AGENDA:
1, Vocab quiz
2. Citations review
3. Literary Periods
NOTE: Can't figure out how to give you access to literary journals and information on Google Scholar. It's JSTOR subscription and they come with your tuition at colleges and universities.
HW: Career Portfolios due Wednesday, March 4
AGENDA:
1. Listen to T.S. Eliot read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" - what is it about?
2. Begin deconstructing poem
3. Examine Dante's quote at the beginning
HW: Career Portfolio's Wednesday, March 4
AGENDA:
1. The paradox of education is precisely this - as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to create the world for himself, to make his own decisons. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. - James Baldwin
2. e.e. cummings, "anyone lived in a pretty how town" Deconstruct the poem and how to analyze and write critically about it
3. Questions on portfolio?
HW: Sources for research paper due tomorrow (5); Vocab on Friday; Literary Analysis due March 13
AGENDA:
1. Cover Letter
2. SMART Goals
3. Job Application
HW: Vocab on Friday; Career Portfolios next week
Sample Resumes
AGENDA:
1. Thesis - take out your argument
What's your point and why should I care? Anticipate the objections to your thesis or argument. There is nothing wrong with a reader disagreeing with your point of view on a topic, but if you hope to persuade at least some of them with your research, you will also need to satisfy the objections some of these readers might have.
If you are having a hard time coming up with any oppositions to your working thesis, you probably have to do more work on shaping and forming your working thesis into a more arguable position.
It might seem illogical, but directly acknowledging and addressing positions that are different from the one you are holding in your research paper can actually make your position stronger. When you take on the antithesis in your paper, it shows you have thought carefully about the issue at hand and you acknowledge that there is no clear or easy "right" answer.
There are many different ways you might incorporate the antithesis into your research paper to make you own thesis stronger and to address the concerns of those readers who might oppose your point of view. For now, focus on three basic strategies: directly refuting your opposition, weighing your position against the opposition, and making concessions.
Be careful using qualifying terms. "Year round school can be good and can be bad for students" and "While there are good reasons for year round school, there are also good reasons to think twice about changing our system." No real position has been taken.
Three columns - 1) one side your argument and reasons; 2) the antithetical argument and reasons; 3) list of how to counter the antithetical argument
Turn in your argument with your three columns and objections and counters to those objections
HW: New vocab on Friday - check out quiz let.com and vocab on blog
AGENDA:
1. Vocabulary Review Quiz
2. Writing assignment - what motivates you? Is it intrinsic or extrinsic? Explain. Why are you motivated in that way? Do incentives work for you? Is it about moral skill or moral will for you? Who are your moral exemplars? (heroes) How are they motivated? - due at end of period - 1-2 pages written in academic language....(not casual language)
HW: Turn in your argument for your research paper on Monday at beginning of class - no EXCEPTIONS; 5 sources due on Wednesday Feb 25 turned in MLA Format.
AGENDA:
1. MLA Formatting (www.csus.edu/owl/index/mla/mla_format.htm)
2. Citation Builder (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/citationbuilder/) and Citation Page
3. Plagiarism and research
4. Speed dating ....
HW: Review Vocabulary Quiz on Friday; Turn in your argument for your research paper on Monday at beginning of class - no EXCEPTIONS; 5 sources due on Wednesday Feb 25 turned in MLA Format.
AGENDA:
1. Motivation!
2. S.M.A.R.T. Goals
3. Analyzing your Time Investment Portfolio
a. Imagine your IDEAL week. How many hours would you sell, give, spend, and pass?
b. Total your ACTUAL weekly time investment totals; how many hours did you sell, give, spend, and pass?
c. Did any of the totals from #b surprise you? Explain.
d. Was there a significant on-time event that changed your time investment patterns? Explain.
e. Does your time investment support the SMART goal you have in mind? How? Can you tweak either your time investment or your goal to lessen your stress and increase your effectiveness? How?
f. Describe how understanding your use of time helped you think about your goal(s) in a different way.
HW: VOCAB REVIEW ON FRIDAY
AGENDA:
1. Computer Lab to work on Career Portfolio - Research Paper and College Worksheet
HW: Career Portfolio; Vocab review this Friday; Literature analysis;
AGENDA:
1. Vocabulary Quiz + 3 Rooms from NY Times Room for Debate
2. Research Paper discussion with group
3. Questions on portfolio check list?
4. Summer plans
5. PSAT scores
6. Time to work on resumes, TIPs, College Worksheet
HW: Lots to work on .... HAPPY Three Day Weekend!!!
AGENDA:
1. College Worksheet
2. Resume Writing
HW: Vocabulary quiz; 3 Rooms from NY Times; TIPs; Lit Analysis;
AGENDA:
1. Review your papers
2. Research Paper - where to begin..... NY TIME Room for Debate
3. TIP's or Time Investment Portfolio
HW: Vocab on Friday; Lit Analysis #1 for second semester due March 13 (don't procrastinate); TIPs; 3 Rooms from NYTimes Room for Debate for Friday
3 consecutive days - 72 hours total
Selling Time: $, grades, chores, homework (outer-directed)
Giving Time: love and friendship (outer-directed)
Spending Time: self improvement, fitness, sports, religion, hobbies (inner directed)
Passing Time: passive entertainment, sleep, computer, phones
AGENDA:
1. Return your Dante Inferno books / housekeeping
2. Handout Career Unit informational sheet - questions from Career Center/PSAT's
3. Futureme.org
4. Vocab on Friday - with review words
5. Complete "I Am"
HW: Vocab on Friday; Bring back your Dante books, Lit Analysis (if you are so inclined), Career Portfolio......Future ME! tonight (www.futureme.org)
AGENDA:
1. Career Center
TURN DANTE BOOKS IN ON TUESDAY
AGENDA:
1. Career Center Today
TURN DANTE BOOKS IN ON TUESDAY
AGENDA:
1. Parallelism / Antithesis / Repetition / Dichotomy / Analogies / Paradox worksheets in class - practice .... you will be challenged to use these in your next writing assignment
TURN DANTE BOOKS IN ON TUESDAY
AGENDA:
1. Modern Hell / Analysis Due
AGENDA:
1. Turn in Canto Notebooks
HW: Tomorrow Modern Hell and Analysis due
