Week 15 English 10 A

Week 15 English 10

Day	Class work	Homework
Monday LACER and NMA Tutoring Students Don’t forget to turn in your signed LACER and NMA Tutoring logs Fridays to the inbox to receive your 21st century skills points! ☐	Video of The Cold Equations	Read the Gift of the Magi Project Gutenberg online versions can be found at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22440
Tuesday	Think about the things that matter most to you. Make a list/write a journal entry of the top five most important things in your life in your reader’s Writer’s notebooks. The Gift of the Magi Vocabulary	Complete Vocabulary worksheet  #2
Wednesday	Plot Diagram of Gift of the Magi and Symbolism Chart	Complete Plot Diagram and symbolism chart
Thursday	In teams draft a more contemporary version of this story. Be prepared to share your team’s version.	Read Animal Farm
Friday	In teams draft a more contemporary version of this story. Be prepared to share your team”s version.	Read Part 1 of Novel Animal Farm Revise at least 1 essay for credit

Changing The Ending Prompt and Quotation Punctuation Review

You are a researcher in the year 2196. You discover some pages of an ancient

textbook containing a short story called "The Cold Equations." However, the final

pages are missing. The last bit of text you can read is Marilyn's "I'm ready" on page twenty-seven. Write a plausible resolution for the story that is different from the present ending. Suppose you are an optimistic researcher. Is it possible to find happy ending?

Take into consideration the following criteria for this writing

assignment. You found the pages of the short story in the year 2196, a futuristic

world scenario that is much different than today's society. Your ending must be

believable but you are encouraged to be creative in how you fashion the new

resolution. Your finished piece should naturally have the "feeling" of the conclusion of a story and remember that if you write dialogue that quotation marks and proper punctuation should be used as well as paragraphing for each new speaker. Have fun with this assignment and make your new ending as interesting as possible.

©Holt Rinehart Winston Elements of Literature 4^th Course textbook

Example Dialog:

Rules: 

1. New Paragraph when a new speaker. 
2. Comma goes before the quote.
3. Final quotation mark goes after the punctuation mark. 

“The Cold Equations” sample dialogue formatting sample:

Barton said, “I do not want to eject you but I will if I have to.”

“But why must you,” Marilyn exclaimed.

“Because it is the rule.”

The EDS moved swiftly along in space with the two on board and Marilyn did not realize that her additional weight would be treacherous for the crew since the vessel was only programmed with the exact fuel.

Thanks to Mr. Carmicle!

Week 14 English 10

Week 14 English 10

Day	Class work	Homework
Monday LACER and NMA Tutoring Students Don’t forget to turn in your signed LACER and NMA Tutoring logs Fridays to the inbox to receive your 21st century skills points! ☐	Finish Analysis of Learned Hand Speech Compare and Contrast Poem and Speech  Graphic Organizer, Template, and Post Essay to turnitin.com	Finish Analysis of Learned Hand Speech Compare and Contrast Poem and Speech  Graphic Organizer, Template, and Post Essay to turnitin.com
Tuesday	Revise 1 Essay Submit with revision stapled to original version.	Revise 1 Essay due at beginning of class
Wednesday	NEW UNIT Begins TBA bring Books to class unless we have obtained a class set. Read "Cold Equations" in your textbook or PDF of Cold Equations	Dialectical Journal 3 quotes from Story
Thursday	"The Cold Equations" Changing the Ending" paper due Sunday dialogue formatting  is discussed	Changing the Ending.
Friday	Changing the Ending	Changing the Ending

Compare and Contrast Poem and a Speech Template Posted to Box

Compare and Contrast Poem and a Speech Template Posted to Box

Use for compare and contrast "Let America be America Again" and  "On Liberty"

Essay Writing Resources

Model High School Student Social Studies Essays Emerson Prize Winners

The Writing Machine Step by Step Guide

Essay Types Argumentative and Expository

Literary Terms

Comparing A Theme Across Genres Graphic Organizer

Comparing A Theme Across Genres Graphic Organizer

	“Let America be America Again”	Liberty “Spirit of Liberty”
Author
Date  written and/or Occasion
Audience
Genre
Author’s Purpose
Theme or Main Idea
How the writer uses characteristics of the genre to develop theme or main idea Review pp. 136-7 of purple PML

Week 13 English 10B

Week 13 English 10

Day	Class work	Homework
Monday LACER and NMA Tutoring Students Don’t forget to turn in your signed LACER and NMA Tutoring logs Fridays to the inbox to receive your 21st century skills points! ☐	Hold on to your Political Cartoons. We will return to this in a few weeks ☐ Objectives:  1. Learn How to Analyze a Poem 2. Learn 3 methods of writing a Compare and Contrast Essay BLOCK FORMAT POINT-BY-POINT SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES ☐ Driving Questions: • Can reason be used to solve “ world problems”? • Is it the responsibility of each new generation to insure “liberty and justice for all”? Review Analysis of Paragraph 1 of Learned Hand on the “Spirit of Liberty” Reminder Vocabulary definitions on quizlet.com Paragraph 1, third section Does Hand think we ought to reject seeking liberty through the legal system? –What “reasons” that could improve society are alluded to in this poem? – Would Hughes and/or Hand agree with the Enlightenment idea that rational people can solve “problems”?	Begin Essay on Analyzing Learned Hand Speech Use pp. 36-39 in Blue PML as your guide Essay due to Turnitin.com by Friday 3 PM. Attend NMA tutoring or LACER if you need additional help.
Tuesday	•What is the problem Hand sees with granting people “unbridled will”? • How has the definition of liberty evolved over the course of this first paragraph?	Analysis of Learned Hand Speech
Wednesday	2nd Paragraph, 1st Section •How does Hand’s explication of his vision of the spirit of liberty explain why he could not define the spirit of liberty?  • Why does Hand shift from describing a commonly held faith (“we”) in the first paragraph to describing his “own faith” in the second paragraph? • Who is Hand referring to when he speaks of “the spirit of Him”?  What “lesson” did he teach that has neither been learned nor forgotten?	Analysis of Learned Hand Speech
Thursday	Finish Essay	Finish Essay
Friday	Begin Compare and Contrast  Poem and Speech Essay  Prompt Hand considers a variety of ideas regarding what is meant by the term liberty. Write a comparative essay, where you compare and contrast Hand’s thoughts with another author’s writings regarding liberty, Langston Hughes’ poem, “Let America be America Again” . Review:  How to write a Compare and Contrast Essay In Purple 9th grade PML book read P 136 and 137, Read pp. 157	Complete Graphic Organizer Use Compare and Contrast Essay Template to start your essay.