Period 05-13 February, 2012

At the start of class today, students arranged themselves according to the new seating chart. Smith went over homework, reminding us that tomorrow is the day that two more English teachers will be joining class to aid in editing our Little Brother/1984 essays. As this is focused editing, each student must bring in specific focused questions should they wish to have their paper edited. (e.g. I'm struggling with... and Does this fit here...?) Again, you will not receive this help unless you bring in focus questions!

Next, Smith answered some clarifying questions regarding the body paragraphs. She explained that while doing our works cited and internal documentations, the first word of the MLA 7 citation will be what goes in the corresponding internal documentation. In addition to this, she discussed the sources of supporting quotes. They must go as follows:

    

First (What we have learned): One 1984 quote, one Little Brother quote, and one modern quote

Second (What we haven't learned): One 1984 quote, one Little Brother quote, and one modern quote

Third (Where are we going?): All modern quotes

Before peer editing introductory, first, and second paragraphs, we received our new grammar sentences for the week and were introduced to participles. This part of speech can be used as an adjective or a noun though it is formed by verbs, as shown in the second sentence.

some (ind pron) of (prep) my (poss pron) friends (n) bought (av) me (prn) a (art) ticket (n) for (prep) the (art) concert (n)

ben (N) a (art) former (adj) student (n) at (prep) my  (poss pron) middle (adj) school (n) earned (av) a (art) prestigious (adj) teaching (part) scholarship (n)

HW: Focus questions, outline/compose conclusion paragraph, and "America the Beautiful" CSAP packet

Scribe Period 3, 2-10-12

“Hello Class!”

“Hello Smith!”

Today we started out by handing in the CSAP and DOL 11,. Then we took the grammar quiz. After that, we had time to work on our “What have we learned, what haven’t we learned, where are we going?” paper. We edited the first two body paragraphs and started the third. Mrs. Smith recommends that you are finished by Tuesday so that we can edit in class.

Remember to cite the pictures on your wiki. For example, you would do...
Lead in.......             Picture                (Citation).

Example:

Today’s government has become a big brother. (Recruiting).

HW: outline and compose 3rd body, make edits intro, 1, 2, wikify paper

Works Cited

Recruiting, Kinney. "Big-brother-poster « Above the Law: A Legal Web Site – News,    
    Commentary, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts." Above the Law: A Legal Web Site – News, Commentary, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts. Web. 10 Feb. 2012.<http://abovethelaw.com/2011/11/new-piracy-bill-could-lead-to-national-censorship-nightmare/big-brother-poster/>.

Smith 3 Scribe 2/9

Tomorrow's Friday! Hurray!!!! But first...we have to get through Thursday. As planned, today in class was a total work day for our wiki essays. Mrs. Smith was available for help, plus today is Writing Lab. The video yesterday was working so we watched it today and questioned whether or not a world of glass was in the future. Bekah went over how to customize the background of your webpage.

1. Create a power point slide with pictures of your choice.
2. Save the slide as a jpeg.
3. Go to manage my site.
4. Go to colors and fonts
5. Choose background image
6. Choose custom
7. Add the file

Homework: CSAP packet, grammar quiz tomorrow, work on essay (2nd body)
Next Tuesday: Mrs. Smith is having 3 English teachers come in to help us so bring specific questions for them.

Scribe: Febuary 08, 2011 Period 5

We started off the day with filing into the classroom and grabbing our assigned laptops. First we took care of grammar.


Punctuation and Clauses-


[There are pretty flowers in your garden]; [however, they don't smell very good.]
                        Ind Clause                           CD                     Ind Clause             
    
[On Friday, Febuary 11, 2011 I auditioned for the school play.]
                                     Ind Clause(SS)

Next, we went over the CSAP. Remember to underline important words in the question! Also remember to go back to the story if it is referenced.


After CSAP, we watched a video titled A Day Made of Glass 2. It showcased many different technologies that could exist in the future.


To end the day, we edited our introductions by way of musical chairs.


Homework:
1. Outline and compose 1st body paragraph (Remember, Smith would like for us to get this done, but if you are overworked you can do it at a later date).
2. CSAP (even though it is easy, don't forget about it!)
                                                                                         - Andrew N. Period 5

2/7/2012

Hey everyone! so today we started out by doing wonderfully fun GRAMMER!

there are pretty flowers (in your garden) however they do not smell very good
          V                S                                                  S                 V               pa
(on friday february 11, 2011) i auditioned (for the school play)
         op                                  S      V                                   op

We then continued to write our second letter. After that we spent the rest of the class time revising our thesis statements!


Homework-
Intro paragraph (tomorrow)
Start researching quotes (1 1984, 1 LB, 1 Modern Day)
CSAP

have a grat day! Emily H.

Slightly- Snowy Tuesday (2/7/12)

Hey there! So today in Honors English we.....
1) Did grammar, the usual Tuesday section
2) Wrote our non-technology letters
AND
3) Edited some thesis's!
So it was a pretty relaxed day, but here was the homework!
~Introduction and revised thesis due tomorrow
~First body paragraph due Thursday
~Second body due Friday
~ Grammar test Friday
~CSAP due Friday
~ Third body due Monday
~ Conclusion due Tuesday (next week 9/14...Valentines' Day!)
... and I believe that was all! Well I hope you enjoyed reading the "Slightly-Snowy Tuesday" brought to you by Ruth Morton. Hope you have an amazing day and see you tomorrow in class!

Period 3 Feb 6/12

Homework:

• Research and outline the entire paper-this isn’t due tomorrow but this will help you out. We are going fast paste!
• Set up your google site. Link it to your LPS gmail account or your own personal account(which is a good idea because then you will forever own it). Log on, click the sites tab, click create, name it fristname firstinitialoflastnameyear.EX DelaneyD2015. Start playing around. Add pages with creative titles(that describe the paragraph) and make sure that they should be under the Home tab. Send Smith a link of your site. Reminder-Do not type up on google because it doesn't always save!
• CSAP packet- Do all questions except 50 and 51!
• Tomorrow is a writing day so bring all your writing materials!

Paper-
Intro  due wed, start tonight.
Thrus-First Body done
Fri- Second Body done

Outline- Is pretty much the same that we have been using with a few minor adjustments.
The order of the paragraphs matter!
Paper should be done by Tuesday the 14th so it can be checked twice in writing lab.
Intro paragraph

• attention getter
• Explanation of attention getter
• background of texts and modern day
• Thesis: what have we learned (benefits of technology), what haven’t we learned (dominance of technology), where are we going (computer controlled society/ govt surveillance)?

Body Paragraph: learned *(benefits of technology)

• Topic sentence including point from thesis
• Set-up first point  -1984- proles given common unity
• Lead in, “quote”, (citation).
• Explain quote
• what does the quote mean
• connect to paragraph-*(benefits of technology)
• connect to thesis-learned
• Transition to next point
• Set-up second point- Little Brother- xnet to communicate
• Lead in, quote, citation
• Explain quote
• what does the quote mean
• connect to paragraph-*(benefits of technology)
• connect to thesis-learned
• Transition to next point
• Set-up third point -Little Brother/1984/Modern Day
• Lead in, quote, citation
• Explain quote
• what does the quote mean
• connect to paragraph-*(benefits of technology)
• connect to thesis -learned
• Transition to next point or move to concluding sentence**
• Set-up fourth point
• Lead in, quote, citation
• Explain quote
• what does the quote mean
• connect to paragraph
• connect to thesis
• **Concluding sentence

Body Paragraph: not learned

• Topic sentence including point from thesis
• Set-up first point
• Lead in, quote, citation
• Explain quote
• what does the quote mean
• connect to paragraph
• connect to thesis
• Transition to next point
• Set-up second point
• Lead in, quote, citation
• Explain quote
• what does the quote mean
• connect to paragraph
• connect to thesis
• Transition to next point
• Set-up third point
• Lead in, quote, citation
• Explain quote
• what does the quote mean
• connect to paragraph
• connect to thesis
• Transition to next point or move to concluding sentence**
• Set-up fourth point
• Lead in, quote, citation
• Explain quote
• what does the quote mean
• connect to paragraph
• connect to thesis
• **Concluding sentence

Body Paragraph: where are we going -computer controlled society/ govt surveillance

• Topic sentence including point from thesis
• Set-up first point
• Lead in, quote, citation
• Explain quote
• what does the quote mean
• connect to paragraph
• connect to thesis
• Transition to next point
• Set-up second point
• Lead in, quote, citation
• Explain quote
• what does the quote mean
• connect to paragraph
• connect to thesis
• Transition to next point
• Set-up third point
• Lead in, quote, citation
• Explain quote
• what does the quote mean
• connect to paragraph
• connect to thesis
• Transition to next point or move to concluding sentence**
• Set-up fourth point
• Lead in, quote, citation
• Explain quote
• what does the quote mean
• connect to paragraph
• connect to thesis
• **Concluding sentence

Conclusion Paragraph:

• Restate thesis
• review points
• Solution to problem
• Satisfying conclusion

If you need inspiration or ideas, take a look at last years' essays.


We took are grammar quiz today because we couldn’t on Friday. We also turned in our CSAP packet.
Our new sentences are:
there(adv)( there is an adv because it describes “to what extent?”) are(av) pretty(adj) flowers(n) in(prep) your(poss prn) garden(n) however(adv) they(prn) don’t(do-hv not-adv) smell(lv) very(adv) good(adj)
on(prep) february 11 2011(N) i(prn) auditioned(av) for(prep) the(art) school(adj) play(n)