Apostrophes Test

Agenda:

• Test on Apostrophes
• Theatre of Blood viewing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMucekU8ACY).  Watch for allusions or direct references.

Homework:

• None

ABC Stations Day II

Agenda:

• Warm up regarding apostrophes
• ABC Stations (Make sure you have at least 4 stations completed)

Homework:

• Study for tomorrow's quiz

ABC Allusion Stations

Agenda:

• Correcting Exercise #3
• ABC Allusion Stations + Chart

Homework:

• Study for quiz (now on Friday)
• Complete corrections if you did not in class

Allusion v. Direct Reference

Agenda:

• Review contractions (if you are struggling to write these correctly, please refer to the review exercise following exercise 4 in the blue grammar book)
• Notes: allusion v. direct reference
• Worksheet

Homework:

• Study for tomorrow's quiz

Links for Stations 2 and 5

Station #2--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhquT35KvUc  

Station #5--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d5eP0wWLQY

Review Mechanics: Apostrophes

Agenda:

• Review homework exercises
• Exercise #3 from grammar book
• Finished early?  Continue to work on caricature assignment.  (Final due Friday)

Homework:

• Finish Exercise #3
• Complete Caricature Draft and worksheet for tomorrow

Revisiting Goals

Agenda:

• Finish 4-Square Activity
• Review goals
• Goal Journal:
• Did you achieve your goal?  If yes, what worked for you, and what new goals might you write for yourself?  If no, what do you need to work on to better reach your goal?

Homework:

• Make sure you have finished the graphic novel
• Check missing work

Four Square Assignment

Agenda:

• Warm-up questions
• 4-square assignment

Homework:

• Finish the graphic novel

Four-Square Analysis ABC

In your group, follow the following steps.  You all should be helping one another and planning the project together, but I would suggest that each person be in charge of one section of the project.

1. Share your answers from the verbal questions together.
2. Divide your chart paper into four sections.
3. In the top left square, you will be creating a word cloud.  If you do not know what a word cloud is, Google it.  Look at Wordle.  Your word cloud should be representative of words and terms that you see repeated a lot in the graphic novel and that you believe are important to the graphic novel.
4. Write a theme for American Born Chinese.  Write it big in the top right square.  In smaller print, include one quote from each of the three main characters.  Each of these quotes should help to best illustrate your theme.
5. In the bottom left square, you will be creating a drawing of Jin.  This should be a symbolic drawing based on how he is characterized.  Include a setting and accessories.  Be sure to label at least five components of your drawing that you included because they make Jin who he is.
6. In the bottom right corner, you are going to be writing a paragraph of six to eight sentences.  This paragraph should compare Yang's American Born Chinese and Cisneros' The House on Mango Street.  Some questions to consider: Did they deal with similar themes?  In the same ways?  Was each effective?  Remember to follow the rules of good paragraph writing--topic sentence, supporting details, proofreading, etc.

Mechanics and Graphic Novel Reading Questions

Agenda:

• Diagnostic Text
• Book Sign-Out
• Graphic Novel Questions
• Reading 610-612
• Exercise #1

Homework:

• Finish exercise #1 and #2 in the blue book
• Complete the ABC graphic novel questions in the previous post

ABC Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 7

1. Why has Lai-Tsao found favor with Tze-Yo-Tzuh? (pg. 139)
2. What does Lai-Tsao mean when he talks to the Monkey King in panel #4? (pg. 145)
3. Why does The Monkey King choose to release himself and follow Lai-Tsao?
4. How do the two voices get represented on this page? To whom do they belong? How do they relate to each other? (p. 163)
5. The author shows kids laughing while Wei-Chen is taking to Amelia. What does the juxtaposition of this panel with the other panels on the page do for the reader? (pg. 175 panel #) PDFmyURL.com 6. How does the author emphasize Jin's emotions? What other examples have you noticed from throughout the book? (pg. 180 - 183)
7. Why does Suzy say she feels embarrassed all of the time? Why do you think Jin kisses Suzy? (pg. 187)
8. Why does Jin reject Wei-Chen? What might be going on with Jin, from a psychological point of view? (pg. 191)
9. What is the significance of the dream? Make sure you look at all the illustrations carefully and study them for subtle meaning. (pg.s 193 - 194)
10. What has happened here? What was your own emotional/psychological reaction to this moment? (pg. 198

Test Anlysis

Agenda:

• Complete test analysis
• Reading time if finish early

Homework:

• Complete test analysis for Friday if you are still working on it
• Read from 163-198, continue to add to your Venn Diagrams per my feedback

Caricature v. Stereotype

Name:

Ms. Hoffmann

English 10

Date:

Caricature and Stereotype

Review: Use your notes from class to help you answer the following questions.  You also may use a basic Google search for clarification.

1. What is a stereotype?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What is caricature?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What is the difference between the two?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Analyze: Look back at the Chin-Kee section that you read.

1. How is Chin-Kee based on stereotypes?  Which stereotypes?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Could Chin-Kee be considered a caricature?  In what ways?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. In a well-developed paragraph (6-8 sentences), explain how Yang’s use of stereotype and/or caricature contributes to his message.  (You will need to identify the theme or message first. Then you will need to think about how stereotype and/or caricature help to get it across.  If one or both were not used, would anything be lacking?)

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Create: Now it is your turn.  You will be creating a caricature or a brief cartoon using stereotypes to help get across a serious message.

1. Do you want to use caricature or stereotype?  ___________________________________

2. Choose your focus:
1. If you are looking at discussing stereotypes, you may want to pick one of the following topics:
1. bullying
2. discrimination
3. the debate over violence in video games
4. beauty standards and the media
5. the debate over what technology is doing to youth
2. If you are focusing on caricature, you will want to consider someone to create a caricature of.  (You may not copy another artist’s caricature from the web.)
1. a political candidate
2. a movie star
3. a singer

3. What do you want to say about your focus?  What is your audience’s takeaway message?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Flip over------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->

4. Think about how you can use caricature or stereotype.  If you are using caricature, what will you exaggerate?  Why?  If you are using stereotypes, which will you depict?  Why?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Complete a draft on a separate blank sheet of paper.  This draft should make use of color and be as refined as possible to get appropriate feedback for the final version.

Visual Commentary

Agenda:

• Caricature v. stereotype
• Discussion of political cartoon
• In-class worksheet--analyzing and creating 

Homework:

• Read through p. 160 of American Born Chinese
• Add to Venn Diagram

PSAT

No class today.  Be sure to read through p. 106 and to update your Venn Diagram.

Caricature

Agenda:

• Discuss structure of novel-->parallels and comparisons
• Fill out Venn Diagram with section 2 reading
• Complete Chinese political cartoon worksheet

Homework:

• Finish political cartoon worksheet
• Read through p. 106 and continue to fill out the Venn Diagram

The Visual and Themes

Agenda:

• Journal:
• How far do people go to fit in?
• Compared to "most people," how far does Esperanza go to fit in?
• After viewing Rush's "Subdivisions" as a class, answer the following questions.  Please refer to both the lyrics and the video.

1. What is the artist saying?
2. Do you agree or disagree with the artist?
3. Do you see these issues at play in our school?
4. How does the visual medium of the music video help to convey meaning?
5. Is the song outdated?
6. What might you talk about if you were to rewrite the song today?
7. What issues do you think the Chinese American author Gene Yang might discuss in his novel?

Homework:

• Read section one (through p. 20) of American Born Chinese
• Read "The Monkey King" handout.  Answer the three questions on the back of the handout

Graphic Novel Vocab and MLA Review

Agenda:

• Garage Band reading + labeling with vocab
• Panel types (content and story type)
• Gutters (think about transitions to help you)
• Types of Balloons
• Overall considerations:
• color
• line
• aesthetic 
• MLA documenting sources hw review
• Review of Purdue OWL's MLA site: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/11/

Homework:

• Finish the MLA sheet using the Purdue OWL page

Sophomore Summit Day

Paper Reviews

Agenda:

• Review graphic novel journal homework
• How to read your paper grades
• Components
• Paper and Google Doc
• Review of MLA

Homework:

• Read the MLA packet
• Complete the exercises within it

Intro to Graphic Novels Continued

Agenda:

• Vocab Sheet
• Practice Discussion of Sample Comics

Homework:

Journal Options—Choose an option below.  Complete a half-page journal in which you discuss what the option asks of you.

—Option 1: Complete a journal entry in which you describe what happens in a couple of pages of a graphic novel or in a complete comic strip.  You must use the vocabulary from the handout in your explanation.

—

—Option 2: (Honors) Complete a journal entry in which you compare a modern comic strip or graphic novel with what is known as the world’s first graphic novel: Joseph Franz von Goez’s Leonardo und Blandine (1783).  Ignore the fact that you do not understand the language it’s written in.  You do not need to, to explain what it looks like, and how it compares, etc.

What is a graphic novel?

Agenda:

• Stationary Talk: Questions to think about graphic novels
• Podcast: http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/podcast-episodes/introduction-graphic-novels-30326.html
• Complete guided notes

Homework:

• None for tonight.  Stay tuned for tomorrow.

Looking at the New SAT

Agenda:

• Listen to NPR Interview with Cisneros
• Look at the new SAT
• See previous post for worksheet

Homework:

• Finish online scavenger hunt

What's with the New SAT?

Name:

Ms. Hoffmann

English 10

Date:

The New SAT Scavenger Hunt

Take a look at https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat  and https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/inside-the-test.   Use them to learn about the SAT and to answer the following questions.

1. The date of the new SAT ___________________________________________________

2. Does it affect you?  (Circle one.)   Yes No

3. You get free college applications if you _______________________________________

4. The new exam lasts for ______________________   or  __________________________

5. One of the three ways the SAT is staying the same is ________________________________________________________________________

6. The best way to study for the test is to _________________________________________

7. The essay on the new exam is _______________________________________________

8. Who won’t the new SAT affect?  ____________________________________________

9. Score scale is ________________________

10. Two of the ways the SAT is changed is ________________________________________

11. The new SAT measures ___________________________________________________

12. Now let’s take a look at some reading passages: https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/inside-the-test/reading.  Briefly summarize what the reading section of the test is like.  What is tested?  What sort of passages can you expect to find?
    ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

13. Click into the sample reading questions.  Try the practice questions for Ethan Frome and Richard Florida’s work.  Be sure to read the passages and answer the questions.  After you answer each question, you will be able to check your work beneath the multiple choice bubbles.
1. How did you do on the Ethan Frome questions?  How many did you answer correctly?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. How did you do on the Richard Florida questions?  How many did you answer correctly?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What did you notice about how you did?  What skills needed for reading these passages did you excel in using?  Struggle?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Mango Street Test

Test Day Thursday