Assignment Date
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Focus and Key Terms
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Class Work
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Homework
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Sunday 4th Reminder
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Bracero
Labor union
Conversion
Excrement
Mortality
Chattel
Humiliation
Domination
Voter registration
Symbolize
Shame
Sham
“Bread and butter issue”
Social movement
Civil rights movement
Political rhetoric
Ironic
Obituary
Arsenal
Dismantle
Intimidation
Socially accepted
Disposable income
Trend
Economic clout
Absurd
Fumigants
Unrestrained
Irrevocably
Luscious
Subjugated
Covet
“Punch-drunk”
Pessimistic
Consciousness
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Make-up papers work due by 5 PM Sunday to turnitin.com
with an email note with what you have submitted.
Makeup Work highlighted in yellow, attached/stapled in
order to your engrade.com print-out
Cornell Notes:
3 Pages (
with summaries) on Cesar Chavez
“ What the Future Holds for Farm Workers and Hispanics”.
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Monday 5th
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Driving Question: What
elements of organization result in empowerment?
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Pass Out Essential Questions Handout (also in box).
Finish Discussion of Chavez Speech
Begin to answer Essential questions on separate sheets of
paper.
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Finish Answering Chavez project Essential Questions. Turn
in at beginning of class already stapled together!
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Tuesday 6th
(Shortened Tuesday)
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Background Information for Interim Assessment
Background
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Research and Add to database 1963
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Wednesday 7th
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Interim Assessment
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Research Add to Database 1984
Non-Sponsored Field Trip Academy Goldwyn
Guillermo Del Toro 7PM
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Thursday 8th
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Grade Window Opens for 10 Week Report Card
Honors Dialectical Journals for The Jungle due Tomorrow.
Interim Assessment
Exam
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Research Add to Database 2000
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Friday 9th
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Interim Assessment
Exam
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Add to database 2015
Calculate %change
Make sure your have cited all of
your credible sources.
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Monday 12th
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Interim Assessment
Exam
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Proofread and share
your database on Google docs by beginning of school on Tuesday!
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Tuesday 13th
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Complete Chavez Graphic Organizer using your annotations
and Cornell Notes
Remember to identify examples of ALL the elements
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Wednesday 14
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PSAT Exam
Taste of Tomorrow
(Bring Resumes and
Business Cards)
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Outline Chavez Paper due Thursday at beginning of class.
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Thursday
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Driving Questions:
Why is oral tradition such an important part of a
culture? Does the rise and survival of speech distinguish humanity from
other species?
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Write Chavez Paper
Pass out Logical Fallacies Handout
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Write Chavez Paper
Annotate Logical Fallacies Handout
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Friday
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Logical Fallacies
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Write Chavez Paper
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Chavez Paper due by Sunday 5PM to turnitin.com
Bring Chinua Achibe Novel Things Fall Apart to
class on Monday
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Saturday, October 3, 2015
Weeks 8 and 9 ( subject to change)
Monday, September 28, 2015
Additional Resources
Chavez Project Additional
Resources
Invisible no more: the Latino struggle for Civil Rights
More Than 200 Years of Latino Media
in the United States
Hispanics in the United States 1850-1990
Latino History and Culture Google Books
Latino and Latina Judges
The National Archive
Tools for writing papers
What is rhetoric?
In defense of rhetoric: 14 Minutes
Plagiarism, Quoting, and Paraphrasing
Quoting vs. Paraphrasing
The Academic Paper
Outlining
Outlining in Microsft Word
Outlining in google docs
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Weeks 6 and 7 ( subject to change)
Week 6 and 7 Syllabus
(subject to change)
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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
· Listen to Bill Clinton "Remarks to the Convocation of
the Church of Christ in God” Mp4 File from Clinton
Library
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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.
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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 10th 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:
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Class
work:
o Timed paper practice
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Honors 10
Lunch meeting (Dialectical Journal distribution for Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle).
Homework:
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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 10th 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:
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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 10th 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:
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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 25th:
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 FastStats
o National Institutes of Health
o Pew Research Center: Hispanic Trends
o Pew Research Center: African Americans
o Pew Research Center: Asian Americans
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o Pew Research Center: Internet and Technology
o http://www.pewinternet.org
o New York Times Topics
o Google Scholar
o Science News AAAS
o APPS for Research (Webcrawlers)
o Flipboard.com
Tuesday 29th:
Class work:
o Research project
Homework:
o Research project
o Share databases with NMAdocc@gmail.com
Wednesday 30th
Class work:
o Roman Numeral Outline of Paper
Homework:
o Begin First draft of Paper
Thursday 1st
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
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
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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
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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:
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Labor Day Have Graphic organizer and Draft
completed for Peer Review
Tuesday 8th:
Class work:
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Peer review of Papers (GRADED Assignment)
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Papers due to turnitin.com by 6P.M.
Home work: Study for
CARRDS TEST QUIZ
Wednesday 9th:
Class work:
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CARRDS TEST Quiz
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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:
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REVISE Vietnam papers
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Annotate “Ain’t I a Woman” PML pp. 40- 43
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Download Graphic Organizer (Evaluate Credibility
Template) for Constructed Response Paper pp.43 from the Evaluate Sojourner-Anthony in the 10th 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:
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Annotate Declaration of the Rights of Women “pp.
44-46
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Begin Graphic Organizer in Teams.
Homework:
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Complete Graphic organizer
Friday 11th
Class work:
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NMA Field
Trip to LACC
Homework:
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Write 1st 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.
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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.
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Monday 14:
Class work: NO
School
Homework: Papers due Sunday by 5 PM
Tuesday 15th:
Class work:
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Class Meets in Library: MLA Formatting, Works Cited Lists,
Parenthetical Citations
Homework: Revise
Papers
Revise Evaluation of
a Speech Paper (Anthony- Truth).
Wednesday 16th:
Class work:
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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”
· 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”
Friday 18th
Class work: Getty
Field Trip or Textual annotation and begin Graphic organizer
Homework:
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Annotate on “Remarks to the Convocation of the
Church of Christ in God”
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Complete Graphic Organizer for Class Discussion on Monday ( Graded
Assignment).
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