Day 88

Objective:  The students will look into finding five people/groups/thing that they could write about.

1.  Go over The Parable and turn in.

2.  Complete the 2025 Person/Group/Event of the Year possible five. 

Day 87

Objective:  The students will analyze a very short story about what a hero is.

1.  Get your corrected vocabulary from the back.

2.  Go over "The Man in the Water" handout and turn in.

3.  WP Number 3

4.  Parable Handout:  Do all parts. 

Day 86

Objective:  The students will analyze the essay from yesterday. 

1.  WP Number 2

2.  Complete the handout for "Man in the Water."

 

Day 85

Objective:  The students will see an example of a person who would have been my "Person of the Year" if I was writing this research paper when I was a sophomore.

1.  Go over vocabulary definitions.  Turn in vocab.

2.  WP Number 1 (yes we start over).

3.  Discuss what you are going to be doing for the next three weeks.

4.  Handout:  Close read and answer questions.

5.  Videos: 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIb8wfXGngA

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5nTuEzMpzo

 

WP:  The Man in the Water

     The Man in the Water is an essay that Roger Rosenblatt wrote the week of the Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington DC.  It was a trip that started out with 79 people on board, and it ended with only 5 survivors.  “Washington, the city of form and regulations, turned chaotic.” (Rosenblatt).  It was one of the first disasters that was caught on live television, and the hole world stopped to watch as rescuers tried to save the six people who were alive after the impact of the plane.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 84: A New Semester

Objective:  The students will know important vocabulary for this week's unit.

Sit anywhere.  It is your chance this week to move seats from last semester.  I will make a new seating chart on Friday after we get all of the class changes (new students here, old students gone).

Welcome back everyone!  I missed seeing your smiling faces!  

This week we begin our Research Paper Unit.  We will read a few things, see a couple videos and do some research into who you think should be the Person/Group/Invention of the Year for 2025. 

The final research paper will consist of four parts which we write in class over several days.  I will teach one part, show you an example, then write.  The next day that part will be due for peer editing.  It is very important that you keep up with the work and don't fall behind, as each part is worth 50 points each day it's due.  There will be NO POINTS FOR LATE WORK.

1.  "Man in the Water" vocabulary.  You know what to do.

 

Sit anywhere.  It is your chance this week to move seats from last semester.  I will make a new seating chart on Friday after we get all of the class changes (new students here, old students gone).

2.  "Man in the Water" Vocabulary.

List for the Vocab. Exercise:

1. flailing (v)

2. abiding (adj)

3. pitted (v)

4. implacable (adj)

5. extravagant (adj)

6. synthesize (v)

7. analyze (v)

8. gist (n)

9. integrate (v)

10. citation (n) as in writing

 

Day 83

Objective:  The students will turn in the last assignment of the semester.

1.  Get your book and report ready for me to call you up.

2.  Movie 

3.  Zero Period:  We are done.  You do not have to meet for a final. 

Day 82

Objective:  The students will continue movie.

1.  I have decided that we are done with WPs for the semester.  You should have eight.  Put them in a packet and put proper heading on them and turn into the white basket.

2.  Any book reports?  Monday.  Last day!  I don't want anyone crying on Tuesday when I don't accept a late one.  NO LATE PAPERS OR BOOKS WILL BE GRADED.

3.  Movie:  From where Dantes meets the Abbe.