Friday, November 30, 2007

Pre AP ELA Playing GO

We're going to read 1,2 and 3 of this page:

http://playgo.to/interactive/

Senior English Writers Workshop

Having read your blogs I've seen that most of you don't follow up after Writers Workshop. Your laziness has brought me to grade your writers workshop projects. This will start today and end in January. What you do not finish in WW you must finish at home before the next WW.

Today we'll be working on passive voice. Togethere we'll read a mini-lesson, then you'll be given some exercises that must be copy and pasted into your blog.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_actpass.html

Correct these sentences, then check yourself. You can only copy and paste correct sentences.
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/reading/exercises/dogqz.htm

When finished correct these sentences, without the check option:
Level 1: Directions: Change the sentences below to the passive voice.

Children cannot open these bottles easily.

The government built a road right outside her front door.

Mr. Ross broke the antique vase as he walked through the store.

When she arrived, the changes amazed her.

The construction workers are making street repairs all month long.

The party will celebrate his retirement.

His professors were discussing his oral exam right in front of him.

My son ate all the homemade cookies.

Corrosion had damaged the hull of the ship.

Some children were visiting the old homestead while I was there.

Monday, November 26, 2007

Pre AP ELA 9th Grade Homework Sheet 11.26.07 - 11.30.07

Monday
Read Night and write one blog entry.

Tuesday
Finish Night and write one blog entry.

Wednesday
Complete your papers by incorporating your paraphrasing, summaries and quotations into your speeches.

Thursday
Read Tao Te Ching 1-15 and write one blog entry.

Friday
Read Tao Te Ching 16-37 and write one blog entry.
Incorporate the following video clip into your blog-
http://video.google.com/url?docid=-9128827406902307787&esrc=sr2&ev=v&len=320&q=Jet%2BLi%2Bfrom%2BOnce%2Bupon%2Ba%2Btime%2Bin%2Bchina&srcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgU_j1wu81DU&vidurl=%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-9128827406902307787%26q%3DJet%2BLi%2Bfrom%2BOnce%2Bupon%2Ba%2Btime%2Bin%2Bchina%26total%3D147%26start%3D0%26num%3D10%26so%3D0%26type%3Dsearch%26plindex%3D1&usg=AL29H22QrJ89cZZRfr5Kz4M9UofkEFBJqg

Pre AP ELA 9th Grade Homework Sheet 11.26.07 - 11.30.07

http://video.google.com/url?docid=-9128827406902307787&esrc=sr2&ev=v&len=320&q=Jet%2BLi%2Bfrom%2BOnce%2Bupon%2Ba%2Btime%2Bin%2Bchina&srcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgU_j1wu81DU&vidurl=%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-9128827406902307787%26q%3DJet%2BLi%2Bfrom%2BOnce%2Bupon%2Ba%2Btime%2Bin%2Bchina%26total%3D147%26start%3D0%26num%3D10%26so%3D0%26type%3Dsearch%26plindex%3D1&usg=AL29H22QrJ89cZZRfr5Kz4M9UofkEFBJqg

Senior English Homework Sheet 11.26.07 - 11.30.07

Monday
Read and write a blog entry for The Selfish Gene.

Tuesday
Read and write a blog entry for The Selfish Gene. Write about the Prisoner's Dilemna in regards to your reading.

Wednesday
Based on our work today, publish the incorporation of paraphrases, summaries, and direct quotations from your sources.

Thursday
Read and write a blog entry for The Selfish Gene.

Friday
Read and write your final blog entry for The Selfish Gene.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Senior English Writers Workshop

Today we'll be completing the research we began last week.

Go to the following address, read the passage to then write instructions of how to select an article to publish on your blog:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/03/


Now, go to EBSCO host, as we did last week.
http://www.cng.edu/login_students.php

You will need five secondary sources from EBSCO
that you might be able to use. Also, identify primary sources your secondary sources cite that might be relevant to your topic. Publish you sources in the following format:

Tangen, Jesse (2007) Seniors: Students Who Want to Graduate. Bogota: CNG prensa.

What you do not finish in class you must complete this weekend as well as the regular assigned homework.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Senior ELA Homework Sheet #13

Senior English 11.19.07 – 11.21.07
Homework Sheet #13

Monday
Write one blog entry for The Selfish Gene.

Tuesday
View
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciFe8JmR-nY
and post a response on youtube.com that will be copy and pasted into your own blog.

Wednesday
Write on blog entry for The Selfish Gene.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Pre AP ELA 11.19.07 - 11.21.07

Pre AP 9th Grade ELA English 11.19.07 – 11.21.07
Homework Sheet #13
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Monday
Write a blog entry for books 15, 17, 18.

Tuesday
Write a blog entry for any of the books we have not read. What makes them different?

Wednesday
Write one closing blog entry about The Essential Analects as a whole work. Over the weekend check some of your friends' blog for the class. Respond to what calls your attention.


TBA
Reading assignment to be given.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Research and Citations

Today we'll be working on some ways to identify and use resources for papers, without plagiarizing:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Senior ELA Homework Sheet 11.13.07- 11.16.07

Senior ELA Homework Sheet 11.13.07-11.16.07

Tuesday
Read The Selfish Gene. Write one blog entry.

Wednesday
Based on your research today, incorporate examples of summarizing, paraphrasing and direct quoting into your speech.

Thursday
Read The Selfish Gene. Write one blog entry.

Friday
Read The Selfish Gene. Write one blog entry.

Pre AP 9th Grade ELA 11.13.07-11.16.07

Pre AP 9th Grade ELA Homework Sheet 11.13.07-11.16.07

Tuesday
Read Books 4, 5 and 6 of The Analects. Write one blog entry.

Wednesday
Based on your research today, incorporate examples of summarizing, paraphrasing and direct quoting into your speech.

Thursday
Read Books 7, 8 and 11 of The Analects. Write one blog entry.

Friday
Read Books 12, 13 and 14 of The Analects. Write one blog entry.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Senior English "The Power and the Glory"

I found this in a Chicago Tribune column about summer reading:

"The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene. You want a novel about atonement? In a Mexican state in the 1930s, the Catholic Church has been outlawed. The last priest--the whiskey priest--is on the run from the firing squad. Greene's 1940 classic, as gripping as a modern thriller, is a generous yet merciless portrayal of humans and their church. Everyone is flawed--the priests, the people who loathe them, the people who want them to be saints--but courage sometimes flickers even in the cynical, corrupted soul.


How does this columnist describe the genre of this novel?

Senior English Paraphrasing

Read the following page

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/

Then, complete the exercise page. We´ll discuss the answers.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Senior English Homework Sheet 11.6.07 - 11.9.07

Senior English 11.6.07 – 11.9.07
Homework Sheet #12

Tuesday
Practice your speech for Friday.

Wednesday
Imagine Hamlet will choose a song to express his feelings in Act III. Which song does he choose? Explain why it is appropriate, using the lyrics. Post it on your blog.

Thursday
Rehearse your speech for Friday.

Friday
Write one blog entry about The Selfish Gene.

Persuasive Speech due November 9th.