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DID NOT have a writing prompt. We spent the entire period finishing up the Smarter Balanced Junior Practice Assessment, and submitted it to Turnitin.com at the end of class. HOMEWORK: Please read through Part 3 in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Monday.
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Quickly wrote in response to the following picture prompt. We then spent the remainder of the period working on the Smarter Balanced practice assessment. It will be due at the end of class tomorrow. Today we...
Wrote. Please see below for our prompt. Continued working on our Smarter Balanced Practice Assessment. REMEMBER: The Abnormal Assignment is due by 4pm today to Turnitin.com. Today we...
Wrote, ever so briefly, in response to the picture prompt below. We received the formal instructions and prompt for our practice essay. We had the remainder of the class period to work on this assignment. Please see post from yesterday for detailed instructions. Today we... Wrote. Please see below for our writing prompt. This week is dedicated to a practice test for the new state test that all juniors are required to take later in May. We will return to the theme of Civil Disobedience, Transcendentalism, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Dead Poet's Society next week. Do, however, bring your book to class this week. Beyond Monday evening, you will not have homework related to the practice test, but you are expected to continue reading. Please finish reading Part 3 (up to Part 4) by Monday, 3/2/15. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SMARTER BALANCED JUNIOR PRACTICE ASSESSMENT (link to separate document below) Day 1 (Monday, 2/23/15): Introduce Smarter Balanced practice test and look at the official “testing environment.” ***Click this link to go to the practice test environment.*** “Our” practice version has been formatted for clarity...but the language and the process will be essentially exactly the same on the real test in May. We are using the same prompt, article sources, and other resources from the practice test. We begin the test by reading the instructions from Document #1 (link below). Document #1 includes the overall instructions for the test, as well as all of the primary sources students will be citing. Students should spend the period working on reading, annotating/taking notes and working to develop understandings of the separate arguments. They can use scratch paper to do this (on the actual online version, the document says that they “click on your Global notes”). Students will be accessing the instructions and sources online (there will not be any printed copies of the sources provided), but they will have printed instructions, as well Document #2 (link below), the pre-write guiding questions. ***For homework on Day 1, students will complete their analysis of the sources and the Document #2 pre-write guiding questions...physical copies of this handout will be made for you. You will be turning in this document at the beginning of class tomorrow, so please do not rely on this as your only source for notes/information, etc. If you need to have notes to work off of for the formal writing task the next day, please have them on a separate sheet of paper. Day 2 (Tuesday, 2/24/15: The pre-write guiding questions (Document #2) are due at the start of class. You will receive points/credit for completing this portion. If you have not done this, you will receive a zero for this component. I will not accept this document late. You must at this point move on to the actual essay. You will then receive Document #3 (link below), the physical copies of the formal instructions and the prompt. We will go over it together. Document #4 (link below) is the rubric on the back of the instructions. We will also go over this quickly together. You will recognize it as the same rubric I used to evaluate and score your Crucible essays. Students will begin working on their practice writing assessment. You can use scratch paper and your notes to organize their essays. Essays will be typed in Google Drive and submitted to Turnitin.com. Day 3 (Wednesday, 2/25/15): Students will continue to work on their essays. (Reminder, your “Abnormal” reflection assignment is due today by 4pm. Day 4 (Thursday, 2/26/15): Students will continue to work on their essays: writing, editing, and revision. When you are at the point where you have edited and revised your essay to the best of your ability, upload to Turnitin.com, then continue reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Day 5 (Friday, 2/27/15): The practice writing assessment must be completed by the end of the period, no exceptions. Please submit what you have to Turnitin.com, even if you feel it is incomplete.
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Wrote. Please see below for our prompt (we only wrote for about 5 minutes). We collected and turned in our Week #3 Daily Writing. We finished watching Dead Poet's Society. We wrote a quick reflection on the movie: What did you think? Did you like it? Why or why not? How is it connected to what we have studying with civil disobedience? We turned these in at the end of class. HOMEWORK FOR BREAK: Read up to Part 3 in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Today we...
Wrote! Please see below for our prompt. We continued watching Dead Poet's Society. We will finish it tomorrow. Today we...
Wrote! Please see below for our prompt. After a super quick explanation of Robin Williams' character's name (John Keating), we continued viewing Dead Poet's Society. Today we... Wrote. Please see below for our prompt. Mrs. Hopkins pointed out Ken Kesey's allusion in Cuckoo's Nest to Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Nurse Ratched is essentially the crazy Captain Ahab, bent on hunting and destroying the elusive white whale: in this case, McMurphy. Mrs. Hopkins also pointed out that grades are up to date...and half of every class is failing because they didn't turn in assignments on time. We'll just let that sink in, shall we? We received our first writing assignment for the semester, based off our reading of Thoreau, Kesey, and, now, the film Dead Poet's Society. Please see the document below for instructions. Please do not hesitate to talk with Mrs. Hopkins if you have any questions about this abnormal abnormal assignment.
We then watched the first 20 minutes or so of the film Dead Poet's Society.
A reminder about daily writing: Today we wrote (please see prompt below). Mrs. Hopkins reminded us of the guidelines regarding daily writing.
We discussed Cuckoo's Nest up through Chapter 8, looked at assigned questions we, um, had questions about, and pondered whether or not Chief is sane or insane. The things he describes: are they actually happening? Are we reading a book about crazy people...or a horror story? We submitted our questions for Chapters 1-8 to Turnitin.com. HOMEWORK: Read through Chapter 14 and do the assigned questions before tomorrow. |
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