J#18 Who is the most important person in your life and why? Or what is the most important object to you and why?
Exit slip 13-reviewed: This website is shown to students with directions on how to find things, including the exit slip. Teacher explains each exit slip question for exit slip 13. Also for question 3, she walks over to the model essay, hanging on the standard based bulletin and shows students how to use the essay to answer this question.
W6-Also reviewed using this website. Teacher reminds students the parts of W6 1)Taxonomy of essay terms that everyone brainstormed together, 2)Notes on the format for the persuasive essay 3)The 6 grammar errors that should no longer be made.
W2-Revised District Writing 1- reassigned. Using W6 notes, scan through your essay and evaluate what you are missing and use the proofreading marks or a highlighter to fix or mark all of your grammar mistakes (1-6). Now rewrite the essay. Staple the old essay to the new one and turn in by 11/29
W7-Performance Task: The American Dream-Due 12/9
-Minimum of 3 sources (2 From Unit 1)
-Free of errors 1-6-W6
-SAT Rubric
-Follow Persuasive Format
Ms. Batten gives each student a model essay and explains exactly how to complete the performance task while going through the model. She/students point(s) out: the thesis, the hook, why there should be information connection the hook to the thesis, reads the elaborate supporting paragraph, statistics, data, facts, illustration, example, high vocabulary, transition use, organization, focus,and excellent conventions. Also, she points out the use of parenthetical citations for sources used and the Works Cited page. Citationmachine.net is a website she suggests to use to make your Works Cited Page. She also suggests using current works, not ones from hundreds of years ago.
The Brainstorm for the model essay is also reviewed. Questions are asked about why certain items were crossed off. African Americans not having access to the American Dream was eliminated from the brainstorm because its out of date and came from texts from a long time ago. The topic is supposed to be about current access to the American dream, not from before the Civil Rights movement. People once had access to the American dream was also crossed out because there is no point in writing a whole paragraph about that, because you'd go off focus. Finally, Coming Into the Country was a text that was eliminated, so it was crossed off the brainstorm.
Exit slip 14: 1)What is the difference between tone and mood? 2)What is a Faust tale? 3)Name a story, tv show or movie which is a Faust tale and explain why it is Faust.
Line Up: Students asked to stand up in areas of class depending on whether they would give up the person or object they wrote about in the journal for unlimited wealth and success. Brief discussion.
Groups turn to pg 290 and read the Background Information about a Faust tale. Class Discusses what a Faust tale is: A tale in which a character sells their soul to the devil
Simpson's video shown as an example of a Faust tale in popular culture.
