Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Junior and Senior Assignments for the week of August 25-28, 2014





Seniors

Monday- Students will complete their journal the first ten minutes of class.  In cooperative groups, the students will answer questions 1-14 attached to the President Obama speech they annotated last week.  Students must provide textual evidence for each question. 

Tuesday- Students will read the first ten minutes of class.  In cooperative groups, the students will answer questions 14-28 attached to the President Obama speech they annotated last week.  Students must provide textual evidence for each question. 

Wednesday- Students will complete their journal the first ten minutes of class.  Students will write an essay in which they discuss the techniques and language that President Obama uses to convey the info of Bin Laden’s death.

Thursday- Students will read the first ten minutes of class.  In cooperative groups of 4, students will select a controversial topic randomly.  They will have 20 minutes to prepare and write a rhetorically strategic speech convincing their classmates to side with their point of view.  Students will present to their classmates.

Juniors

Monday- Students will complete their journal the first ten minutes of class.  The teacher will read Madison’s Federalist #10 Papers with the class, while students annotate Madison’s use of the term “faction,” in an effort to decipher its meaning. 

Tuesday- Students will read the first ten minutes of class.  Citing at least 3 pieces of textual evidence, students will write an essay explaining Madison’s definition of faction used throughout his text. 

Wednesday- Students will complete their journal the first ten minutes of class.  Students will read, “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats and answer all attached questions providing supporting evidence for each answer.

Thursday- Students will read the first ten minutes of class.  Students will watch a video in which Danny Glover reads Frederick Douglas’s 4th of July Speech.  Students will then analyze and annotate the word choice of this speech and explain how diction and word choice can be affected by reading a text out loud. 


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