Due Tuesday: Submission to the Lit Mag Due Tuesday: "The Declaration of Independence" in 50 Essays Due Wednesday: The first round of War Song Speeches. Due Thursday: Common Place 4 Due Thursday: Selections from Octavian Nothing Due Thursday: More Speeches. Know your due date. Get me your lyrics two days in advance. Due Friday: AP Registration forms Due Monday: Synthesis Revisions. No revision without a conference with me first.
Timed Write Debrief
An "Independent" Quiz
A Dependent Discussion
Clock watchers: ask me for Octavian with 10 minutes to spare
Due Now: "Outline Essay" Revisions Due Tuesday: Submission to the Lit Mag Due Tuesday: "The Declaration of Independence" in 50 Essays. Do you remember how to take notes on an essay?
Due Wednesday: The first round of War Song Speeches. Due Thursday: Common Place 4
These presentations should be informal but not off the cuff. I would like you to speak to your classmates rather than deliver a speech. You should rehearse what you are going to say and be prepared to answer questions, but you do not need to prepare note cards.
Please have the song available for your classmates to listen to. We'll only listen to a snippet of the song, so cue it up to the most important minute if you can. If you’ve got an mp3 player, I’ve got speakers. If you've got it on CD, we can use my laptop. If your song has lyrics, please give me a typed copy of the lyrics two days in advance so I can photocopy them for your classmates.
Information you could include in your presentation:
How did you find the song? Is it a song you knew or a song you found specifically for this assignment?
Provide some information about the artist. Time period, style, common themes, other works, etc.
Tell the story of the song.
Was this song written as a song about war or is it a song about something else that you are interpreting as a war song?
How does the music and instrumentation help you/the artist argue about war?
MOST IMPORTANTLY, How will this song help you (and your classmates) answer the question “Is there such a thing as a just war?”
Due Now: Vocab 6
Due Monday: "Outline Essay" Revisions Due Tuesday: Submission to the Lit Mag Due Tuesday: "The Declaration of Independence" in 50 Essays
Due Wednesday: The first round of War Song Speeches. I'll model in class on Monday.
Coming Monday: Argumentative Timed Write
Due Fri: Vocab 6
Due Tuesday: "The Declaration of Independence" in 50 Essays
Due Wednesday: The first round of War Song Speeches. I'll model in class on Monday.
Coming Tomorrow: Rhetorical Analysis Timed Write
Play, frolic, dance in the snow (if you happen to have any)
Cross stuff off your "to-do" list (be sure to do it first)
We'll talk about questions 1-7 on Tuesday and questions 8-13 on Wednesday. On Thursday, we'll write a timed write essay (either argument or rhetorical analysis); on Friday we'll write in the other mode. The timed write prompts may or may not come verbatim from this list.
1. What are Trumbo’s major and minor purposes in writing Johnny Got His Gun? 2. Dalton Trumbo chooses to use punctuation inconsistently throughout the novel. Pick a moment when his use of unconventional (or conventional) punctuation is particularly conspicuous. What is the effect of his punctuation and how does this effect fit into one of Trumbo’s larger purposes? [Note: you will notice that areas that are least conventionally punctuated are richest in rhetorical devices.] 3. Select a moment where Stream of Consciousness has a particularly powerful effect. How does this effect fit into one of Trumbo’s larger purposes? 4. What is the rhetorical function of the series of memories in Chapter 2? How does it prepare the reader for the argument that follows? 5. Consider Joe’s departure from Los Angeles (pages 35-37). What is being juxtaposed in this scene? What is the effect of this juxtaposition and how does this effect fit into one of Trumbo’s larger purposes? Where else does Trumbo use juxtaposition in the novel? Are those examples similar or different to his use of juxtaposition in the departure scene? 6. Consider Trumbo’s definition of Joe’s father as a failure (last line of 103 to the middle of 107). What does this definition reveal about Trumbo’s values? How does this episode help Trumbo achieve one of his larger purposes? 7. Summarize Trumbo’s arguments against war in Chapter 10. Refute them. 8. Identify significant allusions from a variety of places in the novel. What is the effect of these allusions and how do they help Trumbo achieve his purposes? 9. Make a list of Joe’s major memories over the course of the novel. What does this list reveal about Trumbo’s values? How does Trumbo use these values to support one or more of his larger purposes? 10. An important part of Trumbo’s argument is the persona he creates to tell his story. Describe the persona. How does he craft this persona to make his argument more effective? 11. The novel is divided into two parts. How are they similar? How are they different? Why did he divide the novel the way he did? 12. What is the most interesting element of the novel that we haven’t discussed as a whole class? 13. What does the title mean?
Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.
Due Now: Chapters 19 and 20 Due Now: Common Place 3 Due Tuesday, 2/22: Optional Synthesis Revision. Do not turn it in if it doesn't meet the minimums. Return your essay to me if you're done with it.
Due Now: Chapters 17 and 18 Due Tomorrow: Chapters 19 and 20 Due Friday: Common Place 3 Due Tuesday, 2/22: Optional Synthesis Revision. Do not turn it in if it doesn't meet the minimums. Return your essay to me if you're done with it.
Due Now: Chapters 14, 15, and 16 Due Tomorrow: Chapters 17 and 18 Due Friday: Common Place 3 Due Tuesday, 2/22: Optional Synthesis Revision. Do not turn it in if it doesn't meet the minimums. Return your essay to me if you're done with it.
Due Now: Chapters 13 and 14 Due Tomorrow: Chapters 15 and 16 Due Friday: Common Place 3 Due Tuesday, 2/22: Optional Synthesis Revision. Do not turn it in if it doesn't meet the minimums. Return your essay to me if you're done with it.
Due Now: Chapters 11 and 12 Due Tomorrow: Chapters 13 and 14 Due Friday: Common Place 3 Due Now: Develop one of your outlines into a 500-750 word essay. Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff. Include three rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Include a header. Due Tuesday, 2/22: Optional Synthesis Revision. Do not turn it in if it doesn't meet the minimums. Return your essay to me if you're done with it.
Due Now: Vocab 5 Due Now: Chapters 9 and 10 Due Tomorrow: Chapters 11 and 12 Due Friday: Common Place 3 Due Monday, 2/14: Develop one of your outlines into a 500-750 word essay. Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff. Include three rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Include a header.
Due Now: Chapters 7 and 8 Due Tomorrow: Chapters 9 and 10 Due Friday: Vocab 5 Due Monday, 2/14: Develop one of your outlines into a 500-750 word essay. Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff. Include three rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Include a header.
Due Now: Chapters 5 and 6 Due Tomorrow: Chapters 7 and 8 Due Friday: Vocab 5 Due Monday, 2/14: Develop one of your outlines into a 500-750 word essay. Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff. Include three rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Include a header.
Due Now: Chapters 3 and 4 Due Tomorrow: Chapters 5 and 6 Due Friday: Vocab 5 Due Monday, 2/14: Develop one of your outlines into a 500-750 word essay. Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff. Include three rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Include a header.
Due Monday: C&E Outline, Multi-paragraph intro OR Interesting conclusion, topic sentences, bullet points, So What?
Due Monday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 and 2
Due Tuesday: Chapters 3 and 4
Due Friday: Vocab 5
Due Monday, 2/14: Develop one of your outlines into a 500-750 word essay. Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff. Include three literary devices, underlined and labeled. Include three rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Include a header.
Collect Outlines. If you are considering C&E for your final draft, put your outline in my hand. While I was reading ... Three important things I can contribute are ... Whole class discussion
Due Thursday: Cause & Effect Packet. Be sure you're taking good notes.Due Thursday: Common Place #2Due Thursday: Optional Synthesis Revision. Due Monday: C&E Outline, Multi-paragraph intro OR Interesting conclusion, topic sentences, bullet points, So What? Due Monday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 and 2
Due Wednesday: Process Outline: So What?, topic sentences, two bullet points, interesting conclusion Due Wednesday: Introduction to Cause & Effect Packet. Due Thursday: Cause & Effect Packet. Be sure you're taking good notes. Due Thursday: Common Place #2 Due Thursday: Optional Synthesis Revision. If you revised this weekend, show me some changes after school. Due Monday: C&E Outline Due Monday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 and 2
Cause and Effect Packet Review
Cause and Effect Brainstorm
Rhetorical Devices Quiz 3 - bring your Virtual Salt
