Tenth Grade English: September 2015

· Past due Reminders: Annotate and Take Cornell Notes on “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” : Annotate on “Remarks to the Convocation of the Church of Christ in God”

· Listen to I Have Been to The Mountain Top

· https://vimeo.com/3816635 16:49 is where text begins

· Listen to Bill Clinton "Remarks to the Convocation of the Church of Christ in God” Mp4 File from Clinton Library

· Miller Center Video of speech Lower Resolution

· http://millercenter.org/president/clinton/speeches/speech-3436

· Field trip extra Credit assignment due Tuesday

Monday 21:

Focus: Analyzing and Evaluating Speeches, aphorisms (a brief easily remembered statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life), structure, tone, inductive and deductive organization.

· Class work

o Complete Graphic Organizer for Class Discussion on Tuesday (Graded Assignment).

Lunch: Chance to retake CARRDS TEST

Homework: Write a Roman Numeral Format Outline for your paper responding to the prompt: Analyze Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “ I have been to the Mountaintop”. A review of how to outline a paper is in the “Outlining a paper” folder in the 10^th grade box on the main page of the blog. Go to LACER to have your outline reviewed if needed. Remember the INDENTS MATTER. You want to be able to make sure that the structure of your paper is strong and logical. The topics for each paragraph should be clear.

Tuesday 22:

· Class work:

o Timed paper practice

· Honors 10 Lunch meeting (Dialectical Journal distribution for Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle).

Homework:

· Complete Graphic organizer for analyzing Bill Clinton’s speech “Remarks to the Convocation of the Church of God in Christ”. Graphic organizer is located in “Bill Clinton” folder in the 10^th grade Box. NOTE: You must discuss at least 3 of the Principles of Democracy from Mr. Bitran’s Class as applies to Clinton’s analysis of the state of freedom and human rights.

Wednesday 23:

NO school

Thursday 24:

Class work:

· Write a Roman Numeral Format Outline for your paper responding to the prompt: Analyze Bill Clinton’s speech “ Remarks to the Convocation of the Church of God in Christ”. A review of how to outline a paper is in the “Outlining a paper” folder in the 10^th grade box on the main page of the blog. Remember the INDENTS MATTER. You want to be able to make sure that the structure of your paper is strong and logical. The topics for each paragraph should be clear. Go to LACER to have your outline reviewed if needed.

Homework:

· Begin first draft of paper analyzing Analyze Bill Clinton’s speech “ Remarks to the Convocation of the Church of God in Christ”. Paper due to turnitin.com on Friday by 6PM

Friday 25^th:

Class work:

Text: What the Future Holds for Farm Workers and Hispanics pp. 53-59 PML

Driving Question: What elements of organization result in empowerment?

Focus: Evaluation of an argument, obtaining information from Credible Sources, analyzing data, tracking changeover time to see if a theory holds, making your own data based predictions.

Project: Data Analysis of Growth of Hispanic Political and Economic Power from Founding of Nation through 2016.

o Discussion of Cesar Chavez Research Project

o Begin annotation of Text

§ Credible Sources

§ Data Analysis

Homework:

o Continue Annotation of “ What the Future Holds for Farm Workers and Hispanics”

o Review how to create a database in Google docs

o Review and annotate Logical Fallacies handout

Monday 28th:

Classwork

o Assign research groups and team jobs

o Create a data base delineating economic and political growth of Latino Power since 1984

o Objective to confirm or contradict Chavez hypothesis that “organization results in empowerment”.

Homework:

o Data Collection for database

o Starting Place for Research Project (PBL) Links

o U.S. Census Bureau

o http://www.census.gov

o FastStats

o http://CDC.gov

o National Institutes of Health

o http://nih.gov

o Pew Research Center: Hispanic Trends

o http://www.pewhispanic.org

o Pew Research Center: African Americans

o http://www.pewresearch.org/topics/african-americans/

o Pew Research Center: Asian Americans

o http://www.pewresearch.org/topics/asian-americans/

o Pew Research Center: Internet and Technology

o http://www.pewinternet.org

o New York Times Topics

o http://www.nytimes.com/pages/topics/

o Google Scholar

o https://scholar.google.com

o Science News AAAS

o http://news.sciencemag.org

o APPS for Research (Webcrawlers)

o Flipboard.com

o https://flipboard.com

Tuesday 29^th:

Class work:

o Research project

Homework:

o Research project

o Share databases with NMAdocc@gmail.com

Wednesday 30^th

Class work:

o Roman Numeral Outline of Paper

Homework:

o Begin First draft of Paper

Thursday 1^st

Class work

o Finish draft of Paper

Homework

o Proofread paper using 12-step method ( handout is in box) and common error handout

Friday 2nd

o Paper is due to turnitin.com by 6PM NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED!

Monday, September 14, 2015

Links for Speeches

Ain't I a Woman Alfre Woodard, actor

Ain't I a Woman Kerry Washington, actor

"I Have been to the Mountaintop" Rhetoric.com

Listen to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. :

I Have Been to The Mountain TopI Have Been to the Mountaintop

· https://vimeo.com/3816635 I have been to the Mountaintop16:49 is where text begins

Listen to President Bill Clinton "Remarks to the Convocation of the Church of Christ in God”

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Weeks 4 and 5 2015-2016

Week 4 and 5 Syllabus (subject to change)

Monday:

Class work: Labor Day

· Have Graphic organizer and Draft of Paper completed for Peer review

Focus: Primary and Secondary sources and using the sources

Connect what you read in one source to information in other sources.

Homework:

· Labor Day Have Graphic organizer and Draft completed for Peer Review

Tuesday 8th:

Class work:

· Peer review of Papers (GRADED Assignment)

· Papers due to turnitin.com by 6P.M.

Home work: Study for CARRDS TEST QUIZ

Wednesday 9^th:

Class work:

· CARRDS TEST Quiz

· Read PML pp. 36-40

Focus: Analyzing and Evaluating Speeches, aphorisms (a brief easily remembered statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life), structure, and tone.

Homework:

· REVISE Vietnam papers

· Annotate “Ain’t I a Woman” PML pp. 40- 43

· Download Graphic Organizer (Evaluate Credibility Template) for Constructed Response Paper pp.43 from the Evaluate Sojourner-Anthony in the 10^th Grade folder in the BOX.

Prompt: Write an analysis of “Ain’t I a Woman” and “Declaration of the Rights of Women”. Identify the elements of content (e.g., arguments, evidence, rhetorical devices, tone, and mood and organization (e.g., coherence and clarity) that each speaker uses. Then explain which speech is most effective. Include specific evidence from each speech.

Thursday10th: Grades due!

Class work:

· Annotate Declaration of the Rights of Women “pp. 44-46

· Begin Graphic Organizer in Teams.

Homework:

· Complete Graphic organizer

Friday 11th

Class work:

· NMA Field Trip to LACC

Homework:

· Write 1^st draft of Evaluating Speech Paper, Proofread for errors before submitting, Type, and submit to turnitin.com by Sunday at 5 PM so that papers can be returned Tuesday for revision.

· Prompt: Write an analysis of “Ain’t I a Woman” and “Declaration of the Rights of Women”. Identify the elements of content (e.g., arguments, evidence, rhetorical devices, tone, and mood and organization (e.g., coherence and clarity) that each speaker uses. Then explain which speech is most effective. Include specific evidence from each speech.

Monday 14:

Class work: NO School

Homework: Papers due Sunday by 5 PM

Tuesday 15th:

Class work:

· Class Meets in Library: MLA Formatting, Works Cited Lists, Parenthetical Citations

Homework: Revise Papers

Revise Evaluation of a Speech Paper (Anthony- Truth).

Wednesday 16^th:

Class work:

· Class Meets in Library: MLA Formatting, Works Cited Lists, Parenthetical Citations

Homework: Submit revised Paper to turnitin.com by 6PM

Thursday 17th:

Class work:

· Class Meets in Library: MLA Formatting, Works Cited Lists, Parenthetical Citations

Homework:

· Annotate and Take Cornell Notes on “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”

· Listen to I Have Been to The Mountain TopI Have Been to the Mountaintop

· https://vimeo.com/3816635 16:49 is where text begins

· Listen to Bill Clinton "Remarks to the Convocation of the Church of Christ in God”

Clinton Speech

Friday 18th

Class work: Getty Field Trip or Textual annotation and begin Graphic organizer

Homework:

· Annotate on “Remarks to the Convocation of the Church of Christ in God”

· Complete Graphic Organizer for Class Discussion on Monday ( Graded Assignment).