Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Day 99

Objective:  The students will complete Part 3.

1.  Get out your computer, your sources and notes.

2.  Finish Part 3.

3.  Print it for peer editing tomorrow. 

4.  See you Monday if not earlier.  I appreciate you being awesome! Remember, the rest of the year will be great, or it could be very tough, depending on you this week.

Monday, January 26, 2026

Day 98

Objective:  The students will write Part 3.

1.  Get out your computer, sources and your notes.  

2.  Write Part 3.  I will have my computer at the courthouse and will monitor your progress (I can access all of your papers there.  If you are not working, I will know.  Period 3!!)

3.  Are you reading your new outside book?  You should be. 

Friday, January 23, 2026

Day 97

Objective:  The students will work on Part 3.

Note:  I will be out on Monday for Jury Selection.  If I am picked, I will be out only one week. 

Netflix Rec of the Week:  His and Her's... Limited Series.  You will never figure out the killer!  

1.  Exchange Part 2 with your partner.  Edit it using the checklist on the board.

2.  Remember that you are getting points for your editing, so if you miss things and say it's perfect, YOU THE EDITOR will lose points.

3.  Correct all mistakes that they find. 

4.  Part 3:  The 2025 Info.  This is the most important part.  You need to prove that your thing is the MOST IMPORTANT THING of last year.  

 

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Day 96

Objective:  The students will talk with counselors.

Counselors in class all period.

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Day 95

Objective:  The students will finish writing Part 2 of the Research Paper.

Note:  No Jury Duty today, maybe tomorrow.

1.  Open up computers and pull up your doc.  Get out sources and sample/notes.

2.  Let's look at two students' papers.

3.  Finish Part 2.  Due tomorrow printed for 50 points.  Or Zero. 

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Day 94

Objective:  The students will begin writing Part 2.

Note:  I may have Jury Duty tomorrow, so you will finish Part 2 for 50 points due on Thursday. 

1.  Part 2 Notes

2.  Sample of Part 2 Discussion

3.  Begin writing Part 2:  Not a separate doc, just double space and start writing. 

Friday, January 16, 2026

Day 93

Objective:  The students will peer edit the anecdotal intro.

1.  Bring your intro up when called for 50 points.

2.  Let's look at two on the big screen.

3.  Exchange and peer edit.  Put your name on the one that you edit.  You will get a grade for editing, so if the person's paper sucks when I read it, YOU will lose points on your editing!

4.  Make corrections as needed to intro.

5.  Outside Book:  Have you got one?  Have you started it? 

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Day 92

Objective:  The students will write the intro to their research paper.

1.  Get the sample intro and a blank sheet of paper for notes.

2.  Notes

3.  Sample discussion

4.  Set up your essay using MLA

5.  Write your intro.  It is due tomorrow for 50 points OR NO POINTS!!!  No late papers will get points. 

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Day 91

Objective:  The students will start reading their sources for their research papers.

1.  Get out your three sources and two different colored highlighters and a pen.

2.  Discuss what you are going to do with my examples from my paper.

3.  Close read them, color coding the info into PAST INFO and 2025 INFO.

4.  Be ready to write tomorrow with a charged laptop. 

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Day 90

 Objective:  The students will find their newspaper or magazine source and read all sources to write tomorrow.

If you found an article on a source like Time.com, you can't be sure that it actually appeared in the magazine, so today you will look in a database that has those articles.

1.  Open yesterday's assignment in GC.  Let me see that you have 5 sources.

2.  Use the following to find your magazine/newspaper article. Print it out and read it.  If it is a good source, add that link to your source document.

3.  Look at all of your sources, pick the best three (one must be your magazine or newspaper article that you just found), and go to the printer and print them out.  You will have to close read them. 

From Clever, find the Destiny icon and log in with your Google account (destiny.riversideunified.org


ProQuest Database Platform - access research from 7 full databases.

Friday, January 09, 2026

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. 

Thursday, January 08, 2026

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. 

Wednesday, January 07, 2026

Day 86

Objective:  The students will analyze the essay from yesterday. 

1.  WP Number 2

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

 

Tuesday, January 06, 2026

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, January 05, 2026

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