Week 2

Get on the Bike
and ride directly into the Thunderdome!

Monday 03/31
  1. Weekly
  2. KKHS accounts?
  3. Hamlet
Tuesday 04/01 and Thursday 04/03
    1. Hamlet 
    HW:  Hamlet essential question essay - # will be revealed on Thu. and due on Mon. 04/07


    "Mad north-northwest"



    Welcome Back to the Dome!
    Thunder, that is!
    We gear up for May 9th!

    Tue. 03/25
    • Pass back Stay back
    • Hamlet Fishbowl of Insanity (multiple fish enter, one fish leaves - if sane enough)
    • Remember to do your Purple #7, "The Waltz"
    • Oh, and. . . Get it right or one of us will not make it out of the Thunderdome and I can assure I will be the one who does!
      • .”
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      • “ aldlfakjdfl”(Longo).
      • possessive apostrophes
      • author’s sex
      • dnaq
      • how to identify titles
      • authors and titles in introduction
    Thu. 03/27
    • V29 - Feasible, genre, implicit, incite, infallible, intermediary, kindle, lucid, misconstrue, obsolete, bemused,chimerical, coterie, confluence, desiccate, demure, denude, duplicity, eccentric, echelon
    • Hamlet Fishbowl of "too too sullied(solid) flesh"

    Week 10 of 10!

    03/10/14 - 03/14/14
    Monday had a Friday Bell Schedule
    Tuesday,Wednesday, and Thursday have Regular Bell Schedules
    Someone please remind me to get the books - NOW! (I like this)

    Tuesday 03/11/14

    Essential Question:  How do I make sense of all the random bits of information that seemingly have no common thread or theme?
    Common Core State Standards:  "Two men enter. . . One man leaves."  ("Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior")
    1.  Weekly
    2.  Vocab. Beasty Cheat Sheet
    3.  Your MC practice and Self-analysis - hold on until we grade and then add another layer of observation

    Thursday 03/13/14
    Essential Question:  How do I make sense of all the random bits of information that seemingly have no common thread or theme?
    Common Core State Standards:  "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. . . Smells like victory." ("Apocalypse Now") 
    1.  V28 + All Rhetorical Devices + Beasty
    2.  Purple #6 is due
    3.  In-class essay - for real

    V28:  Anarchy, audacity, bane, blight, cajole, capitulate, conflagration, cumbersome, didactic, facetious, volatile, voluble, ambulatory, apocryphal, atrophy, daunt, de facto, debacle, deign, demagogue 


    Concerned about the Standards?
    Reading CCSS
    CCSS.RI.6. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.
    Writing CCSS
    CCSS.W.11-12.1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

    Congratulations!

    CONGRATULATIONS!
    Team Longo Students representing as Kekaulike Ambassadors:

    Science Olympiads:  
    Genesis Gil, Rosie Kulhavey-Sutherland, and Keane Nunan

    Music
    Michael Reeves

    Wrestling:  
    Jenna Mauliola

    Week 9 of 10

    03/03/14 - 03/07/14
    Monday has a Tuesday Bell Schedule
    Tuesday has a Special Bell Schedule for the ACT 
    (Which you will annihilate!)
    Wednesday - Friday have Regular Bell Schedules

    Monday 03/03/14

    Essential Question:  How do I make sense of all the random bits of information that seemingly have no common thread or theme?
    Common Core State Standards:  All of them - duh.  We are in the Thunderdome!
    1.  New Weekly
    2.  Self-analysis of your MC practices
    3.  In-depth MC Exam format Analysis

    Thursday 03/06/14
    Essential Question:  How do I make sense of all the random bits of information that seemingly have no common thread or theme?
    Common Core State Standards:  "I know Kung Fu."  "Show me." ("The Matrix") 
    1.  V27 + Rhetorical Devices Praiteritio - Zeugma
    2.  Purple #5 is due
    3.  In-class essay

    V27:  
    Prolific, purge, relinquish, retract, slovenly, succumb, tortuous, verbose, voracious, aggravate, spurn, 
    supercilious, timorous, torpid, unwitting, contrite, contumacious, conundrum, convivial, dalliance

    Concerned about the Standards?
    Reading CCSS
    CCSS.RI.6. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.
    Writing CCSS
    CCSS.W.11-12.1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.