After you have chosen your topic, use the packet to outline your 3 body paragraphs. You will be posting both your rough draft and final draft to your blog.
TUESDAY, October 28 Outlines and rough drafts due for all three body paragraphs.
FRIDAY, October 31 Entire rough draft due on blog.
WEDNESDAY, November 5 Final copy due on blog. Turn in your packet.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
Sample IRB Log
Your homework (due Monday) is to post an IRB (Independent Reading Book) log to your blog. You should read your IRB for one hour, and then post to your blog. Here is a sample:
Title: What is the What?
Author: Dave Eggars
Page #: 27 (This is the page that you are on after reading for an hour)
Summary: Valentino let a woman into his apartment, thinking that she needed help. She ended up breaking into the apartment with a man, tying him up, and stealing his stuff.
Rating (1-10, 10 being the highest): 9
Explanation: So far, I really like the voice in this book. It feels really simple and honest - not showy or over-the-top. I already trust Valentino, even though his naivete about what's going on keeps me in the dark about what's happening a little.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
"Most Dangerous Game" Paragraph
Here is a sample paragraph. You can refer to your rubric for more information about how to write this paragraph and how you will be graded.
Your answer to the question you choose is your STANCE on the issue. Your answer should be your green topic sentence. Your REASONS for why you chose that answer or stance are your yellow sentences. Your EVIDENCE from the text are your red sentences. Remember: Your paragraph should be at least 10 sentences long.
EXAMPLE:
In "The Most Dangerous Game," the character of Rainsford clearly values liberty over equality.
In the beginning of the story, Rainsford proves himself to be a wealthy hunter who cares little for others' feelings or opinions. When Whitney proposes that a hunted jaguar might feel fear, he responds, "Bah! They've no understanding!" He also calls the sailors' fears about Ship-trap Island "pure imagination." He hardly stops to think that other people might have opinions other than his own. At the end of the story, Rainsford is still single-mindedly focused on his own needs and desires. Even though he condemns murder, he kills both Ivan and Zaroff without a second thought. In fact, after two murders, he sleeps soundly: "He had never slept in a better bed." The ending almost suggests that Rainsford has taken over Zaroff's position as a hunter-of-men on the island. There is no evidence to suggest that he has had a change of heart about hunting or about his responsibility to others (such as the sailors still trapped on the island). Because Rainsford always pursues his own desires and never stops to consider others, it's clear that he cares more for liberty than equality.
Your answer to the question you choose is your STANCE on the issue. Your answer should be your green topic sentence. Your REASONS for why you chose that answer or stance are your yellow sentences. Your EVIDENCE from the text are your red sentences. Remember: Your paragraph should be at least 10 sentences long.
EXAMPLE:
In "The Most Dangerous Game," the character of Rainsford clearly values liberty over equality.
In the beginning of the story, Rainsford proves himself to be a wealthy hunter who cares little for others' feelings or opinions. When Whitney proposes that a hunted jaguar might feel fear, he responds, "Bah! They've no understanding!" He also calls the sailors' fears about Ship-trap Island "pure imagination." He hardly stops to think that other people might have opinions other than his own. At the end of the story, Rainsford is still single-mindedly focused on his own needs and desires. Even though he condemns murder, he kills both Ivan and Zaroff without a second thought. In fact, after two murders, he sleeps soundly: "He had never slept in a better bed." The ending almost suggests that Rainsford has taken over Zaroff's position as a hunter-of-men on the island. There is no evidence to suggest that he has had a change of heart about hunting or about his responsibility to others (such as the sailors still trapped on the island). Because Rainsford always pursues his own desires and never stops to consider others, it's clear that he cares more for liberty than equality.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Grammar sites
If you want to practice the parts of speech on line, here a few sites:
1. http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/ - a quiz/game with funky gorillas
2. http://www.educates.us/stories.html - use your knowledge of parts of speech to write weird stories
3. http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001579.shtml - a site with links to lots of other sites that have to do with parts of speech
1. http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/ - a quiz/game with funky gorillas
2. http://www.educates.us/stories.html - use your knowledge of parts of speech to write weird stories
3. http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001579.shtml - a site with links to lots of other sites that have to do with parts of speech
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Period 3 IRB log
IRB Log DUE MONDAY
After reading 1 hour, please post:
Title and author of your book
Page number you are on after reading
Describe the conflict in the story
What point of view is the story told from? First person, third person, or omniscient?
After reading 1 hour, please post:
Title and author of your book
Page number you are on after reading
Describe the conflict in the story
What point of view is the story told from? First person, third person, or omniscient?
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Quiz Tomorrow (9/26)
What to study for tomorrow's quiz:
Periods 2 and 3:
Step Up to Writing (green, yellow, red sentences)
nouns
adjectives
verbs
adverbs
prepositions/prepositional phrases
30 vocab words, focusing mostly on new vocab:
prolonged
surmount
receding
disarming
protruding
impulse
diverting
invariably
unruffled
imprudent
Period 4:
Step Up to Writing (green, yellow, red sentences)
nouns
adjectives
verbs
adverbs
30 vocab words, focusing on new words (above).
Periods 2 and 3:
Step Up to Writing (green, yellow, red sentences)
nouns
adjectives
verbs
adverbs
prepositions/prepositional phrases
30 vocab words, focusing mostly on new vocab:
prolonged
surmount
receding
disarming
protruding
impulse
diverting
invariably
unruffled
imprudent
Period 4:
Step Up to Writing (green, yellow, red sentences)
nouns
adjectives
verbs
adverbs
30 vocab words, focusing on new words (above).
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Assignment due Wed 9/24
DUE WEDNESDAY 9/24:
1) Paragraph planner for Roger paragraph
2) Rough draft of Roger paragraph
3) Final copy of Roger paragraph - type and print or e-mail to ConstitutionMelville@gmail.com
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