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)
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.
