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.)

Moving West With 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.

Red Jacket 1805

Good morning,


With your group finish annotating Red Jacket's Lecture to a Missionary.
Write an entry in your English Journal about his speech. Answer the questions below.

1. Briefly summarize his speech.
2. What do you think is his strongest argument? Why?
3. Do you think he is right?
4. How does Red Jacket feel about white settlers?
5. What assumptions or beliefs did you see in his speech?

Assumptions and Beliefs

Don't forget the differences between assumptions and beliefs.

Studying on your own.

Good morning,  (Read all of this.)

You have created a study guide with your group, worked in another group by months, and presented your work from your month group to your home group.  You have a view-only copy of every group's study guide and every month group's presentation.

It is time to work on your own. You could review study guides and presentations if you were absent Friday, re-read something you missed or forgot and summarize it for yourself (and your group), or work on an assignment from weeks ago that you want me to re-grade. You can also still submit questions you think I should use on the final.

Requirements:

1. Go to your EJ and write an entry about what you are planning to do today.
2. Do it
3. Write in your EJ about what you did and how it went.

Presenting your study guides.

Good morning,

First go to your English Journal and answer the question below. You probably want to look at the EJ scoring guide too.

What grade do you think you have earned on your EJ and why?

Today you will meet with your writing group to give your presentations for the month you worked on for the study guide. All the presentations are shared with you in your 3rd period View Only folder in Google Docs. You will reflect on each presentation and score it right after the person presents. Before you start take a look at the form you will be using to reflect and score. Return to it after each presenter.

Here is the link I promised you to the questions you suggested for the final. There is plenty of room for more.
Suggested Final Questions

Don't forget to use your...

PLHS English Department Classroom Video

Suggesting Final Questions

Good morning,

I want to give you a chance to suggest questions for the final. You can use this form.
Later this week I will publish your collected suggested questions and you can use those to help you study as well.

Making a study guide for the final, collaboratively.

Looking at more poetry

Good morning,
We've been looking at poetry and today we are going to look at a lot more.
We've been looking for the subject and ideas in poems.
We've also been looking at literal and figurative language.

So you are now going to work with a partner whom I have carefully selected for you. You and your partner will view five poems and work together to find the subject and ideas in the poem. The poems are in the presentation below. It will help to view it full screen.