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