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=//**When you come into class your**//= //**1. headphones will be off and removed from your head.**// //**2. cellphones will be on silent and put out of sight.**// //**Failure to comply to the aforementioned rules are grounds for dismissal.**// //***If we start a project that requires the book and you don't have one and you are disruptive that is also grounds for dismissal.**//

December 12, 2013 Final Drafts Due Class Work- TBD December 10, 2013 Bring 2-3 pages **HARD COPY** to class to be Peer Reviewed.

__//**Annotated Bib DUE**//__

December 5, 2013 Thesis and Drafting Process MLA Overview __//**Bring Completed Works Cited Electronically**//__ Annotated Workshop November 26th, 2013 Choose a Research Question

Answer That Question to Form a Hypothesis

Find: Two Books, One Journal, One Magazine, and One Newspaper.

Put them Into a Works Cited Page.

November 21, 2013 Works Cited pages Chapter 12-Argument Explain 1020 Similarities "Reply to the US Government" by Chief Seattle __//**Quiz**//__ November 19, 2013 Read "Cancer's Oddest Effect" by Dan Barry "Analyzing the Marriage Gap" by Hal R. Varian __//**Quiz**//__ November 14, 2013 Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s "The Way to Reduce Black Poverty in America" Discuss Quiz Lab November 12, 2013 QUIZ

Read: and

Henry L. Roediger III's "Why Are Textbooks So Expensive?"

Complete MLA Worksheets

Chapter 11

November 7, 2013


 * Jack Horner, Thinking Outside the Box: The Extraordinary Characteristics of Dyslexia


 * Bobbie Ann Mason, Being Country

November 5, 2013

Chapter 10 Notes

Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find

October 31, 2013 //**There will be a very substantial Quiz at the beginning of class about the following stories (and authors):**//

Read "But What Do You Mean?" by Deborah Tannen

and "Her Kind"

For Writing #1 (370) In Class Free Write

Read "The Ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson (336)

October 29, 2013

//**There will be a very substantial Quiz at the beginning of class about the following stories (and authors):**//

Read "Food for the Soul" by Nicolas D. Kristof (303)

and William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130"

"People Like Us" by David Brooks (352)

October 24, 2013

Lab Day. Compare/Contrast



October 22, 2013

"The Meaning of Life" by Cohen

"Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" by Catton

"The Way I read a Letter's --this-- " by Dickinson (Exercise on the dash)

Chapter 8 Notes

285 #2

October 17, 2013 "How to Pull an All-Nighter" by Borgenicht "I Will Survive...Or at Least Be Delayed" by Barry Explaining a process visually p. 231 Student example

October 15, 2013 In-Class Process Analysis Read "Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History" by Ulrich and "Ritual Acts" by Rich Start Chapter 7 notes

October 10, 2013

We are going to read the Student Example on p 183 and go through some follow up questions as a class. "Piling on the Cookies" by David Barboza

"Happy Meals and Old Spice Guy" by Joanna Weiss

Discussion about Marketing ploys: Let's develop a list of examples.

October 8, 2013

"Once More to the Lake" by E.B. White

Chapter 6 Notes

*What is a For Instance?

*Why do we cite examples?

"All Seven Deadly Sins at a Church Bake sale"

*What is your point?p. 177


 * State your point and provide sufficient examples.


 * Your examples must be REPRESENTATIVE.

October 3rd, 2013

media type="custom" key="23995146" 2. What is the purpose of this video? 3. Write an essay discussing the argument that Jordan is making here. What people does he mention specifically? Do you think this argument is valid? Why or Why not?
 * 1) What is Michael Jordan describing in this clip?

“More Room” Judith Ortiz Cofer “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston


 * a waiting room
 * a basketball, baseball glove, or tennis racket
 * a cell phone
 * a treasured belonging
 * a laptop computer
 * a favorite restaurant
 * your dream house
 * your ideal roommate
 * a closet
 * your memory of a place that you visited as a child
 * a locker
 * an accident scene
 * a city bus or subway train
 * an unusual room
 * a child's secret hiding place
 * a bowl of fruit
 * an item left too long in your refrigerator
 * backstage during a play or a concert
 * a vase of flowers
 * a rest room in a service station
 * a street that leads to your home or school
 * your favorite food
 * the inside of a spaceship
 * the scene at a concert or athletic event
 * an art exhibit
 * an ideal apartment
 * your old neighborhood
 * a small town cemetery
 * a pizza
 * a pet
 * a photograph
 * a hospital emergency room
 * a particular friend or family member
 * a painting
 * a storefront window
 * an inspiring view
 * a work table
 * a character from a book, movie, or television program
 * a refrigerator or washing machine
 * a Halloween costume

October 1, 2013 __//** Free Write: Page 103, For Writing #2 **//__ “Longing to Belong” by Saira Shah

“Perfection in the Horseshoe Pit” by John Branch

September 26, 2013

Start Chapter 5 Picture and Description [|Picture 1] [|Picture 2] [|Picture 3] [|Picture 4] September 24, 2013 "Strangers" by Toni Morrison “Render Unto Larry’s” by Phil Holland
 * //__Final Draft of Narrative on Wiki by Thursday__//**
 * //__Rough Draft to be uploaded before class begins__//**

September 19, 2013

Workshop on Turning Point Doc

"The Sanctuary of School" by Lynda Barry RC and SS (88)

September 17, 2013

[|Page 65 Excerpt from The Autobiography of BF=Success Story] Chapter 4 Notes on Narrative Discuss BF Success Story="Turning Point" Composing a Narrative Notes Template on p. 69 Transitions, Verb Tenses, Plot, **//Dialogue(75)//** License Plate and other pictures [|Jedi] [|Corvette]

September 12, 2013 Read “Dog” by Richard Russo p. 113-118 RC, SS Quiz Agree, Disagree, Both, and Who Cares? In class prompt on your research. September10, 2013 Peer Review if needed Chapter 3 worksheet Sample topics include: PED use, Global Warming, Oil Spills and other related topics.

Develop a question, i.e.: Should athletes be allowed to use steroids?, Should their be stricter laws on emissions?,

Should oil companies be forced to perform maintenence every two weeks?

Start Notes for Thursday and Worksheet if needed. September 5, 2013 //**1. Rough Draft Must be Uploaded before Class begins!**// //**2. Chapter One Notes and Reading exercise on p. 7**// //**3. Reading Closely Q's 1-3 and SS Q's 1-4.**// //**4. Book Cover on p. 6**// //**5. [|Other Cover]**// //**6. [|Cover Three]**//

September 3, 2013 1. Make sure everyone has uploaded their one page draft to the wiki or has a hard copy. 2. Notes on Literacy Narratives+ Chapter 2 notes 3. Literacy Narrative Organizational Exercise 4. One page Rough Draft Peer Editing Session

August 30 The Dead White Guy-Benjamin Franklin