The Things they Carried

Go to the website:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1558328,00.html


Find Five pictures that remind you of chapter one from the book.

On a piece of paper, list your reasons for your choices.

Practice SOL

Directions: today you will be going to the computer lab to take a sample SOL RLR test. I want you to remember to use

• Negative Questioning
• Plausible Answers
• and SR3

strategies. Do you remember these? If not, ask a neighbor now. When you complete the test raise your hand, and have the sub mark the percentage next to the dancing tomato.

Go to the website (right click and open link in a new window) www.solpass.org

Click on High School

Click on ENGLISH READING. This is really important, DON'T take the writing test.

Click on 2004 English Reading/Lit

Then take the test. Remember to STUDY the text, know genre, make predictions, know all you can before you read it. then READ the questions. Then REFER to the text to find the answers to the text.

The End

In over a month I've only had one reply to the extra credit. That means, to me, only one person has looked at my blog in over a month. Because of this I have decided to discontinue this service to you. I may post updates, due-dates, or class notes in the future, but only for specific assignments or projects.

I'm sorry this wasn't more useful.

Extra Credit

The first person from each block to send me an email with the date of the last time I posted notes for your class on this blog gets points added to their poster grade.

rholt@hs.spotsylvania.k12.va.us

ADVANCED STUDENTS:

Please refer to the syllabus I handed out on 1/31. This details the reading assignments for the rest of the month. A copy will also be available under COMMENTS.

New Semester! Week 1, January 22-25

We are working on letters to veterans this week. This is actually an assignment in your history class, but since it involves persuasive writing, and we've done a LOT of that, I thought it would be an easy way to get a grade in two classes for doing one assignment.

Mr. Harrell says he wants the letters to make him cry. So don't forget to add those EMOTIONAL appeals!!!

At the end of the week, we're going to start a unit on the American Dream

The Blues 1: Advanced ONLY

Open Comments for copy of the notes.

1/4 and 1/7: This I Believe...Courage

Today we finished our benchmark analysis forms.

Then we discussed what courage means to us, if we've ever been courageous.

In the computer lab we completed the following worksheet for TWO essays

• This I Believe worksheet.
• Copy and paste the following link:
o http://www.thisibelieve.org/dsp_AdvancedSearch_youth.php
• In the menu find the theme for “Courage”, click search
Name:
Read at least 5 hooks. Before selecting one to read. Only read an essay that is interesting to you. There are 186 to choose from!!! You must choose two essays and fill out a worksheet for each.

1. Predict: Write the essay’s title:

a. Based on the title and author information, what do you think this essay will be about?
2. Draw Inferences: What is the author’s argument, or claim (what do they believe?)? Explain what they mean by this.
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3. Summarize: Write a brief (3-6 point) summary of the essay:
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4. Question: If you could ask the author 3 questions, what would they be?
a.
b.
c.
5. Evaluate: Briefly, 3-6 sentences, explain how this essay makes you feel. How persuasive was the author in explaining their beliefs?
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6. Reflect: How does this author’s experiences relate to your own? Do you know someone, have you seen a movie or read a book, or do you, personally, have experience with their topic, or a shared belief?
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