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English Language Arts American Literature & Social Studies
Upper School - South Whidbey Academy

Lunch count -
Thursday January 10th, 2013

District Writing Assessment - grade 12 only - January 23 and 24

Notebook Check
period 1 = Sabrina
period 2 = Alec
period 3 = Karri

DOL 59
It was the Reverend Laurence who found Juliet in the mausoleum when he went to pray over her ancestors’ cadavers.
DOL 60

“I’ll call your parents immediately,” he said.  “They are frantic with worry,” he added.

“No!” Juliet screamed.

Analogy
SURREPTITIOUS : OBVIOUS
scholarly : professional
harmonious : musical
pacifying : enraging
sponsored : bribed
artistic : masterful

Period 1 - High School English
Stephen King - On Writing
Location 1306 -”Toolbox”

Individual conferences on phase autobio first draft (and other stuff).
Eden, Jake, Christoph, Erika = done once


Adventure of English
Take notes and write a short and sweet summary of the main ideas from this episode/segment
label = disk 7 - 5th bit
period 1 = disk 7 = 20:03

Phase Autobio part 2 - first draft of a 5 paragraph non-fiction essay on a time in your life that was significant.
Use 12 point Georgia font in Google Docs (school account)
double space
tab for paragraphs
Use the same file as part 1
Create a title
1 Introduction paragraph
3 Body paragraphs - each telling/showing a specific event or detail of the phase. Use at least 3 pieces of dialog or quotations. Use all 5 senses to take the reader to the time and place you are describing.
1 Concluding paragraph - sum-up the phase and restate the significance of same

Finish first draft of opening paragraph and begin first (or second) draft of first body paragraph. Bring one small scene within the overall phase to life with close description of the moment that includes sensory detail.


Period 3 - as in period 1 except...
Cannery Row - chapter 21

Quick study questions for chapt 21 -
1. Why does Doc hit Mack?
2. What does Doc do right after he hits Mack?
3. Who cleans up the mess in the laboratory?
4. Why doesn’t Doc lock his laboratory? Do you think he is naive?

Phase Autobio part 2 - see above

Period 2  Middle School English/Language Arts and Social Studies
DOL 58 (as above)

Give Me Liberty by L.M. Elliott - continue close reading aloud to the end of chapter 5 in which we meet Basil

Finish summary of main ideas from first chapters as Keynote document


Period 4 -
Semester Retrospective (look back)
One harsh critizism of a book or story is to say, “It was just one damn thing after another.”
Humans seek the meaning of things.
Create a document with your memories and take-aways from the first semester at SWA - September to December 2012.
School stuff, non-school stuff, good bad or in-between.
Take pictures, draw some, chart your math test scores, scan your best history writing, your favorite quotes from English, your friends, teachers, parents, street corner, art projects.
Try to focus on 3 to 5 items and give each a few slides, pictures, words.
Make a title slide and a conclusion slide and 20 or so in-between.
Chart some growth or a fall back
Make it beautiful
Publish - or at least make sure I get a copy on a flash drive because this will determine whether you get credit for this elective class.