APELC Class Notes
Objective: APELCers completed a synthesis essay.
You did as stated in the objective. Highlight and score the essay yourself; bring it Thursday or Friday. You’ll bring the highlighted and scored rhetorical analysis and argument you’ll complete tomorrow then, too.
You have a process due next class.
See you then.
English 9 Class Notes
Objectives: Freshmen identified and explained literary concepts in autobiography.
Freshmens, we began a new short piece today by Maya Angelou. We did with this much as we’ve done in the past, read and listened to the narration and studied the passages closely. These’re familiar tasks and will take us to the end of the quarter. We’ll continue on Monday.
Have a great weekend.
APELC Class Notes
Periods 2 and 4, we did the same as yesterday. What would Malcolm X think of the situation of black in America today? How would he regard our President? Here’s a brief piece about how one personality and activist is approaching State of the Black Union in 2010: “PBS host Smiley calls meeting to urge black agenda”.
McDonald’s apparently has a solution to issues of race that continue to plague us by appealing to its customers in their own communities: See 365 Black, McDonald’s Black consumer site, and its Asian consumer site, Myinspirasian.com. I kid you not.
Remember, the first draft of your worldview paper in the form of a four page (minimum) paragraph outline is due Monday, March 22, the day we get back from Spring Recess. Write your outlines in complete sentences, punctuated appropriately, to create topical paragraphs that explain content and ideas. Focus on worldview facts, for what will essentially be an encyclopedia article of your own creation from your various sources, and your evaluations; include narrative elements if possible.
For quotation and citation purposes use MLA Formatting and Style Guide at Purdue’s Online Writing Lab; in particular see:
Details for content and sign-up for presentations will be available when we return from our week off.
See you Monday.
APELC Class Notes
Objectives: AEPCLers 1) processed an autobiography, and 2) researched their worldviews.
We finished The Autobiography of Malcolm X today with little fanfare, first and third. Cody asked a question about race, pigmentation, and designation when he entered class that was relevant to our reading and connected to our discussion of identity last week nicely. It made me think of the following article “‘White African-American’ Suing N.J. Med School for Discrimination”. I’ve not been able to find any more on the story since it broke, but I did find the article that Serodio wrote that apparently escalated his trouble at AllaboutRace.com: “Africa 102: A more colorful view than black and white”. For even more, see the Wikipedia entry “African American”.
See you next week for the practice exam; don’t forget your Brady process.
English 9 Class Notes
Objectives: Freshmen wrote expository-analytical paragraphs about theme.
You did as the objective states, freshmen, bringing to close our long conversation with creeper William Shakespeare and his obsession with teen love. Well done, boys and girls. We’ll begin to tackle non-fiction next class; it’s time we spent some time in the real world.
See you Friday.
APELC Class Notes
Periods 2 and 4, we did much the same as your peers in 1 and 3 yesterday. Check their notes for objectives and details.
Bailey in fourth handed me this opinion by George Will (”The Equity of Inequality”) the other day: “Lack of character often is just that, not a disability”. She astutely connected it to our discussion of identity last week; it’s very easy for us to become wrapped-up in our real and imagined deficiencies debilitaties and focus on them as a structure for our identities often dismissing behavior as a consequence of mere being. Thus do we explain to others, “Well, that’s just the way I am. I can’t help it”. Have a read.
See you Friday, kids.
APELC Class Notes
Objectives: APELCers 1) processed a correspondence, and 2) processed a correspondence.
We completed the process of the King text today which led to our continued examination of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which we will complete next class. Several of you asked about the differences between theology of the Nation of Islam and that of true Islam: Dig this comparison at the Nation of Islam entry at Wikipedia and the chart at Beliefnet.
Trevor opened first period with a narrative of his visit to the Guggenheim with his folks over the Rodeo break. What he described defies logic (and, I would add, aesthetic or educational quality), and so I found this review that you might look over as you consider the questions “What is art, and what service does it provide in culture?”: “Tino Sehgal’s work proves that talk is cheap”.
We briefly discussed the epistemological and metaphysical consequences of the post-modernism that informed the art installation Trevor experienced, and later in the day I happened to come across this article which might inform the brief back and forth we enjoyed this morning in class: Warning: Your reality is out of date”.
See you next class. After we conclude our conversation with Malcolm X, we’ll head to the liberry for research.
Peace.
English 9 Class Notes
Objective: Freshmen began writing expository-analytical paragraphs about theme.
We reviewed your potential themes for Romeo and Juliet today, freshmen, and it appears that many of you were closer to the target than not. You worked in pairs to work your themes into topic sentences and began searching for evidence to support your argument. You’ll finish your paragraphs next class. Keep looking for evidence over the next couple of days until then, maybe come into tutoring tomorrow and go over some ideas?
Hope to see you then.
APELC Class Notes
Objective: APELCers framed a correspondence.
APELCers of all periods, we did as the objective states with the King text I assigned over the break and that some of you read. We’ll finish proofing it next class, and we’ll begin to close out The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Since we didn’t finish examining King today, I’d combine today’s notes with those you take next class and just make them one set. And since I collected notes and reviews for periods 1 and 2 today, I’d place good money on my collecting notes for 3 and 4 next Monday. And, since we’ll be in the liberry half of the hour on Thursday and Friday, you should be able to guess which day I’ll be collecting notes for.
I did some looking and found the following article on the theology of Martin Luther King: “Writings show King as liberal Christian, rejecting literalism”. It’s worth reading, I think, if we’re to understand King’s ethos.
Read the letter for next class, and be through chapter 17 of our longer text.
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