The Paperless Final

Good morning,
   As you know your final is digital. You may use any online resource you wish, but the thoughts and ideas you express in your writing must be your own.

1. Create a new presentation in Google Docs.
2. Answer each question on  a separate slide in your presentation.
3. Number your slides to match the question numbers.
4. You may ask for help with the technology but not the content.
5. Share your presentation with me.

You must follow these directions exactly. ANY missing pieces will lower your grade.
Hint: Use F11 to get more work space on your screen.
I’m deliberately NOT giving you any helpful links. You need to be able to find these things for yourself.

#1 Slide: Title, name, date, period. The title is up to you, be creative

#2 Slide: Explain the difference between Assumptions and Beliefs. Use a quote from the Journals of Lewis and Clark and explain why it is an assumption or belief.

#3 Slide: Insert an image of Chief Red Jacket. Include the URL for the image you insert. Explain who he was. Summarize briefly what he told the missionaries in his Lecture to a Missionary speech.

#4 Slide: Nature has been an important theme in our study of American Lit.  Find an image that represents nature. Write a short poem (can be bad) about the image that includes two forms of figurative language. Highlight the figurative language.

#5 Slide: Use a two column slide. In one column list the important authors of the Harlem Renaissance. In the second column list the important musicians.

#6 Slide: Insert a map to show how the Great Migration affected African American populations.

#7 Slide: Review A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents. Use a two column slide again. List three things parents complain about on one side and three things she suggests to parents on the other.

#8 Slide: Write a thesis statement for the beginning of an essay about your opinion on prohibition. List three points you would use in your essay.

#9 Slide:  Paste this analogy on to your slide and explain the relationships between the words.  Doctor:Hospital:: Professor: College  make sure you thoroughly explain how the analogy works.

#10 Slide: Write your own analogy and explain how it works.

#11 Slide: Describe a moment in The Great Gatsby that was memorable to you. Explain why it was memorable. Include a quote from that moment. (Extra point if the moment involves dramatic irony and you explain how.) You can also include an image IF YOU HAVE TIME.

#12 Slide: Write three IMPORTANT questions about The Great Gatsby.

#13 Slide: Select your favorite quote from everything we read this year. You can go back to first semester if you want to. Include the quote and make a PERFECT citation for the quote. Hint: Use Citation Machine.

#14 Slide: Create a slide about your favorite INDEPENDENT reading book this year. Something you chose to read on your own. Find an image and include your review of the book. If you already reviewed the book in goodreads you can paste that review here. If you write a new review here then paste it into goodreads.

#15 What would you write in my yearbook?


This is an example of the slides you should have. Think of it as an outline.

Writing Groups

Good morning,

Yesterday we tried adding detail to a simple sentence. You practiced with your own sentence. Today you will meet with your writing group.

I'm going to show you how to add your paper to your shared group folder. A few of you haven't shared your paper with me yet. (That was bad for your draft grade by the way.)

Writing Group Procedures

Drafting day... part 2.

Good morning,

Today you will continue drafting on your Nature Writing Assignment. (Yes that link goes to the assignment.)

Remember this is the last day you get in class before the draft is due Monday. Tomorrow we meet in the PAC for a counseling assembly.

At the end of the period write an entry in your English Journal. Answer the questions below.

1. What are you writing about for your paper?
2. How is it going?
3. What do you still need to do?

Drafting Day

Yesterday we went over your Nature Writing Assignment. If you were absent please look at it and ask me questions.

Before you get started on your draft please answer the questions on this form about your progress.

Start your draft and share it with me today. Name it correctly please. (Period #, your name or initials, Nature Writing.)

Ready, set, go...

Good morning,

This is going to be a busy week.
Tuesday (today)

• We will briefly review your quiz from Friday.
• You will present your dialogs with John Muir.
• We will go over the requirements for your Nature Writing Assignment.The draft is due Monday!

Wednesday (tomorrow)
I will give you time to work on gathering your ideas and drafting.
We might have visitors.

Thursday I will be on campus, but I need to go visit 10th grade classes. Another teacher will cover our class. You will have an English Journal assignment and time for drafting.

Friday we must attend an assembly in the PAC about your classes for next year. Start thinking about what classes you'd like to take and what questions you have for counselors.

Walden

No examination of American writings about nature would be complete without looking at Thoreau's most famous work Walden. Today we will read and listen to some excerpts.  You will need your English Journal open as well as a tab for the text. Between sections of the text I will give you two minutes to quick write as much as you can about your impressions of what we just read.

If you are waiting for others to be ready to begin visit the map at the bottom of the blog and find the marker for Walden Pond. Zoom in and switch to satilite view to see the place Thoreau was writing about.

Looking for Nature in American Literature

Good morning,
   This week you have been looking for evidence about what various groups believed about nature. If you haven't been here check your "View Only" folder in Google Docs and look for a new document called Nature in American Lit. Make a copy of it. Share the copy with me and work on getting the answers. You're most likely to find the answers by looking again at the things we've read by people from those groups and "reading between the lines" to see what they thought about nature. Make sure you have a quotation to support your finding and that you cite the source of the quote. You can also use the wider internet, but you are unlikely to find exact answers that way. This is not easy. You have to work at it.

Crossing the Plains, 1865

Good morning,
   Lots of fun last week with Lewis and Clark. You got to practice finding assumptions and statements about nature. Let's try it again and take it a step further.
   About 60 years after Lewis and Clark a teenage girl named Sarah crossed the plains with her family in a wagon train headed for Montana.  She kept a diary. 

1. As you read keep looking for ASSUMPTIONS and evidence of NATURE.
2. When you are done highlighting paste the URL in your English Journal.
3. Then copy one of your assumptions into your EJ also.
4. EXPLAIN why you think the part you copied is an assumption.

Awesome Highlighter
Sarah Raymond's Diary (Note the first three paragraphs are an introduction before her actual diary entries start.)

Nature Writing Drafting

Good morning,
  I'm sorry I can't be with you today, but I know you understand why I need to talk to the sophomores. 

1. Work on your Nature Assignment draft.
2. If your draft has a COMMENT on it from me then you know I got it!
3. If you DO NOT have a comment from me then get your document shared with me.
4. Draft grade happens Monday! (Your draft will get a grade on Monday. Get it done.)

To: Ms. B and Ms. S. Have every student present show you their Nature Assignment in GD on their computer. If the document does NOT have a comment from me at the top make sure that student shares their doc with me today. One student shared his doc with me as a viewer. He should fix that.

Next week:
Monday = Articulation (visits with counselors for everyone)
Tuesday = EAP test.
Wednesday = Writing Groups
Thursday = Polishing final drafts (probably)
Friday = Nature Papers due (let the grading begin)

Enjoy this lovely picture I took of seals in La Jolla.

Nature Writing Assignment

Good morning,
  How did you like that Paulsen piece I just read to you? Did you notice all of the sensory details?


Nature Writing Assignment
800-1000 words
Draft due Monday 3/8
Final Draft due Friday 3/12

Lewis and Clark

Good morning,
   In 1803 the United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France.  In 1804  Lewis and Clark set out to explore this new territory overland. They were supposed to determine what resources the United States had acquired through this purchase.

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/images/lewis-and-clark-map.jpg 

Today we will look at some of the entries in the journals of Lewis and Clark. As you read through these look for two things:

1. Any statements they make that relate to the natural space they were in.

2. Any statements that reflect their assumptions or beliefs.

We will use Awesome Highlighter for this today.

1. Go to The Journals of Lewis and Clark. 
2. Paste the URL for the journals into Awesome Highlighter.
3. Highlight statements about NATURE in GREEN 
4. Highlight ASSUMPTIONS or BELIEFS in YELLOW 
5. When you are DONE put the URL for your work today in to your English Journal. 
6. Example from Mrs. R.

Standard RC 2.5 Analyze an author's implicit and explicit philosophical assumptions and beliefs about a subject.

More of the Fireside Poets

Good morning,
   We don't have all day here. I have a cool video about Manhattan I want to show you after we get this done.

1. Read 1-2 of these poems. (See links below) 
2. Paste the URL into Awesome Hightlighter.
3. Highlight some of the lines about NATURE in the poem you chose.
4. Paste the URL in your EJ. (English Journal)
5. WRITE what you think the poet thought about nature.

"Voices of the Night"

"Thanatopsis"

“The Bridge”

“A Gleam of Sunshine”

“To a Cloud”

“Snowbound”

Colonial Views of Nature

Good morning,

Part I.

1. Open your English Journal and click on the link you created yesterday with Awesome Highlighter.
2. Compare what you highlighted about NATURE to what a partner highlighted.
3. Write an entry in your EJ about the comparison. What did your partner highlight that you did not and vice versa? 
4. Make sure you know what the Puritans thought about the natural world.

Part II
We are going to look at what another early colonial person thought about nature in Virgina.  William Byrd wrote about Virgina in 1728.  We are going to look at this text together. Click HereTo Get The Text.

What do you think?

English Journal Entry:
What does this picture show? What do you think about what you see?  What does this picture say about the interaction between humans and nature?