City or Country Living

Agenda:

• Check SAT puzzle
• Warm-up Journal: What more did we learn about our character's attitude towards the land?  What more did we learn about attitudes toward country living?
• Guardian Article
• Agree/Disagree Lines

Homework:

• Begin studying first sixteen words of vocab
• Read 6 + 7 with reading questions

O Pioneers! Themes: Land

Agenda:

• Wrap up Whitman Poem analysis
• Begin Jigsaw Activity on the land

Homework:

• Read chapters 4 + 5
• Complete reading questions
• Honors: Part 2 of your assignment is due tomorrow

Quote Planking Problems

Agenda:

• What is wrong with this? Journal on provided quote
• Examples of how to introduce a quote well
• Practice handout with NEWSELA article

Homework:

• Finish NEWSELA worksheet
• Make sure you have read 2-3 and have completed the reading questions
• Final drafts of paper due Monday

Subject Verb Agreement Quiz

Agenda:

• SV Quiz
• Continue working on Whitman Poem

Homework:

• Read ch 2-3 and finish reading questions
• Papers due Monday

Peer Review Day

Agenda:

• Peer Review using questions and provided rubric
• Edit your paper using the peer review questions answered about your writing

Homework:

• Study for tomorrow
• Ch 2-3 questions of O Pioneers! due on Friday
• Essays due Monday

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

Agenda:

• Review SPOTTTS analysis components
• Listen to Whitman's "Pioneers!  O Pioneers!"
• Link to text: http://www.bartleby.com/142/153.html 
• Link to video reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha7O0O_fc48

• Complete online chart with your partner

Homework:

• Finish draft of critical lens for tomorrow's peer review
• Read chapters 2 + 3 with chapter questions completed for Friday
• Study for subject-verb test on Thursday

Subject-Verb Agreement Review

Agenda:

• Review exercises 7-13
• Looking at pronoun-antecedent agreement
• Exercise 14

Homework:

• Make sure the work for O' Pioneers! is completed
• Continue working on essay assignment

O Pioneers Pre-Reading

Agenda:

• Activity for O' Pioneers!
• Begin reading chapter 1 and answering the questions

Homework:

• Finish Chapter 1 reading and answers for Monday
• Complete exercises 7-13 for Monday

Critical Lens Outline

Name:

Ms. Hoffmann

English 10

Date:

Crafting Your Response

Part 1--Working on your introduction

1. What is the theme of the quote?  I know it is only a quote, but what is the theme?  

__________________________________________________________________.

2. Refer to the quote.

3. Do you believe the quote to be true?  Explain without using I, me, or my in one or two sentences.

__________________________________________________________________.

__________________________________________________________________.

4. What are the titles of the two texts, and how do they exemplify the quote (you should refer to literary devices here--theme, characterization, etc.)?

__________________________________________________________________.

__________________________________________________________________.

You now have all of the sentences that you need for the introduction in a good order.  You need to copy them into your final document.  You then need to read through them and add transitions where appropriate.  Just pasting all of the sentences above together without some editing will not receive full credit.

Part 2--Working on your body paragraphs

Paragraph 1--

1. What is one  literary device that you mentioned?  ________________________________

2. How does The House on Mango Street use this device in a way that illustrates the critical lens?

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

3. Find at least one quote that backs up what you are saying.  Remember to write down the page number for the MLA citation.

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

4. Do the same thing here for a backup quote.

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 2--

5. What is the  literary device that you mentioned in the last paragraph?  ________________________________

6. How does American Born Chinese use this device in a way that illustrates the critical lens?

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

7. Find at least one quote that backs up what you are saying.  Remember to write down the page number for the MLA citation.

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

8. Do the same thing here for a backup quote.

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 3--

9. What is the other  literary device that you mentioned?  ________________________________

10. How does The House on Mango Street use this device in a way that illustrates the critical lens?

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

11. Find at least one quote that backs up what you are saying.  Remember to write down the page number for the MLA citation.

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

12. Do the same thing here for a backup quote.

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 4--

13. What is the  literary device that you mentioned in the last paragraph?  ________________________________

14. How does American Born Chinese use this device in a way that illustrates the critical lens?

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

15. Find at least one quote that backs up what you are saying.  Remember to write down the page number for the MLA citation.

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

16. Do the same thing here for a backup quote.

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

Part 3--Writing your conclusion

1. What were your main points?

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

2. Can you relate them back to the quote or to life in general in a way to get your reader thinking?  How?

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

Critical Lens Essay Directions

Name:

Ms. Hoffmann

English 10

Date:

Critical Lens Essay Assignment

Your Task: Write a critical essay of two to three pages in which you discuss two works from the perspective of the critical lens quote.  In your essay, provide a valid interpretation of the quote, agree or disagree with it, and use examples from the two works to support your response.  The two works that you will be discussing already have been chosen for you.  They are The House on Mango Street and American Born Chinese.  

Critical Lens: “Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.” ― Paul McHugh, in The New Yorker

Guidelines:

• Provide a valid interpretation of the critical lens that clearly establishes the criteria for analysis.  (You should be able to do this within the introduction of your paper.)
• Indicate whether you agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it without writing I, me, or my.
• Make sure you are using specific examples from both The House on Mango Street and American Born Chinese.
• Use the criteria suggested by the critical lens to analyze the works.
• Avoid plot summary. Instead, use specific references to appropriate literary elements (for example: theme, characterization, setting, point of view) to develop your analysis.
• I already know what happens in each of the texts.  You do not need to tell me.
• Use quotes where appropriate.  Introduce said quotes.
• Organize your ideas in a unified and coherent manner.  
• Make sure that your thesis is at the end of your introduction and that you are writing topic sentences for each of you paragraphs.
• Use transitions where appropriate.
• Follow the conventions of Standard, written English.  
• Include MLA in-text citations as well as a works cited.

Due: Nov. 12th

The House on Mango Street Link

http://www.nlcphs.org/SummerReadings/Freshmen/HouseOnMango.pdf --e-text

Final Caricature/Stereotype Cartoons

Directions:

You should have received some feedback on your original drawing.  Please use this feedback in order to create your final drawing draft.  The final draft should be on a new piece of computer paper or poster board.  It should make use of the feedback as well as color, line, etc. as we have seen in our sample graphic novels.  The final draft is due this coming Friday.

MLA Review Con't.

Agenda:

• Apostrophe warm-up assignment
• Review test
• MLA review con't

Homework:

• Complete the back of the MLA worksheet

MLA Review

Agenda:

• Discussion of MLA
• A Look at the Purdue OWL
• Samples from worksheet

Homework:

• Finish the front of the MLA worksheet