REGENTS PREP

SATURDAY 8-11.
Here is a short PowerPoint that reviews test structure, tips and tricks, and outlines for writing the argument essay and text analysis responses. 

ELA REGENTS PREP PPT

HW Due Wed. 5/30

Complete plan for Project Understanding. Tomorrow you will work on a shot sheet.
PROJECT DUE: June 6. Late projects (June 7) lose one grade level. No projects accepted for credit after June 7.

HW Due Tues. 5/29

Complete evidence organizer in Project Understanding Planning Sheet. Include at least one interview (with an expert) and at least 1 source of credible information from a credible website related to your topic/angle.

PROJECT UNDERSTANDING

Please save a copy of this planning sheet. One document per group. Share the document with me and allow me to edit. Period 4, please also share with Ms. P.

PROJECT UNDERSTANDING PLANNING SHEET

Due Mon. 5/21

By Monday 5/21: Finish Girl, Interrupted
In-class writing on Monday. You will be using your understanding of the memoir and the painting to write the response.
Period 3: Friday we will look at and discuss the painting.
Period 4: Friday we will independently read.

Please bring to class with you on Monday:
Your own copy of Girl, Interrupted.
Loose leaf (we are all out)
Pen (no pencils, please)
Notes (OPTIC)
Outline (optional, but suggested)

PLEASE NOTE: Timed writing starts when period begins. If you walk in late (unexcused) you do not get the time back. Anyone with extended time in period 3 or 4 can finish in my room period 5. Please see your official teacher first and let them know you are finishing an English assignment.
"Girl Interrupted at Her Music" by Johannes Vermeer (1658/9) - Dutch artist, oil on canvas baroque style

HW due 5/16

Read Girl, Interrupted to page 136.

Period 3 only: PROJECT UNDERSTANDING PROPOSAL FORM due at start of class.

HW due Tues. 5/15

Read Girl, Interrupted through page 114.
Prepare to provide a proposal for your Project Understanding.

HW Due Thurs 5/10

Read and annotate Girl, Interrupted through page 65. Analyze the ways in which Susanna Kaysen changes before, during and after Maclean Hospital. Be prepared to write about specific ways illness and stigma affects her in the memoir.

Regents Prep 8-9:30 ONLY Saturday in room 355 with Mrs. Marks

TED TALKS: CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Adam Foss: " A Prosecutor's Vision For a Better Justice System"

Victor Rios: "Help for Kids the Education System Ignores"

Ismael Nazario: "What I Learned as a Kid in Jail"

Socratic Seminar Questions

English 11 Period 3 & 4 Socratic Seminar Questions

1. What are some possible consequences for young offenders, other than jail time?
2. What type of education/training do prosecutors need to help them become more sensitive to young offenders' situations?
3. How can the money used to hold prisoners be used for something more productive?
4. Why should the criminal justice system get to know its youth offenders?
5. How can society do its part to prevent teens from committing crimes that may send them to jail?
6. What role, if any, should empathy play in criminal justice?
7. In what ways does the court system need improvement?
8. How would education benefit those who are in prison? Explain.
9. What are some possible consequences for young offenders, other than jail time?
10. What would you change if you were prosecuting the boys in Sleepers?
11. Should all criminals receive second chances no matter what? 

Project Due Mon.; Socratic Seminar Next Week: Monday and Tuesday

Please buy your own copy of Girl, Interrupted NOW> We will begin reading it on Thursday May 3. Your books will be checked on Thursday. Please write your name across the front side of the book. 

Socratic Seminar next week: Monday and Tuesday. Everyone will be in the inner circle one of those days. On Friday, you will be asked to submit one thought-provoking question for the Seminar that addresses Sleepers and "Why Prisons Don't Work" and a 3rd text you will get on Friday. 

DUE MONDAY: IRR #5. 

Regents Prep Saturday 8-11. You may stay for the entire time, or half session (8:00-9:30 or 9:30-11. You may not come in and out any other times than 8 or 9:30. 

HW Due Fri. 4/26

Finish Sleepers by Friday.

IRR #5 due 4/30 - Monday.

Regents Prep Session #1 Sat. 8-11. You can come for 1.5 hours or stay the entire 3 hours. Please come on time and prepared to work.

HW Due Wed. 4/25

Read Sleepers through p. 318.
Continue to find and comment upon central ideas and literary devices/writing strategies that help develop the central ideas.

Vocabulary.com has ended for the year. We will now focus on Regents practice each week.
After today, no more vocabulary.com assignments can be made up. Your progress reports are going in tomorrow.

Reminder: IRR #5 due 4/30. Please submit original work ONLY on a book that you have not previously read.

HW Due Fri. 4/20

Read/annotate Sleepers to end of Book 2 (p. 247).

No Vocab.com due this week. You're welcome.

IRR #5 due April 30.

Buy Girl, Interrupted now. You will need it soon.

IRR BOOK #5 due in class tomorrow

Bring a copy of your IRR Book #5 to class tomorrow.
IRR #5 due Monday April 30.

IRR #4 - MAKE UP DATE - IMPORTANT

Many of you did not complete the latest IRR. Thank you to those who did, your work is fun to read!
The due date for late responses is Wed. March 28. The highest grade you can receive is a 55. Since this is a project grade, the zero is hurting your average. Please check PupilPath daily as grades go in constantly.

Independent Reading Friday; IRR #4 due date

Bring your independent reading book with you to class on Friday. You will read all period. If you need a new book (if you have finished the latest IRR), I can suggest a title to you or help you find one in the class library.

IRR #4 due: 3/23. Please do not choose a response (from choice board) that you have already chosen. Make sure you follow instructions and put your work in MLA format, share, print.

Vocab.com due 8:30 AM Friday. No late assignments or partial assignments accepted for credit.

BOOK ALERT! - In-class essay alert! (Thursday and Friday)

• UPDATE!: Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra due Monday March 12.
• In-class essay Thursday and Friday: bring The Glass Castle, NY Times article,  and the article you read in class (1, 2, or 3) - see links below.

In case you were absent this is what we did today in English 11 (please do this  - we got up to step 4) and be prepared to show it to me when you return Thursday):

1. Choose a prompt: 
   §Prompt A: “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” Charles R. Swindoll
   §Prompt B: “Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” Robert Fulghum
   §Prompt C: “What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.” Virginia Satir
2. Paraphrase your prompt. Reword the prompt without changing the meaning or adding meaning or making inferences. 
3. Make a claim related to the prompt. Do not use personal pronouns (I, me, him, her, we, etc.) or the words "believe", "think", etc. The claim should be related to the prompt but not another paraphrase. Make sure you show a cause/effect relationship between ideas. A good way to do this is using the "If, Then" statement. The claim should be provable and logical.
4. Make a counterclaim related to the prompt. The counterclaim is an alternate viewpoint to the claim, and can be proven with evidence and logical analysis.
5. Gather evidence (you need 3 pieces in total from a minimum of 2 sources: The Glass Castle/NY Times Article: "How Jeannette Walls Spins Good Stories Out of Bad Memories" or your assigned informational article: "Childhood Trauma Can Cause Illness in Adulthood", "Can Our Childhood Really Predict Our Future" or "Why the Impact of Child Abuse Extends Well Into Adulthood".

Socratic Seminar Monday - prepare yourself!

We will be conducting out first Socratic Seminar of the school year on Monday 3/5. Please bring your copy of The Glass Castle (complete reading no later than Monday) and the annotated copy of your informational text (article).

Period 3 
Inner Circle: 
Jerison
Timothy
Maryanne
Ashley
Matthew
Deborah
Emily
Raul
Julianne

Outer Circle:
Michael
Debbie
David
Thomas
Anthony
Rebecca
Miguel
Sonia
Eesha
Carmela
Niki
Aaliyah

Review these questions that will be used for our Discussion - 
Discussion Questions from QFT Activity:
1. What defines abuse?
2. How do the different forms of abuse effect people?
3. How can the word abuse be misused?
4. What effects can a parent's actions have on a child?
5. What traits does someone need to have to a positive takeaway from a negative situation?
6. How can neglect cause independence in a child?
7. What effect does childhood trauma have on adults?
8. What changes did Jeannette have to make to adjust to her parents' lifestyle?
9. How did the decline of the parents' emotional states affect their children?
10. How has Rex's childhood affected his kids' childhoods?
11. How does observing parent behavior affect the behavior and mental health of a child?

Period 4
Inner Circle:
Chris
Kimberly
Edwin
Matthew
Michael
Robert
Angela
Chloe

Outer Circle: 
Jesse
Jhancarlos
Georgia
John
Veronica
Lyndsey
Rebeca
Leah
Dimitra

Review these questions that will be used for our discussion - 
Discussion Questions from QFT Activity:
1. Why do people blame their parents for the mistakes they make?
2. How does your childhood affect the decisions you make in your adult life?
3. In what ways does a parent's mental health affect a child's life?
4. What provokes a parent to abuse their child?
5. How would adults who were abused in childhood act differently from adults who were not abused?

Parent Poem due 3/9

Write a poem about your parent or parental figure in the style of one of the poets we read:
Theodore Roethke "My Papa's Waltz"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43330/my-papas-waltz
OR
Jacqueline Woodson "Parents Poem"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58427/parents-poem

Use and share this organizer (will be part of your grade). Must be logged in to WJPS email to view it.
PARENT POEM PLANNING WORKSHEET

Please follow directions:
Your poem must be as along as the poem you are emulating.
It must be in the poet's style - do not merely substitute words in their poem. Use their structure and literary techniques to write your own poem about a parent or parent figure.
You must provide the planning worksheet and the final poem.
Due: March 9.

HW Due Tues.

Read until the end of page 95. Fill out your organizer with your assigned character and facet of characterization.

Due Fri. 2/9

Bring in your independent reading book to class tomorrow. We will read during class.

HW Due Tues. 2/6

Period 3: Read The Glass Castle to page 154. Complete Parenting Report Card Organizer for the pages you read. Focus on your parenting point.

Period 4: Read The Glass Castle to the end of page 135. Complete the Parenting Report Card Organizer for the pages you read. Focus on your parenting point.

Vocab.com due Friday at 8 AM. No late work accepted for credit.

IRR Reading Book #4 due Monday

Please bring in a copy of the book you plan to read for IRR #4, which will be due at the end of February. Make sure you have a PHYSICAL COPY of the book or can show me the title you have purchased via an app (KINDLE, iBOOKS, etc.). Emails that you ordered a book or narratives about how you left your book at home and you promise 100 times to bring it in tomorrow won't work. This will go in as a homework grade.
You may not use:

1. A book that is below grade level.
2. A book that contains inappropriate content. (see me if you are unsure if your book fits this criteria or not, prior to Monday's due date)
3. A book you have read in school or anywhere before. The more new titles you read, the better you will read and the better you will write.

HW Due Thurs. 1/31

DUE THURSDAY - Read The Glass Castle to the end of page 125. page 115. Entrance ticket Thursday.

Tomorrow we will write the Text Analysis response.

We will resume Vocabulary.com next week (will still be due each Friday at 8 AM).

Break Work: Due Jan. 30

1. Read and annotate The Glass Castle through the end of p. 93. You will be tested on this when you return to class. You must have your own book with annotation in it.

HW

Vocab.com due Friday at 8 AM. No late assignments accepted for credit.

IRR #3 Due 1/19. No late papers accepted for credit. Terms ends and grades are due soon.

HW

Vocab.com due Friday 8 AM. No late assignments accepted. Must be completed to 100% by 8 AM. No excuses!

IRR #3 due 1/19. No late papers accepted for credit.

HW Due Wed. 1/9

Period 3 ONLY: Read The Glass Castle to the end of p. 28. Annotate for tone and diction to support it.

ALL CLASSES:

1. Vocab.com due Fri. at 8 AM. Must be 100% complete, on time, to receive credit. 
2. IRR#3 due Jan. 19. No late papers accepted. This is the last IRR for the first term report card. Grades are due soon. Check PupilPath daily. You must make up work you miss when you are out (without a doctor's note).

HW

Vocab.com due 8 AM Friday - late assignments receive no credit.
IRR #3 due Friday 1/19. Late papers lose points.

HW Due Thurs. 1/4

Read and annotate pages 3 to 5 of The Glass Castle for mood (the way a reader feels in response to what an author writes). Be prepared to write about what you read and provide text evidence for your argument.

HW Due Wed. 1/3

Period 3: Minimum 1 page on loose leaf: Is modern culture ruining childhood? Be prepared to turn this in.

Period 4: Tomorrow is last day to work on essay in class. Essay due Thursday 8 AM.  See writing guide and rubric for project details. Must be shared and printed.

Vocab.com due Friday.

IRR #3: 1/19