Reading Details: Include the new outside reading book you are working on (which you haven't read before and is at your reading level or above) and the time you spent. You may include reading time required for the two post assignments below.
Post 1: Read this story about Jane Goodall's new book and write a post based on it and your knowledge of plagiarism. How serious is what Goodall did? What information do you need to evaluate this situation, and which details provided make the situation more serious or less serious? How do you think Goodall, her co-author, and the publisher should correct it? Your post should be a minimum of two paragraphs with five or more sentences per paragraph.
Post 2: Read all comments on all of your major papers so far (literacy narrative, literary analysis, and research paper). Make sure to look at the in-text comments, summary comments, and the rubric. Based on these comments and your own assessment of your papers, choose which paper you will revise for your portfolio and which two traits of good writing you will focus on improving in that paper. In your 2-paragraph post, discuss why you selected that paper and those two traits, using specific examples from the paper and/or comments.
Note that all students will be expected to correct surface errors in papers, so avoid choosing conventions unless conventions are a major, ongoing issue for you and you are prepared to go beyond correcting mistakes. Also, please avoid general formatting, since your portfolio will ultimately be posted on your blog.
Once you've decided what traits to work on, please make an appointment at the Writing Center through the Writing Center homepage. You can go during study hall or tutorial.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
Blog Posts for 3/18
Reading Details: Include out-of-class time spent on your Nervous Conditions projects and time spent reading.
Post: For a combined, 20-point post, let's open the can of worms. In a minimum of four paragraphs, make a supported, formal argument about whether Nervous Conditions should be part of the 9th grade syllabus. This is not a post about whether or not you liked the book. Instead, focus on what makes it worth reading and teaching, our overall course questions, and our specific questions and goals for this book. Consider suggesting a different text that you believe would better that raises similar questions and serves similar purposes.
A-Layer Projects Reminder: For the film study and novel comparison, your comparisons and discussion should focus on postcolonial issues and themes that are common across texts. Do not simply summarize the second text you read or view, or make superficial comparisons.
Reading Lunch Reminder:
For your next outside reading book (which you will need to be reading next week), consider a book that will be discussed at The Reading Lunch, planned for the week after spring break. Here are the selections:
Post: For a combined, 20-point post, let's open the can of worms. In a minimum of four paragraphs, make a supported, formal argument about whether Nervous Conditions should be part of the 9th grade syllabus. This is not a post about whether or not you liked the book. Instead, focus on what makes it worth reading and teaching, our overall course questions, and our specific questions and goals for this book. Consider suggesting a different text that you believe would better that raises similar questions and serves similar purposes.
A-Layer Projects Reminder: For the film study and novel comparison, your comparisons and discussion should focus on postcolonial issues and themes that are common across texts. Do not simply summarize the second text you read or view, or make superficial comparisons.
Reading Lunch Reminder:
For your next outside reading book (which you will need to be reading next week), consider a book that will be discussed at The Reading Lunch, planned for the week after spring break. Here are the selections:
Sarah - Split - Swati Avasthi
Diamond - Crank - Ellen Hopkins
Terrell - World War Z - Max Brooks
Katherine, Skye - Mortal Instruments Series / City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
Maegan - Gone Series - Michael Grant
Emma, Wendy - The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Courtney - Seventeenth Summer - Maureen Daly
Emory - Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexi
Morgan, Cameron - Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Friday, March 8, 2013
Posts for 3/11
Post 1: Chapter seven highlights how different the expectations are for Tambu at the mission and at the homestead. The differences in these social settings are related in part to Tambu's identities as educated niece/daughter/beneficiary of Babamukuru and rural, poor Shona girl.
Consider how different places and identities in your life create different expectations for how you will act and who you will be. You might think about home(s), school (including different classes), church, activities you participate in, social circles, or virtual, online environments. Explain at least two of these places and/or identities and the different expectations they create.
Post 2: Option A: Skip post 2, and instead write a longer, more developed post 1 (minimum 4 full paragraphs), OR, option B: free post.
Reading Details: Don't forget!
Consider how different places and identities in your life create different expectations for how you will act and who you will be. You might think about home(s), school (including different classes), church, activities you participate in, social circles, or virtual, online environments. Explain at least two of these places and/or identities and the different expectations they create.
Post 2: Option A: Skip post 2, and instead write a longer, more developed post 1 (minimum 4 full paragraphs), OR, option B: free post.
Reading Details: Don't forget!
Friday, March 1, 2013
Blogging for 3/4
Reading Details: Include time your spent reading or working on your Nervous Conditions layered project outside of class. You may count the 10 minutes/day we had in class several days this week only if you were reading the entire time: you were reading when the bell rang and read for the entire 10 minutes with no bathroom or locker trips, etc.
Post 1: You should now have completed the first part of your Nervous Conditions layered project. Evaluate your work so far. What adjustments will you make as we move forward with the project and why? What have the most useful or satisfying and least useful or satisfying assignments been and why? Note: I expect reflection, responsibility for your learning, and deliberateness here - "I like this assignment because it was easy" is not enough.
Post 2: Write a post in the persona of one of the characters, providing your perspective on the events of the novel so far (you may want to focus on one or two events).
Post 1: You should now have completed the first part of your Nervous Conditions layered project. Evaluate your work so far. What adjustments will you make as we move forward with the project and why? What have the most useful or satisfying and least useful or satisfying assignments been and why? Note: I expect reflection, responsibility for your learning, and deliberateness here - "I like this assignment because it was easy" is not enough.
Post 2: Write a post in the persona of one of the characters, providing your perspective on the events of the novel so far (you may want to focus on one or two events).
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