1. Poetry/Song Lyrics Assignment:
   
• Due Date: Friday, April 21st
  
2. Persuasive Essay
• Rough Draft - Due Date: Friday, May 5th
3. Personal Intro
• Rough Draft - Due Date: Tuesday, May 16th
4. Expository Essay
• Rough Draft - Due Date: Friday, June 2nd
5. Final In Class writing
   

1. Reading: The Adamses of Georgia.
   
2. Summary: Summarize the reading.
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #18 -  Clearview H.S. VS. (OHS) Other High School.  What is awesome, okay and in need of improvement?  What was (were)  your previous H.S.(s)  like?  Good, bad &  ugly?  What should we do, or do more of next year at CHS?
2. Editing Expository Essay
   

1. PEER EDITING OF EXPOSITORY ESSAYS.
2. Outline the essay you are reading using the FRAMES worksheet.
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #17 -  Advice: What are successful ways to give advice?  What advice have you been given that you ignored?  .... that you took?  ....that you directly, actively went against and did the opposite?  What about advice you have given?
2. Continue Peer Editing. Do 3 Big Picture and Line Edits.  Write your student number after your suggestions.

1.   PEER EDITING OF EXPOSITORY ESSAYS.

1. Q.o.t.D. #16 -  Describe what kinds of work you would like to do to keep a roof over your head and food on the table?  What have you done in your life that felt really good when you finished it?  As a kid I loved chopping wood, the scent of the chips flying.

1. Expository Essay Rough Draft Due Today!

1. Q.o.t.D. #15 -  If you were given $500-$5000 to take a summer class, workshop or camp, what would you want to do?  And why?  Remember specifics.  Scuba Diving?  Creative Writing? Acting?
2. Expository Essay Rough Draft Due Tomorrow!
   

1. Workday and Grade Check-in.
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #14 - Make a list of the things you are afraid of or that concern/worry you.  Now write what the likelihood of each of them happening.  What can you do about each to lower your concern or prevent them from happening?  How much control do you have over their occurence?  What is the worst possible outcome if your fears were realized?
   
2. Expository Essay:

1. Expository Essay:
2. Title Page and Works Cited in TempStudFold/2. Class Resources/ folder.  Open read only then save as into your English folder.

1. Q.o.t.D. #13 - Prejudice and Stereotyping.  What’s so bad about prejudice and stereotyping?  Prejudice = pre-judging.  We all do it.  We see a person wearing a certain style of clothes and we make assumptions.  What could be good about this tendancy and why do we do it?  What could be bad about it and unhealthy?  Tell me a bout a time you feel you were pre-judged/stereotyped or you made a decision on someone else that changed after you got to know them.
2. Expository Essay Intro. 
   
• Explanatory
• Teaches your audience
• Formal language
• Avoid slang
• Avoid "I," "me," "you"
• Contractions: "don't," "I'd," "you've," "can't."
• Do use facts, quotes, citations
3. Expectations: Title Page, Works Cited, at least 2 GOOD sources, Body: 2-3 pages, double-spaced.

1. Work Day.  Check Basmati.  Talk to Rob.   Fill out Drag sheets.
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #12 - They say curiosity killed the cat.  What are you curious about?  What do you like to learn about?  Tell me about a time that you were learning something and just could not get enough time to do it, when you were caught up in the excitement of it.  It need not have anything to do with school, but it might.
2. Finish advice letter.
   

1. Mad Libs 3
2. Reading: Seventh Grade by Gary Soto.  Summarize.  What happens on Victor's first day of 7th grade?  10 sentences or less.  The summary should be the nigh points, what actually happens.  Leave out the little details.
   
3. Advice Letter.  Write a multi-paragraph letter to yourself at age 12 or to another pre-teen: brother, sister, cousin, friend.  Think of what you have been through, what you have learned, what you've seen others do, what might save their lives or their hearts.  Think about what you would have liked to have known.  Be convincing.  Type it in proper letter format with your student number on top.  Save in your folder.  Do not attempt to print today.
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #11 - Define Right and Wrong  then give me specific examples.  Consider levels of wrongness, such as murder, killing, stealing, drug pushing, drug using, speeding, lying, cheating, smoking.  Who would you protect for which of the above?  What do you wish someone had protected you from?
2. Proofreader's Marks.  Place in notebooks.
   
3. Mug Shot Sentences Punctuation/Paragraph.
4. Finish typing/editing Personal Intro page in LAB.

1. Q.o.t.D. #11 - Define Right and Wrong  then give me specific examples.  Consider levels of wrongness, such as murder, killing, stealing, drug pushing, drug using, speeding, lying, cheating, smoking.  Who would you protect for which of the above?  What do you wish someone had protected you from?
2. Proofreader's Marks.  Place in notebooks.
   
3. Mug Shot Sentences Punctuation/Paragraph.
4. Finish typing/editing Personal Intro page in LAB.
   

1. Reading: Rob's Autobio.
2. Finish Personal Intro.  Turn in to Rob
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #10 - Tell me about a crux point in your life.  In everyone's lives there are choices and occurrences that change your life's direction.  Pick one a tell me about it.  How did it change you?  What could have happened if you'd made a different choice?  For me a major crux point was having a child my Senior year in high school and deciding to keep the baby and get married the following year. 
   
2. Continue work on your personal introdutcion.
   

1. Reading a Memoir: Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl
2. Begin writing personal introduction
• 1-2 pages double-spaced typed
• Tell me who you are, where you are from, your family, your favorite things, and a few dreams.
  

1. Q.o.t.D. #9 - Birth Order Brainstorm: There are many theories of personality based on birth-order; first, only, middle, baby, etc.  What are the characteristics/traits of people you know?  How is your family's dynamic?  How do you think the oldest child usually acts?  Middle?  Baby?  Only?
   

1. Finish Critiquing
2. Write a "Final Draft" using the suggestions from your peers. 
   
3. Turn it in with your name on it and with the "rough draft" attached.

1.      Warm-up: Mad Libs

2.      Reading: Sample Persuasive Essay.

3.      Exchange Persuasive Essays.  Students will critique three other students.

a.      Pick at least 1 good thing: Style, paragraphs, facts.

b.      Tell what could make it better: More details, paragraphs, introduction, conclusion.

c.       Write student number with notes.
 

1. Q.o.t.D. #8 - Respond in depth to one of the following quotes. 
   

• Angela Carter - "Racism cannot be separated from capitalism."
  
• Oscar Wilde - "A true friend stabs you in the front."
  
• Anais Nin - "Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage."
  
• Helen Keller - "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
  

2. Read the sample Student Persuasive essay.  Find at least 1 positive to note and then make suggestions to improve it.
3. Read another student's essay.

• Pick at least 1 good thing: Style, paragraphs, facts.
•  Tell what could make it better: More details, paragraphs, introduction, conclusion.
• Write student number with notes.
  

1. Write your own rough draft.  Due today, typed.
2. Print it out without your name, but add your student number.
   

1. Read the sample Student Persuasive essay.  Find at least 1 positive to note and then make suggestions to improve it.
2. Write your own rough draft.  Due tomorrow, typed.
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #7 - Today is day 13 of 45.  Friday is 1/3 (33%) of the way through the quarter.  Please answer the following questions.  Include: nouns, pronouns, an adjective, an adverb and a preposition.
   

• How many of your classes are you passing?
• What do you owe Rob in English?
• Where is your Drag Sheet?  Is it filled out and dated?
• Have you been leaving your notebook with Rob and is it graded?
• What is your plan for the rest of the year, summer and beyond?

2. Writing your introduction
3. Working on your details, body paragraphs, conclusion and introduction.
   

1. Writing the body paragraphs, writing your conclusion.
2. Working on your details, body paragraphs and conclusions.
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #6 - What is a subject you feel strong enough about to Debate [Argue Rationally]?  Give me your opinion with both barrels.  But support it with details: facts, anecdotes, examples.
2. Writing a Persuasvie Essay.  Choose a topic you care about.
   
3. Topics: Ban SUVs, Cell Phones, Teenage Driving, Politics, Rap/Country Music, curfews, the Draft, fashion DO^s and DON'T^s, etc.
4. Due Today: Topic, outline/frame/web of your 3 main ideas and supporting details/facts. 
   

1. Mad Lib
2. Finish draft. 
   
3. Write assn. checklist
4. 
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #5 - Parts of Speech: Define each of the following ; noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction.  Now write four sentences making sure to utilize all seven.  Ask your neighbors for help if you don't remember.
2. Finish your edit of your QOTD.
   

1. Read Art and Etiquette of Critiquing
2. Do "Practicing Peer Evaluation"
3. Discussion: Critiquing DOs and DON'Ts.
   
4. Exchange anonymous Q.o.t.D.s
5. Read, make comments at least 1 positive first and follow with things that can be improved.  Ask questions to help them expand.
   
6. Lather, rinse and repeat.   Critique and exchange 3 of your fellow student's papers.
7. When you get your paper back read the critiques and go back to revise. 
   
8. Turn it back in to Rob with your name on it, and include the Rough draft.

1. Q.o.t.D. #4 - What place does music hold in your soul?  In your life?  In your time?  What do you listen to and why?  Do you have different musical moods?  How do you most enjoy music?
2. Choose a Q.o.t.D. that you have written, that you would like to expand, improve, revise.  Type it up, revising as you go.  Then print out a copy without your name.  Use regular margins, 12 pt. font and please double-space.
3. Hand it in to Rob with your student number written on top.
   

1. Reading: Read "Masters of War" and "Year of the Jackpot."
2. DIscussion on meaning and purpose for writing such songs.

1. Q.o.t.D. #3 - "Place of Peace"  Create a place of peace for yourself.  Describe in depth, detail.  What does it smell, taste, sound, smell, feel like?  It might be a real place or a place in your imagination.  Make it so real that when you are stressed you can imagine yourself in an oasis of calm. 
2. Finish Poetry/Song Lyrics Assignment

1. Reading: Song Lyrics II.
   
2. Discussion:
   
3. Create "astudent" Folder in TempStudFold on altsnap/students/TempStudFold.
4. Create a subfolder in your student folder titled: English4Q06
5. Getting to Class assignments online/on the network.
6. Continue Working on Poetry/Song Lyrics Assignment
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #2 - "Every American child should learn a second language beginning in Kindergarten."  Respond to this statement.  Agree or disaggree or both, but give reasons.  COnsider our place in the world and the benefits.
   
2.  Continue Working on Poetry/Song Lyrics Assignment

1. Listen to All Along the Watchtower, Versions 1, 2 & 3.
2. Discussion on meaning
   
3. Poetry/Song Lyrics Assignment:
   

• You are going to pick two poems or songs and create a Powerpoint that describes what they mean to you, how they are similar/ different, and what they say about the time they were written in.
• The PowerPoint will have a Title Page, Credits Page and at least 2 pages for the body.  
  
• You will copy the poetry/song lyrics into the PowerPoint.
• Then you will respond in writing to the songs/poems. The questions I want you to address are:
• What does the song/poem mean to you?
• How are the two songs/poems related?  Similarities/Differences?
• What does the song signify in relation to the time?  To your generation? 
  

1. Introduction: Rob's Course Organizer
2. Concept of Question of the Day: Q.o.t.D.  1/2-1 page handwritten with paragraphs, proper grammar.
3. Q.o.t.D. #1 -  Tell me about your experience with language in and out of school.  What do you love/loathe about English classes?  What do you like to read?  Then tell me an anecdote (little story) about your recent life.