20-Hour Project Log Due on Jan. 10

But you knew that, right? Remember, 20 hours = A, 16 hours = B, 14 hours = C, 12 hours = D. Even 10 hours is better than zero, so if you haven't finished already, hop to it.

All the research papers that have been submitted to turnitin.com have been graded and entered in Engrade. I think the turnitin procedure went fairly well. After I set the filters to exclude quotations and the Work Cited page, the similarity index went down, in some cases, way down.

When we return to class, you will be working on your slide presentations and practicing in small groups for your Feb. 3 presentation.

Nice Job on Socratic Circle

It's been awhile since we've had a Socratic Circle, so I was happy to see that you got back into the groove today. It was also the first time the class has talked in depth about each person's Senior Project. Everyone had valuable comments and questions, which is good practice for the questions you may get at your presentation on Feb. 1.

Directions for Turning in Final Draft of Research Paper

After you've added your interview (see handout) and made your revisions, log on to turnitin.com (see link at right). Upload your paper before 8 a.m. on Monday. If you click on Compatibility Report, it will show you how many of your words match your sources. If it said 100%, then that would mean a person cut and pasted an entire paper. If it said 50%, it would mean a person copied half the paper. It compares it to your sources. If it is 20% or less, it will show as green (good). It's fine if you have a 4% or 8% compatibility report; it's chance that a certain amount of words will be repeated.

You can only upload an assignment once, so you may want to upload your paper to the assignment that says Rough Draft first to see what the compatibility report says. I've already recorded a grade for the rough draft; I created that assignment so students could try it out first.

I'm trying to figure out how to set the website to allow resubmissions. In the meantime, let's see how this works.

Period 2 Stars

Near Perfect Citations and Work Cited page: Wendy

Best Introduction: Catherine

Most Interesting: Jackie and Luis

Period 5 Rough Drafts

I've finished grading all the rough drafts that were turned in. Those who did a particularly good job include: Samuel, Vanessa, Malika, Hugo and Anahit.

Some people are struggling with the citations. Remember: the citations in your paper must match the Work Cited page! The words inside the parentheses are the first words for that source listed on the Work Cited page. If you don't cite a source in your paper, you do not list it on the Work Cited page.

Interview an Expert

Now that most of you (15 in period two, 14 in period five) have completed your rough draft of the research paper, you should be pretty knowledgeable about your topic. Now you can add the piece that will make your research paper unique: you will interview an expert.

When we return on Nov. 29, your assignment will be to write 10 questions that you could ask an expert. Look at your rough draft and see where any information seems missing. You may not end up using the answers to all 10 questions, but it will give you quotations to choose from.

If you want to get a head start, begin writing questions and take a look at the expert links on the right. Look for someone who fits the description of your topic. These are the types of experts I'm looking for, not friends, family, or (generally) teachers at school.

Citing Sources

As you write your research paper, each time you use a note card, cite the source in parentheses. This is known as a parenthetical reference. At the end of every quotation, paraphrase, and summary write the author's name and page number in parentheses. For example, if it is from a book write (Smith 65). If it is from a newspaper or magazine, write (Smith A1) or (Smith 15). The period goes outside the parentheses.

If there is no author, put the title in quotation marks in parentheses. For example ("Animal Shelters"). Do not put the URL or anything ending in .com, or .net, or .org!

For more information, click on MLA Citations link or the OWL link at right.

Deadlines for notes, outline, rough draft

You have turned in your first 20 note cards. On Friday, Nov. 12, 20 more note cards are due. This is not a magic number. You may need more, but at least you will have something to work with as you write your rough draft next week.

Tuesday, Nov. 16: Outline due

Friday, Nov. 19: typed rough draft of research paper due, including Works Cited page (which counts as a page). If you meet this deadline, you will have no homework during the Thanksgiving week.
If you need more time, you may turn in your rough draft on Monday, Nov. 29 for a lower grade.

Thesis Statement/Taking Notes from Sources

Everyone should have turned in their 10 bibliography cards by now. Everyone should be working on a thesis statement. When you have one with which you are satisfied, turn it in. For more help with thesis statements, click on the OWL link at right and type thesis statements in the search box.

This week we will be taking notes from sources. Periods 2 and 5 will meet in the library on Friday. Monday through Thursday, please bring your source material with you to class in order to take notes. If you need to check out a book from the library, please do so. If you have checked out a book, please bring it to class.

Using Digital Library From Home

Now that most of you have your student email activated, you can use Digital Library from home. Remember to click on Teacher Pages and Ms. Abad. From there click on the link for Digital Library from home.

We will meet in the library again on Monday. You should have 10 bibliography (source) cards to turn in by the end of class on Monday.

On Tuesday, we will review how to take notes from your sources: summary, paraphrase and direct quotation. Then you will begin to take notes from each of your sources, as many note cards as necessary, one idea per card (front side only). This is where you will need a stack of index cards. We will do this for a week or two, so it is important that you have sources at the ready.

Research Paper: Finding Sources

All classes will meet in the library on Friday, Oct. 22 and Monday, Oct. 25 to find sources for their research papers. Students will locate sources and record the information on an index card (one side of the card only) according to the handout you were given and the chapter in your Writer's Choice book. Ten bibliography (source) cards are due at the end of class on Monday.

Although you need only seven to eight sources for your research paper (and one of them will be an interview), I'd like you to find 10 sources in case a couple of them don't meet your needs. This will be worth 10 points. Your sources should include books, newspapers and magazine articles. They may not be entirely composed of websites. (You can read the newspaper or the magazine article online. It is a newspaper or magazine article if it was originally published in a newspaper or magazine.)

Letter of Intent

Everyone should have turned in a letter of intent by Monday. I will give feedback and you can revise it. We did experience a glitch in the computer-printer situation. Most of period 4 and 5 did not print because the computer could not locate the printer. I am trying to address the situation. However,you may need to save your letter on a flash drive and print it from the desktop computer in the classroom.

In response to your concerns about the common application essay, I have asked Mrs. Sounsani, college counselor, to visit and answer your questions. She will visit classes on Thursday and will bring worksheets you can use in writing your personal statement. Have specific questions ready to ask her.

I have also discovered an online writing lab that may be able to help you. I will tell you more about it in class on Monday.

Your next step in your research paper is to generate at least five questions you want your research to answer.

The Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page (Per. 2 and 5)

Today we brainstormed synonyms and antonyms for the word persuade. Then we read and annotated "Three Ways to Persuade" in the Rhetoric of the Op-Ed page module in the Expository Composition book (pgs. 29-32)

We will discuss the questions tomorrow. Those who have not yet met with me about their Senior Project, should do so.

Topic Selection Periods 2 and 5

See post below. All classes will meet with me individually this week. Next week you will write your Letter of Intent. See the Senior Project Survival Guide for a sample letter and a breakdown of the paragraphs.

Period 4: Senior Project Topic Selection

By now, you should have completed pages 8-12 of the Pathfinder booklet. This should give you a topic and focus for your research paper, as well as ideas for a physical project (20 hours of hands-on learning).

Next week you will begin writing your letter of intent. We will also begin the next module in the Expository Writing book.

Reflection (Periods 2 and 5)

If you taught your lesson on Friday, your homework is to write a reflection on how your lesson went. What went well? What didn't? How well did the students understand your lesson? How could you tell? If you had it to do over again, what would you change? What grade would you give yourself?

If you were absent Friday, collect from your group members any evidence such as quizzes that will tell you how well the information was understood. You may turn in your reflection on Tuesday.

If you teach your lesson on Monday, you will write the reflection for homework Monday night.

Your grade will be based on the thought, honesty, insight, and clarity of writing shown in your reflection, not on your actual presentation.

Teach Your Chapter on Friday

Today you started planning your lesson. Tomorrow you will finish doing so, and on Friday each group will teach for about 10 minutes. This includes checking for understanding, either in the form of oral questions, a quiz, a written response or a demonstration.

Your homework on Friday is to write a reflection on how your lesson went. What went well? What didn't? How well did the students understand your lesson? If you had it to do over again, what would you change?

Fast Food Nation Chapters

On Monday, we will be using the laptops to read chapters from the book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. The following are the assignments:

Laptops 1-5 will read the Food Product Design, from chapter 5 "Why the Fries Taste Good."
Laptops 6-10 will read McTeachers and Coke Dudes from chapter 2 "Your Trusted Friends."
Laptops 11-15 will read The Most Dangerous Job from chapter 7 "Cogs in the Great Machine."
Laptops 16-20 will read Throughput from chapter 3 "Behind the Counter."

You will have two days to read and annotate the sections and two days to plan how you will teach your section to the class. You will not be merely presenting. You must check for understanding: ask questions orally, give a quiz, require students to answer a question in writing, conduct a taste test, etc. You must also bring any items you need and make copies of anything you will hand out to the class.

Fast Food Module

We have now read and annotated the first two articles in the Fast Food module of our textbook: "Portion Distortion" and "If You Pitch It, They Will Come." We also filled in the vocabulary chart on pg. 51 for those stories. On Monday, half the class answered questions on "Portion Distortion" and half the class answered questions on "If You Pitch It" on pgs. 53-54.

If you were absent Friday or Monday, you need to complete the above.

Homework for Period 5: Fill in the vocabulary chart on pg. 51-52 for "The Battle Against Fast Food." (Period 2 you should have already done this.)

Coastal Cleanup Day Saturday, Sept. 25

Coastal Cleanup Day

Check out Heal the Bay's opportunity for volunteering, especially if your Senior Project is environmental in nature.

Download Senior Project Survival Guide

It can be found on the school website under Students>Senior Project and on my teacher page as well. Read through it and keep a copy handy on a flash drive.

Summer Assignment Due Sept. 13

Download the assignment from the Summer Assignments page of the SAS section of the school website.
Procedure for Turning in Assignments
All major assignments are to be typed and a copy saved on a flash or hard-drive. You must be able to reproduce your work in case your essay is lost or misplaced. All work (hard copy) is to be turned in at the beginning of the class in which it is due. Do not wait until the night before to begin printing out any major assignment. Do not expect to print assignments during class time as the classroom printer is unreliable. Unexcused late work will lose points on a daily basis until it is submitted, and cannot be turned in after a unit is completed. We will be taking notes daily, both in class and on outside assignments.

Book Club

You have until June 3 to complete your book, at which time you will take an essay test in class. As you read (or at the beginning or ending of a day's reading) take notes of significant moments on your graphic organizer. If you need more space, use more than one box, or type it on a computer. Your classroom assignment is to take notes on 20 significant moments in your book. You will use the notes to write your essay. You can proofread your essay on June 4, but keep in mind we are on a shortened schedule for the All School Fair.

Metamorphosis Study Questions Part 1

1)What does the boss represent?

2)The only thing in the room that is described is the picture of the woman in the fur boa and muff. Do you suppose this picture has any significance?

3)Why is Gregor having such a difficult time getting out of bed?

4)How does time create a element of anxiety in Gregor's life?

5)Before he is chased back into his room, what does Gregor try to do?

Essay: Meursault's Philosophy or Yours

You have the choice of two essay questions.

Question 1: In The Stranger, what is Mersault's philosophy of life? Consider what Meursualt believes about life and death; friends, relatives and strangers; morality, love, God.

Question 2: What is your philosophy of life? Consider the following: What is your philosophy of life? What do you believe in? How do you live your life? What do you think about life and death? What is your responsibility to friends, relatives, strangers? How do you define morality? How do you define God? How does love factor into your life? Do not simply answer these in order. You don't have to address all of them. Use them as guidelines.

Philosophical Journals Due Tuesday

Journals 1-15 (see previous posting) are due tomorrow. Remember to give each entry its own page in your notebook. Notebooks will be returned in a couple of weeks after I have recorded the grades.

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Spring Break Homework Due Monday April 5

Read the excerpt from Racism and Colonialism as Praxis and Process by Jean-Paul Sartre (1960) and choose five questions to answer from the following:

1. How is the colonized reduced to sub-human?
2. What kind of economic and soical systems does France have?
3. What kind of economic and social systems does Algeria have?
4. What kind of relationship did the nineteenth-century colonials wars produce between the colonialists and the natives?
5. How is this relationship carried out?
6. What does France use to pacify the Algerians?
7. How did the natives respond to pacification?
8. What is the Muslim (native Algerian) considered by the French colonialist? Why?
9. How did the French transform the Algerian feudal structure? Into what did they transform it?
10. What determined the "class" that ruled Algeria? Of whom was this class composed?
11. How did this class establish its system?
12. Define pauperization and explain what role it played in colonizing Algeria.
13. What was the colonial goal?
14. Identify two main French institutions that worked to colonize/pauperize Algeria.
15. What is the main purpose of Algerian colonization?
16. What are the three direct levels of action of the colonialists to achieve their goals?
17. What do the children of the colonialist and those of the colonized share in common?
18. Where do you think this relationship will lead?
19. Define the French bourgeois. Why could they not conceive of the Algerian as anything but a dog?
20. What is the pauperization of the community actually a result of?
21. Where does the violence return to when there is a lull in the colonial war?
22. What examples does Sartre provide to support this assertion?
23. Who must the colonialis discover the native to be? What does this provide for the colonialist?
24. What literary parallel does the author use to illustrate the necessary perception of colonial power?
25. What is the necessary perception of the colonized?
26. Can the colonialist exist without the colonized?
27. What is the purpose of racist progaganda?
28. Why does the colonialist need the status quo?
29. What is the raison d'etre of the colony/metropolis relationship?
30. How does the colonialist keep the native in a state of "sub-humanity"?
31. What does the colonial oppressor recognize in violent rebellion against him?

Earn extra credit by answering more than five questions.
Source: Steven Avalos, Franklin High School

Introduction to Existentialism

This week we are reading the short story The Guest, by Albert Camus, as an introduction to existentialism. There will be a test on Thursday. On Friday, we will pass out copies of Camus's novella The Stranger.

Existentialism: a modern European philosophy emphasizing the meaninglessness of the outer world. Camus believed humans are free to make moral choices and that what gives meaning to life.

Bring Your Writer's Choice Book

We will be doing grammar the rest of the week.

Poetry Trilogy Assignment

1. Choose three poems (by two or three poets) with the same theme. At least one of the poets should be one that we read in class. Write a five-paragraph essay comparing and contrasting the poems in terms of theme.
Possible themes: love, death, nature, loneliness, alienation, routine of life How does each poet deal with the theme?

2.Write one to two paragraphs on each poet in your own words. (Plagiarism will be punished by receiving a zero on the assignment and notification of college counselor Judy Campbell. Three instances of cheating disqualifies a student from scholarship opportunities.)

3.Reproduce each of the three poems and annotate by highlighting or underlining at least two literary terms and making a note in the margin.

DUE MONDAY MARCH 8 TYPED

Test Friday on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

You can choose to take a written test (multiple choice and short essay) or to recite a stanza from the T. S. Eliot poem. If you are taking the written test, I will give you the first 25 minutes of class to complete it. If you are reciting, you can spend that time rehearsing in the hallway or picking up our textbooks from the book room. Recitations will be during the second 25 minutes of class.

An A grade recitation will be memorized and read loudly, clearly and slowly with mistake.
A B grade recitation may include a minor mistake or two or be read too quickly or softly.
A C grade would include stops and starts or numerous pauses.
A D grade would be embarrassingly bad.

Final Exam: Portfolio

Your portfolio should have a professional look, either a three-ring binder with plastic sleeves for each page, or some other type of folder with plastic sleeves.

Plan on studying for the final you have that afternoon or the next day, since I will be meeting with you one-on-one, meaning you will have a lot of down time before and after our portfolio review.

Final Portfolio

This week you should be preparing your portfolio for this class, which is due on the day of the final exam. All items must be typed. The contents should include:
Cover Page
Table of Contents
Letter of Intent
Research Paper
20 Hour Log
One or more score sheets from your presentation
Reflection

You may also include any additional items that you feel are important, such as photos, evidence of your projects, or paperwork pertaining to your project.

On the day of the final, I will call each of you to my desk one at a time. You will show me your portfolio. I will read your reflection and you give a grade. You may keep your portfolio.

Belated Congratulations on Your Presentations

I was only able to see a few presentations, but I was pleased with what I saw. I have also talked to many of the judges who had positive things to say. All of them said your PowerPoint slides looked good. Most said some people were poised and articulate, others were nervous. I think as you read over the score sheets, you will see most of the comments were valuable and encouraging.

Be the Expert

Tuesday in class is the last chance for those who haven't practiced to do so. I am making this a credit/no credit classroom assignment.

Read pg. 55 in the Pathfinder on appropriate attire.
Ladies: No distracting jewelry or high-heeled sandals. (You are not going clubbing.)
Men: You don't need to wear a suit, but a shirt and tie would be nice. (No sneakers)

Turn in an entry detailing what you did on your project since we went on break. You can turn in the 20-hour sheet Wednesday.

Finally, remember: you are the expert. You know more about your topic than anyone in the room. Put down your note cards and speak from your heart.

All PowerPoints Due Tomorrow

Bring your PowerPoint on a flash drive in a version that is compatible with a Mac laptop. The laptops run Microsoft Office 2008. Computer technician Jonathan will be in class period one to help us sort out any problems as you transfer your file to the particular laptop that you will be using on Jan. 19. Hopefully, by period two we will have it figured out. If not, I'll ask him to stay and help.

In addition, I'd like to have the people who were scheduled to present today, to do so tomorrow. It is a shortened day, so we can't waste any time.

Are Your PowerPoint Slides Ready?

If not, time to get to it. I have drawn up a schedule for practicing in front of the class. Those scheduled for Monday are (in reverse alphabetical order for a change):

Period 1
Adriel
Kathy
Eduardo
Jasmine T.
Evelyn
Ilse
John
Allie

Period 2
Chulee
Kevin
Jocelyn
Norma
Armine
Natalie
Dulce
Anthony Q.

If your slides aren't ready on Monday, you make speak from notes. Everyone else should have their slides, since they are due on Tuesday, when we will load them on to the particular laptop that you will use for your presentation.

Have you finished your 20-hour project?

If not, now would be the time to do so. Before the holiday break, I had said the 20 hours were due on Jan. 18, 2010. That is a school holiday (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday), however, so you have an extra day, until Jan. 19, the day of your presentation.

To repeat: the 20-hour project should show a learning stretch, meaning you learned something new. This is what you should stress during your presentation. Emphasize what you have learned from your research paper and your project.

It will be graded as follows: 20 hours = A, 16 hours = B, 14 hours = C, 12=D, 10 hours =F (better than zero).

I will compare the number of hours you turn in with your weekly log entries to keep you honest. You will turn in one more log entry covering what you did over the holiday break.