Spring Semester 2012
January 17th:
Fifth period: Reread
"The Chase" by Annie Dillard and answer questions on page 3-4.
Sixth period: Develop your thoughts on an theme from story: Finding Forrester. Friendship. Loss, etc. or what do you notice about American culture that is the same as your own or different from your own.
January 9th Week:
1. Personal Metaphors
2. One more writing prompt from Auto.
Tuesday
1. What does future of technology look like to you? Use the videos listed below or anything else you can incorporate as you expose' your thoughts on technology and the future. How do we handle it? Would you use it? How would you use it? Would you like it? What should we have? Where does science fiction become science fact?
January 3rd Week:
Welcome, Syllabus, Intro to Autobiography
Homework for Monday, Jan. 9
1. SPECT response for reading
2. Perfect Present prompt (see below)
Links:
Fall 2011
for week of November 21 to End of Semester:
1.
Final portfolio requirements
2. By Dec. 7, you
have at least two of your five drafts finished.
3. You'll want to keep your drafts and submit them in a folder along with your final project.
4. Advertisements need a brief explanation of why you did what you did. This may have already been written in your proposal.
For week of November 15:
1. Editorial writing starting Tuesday. Two editorials due Friday. For Wednesday, conduct your interviews and write a draft by Thursday. Print out and have in class on Time. Two final, edited drafts on Friday.
Come up with a topic for your editorial
2.Advertisements: What are they and what tools do they use?
---> Present an advertisment that you found to the class.
----> What is the dominant feature?
---> How is text used? how many words? how many fonts? photos? etc.
-----> Two days
3. Creating your own advertisement. Pick a product of your choice and come up with an advertisment for your product.
-----> Create an outline to pitch the advertisment
-----> Design - Two advertisments by Friday. how to analyze an Advertisement For your reference. Print if you like it but don't waste the paper.
-----> Share with class in a three-four minutes pitch.
For October 24 Week: http://newmanboston.managebac.com/classes/10069326/events/10244655
MOnday: HW: 1. Send me an email to briggs@newmanboston.org. I will add you to Managebac where assignments will be posted. List of prompts
Grammar Extravaganza <== For quiz on Tuesday, October 18
Week of October 18
Monday - Thursday: Grammar and Revision
Homework:
1. Reflect on Mr. Eddy's speech using, in order, one simple, one compound, one complex sentence and repeat for a total of six sentences. Typed
2. Draft up an essay on a subject listed here. Typed. Please locate your SAT Writing prompts from two weeks ago and type them up. If you don't have them, check the link above. You'll need a total of three essays by Friday.
One option: Children have an innate sense of what is right for them. Before the complications of adulthood set in, what one should do is remarkably close to what one would like to do, and parents need to acknowledge and encourage this. Harry Truman appreciated this perspective, having once said, "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
Assignment: What is your view on the idea that children are able and should be allowed to choose what to do with themselves and their time? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with evidence taken from your experiences, observations, or readings.
Week of October 3
Monday:
Narrative Rubric
Homework: Review rubric and edit your paper for Wednesday. Considerable changes should be apparent. e-Prime, Sentence Structure.
Tuesday - Thursday:
Intro to College Essays
-- Common App
-- Purpose, Audience??
1. Evaluate a signi?cant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
2. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.
3. Indicate a person who has had a signi?cant in?uence on you, and describe that in?uence.
4. Describe a character in ?ction, a historical ?gure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an in?uence on you, and explain that in?uence.
5. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an
experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
Draft due on Friday with Ratiocination
Friday -- In class reading with SPECT response
Week of September 26
Monday
1. Editing Marks
2. Rubric Review for SAT
HW: Read over the rubric and come up with examples for examples 4, 5, 6
Revise Narrative essay for Friday, Sept 30
Tuesday
SAT Writing : Practice and Outline
HW: Some people say you should be content with what you have and accept who you are. But it is possible that too much self-acceptance can turn into self-satisfied lack of ambition. People should always strive to improve themselves and to have more in their lives — friends, things, opportunities.
After all, where would we be if great people, both in history and in our own time, did not try to have more and to improve themselves?
Assignment: Is it best for people to accept who they are and what they have, or should people always strive to better themselves?
Wednesday
SAT Writing : Outline
Thursday
Instruction writing
Friday
Field Day.
Week of September 19
Monday
1. Teach back - Dillard's essay
2. Talk about our prompts.
Tuesday
1. Draft our own personal narrative/ outline introduction
Wednesday
1. Correcting marks
2. Turn it in.com demo
Thursday
1. Revision
Friday
1. Hand in Narrative
2. In class reading and SPECT response (in class)
Expos
Monday, September 12, 2011
Collect five compound and complex sentences
Collect and discuss True Colors assessment
Spect Responses
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Read Salvation and SPECT Response
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
In – Class Writing - E - Prime
HW: Revise your writing from the e-Prime writing.
Read Steve Jobs speech to Stanford Uni. --
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Personal Narrative
Read "The Chase" answer questions with the check mark on 3rd page and come up with two examples for each topic prompt. For Monday.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Inclass Reading and Spect response
Sept 8 -- Revise as needed your take home exam.
Sept 9 -- Homework for Monday.
1. Draft up your five compound and five complex sentences.
2. Using True Colors handout. Determine what your primary color is and write out two paragraphs giving examples for your assessment.