Agenda, March 1

Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 17 and 18. If at all possible, stop at the end of Chapter 18. If you must go on, answer the question at the end of Chapter 18 for yourself before you read on.

Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 19 and 20.

1. OWF?
2. Mr. Kline salutes you!
3. ._ _  ....  ._  _  _..  ..  .. ..  ..  .._  .__  ._  _.  _  ?
4. How do you create stream of consciousness?
5. Open Discussion: Can we get 40 speakers?
6. If necessary: Happy Birthday, Juxtaposition

Agenda, March 0

Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 15 and 16

Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 17 and 18. If at all possible, stop at the end of Chapter 18. If you must go on, answer the question at the end of Chapter 18 for yourself before you read on.
Due Now: A perfect MC

1. MC Discussion. Support your answers with the text.
2. The most important things that have happened so far ...
3. Open Discussion: Can we get 40 speakers?

Agenda, February 28

Due Now: All drafts of your Outline Essay. If you want me to reread it, print up a new copy, highlight your changes, and clip it together.

Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 13 and 14

Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 15 and 16.
Due Tomorrow: A perfect MC

1. Collect Essay
2. 12 Minutes of MC fun
3. Getting the right answer: why recognizing Dickens isn't good enough
4. Open Discussion: Can we get 40 speakers?

Agenda, February 27

Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 9-12

Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 13 and 14

Due Tomorrow: All drafts of your Outline Essay. If you want me to reread it, print up a new copy, highlight your changes, and clip it together.

1. 5 Things I can say
2. Saying 5 things
3. 2 x 4 quotations
4. The Elusive Allusions

Agenda, February 24

Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 7 and 8

Due Monday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 9 - 12

Due February 25: E-mail your essay as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Remove all the underlining and labeling first. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc..

1. Anybody need a Lit Mag Handout?
2. What took so long with the TEP's yesterday?
3. 5 Things I Can Say
4. Saying 5 Things
5. The "What Did You Highlight?" Game
6. Syntax TEP

Agenda, February 23

Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 5 and 6

Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 7 and 8

Due February 25: E-mail your essay as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Remove all the underlining and labeling first. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc..

1. 5 Things I Can Say
2. Saying 5 Things
3. The "What Did You Highlight?" Game
4. Juxtaposition TEP

Agenda, February 22

Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 3 and 4

Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 5 and 6
Due Now: Perfect MC
Not due, but do it anyway: create a chronological timeline of the events in Chapter 2. Include the events of Chapters 1 and 3. Try to indicate geography and Joe's approximate age for each event.

Due February 25: E-mail your essay as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Remove all the underlining and labeling first. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc..

1. Did you get your AP letter from Admin?
2. DJ MC Answers
3. While I was reading, I noticed (or I wondered) ...
4. What's literally going on here?
5. Juxtaposition

Agenda, February 21

Due Now: "How have we changed?" synthesis paper.

Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 and 2

Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 3 and 4

Due Tomorrow: Perfect MC

Due February 25: E-mail your essay as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Remove all the underlining and labeling first. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc. 

1. Out with the old, in with the new.
2. 12 minute MC
3. While I was reading, I noticed ...
4. Polly wanna a syndeton?
5. The rhetorical function of Chapter 2

Lucky ... for you

A charming stomach flu hit the Kline household this weekend, which means I am not in a yurt. I am also not spending a lot of time sitting up right now, either, so I won't exactly be responding to questions at a lightning fast right. However, should questions come up, I'll be able to respond sooner or later.

Agenda, February 16

Due Now: "Serving in Florida" in 50 Essays (appx. 35 on your Bibliography). 
Due Tuesday: "How have we changed?" synthesis paper.

Due Tuesday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 and 2

Due February 25: E-mail your essay as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Remove all the underlining and labeling first. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc. 

 

1. Anybody got a Gun?
2. Change Essay Questions
3. A "Modest" discussion: Talk like a TEP
4. "Serving"

Anybody got a Gun?

We're headed to the library tomorrow to check out copies of Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun. We're still 5 copies short. Has anybody purchased a personal copy? Is anybody planning to buy a copy?

Agenda, February 15

Due Now: "A Modest Proposal" in 50 Essays. How romantic! 

Due Thursday: "Serving in Florida" in 50 Essays (appx. 35 on your Bibliography). 
Due February 21: "How have we changed?" synthesis paper.

Due February 25: E-mail your essay as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Remove all the underlining and labeling first. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc. 

 

1. Fun with TEP Paragraphs
2. Establishing Sources
3. A "Modest" discussion: Talk like a TEP

Agenda, Singles Awareness Day

Due Now: "A Modest Proposal" in 50 Essays. How romantic! 

Due Thursday: "Serving in Florida" in 50 Essays (appx. 35 on your Bibliography).
Due February 21: "How have we changed?" synthesis paper.

Due February 25: E-mail your essay as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Remove all the underlining and labeling first. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc. 

 

Sit alphabetically by last name, please.

1. Have you signed up for the AP test yet?
2. Return of the Wrath writes
3. What is a Synthesis Paragraph anyway?
4. Change Essay Questions
5. A "Modest" discussion

Agenda, February 13

Due Now: Typed, double spaced TEP on "On Dumpster Diving"

Due Now: Outline Essay Revisions. Highlight your changes. Clip newest draft on top of all other drafts.

Due February 25: E-mail your essay as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Remove all the underlining and labeling first. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc. 

Due Tuesday, 2/14: "A Modest Proposal" in 50 Essays. How romantic! 
Due February 21: "How have we changed?" synthesis paper.

Today is a Lab Day; be sure to know your Change Essay Subject

1. Collect TEP and revisions
2. Change Essay Questions
3. Lab Day. Use your time well and wisely.

Was Marx Right?

NPR's Planet Money reports about an interesting experiment in China in 1978. Click the link to a webpage that has an audio news report and a text transcript. The audio is a little different than the video, so be sure to listen and read. Enjoy!

Capitalists of the World, Unite!

Agenda, February 10

Due February 13: Outline Essay Revisions. As soon as you're satisfied with your paper, remove all the underlining and labeling and send your work as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc. Deadline: February 25.
Due Monday: Typed, double spaced TEP

Due Tuesday, 2/14: "A Modest Proposal" in 50 Essays 
Date February 21: "How have we changed?" synthesis paper.

Monday is a Lab Day; be sure to know your Change Essay Subject

1. Did we do anything important yesterday?
2. Change Essay Questions
3. Marx Review
4. Argument o' the Week: D, Q, C President Obama’s claim that “Anyone who tells you that America is a nation in decline doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
5. Whole class "Dumpster Diving" 
6. 10 minute TEP

TAG! You're it!

If you're missing class to play TAG today, here are the discussion questions for "On Dumpster Diving":

1.     What is the effect of Eighner’s attention to language in the first five paragraphs? Does this opening appeal more to ethos, logos, or pathos? Explain.

2.     In paragraph 7, Eighner identifies the rhetorical direction he plans to follow. What is the effect of such information?

3.     Note the technical and clinical nature of much of part one of the essay. In paragraph 19, for example, he writes of de-emulsification and the behavior of pathogens. What is the effect of such scientific language and information?

4.     Indentify and explain two examples of irony in the section about the students (paragraphs 25-30).

5.     Paragraph 37 concludes, “I do not want to paint too romantic a picture. Dumpster diving has serious drawback as a way of life.” What is the effect of these sentences? What is their rhetorical purpose?

6.     Note the careful distinction Eighner makes between the “true scavenger” and the “can scrounger.” What purpose does it serve?

7.     Do Eighner’s thoughts of Lizbeth in paragraph 63 appeal chiefly to ethose, logos, or pathos? Explain.

8.     Provide an example of an appeal to ethos. Explain its significance.

9.     Explain the irony in the closing passage (paragraphs 78-80).

Agenda, February 9

Due Yesterday: "On Dumpster Diving" in 50 Essays.
Due February 13: Outline Essay Revisions. As soon as you're satisfied with your paper, remove all the underlining and labeling and send your work as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc. Deadline: February 25.
Due Tuesday, 2/14: "A Modest Proposal" in 50 Essays
Date February 21: "How have we changed?" synthesis paper.

1. Change Essay Questions
2. How Marx was right / wrong
3. "Dumpster Diving" Small Group Discussion

Agenda, February 8

Due Now: Excerpt from The Communist Manifesto. Write a paraphrase of each paragraph in plain English.
Due Now: Perfect MC Section
Due Wednesday: "On Dumpster Diving" in 50 Essays.
Due February 13: Outline Essay Revisions. As soon as you're satisfied with your paper, remove all the underlining and labeling and send your work as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc. Deadline: February 25.
Date February 21: "How have we changed?" synthesis paper.

1. Change Essay Questions
2. MC Answers
3. Marx's argument
4. How he was right / wrong
5. "Dumpster Diving" TEP

Agenda, February 7

Due Now: Excerpt from The Communist Manifesto. Write a paraphrase of each paragraph in plain English.
Due Tomorrow: Perfect MC Section
Due Wednesday: "On Dumpster Diving" in 50 Essays.
Due February 13: Outline Essay Revisions. As soon as you're satisfied with your paper, remove all the underlining and labeling and send your work as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc. Deadline: February 25.
Date February 21: "How have we changed?" synthesis paper.
For your bibliography (you should have about 32 entries):
Title and author: "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
From: One Hundred Great Essays, Edited by Robert DiYanni
Publishing info: New York, Pearson Education, Inc., 2008
and The Grapes of Wrath, too!

1. Change Essay Requirements
2. Change Essay Brainstorm
3. MC Practice. Oops.
4. What Marx said ...
5. How he argued it ...
6. How he was right / wrong

Agenda, February 6

Due Now: Excerpt from The Communist Manifesto. Write a paraphrase of each paragraph in plain English.
Due Tomorrow: Perfect MC Section
Due Wednesday: "On Dumpster Diving" in 50 Essays.
Due February 13: Outline Essay Revisions. As soon as you're satisfied with your paper, remove all the underlining and labeling and send your work as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Lit Mag. Include your name and your Advisory teacher's name in the body of the e-mail. DO NOT share it as a google doc. Deadline: February 25.
Date TBA: "How have we changed?" synthesis paper.
For your bibliography (you should have about 32 entries):
Title and author: "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
From: One Hundred Great Essays, Edited by Robert DiYanni
Publishing info: New York, Pearson Education, Inc., 2008
and The Grapes of Wrath, too!

1. Return of the Outline Essays
2. Manifesto in groups
3. Whole class Manifesto
4. MC Practice