Taking care of business on our magnet field trip to watch Shakespeare at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.
A digital classroom space for Mr. G's CHS MST Pre-AP English 10 class
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Caesar Take Home Exam Pre-Write
We've worked through the better part of 3 sets of sentence errors that mimic the format you saw on the PSAT and will see on the SAT. Now it's time to apply your new found understanding of the rules we've reviewed by drafting your response to the Caesar Take Home Exam.
As you work on your responses, consult the rubric and be sure to strive for the cleanest possible mechanical and grammatical piece you can write. That is ONE of the elements of a successful response in this sort of a prompt. Remember, the prompts, format, and rubric you see on this assignment are VERY similar to what you'll see in AP Lit. (possibly AP Lang.) in the coming years.
TODAY'S TASK: Create a new blog entry on your blog and start drafting a response to 1 of the 3 questions on the exam.
For those of you choosing question #3, make sure that you focus your response based on one of the three prompt suggestions: a defense, challenge, or qualification of the prompt. To be clear, a defense is where you support the proposition/premise of the prompt (the ends justify the means); a challenge is where you argue against it; a qualification is where you say something like, "Yes/No, but only if ..."
Your due date for the final on this will be roughly 2 weeks from now, right around the time we complete and show the videos.
As you work on your responses, consult the rubric and be sure to strive for the cleanest possible mechanical and grammatical piece you can write. That is ONE of the elements of a successful response in this sort of a prompt. Remember, the prompts, format, and rubric you see on this assignment are VERY similar to what you'll see in AP Lit. (possibly AP Lang.) in the coming years.
TODAY'S TASK: Create a new blog entry on your blog and start drafting a response to 1 of the 3 questions on the exam.
For those of you choosing question #3, make sure that you focus your response based on one of the three prompt suggestions: a defense, challenge, or qualification of the prompt. To be clear, a defense is where you support the proposition/premise of the prompt (the ends justify the means); a challenge is where you argue against it; a qualification is where you say something like, "Yes/No, but only if ..."
Your due date for the final on this will be roughly 2 weeks from now, right around the time we complete and show the videos.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Writing the Literature Review!
So we've sampled the literature through the annotation process, taken notes, etc., now it's time to put it together in a lit review.
This is not very different from the other formal academic writing you've done in the past. You'll have an intro with a thesis, a body of support (made up of the predetermined categories of HO, CTP, CD, etc.), and a concluding section. This is, really, the first half of your larger research paper.
That being the case, you should make some sort of reference to your project. You have several options for this: you can do it in the intro/thesis; you can do it as part of the analysis/concluding thoughts in your body paragraphs; you can do it in the conclusion; you can do it in all those places. Just do it (Nike)! Notice my citation.
As you weave the research into the paper, remember to vary your approach in integrating quotes and paraphrased material. Good writing will do this in number of ways. The Integrating Quotes handout is a good resource/review on different strategies for this. Part of the rubric is tied to your use of these different strategies. Remember that anytime you borrow somebody's direct words or paraphrase their ideas/work, it deserves an APA citation. Be sure you attempt to correctly use what we call "in text" citation of your sources, following the APA format. Consult the OWL APA Guidelines for In Text Citation as you work on this.
If you're visual and you want to see a pretty good model of a finished lit. review product, check out this paper: Lit. Review Example It's a little on the long side for your first version of your lit. review, but it's a decent holistic model that does the things you're supposed to do according to the rubric.
Notice, for instance, in the example how they have a title page (you must do this), their use of leveled APA headings, and a reference page that is properly formatted, with only the references they used in their paper, no annotations.
Finally, keep the Literature Review Rubric close at hand during this process. There is no excuse for NOT doing well if you follow this and strive to format according to APA guidelines.
You can do this ... don't leave it to the last moment ... you'll be fine.
Hard copies are due for turn in/class activities on Tuesday, 10/18. No excuses.
This is not very different from the other formal academic writing you've done in the past. You'll have an intro with a thesis, a body of support (made up of the predetermined categories of HO, CTP, CD, etc.), and a concluding section. This is, really, the first half of your larger research paper.
That being the case, you should make some sort of reference to your project. You have several options for this: you can do it in the intro/thesis; you can do it as part of the analysis/concluding thoughts in your body paragraphs; you can do it in the conclusion; you can do it in all those places. Just do it (Nike)! Notice my citation.
As you weave the research into the paper, remember to vary your approach in integrating quotes and paraphrased material. Good writing will do this in number of ways. The Integrating Quotes handout is a good resource/review on different strategies for this. Part of the rubric is tied to your use of these different strategies. Remember that anytime you borrow somebody's direct words or paraphrase their ideas/work, it deserves an APA citation. Be sure you attempt to correctly use what we call "in text" citation of your sources, following the APA format. Consult the OWL APA Guidelines for In Text Citation as you work on this.
If you're visual and you want to see a pretty good model of a finished lit. review product, check out this paper: Lit. Review Example It's a little on the long side for your first version of your lit. review, but it's a decent holistic model that does the things you're supposed to do according to the rubric.
Notice, for instance, in the example how they have a title page (you must do this), their use of leveled APA headings, and a reference page that is properly formatted, with only the references they used in their paper, no annotations.
Finally, keep the Literature Review Rubric close at hand during this process. There is no excuse for NOT doing well if you follow this and strive to format according to APA guidelines.
You can do this ... don't leave it to the last moment ... you'll be fine.
Hard copies are due for turn in/class activities on Tuesday, 10/18. No excuses.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Ryann's World: Propaganda/Media Literacy Portfolio
Ryann's World: Propaganda/Media Literacy Portfolio: This is an advertisement from a magazine. This ad is trying to get people to think that tide is the best laundry detergent and that they...
I really like Ryann's use of all sorts of media in her Prop/Media Portoflio. Nice collection of samples, solid analysis. Check it out.
I really like Ryann's use of all sorts of media in her Prop/Media Portoflio. Nice collection of samples, solid analysis. Check it out.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Work time ...
Today is yours to work on completing the Annotated Ref assignment. Be sure to review the rubric as you work on completing this step. For those of you who need more time at home to complete this, be sure to use the home/remote login info for ProQuest: username (papermaker) and password (welcome). Otherwise it will not let you login.
Finally, don't forget that you MUST bring to class tomorrow, along with your Annotated Ref assignment, either your note cards OR your digital notes for the progress check on this. I need to see good evidence of you having critically read the sources and that you're pulling out meaningful tidbits of info/quotes/stats, etc. that you can later plug into your lit. review.
Later this week and next week you'll have class time to start piecing your lit review together. The due date for this is 10/18, in class, hard copy with title page, lit review, and reference page. Email with questions.
Finally, don't forget that you MUST bring to class tomorrow, along with your Annotated Ref assignment, either your note cards OR your digital notes for the progress check on this. I need to see good evidence of you having critically read the sources and that you're pulling out meaningful tidbits of info/quotes/stats, etc. that you can later plug into your lit. review.
Later this week and next week you'll have class time to start piecing your lit review together. The due date for this is 10/18, in class, hard copy with title page, lit review, and reference page. Email with questions.
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