Beginning Monday, August 28, daily objectives and assignments will be posted to this website. This page will serve several purposes. The first is so that all students who miss school will be able to determine what has been missed and determine a reasonable frame of time within the guidelines of CMS policy to complete make-up work and assessments. To some degree, I can imagine that posting objectives and assignments will serve as a safety net for some who do not have an opportunity to copy assignments into the agenda. Relying solely on the website to recover assignments is not advised. The primary source of objectives and assignments will be to continue to copy them into the agenda at the beginning of each class. The student is responsible for this classroom procedure and is 100% accountable for completing assignments on time. This means that a student who fails to copy homework in the beginning of class, whether or not he or she can retrieve the daily assignment from the website even when I do not or cannot post the assignment, and consequently fails to turn in an assignment by the due date, will receive a zero.
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Objectives, Agendas, and HomeworkThursday, January 11, 2018
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Poetry Response
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Our Other Sister for Ellen by Jeffrey Harrison The cruelest thing I did to my younger sister wasn't shooting a homemade blowdart into her knee, where it dangled for a breathless second before dropping off, but telling her we had another, older sister who'd gone away. What my motives were I can't recall: a whim, or was it some need of mine to toy with loss, to probe the ache of imaginary wounds? But that first sentence was like a strand of DNA that replicated itself in coiling lies when my sister began asking her desperate questions. I called our older sister Isabel and gave her hazel eyes and long blonde hair. I had her run away to California where she took drugs and made hippie jewelry. Before I knew it, she'd moved to Santa Fe and opened a shop. She sent a postcard every year or so, but she'd stopped calling. I can still see my younger sister staring at me, her eyes widening with desolation then filling with tears. I can still remember how thrilled and horrified I was that something I'd just made up had that kind of power, and I can still feel the blowdart of remorse stabbing me in the heart as I rushed to tell her none of it was true. But it was too late. Our other sister had already taken shape, and we could not call her back from her life far away or tell her how badly we missed her. Sample Response “Our Other Sister” is a poem by Jeffrey Harrison. It is about the speaker-of-the-poem lying to his sister. In the first stanza, the speaker-of-the-poem states that the meanest thing he ever did to his sister was not hitting her in the knee with a homemade blowdart. In the second stanza, he explains the meanest thing he ever did was say that they had another sister. In the third stanza, he isn’t sure why he did it. In the fourth stanza, he names the imaginary sister Isabel. In the fifth stanza, he says Isabel ran away to California and did drugs and made jewelry. In the sixth stanza, Isabel leaves California and moves to New Mexico. In the seventh stanza, the real sister is crying. In the eight stanza, the speaker-of-the-poem feels quite powerful because of his lie. In the ninth stanza, he wants to take back the lie. In the final stanza, the speaker-of-the-poem decides to let his lie live, to serve as the truth. I like “Our Other Sister” by Harrison because it is a reminder of how powerful our words can be—whether they be lies or the truth. This poem reminds me of a time in Topeka when I was forced to take my younger sister everywhere. My friend Mary and I used to actually play hide-and-seek inside the capitol building. There was an information desk and we told my unsuspecting, always-loved-me, little sister to go to the lady at the information desk and ask to speak to the President of the United States of America. Of course, Mary and I knew Jimmy Carter was nowhere around, but that didn’t stop my little sister from approaching the lady with jeweled glasses. My favorite lines are “how thrilled and horrified I was that something I’d just made up had that kind of power” (22-24). I love this line because usually we tell lies so easily and never consider their true impact. Thursday, Janurary 4, 2018
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*Article Assignment: Find an article whose informational text elements do not necessarily connect logically to the central idea of the text but play a significant role in the overall purpose of the article. You may also choose to select an article whose elements are particularly biased. Compose a short expository which summarizes the text, states the central idea of the text, and explains how the text elements are used to achieve the article's purpose. Style: Consider prepositional phrase location and specific and purposeful selection of verbs. Tone: Formal Sources: Newspaper, magazine, internet, other nonfiction materials from legitimate/recognized publications (Charlotte Observer, Time Magazine, etc.) Thursday, September 7
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Documents and ResourcesNC FINAL REVIEWFolks, everything you need for your NC Final is here. You are well-prepared, and you will do very well on your final. Remember that often students spend less time preparing for reading comprehension assessments and more time for assessments where facts, statistics, and "black and white" answer choices are anticipated. Be careful in making that decision. Please review all review materials before determining how much you should prepare.
NC FINAL INFORMATION: Common Core Objectives Tested on NC Finals: Nonfiction/Informational Texts 40% of questions
The outline is not a complete paper in outline form. See the example I formed in 20 minutes. It does not include quotations in the body, which would take another 20 minutes to find. You don't have to have the quotations exactly, but it would help if you listed the general location of the quotation.
Reading a Complex Text
What should we do if we know a text is very complicated? What can we do if we barely understand a text? Follow this process: The Process:
How do we revise and use close reading?
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