APELC Class Notes
Objective: APELCers researched their worldviews in the liberry.
We spent third yesterday and fourth today in the liberry one last time to tighten up your sources for your paper in preparation for the next draft. Please recall what I mentioned in Monday’s notes about form expectations and what I wrote in the assignment details on your class page.
Please also review the presentation form and requirements. Students can begin signing-up for presentation slots when we return on Monday; until then, take a look below at how third period’s research was progressing. (Every time I tried to record fourth period, some thing or some one made it difficult.)
English 9 Class Notes
Objectives: Freshmen identified and explained character, setting, idiom, plot, imagery, irony, point of view, motif, symbol, and theme in a drama.
These notes are for first period (yesterday) and second and sixth period today: We finished the text, audio, and film versions of Romeo and Juliet today and I rewarded you with homework! Hooray! We’ll discuss your compositional activity over the play on Monday.
Enjoy your Rodeo break kids. To get you in the festive mood, here’s Whiplash the Monkey Cowboy!
See you next week pardners!
NOTE. I variously stated that your homework was After Reading questions 2, 6, and 10, and 2, 7, and 10. (I actually posted the latter.) Whichever set you decide to answer is fine: You choose that which you can answer best.
APELC Class Notes
Objective: APELCers researched their worldview in the liberry.
Third and fourth APELCers, we spent the first of our two final days in the liberry today. Taylor asked for clarification of the form of the research paper, and I emphasized The Autobiography of Malcolm X as a model: This is a narration of your discovery-process, an exposition of the fundamentals of your worldview, and an evaluation of it in the marketplace of ideas. This should be conversational yet professional, a monologue on paper. I look forward to seeing how your products all end-up.
English 9 Class Notes
Objectives: Freshmen identified and explained character, setting, idiom, plot, imagery, irony, point of view, motif, symbol, and theme in a drama.
Freshmen, we read and listened to the first two scenes of act five of Romeo and Juliet. We’ll finish (finally) next class when you’ll also receive homework for you to complete over the Rodeo break.
See you then.
APELC Class Notes
Period 4 APELCers, we met in the liberry for more research. I clarified new due dates for the second and final drafts of your worldview papers, which I need to correct again: The due date for the final draft is Monday, March 23, a whole month from now.
I anticipate no problem in anyone getting the second draft done for March 6 and the final draft the day you return from spring recess. You’ll still give your presentations the last week of the quarter; those that’ll be out for various competitions or activities the last half of the week should sign-up to present early. I’ll figure out a schedule and presentation format next week while you’re researching.
Have a good weekend.
Englsih 9 Class Notes
Periods 2 and 6, we completed the fourth act of our drama as your peers did yesterday and I quizzed you after you turned in your work.
No homework over the weekend. Enjoy it.
APELC Class Notes
Third period APELCers, we’ve spent the hour researching in the liberry today. Remember that you must include an accurately prepared Works Cited page along with your four-page, bulleted draft tomorrow afternoon. Also please check the updated assignment document for changes we discussed in class today.
APELC EXAM. Mr. Wendel visited us in the liberry today with some important information about the exam in May. Mr. Alzner had just shown me how to use one of the liberry’s Flip video recorders, so I captured our administrator offering helpful exam details.
Thanks Mr. Wendel for the talk and for being a good sport!
English 9 Class Notes
Objectives: Freshmen identified and explained character, setting, idiom, plot, imagery, irony, point of view, motif, symbol, and theme in a drama.
First freshmen, we completed the fourth act of Romeo and Juliet today and you had time to complete your During Reading questions. We saw the much reduced scene five of Franco Zeffirelli’s version of Shakespeare’s drama and the added funeral scene with the friend of Romeo riding off to tell him of Juliet’s apparent demise. I quizzed you over the act at hour’s end.
No homework for the weekend, but be ready to plow through the fifth act next week before rodeo and then to draft over the play again when we return in March.
APELC Class Notes
Period 4, again, not much different from your third period colleagues yesterday. I also had you focus on creating a proper Works Cited page that’ll accompany your bulleted, four-page draft on Friday.
See you in the liberry next class.
English 9 Class Notes
Periods 2 and 6, we did much the same your peers yesterday, and we talked more about “love” and the popular ideas that “Love conquers all” and that “Love is all we need”. We talked about how it’s working for Romeo and Juliet, and how it works in the real world. I used OctoMom as an immediate example; what can the power of love do for her family in their current dire straits?
APELC Class Notes
APELCers, we did the same today as yesterday. I encouraged you to craft carefully your Works Cited page, so please be attendant of all of the details therein.
English 9 Class Notes
Objectives: Freshmen 1) identified and corrected conventions errors in consultative, written language, 2) identified and explained character, setting, idiom, plot, imagery, irony, point of view, motif, symbol, and theme in a drama.
First freshmen, after some conventions corrections practice we continued with the fourth act of Romeo and Juliet, which we’ll conclude next class. You’ll have time to finish the during reading questions I assigned on class then, too.
APELC Class Notes
Objective: APELCers researched their worldviews in the liberry.
Juniors and seniors, you followed the objective as it’s written. As I explained, there’s no way to finesse demonstrating an MLA style-appropriate Works Cited page, so I’m leaving links for you to follow and examine. Next class, I’ll ask you to begin constructing your Works Cited page and I’ll monitor your progress.
Begin by looking at the third chapter of your class text which covers the basic basics of MLA style and includes a sample paper and Works Cited page. This’ll give you a rough overview of what’s expected. You’re familiar with most of this already.
For the most recent, updated information, surf to the MLA Formatting and Style Guide at Purdue’s Online Writing Lab, one of the best, most comprehensive sites for student-writers on the web.
Finally, look to style guru Diana Hacker’s site for sample papers.
Of course, I encourage you to use the citation resources I’ve linked under Resources.
See you next class in the liberry.
English 9 Class Notes
Objectives: Freshmen identified and explained character, setting, idiom, plot, imagery, irony, point of view, motif, symbol, and theme in a drama.
Freshmen, we began the fourth act of our drama today. With a week between the act three and this, it seems like we’ve been at the story for a while (the action in the story isn’t even 48 old yet). We should rap up the plot by Rodeo and we’ll begin a short writing assignment after we return.
See you next class.
APELC Class Notes
Period 4, you completed the timed-writing as your colleagues did yesterday. Here’re links to the stories we discussed in class: “Rapelay virtual rape game banned by Amazon” and “Baby-faced boy Alfie Patten is father at 13″. Talk these over with your folks. Consider, what are the limits of taste and propriety? How do we define these limits? What’s good for kids? Who’s responsible for whom? And, attached to all these questions, is another, and it’s perhaps the most important, simply, why?
I look forward to Tony’s paper on relativism; I hope it’ll shed some light on these problems we wrestle with e’er day.
All APELCers, final comparison and contrast drafts are due Monday, when we’ll meet in the liberry for research.
SOCIAL MEDIA. I mentioned three sites I find interesting links to articles and other texts that I broach in class. They are: Digg.com, Fark.com, and Reddit.com. You’ll notice that many members are generally left-leaning and anti-theistic (in a cliched, parroting, and non-critical kind of way), but there’s usually something neat for everyone.
Have a fine weekend.
English 9 Class Notes
Periods 2 and 6 freshmen, we discussed a bit more what goes into sentences 2 and 5 of your paragraph template and because we took more time to do that, I extended your draft due date to Monday, but it must be complete when you walk in the door and in the basket after you cross the threshold.
See you Monday.
APELC Class Notes
Third eleventh and twelfth graders, we discussed some final ideas about the life and times of Malcolm X and moved to timed-writing 8.
See you in the liberry Monday. Please continue your research until then.
English 9 Class Notes
Objective: Freshmen drafted an expository paragraph about plot in a drama.
Period 1 freshmen, you took the period to carefully craft and draft your paragraph about the plot as defined by the choices made by Romeo, Juliet, adn their feuding families.
No homework but to begin treading the next act. We’re almost done, and soon we’ll be on to new things.
APELC Class Notes
Juniors and seniors of fourth met in the liberry today and conducted research on their worldviews.
Be ready to write on Friday.
English 9 Class Notes
Periods 2 and 6 freshmen, we covered the same as your peers yesterday in first. Remember to have our evidence ready to discuss and elaborate next class.
Come to class prepared.