Welcome to the 2018/2019 school year!

Welcome back!
This year I'm teaching English 11, Film Literature, and Popular Literature. If you have any questions about these classes, see the disclosure documents or email me.
Mrs. Jaynes

iPhone vs Android

https://paulstamatiou.com/android-is-better/

Argument Mentor Texts

Mentor texts:

http://time.com/4599585/hollywood-female- action-heroes/



1) http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed- colleges-concealed- weapons-nra- 20170110-story.html

2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is- a-legitimate- president-but- we-need- to-know-how-he-won/2017/01/16/524bb00a-dc15- 11e6-918c- 99ede3c8cafa_story.html?utm_term=.83900a519ad8

3) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/yes-trump- can-make- mexico-pay- for-the- border-wall- heres-how/2017/01/17/7edf7872-dcbf- 11e6-ad42- f3375f271c9c_story.html?utm_term=.96840113d3ea

4) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/opinion/israel-as- the-lights- go-out.html

5) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/opinion/house-arms- itself-for- witch-hunts.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

How to write a Body Paragraph

Here is the link for the body paragraph PREZI

Body Paragraph

Popular Literature--Sorting Hat Link

please take this quiz and print out your results :)


Sorting Hat Quiz

11th Grade writing sample :)

Here is the writing sample

Remember to do your best-- This grade is going in the computer BUT if you improve your writing during this unit I will go back and change this grade.  So do your best!!!!!!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTOnnhWSqq19NPcc4lVc0T7vCic9jyT9NGE-7wP-aZPCTBZw/viewform

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTOnnhWSqq19NPcc4lVc0T7vCic9jyT9NGE-7wP-aZPCTBZw/viewform

British Lit--Thursday, November 5th

Objective: How does fear affect the boys on the Island?

1- Students wrote down times they were afraid and as a class we compiled a list of how fears affect us as humans--

• frozen, paralyzed by fear
• survival mode
• fight or flight
• selfishness kicks in--we save ourselves first
• Go against our values or what we think we would normally do
• denial
• panic 
• irrational thinking
• look to others for protection

2- Next we watched two scare tactics videos to confirm if our list of human behavior was, in fact, accurate. It was. 

3- We made a list of the various things the boys on the Island are afraid of--

• Beast 
• Not getting rescued
• themselves and the other boys
• losing power (jack and ralph)
• becoming savage

4- Students did an in class FRQ "How does fear affect the boys on the Island?"

focus on a strong thesis and analysis not summary. Analysis is the how, why, or insight and summary is the what. So if you are simply telling us what happened, you are summarizing. If you are telling is why or how it happened and providing insight or commentary, you are analyzing. If you were absent, please make this up by Wednesday, November 11th. 

Homework: Finish the book

American Lit--Wednesday, Nov 4

Objective: wrap up lessons on transcendental unit

1- Students read for 15
2- We watched Patagonia Video
(As students watched, they wrote down one example of each of the Transcendental Top 5) If you were absent, you'll need to watch this and find examples of

• Individualism
• Growth in Nature
• Optimism
• Over-Soul
• Anti-Society

3-Students had free time to work on their portfolio

Homework: Get working on Portfolio. Reminder--it is due on Thursday, November 12th.

The next two class periods (Friday and Tuesday) will be work days!!!

British Lit--Tuesday, November 3rd

Objective: What makes a good society

Students present their Islands!!!

We discuss the book and the ways in which the boys are "falling"

Homework:
chapters 9&10 and reading guide

American Lit--Monday, November 2

Objective: How do people exhibit transcendentalism in modern society?

1-Read
2-"Follow the Sun" song activity-- Example paragraph to use
3- Viewed the following videos

• I forgot my phone
• Zero Currency
• No Impact Man
• Russel Brand's view on transcendental meditation

4- Kids worked on their collages

Homework: Continue working on Portfolio

British Lit--Friday, October 31st

Happy Halloween and Happy Reading Day!!!

HW: Chapters 7&8 of Lord of the Flies with Reading Guide

American Lit--Thursday, October 30

Objective: How was Henry David Thoreau and What can we learn from his experience at Walden Pond?

1-Read 10-15 minutes
2-Watched Thoreau Prezi

3- In groups, students each took a paragraph from Walden and became the expert on that paragraph. They created a presentation and then taught the class about their section.

If you were absent, you'll need to make this up.

HW--Continue working on Portfolio

British Lit--Wednesday, October 29

Objective: What makes a good society?

Students discussed chapters 4&5 of Lord of the Flies 
Students finished their Islands--Will present on Tuesday of next week

Homework:
chapters 5&6 and reading guide
Bring book for Friday Reading Day!!!

American Lit--Tuesday, October 27

Objective: What does it mean to be an individual?

1- Students read for 10 minutes
2- We spent a few minutes going over the Transcendental Portfolio

3- We completed a Mix and Mingle--students took quotes from the essay "Self-Reliance" and discussed/mingle-talked about their quotes with each other. As they did so, they were able to better understand what the main idea is.

4- Next, students wrote in their journal, predicting WHAT they think the essay "Self-Reliance" will be about.

5- Students read the essay with the teacher!!! We discussed and pulled out the main idea.

6- We watched the following video How to Be Alone and made connections to Self-Reliance.

Homework: Begin working on Transcendental Portfolio :) Due on Thursday, November 12th

British Lit--Monday, October 26

Objective: What makes a good or functioning society?

1- We watched the Lost clip and discussed the following ideas:

• Why are these people struggling to get along?
• What does the following quote mean, "If we can't live together, we're going to die alone."
• What is one of the first things the boys do when they gather?
• learn names
• create rules
• elect a leader
• establish expectations
• explore
• CREATE a SOCIETY
• What does this show us about the boys at this point in the novel?

2- We characterized Jack, Piggy, and Ralph and discussed the first two chapters of the novel.

3- We broke into groups and began creating a society--see me for handout. 

Homework: Read chapters 3&4 and complete reading guide

American Lit--Friday, Oct 23

Objective: Who was Emerson and what did he believe about Nature?

1- Students wrote down these three things about Emerson:

• He is known as the Father of Transcendentalism (because he started it)
• He attended Harvard
• His Father was a minister

2- Students read/annotated the essay "Nature" by Emerson. If you were absent, see me for this article.

3-Students viewed the Nature Powerpoint and completed this Free-Write Poem

Homework: Students typed up their Free-Verse poem 

British Lit--Thursday, October 22

Objective: Who makes a good member of society?

1- Students got new seats
2-Students completed a critical thinking activity--who should survive?
3-We discussed the hw

Homework: Read chapters 1&2 of Lord of the Flies and complete the reading guide. Remember we will check for three things: the answer, the quote it came from directly from the text, and the page number.

American Lit--Tuesday, Oct 21

Objective: What is transcendentalism and how does it fit into the literary time periods?

1-Students got new seats
2-Students read for 15 minutes
3- Viewed Transcendentalism PREZI

4- Students worked on their collage--cut out pictures that they feel represent the Transcendental Top Five.

Homework: NONE

British Lit-- Monday, October 20

Objective: How well do I understand Macbeth?

1-Students participated in their Socratic Seminar--this was also their test for the unit. If you were gone this day, you'll need to come in the morning and take that.

2- We discussed what we can learn from Macbeth.

3- We checked out our next novel--Lord of the Flies

Homework: NONE

American Lit--Wednesday, October 14th

Objective: What is transcendentalism?

Students spent the day in the writing lab doing a webquest on transcendenalism?

homework: Get all late work in