HW Due Thurs. 12/21

Draft #1 due tomorrow.

HW Due Wed. 12/20

Outline due. See Night Thematic Essay Writing Guide (to the left of this post) for details.
All parts of Evidence Organizer should have been done by now. If you need help completing any parts of this assignment, sign up for an in-class conference.
Final papers due when return from break.

Vocab.com due Friday at 8 AM.

HW Due Fri. 12/15

Vocab.com due at 8 AM.

Period 3: Complete evidence organizer by the end of the period tomorrow. Claim, counterclaim, 2 pieces of evidence from Night, 1 piece of evidence from speech, and at least 1 piece of evidence from a third, reliable source.

Period 4: Evidence organizer: Claim, counterclaim, 2 pieces of evidence from Night, 1 piece of evidence from speech. Read/annotate/find third source to add to organizer.

HW Due Thurs. 12/14

Period 3: Complete evidence organizer with 3 sources of info - 2 pieces each.
Period 4: Read and annotate Wiesel's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Make sure you have a claim that you know you want to work with for your essay.

HW Due Tues. 12/12

Period 3: Read and annotate Elie Wiesel's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. You can find this at the back of your book. If you leave your book at home by mistake, look it up online.

Period 4: Read and annotate Night to the middle of page 56.

Vocab.com due Friday.

HW Due Fri. 12/7

Vocab.com due at 8 AM

Period 4: Meeting Hate With Humanity Quiz tomorrow. Open notebook/Cornell Notes only. You may not use the booklet. Make sure all sections of Cornell Notes are complete for each topic, including notes, summary, and responses.

IRR #1 due Monday - Dec. 11. Please see Choice Board at the top of the blog (right side) or refer to the handout you were given. Review the rubric to see what you need to do to be successful. Follow directions! Use MLA format, Times New Roman 12, with heading and page header.

HW Due Thurs. 12/7

Period 3: Read/annotate Night to p. 84.

Period 4: Complete "Summary" section for all topics covered in "Meeting Hate With Humanity". Complete "Response" section for all topics covered in "Meeting Hate With Humanity" (minimum 2 responses/questions for each topic). These will be checked!

Meeting Hate With Humanity Quiz Friday

Vocab.com due Friday at 8 AM.

IRR #1 Due Dec. 11.

Meeting Hate With Humanity Quiz - Period 3 only

Period 3 only: Open notebook quiz. Meeting Hate With Humanity. Review your Cornell Notes, complete the right side column (response) and summary for each topic.

All classes: IRR #2 due Dec. 11.

HW Due Wed. 11/29 (please note diff. assignments for

PERIOD 3 ONLY:

Read assigned section. On loose leaf, take notes in your own words, and complete any related activities for your section.

Meeting Hate With Humanity (MJH Print Media (to prepare for trip) supplied to students)

1. Meeting Hate With Humanity sections 1-2: Heritage, Values & Community
2. Meeting Hate With Humanity section 3: Anti-Semitism
3. Meeting Hate With Humanity section 4: Propaganda
4. Meeting Hate With Humanity section 5: Deception
5. Meeting Hate With Humanity section 6: Resistance
6. Meeting Hate With Humanity pp. 16-17: Holocaust Chronology

Please do not write in the booklets. Please remember to bring them back with you to class tomorrow. You will need them for an activity.

PERIOD 4 ONLY:

Read/annotate Night to the end of page 39. Be prepared to write about dramatic irony.

HW Due Tues. 11/13, Wed. 11/14

Due tomorrow: Read Night until the end of page 22 ("We were on our way.")
Annotate for ways in which Wiesel uses pathos to appeal to an audience.

Due Wed.: Revise The Things They Carried essay. Complete via Google Drive and allow me (period 4 please also allow Ms P.) to edit. Print the final revised copy and turn in with original copy with teacher comments. No late papers accepted for credit.

IRR #2 Due Dec. 11. Please consult the choice board on the blog or your own printed copy. Do not repeat choice from IRR #1.

REMINDER: The Things I Carry Project due Monday Nov. 13

Please note: This due date is an extension - no late projects accepted!
Please follow the directions. Share all of your work via Drive and allow me to "edit" (period 4 please also share and allow Ms. Papazoglou to "edit").

HW Due Thurs. 11/9

Watch the video, Oprah and Elie Wiesel Interview at Auschwitz
Take detailed notes. Be prepared to write about how this interview connects with the article we are reading in class: "The Story of Night"

Vocab.com due Friday.

Due Wed. Nov. 8

All students must bring their own copy of Night by Elie Wiesel to class on Wed.

Periods 3 & 4: IRR Book #2 due. Please bring in the physical copy of the book you will use for Independent Reading Response #2.

Period 4: Timed Writing. Please make sure you bring a detailed outline - not a draft - with you so you may use the entire period to write and revise/edit/publish well.

Due Friday: Vocab.com - deadline 8AM. No late work accepted!

HW Due Thurs. 11/2

Read and annotate the chapter, "Night Life".

The Things I Carry Project due Nov. 10

Vocab.com due Friday.

HW Due Tues. 10/31; Other Due Dates Below

Due tomorrow: Complete reading and annotating the chapter, "The Ghost Soldiers" - focus your annotation on verisimilitude - a literary device in which the author blends the truth and fiction, or reality and fantasy.
We will be writing a claim/counterclaim argument essay in class Monday and Tuesday of next week. You will only be able to use your annotated book and an outline. Take good notes and make thorough annotations about VERISIMILITUDE.

Reminders:

• You need your own copy of Night. See "required texts" list to purchase the correct version on Amazon.com. You must bring in your own copy next Wed., Nov. 8.
• Vocabulary.com assignment: Contra and Counter due Friday, Nov. 3.
• IRR Book #2 due Mon. 11/6. Book titles will be recorded. Pick a text that is of interest to you. You will use the Choice Board and choose a response that is different from the first one you completed. If you need a book, visit the library, a bookstore, or our classroom library.

Narrative Nonfiction (The Things I Carry Project) Scoring Rubric and Self-Assessment/Reflection

You must be signed into your WJPS email to view and print this rubric and self-assessment/reflection.
RUBRIC

Please refer to this rubric as you continue to revise and edit your project.
Use this rubric as a point of reference as you continue to peer review another person's narrative.
Print this rubric and complete the self-assessment and reflection by the due date, Nov. 10 (Friday). It must be turned in with your printed story, and all drafts/organizers you worked on leading up to the final piece.

HW Due Fri. 10/27

IRR #1 due.

Vocab.com assignment: Promises, Promises due.

The Things I Carry project: Draft must be shared with at least one other classmate. Draft should match Organizer.

HW Due Thurs. 10/26

Draft The Things I Carry chapter, your own story in Tim O'Brien's style.
You will share you draft with at least one other class member tomorrow, and peer review.

Due Friday: Vocab.com "Promises, Promises" and IRR #1 *shared and printed*

The Things I Carry Project: Classwork (10/24), Homework (10/25)

Make a copy of this document: TTIC ORGANIZER. Follow directions on the document!

Due Tomorrow (10/25): Complete STEPS 1-3 by tomorrow (start of class).
Sharing the document and titling it correctly (STEP 1): 1 Homework grade
Completing Organizer STEPS 2-3: 1 Classwork grade

Due Friday (10/27): IRR #1, Vocab.com #4.

HW Due Tues. 10/24

Due Tomorrow (10/24):

• Choose a chapter on which to base your personal narrative, "The Things I Carry"
• Make an outline of your story (timeline or points) - to show order in which you will tell your story and the details you will include. Remember, your story has to not only show what you carry (or carried) but how it affected (or affects) you.

Due Friday (10/27):

• Read and annotate TTTC chapters, "Notes" and "In the Field"
• Vocab.com #4: Promises, Promises.
• IRR #1: Follow Directions! See assignment choice board and rubric. Must be printed and shared via Google Drive by Friday 8 AM.

HW Due Fri. 10/20

Vocab.com Assignment #3 due at 8 AM. Late work will not be accepted. Must be completed 100%.

Free write for "The Things I Carry Project" should be completed, on loose leaf.

IRR #1 due Oct. 27.

HW Due Thurs. 10/19

Read and annotate chapters: "Stockings", "Church", "The Man I Killed", "Ambush", "Style".

Fri: Vocab.com Assignment #3 due.

HW Due Tues. 10/17

Read and annotate the entire chapter: "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong".

Due Friday: Vocab.com assignment #3
IRR #1 Due Oct. 27
Buy: Night

HW Due Friday 10/13

Vocabulary.com Assignment #2 due at 8 AM. Late assignments do not get credit. You must complete the activity 100%.

Independent Reading Response #1 due Oct. 27. Please review choice board options and directions, and refer to rubric.
You all got printed copies. Links are on the top menu of the blog.

HW Due Thurs. 10/12

Read TTTC through the end of the chapter "How To Tell a True War Story".

Vocabulary.com Assignment #2 due Friday (field day).

HW Due Wed. 10/11

Due Tomorrow 10/11 -Complete Stations Round #2. You must submit an annotated article and completed classwork at the start of the period.

Complete reading TTTC chapter, "On The Rainy River". May be entrance slip tomorrow...

Due Friday 10/13 at 8AM - Vocab.com assignment #2 TTTC Vocab Part 2

Vocabulary.com Assignment #2 due Fri. 10/13

"The Things They Carried Vocabulary from Part 2" Quiz -100% completion - due Friday, Oct. 13 at 8AM.

HW Due Fri. 10/6

Complete draft and/or classwork for Station #1.

Vocabulary.com assignment: Mood Words due.

Read "On the Rainy River".

Due Friday Oct. 6; Due Tues. Oct. 10

Due Friday: Vocabulary.com activity - 100 Mood Words.
Due Tuesday: Finish reading and annotating the chapter, "On the Rainy River" in TTTC.

HW Due Tomorrow; VOCABULARY.COM 2nd Notice: Sign up. Homework assigned due every Friday.

HW Due Tomorrow (Tuesday Oct. 3)
Period 3 & 4: Read The Things They Carried through the end of the chapter "Spin". Be prepared to speak about and/or write about what you have read.

VOCABULARY.COM
At this point, you should all be signed up for Vocabulary.com. As of now, only 2 students in period 4 and 1 in period 2 are signed up.
Starting this week, you will have a vocabulary practice set due each Friday. These will count as homework. You must sign up to be able to do these assignments.
Again, here is the sign-up info:
We will be using Vocabulary.com this year. Please sign up using the appropriate Class Code for your period of English:
Period 3: http://vocab.com/join/1QPNAW4
Period 4: http://vocab.com/join/3TYY3Z9

The "Mood Words" activity is due anytime before 8 AM on Friday.
"The Things They Carried Part 1" vocabulary activity is ongoing and is closed on Monday Oct. 9.
The next vocab set will begin soon after.

Due Monday: Independent Reading Book

Please be prepared to show your book to me, and commit yourself to reading it and responding to it. Our first Independent Reading Response is due Oct. 27.

HW Due Wed. 9/27

Period 4: If you did not complete the main idea classwork from today, please complete it. Turn in draft and final main idea statements.
Prompt:
In 1 to 2 sentences write the main idea of the video interview. Include the source, the title of the interview, and the subject of the interview. You may use your notes and annotated transcript.

HW Due Tues. 9/26

Period 3: Read The Things They Carried to the end of p. 30 *end of chapter, "Love". Annotate to comprehend or notice. Be prepared to discuss the link between what you have read and the Big Think transcript of the interview with Tim O'Brien. You can watch the video to refresh your memory: BIG THINK VIDEO. Entrance ticket tomorrow.

Period 4: Watch the Big Think video interview with Tim O'Brien, "War Stories Are Also Love Stories". Follow along and annotate the transcript. Make sure you understand the MAIN IDEA (who + what) of the video. Entrance ticket tomorrow.

Independent Reading Book

Please begin reading a grade-appropriate independent book. You will be getting the independent reading response choice board (printed) next week, plus a rubric for the reading response project, which will be due at the end of each month. The first one will be due at the end of October. If you need book suggestions, please see me.

Homework - Sign up For NewsELA & Vocabulary.com

We will be using NewsELA this year. Please sign up using the appropriate Class Code for your period of English:
Period 3: https://newsela.com/quickjoin/#/DFNE4Z
Period 4: https://newsela.com/quickjoin/#/7A6BBV

We will be using Vocabulary.com this year. Please sign up using the appropriate Class Code for your period of English:
Period 3: http://vocab.com/join/1QPNAW4
Period 4: http://vocab.com/join/3TYY3Z9

Performance Series Testing - Reading - Wed/Thurs

Wed/Thurs- please bring independent reading book in case you finish the test early.
Friday - we will complete reading "Is Survival Selfish?" using annotation situations set #1 and respond to the reading via exit slip.
Monday - THE THINGS THEY CARRIED DUE. This will be graded as supplies. Please put your name on the spine of the book.

Continue to bring in classroom supplies - tissues, hand sanitizer, loose leaf paper, highlighters, markers, post-its.

Supplies Due Monday

Please bring the following supplies to class on Monday, Sept. 11:

1. Composition notebook
2. Blue and black pens
3. Highlighter
4. Loose leaf paper

Please bring these supplies for classroom use (we use these daily and run out quickly)

1. Loose leaf paper (one pack minimum)
2. Large, lined index cards (one pack minimum)
3. Post-it-Notes
4. Crayola markers
5. Tissues
6. Hand sanitizer

First book: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Please buy your own copy now. We will begin reading next week.