Agenda, February 28

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 11 & 12
• Due Thursday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 13 & 14: Look up your allusions 
• Due Friday: Vocab Heaven
• Due Thursday: Revised Outline Essay. Cut 10% off your word count. 810 word max. Staple newest draft on top of previous draft and outline. 
• Tomorrow After School: Bibliography Review Session
• Do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: Go see The Bully Plays. 

Agenda:

1. Tell me your English requests
2. The Elusive Allusions
3. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Agenda, February 27

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 9 & 10
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 11 & 12: Look up your allusions 
• Due Now: Vocab Heaven
• Due Now: Outline Essay
• Due Thursday: Revised Outline Essay. Cut 10% off your word count. 810 word max. Staple newest draft on top of previous draft and outline. 

Agenda:

1. AP Registration Letters
2. MC Practice
3. Tighten Your Belt, Pt. 2
4. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Anybody lookin' for a senior project?

Every summer, the American Red Cross gives students the opportunity to earn scholarship money by organizing a blood drive. In the past, students have used this as a senior project and gotten all that paperwork out of the way before school even starts.

Interested? Check out this website. Be sure to talk to KJ about the senior project potential before you commit.

Added bonus: if you host a drive while I'm in town this summer, you get to see me get stabbed!

Good luck!

Agenda, February 24

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 7 & 8
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 9 & 10
• Due Now: Vocab Styx
• Due Monday: Develop one of your four outlines into a complete essay. Your audience is the editors of the OCHS Literary Magazine and the student body of OCHS. 800-900 words. Put the word count on the front page. MLA format. Attach the outline. In case we don't have time to revise, you might want to chat with me during the drafting process.

Agenda:

1. AP Registration Letters
2. The future of MC Practice?
3. Tighten Your Belt
4. Chapter 3: What else is going on rhetorically?
5. 5, 6, 7, 8

Vocab Heaven

Crafty, Crafty

Words for Sneaking Around

Due Friday, March 3rd

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.

Bonus Challenge: Write all of your sentences about a paradise (or pair of dice, if you prefer).

1. Astute
2. Clandestine
3. Coup
4. Disingenuous
5. Ruse
6. Stratagem
7. Surreptitiously
8. Wary
9. Wily

Agenda, February 23

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 5 & 6
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 7 & 8
• Due Friday: Vocab Styx
• Due Monday: Develop one of your four outlines into a complete essay. Your audience is the editors of the OCHS Literary Magazine and the student body of OCHS. 800-900 words. Put the word count on the front page. MLA format. Attach the outline. In case we don't have time to revise, you might want to chat with me during the drafting process.

Agenda:

1. Forecasting Questions
2. MC Practice
3. The future of MC Practice?
4. Juxtaposition
5. Questions? Connections? A-has?

Agenda, February 22

• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 3 & 4
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 5 & 6
• Due Friday: Vocab Styx
• Due Monday: Develop one of your four outlines into a complete essay. Your audience is the editors of the OCHS Literary Magazine and the student body of OCHS. 800-900 words. Put the word count on the front page. MLA format. Attach the outline. In case we don't have time to revise, you might want to chat with me during the drafting process.

Agenda:

1. "Multiple Choice" Discussion Groups
2. Chapters 1-4: Open discussion (notices, wonderings, a-has!)
3. Juxtaposition
4. Potential Purpose?

Agenda, February 21

• Due Now: Synthesis revisions. If you're done revising, your essay should be in your portfolio.
• Due Now: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 & 2
• Due Tomorrow: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 3 & 4
• Due Friday: Vocab Styx
• Due Monday: Develop one of your four outlines into a complete essay. Your audience is the editors of the OCHS Literary Magazine and the student body of OCHS. 800-900 words. MLA format. In case we don't have time to revise, you might want to chat with me during the drafting process.

Agenda:

1. "Multiple Choice" Practice
2. While I was reading, I noticed ...
3. Ch. 2 Outline
4. Rhetorical Strategies in JGHG

Vocab Styx

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It’s Getting Better

Words to Make You Feel Good

Due Friday, February 24

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.

1. Alleviate
2. Asylum
3. Auspicious
4. Benevolent
5. Benign
6. Mollify
7. Reclamation
8. Sanction

Bonus Challenge #1 – Tell me why the following sentence is funny: The students were happy when the principal agreed to sanction the use of cell phones in class.

Liar, Liar

When the Truth is in Question

1. Dubious
2. Fabricated
3. Hypocrisy
4. Slander
5. Spurious

Bonus challenge #2: Write all your sentences bout characters in Greek Mythology.

Agenda, February 17

• Due Now: Any stray images, graphs, charts, or editorial cartoons related to war.

• Due Now: Completed TEP about an essay from the C&E packet. Typed, if you want feedback.
• Due Now: Vocab Thrive
• Due Tuesday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 & 2
• Due Tuesday: Synthesis revisions. If you're done revising, your essay should be in your portfolio.

Agenda:

1. Argument o' the Week (again!)
2. Diction Exercises
3. Analyzing Visual Rhetoric

Agenda, February 16

• Due Now: Bring a hard copy of an image, graph, chart, or editorial cartoon related to war.
• Due Friday: Completed TEP about an essay from the C&E packet. Typed, if you want feedback.
• Due Friday: Vocab Thrive
• Due Tuesday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 & 2
• Due Tuesday: Synthesis revisions. If you're done revising, your essay should be in your portfolio.

Agenda:

1. TEP Paragraph Reading Groups
2. Analyzing Visual Rhetoric

Agenda, February 15

• Due Now: Complete all 11 "Multiple Choice" questions, if you haven't already.
• Due Thursday: Bring a hard copy of an image, graph, chart, or editorial cartoon related to war.
• Due Friday: Vocab Thrive
• Due Tuesday: Johnny Got His Gun, Chapters 1 & 2
• Due Tuesday: Synthesis revisions. If you're done revising, your essay should be in your portfolio.

Agenda:

1. Evidence review
2. MC Practice
3. TEP Paragraph

Agenda, Singles Awareness Day

• Due Now: Develop one of your cause and effect brainstorms into an outline. Write either a multi-paragraph intro OR a full conclusion, whichever you need to practice most (DO NOT do both). For each body paragraph, write a topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. You need more than three paragraphs. Be sure to include a So What? at the beginning or end of your outline. Typed, of course.
• Due Wednesday: Complete all 11 "Multiple Choice" questions, if you haven't already.
• Due Thursday: Bring a hard copy of an image, graph, chart, or editorial cartoon related to war.
• Due Friday: Vocab Thrive

Agenda:

1. Run away! Run away!
2. Argument o' the Week

Go Get Your Gun

Tomorrow, we'll begin reading our next novel: Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo. Unfortunately, we don't have a copy for every kid. If you want to help, there are two things you can do to solve this problem:
1. Buy your own copy (online or at a local bookstore). 2. Download a copy of the .pdf from this website. You'll need to print it or be able to access it electronically for class.

Agenda, Febraury 13

• Due Tomorrow: Develop one of your cause and effect brainstorms into an outline. Write either a multi-paragraph intro OR a full conclusion, whichever you need to practice most (DO NOT do both). For each body paragraph, write a topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. You need more than three paragraphs. Be sure to include a So What? at the beginning or end of your outline. Typed, of course.
• Due Now: Vocab Fore!
• Due Friday: Vocab Thrive

Agenda:

1. "Multiple Choice" Practice Section
2. Practice Test 1 Wrap-Up
3. Run away! Run away!

Vocab Thrive (thanks, Sarah, my favoritest student ever!)

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Overkill

Words for Going too Far

Due Friday, February 17

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 word. Post one sentence as a comment below.

Bonus challenge: Write all your sentences about someone experiencing deep, meaningful, personal growth.

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

Agenda, February 10

• Due Now: Cause and Effect Packet. Add the essays to your Bibliography. They are from the Short Takes anthology.
• Due Tuesday: Develop one of your cause and effect brainstorms into an outline. Write either a multi-paragraph intro OR a full conclusion, whichever you need to practice most (DO NOT do both). For each body paragraph, write a topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. You need more than three paragraphs. Be sure to include a So What? at the beginning or end of your outline. Typed, of course.
• Due Now: Vocab Fore!

Agenda:

1. Cause and Effect Brainstorm
2. Disco time!
3. Vocab in groups, if time allows