Song Presentations

Pick a song that will help you and your classmates argue that there is or is not such a thing as a just war. Bring a hard copy of the lyrics to the song to me the day before your presentation is due. Your hard copy should include the title, the artists, the lyrics, and a bibliographical entry. You DO NOT need to add your song to your Bibliography.

Your presentation should include the following information in this order:

• Establish the source of your song: artist, year released, a bit about the context in which it was written
• A paraphrase of the story of the song. What is the song about?
• An analysis of a rhetorical device or two that helps the artist make an argument about war
• An explanation of how your classmates might use your song in an essay
• Anything else.

We'll listen to a minute or two of your song before you speak.

Agenda, February 28

Due Monday, 3/4: Vocab Steven.
Due 3/7: Greenfield Peace Essay Entry (with links). I will have laptops here on Monday, 3/4, to research and compose. If you want to teacher conference about this essay, I have both lunches and I'm available after school. There will be no revisions.
Due Tuesday: "The Declaration of Independence" in 50 Essays. Add it to your Bib
Due Soon: Start looking for songs about war.

1. Argumentative Timed Write: 50 minutes
2. Model Song Presentation
3. Presentation Sign-ups
4. Radio Lab, if time allows

Agenda, Febraury 27

Due Monday, 3/4: Vocab Steven.
Due 3/7: Greenfield Peace Essay Entry (with links). I will have laptops here Monday, 3/4 to research and compose. If you want to teacher conference about this essay, I have both lunches and I'm available after school. There will be no revisions.
Due Tuesday: "The Declaration of Independence" in 50 Essays
Due Soon: Start looking for songs about war.

1. Is Joe's father a failure?
2. Discussion Questions
3. Radio Lab, if time allows

JGHG Discussion Questions

1. What are Trumbo’s major and minor purposes in writing Johnny Got His Gun?
2. Define Trumbo’s style. What rhetorical strategies does he depend on consistently? How do those rhetorical strategies help him create his stream of consciousness?
3. 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.]
4. Select a moment where stream of consciousness has a particularly powerful effect. How does this effect fit into one of Trumbo’s larger purposes? It might be useful to identify moments where Joe is particularly lucid to contrast with moments of stream of consciousness.
5. Compare Trumbo’s arguments against war in Chapter 10 to his arguments in Chapter 19. How are they similar? How are they different? Why does he need both? Be prepared to refute his arguments.
6. 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?
7. 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? 
8. Examine Trumbo’s description of Joe’s doctors. What is Trumbo’s attitude towards Joe’s doctors? How does that argument fit into his major and minor purposes?
9. Consider the structure of the novel. Think about how chapters begin and end, how Trumbo transitions from one chapter to the next, and how the novel is divided into parts. Why did he structure the novel the way he did? 
10. What is the most interesting element of the novel that we haven’t discussed as a whole class?

Agenda, February 26

Due Now: JGHG, Chapters 19 and 20

Due Now: Optional revision of Poor Synthesis. If you did not meet the requirements for the first revision, you are no longer able to improve your grade. All students who submitted a revision last week may continue revising the Works Cited page.
Due Monday, 3/4: Vocab Steven.
Due 3/7: Greenfield Peace Essay Entry. I will have laptops here Monday, 3/4 to research and compose. If you want to teacher conference about this essay, I have both lunches and I'm available after school. There will be no revisions.
Due Soon: Start looking for songs about war.

1. So ... what do you think?
2. Discussion Questions
3. Radio Lab, if time allows

Vocab Steven

Overkill

Words for Going too Far 

Due Monday, 3/4

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; the sentence you post must include the "although" as a properly punctuated concessive conjunction.

1. ebullience
2. effusive
3. egregiously
4. flagrant
5. frenetic
6. gratuitous
7. superfluous

 

Agenda, February 25

Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 17 and 18

Due Next: JGHG, Chapters 19 and 20
Due Now: Common Place 6
Due Tuesday, 2/26: Optional revision of Poor Synthesis. If you did not meet the requirements for the first revision, you are no longer able to improve your grade. All students who submitted a revision last week may continue revising the Works Cited page.
Due Monday, 3/4: Vocab Steven.

1. Common Place Small Group Discussions
2. Three things I need to say
3. Chapter 14 vs. Chapter 17: Juxtaposition
4. Coming attractions: Song Speech and Greenfield Peace Contest (with links!)

Agenda, February 22

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

Due Next: JGHG, Chapters 17 and 18
Due Now: Revised outline essay. Cut 50 - 100 words. Include old word count and new word count on the first page.  Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff and the student body of OCHS. Include three different rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Attach peer-reviewed draft and outline to your final draft. Follow MLA format. (It's February, by the way. Do you suppose it's time to learn how to put your last name AND the page number in your header?)
Due Monday, 2/25: Common Place 6
Due Tuesday, 2/26: Optional revision of Poor Synthesis. If you did not meet the requirements for the first revision, you are no longer able to improve your grade. All students who submitted a revision last week may continue revising the Works Cited page.

1. Argument o' the Week
2. Chapter 14, 15, 16: What's literally happening
3. Chapter 14, 15, 16: What does it mean?
4. Chapter 14, 15, 16: How does his rhetoric work?
5. Spoiler alert! / Stream of Consciousness Practice

Agenda, February 21

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

Due Tomorrow: JGHG, Chapters 15 and 16
Due Tomorrow: Revised outline essay. Cut 50 - 100 words. Include old word count and new word count on the first page.  Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff and the student body of OCHS. Include three different rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Attach peer-reviewed draft and outline to your final draft. Follow MLA format. (It's February, by the way. Do you suppose it's time to learn how to put your last name AND the page number in your header?)
Due Monday, 2/25: Common Place 6
Due Tuesday, 2/26: Optional revision of Poor Synthesis. If you did not meet the requirements for the first revision, you are no longer able to improve your grade. All students who submitted a revision last week may continue revising the Works Cited page.

1. Chapter 13 Quiz
2. Chapter 7 - 14: Open discussion

Agenda, February 20

Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 11 and 12

Due Tomorrow: JGHG, Chapters 13 and 14
Due Friday: Revised outline essay. Cut 50 - 100 words. Include old word count and new word count on the first page.  Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff and the student body of OCHS. Include three different rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Attach peer-reviewed draft and outline to your final draft. Follow MLA format. (It's February, by the way. Do you suppose it's time to learn how to put your last name AND the page number in your header?)
Due Monday, 2/25: Common Place 6
Due Tuesday, 2/26: Optional revision of Poor Synthesis. If you did not meet the requirements for the first revision, you are no longer able to improve your grade. All students who submitted a revision last week may continue revising the Works Cited page. 

1. Chapters 7, 8, and 9: Become an expert (10 more minutes)
2. Chapter 11
3. Chapter 7 - 12: Open discussion

Agenda, February 19

Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 9 and 10

Due Tuesday: JGHG, Chapters 11 and 12
Due Now: Vocab Sticks
Due Now: Develop one of your outlines into a 750-900 word essay. Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff and the student body of OCHS. Include three rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Include your word count in your  header. Follow MLA format.
Due Friday: Revised outline essay. Cut 50 - 100 words. Include old word count and new word count on the first page.  Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff and the student body of OCHS. Include three different rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Attach peer-reviewed draft and outline to your final draft. Follow MLA format. (It's February, by the way. Do you suppose it's time to learn how to put your last name AND the page number in your header?)
Due Monday, 2/25: Common Place 6
Due Tuesday, 2/26: Optional revision of Poor Synthesis. If you did not meet the requirements for the first revision, you are no longer able to improve your grade. All students who submitted a revision last week may continue revising the Works Cited page. 

1. Vocab Check-in
2. Peer Review (20 minutes max)
3. Chapters 7, 8, and 9: Become an expert
4. Chapter 10 Outline

Vocab Styx Redux

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; the sentence you post must include a properly punctuated colon. I repeat: your sentence must include a properly punctuated colon. You only need to post one sentence for the week, not one for each list.

You Say You Want a Revolution?

Words for the Downtrodden

Due Febraury 19

alienated

alliance

disparity

servile

suppressed

You are so Beautiful

Words for the Interior Decorator

embellish

florid

opulent

ornate

ostentatious

poignant

Agenda, Singles Awareness Day

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

Due Tuesday: JGHG, Chapters 9 and 10
Due Tuesday, 2/19: Vocab Sticks
Due Tuesday, 2/19: Develop one of your outlines into a 750-900 word essay. Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff and the student body of OCHS. Include three rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Include your word count in your  header. Follow MLA format.

1. A model sentence from the blog
2. Argument o' the Week
3. What can we learn from Chapter 6?
4. The two most important things in Chapter 7
5. The two most important things in Chapter 8

Agenda, Febraury 13

Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 5 and6

Due Tomorrow: JGHG, Chapters 7 and 8
Due Tuesday, 2/19: Vocab Sticks
Due Tuesday, 2/19: Develop one of your outlines into a 750-900 word essay. Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff and the student body of OCHS. Include three rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Include your word count in your  header. Follow MLA format.

1. Y'all are more persuasive than I thought!
2. Juxtaposition in Chapter 3
3. The two most important things in Chapter 4
4. The two most important things in Chapter 5
5. The two most important things in Chapter 6

Agenda, February 12

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

Due Tomorrow: JGHG, Chapters 5 and 6
Due Tuesday, 2/19: Vocab Sticks
Due Tuesday, 2/19: Develop one of your outlines into a 750-900 word essay. Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff and the student body of OCHS. Include three rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Include your word count in your  header. Follow MLA format.

1. Idea Lab Questions?
2. The Structure of Chapter 2
3. Three things I need to address ...

Vocab Styx

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; the sentence you post must include a properly punctuated colon. I repeat: your sentence must include a properly punctuated colon. You only need to post one sentence for the week, not one for each list.

You Say You Want a Revolution?

Words for the Downtrodden

Due Febraury 19

alienated

alliance

disparity

servile

suppressed

You are so Beautiful

Words for the Interior Decorator

embellish

florid

opulent

ornate

ostentatious

poignant

Show, Don't Tell

Write a three - five sentence description that shows a person in each of the following situations:

1. I'm lost without my cellphone.
2. Social media can alienate us.
3. A good leader can accomplish great things.

Agenda, February 11

Due Now: Common Place 5

Due Now: Optional revision of Poor Synthesis. Highlight your changes.

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

Due Tomorrow: JGHG, Chapters 3 and 4
Due Tuesday, 2/19: Vocab Sticks
Due Tuesday, 2/19: Develop one of your outlines into a 750-900 word essay. Your audience is the OCHS Literary Magazine staff and the student body of OCHS. Include three rhetorical strategies from the Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled. Include your word count in your  header. Follow MLA format.

1. Two opportunities from Oregon Humanities: Writing and Learning.
2. Show, Don't Tell
3. Common Place Partner Check. Finally!
4. While I was reading, I noticed ...
5. Fastest TEP ever
6. The Structure of Chapter 2

Agenda, February 7

Due Now: Common Place 5

Due Now: Outline for Cause and Effect Essay: Your choice: Multi-paragraph introduction OR full conclusion (focus on your weakness, not your strength - DO NOT do both); body with topic sentences only, followed with two details; thesis at the beginning or "So What?" at the end, depending on whether you wrote an intro or a conclusion. Typed. Single spaced ok. NO 5 paragraph essays.

Due Monday, 2/11: Optional revision of Poor Synthesis. Highlight your changes.

Due Monday, 2/11: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 and 2

• If you earned a score of C or lower, you must add two full paragraphs or I won't re-score it.
• If you earned a score of B or B-, you must add at least one full paragraph or I won't re-score it.
• If you earned a score of "High B" or above, check with me before the end of the day on Thursday if you decide not to add a full paragraph.

You may submit a revised Works Cited even if you don't revise your essay.

1. Idea Lab
2. State Writing Assessment - As much time as you need.
3. Common Place Partner Check

Agenda, February 6

Due Now: Common Place 5

Due Now: Cause and Effect Packet. Add it to your Bib (along with the other packets)

Due Now: C&E Brainstorm (prompts posted to the blog)

Due Thursday: Outline for Cause and Effect Essay: Your choice: Multi-paragraph introduction OR full conclusion (focus on your weakness, not your strength - DO NOT do both); body with topic sentences only, followed with two details; thesis at the beginning or "So What?" at the end, depending on whether you wrote an intro or a conclusion. Typed. Single spaced ok. NO 5 paragraph essays.
Due Monday, 2/11: Optional revision of Poor Synthesis

Due Monday, 2/11: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 and 2

• If you earned a score of C or lower, you must add two full paragraphs or I won't re-score it.
• If you earned a score of B or B-, you must add at least one full paragraph or I won't re-score it.
• If you earned a score of "High B" or above, check with me before the end of the day on Thursday if you decide not to add a full paragraph.

You may submit a revised Works Cited even if you don't revise your essay.

1. State Writing Assessment - 45 minutes of drafting time
2. C&E Questions 
3. Common Place Partner Check
4. To the library!

Cause and Effect Brainstorm Topics

Brainstorm on at least three of the following prompts. Be sure you have a good idea for an outline before you stop brainstorming.

1. Write about a personal experience that had a profound effect on you. Begin with a brief narration of the event and explore that variety of effects. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): trying to learn something difficult (you may or may not have been successful), a profound school experience (positive or negative), a time you got in trouble with a friend.

• Step 1: Brainstorm potential experiences
• Step 2: Brainstorm effects
• Step 3: Write a "So What?"

2. Think about something you do regularly (for example, reading for pleasure, a hobby, athletics, or texting friends). Brainstorm what causes you to participate in that activity. Brainstorm the effects the activity has on you. If you take this brainstorm to outline, focus on either the cause or the effects.

• Step 1: Brainstorm activities you do regularly.
• Step 2: Brainstorm causes
• Step 3: Brainstorm effects
• Step 4: Write a "So What?"

3. Think about a time when you have been stereotyped. What caused you to be stereotyped? What were the effects on you?

• Step 1: Brainstorm times when you've been stereotyped
  
• Step 2: Brainstorm causes
  
• Step 3: Brainstorm effects
• Step 4: Write a "So What?"

4. Think about times when you have felt threatened or when you have (intentionally or unintentionally) intimidated someone else. What caused the fear? What were the effects on you or on others?

• Step 1: Brainstorm times when you've felt threatened
  
• Step 2: Brainstorm causes
  
• Step 3: Brainstorm effects
• Step 4: Write a "So What?"

 5. Think about an invention or an item of technology and consider its effects on the world. Consider both the positive effects and negative effects.

• Step 1: Brainstorm a list of inventions/technology
  
• Step 2: Brainstorm causes
  
• Step 3: Brainstorm effects
• Step 4: Write a "So What?"

Agenda, February 5

Due Now: Common Place 5

Due Now: Cause and Effect Packet. Add it to your Bib (along with the other packets)
Due Now: Outline for Process Analysis Essay: NO introduction - just a claim or thesis, body with topic sentences only, followed with two details, full conclusion that does not restate your main ideas. Typed. Single spaced ok. NO 5 paragraph essays.

Do tonight: C&E Brainstorm (prompts posted to the blog)

Due Thursday: Outline for Cause and Effect Essay: Your choice: Multi-paragraph introduction OR full conclusion (focus on your weakness, not your strength - DO NOT do both); body with topic sentences only, followed with two details; thesis at the beginning or "So What?" at the end, depending on whether you wrote an intro or a conclusion. Typed. Single spaced ok. NO 5 paragraph essays.
Due Monday, 2/11: Optional revision of Poor Synthesis

• If you earned a score of C or lower, you must add two full paragraphs or I won't re-score it.
• If you earned a score of B or B-, you must add at least one full paragraph or I won't re-score it.
• If you earned a score of "High B" or above, check with me before the end of the day on Thursday if you decide not to add a full paragraph.

You may submit a revised Works Cited even if you don't revise your essay.

1. Return of the C&C
2. State Writing Assessment - 50 minutes of drafting time
3. Common Place Partner Check
4. C&E Questions

Agenda, February 4

Due Now: Process Analysis Packet. Take good notes!

Due Now: Common Place 5

Due Tuesday: Cause and Effect Packet. Add it to your Bib (along with the other packets)
Due Tuesday: Outline for Process Analysis Essay: NO introduction - just a claim or thesis, body with topic sentences only, followed with two details, full conclusion that does not restate your main ideas. Typed. Single spaced ok. NO 5 paragraph essays.
Due Monday, 2/11: Optional revision of Poor Synthesis

• If you earned a score of C or lower, you must add two full paragraphs or I won't re-score it.
• If you earned a score of B or B-, you must add at least one full paragraph or I won't re-score it.
• If you earned a score of "High B" or above, check with me before the end of the day on Thursday if you decide not to add a full paragraph.

You may submit a revised Works Cited even if you don't revise your essay.

1. State Writing Assessment - 50 minutes of planning time
2. Common Place Partner Check
3. Barry or Wolf?