"Of Primates and Personhood"

Good Morning!
Please put away and out of sight your cell phones during class. 

1.  Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes. 

2.  "Of Primates and Personhood" -- Please complete Activity #21 in your Writer's Journal.

3.  Review the words in Activity #22

4.  Reading the text -- Please read the text through to the end without stopping.  We will give it another reading and annotate for what the writer is saying and doing.

Homework:  Independent Reading

"Of Primates and Personhood . . ."

Good Morning!
Please put away and out of sight your cell phones during class. 

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

1.  Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes. 

2.  "Hooked on a Myth"  -- Yesterday you completed a summary on "Hooked on a Myth"

I will collect your copy of the text and your completed summary 

3.  Before we start the next text, I thought it might be very relevant to view a documentary on Dian Fossey's work with gorillas.  The next text is "Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights adn 'Dignity' to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?"
 Dian Fossey

HOMEWORK:   Independent Reading

"Hooked on a Myth"

Good Morning!
Please put away and out of sight your cell phones during class. 

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

1.  Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes. 

2.  "Hooked on a Myth"  -- You have been following along as I have been doing descriptive outlining of this text.  We will finish this text today, and you will write a summary using the "Summary of Informational Text" handout.

I will collect your copy of the text and your completed summary

HOMEWORK:   Independent Reading

"Hooked on a Myth"

Good Morning!
Please put away and out of sight your cell phones during class. 

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

1.  Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes. 

2.  "Hooked on a Myth"  -- You gave this text a first reading yesterday.  Today, read it again and annotate with descriptive outlining.  Directions are on the white board.  You are annotating for not only what is being said but what the writer is doing.

HOMEWORK:   Independent Reading

"A Change of Heart About Animals"

Good Morning!
Please put away and out of sight your cell phones during class. 

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

1.  Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes. 

2. Personal Essay -- Period 2 & 3, please check to see if your essay needs to be revised for a grade.  Notify me when you have made the revisions.  If you need help, please see me during Advisory class.

3. "A Change of Heart About Animals"  -- Summarizing the text (handout).  I will collect your annotated copy and the summary.

4.  Activity #15 and #16 -- we will review 

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

"A Change of Heart About Animals"

Good Morning!
I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!
Please put away and out of sight your cell phones during class. 

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

1.  Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes. 

2. Personal Essay -- Period 2, please check to see if your essay needs to be revised for a grade.  Notify me when you have made the revisions.  If you need help, please see me during Advisory class.

3. "A Change of Heart About Animals"  -- We will finish annotating the text for what the author does says and does. You ARE annotating, following my example.

4. Reviewing the ethos, logos, and pathos to this text.

5.  Summarizing the text (handout)

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

"A Change of Heart About Animals"

Good Morning!
Please put away and out of sight your cell phones during class. 

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

1.  Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes.

2. "A Change of Heart About Animals"  --  We will finish
     discussion  of Activity #5 -- Making Predictions and Asking 
     Questions  (Respond to the questions in your WRITER'S 
     JOURNAL)

 3.  Record the vocabulary to "Change of Heart About Animals"
      in your WRITER'S JOURNAL

4.  Reading "A Change of Heart About Animals"  -- Read through without questioning the text the first time. We will then read the text a second time together and annotate.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

"A Change of Heart About Animals"

Good Morning!
Please put away and out of sight your cell phones during class. 

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

1.  Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes.

 2.  Personal Essay --  I am currently working on these essays.  Those essays that are under 500 words will not be graded.  An essay that requires major revision because of writing errors will not be graded.  I will not look at an essay if it does not have the proper heading.  I will indicate on your essay if it is graded or not.  I am still working on Period 2.

3. "A Change of Heart About Animals"  -- Surveying the text (orally discussed)

 4. Activity #5 Making Predictions and Asking Questions
*Respond to the questions in your WRITER'S JOURNAL

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

"A Change of Heart about Animals"

Good Morning!
Please put away and out of sight your cell phones during class. 

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

1.  Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes.

 2.  Personal Essay --  I am currently working on these essays.  Those essays that are under 500 words will not be graded.  An essay that requires major revision because of writing errors will not be graded.  I will not look at an essay if it does not have the proper heading.  I will indicate on your essay if it is graded or not.  I am still working on Period 2.

3. "Three Ways to Persuade" -- Yesterday you reinforced your understanding of this text by going back and annotating.  Annotate for MAIN IDEAS vs. random, minor details.  I did not indicate that you should answer the questions that follow the discussion of PATHOS, but I would like you to do so today.

4.  Activity #3 Exploring the Concept of "Persuasion" -- we will discuss orally

5.  "A Change of Heart About Animals"  -- Surveying the text (orally discussed)

 6.  Activity #5 Making Predictions and Asking Questions
*Respond to the questions in your WRITER'S JOURNAL

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

"Three Ways to Persuade"

Good Morning!

Please put away and out of sight your cell phones during class.  It has become necessary to enforce confiscation because of the frequent disregard of this rule. If your phone is confiscated, it will be brought to the office.

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

1.  Independent Reading -- Yesterday I asked you to be prepared with an independent reading book today.  Please read for 10 minutes.

 2.  Personal Essay -- I am going to begin grading these essays.  We worked on them all of last week through Thursday.  I asked you to complete your essay on your own. 

3.  Module #2:  "Three Ways to Persuade" --  I read this text with you yesterday.  To reinforce the ideas, read again on your own and annotate in the margin for main ideas.  I will then collect.

4.  Activity#1 -- Under Activity #1, complete Option 1 Quickwrite in your WRITER'S JOURNAL.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Module #2

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

 Please put away and out of sight your cell phones during class.  It has become necessary to enforce confiscation because of the frequent disregard of this rule. If your phone is confiscated, it will be brought to the office.

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

1.  Independent Reading -- Because we were concerned with the personal essay last week, I did not make it a point to remind you of your independent reading book.  Please make your new selection as soon as possible.  I know that some of you have started something new.

 2.  Personal Essay -- I am going to begin grading these essays.  We worked on them all of last week through Thursday.  I asked you to complete your essay on your own. 

3.  Module #2:  "The Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos" -- I will pass out to your the packet for this module.  

4.  Activity #1 --  In your Writer's Journal respond to "Getting Ready to Read."    What do the three terms "ethos, " "logos," and "pathos" mean?  We will read "Three Ways to Persuade" together. 

HOMEWORK:  Personal essay if you have not completed it!

Personal Essay

Good Morning!

Please put away and out of sight your cell phones during class.  It has become necessary to enforce confiscation because of the frequent disregard of this rule. If your phone is confiscated, it will be brought to the office.

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

Today you will carefully proofread your essay for writing errors.   A fully complete and carefully edited draft is due tomorrow.  Please do a word count and put it at the bottom of your essay.  Your essay should have NO LESS than 500 words.  I will be looking at your essays as you work. 

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

*Please place your heading in the upper left corner of your essay:

Name

Ms. Baltrushes

Expository Reading and Writing

11 October 2016 

I will not read an essay that lacks this heading as shown above.

*Double space your essay
* Entitle your essay
*Indent paragraphs 

HOMEWORK:  Fully completed Personal Essay is due tomorrow. 

Personal Essay

Good Morning!

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

Today you will continue working on your personal essay.  A fully complete and carefully edited draft is due tomorrow. I will be looking at your essays as you work. 

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

*Please place your heading in the upper left corner of your essay:

Name

Ms. Baltrushes

Expository Reading and Writing

11 October 2016 

I will not read an essay that lacks this heading as shown above.

*Double space your essay
* Entitle your essay
*Indent paragraphs 

HOMEWORK:  Fully completed Personal Essay is due tomorrow. 

Personal Essay

Good Morning!

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

Today you will continue working on your personal essay.  A fully complete and carefully edited draft is due tomorrow. I will be looking at your essays as you work. 

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

*Please place your heading in the upper left corner of your essay:

Name

Ms. Baltrushes

Expository Reading and Writing

11 October 2016 

I will not read an essay that lacks this heading as shown above.

*Double space your essay
* Entitle your essay
*Indent paragraphs 

HOMEWORK:  Fully completed Personal Essay is due tomorrow. 

Personal Essay

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

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

Today you will continue working on your personal essay.  A fully complete and carefully edited draft is due tomorrow. I will be looking at your essays as you work. 

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

*Please place your heading in the upper left corner of your essay:

Name

Ms. Baltrushes

Expository Reading and Writing

11 October 2016 

I will not read an essay that lacks this heading as shown above.

*Double space your essay
* Entitle your essay
*Indent paragraphs 

HOMEWORK:  Fully completed Personal Essay is due tomorrow. 

Personal Essay

Good Morning!

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards 

Today you will continue working on your personal essay.  A fully complete and carefully edited draft is due on Tuesday of next week.  I will be looking at your essays as you work. 

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

*Please place your heading in the upper left corner of your essay:

Name

Ms. Baltrushes

Expository Reading and Writing

11 October 2016 

*Double space your essay
* Entitle your essay
*Indent paragraphs 



HOMEWORK:  Personal Essay

Personal Essay

Good Morning!

Period 4:  Federal Survey Cards

1.  We will be getting the Chromebooks out today.  You will be assigned a number which you need to write down someplace visible to you each day.  Once you turn on the computer, go to the toolbar and click on ADD A PERSON. Sign in as follows:

*Enter your school email (Student ID@stu.sandi.net)

 *Enter your school user ID and password

      
2.  Sign out of your school account and sign into your personal Gmail Account. Then do as follows:
                      *  Go to your Google Drive and CREATE a NEW  
                          document.  
                       * Name the document Period ___ Personal Essay.
                       * Share it with me immediately
                          (abaltrushes@gmail.com)

Personal Essay

Good Morning!

Literature is Life.  Good literature touches life.

 1.  Netbook Agreement -- If you have not returned this form, it is absolutely necessary to do so in order to use a Chromebook in this class. 

2.  Your Writer's Journal was graded yesterday.

3. Draft of Personal Essay -- Please have your draft of your personal essay out.  We will continue working on in class.  Tomorrow we will do the same.  You are also expected to work on this outside of class.  I fully completed draft is due on Friday.  It may be typed or handwritten at this point.

4.  Sample essays

HOMEWORK:  Personal Essay. 

Personal Essay

Good Morning!

Literature is Life.  Good literature touches life.

 1.  Netbook Agreement -- If you have not returned this form, it is absolutely necessary to do so in order to use a Chromebook in this class.

Book Review?

NOTE:  I will be checking you WRITER'S JOURNAL today.  

2.  Sample Personal Essay -- I have shared a few samples of students' personal essay.  Here is another one.  Work quietly on your essay today.

3. WRITER'S JOURNAL CHECK --  I intend to give you time in class this week to work on your essay.  Please quietly focus on this task today while I grade your journals. 

HOMEWORK:  Personal Essay

Personal Essay

Good Morning!

Literature is Life.  Good literature touches life.

 1.  Netbook Agreement -- If you have not returned this form, it is absolutely necessary to do so in order to use a Chromebook in this class.

NOTE:  I will be checking you WRITER'S JOURNAL tomorrow.  

2.  Book Reviews are due -- they are to be fully complete.  I will collect at the beginning of the period.

3.  Personal Essay -- I will share some student essays.  I intend to give you time in class this week to work on your essay.  Please quietly focus on this task.   

HOMEWORK:  Personal Essay