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?