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The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman || <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Dates posted are dates the assignments are due. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Contests: Connecticut Young Writers Trust Competition UConn Connecticut Student Writers Magazine

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Final Exam Information <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday January 7-Thursday January 9: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Speech Delivery Schedule <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">All students should find a minimum of three people outside of class to listen to your speech. After the person listens, ask them for suggestions and write them down on the front and back of the speech evaluation form. You will turn this form into me and your silent speech review sheet after delivering your speech. Also turn in your other evaluation forms. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Semester Review Assignment:

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Thursday January 2- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Revise and perfect your speech. Bring your revised copy to class. Upload it to turnitin.com. Practice your delivery!

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Friday December 20- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Draft of speech. Bring a hard copy. Upload to Turnitin and wiki.

Thursday in class: Dalton Sherman's Can You Believe speech-

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Wednesday December 18- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Choose speech topic by today: SPEECH RESOURCES

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Please type your speech title and explain the purpose of the speech.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Monday December 16- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Complete the speech blog entry. Follow the directions on the Senior Writing blog.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">In Class-

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read, view the entry on the speech of the classmate assigned to you. View the speech. In a reply to this classmate, explain what you thought of the speech. Include specific references to the speech and to your classmate's analysis in your reply.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Reply to a second speech of your choice.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Begin working on your speech.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Week of 12/9 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Reflections on your process analysis presentation are due the day after your presentation. Please turn a hard copy into me. Please upload to turnitin.com. Place on wiki.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday 12/9-12/13- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Be prepared to present your process analysis demonstration to the class. After you compete the process analysis demonstration, you must write a reflection on your presentation. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Process Analysis Demonstration Schedule

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday December 6- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Bring your revised, perfected personal essay (college essay) to class. We will have a read a round today.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday December 4- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Proposal for process analysis demonstration is due today. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Process Analysis Demonstration Schedule

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday December 3, 2013- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Finish reading and answering the questions on Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday November 26th- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read Confessions of a Shusher <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday November 25th- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Read Dave Barry "On College" and Malcolm X "My First Conk"

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday November 22nd- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Waiting for Superman project is due at the end of class. Make certain to place a link on your wiki.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Thursday November 21st- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How is an argument constructed? What subjective and objective arguments are employed? What rhetorical devices and strategies are used? Do you support the point of view expressed in Waiting for Superman? Why or Why not? Your final argument map should answer these questions.


 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Review the assignment sheet and the detailed rubric. Make certain you understand the requirements.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Create a Popplet or Spiderscribe. Share it with me: lchausse@clintonpublic.net. If you are working with a partner, share it with the partner.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Work on the assignment. The final assignment is due at the end of class on Friday. Make certain that you work on the assignment tonight so that you can finish your final map by the end of class tomorrow.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Make certain you have reviewed the opposing viewpoint materials (Wednesday homework)

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday November 20th- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Review the rubric and the assignment sheet for the argument map for Waiting For Superman. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Decide whether you will use SpiderSribe or Popplet. Decide who you will work with on this project. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Review these articles with counter arguments to Waiting For Superman: Waiting For Superman (we watched to 55:44) What Waiting For Superman Got Wrong The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Monday November 18- T <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">his is the last day to submit your revised compare/contrast essay. Place on turnitin. Place on wiki.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Justin's College Essay The Receipt Eating Girl- Teen Ink Editor's Choice <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Matt's Essay Madison House: Helping Everyone <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Jon's essay: Traveling An Opportunity To Explore the Unexplored

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Last Year's Sr published in magazine Different Dad

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Friday Novmeber 15- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Review the information sheets on the Waiting for Superman assignment. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Waiting for Superman

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Thursday November 14- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Read The Way We Lie. Follow the Guidelines to Reading an Essay. Make certain to identify the primary rhetorical strategy utilized in the essay.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Wednesday November 13- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Complete the analysis for your second painting depicting Icarus.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">In Class- **W** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">rite and defend an arguable thesis in an essay comparing the two depictions of Icarus. Please paste links to the images and the images on the bottom of your essay. **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Place on wiki. Place on turnitin.com **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Intro- thesis, names, dates medium of two pieces of art work, story, plan **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">body paragraphs- point by point or block format **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">conclusion- move beyond summary **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Make certain that you refer to the artistic elements of the artwork. Use your artwork analysis handouts. Turn in the artwork analysis handouts, a copy of the paper and the rubric. **

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Tuesday November 12- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Complete the analysis of The Fall of Icarus by Peiter Bruegel. Choose three other pieces of artwork that portray the story of Icarus from one of the collections:

Metropolitan Museum of Art collection Museum of Fine Arts Louvre MOMA Web Museum, Paris <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Place the link to the artwork on your wiki page.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Friday November 8- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Peer Reviews of compare/ contrast essay are due.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Icarus and Daedelus Video The Fall of Icarus Artist Peiter Bruegel The Fall of Icarus info



= Art Work ** - ** =

Metropolitan Museum of Art collection Museum of Fine Arts Louvre MOMA Web Museum, Paris

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Thursday November 7- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Complete log for response essay. Write a reflection. Upload it to turnitin.com Grammar Bytes- commas 1 Grammar Bytes- commas 4 Grammar Girl: Where Do I Use Commas? The Learning Center's Online Writing Lab Grammarbook.com Commas

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Wednesday November 6- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">come prepared with one paragraph of your compare/ contrast essay. Make certain that the paragraph is on a Google Doc that is shared with lchausse@clintonpublic.net

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Write your compare contrast essay. Upload to wiki and turnitin.com <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Learn the comma rules. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Complete the comma practice activities. Grammar Bytes- commas 1 Grammar Bytes- commas 4 Grammar Girl: Where Do I Use Commas? The Learning Center's Online Writing Lab Grammarbook.com Commas

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Tuesday November 5- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Vocabulary quiz on list 5 is today. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Pictures and sentences on Vocabulary list 5 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Quizlet

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Monday November 4- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Actively read "A Tale of Two Divorces" and "I Am Blue" <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Add possible compare- contrast topics to your future topics sheet. Study the vocabulary.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Thursday October 31st- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Actively read Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">and "My Brother's House"

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Wednesday October 30th- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Turnitin peer reviews for responses to descriptive essays are due.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">In class on Wednesday -
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Go to turnitin.com
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Review the peer comments on your response to the descriptive essay.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Revise and perfect your response. Upload the revised response to turnitin.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Go to quizlet and study the words for the next vocabulary quiz.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Go to the Google Doc and find a picture to illustrate two vocabulary words. Write a sentence using the vocabulary word as a caption for the picture. Make certain to choose an image that will help your classmate remember the vocabulary word.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Submit your edited, perfected personal essay to teenink.com. When it is published, send me a link for credit.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read the two essays due tomorrow.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday October 29th <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">- Read Neat Vs. Sloppy <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Battling Clean Up and Striking Out by Dave Barry Make certain your response to the descriptive essay is uploaded to turnitin.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday October 28- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Finish your draft for your response. View my comments on the drafts you started in class today, Friday October 25th. The comments are on turnitin.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Friday October 25- Review all of the essays that we read:   Big Boy by David Sedaris



<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Ch oose an essay for your response. Write a thesis for your response. List details, quotes that support your thesis. How To Write a Thesis Statement

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday October 23- Vocabulary quiz 4 is today. Quizlet Flashcards ad Games Vocabulary List 4 Read the contributions made to the discussion boards for Champion of the World and Words Left Unspoken. Add to the discussion. Champion of the World

Words Left Unspoken

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday October 22- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read "Words Unspoken" and "Champion of the World"

Review the comments on last week's essay. Fill in your log sheet. If you have questions, ask me. If you want to revise and have me look at the essay again, you may do so.

Go to the vocabulary words on quizlet. Study.

With at least one classmate, review the notes you took on "Words Left Unspoken" and "Champion of the World" Make certain you agree on purpose, tone, thesis. For each essay, add a significant comment on the online discussion board. You must reference the essay. Add to the online conversation. Do not repeat or ignore the comments that appear before yours.

Champion of the World

Words Left Unspoken

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday October 21- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Test today on rhetorical appeals and strategies. Come prepared to read, identify and explain. Vocabulary List 4

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Friday October 18- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Draft of essay is due. Bring a printed copy. Place a copy on turnitin- Make certain to deposit it in the appropriate revision box. If it is a brand new essay upload it to the new assignment box. Place a copy on wiki.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Thursday October 17- <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Nickle andDime:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Mark the rhetorical strategies and devices use.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Every student must record one rhetorical strategy example or one rhetorical appeal example on the Google Document. Record a portion of the words, the page number and the strategy or appeal. Google Document

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Tuesday October 15- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Actively rea <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">d "Nickle and Dimed"; <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Follow Guidelines for Reading an Essay. Note the tone, rhetorical devices and strategies. Vocabulary quiz is today: Quizlet flashcards <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">vocabulary list <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">

In class:

Nickle and Dimed From the American Ruling Class!

Ethos Logos and Pathos Ethos Pathos and Logos Appeals

Examples of Ethos Logos and Pathos Analyze the construction of the argument in Nickled and Dimed. Identify examples of ethos, pathos and logos. Identify the different rhetorical strategies used: Rhetorical Strategies

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Friday October 11- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Read "How to Shoot an Elephant" by George Orwell. Follow Guidelines for Reading an Essay. Note the tone, rhetorical devices and strategies.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Thursday October 10- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Prepare for the pinwheel discussion - Angelou, Smith, Gansberg- Study the <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">vocabulary words!

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Wednesday October 9- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Write a letter to me explaining what you are going to do for your essay. You may do a significant revision of your first college essay or your Why I Want to Go to essay. You may write another essay for an application, a supplement or a scholarship. If you are writing a revision, explain exactly what you are going to revise. Be specific. Refer to the draft of the essay. If you are going to write a new essay, explain what the topic will be. Include the application, supplement or scholarship prompt in your explanation.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Due Tuesday October 8- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> Actively read "Finishing School" and "Thirty Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call" Follow the Guidelines for Reading an Essay. Identify the tone of each essay. Mark the evidence in the text that supports the tone.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Due Friday October 4: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> Actively read "My Mother Never Worked" - mark the text, follow the Guidelines for Reading an Essay.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Due Thursday October 3: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> Actively read "Our Daughters". Review the feedback on the Where I want to go essay. Choose one essay to revise, or write a new essay for a specific prompt for your college essay.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Due Wednesday October 2: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> Revise your block letter and your resume. Upload to wiki. Print a copy to hand in during class.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Due Tuesday October 1: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Write a block letter. The letter should be a letter of recommendation for your classmate. Review the student's resume and the notes you took on the student during the interview in class. Write a letter of recommendation for your classmate. Block Letter Format Letter Format

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Due Monday September 30th: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> Study pronouns: Pronoun Forms Reference and Case of Pronouns Pronoun Practice Exam [|Grammar Bytes Pronoun Agreement] Grammar Bytes Pronoun Case Grammar Bytes-- See more pronoun exercises Capital Community College- See site for more exercises OWL Purdue Pronouns OWL Purdue Pronoun Cases Pronoun/Agreement Case Errors There will be a quiz on Monday. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Continue revising your resume. Upload to wikispaces. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Study vocabulary list 3-

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Due Thursday September 26th: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> Write a resume. Bring a copy to class.

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<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Wednesday September 25th: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Revise Why I Want to go To essay. Visit Unigo college review site. Peterson's College Information site and the college's site.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Monday September 23rd: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> Study the vocabulary word list 2. Quiz is today. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Review comments on personal essay on turnitin.com. Fill in the paper review log distributed in class. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">In Class: Visit the following sites and read the articles on visiting a college campus- <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">College Visits- 8 Tips for a Successful College Visit <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Campus Visits- Before you Go <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Why Visit Colleges? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">How Campus Visits helped me Choose <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Campus Visit Checklist <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">US News and World Report "College Tours" <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> Visit Unigo college review site. Peterson's College Information site and the college's site. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Even if you are not planning to apply to Quinnipiac University, visiting the college can help you decide what you want in a college. During our visit tomorrow, consider what your ideal college is and compare Quinnipiac to that ideal. Be prepared to explain your thinking.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> Before our visit, peruse Quinnipiac's website. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">To prepare for our visit, develop at least two thoughtful questions that you want answered during the tour. Visit the websites on college tours to help you formulate the questions. These should not be questions that are easily answered on the website. Write your questions on the Google doc form. Make certain no one else submits the same question before you do.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Create an account on number2.com. Invite me to be your coach - lchausse@clintonpublic.org Complete the sentence completion exercises.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Friday September 20th: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Write down the names of two colleges you would like to attend. Bring the address, application deadlines, essay requirements including supplements, etc. Review the websites of each college. Choose one of the colleges. In well written typed paragraph, explain why you want to go to the college. Upload the typed paragraph to turnitin.com. Upload it to wiki. BRING A COPY TO CLASS. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">In class <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">College Application Questions ABC news <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">5 Supplemental Essay Mistakes <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Campus Visits Before You Go <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Finding a College That Fits

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Wednesday September 18: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> quiz is today on second set of vocabulary words. Word list is here. In class- Vocabulary List 3

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Tuesday September 17: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">View the comments I made on your essay. Make the final revisions to your own essay. Study the vocabulary words for Wednesday's quiz.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Monday September 16: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Review my comments and suggestions for your personal essay. Consider your classmates' suggestions. Make substantial revisions. Upload and label on wiki (date, assignment) and upload to turnitin.com. Study vocabulary list 2 for quiz on Wednesday.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Friday September 13: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> On turnitin.com read the comments your peers made on your essay. In a well written paragraph, explain what you will do to improve your essay for the next draft. Study for the vocabulary quiz on the 20 words from the 100 words every high school student should know list.

in class on Friday- Look up the definitions of the words assigned to you. Fill in the Google Drive worksheet with the required information.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Thursday September 12: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Draft of personal essay is due today. Upload to turnitin.com and wiki. Bring a printed copy to class. Check your summer reading book chat assignment on The Morgan School Website.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Due Tuesday September 10: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;"> Book of choice project- <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Monday September 9 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">: Choose a topic for your first personal essay. Write one paragraph that captures a moment. Type. Print. Upload to wiki.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Due Friday September 7: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> Read a classmate's impressive essay blog entry. Read the essay the classmate chose. Write a comment to the classmate's entry. Explain why you agree or don't agree with their essay choice.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Due Thursday September 6: Find an impressive college essay. Follow the directions on the Senior Writing Blog. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">In class-
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Read the essay and the blog entry by the peer assigned to you.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Consult the rubric. How can your peer improve his or her blog entry?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Discuss changes, improvements, additions needed to improve the entry.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">After listening to your peer's feedback on your blog entry and essay, make the changes to your blog entry in a reply (comment) to <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">your <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> blog entry.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Return to your peer's blog entry; read the changes made by your peer. Score your peer on the complete blog response on the college essay.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Due Wednesday September 4- Join the class --turnitin.com. Class ID 6773532 Enrollment Password Writing

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Due Thursday August 29: Place an image on your Senior Writing wiki page.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Due Wednesday August 28: Review the syllabus. Complete the <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">online survey. Request membership to the Senior Writing Wiki.

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