11/16 English III

1) M&M 27-translucent

trans: across, through    lucere: to shine    ent: makes adj

Model: "He was the color of a gravestone; light was both absorbed and reflected by his skin, as with a pearl, so that he appeared translucent at times.." from A Prayer for Owen Meany

infer meaning:
actual meaning: permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects on opposite side are not clearly visible; clear, transparent, easily understandable

Write a sentence, draw a picture, have a peer review

2)Finish Exit 6: Expectations. Submit today. Prepare portfolio. Turn in today under your class tag, where the portfolios left in class are stored. (20%)

3)W3-Persuasive Cnotes- add to notes

Logos: subject- If you don't know a lot about your subject you have to conduct research and become knowledgeable. Logos is the facts, info and knowledge you have about your subject.

Pathos: audience: Emotional appeals you make toward your audience to influence their attitudes, opinions and feelings. You must be aware of your audience when adding pathos. Not just anything would be OK to add with any audience.

Ethos: speaker: Your credibility as a speaker is important when trying to convince others. There are many things you can do to make them trust you as a reliable source. The way you dress, speak, how much information you have, whether you sound confident, how you've prepared your presentation or the lack of these things can influence whether your audience trusts you.


Logos: a logical appeal

-convinces a person using logic, reasoning, facts, statistics, evidence, examples, has logical chains of reasoning

-is specific, reliable, truthful, can be proven, makes sense

-Logos Example: "Cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer."

Logic: using convincing reasons  and facts that are hard to argue with

Peter D. Heart Research revealed to class. Students identify the most convincing logos elements found.  

 

Students copy the following chart on their logos notes and fill in the sections after watching the following clips

11/14 English III

1)M&M 26. Supercilious

 Definition:Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others; arrogant

Prefix: super "above" root:cilium “eyelid”  suffix: ous-“forms adjectives”

Model: Challenge Day is supposed to make those with supercilious attitudes realize that being judgmental and making fun of others is not really the way they want to portray themselves.

Students to: Copy chart, definition and model sentence. Then write a sentence, draw a picture, and have a peer review.

Copy Exit 6: Expectations (10 points)-80%

 1. What should be labelled on exit slips in order for them to be accepted? (2)

 2. Explain how it has been proven there are gaps between high school and college? Explain why these 

     gaps exist?(2)

3. What minimum score should one achieve on M&M quizzes? (1)

4. What will happen to students who show they don't know class procedures and how could it impact 

     their grade? (2)

5. Explain the importance of Cnotes in regards to one's assessment grade. (1)

6. If students need help, such as with the 100 pt/80% paper, what assistance is available? (2)

*Extra credit if you submit Expectation Cnotes with the answers marked, along with exit slip.

Use Expectation Cnotes to answer all of these questions. Add tutoring piece to Cnotes: Students can come to tutoring every day during their lunch, or after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:30. They can also use the website Battensclasses.blogspot.com for tools and lecture notes to assist them.

Portfolio reminder-due 11/16

Add to R4-Cnotes-How to complete reading entry/Ra Ta Ta

Problems with R5 and R6, which students need to stop doing

-Its obvious some of you haven't read by the summaries you're giving. For example: Owen Meany almost died because he can't swim. (This summary reflects the student didn't read.)

-Questions that are repetitive of quote, pointless, they already know the answer or should know, reflect they didn't read. For example: Who is Owen Meany? What is Episcopalian? What is Congregational? What is Catholic? Why can't Owen swim?

-Not using Extra at all, or not enough

-Not putting pg to pg at bottom of entries-there is no way for me to know you really read those 10 pages

-You are starting summaries how I said not to: In these 10 pages I read..Now I want to say what happened in this section...

-Your summaries are too wordy and don't give the main idea. Instead you are listing everything or giving only a summary of the pages you read, not all 10 pages. For Example: Owen Meany went to church. He tells about his childhood, his grandmother is mean, his mom is pretty, he plays tricks on Owen, he plays baseball and is going to a private school.

10 minutes given for silent reading-Students allowed to recycle their R5-R6 and fix some of these mistakes above. Students who never turned in the entries are encouraged to work on them and submit.

W3-Persuasive-Cnotes Students setup notes into 4 sections: intro (small space), logos, pathos, ethos (large equal spaces). Take notes on introduction to persuasion, rhetoric, Aristotle's rhetorical triangle

11/9 English III

1) M&M 25-sublimate (v)

prefix:sub                         root: sublime                    suffix:ate  
under, secondary             supreme, greatest                  added to form verbs, adj, and noun

Model: The serial killer Dexter Morgan, from showtime's hit show "Dexter," doesn't often sublimate his instinct to kill, rather he feels it is his calling to eliminate criminals.

Infer meaning:
Actual meaning: to make nobler, purer, to divert negative energy into more acceptable uses
 Write sentence, draw picture, have someone review.


2) Add to R4-Cnotes: Ra Ta Ta presentations explained by Ms. Batten. Remember you can get your own book for extra credit. Ms. Batten models how to present a Ra Ta Ta to the class using pages 10-20. Afterward she reviews these pages with the class.

•  You can use the document camera when presenting to project your notes, book or alternate between the two. You can zoom in, out, change exposure, change resolution, focus
• Make sure the class sees what you see
• Make sure you are organized, have notes ready and mark your book (with a pencil if my book). 
• Do not flip through the pages when in front of class-be prepared and ready
• Start by sharing your summary of the pages read.
• Direct the class to what you are reading, be specific and give them time to find where you are
• Even though you only have to write down part of the quote in your notes, you have to read more of the quote to the class.
• Be sure to explain why you had the question, inference, connection or visualization. Don't just read form your notes, but talk about your thinking process.
• You don't have to mention extra a lot, but you should mention it at least once. 
• You must mention at least 3 of your notes from the set of pages you've been assigned to present. You cannot mention more than 5 notes. 

-Let Ms. Batten see that you did take Ra Ta Ta notes on R4. She checked everyone's work in class.

3)Take out Expectation-C notes. Review notes and add 5 questions to left margin which could become potential exit slip questions.. Make sure 1 is a level 3 and 1 is a level 2. The other ones can be whatever level you want. Label the 2 and 3 question. Submit to basket.

4)Batten reviews resources available to students and reminds students once again about the essay that is past due. W2-Compare/Contrast OMG/SIG. She goes to the website battensclasses.blogspot.com and shows students again how to use search (hitting control and f at the same time). Searching for essay and Our Mother's Garden brought up a lot of information which could help students trying to complete the essay. There was also a link on this site to the Holt book along with login and password. Ms. Batten showed students again how to go to the Holt book online, how to go to a page and how to play the audio for the stories in the book. Students have no excuse for not completing the essay.

5) 4th block setup W3-Cnotes-Persuasion. EQ:How does one influence society's decisions and actions?
Students were instructed to leave a small portion of their cnotes for the introduction and then split up the rest of their notes in 3 equal sections: logos, pathos, and ethos. Students advised to leave plenty of room for notes and use the front and back of their paper, or use more than one piece of paper. Logos notes coming the next class.

11/7 English III-Early Release

M&M 24)retrospective: adj

prefix: retro                   root: retrospect             suffix: ive
back                                look back, reflect            forms adj

                                        specere: look back

retrospect:looking back, contemplating the past

Model: An art show featuring an artist's early works is an example of a retrospective exhibit.

Do: Your own sentence, picture, peer review


Portfolio organization-Portfolio Due 11/16.
Class adds to table of contents pages for each section of portfolio.

W2-OMG/SIG-CC Essay-100 pts 
Rubric, self-edited, Essay typed/neatly written-double spaced, Venn Diagrams/Outline
Due 10/30. 10 points off each class not submitted. 

R5-R6-Ra Ta Ta will be taught by a student the next class. After random drawing: Nate-4th, Ian-5th block

Handouts

H1. Class Procedures and Cnotes

H2. College Readiness

H3. Group Rules and Procedures

H4. Cnotes Rubric and Assistance. (optional-Costa’s levels, learn Cornell style)

H5. Transitions

M&M

M1.   Apathetic (adj)

M2.   Advocate (n, adj)

M3.   Ambiguous (adj)

M4.   Antecedent (n, adj, grammar term)

M5.   Benevolent (adj.)

M6.   Bipartisan (adj.)

M7.   Circuitous (adj.)     

M8. counterargument (n.)

M9. consummate(v, adj)

M10. denotation (n.),

M11. disconsolate (adj) 

M12. malaise (n.):

M13. excerpt (n.)

M14. incongruity (n.)

M15. Intercede (v.)

M16. Intracoastal (adj.)

M17.   Implicit (adj)

M18. Obstreperous (adj)

M19. perfidious (adj.)

M20. preface: (n. v)

M21. posterior (n, adj.)     

M22. protagonist (n.)

M23. rebuttal (n.)

M24. retrospective (adj.) 

Reading

R1. Ain’t I a Woman wksht/Cnotes Allusions

R2. Our Mother’s Garden 1298 chart allusions/notes

R3. Straw Into Gold 1310 chart allusions/notes

R4. How to complete reading strategy-Asking Questions-Cnotes 

Writing

W1. Cnotes-How to write a Comparison/Contrast Paper-detailed notes. Model Paper. Handouts.

W2.   OMG and SIG Comparison/Contrast paper, self rubric, outline/Venn

(100 pts-80%)

Exit Slips

Exit 1-Our Mother's Garden-7pts-80%-G1

Exit 2:Straw Into Gold-9 points-80%-G1

Copy Exit 3:Compare/Contrast: Support

(7 points)-80%-G1

Exit 4: CC Essay: Intro/Conclusion (7 pts)-80%-G1

Exit 5:Reading Entries-8pts-80%-G2