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.

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—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?
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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?

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

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

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