News articles and project summary

News Articles English 10B and NMA Project Summary

1.For English 10 B you must submit proofread, revised versions that meet the rubrics for all 3 types of articles.  These include:

2 news stories, 1 feature article, 1 editorial from a totalitarian perspective

(point of view).

Rubrics Located in BOX on main page of blog. 

2. For your NMA Project you must submit a minimum of 2 articles/student. 

3. Your NMA newspaper must have a publication date.  All team stories must reflect that this is the time period of your team’s stories.  (Work together to coordinate).

4.  Remember you are the “bad guys”. 

Type	Number of Words	Characteristic	Aspect of Totalitarianism	Propaganda
News Story 2	<450	Recent Event (past 24 hours maximum) Who? What? Why? Where? When? How?	Choose 1	ALL
Editorial 1	<450	Gives an opinion on a topical issue (of immediate relevance, interest, or importance owing to its relation to current events in your nation).	Choose 1	ALL
Feature Article 1	500-1500	A special human-interest story article. It focuses on particular people, places, and events, and it goes into great detail regarding concepts and ideas	Choose 1	All

Revised Syllabus Draft 0.1

Draft 0.1 Revised Syllabus English 10B  10^th Grade

March 25^th-March 30^th NMA Project

March 24^th- New Feature Article Revision begins

March 26^th

·      2 News Article due to Google docs (NOTE Google docs and turnitin.com are now compatible! You can upload from the cloud to Google docs! ).

·      Assignment  #1: Write an Editorial due on Thursday  <450 Words

March 31-April 4-

·      Propaganda Posters  Reviewed and Graded

·      Assignment #2 Grapes of Wrath Expository/Informational Performance Assessment Exam Begins

·      Read, Highlight, and Annotate Background Information

o   Migrant Farm Workers

o   The WPA

o   The Dust Bowl

·      Watch Videos and Examine Photographs

o   Voices from the Dust Bowl http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

o   Brother Can You Spare A Dime?  Photographs from The Great Depression http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/dime/resources.html

·       Timeline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/dustbowl/

April 7- 10 Complete Expository/Informational Performance Assessment

Exam

April 11^th All Second Drafts of Editorial  (required) and student Choice

 Articles due remember a minimum of 2/person

·      Hollywood Idol

April 14-18- Spring Break  Review and Plan for Completing Upcoming

             Assignments

·      Read Julius Caesar  

·      Assignment #3 Review Elements of Drama- Cornell Notes

·      Assignment #4 Keep Reading Logs in your Reader’s Writers Notebook.  See Schedule for Due dates of Logs. No late Logs accepted!

·      Assignment #5  Complete Graphic Organizers and Short Constructed responses on Brutus and Antony’s Speeches.

·      Assignment #6   Memorize and Recite and/or create/post podcast/vlog of one of the assigned monologues or dialogues.  Due May 12^th

April 28^th-May 2- Week 1 Julius Caesar

·      April 28^th-NMA Articles due for Publication

 Read Julius Caesar Act I Essential Questions:

Forces at work in Julius Caesar’s time are still evident in the news. Wars, terrorism, mob violence, and assassinations are still problems today. People today are still swayed and even controlled by powerful and persuasive individuals and groups. How do we decide to join one group and to oppose another? What do we do when appeals to our ambition conflict with our sense of honor?

1.     What are the qualities of a good leader?

2.     What are the consequences of betrayal?

3.     How easily are people persuaded?

4.     What are the personal and social effects of ambition?

Review Questions from 9^th grade: What is the relationship between decisions and consequences? How do decisions, actions, and consequences vary depending on the different perspectives of the people involved? How can a person’s decisions and actions change his/her life?

Prerequisite Skills: setting, characters, stages of plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution), conflict (internal and external), irony (situational, verbal, dramatic), cause and effect, tone, theme, mood, sonnet

Unit Vocabulary:  Persuasive Devices (i.e. bandwagon, loaded words, testimonial, name-calling, plain folks, snob appeal, misuse of statistics), logical fallacies (appeal to fear, personal attack {ad hominem}, false dilemma, false analogy}, Figures of Speech, play, tragedy, tragic hero, tragic flaw, comedy, dialogue, monologue, soliloquy, aside, stage directions, props, inferences, iambic pentameter, couplet, meter, slant rhyme, rhyme, rhythm

·       Crucial passages in the play to examine:

Act 1 sc.1 ll.32-55                  Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?

Act 1 sc.2 ll. 135-161                  Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world

Act 2 sc.1 ll. 10-34                  It must be by his death; and for my part,

Act 2 sc.1 ll. 162-183                  Our course will seem to bloody, Caius Cassius

Act 2 sc. 2 ll. 13-26                  Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,

Act 3 sc.1 ll. 123-137                    Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel;

Act 3 sc. 1 ll.  183-210                  I doubt not of your wisdom.

Act 3 sc.2 ll. 12-32                    Be patient till the last.

Act 3 sc.2  ll. 71-105                    Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! ***

Act 3 sc. 2 ll. 116-135                  But yesterday the word of Caesar might

Act 3 sc.2 ll. 166-194                      If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Act 3 sc. 2 ll. 206-226                  Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up

Act 4 sc.3 ll. 264-281                  It was well done, and thou shalt sleep again;

Act 5 sc.5 ll. 68-81            This was the noblest Roman of them all;

Julius Caesar Reading Log Schedule

ACT 1 and II                            ACT III                                     ACT IV and V                                                                       

4-28            1.1-5           

P1 and P3

5-5              3.1-2                                    5-12            4.1-2                       

4-29            1.3-5

P 7

                                     5-6              3.2                                      5-13            4.3-4           

4-30             2.0-2.4           

P1 and P3

                                    5-7              3.3                                       5-14            5.1-2           

5-1              2.3-4           

P7           

                                      5-8             3.4                                        5-15              5.3

5-2               2.5             5-9      3.5-6                                           5-16            5.4

 

Due 5-2                         Due 5-8                                           Due 5-16                                     

May 5-8- Week 2 Julius Caesar

            May 8^th Final NMA Product Due

May 12-16 Week3 Julius Caesar

            May 12^th   Assignment#5 due Caesar Speech/Podcast/Vlog

May 19-23 Read 1984 Expectations:  Read in class 50 Minutes. Read for Homework 30 -50 minutes, depending on your reading level.

May 26- Memorial Day 

May 27-30   Read 1984

·      Assignment#7 Essay on Censorship Due to turnitin.com on May 27^th

·      Final Exam Covers:  Fahrenheit 451, Julius Caesar, 1984 and Revised Essay on Censorship Due

June 2-5 Finals

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Week 10 English 10b NMA and MET

Day	Class work	Homework
Monday Objective: Students should be able to write a coherent news story about an event that happened using the 5 W’s and H.	NMA Project 1.     Review parts of a newspaper a.     News b.     Op-ed c.      Features d.     Sports e.     Living                                                i.     Home                                               ii.     Food                                             iii.     Fashion f.      Science g.     Technology 2.     Revise Drafts of a news story newspaper articles 3.       MET Period 7 : Fahrenheit 451 Essay on Censorship	NMA:   Prep for CASHEE Exam and finish news article revisions. MET, Period 7, Essay on Censorship due Sunday to turnitin.com
Tuesday 4,5,6, and 7	1.      Elements of a feature article. 2.     Feature Article Rubric. 3.     Feature article Graphic organizer	4.     Review Feature Article rubric and come to class with questions. 5.     Start Feature article graphic organizer
Wednesday	1.       Elements of a feature article. 2.     Feature Article Rubric. 3.     Feature article Graphic Organizer	4.     Complete Feature article Graphic organizer
Thursday	1.     Research and Draft your feature article 500-1500 words	2.     Continue to draft of Feature article.
Friday	3.     Finish Draft of feature Article Submit to turnitin.com by Noon on Sunday, Window will close, NO Late Work accepted	4.     Finish Draft of feature Article Submit to turnitin.com by Noon on Sunday, Window will close, NO Late Work accepted

Week 9 English 10 B

Day	Class work	Homework
Monday Skills: Students should be able to craft a short, evidenced based editorial and be able to refute an Argument ☐ Use STEAL to complete a character analysis ☐	NMA Project Work Draft your first newspaper article. Recommend that you write your editorial first.	Finish Draft of first article Resources on Internet 1.     Structure of a news feature http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson249/pyramid.pdf 2.     Newspaper Story Format http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson249/format.pdf 3.      News stories http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/reader-idea-practicing-detective-skills-with-infamous-local-news-stories/#more-135147 4.     Science writing tips http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/09/handy-tips-science-writers 5.     The News Manual Reporting Science and Technology http://www.thenewsmanual.net/Manuals%20Volume%202/volume2_31.htm 6.      Model of how to research and write a feature article http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/turn-down-the-volume-researching-the-science-of-sound-and-noise-induced-hearing-loss/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Tuesday	Peer Review Article #1	Revise your article Submit  article at beginning of class Remember to ripple space so that you can edit.
Wednesday	Draft your second article Team captains- Make sure that you have a diversity of types of articles ( features, news stories, science articles, technology articles).	Revise your second article
Thursday	Peer review your second article Grade Window Opens today.	Submit article # 2  at beginning of class on Friday.
Friday	Preparation for ELA Exam Begin Review of Dust Bowl era in preparation for ELA Performance Assessment exam. Attributions: You need to introduce a Quote.  For example: The author writes, “…”. The author claimed… The author believes,” …” You can also conclude you quote with the attribution. Doc C claimed, “ Studying helps students retain information.” or “Studying helps students retain information”, claimed Doc C.	Review Attributions Test Prep  “ Evidence-based reading and writing… (Tests) will use as its source materials pieces of writing — from science articles to historical documents to literature excerpts — which research suggests are important for educated Americans to know and understand deeply. “The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers,” …“have managed to inspire an enduring great conversation about freedom, justice, human dignity in this country and the world” — therefore (tests) will contain a passage from either a founding document or from a text (like Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address) that is part of the “great global conversation” the founding documents inspired…” New York Times 3/9/14