Argument Essay

Good Morning!
Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

1.  Independent Reading -- Please read your independent reading book over vacation.  Make that one of the enjoyable things you do with your time.  HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

2.Argument Essay --  This essay is due today.  You do not want it hanging over your head during vacation.  ALL essays are shared with me by now.

HOMEWORK: Independent Reading

Argument Essay

Good Morning!
Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

NOTE:  Bring canned goods, and you will receive extra credit.  I do not normally give extra credit for non-academic reasons, but I am making an exception in this case!

1.  Independent Reading -- Please read your independent reading book while your netbook powers up.

2.Argument Essay -- Your topic must be debatable and you must include evidence from the little bit of research that you do for this assignment. Refer to the handout on Argumentative Essay that I gave you yesterday.  Format your essay accordingly.  The essay is due Friday.  

You have created a new document, and you have named it Period ___ Argument Essay.  Share it with me IMMEDIATELY (abaltrushes@gmail.com) and check to see if I received it. 

HOMEWORK:  Argument Essay is due tomorrow

Argument Essay

Good Morning!
Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

NOTE:  Bring canned goods, and you will receive extra credit.  I do not normally give extra credit for non-academic reasons, but I am making an exception in this case!

1.  Independent Reading -- Please read your independent reading book while your netbook powers up.

2.Argument Essay -- Your topic must be debatable and you must include evidence from the little bit of research that you do for this assignment. Refer to the handout on Argumentative Essay that I gave you yesterday.  Format your essay accordingly.  The essay is due Friday.  

You have created a new document, and you have named it Period ___ Argument Essay.  Share it with me IMMEDIATELY (abaltrushes@gmail.com) and check to see if I received it. 

HOMEWORK:  Argument Essay is due on Friday

Argument Essay

Good Morning!
Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

NOTE:  Bring canned goods, and you will receive extra credit.  I do not normally give extra credit for non-academic reasons, but I am making an exception in this case!

1.  Independent Reading -- Please read your independent reading book while your netbook powers up.

2.Argument Essay -- Your topic must be debatable and you must include evidence from the little bit of research that you do for this assignment. Refer to the handout on Argumentative Essay that I gave you yesterday.  Format your essay accordingly.  The essay is due Friday.  

Create a new document and name it Period ___ Argument Essay.  Share it with me IMMEDIATELY (abaltrushes@gmail.com) and check to see if I received it. 

HOMEWORK:  Argument Essay

First Responders

Module #3 Essay

Good Morning!
Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

NOTE:  Bring canned goods, and you will receive extra credit.  I do not normally give extra credit for non-academic reasons, but I am making an exception in this case!

1.  Independent Reading -- Please read your independent reading book for 10 minutes.

2.Argument Essay -- Activities #15 - 20 discuss this writing assignment.  Activity #20 describes the structure of the essay.  I am also passing out an additional description of an argument essay.  Your topic must be debatable and you must include evidence from the little bit of research that you do for this assignment.  The essay is due Friday.  

Create a new document and name it Period ___ Argument Essay.  Share it with me IMMEDIATELY (abaltrushes@gmail.com) and check to see if I received it. 

HOMEWORK:  Argument Essay

Racial Profiling

Good Morning!

NOTE:  Bring canned goods, and you will receive extra credit.  I do not normally give extra credit for non-academic reasons, but I am making an exception in this case!

1.  Independent Reading -- Please read your independent reading book for 10 minutes.

2. "Jim Crow Policing" -- Yesterday you completed Activity #7 which was done in your Writer's Journal and on the text.  Look at Activity #9 and record your responses on the top front of your copy (first two items).  THEN, respond to #3 under Activity #10.
Finally, complete Activity #11 in your WRITER'S JOURNAL (before you do that we will look at Activity #12 and discuss).

NOTE:  Look at Activity #15. We will complete that next week.  Begin thinking of a controversial issue for this essay. 

HOMEWORK:   Select a controversial topic for an essay.

Racial Profiling

Good Morning!

NOTE:  Bring canned goods, and you will receive extra credit.  I do not normally give extra credit for non-academic reasons, but I am making an exception in this case!

1.  Independent Reading -- Please read your independent reading book for 10 minutes.

2.  "Jim Crow Policing"  --  Yesterday we read this article together and annotated.  We read the entire article except for period 7 because some individuals feel the need to give their opinion before they fully understand what they have read.  In this ERWC course, an objective is to fully understand the text through rhetorical reading strategies before we become part of the discussion . . . . before you question the text.  Otherwise, no one is going to listen to what you have to say.

3.  Complete Activity #7 in your WRITER'S JOURNAL and on your copy of the text.

4.  HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Racial Profiling

Good Morning!

NOTE:  Bring canned goods, and you will receive extra credit.  I do not normally give extra credit for non-academic reasons, but I am making an exception in this case!

1.  Independent Reading -- Please read your independent reading book for 10 minutes.

2. "On The Pulse of Morning" -- Please turn in your completed response and questions if you have not done so yet.

3.  "Jim Crow Policing"  -- We will read this article together.  Please follow along with the questions I ask as we read and annotate.  Take notes on your copy of the responses to the questions I ask.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Racial Profiling

Good Morning!

NOTE:  Bring canned goods, and you will receive extra credit.  I do not normally give extra credit for non-academic reasons, but I am making an exception in this case!

1.  Independent Reading -- Please read your independent reading book for 10 minutes.

2. "On The Pulse of Morning" -- Yesterday you read and responded to this poem.  The reason why I chose this poem was because of its relevancy to us today.  We will discuss the poem, and I will collect both handouts.

3.  "Jim Crow Policing"  -- You have this article.


HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Racial Profiling

Good Morning!

NOTE:  Next week we will resume independent reading at the beginning of the period.  Please make your selection of a book by then.  If you have not done so yet, your next selection must be from the required recommended list. 

MODULE #3:  Racial Profiling. Yesterday you did some research on the term "Jim Crow."   This was Activity #2.  You also looked at 4 narratives at the PBS site, "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow."  You summarized one of these stories in your Writer's Journal.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading Book

Module #3: Racial Profiling

Good Morning!

NOTE:  Next week we will resume independent reading at the beginning of the period.  Please make your selection of a book by then.  If you have not done so yet, your next selection must be from the required recommended list. 

MODULE #3:  Racial Profiling.  Before I pass out the packet I would like us to view a TEDTALK on the topic of the module.

 Racial Profiling


Activity #1:  Getting Ready to Read.   Please respond in your Writer's Journal.  (Many of you are doing a great job with responding to the activities.)

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading selection by next Monday. 

Animal Rights Essay

Good Morning!

NOTE:  Next week we will resume independent reading at the beginning of the period.  Please make your selection of a book by then.  If you have not done so yet, your next selection must be from the required recommended list.  Book reviews for this second grading period were due by midnight last night.  I will not accept any late reviews -- no exceptions.

WRITER'S NOTEBOOK:  If you did not have your writer's notebook available for me yesterday (and you should have), I urged you to have it available today.  

1. Animal Rights Essays -- I will read them today (anonymously).

 HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading Selection

Book Review

Good Morning!

Welcome back and I hope that you had a great Thanksgiving vacation!

Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

Today, as promised, you will have time to work on your book review.  The book review is due NO LATER than midnight tonight.

Please follow the rubric for the book review.  Once you post it on Goodreads, be sure to submit it to me by filling out the form on my blog.   Please provide space between each paragraph.

I would like to see your WRITER'S JOURNAL today.

Tomorrow we begin Module #3 

Animal Rights Essay

Good Morning!
Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin at the bell.  Book Review is due Monday, Nov 30th . . . . and NO later.
      
NOTE:  Animal Rights Essay due today

2. ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: Activity #28.  You have created a new document and named it Period __ Animal Rights Essay, and you have shared it with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com).  This is a 500 word essay.  Compose your thoughts carefully and meaningfully.  Write effective sentences.  

NOTE:  I will collect your copy of  "Of Primates and
             Personhood . . . " today.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading and Book Review

Animal Rights Essay

Good Morning!
Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin at the bell.  Book Review is due Monday, Nov 30th.
      
NOTE:  Animal Rights Essay due tomorrow.

2. ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: Activity #28.  You have created a new document and named it Period __ Animal Rights Essay, and you have shared it with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com).  This is a 500 word essay.  Compose your thoughts carefully and meaningfully.  Write effective sentences.   The completed essay is due on Friday.

NOTE:  I will collect your copy of  "Of Primates and
             Personhood . . . " when you are done with the essay.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Animal Bill of Rights is a petition to the United States Congress, stating the basic, inalienable rights that all sentient beings have—and that our government should protect.    Animal Rights

The Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Proposed Animal Bill of Rights

I. The right of animals to be free from exploitation, cruelty, neglect, and abuse.

II. The right of laboratory animals not to be used in cruel or unnecessary experiments.

III. The right of companion animals to a healthy diet, protective shelter and adequate medical care.

IV. The right of wildlife to a natural habitat, ecologically sufficient to a normal existence and self-sustaining population.

V. The right of farmed animals to an environment that satisfies their basic physical and psychological needs.

VI. The right of animals to have their interest represented in court and safeguarded by the law of the land.


HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Animal Rights Essay

Good Morning!
Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin at the bell.  Book Review is due Monday, Nov 30th.
      
2. ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: Activity #28.  You have created a new document and named it Period __ Animal Rights Essay, and you have shared it with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com).  This is a 500 word essay.  Compose your thoughts carefully and meaningfully.  Write effective sentences.   The completed essay is due on Friday.

NOTE:  I will collect your copy of  "Of Primates and
             Personhood . . . " when you are done with the essay.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Animal Rights Essay

Good Morning!
Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin at the bell.  Book Review is due Monday, Nov 30th.
      
2. ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: Activity #28.  Yesterday you created a new document and named it Period __ Animal Rights Essay, and you shared it with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com).  This is a 500 word essay.  Compose your thoughts carefully and meaningfully.  Write effective sentences.   The completed essay is due on Friday.

NOTE:  I will collect your copy of  "Of Primates and
             Personhood . . . " when you are done with the essay.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Module #2 Essay Assignment

Good Morning!
Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin at the bell.  Book Review is due Monday, Nov 30th.
 

I am not a label  
   
2. ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: Activity #28.  Please create a new document and name it Period  __ Animal Rights Essay and share it with me TODAY (abaltrushes@gmail.com).  This is a 500 word essay.  Compose your thoughts carefully and meaningfully.  Write effective sentences.

NOTE:  I will collect your copy of  "Of Primates and
             Personhood . . . " when you are done with the essay.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising

Good Morning!

A presenter from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising is here today.  Enjoy the presentation!

 

"Of Primate and Personhood . . . "

Good Morning!

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin at the bell

 

NOTE:Book Review is due Monday, Nov 30th
 
2.  "Of Primates and Personhood"  --  On Tuesday you did descriptive outling for "Of Primates and Personhood . . ."  
  Please complete in your WRITER'S JOURNAL  Activity  # 24 (Summarizing the article and Responding). Does this writer have a bias?  Where is it expressed?  What portions of the text are unclear or questionable to you?

ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: Activity #28.  We will work on this next week.  Tomorrow there will be a special presentation for you.  (Fashion Institute of Design  & Merchandising).

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading



    

"Of Primates and Personhood"

Good Morning!

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they human or other animals on Earth.  So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy.  Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy. 

                                                                                                            Neil deGrasse Tyson 

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin at the bell.
  
NOTE:  Please refer to the side board for what we have done in the WRITER'S JOURNAL.  It will be checked at the end of the second six weeks. 
 
2.  "Of Primates and Personhood"  -- Do descriptive outlining for this article.  Identify chunks of text and the topics that these chunks are addressing. Please work quietly on this. THEN, respond to Activity # 24 in your WRITER'S JOURNAL.
Ban on Research

    
HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

"Of Primates and Personhood"

Good Morning!

I hope you had a great weekend!

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin at the bell.
  
NOTE:  Please refer to the side board for what we have done in the WRITER'S JOURNAL.  It will be checked at the end of the second six weeks. 
 
2.  "Of Primates and Personhood"
     Please respond to Activity #21
     First Reading:  As you quietly read the article for the first 
     time, define the unfamiliar words by copying the definitions
     in the packet.
     Second Reading:  Identify the rhetorical function of each 
     paragraph.  

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

"From Primates to Personhood"

Good Morning!

1.  Independent Reading -- Begin at the bell

NOTE:   If I have indicated that you need to revise your Personal Essay, do so and let me know so I can give it a grade. Otherwise, you will not receive a grade for it.  I have read some very good essays and have honestly enjoyed them!  I intend to share some of them later this week. 

NOTE:  Please refer to the side board for what we have done in the WRITER'S JOURNAL.  It will be checked at the end of the second six weeks. 

2. Before we go on to "From Primates to Personhood," I thought that it would be beneficial to pause and have a pre-reading experience.  We will watch a video on the life of Dian Fossey who devoted her life to researching the great apes.

Dian Fossey

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading

"Hooked on a Myth"

Good Morning!

Talking and eloquence are not the same; to speak and to speak well are two things.  A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.   

                                                             -- Heinrich Heine

1.  Independent Reading -- Begin at the bell

NOTE:   If I have indicated that you need to revise your Personal Essay, do so and let me know so I can give it a grade. Otherwise, you will not receive a grade for it.  I have read some very good essays and have honestly enjoyed them!  I intend to share some of them later this week. 

NOTE:  Please refer to the side board for what we have done in the WRITER'S JOURNAL.  It will be checked at the end of the second six weeks.

2.  "Hooked on a Myth: Do Fish Feel Pain?" :  Please respond to Activity #20 in your WRITER'S JOURNAL.  

I will collect your copy of "Hooked on a Myth" to give you credit for showing descriptive outlining and other notes.

HOMEWORK: Independent reading

"Hooked on a Myth"

Good Morning!

1.  Independent Reading -- Begin at the bell

NOTE:   If I have indicated that you need to revise your Personal Essay, do so and let me know so I can give it a grade. Otherwise, you will not receive a grade for it.  I have read some very good essays and have honestly enjoyed them!  I intend to share some of them later this week. 

NOTE:  Please refer to the side board for what we have done in the WRITER'S JOURNAL.  It will be checked at the end of the second six weeks.

2.  "Hooked on a Myth: Do Fish Feel Pain?"  -- Yesterday we did a descriptive outlining of the text. I will be collecting these papers to give you credit for following along with recording this outlining.
TODAY, please complete Activity #18  ("Are we justified in treating fish differently from other animals?) and Activity #19.

HOMEWORK:  1. Independent reading  2.  Revising Personal Essay if necessary

"Hooked on a Myth: Do Fish Feel Pain?"

Good Morning!

1.  Independent Reading -- Begin at the bell

NOTE:  I am working on your Personal Essays.  If I have indicated that you need to revise it, do so and let me know so I can give it a grade.  I am done with periods 3 & 6.  I have read some very good essays and have honestly enjoyed them!  I intend to share some of them later this week. 

2.  "Hooked on a Myth: Do Fish Feel Pain?" -- You completed activities #15 & #17 yesterday.  Read the article quietly to the end. Then, read again and consider the structure of the text (Activity #18).  Do a descriptive outline of text.  Draw a line after the introduction and divide the body of the essay into sections on the basis of the topics addressed.  Then draw a line where the conclusion begins.  Is it the last paragraph, or does it begin before that?    In your WRITER'S JOURNAL respond to the question for Activity# 18.

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading

"Hooked on a Myth: Do Fish Feel Pain?"

Good Morning!
I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!

1.  Independent Reading -- Begin at the bell

NOTE:  I am working on your Personal Essays.  If I have indicated that you need to revise it, do so and let me know so I can give it a grade.  I am done with periods 3 & 6.  I have read some very good essays and have honestly enjoyed them!  I intend to share some of them later this week.  The one theme that I liked the most was about determination: if you get knocked down, get right back up and keep going!

2.  Your response to the editor regarding the Rifkin article -- I will collect that today.  You completed that in class on Friday.  I would like to read some of your responses to the class (anonymously).

3.  "Hooked on a Myth: Do Fish Feel Pain?" -- Before reading the article, please complete Activity #15 & Activity #17 in your WRITER'S JOURNAL.  You may use your cell phone for Activity #15 to find out something about the writer.

HOMEWORK: Independent Reading

"A Change of Heart About Animals"

Good Morning!

 

1.  Independent Reading -- Begin at the bell

 

NOTE:  I am working on your Personal Essays.  If I have indictaed that you need to revise it, do so and let me know so I can give it a grade.

 

2.  "A Change of Heart" -- Yesterday you wrote a rhetorical precis of this article.  I will collect it today after we review it. We will also look at some of the language Rifkin uses and the "Letters to the editor in response to 'A Change of Heart about Animals.'"

 

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading

"A Change of Heart"

Good Morning!

I hope that you had a great weekend!

1.  Independent Reading --Begin at the bell.

NOTE:  I am working on the Personal Essays.  I will not give your essay any grade if it needs to be revised or is incomplete.  

2."A Change of Heart"  --We gave this text a second reading yesterday to examine not only what is said but also the rhetorical function of the paragraph.  Is new information being explained?  Is the writer making an argument?  Is the argument being supported with evidence and examples? 

WRITERS JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT -- Refer to Activity #6.  Select a word and create a word tree as shown by the example (but use a different word, e.g., genetic, humane, esoteric, empathy.  USING YOUR CELL PHONE refer to the online etymology dictionary.  If you do not have a smart phone, let me know so you can use a netbook.

Activity #7 -- complete this activity in your WRITER'S JOURNAL

Activity #10 -- Respond to the second group of questions (1-3)  

(LABEL EACH ACTIVITY IN YOUR JOURNAL -- SKIP A LINE OR TWO BETWEEN EACH ACTIVITY)

(I know this is a variety of assignments here, but the directions are clear.)

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

 

"A Change of Heart"

Good Morning!

I hope that you had a great weekend!

1.  Independent Reading -- Let's take about 15 minutes for reading.  With this amount of time, I want to reinforce the concept and importance of this activity.  Please begin at the bell.  DO NOT ask me to go to the library to check a book out.  I reminded you of this ALL last week.

2."A Change of Heart"  -- We gave this text a first reading on Friday.  Today you will read the text again, noting what Rifkin is doing paragraph by paragraph (charting the text).

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

 

"A Change of Heart"

Good Morning!
"You can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
                                                                                             Immanual Kant
  

1.  Independent Reading --  Please have your reading for the second six weeks on Monday.   Make your selection of a new independent reading book and bring it to class each day.  Please take this requirement seriously and have deep respect for your learning by doing so. 

2.  Yesterday you wrote about a time in which you used persuasion  (Activity #1, Option #1).  Please look at Activity #3 with me -- we will simply read it together to understand more about persuasion.
We will do the same for activities #4 & #5. Please follow along. I do not think it is necessary to respond in writing to these activities . . . unless you insist.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Module #2, Activity #1

Good Morning!

1.  Independent Reading -- By the end of the week select your reading for the second six weeks.  Make your selection of a new independent reading book and bring it to class each day.  Please take this requirement seriously and have deep respect for your learning by doing so. 

2. Personal Essay -- Your Personal Essay was due yesterday.

3.  Module #2: Yesterday I passed out to you the packet for Module #2 -- "The Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos" 

 Activity #1, Option #1Quickwrite

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading Book

Module #2: The Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page:Ethos, Logos, and Pathos

Good Morning!
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
                                                                                                         Plato 

1.  Independent Reading -- By the end of the week select your reading for the second six weeks.  Make your selection of a new independent reading book and bring it to class each day.  Please take this requirement seriously and have deep respect for your learning by doing so. 

2. Personal Essay -- Your Personal Essay is due today.  You have carefully proofread it for errors.

The following was on my blog on October 13th:
* Please create a new document named Period __ Personal Essay and share it with me IMMEDIATELY (abaltrushes@gmail.com) 

3.  Module #2:  

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading Book

Personal Essay

Good Morning!

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

                                                             Louisa May Alcott

Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

1.  Independent Reading -- By the end of the week select your reading for the second six weeks.  Make your selection of a new independent reading book and bring it to class each day.  Please take this requirement seriously and have deep respect for your learning by doing so.  

2.  Personal Essay -- With a partner read each others' essays. Read for content and for effective writing.  Read carefully for errors.  At the bottom of the essay, give the word count and the name of your peer editor.  Your carefully edited and final draft of your essay is due tomorrow. Be sure to entitle your essay and place your name as follows at the upper left:

Name
Expository Reading and Writing
Ms. Baltrushes
21 October 2015

3.  MODULE #2 -- We will start this tomorrow.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading Book

Personal Essay

Good Morning!
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
                                                                             Thomas Jefferson 

 

1.  Independent Reading -- Today is the first day of the second six weeks.  Make your selection of a new independent reading book and bring it to class each day.  Please take this requirement seriously and have deep respect for your learning by doing so.  Writing a book review should be an enjoyable activity and not a chore because you have invested something of yourself in the reading of the book you have chosen (or one would hope that).  

2. Fully completed Personal Essay is due tomorrow.  Today, continue working on it and very carefully proofread for errors. I see that some of you still have quite a bit to do.  Tomorrow we will peer edit.  We will be starting the next module of ERWC immediately following completion of the essay.

 HOMEWORK: 1. Personal Essay
                         2. Independent Reading Book

Personal Essay

Good Morning!
      Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive. 

NOTE:  Keep your CELL PHONE put away for the entire period or it will be confiscated.

*You have created a new document in Google Docs and you have named it Period __ Personal Essay.  You have also shared it with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com).

TODAY, you will continue working quietly on composing your essay.  Use the time that I am offering.  Completed draft due TUESDAY of next week.  We will then peer edit.

Personal Essay or Letter of Introduction: 
      Please select one of the following  topics:
   
1. Describe the world you come from -- for example, your family, community or school -- and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

2.  Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution, or experience that is important to you.  What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?

HOMEWORK:  1. Personal Essay   2. Independent reading selection

Personal Essay

Good Morning!
"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you."  

                                                                                      Joseph Joubert

      Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

*You have created a new document in Google Docs and you have named it Period __ Personal Essay.  You have also shared it with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com).

TODAY, you will quietly work on composing your essay.  Use the time that I am offering.  

Personal Essay or Letter of Introduction: 
      Please select one of the following  topics:
   
1. Describe the world you come from -- for example, your family, community or school -- and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

2.  Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution, or experience that is important to you.  What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?

Career/work path:

 If you are choosing to write a letter of introduction, then you are telling prospective employers about yourself, your abilities and talents, interests, goals, values, and  what you have to offer.


HOMEWORK:  Personal Essay

Personal Essay

Good Morning!
"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."
                                                                                -- Cicero 

                                                    

Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

*Yesterday you created a new document in Google Docs and you named it Period __ Personal Essay.  You also shared it with me (abaltrushes@gmail.com) 

TODAY, you will quietly work on composing your essay.  Use the time that I am offering.  

Personal Essay or Letter of Introduction: 
      Please select one of the following  topics:
   
1. Describe the world you come from -- for example, your family, community or school -- and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

2.  Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution, or experience that is important to you.  What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?

Career/work path:

 If you are choosing to write a letter of introduction, then you are telling prospective employers about yourself, your abilities and talents, interests, goals, values, and  what you have to offer.

Option 1: Just start writing. Forget about structure and organization because you can figure that out later. Writer's that choose this option should feel ready to write. They should know which essay they want to write and have a good idea what they want to present in their essays.

Option 2: Take some time to sketch out your paper using a planning chart like the in the Personal Statement Prompts file. It may be a good idea to use the mentor text statements or to choose a prompt. Try out different approaches and/or subjects. Draw on what you studied, read, and written over the past few weeks to find a sense of purpose for your essay.Now write.

 HOMEWORK:  Draft of Personal Essay

Personal Essay

Good Morning!
"Don't compromise yourself.  You're all you've got."
                                                      -- Betty Ford 

Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive.

* Let's look at the other two example of personal essays before you settle in with working on yours.

* Please create a new document named Period __ Personal Essay and share it with me IMMEDIATELY (abaltrushes@gmail.com)

Personal Essay or Letter of Introduction: 
      Please select one of the following  topics:
   
1. Describe the world you come from -- for example, your family, community or school -- and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

2.  Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution, or experience that is important to you.  What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?

Career/work path:

 If you are choosing to write a letter of introduction, then you are telling prospective employers about yourself, your abilities and talents, interests, goals, values, and  what you have to offer.

Option 1: Just start writing. Forget about structure and organization because you can figure that out later. Writer's that choose this option should feel ready to write. They should know which essay they want to write and have a good idea what they want to present in their essays.

Option 2: Take some time to sketch out your paper using a planning chart like the in the Personal Statement Prompts file. It may be a good idea to use the mentor text statements or to choose a prompt. Try out different approaches and/or subjects. Draw on what you studied, read, and written over the past few weeks to find a sense of purpose for your essay.Now write.

 HOMEWORK:  Draft of Personal Essay

Personal Essay

Good Morning!
"I say there is no darkness but ignorance." 
                                                         Shakespeare

1. BOOK REVIEWS are due on GOODREADS by midnight tonight, October 12th.  

2. Activity #22 & #23 -- Please take a few moments to look over these activities.

3.  Personal Essay or Letter of Introduction: 
      Please select one of the following  topics:
   
1. Describe the world you come from -- for example, your family, community or school -- and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

2.  Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution, or experience that is important to you.  What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?

Career/work path:

 If you are choosing to write a letter of introduction, then you are telling prospective employers about yourself, your abilities and talents, interests, goals, values, and  what you have to offer.

Option 1: Just start writing. Forget about structure and organization because you can figure that out later. Writer's that choose this option should feel ready to write. They should know which essay they want to write and have a good idea what they want to present in their essays.

Option 2: Take some time to sketch out your paper using a planning chart like the in the Personal Statement Prompts file. It may be a good idea to use the mentor text statements or to choose a prompt. Try out different approaches and/or subjects. Draw on what you studied, read, and written over the past few weeks to find a sense of purpose for your essay.Now write.

 HOMEWORK:  Draft of Personal Essay

Book Review

Good Morning!
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul?  Surely, I said, knowledge is the food  of the soul.
                                                                                                                 Plato 
Please get your ASSIGNED Net book when you arrive.

1.  Independent Reading -- BOOK REVIEWS are due on GOODREADS Monday, October 12th.  I will give you time today to work on your review.  Be sure to follow the rubric.  Be attentive to and INTERESTED in composing a well written and interesting review.  Have deep respect for your learning because in the end your self-respect is all that matters.

While you are working on your book review, it would be a good time for me to check your WRITER'S JOURNAL.  Please be sure to have it available, as it should be anyway!  I am anticipating well organized and neatly written activity responses as well as complete responses.

NOTE:  We begin work on personal essays next week.

HOMEWORK:  Book Review

" FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Guide for College or Work"

Good Morning!
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
                                                  -- Epictetus 

 

1.  Independent Reading -- Please have your independent reading book out and read for approximately 10 minutes.  BOOK REVIEWS are due on GOODREADS Monday, October 12th.  I will give you time tomorrow to work on your review.  While you are working on your book review, it would be a good time for me to check your WRITER'S JOURNAL.  Please be sure to have it available, as it should be anyway!

NOTE:  Senior Quote -- You may turn it into me, and I will deliver it to Ms. Fulcher.   DUE BY OCT 14 but turn it in sooner!

2.  NOTE:  Please turn in "Hidden Intellectualism" if you have not done so.  I should see words defined and some annotation.

3.  FAQ -- You have recorded 10 FAQ's in your WRITER'S JOURNAL and you have also recorded them on a piece of paper.  I will collect that copy today and share your questions.

4.  WRITER'S JOURNAL CHECK TOMORROW 

5.  Review Activities #22 & #23

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading and BOOK REVIEW

Survey

Good Morning!

Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive. 
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
                                                                                      (Epictetus)

1.  Independent Reading -- Please have your independent reading book out and read for approximately 10 minutes.  BOOK REVIEWS are due on GOODREADS Monday, October 12th.  I will give you time on Friday to work on your review.  While you are working on your book review, it would be a good time for me to check your WRITER'S JOURNAL.  Please be sure to have it available, as it should be anyway!

NOTE:  Senior Quote -- You may turn it into me, and I will deliver it to Ms. Fulcher.   DUE BY OCT 14 but turn it in sooner!

2.  NOTE:  Please turn in "Hidden Intellectualism"

3.  Survey -- this will take most of the period
Survey

3.  FAQ -- You have recorded 10 FAQ's in your WRITER'S JOURNAL and you have also recorded them on a piece of paper.  I will collect that copy.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading and book review

" FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Guide for College or Work"

Good Morning!

Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive. 
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

1.  Independent Reading -- Please have your independent reading book out and read for approximately 10 minutes.  BOOK REVIEWS are due on GOODREADS Monday, October 12th.  I will give you time on Friday to work on your review.  While you are working on your book review, it would be a good time for me to check your WRITER'S JOURNAL.  Please be sure to have it available, as it should be anyway!

NOTE:  Senior Quote -- You may turn it into me, and I will deliver it to Ms. Fulcher.   DUE BY OCT 14 but turn it in sooner!

2.  Activity #20 -- Refer to this activity and read "FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Guide for College or Work" (handout).  Today you will continue doing some research on either the questions that you have about attending college or careers.  You will be developing 10 FAQ and short answers to these questions.  These questions will be recorded in your WRITER'S JOURNAL.  In addition, please make a separate copy on a piece of paper that I will collect tomorrow.  Many of you will want to use the following links:
California State University

California Careers

ALSO, check out US News and World Report

HOMEWORK: Independent Reading

Research on College or Career

Good Morning!

Please get your assigned netbook when you arrive. 
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

1.  Independent Reading -- Please have your independent reading book out and read for approximately 10 minutes.

NOTE:  Senior Quote -- You may turn it into me, and I will deliver it to Ms. Fulcher.   DUE BY OCT 14 but turn it in sooner!

2.  Activity #20 -- Refer to this activity and read "FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Guide for College or Work" (handout).  Today you will be doing some research on either the questions that you have about attending college or careers.  You will be developing 10 FAQ and short answers to these questions.  Many of you will want to use the following links:
California State University

California Careers


HOMEWORK: Independent Reading

Jigsaw of Four Articles

Good Morning!
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever.
                                                                      (Mahatma Gandhi)

1.  Independent Reading -- Please have your independent reading book out and read for approximately 10 minutes.

NOTE:  Senior Quote -- You may turn it into me, and I will deliver it to Ms. Fulcher.   DUE BY OCT 14 but turn it in sooner!

2. Jigsaw Reading of Four Articles:Yesterday you read and wrote a report on your assigned article.  Today you will inform the class about your article -- and you will do so thoroughly.  The following is what you will include:

                        * A brief summary of the document's argument
                        * Important quotes or information
                        * An explanation of what you think is important 
                           about the document.

NOTE:  You have also recorded this report in your WRITER'S JOURNAL

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading

Jigsaw of Four Articles

Good Morning!
"A man is but the product of his thoughts.  What he thinks, he becomes."  (Gandhi) 


1.  Independent Reading -- Please have your independent reading book out and read for approximately 10 minutes.

2.  Yesterday you completed Activities #12 & #13 in your WRITER'S JOURNAL.

3.  Jigsaw Reading of Four Articles: In the next part of this module, the focus will be on learning about the requirements, processes, and expectations of college or work:

       1. What will be required of me to enter the school or job that I 

           want?

      2. How ready am I for the work or school I have in mind?

      3. How realistic is my evaluation of myself in terms of being  

          ready for the next stage of my life?

4.  Four Articles -- You will be assigned one of the articles.  With other students assigned the article, you will prepare a report for the class.  Refer to Activity #15.  Record the information in your WRITER'S JOURNAL.
                        * A brief summary of the document's argument
                        * Important quotes or information
                        * An explanation of what you think is important 
                           about the document.

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading

Activity #12 & #13

Good Morning!
 My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
                                                                           MAYA ANGELOU 
 

1. Independent Reading -- Please have your independent reading 

    book out and read for approximately 10 minutes.

2.  Senior Quotes -- These are due to Ms. Fulcher between Oct 
     9-14.

3.  Read the directions for Activity #12 and respond in your
     Writer's Journal.  Write at least ONE chunk of text.

4.  Activity #13:  Write a letter to a trusted person about how 
     well you are -- or are not -- prepared for the next stage of your 
     life.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading