Due Monday: Obama Nobel. Write all over it. Identify rhetorical strategies. SOAPSTone it. Take notes like a college student, please. Add it to your Bib.
Due Thursday: TEP about antithesis OR allusion in Obama nobel. Typed. MLA format.
Due Thursday: Bring hard copy of an image that helps you argue that there is or is not such a thing as a just war.
Due Friday: Vocab Ate 

1.  Octavian quickly: What happens? Who are the good guys? How does this help your essay?
2. Obama Nobel open discussion
3. Obama slowly: SOAPSTone first. How thorough can we be?
4. Search and Destroy: Rhetorical Strategies in Obama Nobel

Agenda, March 12

Due Now: Excerpts from Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation. Add it to your Bib.
Due Now: Your motivational speech
Due Friday, by 1:30 pm: Submission to Greenfield Peace Contest. You will need to go to their website, download the entry form, fill it in, and e-mail your submission and the entry form as an attachment. You should paste your essay or poem into the body of the e-mail, just in case. Your submission should include a friendly note, as with your Oregonian submission. You also need to include me as a BCC or CC on your submission. If you want to revise, I'm happy to chat during lunch, after school, or during Wednesday's Advisory. Good luck!
Due Monday: Obama Nobel. Write all over it. Identify rhetorical strategies. SOAPSTone it. Take notes like a college student, please. Add it to your Bib.

1. Let the motivation commence!
2. Return of the Timed Writes
3. Making Sense of Octavian

Agenda, March 11

Due Now: Common Place #7 
Due Now: Excerpts from Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation. Add it to your Bib.
Due Tuesday: Your motivational speech
Due Friday, by 1:30 pm: Submission to Greenfield Peace Contest. You will need to go to their website, download the entry form, fill it in, and e-mail your submission and the entry form as an attachment. You also need to include me as a BCC or CC on your submission. If you want to revise, I'm happy to chat during lunch, after school, or during Wednesday's Advisory. Good luck!

1. Collect Common Place #7
2. Submission details
3. War Songs
4. Motivational Speech Questions
5. Making Sense of Octavian

Motivational Speech Requirements

You need to include ALL of the following in your motivational speech:

A series of analogies
One or more allusions
A challenge to the audience's "manhood"
An appeal to national pride
Amplification
An appeal to personal pride
Antithesis
Other rhetorical strategies of your choice

All speeches are due on Tuesday, although some people won't present until Thursday. They must be well organized, well rehearsed, and well delivered.

Have fun!

Agenda, March 8

Due Now: Two speeches from The Life of King Henry V (handout - bibliographical info to follow)
Due Now: Revisions of Outline Essay
Due Monday: Common Place #7 
Due Monday: Excerpts from Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation. Add it to your Bib.
Due Tuesday: Your motivational speech

1. Collect Lyrics
2. War Songs
3. Brainstorming for Motivational Speeches
4. Rhet. Devices in Henry V

Agenda, March 7

Due 3/7: Greenfield Peace Essay Entry (with links).
Due Now: Two speeches from The Life of King Henry V (handout - bibliographical info to follow)
Due Tomorrow: Revisions of Outline Essay
Due Monday: Common Place #7 
Due Monday: Excerpts from Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation. Add it to your Bib.

1. Collect Lyrics
2. War Songs
3. Rhet. Devices in Henry V

Agenda, March 6

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 Thursday: Two speeches from The Life of King Henry V (handout - bibliographical info to follow)
Due Friday: Revisions of Outline Essay
Due Monday: Common Place #7 

1. Collect Lyrics
2. War Songs
3. "The Declaration ..."

Due Monday, 3/4: Vocab Steven (We'll discuss it tomorrow)
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 Thursday: Two speeches from The Life of King Henry V (handout - bibliographical info to follow)
Due Friday: Revisions of Outline Essay
Due Monday: Common Place #7 
At your convenience: Radio Lab, just for kicks

1. Collect Lyrics
2. War Songs
3. SOAPSTone

Agenda, March 4

Due Monday, 3/4: Vocab Steven (We'll discuss it tomorrow)
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 Friday: Revisions of Outline Essay

1. Which is the hardest trimester?
2. Laptop time
3. Radio Lab, if majority wants

Agenda, March 1

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. Rhetorical Devices Timed Write: 50 minutes
2. Presentation Sign-ups
3. Radio Lab, if time allows