More persuasion & Antithesis

Today we went to the computer lab. We typed up our papers there and got a half-sheet with instructions about what to revise. We left there at 2:55. We came back sat in our assigned seats and took a small quiz. Then we got into our groops and talked about the book, like what happened and such. Then we reviewed some more literary techniques, including antithesis, interrogative, exclamatory, declarative and imperitive sentences.

Allison

Prince of Wales discussions & persuasive writing

Our Bellwork for today was to turn in the progress reports and to put up the remaining literary term posters on the wall. Then, we were to gather in our journaling groups and discuss chapters 16-18 with the other group members, making sure to discuss the literary techniques.

Next, Mrs. Gilbert handed out a rubric for how to journal well and went over the guidelines with the class while using examples of other classmate’s journals from last night. This was followed with a ten-minute review of the literary techniques that are on the wall.

Then, Mrs. Gilbert discussed with us a fill in the blank worksheet that was on persuasive speeches. Then we had a while to start working on our rough drafts of the persuasive speech/essay. This rough draft is due tomorrow at the beginning of class.

Laura

The END of the RESEARCH PAPERS

Today we turned in our final draft to our research paper unless you got your tape yesterday then its do Thursday. You should've come to class with everything in order and then we wrote the reflection. Then we shared our favorite part. Pick a group to journal each chapter with.

Breanna

Catching up from the snowday

Bellwork: Work on lit. poster for 15 minutes then hang on the wall it wont be late until after Wednesday

15 minutes to talk about the book & then took quiz

Got a research paper check list, went over it. Bring research folder (final & process) all finished according to checklist tomorrow. You’ll have 30 minutes to do reflection, and then discussion on novel if we have time.

Maddie

Diction

Bellwork: Have journals out and silently listen to announcements. Make a group poster of verbs that come to mind when given a word assigned by Mrs. Gilbert.

Classwork: Take ten minutes to look over your paper and add more diction (both specific and creative) to your paper. Discuss chapters five through nine within group and then present any questions that you might have had to the class. Turn in all journals as well as any extra credit. Take notes on new literacy techniques, shifting adjectives and appositives, which can help to spice up your paper. Take the last fifteen minutes of class to do chapter ten journals or work on paper. Those who papers are due today, turn them in to Mrs. Gilbert.

Naudia

Thesis & Parallelism - from 12/7

Worked on our thesis
Looked for or added parallelism
Worked on what makes a good conclusion

Kellie

Shifting adjectives, appositives & diction

Bellwork: Have journals out and silently listen to announcements. Make a group poster of words that come to mind when given a word assigned by Mrs. Gilbert.

Classwork: Take ten minutes to look over your paper and add more diction to your paper.

Discuss chapters five through nine within group and then present any questions that you might have had to the class. Turn in all journals as well as any extra credit.

Take notes on new literacy techniques, shifting adjectives and appositives, which can help to spice up your paper. Take the last fifteen minutes of class to do chapter ten journals or work on paper.

Those who papers are due today, turn them in to Mrs. Gilbert.

Naudia

Absolutes and participles

We learned the literacy techniques absolutes and participles. Had handout to go with them. And you should probably get the notes from a classmate.

Got the rubric for out research paper and a new timeline for the next couple weeks.

We revised our 2nd rough drafts and added new literacy techniques to them also added other necessary literacy techniques to paper.

Some people had to turn in their 2nd rough draft with tape, others got theirs back.

HOMEWORK: Read and journal Chapter 11 from The Power of One

By Cristi

After the bell today we worked on finishing up finding errors in citing from yesterday and discussed how to format our works cited page. Then we learned about passive words (is, are, were, was, been). We found all of the passive words in our 2nd drafts and worked on changing it to an active voice. Journals are due either today (for chap. 1-7) or Monday (for chap. 1-9). For the last few minutes of class, papers were passed back and Mrs. Gilbert told us what to expect the rest of the semester.
Have a good weekend * Nicky *

Time to talk about characters.

Today we took a quiz on “The Power of One” chapters 1-6. We also made a poster on characters in the book, found quotes that described them, and identified literary techniques in the quotes. Also we practiced citation. Homework: Have rough draft #2 done by tomorrow (12/2/05) and bring your audio tape.

--JJ

Revision, revision

We began with revisions on an example paper and reviewed how we should apply them to our own papers. Then we went over when you have to turn in a rough draft for a tape.

Mrs. Gilbert passed out progress reports and then had make-up time for the rest of the hour.

Tomorrow will have a quiz on the Power of One.

Kirstin

Revising RD #1

Today we got our rough drafts checked by Mrs. Gilbert and then we went over various things to make our paper better In those things we completed a fill in the blank that will aid us in making our final paper better. (Be sure to pick up the handout and copy notes from a classmate).

Tomorrow you need to show Mrs. Gilbert that you have improved your RD and Friday your RD #2 is due.

You still have to read chapter 5 tonight, but you may skip journaling if need be.

Mike C.

Wrap-up TFA / Begin Power discussions

November 28, 2005

Bellwork
Answer questions regarding Things Fall Apart (get them from Mrs. Gilbert)
Group Discussion
Class Discussion
Assignment
Answer questions about The Power of One (get them from Mrs. Gilbert)
Group Discussion
Class Discussion

Gave us our homework: Read and Journal Chapter 4 and Rough Draft of Research paper and work cited page. (DUE TOMORROW)
Last 25 minutes of class
Work independently and silently on reading/journaling on Chapter 4.

By: Dorothea P.

Plagiarism, credibility and research standards

Today we assembled research folders -- see Mrs. Gilbert for all the handouts.

We also corrected the Plagiarism or Not! Worksheet, turned it in, and discussed how to avoid plagiarism. We discussed how to do in-text citations and rough draft bibliographies.

Then we went to the computer lab and learned how to evaluate the credibility of sources. We turned in the first page of the Searching the Web worksheet (available at our class website under the reserach section).

Tomorrow we'll start putting it all into action as we do research on our topics.

Homework: Keep journaling/reading -- Chapters 14-15.

cjg

Beginning Research reports...

Today in class we had a bell assignment that was to come up with a list of topics that you would read a magazine article about. The bell assignment led into us getting our research paper assignment, along with the rubric for our letter which is due on Monday, and also our timeline that says when everything has to be turned in. (These handouts are available on www.cjgilbert.net under ASE on the Research-Citation page.

We also presented some of our Igbo people books.

Homework: Read/journal on chapters 9-11 (if you do better on these, Mrs. G will raise your previous journal grade) and write your research proposal letter.

--Martha

The ill-fated Ikemefuna & literary journaling

Today in class, after reviewing proverbs, Mrs. Gilbert assigned everyone in the class to a group. In the groups everyone had to find a literary technique from the book Things Fall Apart but each literary term could not be used more than once. (See the instructions handout for more details) After each group finished their poster, they had to put them up on the wall under the assigned chapter. We also got a handout explaining how to add literary journaling to our nightly work.

Mrs. Gilbert then read chapter seven of Things Fall Apart aloud to the whole class and we all followed along or read ahead silently. The rest of the groups presented their literary technique posters to the class. The literary techniques presented were discussed in the class and we turned in the journals on chapters 5-6.

Tonight we have to read chapters seven and eight from Things Fall Apart and journal on them and have them ready for tomorrow.

Kwanterryia

Wrapping up the webquests

Today in class we started out in the computer lab until 2:00, this was so that our groups could finish our power-point presentations and do our self-evaluations. Self-evals, stapled with the notes, personal knowledge prompts and slide printouts are due by Friday.

We got back to class and the “literary people” did a couple more presentations. Our first group discussion happened after that over our book “Things Fall Apart”. Turn in the notes you took on that last night. Tonight’s homework is to read over the next chapters on your reading list and continue journaling.

Literary cheatsheets are due by Tuesday

Ronda

Beginning African lit

Bellwork: We turned in our “If I was going to write a paper on the Shrew” outlines and any other Nicenet work due.

During class: The next book we are reading, Things Fall Apart, takes place in Igbo culture. We will be writing a storybook as table groups comparing Igbo culture to modern culture tomorrow in the library computer lab. Mrs. Gilbert showed us an example storybook she created. We were given the process description and rubric for our task. Then we divided the group topics into individual assignments. The Things Fall Apart books were signed out and we took notes for reading the novel.

Homework: Answer your topic’s question for modern culture and read Chapter 1 in Things Fall Apart.

BY: Maggie D

Petruchio tames Kate!

Today we finished performing all of Act 4 and scene 1 from Act 5. We also got handouts on what we're doing tomorrow and over the weekend (those instructions are available online at www.cjgilbert.net under the "Taming of the Shrew" unit in ASE).

Homework: Read Act 5

Act 4 Taming of the Shrew

We watched the second half of the “wooing scene” in the classic movie version of Taming of the Shrew. Those who wanted to continue acting were assigned a role by Mrs. Gilbert (in Act 4, Scenes 1, 2, and 3 and Act 5 Scene 1). Those who wanted to have an alternative assignment picked a literary technique with a partner and prepared a presentation on where that technique is used in Act 4. Act 3 Scene 2 performed. Groups were then given 30 minutes to prepare their presentation (either acting or literary technique). All presentations need to be ready by tomorrow.

By Becca