* Presentation of technology component next Tuesday and Thursday
In Computer Lab all week working on Technology Component
* Presentation of technology component next Tuesday and Thursday
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Completed Photo Shoots OR
Typed Author Research Paper First Round of Photo Shoots - Today
Those not doing their photo shoot were in the computer lab typing author paper Reminder- Paper due this Thursday! *If you haven't shown me your reading notes from the novel you are reading for your author project, please do that this week. List of Authors Selected for Project Mika Duran - Pearl S. Buck Brad Butler- e.e. cummings Makayla Pirio- Elizabeth Bishop Sonnay Alvarez- F. Scott Fitzgerald Laura Hilton- Willa Cather David Demayola- Mark Twain Ashlee Darco- Lousia May Alcott Erick Moreno- Jack London Codey Hampton- J.D. Salenger Kim Borensen- John Steinbeck Danny Sandoval- Shel Silverstein Isabel Chaparro- Katherine Anne Porter Edgar Herrera- Edgar Allan Poem Eduardo Ballesteros- Ray Bradbury Jesus Morales- James Baldwin Charlie Padron- Langston Hughes Dillon Crockett- Robert Frost Antohny Davis- Walt Whitman Baylee Shurte- Maya Angelou Jason Kortan- Ernest Hemingway Kaitlyn- Kate Chopin Costumes- Photo Shoot Planning
Today you tried on your costumes, reviewed the photo shoot space and props, and reviewed the photo schedule. You either signed up for next Tuesday or Thursday, but all of you should have your props here by next Tuesday. -THANK YOU MS. CALHOUN (drama) and MR. MOFFETT (photo) for helping the students with their author photo shoot! - Today you also used half of the period to type more of your author research paper. Please remember to use MLA format and to look at the sample paper. It's attached on an earlier posting if you've already lost your copy. I moved the due date for your paper to next Thursday to give you a little more time, but please work on it this weekend! LAST TIME- If you were absent Wednesday, you need to take notes on the following PPT and video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6H1V3UGXD0 Modernism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuireoKBiC0 The Raven "Edgar Allan Poe" (movie trailer) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3M1B0wA7g Emerson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhA_YsnFpjk Realism & Naturalism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq3Fq1Q9R20 Realism & Romanticism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6UvQ4x9T6Q Transcendentalism ** PPT (take notes!) http://schools.paulding.k12.ga.us/ischooldistrict/media/files/2137/Overview%20of%20American%20Literature%20.ppt#256,1,Overview of American Literature of American Literature Dickinson (p. 552, 569) v. Truth (p.442)
Compare and contrast main ideas, writing style, voice Twain – “The Lowest Animals” (pg. 646-650) List 20 reasons that, according to Twain, man is the lowest animal. Emerson- Self Reliance (pg. 245-247) 1. What is the most requested virtue? 2. Explain his statement: Accept the place the divine providence has found for you. 3. According to Emerson, what's the only sacred thing? - Venn Diagram for similarities and differences between Twain and Emerson's ideas Classroom discussion (you must discuss the reading within your small groups AND during class discussion to receive a good discussion grade) King- Letter from Birmingham Jail (pg. 281) 1. Why was King arrested? 2. What does he infer in the first paragraph? 3. Why does he say the laws are not democratic? Gandhi- Nonviolent Resistance (pg. 278-279) 1. What makes a victorious nation bad tempered? 2. What does the phrase "it takes two" have to do with Gandhi's talk? - Venn Diagram for similarities and differences between KIng and Gandhi's ideas Classroom discussion (you must discuss the reading within your small groups AND during class discussion to receive a good discussion grade) Review- Transcendentalism and Utopian Societies Thoreau- Civil Disobedience (pg. 269-274) 1. Why did Thoreau go to jail? 2. What gets in the way of the American people? 3. What does he say about commerce? 4. Explain this line: For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be; what is once well done is done forever. 5. What does he suggest would be a better punishment than putting people in jail? 6. What did he learn from his experience in jail (support your claim). Thoreau - Walden- (pg. 255-262 1. What does he mean by living deliberately? 2. Do you agree with his thoughts on simplicity? Why/Why not? 3. What does he think about the railroad? 4. Why does he live in the country instead of the city? 5. How does he compare the ants to the humans? Skip the loon story and go to "Conclusion" 6. Summarize the advice he gives in this section http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8FUPrd5ra0 Walden Do transition farms or transcendentalist attempts exist today? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6F-DmHdWU8 American Literature Calendar February 21st- Research in Computer Lab (American Author Project) March 1- Outline for AA Project Due and Photo Layout Due March 7- Computer Lab (work on technology component of AA Project) March 12- Work on rough draft of paper for AA project (sample paper handout) March 14- Computer Lab (work on AA Project and verify all sources) April 2- Utopian Society and Human Rights (compare/contrast ideas) April 4- Guest Speaker & Quiz (can use notes- see board) April 8- Breakfast with authors (compare/contrast styles) April 10- Work on Project -Handwritten or typed RD of paper due end of period April 12- Computer Lab to type paper (final draft due end of period) April 16 & 18- Photo Shoots and Book Interviews (5 questions) April 22- Computer Lab to work on technology component April 24- Breakfast with authors (modern) April 26- Computer Lab to work on AA project (last day to complete tech. comp.) April 30 & May 2- American Author Project Presentations May 6, 8, 10- Movies and Literature (Contemporary) May 14- Study Guides May 16- Senior Finals Week of May 20th- Junior Finals Technology Links for Technology Component of American Author Project http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/05/list-of-20-free-tools-for-teachers-to.html
- Computer Lab to work on AA Project
- Sources Verified - Sample Paper Handout A Day With Lincoln If you type "Abraham Lincoln" into the Google Book search engine, you receive more than six million results. Even the more limited field of Google Scholar nets 240,000. http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/index.html Timeline and photo The Emancipation Proclamation 1- President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 2- Third year of bloody Civil War 3- The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." 4- Applied only to states that had seceded from the Union 5- Exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control 6- The freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory 7- Fundamentally transformed the character of the war 8- Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, 9- By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union 10- The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. Ribbons The original of the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, is in the National Archives in Washington, DC. With the text covering five pages the document was originally tied with narrow red and blue ribbons, which were attached to the signature page by a wafered impression of the seal of the United States. Show sample page: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/ Actual Text http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.html What line was the most interesting and why? http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm Pic of monument Excellent web site if interested in more of his works http://www.abrahamlincolnassociation.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herndon_(lawyer) Biographer and friend of Lincoln |
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