November 8, 2016 - Election Day - Tuesday

Class Work

7:30 am class
1. Share the "rock" papers.
2. Please get your visual ready to share. Be sure you have it on CANVAS and/or on a jump drive. Here was the assignment:
Fix-it advice for other GUM problems_

• Use of commas
• There/their/they're
• two/too/to
• possessives
• numbers vs. numerals
• Point of view -1, 2, 3
• who/whom/whoever,whomever/whose
• your/you're/yore
• its/it's
• that/which/who
• between/among
• less/fewer
• parallel structure
• direct quotations (conversation)
• punctuating dates
• past/present/future . . . be consistent in your essay
• lay/lie
• hear/here

1. Select one of the items listed above. (One choice per person) You will become our resident expert on the topic.
A. Learn the rules and be ready to share.
B. Create/find a visual to help us remember the rules!
C. Provide sample sentences.
D. Create a five question quiz to test our understanding. (I need a paper copy of this on Tuesday.)

PowerPoint or Prezi , please. However, if you get a different idea, please clear it with me.

12:00 Class - See above. You will be presenting on Thursday.

All:  Now that you are experts on rocks, what do you know about walls?

A. "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44266




Preview of coming attractions . . .
Select a wall for research. There are many walls around the world . . . let's brainstorm a few.
Select one. You will become the class expert on this wall. You only need to select the wall by Thursday.

November 4, 2016 - Thursday

Class Work

A. All about a rock . . . share, please!
B. Getting rid of run-on sentences-

A PowerPoint! http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/powerpoint.htm

•  View: Our Friend the Semicolon and Avoiding Run-on Sentences

• The rules: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm (Quizzes are at the bottom of this page. Click on a link. Take the quiz. Report your progress.)

Class Work/Homework
1.Take the practice quizzes. Report your scores and explain your progress for each. (30 points)
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova4.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova3.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/runons_quiz.htm

C. Fix-it advice for other GUM problems_

• Use of commas
• There/their/they're
• two/too/to
• possessives
• numbers vs. numerals
• Point of view -1, 2, 3
• who/whom/whoever,whomever/whose
• your/you're/yore
• its/it's
• that/which/who
• between/among
• less/fewer
• parallel structure
• direct quotations (conversation)
• punctuating dates
• past/present/future . . . be consistent in your essay
• lay/lie
• hear/here

1. Select one of the items listed above. (One choice per person) You will become our resident expert on the topic.
A. Learn the rules and be ready to share.
B. Create/find a visual to help us remember the rules!
C. Provide sample sentences.
D. Create a five question quiz to test our understanding. (I need a paper copy of this on Tuesday.)

PowerPoint or Prezi , please. However, if you get a different idea, please clear it with me.

November 1, 2016 - Tuesday

Class Work

1. Share a memoir.

• Share at your table.
• Share with the class.

2. Adopt a rock  - listen for instructions

3. Learn to fix those pesky run-on sentences and comma splices!
(7:30 am and 12:00 pm . . . we will save this for Thursday!)

A PowerPoint! http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/powerpoint.htm

•  View: Our Friend the Semicolon and Avoiding Run-on Sentences

• The rules: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm (Quizzes are at the bottom of this page. Click on a link. Take the quiz. Report your progress.)

Homework
1.Take the practice quizzes. Report your scores and explain your progress for each. (30 points)
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova4.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova3.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/runons_quiz.htm


2. Polish your memoir and post the revision. (100 points)

3. Create a three-four paragraph paper "All About a Rock!" (30 points)
You can:

• Personify your rock. Introduce your rock as if it were a person.
• Sell your rock. Create an ad appropriate for radio and convince listeners to buy your rock!
• Use your rock as the main item in a story, memoir, or report.

Thursday - October 27, 2016

Class Work

1. Questions & Concerns about the technology essay . . .
2. Memoir Sharing - table activity
3. Details, please!

• What are details?
• What is the difference between important details and "extras" - information that could be left out?

4. Let's look back at one of the sample memoirs.

• Select one for your table.
• One person will read the memoir out loud to the group.
• One person will make a list of important details.
• The others will stop the reading when an important detail is mentioned.

Review the list. Based on what you wrote, how would you define "important details?

5. Let's take a look at some tips: http://www.novel-writing-help.com/details-in-writing.html
And now, let's study some samples of sensory details: http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/guide.cfm?guideid=91


Homework:  Go back through your memoir and add details that bring the memory to life! Post your revision by Tuesday, November 1, 2016

6. You are now ready to adopt a rock - if time permits.

No Class October 25

I regret that we will not be meeting in person on Tuesday, October 25. Please use the time to work on the final copy of your technology "friend or foe" essay.

Also, be sure to read the three sample personal essays that were handed out on Thursday. If you were absent, just look at the post from October 20. The links are there as well as on CANVAS.

In addition to reading the brief essays, think about what you will record as your own memory paper.
Remember:
1. A memoir is a true story.
2. You are the star of the story!
3. Conversation is more informal than formal. In other words, people sound the same way they talk. However, please used correct punctuation.
4. The memoir teaches a lesson of some sort. It makes a point.

On Thursday,  be ready to share two possibilities for a personal memoir. Also note the point you plan to make or the lesson you plan to teach the reader.

Hopefully, the sample papers helped you to think of personal experiences that would lead to great writing!

Contact me on CANVAS if you have questions or concerns.

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Yes, we have class today! Please bring a paper copy of your draft to class for an activity. You may print in class if you use the school computers.

Class Work

1. Peer editing activity . . . listen for the instructions.

2. Getting ready to write a memoir.

• Define "memoir"
•   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b10Q2pc_pl4 (Ten tips) or https://theamericanscholar.org/how-to-write-a-memoir/#.WAhZ-48rKUk (Voice of an expert author)
• http://www.barbaradoyen.com/writing-nonfiction/what-is-a-memoir-what-makes-a-memoir-different-from-an-autobiography-or-biography (Good tips!)
• Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHkuSpJxPs (Video)
• Read and analyze three samples:
• "Working Cattle - We'd Hate to Love It" by Kevin Hoogendoorn (Hadout PM or http://english-iv-honors-e-block.sutton.hs.schoolfusion.us/modules/locker/files/get_group_file.phtml?gid=4440989&fid=26275658 
• "The Ghost of Halloween Past" by Rick Bragg (handout)
• "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan (handout and http://www.mpsaz.org/rmhs/staff/dmsokol/101/files/amy_tan_fish_cheeks_.pdf

Homework: 

Activity #1
A. Read all three sample memoirs.
B. Summarize each sample in a 5-10 sentence paragraph.
C. Note the lesson learned for each.
D. Post in CANVAS. (Due - Thursday, October 27) (60 points)


Samples:

http://www.southernliving.com/community/

"The Ghost of Halloween Past" by Rick Bragg (handout)

"Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan (handout and http://www.mpsaz.org/rmhs/staff/dmsokol/101/files/amy_tan_fish_cheeks_.pdf

Activity #2
Write the final copy of the Technology: Friend or Foe? essay.
A. Use MLA style
B. Include in-text citations.
C. Include the Works Cited page.
Helpful MLA Information: http://web.calstatela.edu/library/guides/3mla.pdf
(100 points) Due: Tuesday, October 25, 2016

No Class on Tuesday, October 18

Due to a family emergency, we will not be meeting tomorrow, Tuesday. I was hoping to be back in Phoenix, in time for class, but the early flights out of Baltimore were sold out. I do apologize.

Please finish the draft of your technology essay. Bring a paper copy to class on Thursday. I promise. I will be back! I have a plane ticket in hand.

Happy writing. Let me know if you have questions or concerns.