Racial Profiling

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*Article of the Week #11 is due -- annotation and written response.

*Racial Profiling -- yesterday you completed Activities #3 and #4 in your Writer's Journal.  Today we will read the editorial together and examine what Herbert does for each paragraph. Then, you will create a picture outline of how the text is structured. Map it out on scatch paper and then transfer into your Writer's Journal.

 

Homework:   Select your new independent reading book for the final six weeks.  If you have not read a book from the recommended book list, you must do so for the final six weeks.

Racial Profiling

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*Writer's Journal -- I will finish checking today.

  

*"The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow" -- yesterday you read one of the stories from this PBS site  Jim Crow Stories.
I asked you to take notes so that you would remember what to tell about one of the stories you read.  You will share that today.

*Activity #3 and #4 -- if we have time we will complete these activities.

HOMEWORK:  Article of the Week #11 -- annotation and written response due tomorrow.

Racial Profiling

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*Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

*Note:  Remember that one of your required books must be from the recommended book list.  We have one more to go for this semester.  The new grading period begins the first week back from Thanksgiving. 

*Racial Profiling  -- yesterday I had you use the netbooks to do some research on Jim Crow laws.  You responded in your Writers Journal to the questions in Activity #2 and you went to the PBS page called "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow" and read four of the Jim Crow stories.   Jim Crow Stories

While I check your Writer's Journal, please select one of the stories to retell to the class.  Take some notes so you will remember some key details.

HOMEWORK:  Article of the Week #11 -- annotation and written response is due on Friday.

Module #3 -- Racial Profiling

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*Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive to class.

 

*Note: Book reviews were due yesterday.  I will not accept late reviews.   If you have not selected a book from the recommended book list, be sure to do so for the final six weeks.

*Yesterday you responded in your Writer's Journal to Activity #1.  Today you will complete Activity #2 and record your responses in your Writer's Journal.  Be sure to clearly identify the activities in your Writer's Journal.

HOMEWORK:  Article of the Week #11 due Friday

Module #3

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I hope that you had a very enjoyable weekend!

*Note:  Book reviews are due no later than midnight tonight.  They must have a time stamp of November 17th or an earlier date.

*Article of the Week #11 -- annotation and written response is due on Friday

* Essay on animal rights was to be completed on Friday.  I indicated that if it was not completed by then, you must complete it over the weekend.  Today, I am printing out essays that are complete and grading the others accordingly.

*NOTE:  I would like to check your Writer's Journal this week.  Please have it available each day (as you are supposed to).

*MODULE #3 -- the next module focuses on a single essay that concerns racial profiling.  To get started please respond to the following question in your Writer's Journal:  What do you know about racial profiling.  What do you think about it?

Definition of Racial Profiling

Reality of Racial Profiling

HOMEWORK:  AOW #11 -- annotation and written response is due on Friday

Essay

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*Please get your netbook when you arrive.

*Article of the Week #10 is due -- annotation and written response

*NOTE:  Book reviews are due on Monday, Nov 17th no later than midnight.  Be sure to follow the rubric and submit the URL of your Goodreads page by filling out the form under "Important Links."

*Animal Rights Essay -- you will complete the writing of this essay today.  How you format the essay is up to you, but I should see paragraphing (an introduction and body paragraphs that make specific points to support your view).  Your essay should be no less than 500 words.  Please double-space and put your name, course name, instructor's name, and date in the upper left corner.  Entitle your essay.  Indent each paragraph.

*HOMEWORK:   Book review

Animal Rights Essay

Good Morning!

*Please get your netbooks when you arrive.

*Article of the Week #10 -- annotation and written response is due tomorrow.

*Essay -- for homework I asked you do compose your essay in response to the writing prompt in Activity #28.  You are writing about your position on animal rights. How you format the essay is up to you, but it should be well-organized and clearly present and support a point of view.  TODAY, create a new document and name it  Period 2 Animal Rights Essay.  Share the document with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com)   Continue writing today, and I will give you time tomorrow to complete this.

HOMEWORK:  Article of the Week #10
                          Book Review
                          Essay

   

Essay

Good Morning!

I hope that you had an enjoyable day off (some of you!)

*Please read quietly until we are ready to begin.  Book reviews are due Monday, November 17th.

*Article of the Week #10 -- annotation and written response is due on Friday

*Friday we did a little bit of investigating online about animal rights to further help us develop a perspective on this issue. Today we are going to begin composing a response to the essay assignment.  Refer to Activity #28 again.  To begin, I would like you to do a free write -- do not worry about a thesis or supporting evidence and any of the elements of a formal essay . . .  not yet.

Animal Bill of Rights
Medical Research and Animal Rights 
Animal Abuse and Human Abuse

HOMEWORK:  1.  Independent reading, 2. Article of the Week,
3.  Draft of essay

Essay

Good Morning!

I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!

*Please read quietly until we are ready to begin.  Book reviews are due Monday, November 17th.

*Article of the Week #10 -- annotation and written response is due on Friday

*Friday we did a little bit of investigating online about animal rights to further help us develop a perspective on this issue. Today we are going to begin composing a response to the essay assignment.  Refer to Activity #28 again.  To begin, I would like you to do a free write -- do not worry about a thesis or supporting evidence and any of the elements of a formal essay . . .  not yet.

Animal Bill of Rights
Medical Research and Animal Rights

HOMEWORK:  1.  Independent reading, 2. Article of the Week,
3.  Draft of essay

"Of Primates and Personhood . . ."

Good Morning! 

*Please read your independent reading book until we are ready to begin.  Book reviews are due on November 17, 2014

*Article of the Week #9  -- annotation and written response due

*"Of Primates and Personhood" -- yesterday you composed a summary of this article.  If it is not completed, take a few more moments to complete it.  THEN, please read the writing prompt for Activity #28.

*Netbooks needed for animals rights petition and some exploring of more ideas about the treatment of animals.
Animal Abuse


Homework:  1. Essay assignment  2. Independent reading book

"Of Primates and Personhood . . . ."

Good Morning! 

*Please read your independent reading book until we are ready to begin.  Book reviews are due on November 17, 2014

* Animal Rights

*Text - "Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and 'Dignity' to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?"  Yesterday you responded to questions on this text.  (We were not quite done with the questions).  

*Write a summary of the article -- this time without a template.  Refer to your annotation and the questions that you answered for details to include in this summary.  Include the title, author, purpose, supporting details, audience, and tone (academic, formal, informal)

HOMEWORK:  Article of the Week #9 -- annotation and written response.

"Of Primates and Personhood . . ."

Good Morning! 

*Please read your independent reading book until we are ready to begin.  Book reviews are due on November 17, 2014

*Text - "Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and 'Dignity' to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?"  Yesterday you gave this article a close reading and annotated it for main ideas paragraph by paragraph. Please respond to the questions on the handout.  Consider your point of view as you respond to these questions because you will be writing an essay that responds to all three articles that we have read.

*HOMEWORK:  Article of the Week #9

"Of Primates and Personhood"

Good Morning! 

*Please read your independent reading book until we are ready to begin.  Book reviews are due on November 17, 2014

*Article of the Week #9 -- annotation and written response due Friday

*Yesterday you spent class time revising your personal essay.  I will be checking that revision to give you a final grade based on 50pts. 

*Text - "Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and 'Dignity' to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?"
 Gorillas in the Mist

*Activity 22 -- Noticing Language - Vocabulary 

*Reading the article-- as you read the article, annotate each paragraph for main ideas.

HOMEWORK: Article of the Week #9 

Revising Personal Essay

Good Morning!

Please get your netbook when you arrive. 

*Before we go on to the next aticle I would like you to carefully edit your Personal Essay.  I have made corrections and you are to complete the revision.  If you have less than 500 words, try to expand upon your thinking at some point in your essay.

*If you are done early revising your essay, begin the next article-- "Of Primates and Personhood:Will According Rights and 'Dignity' to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?"

Homework:  Independent reading.  Book reviews are due November 17th.