Wednesday, November 11, 2015


10thth Grade Week 15 and 16
Day
Date
Assignment 


Monday
11/16


Class work

Diagramming Packet #2 Completed packet due 11/30

Answer Questions on Diction and Gender on last weeks blogs in your teams. Share with Teacher via Google docs.
Due by 6 PM 11/18



Homework

Diagramming Packet #2 Completed packet due 11/30

Answer Questions on Diction and Gender on last weeks blogs in your teams. Share with Teacher via Google docs by 6PM 11/18


Tuesday
11/17


Class work

Diagramming Packet #2 Completed packet due 11/30
Answer Questions on Diction and Gender on last weeks blogs in your teams. Share with Teacher via Google docsby 6 PM 11/18



Homework

Diagramming Packet #2 Completed packet due 11/30
Answer Questions on Diction and Gender on last weeks blogs in your teams. Share with Teacher via Google docs due by 6PM 11/18.



Wednesday
11/18


Class work

Prepare 10 Questions for Socratic Seminar on Things Fall Apart. Questions will be collected at beginning of class.

Complete “I will statement” for the Paper Prompt:
Write an informative essay assessing Achebe’s efforts to use the English language to convey Nigerian culture and values (Paper prompt: Analyze the strategies Achebe uses to convey the clash of cultures)


I will have read ______________________________________. (Yellow)
I will write a  ____________________________________________(blue)
I will address Achebe’s efforts to convey Nigerian Culture and Values by examining and discussing ____________________________________________________).
(Pink)
I will argue either for or against ___________________________________(or to what extent we should have that expectation). (Red)
I will use evidence from the texts  _______________________________________________ to support my argument. (Green)
I will address the counterarguments. “Others may think that_________________________
___________________________________________________________________(Black).  I will provide _________________________________________________________throughout my paper and a ___________________________________________________list at the end  (Purple).




Homework

Complete Typed Roman Numeral Format Outline of Paper

Thursday
11/19


Class work

Outlines Peer Reviewed and Begin Writing Paper

Homework

Type Draft 1 of Paper

Friday
11/20


Class work

Socratic Seminar on Things Fall Apart

Homework

1. Draft 1 of Paper due Sunday 5PM to turnitin.com 11/29 Lock out after 5. NO LATE PAPERS ACCEPTED!

2. Reminder Grammar Packet  #2 Due 11/30 at beginning of Class

3. Using Post-it notes identify, Label, and Number Evidence that you have met 10A Skills requirements
Thanksgiving Break

Monday
11/30


Class work

Correct Grammar Diagramming Packets

Sign up for Portfolio Defense


Homework

Read Noriyuki, Duane. "His Own Path to a Life's Dream." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 03 Oct. 1997. Web. 15 Aug. 2014. <http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/03/news/ls-38623>.

Read Shakur, Tupac. "The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur." The Rose That Grew from Concrete. New York: MTV, 2009. N. page. - Famous Poems, Famous Poets. Web. 15 Aug. 2014. <http://allpoetry.com/The-Rose-That-Grew-From-Concrete>.  "The Rose that Grew from Concrete"



Tuesday
12/1




Class work

Correct Diagramming Packets
Watch and Read:

Claunch , Steven, perf. Overcoming Obstacles. Dir. Avi Ofer. TED Ed, 2013. Web. 24 Jul 2014. <http://ed.ted.com/lessons/there-s-no-dishonor-in-having-a-disability-steven-claunch>.

Noriyuki, Duane. "His Own Path to a Life's Dream." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 03 Oct. 1997. Web. 15 Aug. 2014. <http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/03/news/ls-38623>.

Mindset Vocabulary

static    tendency   fruitless   plateau

Article Vocabulary

relentlessly    defined    fared     momentum


Homework

Annotate and Take Cornell Notes Learning To Read and Write by Frederick Douglass pp.111-122




Wednesday
12/2


Class work

What is resilience?


Annotate and Take Cornell Notes on  The Autobiography of Malcolm X pp.123-126

Portfolio Defenses

Homework

Do Learning to Read and Write and skills pp.127-128
Do on a separate sheet of paper
Skills Practice comparison and contrast chart pp.129

Thursday
12/3


Class work

Read Superman and Me  Blue PML pp. 130-137 Do exercises pp. 138- 140

Portfolio Defenses

Homework



Friday
12/4


Class work

Timed Paper on Resilience


Homework

Study For Final Exam

Problem Solution Paper TBA