• Final Draft of Persuasive Essay Due at the end of the Period Friday, Sept 29.
• MID-QUARTER - October 6th

1. Q.o.t.D. #17 - What are the biggest "myth"conceptions about teenagers?  What do most adults believe that is not true?  What is better?  What is worse?

1. Q.o.t.D. #16 - Tell me about a time in your life that you were scared.  Or tell me a scary story. 
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #15 - Tell me about a time in your life that you were a part of a group.  What were the positives and negatives about being a part of the group?

1. Q.o.t.D. #14 - Tell me about a time that you enjoyed working.  It need not be in school or for pay.

1. Q.o.t.D. #13 - Lifetime Achievement Award.  The year is 2050.  You are being given a lifetime achievement award.  In third person describe your accomplishments.  Consider family, career, hobbies, etc.

1. Q.o.t.D. #12 - What is your favorite holiday?  Why?  Tell me some holiday memories.
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1. Q.o.t.D. #11 -  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. Edit your "Place of Peace" as if you were reading someone else's work.  Use the list we created that you wrote in your notebook. 
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #10 - What is a school?  What are activities which define a school as a school?  What is a student?  What are behaviors that make one a student in the truest sense of the word?
2. Spelling #3  - brought, language, length, whether, weather, laughed, which, witch, guard, guarantee
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1. Spelling Test #2
2. Work on Expository Rough Draft
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #9 - Self-Evaluate your performance in this class.   Look at your first questions of the day.  Compare them to more recent ones.  Are they longer?  With paragraphs?  Complete sentences,, punctuation, etc.   Tell me about the reading assignments.  Which worked best for you and why?  What has been diifcult or easy about the essays?
   
2. Work on Expository Essay
   

1. Notes on Writing an Expository Essay
2. Sample Outline and Topic
3. Work on rough draft

1. Q.o.t.D. #8 - Tell me about food in your life.  Your likes, dislikes, comfort food, etc.
   
2. Intro Expository Essay
3. Brainstorm topic and body paragraph ideas

1. Reading: Mildred
2. Write down definitions: Words to Know - Also write down Adjective and Adverb
3. Read the story.  Answer questions #1, #2 (Consider the story from Susan, Mom or Dad's POV.) and do the language Workshop.
   
4. MidQuarter Reminder
5. Critique Persuasive Essays.

1. Q.o.t.D. #7 - Tell me about yesterday.  Use all that you know about grammar. 
   
2. Spelling Test
3. Spelling List #2: college, wait, measure, several, collage, certain, finally, weight, scientist, exercise
4. Check Basmati
   

1. Mt. Baker Field Trip

1. Critique Rough Drafts
2. Meet w/Rob - Weekly Progress Report
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #6 - 
• What are the hardest parts of writing an essay? 
  
• Describe the steps of how it works when it works best, from when it is assigned to when you get back your final rewritten draft.
• What comments do you get most often in your writing? 
  
2. The art of Critiques.  How do we help each other become better writers?
3. First exchange of Rough Draft Essays.

1. Read Sample Persuasive Essays.
2. Work on Rough Draft of Persuasive Essay Due at the end of the Period.
• Turn in typed, 12 pt font, double-spaced with your student # at the top.

1. Q.o.t.D. #5 - Why would you (or why would you not) like to live to be a thousand?  What conditions would you need to live that long?  What would you do if you had all the time in the world?
2. Intro: Persuasive Writing
3. Essay #2 - Persuasive Writing - The Best _____  of  _________.
   

1. Work-day.  Check in with Rob.

1. Reading: Langston Hughes - Salvation.

1. Q.o.t.D. #4 - Tell me about obe of the hardest decisions you have had to make.  Who gave you advice and what was it?  Did you take it?  It was supporting you?  How?  What was the final outcome.  Would you make the same decision again?
   
2. Spelling #1: threw, where, quiet, their, through, were, they're, quite, enough, there
   

1. Reading: The Promised Visit, p82 in Journeys.  
   
2. Answer the following questions in your notebook.
1. Close-up: 1-5
2. Suspense: 1-3
3. Activities: only #1
3. Work on Final Draft or Finish Rough Draft of narrative essay.
   

1. Mad Libs.
   
2. Q.o.t.D. #3 - Tell me what makes your generation different than the ones before?  Do you have a generation identity?  What would you call your generation?
   
3. Revision suggestions.
4. Type: your Q.o.t.D. in Word.  Give it a title and save it into your English folder.  Print it out without your name on it.
   
5. Turn it into Rob
6. Art and Etiquette of Critiquing
   
7. Make suggestions for improvement. 
   

1. Read: In Formation  by Rob and answer the following questions.
   
• What is "genre"?  Give some examples.
  
2. How is reading Fiction different from reading the news?
   

1. Reading: 15 minute read.
   
2. Discussion: How does this writing on the Internet different from what we read in the newspaper?
3. Read "One Hot Night"
   
4. What constitutes "Good" writing?
   
5. Paragraph I assignment.
6. Come in tomorrow with a personal experience you can write about.  It could be an accident, a concert, a sporting event or something else active with sensory details.
   

1. Q.o.t.D. #2 - How does technology fit into your life?  What kinds of technology make your life easier?  Think of anything that is a modern creation: electronics, plastics, etc.  What about technology that you don't appreciate, that doesn't make your life easier?
2. Lab Intro
   
3. A few words about saving your work.
4. Create "astudent" Folder in TempStudFold on altsnap/students/TempStudFold.
5. Create a subfolder titled Fr/So English
6. Getting to Class assignments online/on the network.
   
7. Open Word.  Write me a note.  Save it in your folder.  Tell me about the last week. 
   
8. Go to a News Site and find a story on 9/11 anniversary, the war in Iraq or Afghanistan.  Some choices are CNN, MSNBC.
9. How does this writing differ from what we read in the newspaper?
   

Day 2 - 9/7

1. Grab a newspaper.  Start reading.
2. Discussion of how we read the newspaper.
3. Articles
4. Classifieds
   

Day 1 - 9/6

1. Concept of Question of the Day: Q.o.t.D.
2. Q.o.t.D. #1 -  Tell me what you did last summer.  STSTS.