31 October 2016

Academic reading tips


  • List of strategies for tough reading in Frankenbooklet
  • Discuss through Letter 4
  • Watch movie -- just the letters
  • hw:  read through ch 3 by Wed.

26 October 2016

Mary Shelley!


  • listen to Shelley's intro
  • finish gluing into booklet, getting it set up
  • read letters 1-3 HW

20 October 2016

all the analysis things


  • pick 2 favorite power phrases
  • get 2014 prompt to read, annotate, create thesis
  • finish tonight if you haven't

17 October 2016

Analysis continues...


  • vocab 3 words
  • Work through Capote examples in 5 for a 5
  • Get copies of Alcott's "Soldier"  
  • HW:
    • work prompt
    • annotate piece toward prompt focus
    • write thesis

12 October 2016

I like your tone!


  • Tone sheet: 
  • glue into notebooks
  • read through, apply personal examples
  • begin to apply to Capote's blurb
  • no hw

10 October 2016

Analysis Analysis


  • check hw
  • read first 3 pages of 5 for 5
  • take notes on chart in workbook for analysis essay
  • get a strong notion of what the essay entails
  • begin reviewing $80 pages from hw -- power phrases
  • no hw

07 October 2016

So much analysis


  • share and turn in SOAPSTone
  • $80text
    • read 48-68
    • activity on 63 and 68; no actual outlines or essays

06 October 2016

clock probs


  • check hw
  • clock pairs
  • begin reviewing $80 Birdish questions with 12:00 partner
  • hw: SOAPSTone -- 1 article 

05 October 2016

10/5


  • check hw
  • watch Elizabeth I speech, discuss
  • notes from ch 2   $80text in notebook
  • read 44-48; finish questions; create 4-6 questions: hw

04 October 2016

finish presentations


  • Presentations -- finish extra book sell it!
  • Chapter 2 in $80 text
  • read 39-44, annotate,  do activity on p 43 due tomo