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Wednesday, Jan 15

1/14/2025

Success Criteria

I can generate ideas to write about
I can create a rough draft

AGENDA
Finishg your planning sheet AND/OR begin drafting your essay. Goal is to draft as much of your essay as possible.

"Results of an analysis of variance showed performance declined significantly when listening to music."
Music links that won't mess your brain up while you write.

Lo-fi beats
Chillhop Essentials - I feel dumber just writing the word "chillhop" but it's pretty good stuff.
Bill Evans - Jazz
Miles Davis - Jazz
Gonzales - Piano
Brahams - Classical
Studio Ghibli - piano soundtracks
8 Best of Debussey - Classical Piano

Tuesday, Jan 14

1/13/2025

SUCCESS CRITERIA

Make a plan for organizing essay

AGENDA

Discuss Planning an essay (slides)
Essay Planning in google Classroom.

Monday, Jan 13

1/13/2025

Learning Intentions

Essay writing

Success Criteria

I can generate ideas for a topic
I can choose a topic on which I can create a specific, arguable, defendable thesis statement to guide my writing.

Agenda

Read Exemplar essays
- Write three notes/observations on EACH essay about what you notice as you read (organization, word choice, structure, main idea, evidence and reasoning, what you like, what you think is done well, etc.)
Begin brainstorming ideas, review invention and thesis (slides, assignment doc),
Routine Writing - Week 14 in Google Classroom
Begin planning your idea, approach, and focus.

Friday, Jan 10

1/10/2025

LAST DAY TO TURN IN MISSING WORK IS TODAY AT 3:15 PM

AGENDA

Catch up/Mental Health Day - CHOOSE ONE thing to do to get your head in a better place for the weekend.
- Start brainstorming essay ideas
- Catch up on homework
- Reflect through journaling
- Color
- Read for pleasure
- Try a meditation session
No one has EVER said, "You just need 45 more minutes on Youtube or you phone and you're mental health is going to skyrocket."

Monday, Jan 13

1/9/2025

DO NOW

Read and take notes on the two exemplar essays linked in the Google Classroom Assignment.

Learning Intentions

Topic Selection
Thesis writing

Agenda

Let's write some essays! (Essay Assignment Document)
- Invention and Planning
Select a topic and write a thesis

Success Criteria

I can choose a topic on which I can create a specific, arguable, defendable thesis statement to guide my writing.
I can find a valid source and educate myself on my chosen topic.

Thursday, Jan 9

1/9/2025

Learning Intentions

Tone and Word Choice

Agenda

Identify tone and connect to meaning in "Song of Myself".
4.3 Word Choice and Tone in Whitman (in Google Classroom)
Unit Assessment - Language and Main Ideas

Wednesday, Jan 8

1/7/2025

Learning Intentions

Tone and Word Choice

Agenda

Tone and Word Choice (slides, video)
- 155 words to describe author tone
Identify tone and connect to meaning in "Song of Myself".
4.3 Word Choice and Tone in Whitman (in Google Classroom

Tuesday, Jan 7

1/7/2025

FRIDAY JAN 10th @ 3:15 - last day to turn in any missing or redone work.

Learning Intentions

Identifying impact of Figurative Language

SUCCESS CRITERIA

I can identify and label uses of figurative language
I can interpret and explain the impact of figurative language
I can engage with a text to plan a response.

Agenda

Figurative Language Practice (passed out in class)
Continue "The Blessings and Liberty of Education"
Complete 4.2 Figurative Language in Douglass
Take notes/annotate as if you were selecting this piece for the task below.

WHAT WE ARE BUILDING TOWARDS
WRITING OPTION #1

SELECT A TEXT
SUMMARIZE IT WITH OBJECTIVE SUMMARY
UNPACK ONE FIGURATIVE LANGUGE USE
CREATE YOUR RESPONSE TO A TEXT
- What does the text have to do with you, personally, and with your life (past, present or future)? It is not acceptable to write that the text has NOTHING to do with you, since just about everything humans can write has to do in some way with every other human.
- How much does the text agree or clash with your view of the world, and what you consider right and wrong?
- What did you learn, and how much were your views and opinions challenged or changed by this text, if at all?
- How well does the text address things that you, personally, care about and consider important to the world?
- What can you praise about the text? What problems did you have with it?
- To sum up, what is your overall reaction to the text?

WRITING OPTION #2

Choose a topic you care about, and make an argument that will persuade readers to care about that topic.

Start by choosing something you are genuinely interested in. You might start by asking yourself the three questions at the top of this post and brainstorming a few answers.
What makes you mad/excited/sad/hopeful?
What would you like to see change?
What do you wish more people understood?

Monday, Jan 6

1/6/2025

LAST DAY FOR MISSING OR REDONE WORK FRIDAY, JAN 10th at 3:15

Learning Intentions

Figurative Language

Agenda

IF YOU WEREN'T HERE ON FRIDAY - I strongly suggest you take the grammar posttest.
Grade Checks
Take this quick survey
Main idea review: Complete 4.1 Main Idea in MLK in Google Classroom
Figurative Language (slides, video)
Read "The Blessings and Liberty of Education"
- Reading #1 Tag paragraphs
- Reading #2 identify and interpret fig. language

Friday, Jan 3

1/3/2025

BOO THIS MAN!
Grammar and language unit exam...

If you missed it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED YOU MAKE THIS UP ASAP!

Thursday, Jan 2

1/1/2025

WELCOME BACK!

NOTE: THURSDAY JANUARY 9th at 3:15 IS THE LAST DAY I WILL ACCEPT REDONE OR MISSING WORK

Learning intention

Identifying Main ideas
Analyzing word choice/figurative language

Agenda

Routine Writing - Week 13
Intro to Unit 4 - Writing (Planning and Main ideas)
Read MLK's "I have a dream"

Friday, Dec 20

12/20/2024

Learning intention

Finish grammar unit!

Agenda

THURSDAY JANUARY 9th at 3:15 IS THE LAST DAY I WILL ACCEPT REDONE OR MISSING WORK
Today's goal grammar lesson: Quiz #2

Thursday, Dec 19

12/18/2024

Learning intention

Colons vs Semicolons

Agenda

IF YOU HAVEN'T COMPLETED IT YET. DO WRITING CHECKPOINT #1. GOOGLE WHAT THE HELL A COMPOUND AND COMPLEX SENTENCE IS AND JUST DO IT.
Today's goal grammar lesson: Writing #2

Wednesday, Dec 18

12/18/2024

Learning intention

Semicolons

Agenda

Today's goal grammar lesson 3.10

Tuesday, Dec 17

12/16/2024

Learning intention

Quotations

Agenda

SSR
Quiz edit procedure
Today's goal grammar lesson 3.9

AAAAH! TEST MAKEUP FOR UNIT 1

Sacheen Helfin
Riley Willett
Noah Shaw
Devon Watley
Jose Gonzales
Samson Mota
Hayden Schnetter

AAAAH! TEST MAKEUP/CORRECTIONS FOR UNIT 2

Kiara Pogue
Sacheen Helfin
Mason Hanchett
Malakai Vaughn
Marissa Hansen
Alicia Marin
Devon Watley
Jose Gonzales

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