Saturday, October 3, 2015

Weeks 8 and 9 ( subject to change)

Assignment Date
Focus and Key Terms
Class Work
Homework
Sunday 4th Reminder
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




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”.

Monday 5th
Driving Question:  What elements of organization result in empowerment?


Pass Out Essential Questions Handout (also in box).

Finish Discussion of Chavez Speech

Begin to answer Essential questions on separate sheets of paper.

Finish Answering Chavez project Essential Questions. Turn in at beginning of class already stapled together!
Tuesday 6th
(Shortened Tuesday)

Background Information for Interim Assessment
Background
Research and Add to database 1963
Wednesday 7th

Interim Assessment

Research Add to Database 1984


Non-Sponsored Field Trip Academy Goldwyn
Guillermo Del Toro 7PM

Thursday 8th

Grade Window Opens for 10 Week Report Card

Honors Dialectical Journals for The Jungle due Tomorrow.


Interim Assessment Exam

Research Add to Database 2000
Friday 9th

Interim Assessment Exam
Add to database 2015

Calculate %change
Make sure your have cited all of your credible sources.
Monday 12th

Interim Assessment Exam
Proofread and share your database on Google docs by beginning of  school on Tuesday!
Tuesday 13th

Complete Chavez Graphic Organizer using your annotations and Cornell Notes

Remember to identify examples of ALL the elements



Wednesday 14

PSAT Exam


Taste of Tomorrow
(Bring Resumes and Business Cards)
Outline Chavez Paper due Thursday at beginning of class.
Thursday
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?



Write Chavez Paper

Pass out Logical Fallacies Handout

Write Chavez Paper

Annotate Logical Fallacies Handout
Friday
Logical Fallacies

Write Chavez Paper
Chavez Paper due by Sunday 5PM to turnitin.com

Bring Chinua Achibe Novel Things Fall Apart to class on Monday




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)

·      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
·      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 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:

·      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 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:
·      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:
·      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
o    
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

  Listen to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. :
 I Have Been to The Mountain TopI Have Been to the Mountaintop
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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 9th:

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 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:
·      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 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.

·      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 16th:

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”  





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).