Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Junior and Senior Assignments for the week of September 1, 2014- September 4, 2014



Due to Pretesting, adjustments had to be made to last week's lesson plans; thus, many assignments were pushed to this week.


Seniors

Monday- LABOR DAY!!!! 

Tuesday- Senior Picture Day J 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- LABOR DAY!!!

Tuesday- Students will read the first ten minutes of class.  The teacher will instruct/model/guide students through the analytical essay guidelines and students will write the outline and first two paragraphs regarding how similar and different the tone and word choice projected rhetorical features in Malcolm X’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches.

Wednesday- Students will complete their journal the first ten minutes of class.  Students will individually conference with the teacher regarding their essays first two paragraphs and have the remainder of the class to complete their essay.

Thursday- Students will read 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.

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