SAY
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MEAN
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MATTER
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What does the text say?
What happened?
Cite text (quotation) or paraphrase.
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What does the author mean?
How do I interpret this?
Read “between the lines.”
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Why does it matter to me or others?
Why is this important?
What is the significance?
What are the implications?
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Say Mean Matter
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
FAT Thesis
The FATt Thesis Sentence Demystified What’s a FATt? (Also known as a “text reference sentence.”)
The FATt sentence combines the essential reference information for a specific work you want to discuss and includes a brief summary of the focus or main point the author strives to convey.
What does FATt stand for?
F: FOCUS
This is comprised of a brief plot summary and the author’s main point/moral/thesis.
A: AUTHOR’S NAME
Always use the author’s full name the first time you mention him/her. Check spelling carefully. Every subsequent mention of the author should be last name only since you aren’t on a chummy first name basis.
T: TITLE OF THE WORK
Check the mechanics of your title. Books are underlined or italicized—NEVER BOTH, and articles, poems, and essays are put in quotation marks.
t: text type
Clarify for the reader what kind of text it is. For example, you could be referring to an article, editorial, memoir or autobiography, novel, or essay. Be as specific as you can; don’t write book when you mean novel.
Note!
The above elements of a FATt sentence can appear in a variety of orders. We’ll practice working with the order of information so that you don’t get stuck in a writing rut, relying on a stock sentence pattern. After all, sentence variety is one of the spices of life.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Week 2
Week 2
English 10 A
Reading Standard 2.8 Evaluate the
credibility of an author’s argument or defense of claim by critiquing the relationships between generalizations and
evidence, the comprehensiveness of evidence,
and the way in which the author’s intent affects the
structure and tone of the text.
Writing Standard 2.4 Write persuasive compositions and use specific rhetorical devices to support assertions. Use the logical appeals!
Aug. 19 If Decency Doesn’t,
Law should make us Good Samaritans, Good Samaritans
are Afraid to Act
Quiz on
Readings Monday
Academic
Vocabulary Pp. 3 and Readings Quiz on Tuesday 8/20
PROJ:
Cornell Notes on All Readings, review Highlight and Annotate Skills ongoing
FIDDS PowerPoint
Constructed Response 5-paragraph Typed Essay due Thursday pp.
11 Evaluate the credibility of the arguments in the two opinion pieces
August 20 New Media Academy Orientation Day
Vocabulary Quiz Academic Language
Read and annotate
The Parable of the Good Samaritan and Hoyle A State Championship Versus A Runners Conscience pp. 13-15
August 21 Read Writing
a Persuasive Essay Read, Highlight, and Annotate pp. 15-
23
5-paragraph
typed Essay due tomorrow 8/22 at beginning of class. Come in with Essay Stapled, First Name, Last Name, Period,
date, Assignment Name is Evaluation of Credibility Allred, Bloom, Sjoerdsma
August 22 Writing A Persuasive Essay PowerPoint
PROJ: 5-paragraph
typed Persuasive Essay
Topic: Argue Pro or Con for the “Soda Ban Law”
August 23 Drafting the Persuasive Essay
Draft
should be tripled spaced, typed, Bring a Red Pen to
Class on Monday
for Editing and Peer Review
Draft Syllabus
Syllabus English 10 2013-14
English 9 Dr.
Cohen Room
222
Hollywood High School SLC: MET
Asterisked (*) text is credited to the following sources:
Elements of Literature, Course (Holt-Rinehart-Winston,
Publishers)
Holt Literature and Language
Arts
Holt Perspectives in
Multicultural Literature (Blue Workbook)
Vocabulary Workshop Levels “E”
or Quizlet.com
Common Core Novels
Things Fall Apart Chinua
Achebe
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
The Metamorphosis Ovid
Key
to Abbreviations:
EL Elements
of Literature (Home)
A Holt
Lit and Language ARTS Anthology
ML Multicultural
Literacy Workbook
Common Core College and
Career Ready Standards:
·
Building Knowledge through
content-rich non-fiction and informational texts (Read)
·
Reading and writing grounded
in evidence from the text (Back it up!)
·
Regular practice with
complex text and its academic vocabulary (Highlight, Annotate, Think
Critically)
Scope and Sequence: Semester Overview
(Subject to Change)
Aug. 13-16 Authors Covered: Gloria Allred and Lisa Bloom; Ann
Sjoerdsma
If decency Doesn’t, Law should make us Good Samaritans, Good Samaritans
are Afraid to Act Academic
Vocabulary Pp. 3
PROJ: Register for Engrade.com
PROJ: Cornell Notes on All Readings, review
Highlight and Annotate Skills
Aug. 19-23 Authors
Covered: Hoyle
A State Championship Versus A Runners
Conscience
PROJ:
Highlight and Annotate assigned texts
PROJ: 800-word typed essay Evaluation of
Credibility of an Author
Writing
A Persuasive Essay
Informational text: researching
Information
Aug. 27-30 Authors
Covered: Alice Walker, Roger
Rosenblatt
Everyday Use by Alice Walker
PROJ:
800-word typed essay Evaluating an
Authors argument
Exam
on Academic Vocabulary
Library Orientation
Sept.
2-6 Author Covered: Johnson, Bagby, Martin Luther King Jr.
The War Escalates, Dear Folks, Declaration
of Independence from the War in Vietnam PROJ: Primary and Secondary Sources,
Analyzing and Evaluating Speeches
Proj: Analyze how Johnson and King unfold their
examination of ideas and facts, paying particular attention to the order in
which the points are made, how King, for example, introduces and develops his
points, and the connections that are drawn between them.
9/3 P2 Opp. Day Writing Project
Grade window
opens Sept. 5th
Sept.9-13 Author
Covered: Sojourner Truth
Ain’t
I a Woman, Declaration of the Rights of Women,
PROJ:
Evaluating an author’s argument
Essay
Sept.16- 20 Author
Covered: Martin Luther King, William
J. Clinton, and Barack Obama
I have been to the Mountaintop, Remarks to
the Convocation of the Church of Christ in God,
PROJ: Allusion Chart
Proj: 1500-Word Essay Evaluate the
credibility of a political speech
Back to School
Night 9/19 Parent/Guardian Visits
Sept.23-27 Author Covered: Cesar Chavez
What the Future Holds for Farm Workers and
Hispanics
PROJ: Symbolism Chart
PROJ. Evaluate argument
Proj;
Writing and Delivering a Speech
Sept.30 -4__ Author
Covered Learned Hand, Langston Hughes
I am an American Day Address, Let America be
America Again
Proj: Analyze Speech and Poem
PROJ:
Compare and Contrast Essay
P4 Opp. Day 10/1 Writing Project
Oct. 7-11 Authors
Covered: Political cartoonists
PROJ:
Political Cartoon Posters
Oct. 14- 17 Authors
Covered: Steinbeck or Bradbury TBA
PROJ:
Reading Circles for Novels
Lenses of poverty, degrees of wealth, and gender
PHAbao
Oct. 17 Parent/Guardian Conferences
SPA Exam English Persuasion
Oct.21- -25 Authors
Covered: Steinbeck or Bradbury
PROJ:
1500 Word Essay on Multiple Points of View
Oct. 28 –Nov.1 Authors Covered: Steinbeck or Bradbury, Rodriguez, Barnes
TBA
Coming of Age, Latino Style, Vision
Quest, Crossing a Threshold to Adulthood
PROJ:
Academy Vocabulary for Exposition p.
65
PROJ: Synthesizing Sources Table
Nov. 4– Nov. 8 Authors
Covered: Alice Walker, Roland Freeman, Cooper and Allen, Lee
Interview with
Alice Walker, Interview with Nikki Giovanni, "Thinkin on Marryin", A
Baby’s Quilt to sew up the Generations
Proj: Quilt Design: Video or Craft
11/5
Opp. Day P2 Writing Project
Nov. 12-Nov. 15 Authors
Covered: Chinua Achebe
The Oral Tradition and Things Fall Apart
PROJ: Irony
Nov.18-232 Authors
Covered: Chinua Achebe and Oral
Tradition II
Things Fall Apart and La LLorona
PROJ: Allegory and Ghostly
Tale Project
11/19
Opp. Day P4 Writing Project
Nov. 25-29 Authors
Covered: Chinua Achebe, Sandra
Cisneros, and Frederick Douglass
Problems
and Solutions, Straw Into Gold, Learning to Read and Write
PROJ: 1500 Word Essay
Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 2-6 Authors
Covered: Malcolm X, Sherman Alexie
PROJ:
1500 Word Essay
December 9-13 Authors Covered: Langston Hughes
Theme for English B
PROJ:
Final Exam
Useful Web Sites:
Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Modern Language Association citation formatting
Oxford English
Dictionary
Vocabulary for the collegebound student
Teacher Web Log
http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net
Weekly blog postings of assignments
Turn It In
Online originality reports for composition
College Board Online
http://www.collegeboard.org/ap
Preparation for post-secondary education endeavors
Homework, Late Work Policy, and Grading
Organization and preparedness are skills
you will need regardless of your post-secondary plans.
Homework will be writing compositions, studying for
tests, or reading. DO ALL OF IT.
·
Late work will not be accepted! An extension can
be granted by the teacher 24 hrs prior
to a deadline provided the student shows evidence of progress.
· Papers must
be clearly labeled with First and Last Name, Period, Assignment name, and date
or paper will drop a grade and feedback will be delayed.
· Some work
can NOT be made up, especially the oral assignments.
· See me before 7:30 or during Lunch about make-up work, not right
as the class is about to begin.
· Students who are absent from
class and provide an acceptable excuse may make up tests by
appointment with the teacher.
· If students
miss a class for sports or field trip activities, they are required to submit
the assigned work the day it is due, either before school or during the school
day; excuses such as “I was not in class” are not acceptable.
· End-of-semester deadline is the first day of stop week; no
work will be accepted after that date.
It is in the students’ best interest to meet deadlines and submit work
of the highest quality by due dates.
· Grading
o
Homework 15%
o
Classwork and Project Based Learning 30%
o
Exams and Quizzes 20%
o
Essays 25%
o
Community Service 10%
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requirements for 10th Grade English. I
have read/discussed this
Syllabus with my child.
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Name Parent
/ Guardian Signature
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