Week 3 2011-2012

Week 3	Class work	Homework
Monday (Print out syllabus and turn in by Tuesday at beginning of class for 100 points extra credit). Vocabulary Words: Everyday Use Sidle Furtive Cowering Oppress Doctrines Rifling If Decency… Allegations Depraved Liability Rationalizations Good Samaritans Solidarity Callous Feigning Immunity Construed Indemnifies	Read Everyday Use by Alice Walker (69-70) An African American mother is living with old-fashioned farm life with one of her daughters and when the other daughter visits, with new values and a new boyfriend, the mother must make a choice. * The Power of Connotation (P54, Holt Class Set) Characterization- a character’s values, likes, dislikes, and quirks. Revealed by ·      Dialog (what they say) ·       A character’s actions (what they do) ·      What other characters say about them Inference-an intelligent guess based on evidence in the story/text and on what you already know.	Reread and Take Cornel Notes and then Annotate your Notes Due Wednesday: Tentative Differentiated Assignment—Design a Quilt: Quilts have been designed to commemorate bicentennials, historical events, family histories, and so on, as well as to honor people who have died from AIDS.  Design a quilt that reflects an aspect or aspects of your cultural heritage.  Write a brief explanation of why you chose the various elements of your design and how each reflects your cultural heritage. *
Tuesday	How to Annotate a Text (See next blog page for details)	Quilts due Tomorrow Workbooks due in class daily from now on.
Wednesday	Read PP. 4-5 Workbook Do pp.10-111 Read The Man in the Water pp. 271-292 A Take Cornell Notes Use your Annotation Guide	Read and Annotate “The Man in the Water” Roger Rosenblatt (pp. 271-292 A) “If Decency Doesn’t, Law Should Make Us Samaritans” Gloria Allred and Lisa Bloom (284A) p 4 workbook “Good Samaritans U.S.A. Are Afraid To Act” Ann Sjoerdsma (288A) p 8 workbook
Thursday	The Persuasive Essay Read PP. 15-23 Highlight and Annotate Your Grade will be based on the Annotation Rubric Handed out earlier this week and posted on the Following blog page.	Tentative Differentiated Writing Assignment—Page 11  Workbook Evaluate the credibility of an author’s argument or defense of a claim by critiquing the relationship between generalizations and evidence, the comprehensiveness of evidence, and the way in which the author’s intent affects the structure and tone of the text. * (Reading Standard 2.8) In a well-documented essay, evaluate the credibility of the arguments in the two opinion pieces summarizing the writers’ main claim in each piece; then evaluate the evidence and other support the writers used in their arguments and explain which article was more convincing and why. * Outline Due Friday
Friday	Edit outline, check your thesis statement, support your opinion with facts, examples, expert opinions, analogies, case studies (data and statistics), and anecdotes.	Submit Essay to Turnitin.com by 5 PM Sunday.