmates think is the common view of this topic?

3. What are 10 things you already know about the topic?

4. What are 10 things you would like to know?

5. What surprise(s) do you anticipate?

See together the fragments, comma splices and fused sentences PowerPoint at at Chomp Chomp. Scroll down to the sixth presentation on the page.

Do exercises 1 and 2 -- Comma Splices and fused sentences -- at Chomp Chomp.

HW: Read ch. 19 for Tuesday. Continue work on research paper. Read all sample research papers on web site (if you haven't already done so).

Friday, 10-26

Complete last of the character sketches.

Finish the fragments, comma splices and fused sentences PowerPoint .

Do Comma splices exercise 3 at Chomp Chomp.

HW: Read ch. 19 for Tuesday. Continue work on research paper. Read all sample research papers on web site (if you haven't already done so).

Week 11

Monday, 10-15 and 10-16 NO SCHOOL

Wednesday and Thursday 10-17 and 10-18

Angle of vision all parts due - final draft of descriptions; draft 1 of analysis.

Angle of vision all parts (positive, negative, analysis) due. Peer edit, revise and submit.

Introduce informative but surprising essay.

A few topics of the past include:

*history of Salina baseball: It was a bigger deal than you know.

*Prescription drugs are more of a problem than illicit drugs.

*Identity theft: You'll be surprised about the demographics of ID theft.

*Homework: Helping or hurting

*The link between obesity and increasing consumption of fast food.

*Why dieting typically doesn't work.

*Diabetes: the disease that will bankrupt America

*CTE: the risks are even greater than we had thought

*Social media is distracting you more than you think.

And here are a couple I've read about recently:

The average age of a widow is 59. (I need to vet this stat, but if it's true, why is that if the average life expectancy in the U.S. is about 70.)

Marijuana is medically much more dangerous to the teen brain than has been previously known.

Briefly preview text ch. 8.

Begin looking at Wyatt Rutherford's "Numb Nation" essay (Option B).

HW: Take notes on text ch. 8 of ABGW. Finish reading Wyatt Rutherford's "Numb Nation" I-search (a subset of Option B) essay. Choose a topic for surprising essay.

Friday, 10-19

Installment 5 of senior memory book due.

Sentence lifts from mid-terms. (For Rebekah only.)

Read all example of informative/surprising essays on the Asst. Sheets/Models page of this website. Start in class. Finish as homework.

HW: Choose at least three possible topics for your informative/surprising essay.

Week 10

Tuesday, 10-9

Submit revised scholarship essays.

Fourth installment of senior memory book due.

Continue work on positive and negative descriptions. Read analysis portions of angle of vision essays on the Asst. Sheets/Models page of this website.

Begin analysis portion of the angle of vision essay.

Introduce Thursday's in-class mid-term essay and work on outline. See Marissa's midterm and Marissa's exit exam on the Asst. Sheets/Models page.

HW: Read Catherine Conley's exit exam on the Asst. Sheets/Models page.

Create outline for mid-term.

Thursday, 10-11 In-class mid-term - due end of class.

HW: Continue work on Angle of Vision descriptions.

Friday, 10-12

Discuss approaches to angle of vision analysis.

Analyze one student volunteer's descriptions on screen. (words, figurative language, sentence structure, added or omitted details, other)

Work on the following: finalize descriptions; then write the analysis portion of the angle of vision essay.

If time permits, work on the senior memory books.

HW: Finalize descriptions; write the rough draft (best draft you can write before I see it) of the analysis of Angle of Vision.

Week 9

Tuesday, 10-2

Cleaning up:

*See any remaining ch. 1-4 videos.

*Mention the comma exercises that several missed on Friday. See the repeat immediately below.

Grammar and Punctuation: See commas at Chomp Chomp. Focus on commas with conjunctions.

1. See the "coordination and subordination" PowerPoint on this web page.

2. See the commas portion of the "punctuation" PowerPoint on this web page.

3. Do COMMA exercises 1, 2 and 3 on this web page. You'll need to scroll WAAAAY down past apostrophes.

4. If you need my help, ask. Be ready for a comma quiz Thursday.

Scholarship essays: Return scholarship essays. See one on screen. (Mention revision opportunity.)

Angle of Vision: View additional description models on the Asst. Sheets/Models page.

See 1-2 current students' angle of vision experiments on the overhead screen. Work on showing and not telling, adding fig language, adding and omitting details and revising sentence structure.

Go outside to work on angle of vision revisions?

HW:

*In class, revise a classmate's first a of v paragraph, making the paragraphs show, as we did in class.

*For Thursday, revise scholarship essays. Be thorough.

*Prepare senior memory book installment for Friday.

Thursday, 10-4

Commas test

Angle of Vision: Submit revised version of positive or negative angle of vision paragraph on Classroom. Discuss the reflection technique to write the opposite view.

Senior Memory Book: Work on senior memory book chapters if time permits. Fourth installment due Tuesday.

HW: Create a final draft of a of v #1 and write the opposite view in rough by the end of Friday's block. If you haven't already done so, read all examples on the Asst. Sheets/Models page of this website.

Friday, 10-5

Comma test #2.

Both positive and negative angle of vision descriptions due at end of block after peer rewriting exercise on description #2.