Block Day, March 30&31 ~ EQ: What is Grande saying with the moon motif?

What does a cataract look like?

Quiz time!  

When you finish the quiz, work on your Dangling Modifiers with Exercise 2 here.

 
NOVEL: ACROSS A HUNDRED MOUNTAINS

Discuss

• What is your vibe on Don Elias?
• Why does Juana hate the owl? What does it symbolize? 
• What do you gather about Ama's past from her interactions with Abuelita Elena and Don Elias?
• Other questions/thoughts/theories? 

      Let's make a timeline in your journals.
 
      Opinion Poll

1. It should be the responsibility of the oldest child to care for the younger siblings when the parents are working.
2. My parents have sacrificed something to give me a better life. 
3. I can't sleep when I have unfinished or unresolved business in my life.
4. There are some mistakes that cannot be redeemed.
5. I would do anything for my family in a time of desperation.

 HW:

• Read pgs. 46-86 Continue adding events to the timelines.
• Journal 14: Record at least three questions you have from the reading.
• WATCH OUT! That nasty paragraph I warned you about is at the end of the last chapter (around page 85). 

Wednesday, March 29 ~ Read, Read, Read!

ROOTS
Anatomy (cont.)

• viv, vita, vivi - alive, life
• phy - body

REMINDER

• Immigration Vocab Quiz on Block
  

Across a Hundred Mountains

Read pages 30-45 and complete Journal 13
FYI: p. 45 ends a Juana chapter. The last sentence is: As Juana brushed her mother's hair,.......

Journal 13

• What can you gather so far about Juana? 
• What can you gather so far about Adelina?
• Why do you guess that Adelina refers to her father's ashes as her redemption? (12)
• What do you guess of the old man coyote with the bad eye? 
• Do you think Anita's death was Juana's fault?
• What is the significance of the story Apa tells Juana on her birthday? (33-34)
• What is Miguel's main reason for leaving? Does he have other options?
• Talk about symbols: owl, plates, the moon.

Tuesday, March 28 ~ Get Pumped! It's Grammar Tuesday!

TODAY'S BUSINESS

• Turn in your Annotated Work Cited
• Roots QUIZ

FYI - Immigration Vocab QUIZ - Block Day

GRAMMAR - Dangling Modifiers / Capitalization

• EQ: What is a dangling modifier?
• Try this exercise. 

Now edit for capitalization errors please.

1. Our Academic Year begins on a tuesday in the middle of august, which is too darn early!
2. My mother's birthday is in the fall, on the eighteenth of october.
3. This Semester Clayton is taking math, geography, english and japanese.  
4. The Japanese teacher offers many hands-on activities to make learning about a new Culture and Language more interesting.
5. Dudley Doright is the new assistant district attorney. 
 


 Across a Hundred Mountains - continue reading through p. 29

HOMEWORK

• Make sure you have read through p. 29
• QUIZ? Maybe....maybe not. 😜   

Monday, March 27 ~ Peer Edit

FYI - Roots QUIZ tomorrow (sume, sump - vor)

ROOTS (Anatomy)

• ped - foot
• man - hand
• corp - body
• lingu - tongue

RESEARCH - Peer edit
Peer editors should be checking:

• MLA format - 12 point font, double spaced, no extra spacing, indentation, header

• citations - punctuation, italics, quotations, dates, alphabetization
• annotations - who? what? why?, grammar, punctuation, plagiarism

Across a Hundred Mountains - continue reading.

HOMEWORK

• Annotated Bibliography - take the advice of your peer editor and clean 'em up! All 7 are due tomorrow.

                          TYPED AND PRINTED!

• Study your roots.

Annotated Bibliography Info

Annotated Bibliography Rubric

Here is the original example.

Block Day, March 23-24 ~ Who is Reyna Grande?

ANNOUNCEMENT! 

• Would you like to get baptized? Go to the lunch meeting today (3/23) in B-15. 
• See Mr. Talley or Mr. Davis with questions.   

Meet our author, Reyna Grande

Meet our author, Reyna Grande

RESEARCH

~ Work on your Annotated Bibliography ~ You should have
    5 completed (cited and annotated) by the end of class.

ACROSS A HUNDRED MOUNTAINS

• Journal 12: Author Notes ~ Take half a page of bullet point notes on our author, Reyna Grande, while you watch this video. 
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• HW: Finish your Annotated Bibliography (7 due Tuesday)
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Wednesday, March 22 ~ My Best Friend is an OWL

RESEARCH

• First of all, do you already know this?
• Next, go to the OWL at Purdue to take notes on how to cite an article in MLA.
• Journal 11: Practice on this article.

HW: Work on your Annotated Works Cited. Rough Drafts due Tuesday.

Tuesday, March 21 ~ Websites: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

RESEARCH

·        EQ: What makes a website a legitimate source?

Tips for finding reliable websites:

• Make sure the website is up to date.
• Use websites that cite their sources.
• Avoid citing commercial websites (.com).
• Do not cite Wikipedia or similar user-edited sites.
• Use Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/ - for scholarly articles.
• Use Google Books - http://books.google.com/ - for books you can read online.
• BASE - http://www.base-search.net/ - for academic open access web resources.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - http://www.doaj.org - for academic open access web resources.
• Science.gov - http://www.science.gov/index.html - for authoritative U.S. government information.

Journal 10 ~ Annotations Review
Copy this paragraph and work on the ordering of the sentences. What order should these sentences go in?

1. Krikorian says that he doesn't agree with immigrants “becoming an American just by them saying the oath of citizenship.” He believes that they should earn the right to serve in the armed forces by first forming their relationship with the United States.

2. The major question posed in this article is how people can expect illegal immigrants to fight for a country that is not theirs.

3. Author, Mark Krikorian is a nationally recognized expert on immigration issues and Krikorian has been the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) since 1995.

4. More than 37,000 of green-card holders serve in the military account for about 3% of active-duty soldiers.

5. Krikorian states that they should avoid developing a mercenary army that is made up of illegal immigrants that are loyal to their countries. 

HW: Find, cite and annotate two articles tonight and upload them to Google Drive (10 pts. HW Category). BTW, you may want to include a quote in your annotation. It will save you time later.

HW: Turn your articles into the beginning of your official assignment.

• First, create a beautiful new Google doc, complete with heading, title (Annotated Bibliography), and drop indentations. See example here
• Just under the title, type out your research question.
• AND find, cite and annotate another two articles (4 total for this assignment).

Monday, March 20 ~ What makes a good research question?

RESEARCH

      

      EQ: What makes a good research question?

Draft a research question. West class post your questions here.

Do you know these search tips?

• Journal 9: Write your research question.......
• Using your research question, record 5-8 key words you will use in your search.
  
• Always use keywords, not a sentence or a question.
• Use "" (quotations) around phrases such as "Wild Bill".
• * (asterisk) is a wildcard e.g. nurs* will search for nursing, nurses, nursed etc...
• In Google, - (minus) will exclude a certain word (-university).
• In a Google search, use ~ (tilde) to search for similar words (~college will also find university).
• Use a Google Advanced Search to limit your results to just .org (non-profit), .edu (educational institutions), or .gov (government) websites. This will also let you limit to a date range.
• Look at the references on sources you found helpful to lead you to more sources.

What is an Annotated Works Cited? It's basically a bibliography with very specific summaries.

How do I write an annotation? The purpose of the annotation paragraph is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited -- in short -- you are asked to comment on and/or explain why each source cited is useful. 

• WHO -- Who wrote it and why does this person have authority on the topic?
• WHAT -- What did it say? Summarize & comment on the article; compare or contrast this work with another you have cited -- does it agree or disagree? 
• WHY -- Explain why you think this article is a good addition to your research.  Also, comment on the intended audience -- who was the intended audience and most importantly why was it written.
• See an example here.

HW: 

• Find and annotate two new immigration articles.

Block Day, March 16 & 17 - Were the Irish really all that Lucky?

☘HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY☘

WARM UP

• Take 5 minutes to find facts on Irish immigration to the U.S.
• What were the push - pull factors?
• How were these new immigrants received upon their arrival to the U.S?
• What happened way back in the 1600's?
•  After your investigation, think about what it was like for our Irish brothers and sisters when they began their pursuit for a better life.

ROOTS

• tort, tors - twist
• trib - pay
• turbo - disturb
• vor - eat greedily

IMMIGRATION

• Discuss what you learned in the webquest.
• EQ: What is the current situation? Why is it so controversial and frustrating?

Journal 7: A Recent History based on theSKIMM's timeline

1. List a few factors that have influenced U.S. laws over the last 50 years. 
2. Name at least three problems that lawmakers tried to solve with past laws.
3. What kinds of complications have made the laws hard to define and keep?

Notes: A LONG History based on a lecture

• History Lecture: Immigration History  1900-1999
• New Vocab: 
• Push Factors = Reasons to leave a country 
• Pull Factors = Reasons to enter a country.
• Click here for lecture notes. You should draw images or add small notes to help you remember information for a quiz later next week. Today's lecture is taken from this source document. Click here for the power point.

Line to apply for the Bracero Program

Journal 8

1. Based on what you've heard in class today, brainstorm with a partner. What are the major Push/Pull factors in today's immigration surge?  How have these factors changed over the last 100 years?
2. Write a paragraph explaining why this issue is so historically complex, emotionally charged and seemingly impossible to solve.

Wednesday, March 15 ~ Why the Push? Why the Pull?

ROOTS - Actions (cont.)

• sume, sump - take, use, waste
• ten, tin, tan - hold
• tend, tent, tens - stretch, strain
• tom - cut

 IMMIGRATION UNIT

EQ: What does it take to become a U.S. citizen?
A: For starters, you have to take a civics test.

• The actual test is in English.  
• The civics test is NOT a multiple choice test, so you need to study the correct answers.
• During the naturalization interview, a USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) officer will ask you up to 10 questions from the list of 100 questions in English. 
• You must answer correctly 6 of the 10 questions to pass the civics test.
• Your turn! Click here to practice the Civics Test portion.

Journal 6: Immigration & Citizenship Webquest

• Directions: Each page of the webquest has at least one question. Keep track of these in your Immigration Notes under Journal 6.
• Click here to get started.

HW: We will have about 20 minutes to finish this tomorrow. You decide.

Tuesday, March 14 ~ It's Baaaaack....Grammar Tuesday

QUIZ - Roots and Confused Words - Today

GRAMMAR - Capitalization - Test your ability

• Most of the sentences in the following paragraphs contain errors in capitalization. Write the correct form of each incorrect word. If the capitalization of a sentence is already correct, write C.
• Record your answers for 1-8 in Notability.   

    (1) A self-taught photographer, gordon Parks grew up in south Fork, Kansas. (2) after winning a rosenwald Fellowship, a series of pictures about life in Chicago's Slums, He obtained his first photography job from the Farm Security Administration in Washington, D.C. (3) In 1949, he joined the staff of Life magazine. (4) During his nearly twenty years at life, he covered events ranging from Junior High School science conventions to Paris Fashion Shows. (5) He wrote many of the Essays that accompanied his photographs, as well as two Volumes of autobiography, A Choice of Weapons and Voices in the Mirror.
    (6) turning to a career in the movie industry in 1968, he moved to Hollywood, where his son Gordon Parks jr., took a picture of him directing the film the Learning Tree. (7) Working from his piano at his apartment, he wrote the films screenplay and musical score. (8) He wrote and directed other projects, including leadbelly, the story of the Blues Legend Huddie ledbetter.
   

 IMMIGRATION

 EQ: Did you access or buy the book?

• Discussion: Go over Journal 5. Do you agree with your parents? 
• Journal 4: Immigration Vocab
• Carousel Vocabulary - Use the definitions hanging around the room to record your own summarized definitions of some basic vocabulary before we continue to discuss the history of immigration in the U.S. (Here are the ones from SKIMM)
• Quiz - Now finish your journal by recording your score to this quiz to see how much you really know about the issue (Don't worry, it's not for a grade, just to open our eyes about the complexity of the issue).

HOMEWORK

• Tidy up those journals.

Monday, March 13 ~ Let the Immigration Unit Begin!

TURN IN - immigration articles

REMINDER

• QUIZ - Roots&Confused Words

IMMIGRATION UNIT

Can you pass an immigration test? Take this quiz.

Today we begin learning the background information for our new book, Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande. It is about a girl who gets entangled in the immigration process between Mexico and the U.S.

Please answer the following EQ's:

Journal 2
EQ #1: The Story I Know: What do you already know about the issue of Mexican-American immigration?

Journal 3
EQ #2: My Opinion: Is the U.S. responsible to help people in need from other countries? Why/Why not?

Continue answering the EQ's as you view a quick intro video from the BBC.

Journal 4
Immigration Vocab: Do you know the lingo?

• Carousel Walk 

 HOMEWORK

Journal 5

• Parent Interview ~ Talk to your parents or any other adult about immigration. Record their thoughts on the issue.

• Make sure you can access the book on esco or buy a book if you want to keep your hard copy (Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande ISBN 978-0-7432-6958-2).

  

Block Day, March 8 & 9 ~ Who's the Master of Rhetorical Devices?

REMINDERS

• QUIZ - Roots - Tuesday, March 14
• Citations and summaries due Monday, March 13

ICE - paper and pen

IMMIGRATION - Begin weekend HW.

HW: Journal 22 ~ Find at least two news articles about immigration over the weekend. All articles must be current (as in published in 2016 or 2017). For each one, record an MLA citation and write one brief paragraph summarizing the source. Here is an example below:

Note: This is NOT a journal for Bridgette's class. Bring in your citations and summaries typed and printed. Due Monday. 

Tilghman, Andrew. "DOD Policy Will Allow Some
            Immigrants in U.S. Illegally to Serve."Military  
            Times. Sightline Media, 25 Sept. 2014. Web. 20
            Apr. 2015.

This site is an independent and trusted source that has information on the most interesting and important events that have affected soldier's careers and personal lives. It also provides the readers with exclusive news, recreational resources, and educational videos and photos. According to this article a number of illegal immigrants that are living in the United States will have the opportunity to enlist in the military under the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest (MAVIN) program. This program will allow recruiters to target illegal immigrants with high skills. The Pentagon program has a limit of 1,500 recruits per year but it is unclear how many of those recruits are illegal immigrants. The military recruits about 5,000 illegal immigrants on average each year. The military services are not obligated to accept recruits under the MAVNI program. Right know the only service that has accepted a significant number of soldiers has been the Army.

Tuesday, March 7 ~ Preppin' for that ICE

ROOTS

• solv, solu - loosen
• string, strict - draw tight
• stru, struct - build

REMINDERS

• No school on Friday.
• Block days on Wed. and Thurs.
• ICE on Block.
• QUIZ - Tuesday, March 14.

 RHETORICAL DEVICES

• Practice 
• Look over prompts for rhetorical devices
• Build your outline for ICE

 HOMEWORK

• Come prepared for ICE on Block with pen and paper.

Monday, March 6 ~ Ethos, Pathos, Logos.....Oh My!

ROOTS

• rupt - break
• sed, sess, sid - sit
• serv - save, serve
• sist, sta, stit - stand

REMINDERS

• No school on Friday
• Wed. & Thurs. follow block schedule
• QUIZ - Roots and Confused Words on Tuesday, March 14

EQ: What are rhetorical devices?

• ethos- think of being persuaded by someone's moral character (credibility). Wow! he's a good person! or

          This must be true because he's an expert.

• pathos- think of being persuaded by emotion. Stop thinking and start feeling!

• logos- think of being persuaded by logical reasoning. Bring on the graphs, charts and stats! 

          Has to be true. Look at all of these facts.

 More rhetorical device enlightenment

West Class Plan

• Finish movie and Journal 20: List ten ways that the director imposed a South African interpretation. Then write one paragraph giving your opinion on the movie. How effective were the director's choices?   
• Go over Ethos, Logos & Pathos notes. 
• If we have time, test yourself on E, L & P.

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-ethos-logos-and-pathos.html

Block Day, March 2 & 3 ~ Wait! What? Falling on the Sword?

ROOTS

• pon, pos, pound - place, put
• prehendre - seize, grasp
• reg, recti - straighten

REMINDERS

• West - Journal 20: List ten ways that the director imposed a South African interpretation. Then write one paragraph giving your opinion on the movie. How effective were the director's choices? 

• Bridgette - Journals 30 and 31 due on Friday.

JULIUS CAESAR 

Read the Final Scene (Act V Scene V).

    Ponder the following questions as we read:
 ACT V, SCENE V.
1. What request does Brutus make of Clitus? What is his response?
2. What does Brutus ask Volumnius to do? What reasons does he give? What is Volumnius's response?
3. What does Strato do for Brutus? What does Strato ask Brutus to do first? Why?
4. What overture of peace does Octavius make to Brutus's men?
5. How do Antony and Octavius honor Brutus?

We have viewed a couple of different performances of Julius Caesar, (American and South African).
Let's take a look at how the Brits perform Julius Caesar

Wednesday, March 1 ~ Enjoy the Show

REMINDERS

• Meet at the theater.
• Bridgette - J30 & J31 due Friday.