Honors 11 Thursday, October 27

Objectives:
Understand characters/plot from chapters 1 & 2
Understand the complexities involved with creating a functional society

What we did in class today:
1- Quiz chapter 1 & 2
2- Reviewed Quote Log assignment
3- Character Analysis of Piggy, Ralph, and Jack
4- Watch clip from "Lost" "If we don't learn to live together, we're going to die alone."

• How do a group of strangers survive on an island? 
• Consider what the boys from the book do?
• What would you do?

5- Create your own island! In groups of 4-6, create a functional society in which you establish a form of government, rules, consequences, expectations.

Homework: Read chapter 3 & 4 AND begin your quote log.

For Quote Log instructions, see link below:

https://docs.google.com/a/alpinedistrict.org/document/d/1UnoQ3pnwTg0vC_tV34ce0nwHWCTV6GiL-rapOKJI93M/edit?hl=en_US

English 10 Wednesday, October 26

How to organize an introduction paragraph?

1. Read the first ten minutes of class.
2. "Oragami" activity.
3. Choosing a side! Library prompt
4. Introduction paragraph- Hook, Background Information, Concession, Thesis
5. Practice writing an intro. paragraph as a class.

Homework: None

Honors 11- Tuesday, October 25

Here's what we did in class today:
1- Anticipation Activity for "Lord of the Flies"--Played "Who Should Survive?" game. Broke into small groups of 5-7 and critically argued which 7/11 people on the boat should make it to the island.
2- Went to lab 608 and checked out a copy of the "Lord of the Flies"
3- In class, started reading chapter one.

Homework: Read chapter 1 & 2 of "Lord of the Flies" and be prepared for a quiz on Thursday.

English 10 Monday, October 24

Here's what we did in class today:

Objective: Practice arguing using logic
1- Read the first ten minutes of class
2- Broke into small groups and played "Who should survive game?"
3- In journals, students practiced defending who should survive by using the evidence/rule/therefore approach.

Homework: None

Honors 11- Wednesday, October 19

Today was our Socratic Seminar:
We spent time in class discussing/defending/arguing our thesis statements to small groups of ten. At the end of the period, we turned in our Macbeth analysis and our late passes for this term.

Homework: None

English 10, Tuesday, October 18

We had a sub today, but we spent one final day practicing arguing using murder mysteries.

Homework: None

Honors 11 Monday, October 17

Rubric for Paper due Wednesday:
-5 if you use the "I" voice
-5 if you don't include subclaims
-5 if you don't include evidence/examples
-5 if you don't include analysis/tie back
-5 if you don't meet length requirement (500 words minimum)
-5 if you don't follow format:
Title is your question-
First line of first paragraph is your thesis. Second line of first paragraph is your first sub-claim. Followed by example. Followed by analysis.
Second paragraph first line is second sub-claim. Followed by example. Followed by analysis.

Read earlier posts to see examples of sub-claim/example/analysis