Block Day, August 31 & September 1 ~ Blending Colors and Personalities

FYI: No school on Monday! It's Labor Day 

Warm Up:

Prefixes

• anthro - man
• anti - against

Suffixes

• ance, ancy - action, process, state
• ary, ery, ory - relating to, quality, place where

Root

• luc, lum, lus, lun - light

Grammar Quiz - Fragments

When you have finished the quiz, please complete J3 below.

Psalm 139:13-14
13 For you created my inmost being;
     you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.

J3 - Write these verses in your journal. Explain what they mean to you. What is God telling you about who you are and why you exist?

 EQ: How do your colors interact with those of your teachers and classmates?


Opening Discussion:

• Do you think it is more beneficial to have a teacher whose colors match yours or whose colors balance yours?

Notes: Take notes on how your colors might interact with what you guess are your most challenging teacher's colors.
You can click here to view this power point.

Write a 1-2 page Narrative Essay to describe a real example of how your personality type is true in your own life and how it interacts with others. Along with your story, please include some reflection of how your personality traits can be a strength or weakness when it comes to school. How will you succeed in learning from/with teachers and students who are so different from you?

HOMEWORK

Finish your narrative. Due Tuesday, September 5.

EXTRA CREDIT

Give the survey to a teacher and bring your results in Wednesday.

Welcome to Back-to-School Night!

We are happy to be your tenth grade teaching crew!

amberwest@mvcs.org                allisonwitmer@mvcs.org

SCHEDULE

6:30-6:40 PM Period 1

6:45-6:55 PM Period 2

7:00-7:10 PM Period 3

7:15-7:25 PM Period 4

7:30-7:40 PM Period 5

7:45-7:55 PM Period 6

8:00-8:10 PM Period 7

Wednesday, August 30 ~ True Colors

Essays are due.

Warm Up:

Prefixes

• amphi, ambi - round, both sides
• ante - before

    Suffixes

• algia - pain
• an, ian - native of, relating to

    Root

• neur - nerve

Grammar Review - Quiz on Block


True Colors - Part 1

(West class) JOURNAL 1 in Literature/Notes section: As you watch the power point, take notes on the strengths and weaknesses of your top two colors. Then describe a short story or instance when those colors played out in your life.


HOMEWORK:

• Review fragments

• Have one or two of your teachers take the True Colors survey. Bring in your results on Wedneday.

Tuesday, August 29 ~ What color are you?

Warm Up:

Prefixes

• ad - toward
• agere - act

Suffixes

• age - act of, state of, result of
• al - relating to

Root

• mit, miss - send

Fragment Review - EQ: What's Bedford say about fixing fragments?

1. Pull the fragment into a nearby sentence
2. Turn the fragment into a sentence

Journal #2 - Grammar - Bedford p. 246 - Complete 1-5. Write out the sentences correctly. Do not complete a-e! Hint: one of the sentences is correct.

True Colors

When you have finished J2 (Journal #2), come see me to find out what color you are.
West class click here to enter your colors. 


HOMEWORK

• Essay due tomorrow.
• Finish True Color survey.
• Survey someone in your family.

Monday, August 28 ~ Let's Return to Our Roots

Warm Up:

Prefixes

• a, an - without or not
• ab, abs, a - apart, away from

Suffixes

• able, ible - able, capable
• ade - result of action

Root

• duc, duct ~ lead

Essay Talk:

• Turnitin class ID's for BRIDGETTE WITMER:

English201    1606929

English203    1606872

English204    1606894

English205    1606943

English207    1606955

• Take a look at the SAT RUBRIC
• Quick MLA review.
• Quick thesis and paragraph structure review.
• Group up according to your chosen prompt.
• Exchange ideas regarding your essays.

FYI: 

• Say cheese! Picture Day tomorrow during English
• Fragment Quiz on Block

HOMEWORK: 

• Essay due Wednesday.

Friday, August 25 ~ Practice, practice, practice

Warm Up:
 
Fragment Practice

Movie

Three more essay prompts:

• Greed: Trace Thorin’s moral degeneration. What causes him to change? In what ways does he end up being similar to Smaug? Why do you think he is so easily corrupted? 

• Gandalf: What is the role of Gandalf in The Hobbit? Pay particular attention to his presence in terms of the way the book is structured. What is particularly significant about his presence at the beginning and end of the story? At what points does he leave? At what points does he return? How powerful is Gandalf? 

• Racial Tension: Examine the treatment of race in The Hobbit. Is it fair to suggest that all members of a certain group (dwarves, trolls, goblins, elves, etc.) share the same characteristics? How does this treatment of ethnic groups reflect the cultural perspective of past times? How might this book be different if it were written today? 

Important Dates:

• Tuesday, August 29 ~ Picture Day
• Wednesday, August 30 ~ Hobbit Essay Due
• Block Day, August 31 & September 1 ~ Grammar Quiz - Fragments

 

Thursday, August 24 ~ Fragments and Hobbit cont.

Warm up:

Fragment Practice

Movie

FYI: Essay due Wednesday, August 30. 

Here are four of the seven prompts:
 Music: Discuss the role that music plays in the development of musical beings. Compare the songs sung by the dwarves (pp. 14-15), the elves (pp. 48-49), and goblins (pp. 60-61). How do the songs differ in tone, content and structure? What do the tone, content and structure of the songs reveal about the creatures who sing them?

 Technology: What is Tolkien suggesting by linking his fantasy world to the reader’s modern world? What commentary is he making about the use of technology? Consider the following quote: “It is not unlikely that they [goblins] invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once” (62).

 Fancy Weapons: Why is it significant for Tolkien to have given the elves named swords? What message do you think is conveyed by the names given to the swords and the hands they fall into?

 Adventure Sensitive: What do you think Tolkien is trying to say about the purpose of trials and tribulations in a person’s life? Consider that from the very beginning, Bilbo has assumed that the climax of the adventure would be the recovery of the treasure. Then he realizes that Smaug must also be dealt with. Now he finds that even Smaug’s death does not end the adventure. Bilbo never would have agreed to the adventure, knowing what it lead him to. What is Tolkien saying about adventure and trials?

Wednesday, August 23 - Grammar and a Movie

Warm up:

Before we begin the movie, we will continue to conquer fragments by completing the following:
Fragment Practice

Hobbit Movie

As your watching the movie, consider one of the prompt located in Moodle (Hobbit Movie/Essay Prompts). Due date and directions  also located in Moodle.

Tuesday, August 22 ~ Hobbit Quiz

Hobbit Quiz

Say what?

You will need a sheet of paper for your answers. DO NOT WRITE ON THE QUIZ.

When you have finished the quiz, please begin the following grammar assignment:

Grammar ~ Fragment Notes ~ Journal #1 - Take notes in your journal (notebook)
Finding and Fixing Fragments

Once you have finished taking notes, test yourself on what you've learned by clicking on the link below. This is digital practice. You do not need to turn anything in. The more you practice, the better you'll do on the future grammar quiz.
* Notice as you work through the digital practice, there are explanations for any of your incorrect answers. Please take the time to look at these.

Fragment Practice

HW: 

• Finish ~ Fragment Notes ~ Journal #1

Monday, August 21 ~ Hobbit Review

Time is closing in! Tomorrow is the BIG DAY! All things Hobbit will take place tomorrow.
What "things" you might ask..........

• Annotation Check
• Quiz
• Write

In order to prepare for laying The Hobbit to rest, we will discuss your brilliant responses to the discussion questions you posted in Hobbit Talk.

• Group up in threes or fours.
• Discuss such things as:

1. The possible wisdom learned from reading The Hobbit.
2. The meaning behind the various riddles used in the story.
3. Smaug's strengths and weaknesses.
4. The character traits of Beorn, Bilbo, Gandalf, Gollum and Thorin.
5. The names of the different locations the party visits on their journey.

HOMEWORK

• Prepare for the quiz.
• Did you purchase a notebook or comp book for English?
• Bring The Hobbit tomorrow for annotation check.

Block Day, August 17 & 18 - Seating Charts & Marshmallows

Listen up for your assigned seat. This special seat is yours for all of  Q1.
Before we begin our challenge for the day, let's get the "Dum-Dums" out.

 Warm-up: Introduce yourself to the people sitting next to you in your new seat.

Let's face it, we'd all give a pretty penny to spend just one more summer night around a campfire roasting s'mores and not worrying about school tomorrow morning, but....since summer is over we'll do the next best thing.

• The winning team is the one that has the tallest structure measured from the table top surface to the top of the freestanding marshmallow. That means the structure cannot be suspended from a higher structure, like a hand, chair, ceiling or chandelier. 

EQWhat does a marshmallow challenge have to do with English? 

Homework: Annotations and Two Forum Responses due Monday! Bring your journals too.

This weekend, look over your annotations in The Hobbit. Use these thoughts to create posts on our Moodle classroom. Just go to our class, then to the "Beginning of the Year" unit, and click on "Hobbit Talk." There are also Hobbit Discussion Questions in Moodle to help you get your creative juices flowin'. For full credit, please post at least twice under any topic you like. Due Sunday night by midnight (20 points for two considerate and detailed responses). More detailed directions are in Moodle.: 

Wednesday, August 16 ~ Welcome to English II

1. Moodle ~ Please enroll in our Moodle course 

• Course name: English II - Amber West & Allison Witmer
• Course codes for Witmer: Period1$, Period3$, etc.
• Course code for West: Period2#

2. Tuesday, August 22 is a BIG day! 

• Annotation Check
• Hobbit Quiz

 FYI: That gives you 6 days to get right with The Hobbit.

3. Check out the course plan by clicking on Course Info. located up top.

4. Required Novels:

Semester 1 ~  The Power of One
  by Bryce Courtenay  (make sure you order the young readers' condensed edition)
ISBN   978-0-440-23913-0

Semester 2 ~ Across a Hundred Mountains
  by Reyna Grande
ISBN    978-0-7432-6958-2

5. Go over syllabus. Click here for the official document.

 

West Class Only: Info Card

• On the front please write your preferred name (Write big to fill the card! It has to show up in the picture:)
• On the back...

• Where are you from?
• What is your passion?
• What is your pet peeve?
• What is one thing you want people to know or understand about who you are? 
• What should I know about you as a student to help me teach you better this year?