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Due for Tuesday Finish reading Antigone! Schoology post: Whose fate is more tragic: Antigone or Creon? Why? Due for Friday 11:59 pm Submit your 500 word op-ed to Schoology. The hypothetical proposal: Newton South receives a grant from the National Classics Foundation to erect a statue in the honor of a figure from Classic Literature. The leading candidate to be immortalized and lionized on our school grounds is Antigone. Do you agree with this choice? Due for Monday Get to work on your Revolutions Assignment! G Block Due for Thursday Finish reading Antigone! Schoology post: Whose fate is more tragic: Antigone or Creon? Why? Due for Friday 11:59 pm Submit your 500 word op-ed to Schoology. The hypothetical proposal: Newton South receives a grant from the National Classics Foundation to erect a statue in the honor of a figure from Classic Literature. The leading candidate to be immortalized and lionized on our school grounds is Antigone. Do you agree with this choice? Due for Monday Get to work on your Revolutions Assignment!
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Please note: I am planning to start our unit on Rick Bragg's Somebody Told Me on the 15th or 18th of Novemeber; we don't have enough copies in the English department to distribute them, so please find your own copy! Here is an Amazon link if you are interested in purchasing your own copy. If you need any help procuring a copy of our text, please let me know!
Both Blocks Due for Thursday Turn in your Trend Story on Turn It In Due for Friday Read through the first two chapters of Hiroshima. Blog post: On pages 29-30, we follow the perspective of Mr. Tanimoto as he races into the city, unharmed. The narration puts forth that, "the wounded limped past the screams, and Mr. Tanimoto ran past them. As a Christian he was filled with compassion for those who were trapped, and as a Japanese he was overwhelmed by the shame of being unhurt, and he prayed as he ran, 'God help them and take them out of the fire.'" Revisit these pages and consider whether or not the "shame of being unhurt" has any echoes or reflections in our society and context today. Does this idea register to us as foreign or familiar? In what ways do we see this notion, if at all, in our society or our school today? Due for Monday Read Chapter 3 of Hiroshima - pick out an important passage (at most a page!) from any of the first three chapters. Prepare notes on why this passage feels important: what's going on that feels significant? What part of this passage does the "most work"? What are the things you notice about the composition devoid of context? How does this all work towards a subtle argument? F Block
Due for Tuesday by end of class Submit your project to me on Schoology! Due for Wednesday Read through line 248 (stop when the sentry comes running in). Then answer on Schoology - who is a cultural hero for Americans today? What makes that individual a cultural hero? Due for Thursday 1. Read through line 655 (stop when the guards are bringing away Antigone and Ismene to the palace; don't worry, you'll have some classtime to do reading!) Keep mental notes: who is the hero? 2. Bring your 1984 book to class! Due for Monday Read through line 1034 (stop after Antigone leaves; don't worry, you'll have classtime to do some reading too!). Schoology post: What role should public opinion play in trying to weigh whose morality is "more moral"? Do the attitudes, words, or opinions of the chorus change your mind as to who is more right in this argument? G Block Due for Tuesday by end of class Submit your project to me on Schoology! Due for Wednesday Read through line 248 (stop when the sentry comes running in). Then answer on Schoology - who is a cultural hero for Americans today? What makes that individual a cultural hero? Due for Thursday 1. Read through line 655 (stop when the guards are bringing away Antigone and Ismene to the palace; don't worry, you'll have some classtime to do reading!) Keep mental notes - who is the hero? 2. Bring your 1984 book to class! Due for Monday Read through line 1034 (stop after Antigone leaves; don't worry, you'll have classtime to do some reading too!). Schoology post: What role should public opinion play in trying to weigh whose morality is "more moral"? Do the attitudes, words, or opinions of the chorus change your mind as to who is more right in this argument? Spend this week working on your trend story! I would suggest getting at least 3 interviews done by Thursday.
C Block will have Thursday's class time as a work day. I encourage you to try and set up a couple of interviews during this time or to work on a draft that we can look at together. If you plan on leaving school campus for an interview during that time, please ask your parents to shoot me an email letting me know that you have their consent to do so! D Block will have Wednesday's class time as a work day. I encourage you to try and set up a couple of interviews during this time or to work on a draft that we can look at together. If you plan on leaving school campus for an interview during that time, please ask your parents to shoot me an email letting me know that you have their consent to do so! In class we'll be looking at other trend stories and discussing how they work and how you can use some of their tactics in your own work. Happy reporting! You will not be receiving any homework from 10/18-28 other than working on your trend story!
C Block Due for Thursday Read two of the stories on our partying trend packet located on our resources page! Blog post: at what age would you allow your child to attend a sleepover at another's house? What age would you allow your child to host a get-together in your own home? At what age would you allow your child to have a drink in front of you? Why? Due for Friday Complete your trend story proposal Due for Mon Take a gander at the wanted contact list! Can you help someone out? D Block Due for Wednesday Read two of the stories on our partying trend packet located on our resources page! Blog post: at what age would you allow your child to attend a sleepover at another's house? What age would you allow your child to host a get-together in your own home? At what age would you allow your child to have a drink in front of you? Why? Due for Friday Complete your trend story proposal Due for Mon Take a gander at the wanted contact list! Can you help someone out? F Block
Due for Thursday Read Chapters 5,6, and 7! Answer the question on Schoology following our 4 steps - How has language, sex, or class been used to divide general society? Why would a socialist dictatorship try to control any of these three elements of humanity? Don't worry - we'll have a reading day on Wednesday! Due by end of class, Monday Oct 21 Finish your Edit/Disrupt project G Block Due for Friday Read Chapters 5,6, and 7! Answer the question on Schoology following our 4 steps - How has language, sex, or class been used to divide general society? Why would a socialist dictatorship try to control any of these three elements of humanity? Don't worry - we'll have a reading day on Wednesday/ Thursday! Due over the weekend - put your DISRUPT plan into action and complete a reflection. Due by end of class, Tuesday Oct 22 Finish your Edit/Disrupt project For this unit, your Schoology posts should follow the following format (in complete sentences):
1. Answer the question without referring to the text. 2. Find and summarize a relevant moment in the text - quote it if you can! Be mindful to give me enough context to make sense of your moment - who is involved? What's going on before this moment? Treat me as if I've never read this book before! 3. Find and summarize a situation in history or current events that speaks to the same question - be sure to mark the author and source in your summary. 4. How do these two elements help prove your statement in number 1? OR how does the real life example disprove what the text says, ultimately supporting your point? F Block Due for Tuesday Read Chapter 1; come to class ready to discuss the central questions that you noted. *Finish the surveillance response question if you have not yet! Due for Thursday Read Chapter 2. Respond to the post on Schoology on children's entertainment. Due for Tuesday Read Chapters 3 and 4. Respond to the post on Schoology on editing. G Block Due for Thursday Read Chapter 1; come to class ready to discuss the central questions that you noted. *Finish the surveillance response question if you have not yet! Due for Friday Read Chapter 2. Respond to the post on Schoology on children's entertainment. Due for Tuesday Read Chapters 3 and 4. Respond to the post on Schoology on editing. Both Blocks
Due for Tuesday Read the following articles on whether or not we should name the shooter: Time and Washington Post. Should we publish the name and details of mass shooters in our coverage of these events? What rules or standards should we try to follow in our coverage of perpetrators of violence? Would you be interested if the event were more local than national? Due for Friday 1. Submit your summer reading essay on Turn It In! 2. Come to class with a few questions prepared for a member of the school board, Principal Stole Jembridge, and a sophomore for a hypothetical accepted proposal to set aside a clean $1,000,000 for installing metal detectors in our high schools. Due for Tuesday Compose a 500-700 word article on the hypothetical accepted proposal to set aside a clean $1,000,000 for installing metal detectors in our high schools. C Block
Due for Thursday Blog Post: Read through at least three personal essays from New York Time's Modern Love Series and then link to the one that you find effective or striking. Copy and paste a couple of sentences that stick out to you: what is so effective about this piece? What notes can you offer on its structure, play with the ladder of the abstraction, tone, etc.? What allows this piece to feel "authentic and pristine?" What did your pieces have common? What made one better than the others? Would you personally want to date the authors of any of these pieces? Due for Friday Read through a couple of Tuft's selection of "essays that worked" or John Hopkin's selection of essays. Blog post: What impression of the writer did you develop at the conclusion of the essay? How does it do on our guidelines of kindness, campus-impact, authenticity, passion, and personality? What can you take away from the essays that you read that you can apply to your own essay? Would you want to sit and talk with this person at the campus dining hall? Due for Monday Submit your college essay onto Turn It In - you'll get full credit for turning in something! D Block Due for Wednesday Blog Post: Read through at least three personal essays from New York Time's Modern Love Series and then link to the one that you find effective or striking. Copy and paste a couple of sentences that stick out to you: what is so effective about this piece? What notes can you offer on its structure, play with the ladder of the abstraction, tone, etc.? What allows this piece to feel "authentic and pristine?" What did your pieces have common? What made one better than the others? Would you personally want to date the authors of any of these pieces? Due for Monday 1. Submit your college essay onto Turn It In - you'll get full credit for turning in something! 2. Read through a couple of Tuft's selection of "essays that worked" or John Hopkin's selection of essays. Blog post: What impression of the writer did you develop at the conclusion of the essay? How does it do on our guidelines of kindness, campus-impact, authenticity, passion, and personality? What can you take away from the essays that you read that you can apply to your own essay? Would you want to sit and talk with this person at the campus dining hall? |
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