Agenda, Leap Day

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 19-20
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun Discussion Questions #1-#8
• Due Friday, March 4th: Outline Essay Revisions 
• Coming Thursday and Friday: JGHG Final Timed Writes 

 
Agenda

1. Special Announcement from a Special Guest
2. Mindfulness
3. MC Fun!
4. Whole Class Discussion
5. A Few Things for You

Agenda, February 26

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 17-18
• Due Monday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 19-20
• Due Now: Synthesis Revisions
• Due Friday, March 4th: Outline Essay Revisions 

 
Agenda

1. Discussion
2. Mindfulness
3. TEP

Agenda, February 25

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 15-16
• Due Tomorrow Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 17-18
• Due Now: Corrected Multiple Choice Exam
• Due Tomorrow: Synthesis Revisions  

 
Agenda

1. Let's chat!
2. MC Review
3. A Mindful Beginning

Agenda, February 24

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 13-14
• Due Tomorrow Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 15-16
• Due Thursday, 2/25 Corrected Multiple Choice Exam
• Due Friday, 2/26 Synthesis Revisions  

 
Agenda

1. Quiz
2. Little Things
3. Big Things
4. Let's chat!

Agenda, February 23

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 11-12
• Due Tomorrow Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 13-14 (look up those allusions!)
• Due Thursday, 2/25 Corrected Multiple Choice Exam
• Due Friday, 2/26 Synthesis Revisions  

 
Agenda

1. Announcement from Mr. Kline
2. Quiz
3. 5 Things
4. Into the Land of the Living . . .
5. Chapter Ten Rehash

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Agenda, February 22

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 9-10
• Due Tomorrow Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 11-12
• Due Thursday, 2/25 Corrected Multiple Choice Exam
• Due Friday, 2/26 Synthesis Revisions  

 
Agenda

1. TEP Passback
2. Multiple Choice
3. Whole Class Discussion

Agenda, February 19

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 7-8
• Due Now: Select one of your outlines and develop it into a complete essay, 750-1000 words. Your audience is the OCHS student body and the editors of the OCHS Literary Magazine. MLA format. Include your word count on the first page. Please attach your original outline!
• Due Now: Corrected Multiple Choice. 
• Due Monday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 9-10 
• Due Friday, 2/26: Synthesis Revisions 

 
Agenda

1. Outline Essay Collection!
2. Multiple Choice
3. Questions to Guide Your Thinking
4. T-E-P!!!!

Agenda, February 18

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 5-6
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 7-8
• Due Friday, 2/19: Select one of your outlines and develop it into a complete essay, 750-1000 words. Your audience is the OCHS student body and the editors of the OCHS Literary Magazine. MLA format. Include your word count on the first page. 
• Due Friday, 2/19: Corrected Multiple Choice. 

 
Agenda

1. Questions about the Outline Essay?
2. An announcement from Kline!
3. An Elusive Allusion
4. Quick Write
5. Structure and Style
6. Group Discussion

Agenda, February 17

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 3-4
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 5-6
• Due Friday, 2/19: Select one of your outlines and develop it into a complete essay, 750-1000 words. Your audience is the OCHS student body and the editors of the OCHS Literary Magazine. MLA format. Include your word count on the first page. 
• Due Friday, 2/19: Corrected Multiple Choice. 

Agenda

1. Reading Schedule Announcement
2. Questions about the Outline Essay?
3. Pgs. 25-28 and 34-39: Dominant Techniques and Purpose
4. Group Discussion

Agenda, February 16

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1-2
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 3-4
• Due Friday, 2/19: Select one of your outlines and develop it into a complete essay, 750-1000 words. Your audience is the OCHS student body and the editors of the OCHS Literary Magazine. MLA format. Include your word count on the first page. 

Agenda

1. Reading Schedule Announcement
2. Multiple Choice Fun
3. Characters in JGHG
4. Purpose in JGHG

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Agenda, February 11

• Due Now: "The Female Body," by Margaret Atwood. It's from The Prentice Hall Reader. Pages 468-70.
• Due Tuesday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1-2
• Due Friday, 2/19: Select one of your outlines and develop it into a complete essay, 750-1000 words. Your audience is the OCHS student body and the editors of the OCHS Literary Magazine. MLA format. Include your word count on the first page. 

Agenda

1. Re-division and Re-classification
2. More College Q & A
3. "The Female Body"

Agenda, February 10

• Due Thursday: "The Female Body," by Margaret Atwood. It's from The Prentice Hall Reader. Pages 468-70.
• Due Tuesday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1-2

Agenda

1. College Answers
2. To the library!
3. More Super Rhetorical Analysis

Agenda, February 9

• Due Now: "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston
• Due Thursday: "The Female Body," by Margaret Atwood. It's from The Prentice Hall Reader. Pages 468-71.
• Due Now: Division and Classification Outline. Pick one of your Division and Classification brainstorms and develop it into a formal outline. Instead of an introduction, write your claim / purpose. You need a minimum of four body paragraphs, though you may have more. For the body paragraphs, write a complete topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. Please label each body paragraph as a division or classification. Write a fully developed conclusion that makes your "So what?" clear. Please don't write a summary conclusion. Your audience is the student body of OCHS. Typed. Single-spaced okay.

Agenda

1. College Questions
2. How it Feels to Have a Small Group Discussion
3. Super Rhetorical Analysis

Agenda, February 8

• Due Now: "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston
• Due Tomorrow: Division and Classification Outline. Pick one of your Division and Classification brainstorms and develop it into a formal outline. Instead of an introduction, write your claim / purpose. You need a minimum of four body paragraphs, though you may have more. For the body paragraphs, write a complete topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. Please label each body paragraph as a division or classification. Write a fully developed conclusion that makes your "So what?" clear. Please don't write a summary conclusion. Your audience is the student body of OCHS. Typed. Single-spaced okay.
• Due Now: Optional Synthesis Revision. You probably need more evidence. 

Agenda

1. Permission slips?? Pretty please?
2. Yes, you can
3. Some model conclusions
4. How do we start to talk about Hurston?

Reminding and Prompting

REMINDER: If you have not already turned in your action research permission slip, please bring it Monday!

PROMPT FOR DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION: 

• List the types of media you consume (social or otherwise). 
• After giving yourself time to list, divide and group these however you wish. Keep in mind the "why" behind your groups. 
• Once you have divided, classify these groups. What are the characteristics of each category?
• Consider your "So What?" Why do your categories matter? 

Agenda, February 5

• Due Now: Division and Classification Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Monday: "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston
• Due Tuesday: Division and Classification Outline. Pick one of your Division and Classification brainstorms and develop it into a formal outline. Instead of an introduction, write your claim / purpose. You need a minimum of four body paragraphs, though you may have more. For the body paragraphs, write a complete topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. Please label each body paragraph as a division or classification. Write a fully developed conclusion that makes your "So what?" clear. Please don't write a summary conclusion. Your audience is the student body of OCHS. Typed. Single-spaced okay.
• Due Monday, February 8: Optional Synthesis Revision. You probably need more evidence. 
• Agenda

1. Permission slips?? Pretty please?
2. A Stressful Survey
3. Warming up
4.  Mind Squall 
5. Deconstructing Division and Classification Essays  
6. What We Talk About When We Talk About Essays

Agenda, February 4

• Due Now: Division and Classification Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Monday: "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston
• Due Tuesday: Division and Classification Outline. Pick one of your Division and Classification brainstorms and develop it into a formal outline. Instead of an introduction, write your claim / purpose. You need a minimum of four body paragraphs, though you may have more. For the body paragraphs, write a complete topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. Please label each body paragraph as a division or classification. Write a fully developed conclusion that makes your "So what?" clear. Please don't write a summary conclusion. Your audience is the student body of OCHS. Typed. Single-spaced okay.
• Due Monday, February 8: Optional Synthesis Revision. You probably need more evidence. 
• Agenda
• Permission slips?? Pretty please?
• What's the difference?
• What can go wrong . . .
•  Mind Squall

Agenda, Groundhog Day

• Due Now: Cause and Effect Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Tomorrow: Division and Classification Packet. Add the essays to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition. 
• Due Now: Cause and Effect Outline. Pick one of your Cause and Effect brainstorms and develop it into a formal outline. Instead of an introduction, write your claim / purpose. You need a minimum of four body paragraphs, though you may have more. For the body paragraphs, write a complete topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. Please label each body paragraph as a cause or effect. Write a fully developed conclusion that makes your "So what?" clear. Please don't write a summary conclusion. Your audience is the student body of OCHS. Typed. Single-spaced okay.
• Due Monday, February 8: Optional Synthesis Revision. You probably need more evidence.
• If you are still revising your narrative, see me before the end of lunch on Wednesday for a new due date. If you are done, please return your essay to me.

Agenda

1. Establishing sources review
2. Which essay is next?
3. Reverse engineering an outline
4. Search and Destroy for Rhetorical Devices

Agenda, Groundhog Day

• Due Now: Cause and Effect Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Thursday: Division and Classification Packet. Add the essays to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition. 
• Due Wednesday: Cause and Effect Outline. Pick one of your Cause and Effect brainstorms and develop it into a formal outline. Instead of an introduction, write your claim / purpose. You need a minimum of four body paragraphs, though you may have more. For the body paragraphs, write a complete topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. Please label each body paragraph as a cause or effect. Write a fully developed conclusion that makes your "So what?" clear. Please don't write a summary conclusion. Your audience is the student body of OCHS. Typed. Single-spaced okay.
• Coming Wednesday: Establishing sources review
• Due Monday, February 8: Optional Synthesis Revision. You probably need more evidence.
• If you are still revising your narrative, see me before the end of lunch on Wednesday for a new due date. If you are done, please return your essay to me.

Agenda

1. Cause and effect brainstorm
2. Cause and Effect chain in "Tiffany Anderson"
3. Is there a wrinkle in "Tiffany Anderson"?
4. Reverse engineering an outline