9/12/13

Hi everyone,

Today we practiced more asking different level questions! Asking these questions will help us develop stance and evidence for argument writing.

Come get the handouts (there are a bunch) and the new articles if you don't have them already and I'll explain the assignment.

Your "Asking Questions" practice homework on the Angelina Jolie articles homework is due on Monday 9/16.

Have a great weekend!

9/10/13

Today we worked on asking different level questions!

Come get the handouts (there are a bunch) from me and I'll explain the assignment.

We also reviewed rhetoric.

**MAKE SURE YOU BRING HIGHLIGHTERS or COLOR PENCILS and a FOLDER?BINDER designated for English, to class on THURSDAY to receive your points!

9/6/13

SRI Testing-if you miss(ed) it, you will be pulled out of another class to complete it.  

*No homework, unless you still need to finish and turn in your Summer Reading assignments. You have one week left to finish the book.

9/4/13

Hello all,

If you were absent you need to:

1. Bring your outside reading book to show me to get approval and points.
2. Mark your mini-essay with the following: **Note-This is just to help me see what you think each element is so I can plan for what needs clarification, etc. Remember, I did not give anyone instruction on what these elements are, so just do your best to identify each element in your writing. This shouldn't take you longer than 10 minutes. 
1. Circle your thesis/claim statement
2. Underline direct quotes
3. Squiggly line under indirect quotes
4. Box around analysis-->commentary 
3. You missed out on some participation points--be sure to come to class tomorrow so you can make those up. 

See you tomorrow!

Day 5

Work for the day:

1) Mini-essay/response to an Upfront news article-->written in your composition notebooks.

Objective: 

I need to get an idea of where you are--skill wise--in terms of writing about informational text. Thus, today is about assessing your writing skills.

Instructions:

1) You will need to arrange to borrow an Upfront magazine from me.

2) In the magazine you choose you are to find an article that resonates with you--this is the article you are going to write about.

3) Write a response (mini-essay) that uses the article for evidence. Organize your response: 

• you need a claim/thesis statement
• you need direct/indirect quotes
• you need analysis/commentary

4) A minimum of THREE handwritten pages (so front and back of the page + one more page).

5) You have one hour to complete the response. 

*Please limit yourself to one hour. There is no need to look up any of the terms you don't know. I did not give the class instruction as to what these the different elements (thesis/claim, analysis, etc.) are. I need to see what you already know and what you can do cold, without instruction.

Summer Reading

For those of you who have not turned in your Summer Reading Assignments, you must get both the quotes and the take-home questions assignments to me by Friday, September 6th!

For those of you who did not receive the Summer Reading assignment before school started you only have two weeks left to finish reading the books and comple the quotes assignment, which can be found on the CCHS website: http://cchs.canyonsdistrict.org, click the "Academics" tab, and then click "Summer School", and choose "10 Honors" for the complete description of the assignment.

I hope you all had a great weekend, 

Ms. Lewis