Of Mice and Men
9th Syllabus 2012: Please open and read, then have a parent read and "sign" in the email you will send to me.
This is worth 100 pts, due by Friday, August 24th.
HEXTER ONE:
Accuplacer Practice Site: Click HERE
Complete the Sentence Skills and Reading sections, questions 31 - 55.
MICROFICTION
Microfiction Always/Sometimes/Never - Per 1 Rubric: Per 3 Rubric
MICROFICTION SAMPLES: "A" vs. "B"
Journal Topics:
Norman Rockwell Picture
Goals 1/3 each: 20 yr, 5 yr, 1 yr
What does it mean to believe? 1/2 page, then 10 "I Believe In"- 10 "I Believe That" statements
Everything you know about ghosts
Grammar Pretest
Writing Pretest
Most Dangerous Game : Online Text
Most Dangerous Game Questions - see "description" on assignment on Parent Portal
SAGE Worksheet
Writing Rubric
MICROFICTION:
1. Rubric
2. Traits: Always / Sometimes / Never
Lucille Fletcher's "The Hitchhiker" -
Orson Welles' radio show broadcast - audio file
screenplay from Orson Welles' theater show - Mercury Theater
Of Mice and Men
UNIT TWO: PERSONAL NARRATIVE ESSAYS
This I Believe Website
I Believe in Hip Hop
I Am the Greatest
This I Believe Essay Criteria
Personal Narrative: JeffCo Rubric
Accuplacer practice tests
Math and English - college board: click here
Reading Comp click here
Sentence Correction click here
Correct Usage click here
LORD OF THE FLIES PAGE
GENRE UNIT THREE: GRAPPLING WITH CLAIMS
What is rhetoric?
5 Considerations to every claim:
Logos, Pathos and Ethos
Advertisements consider these 5 rhetorical conditions very carefully:
What strategy does this advertisement make? ASPCA
(The ASPCA spent 1 million dollars making this commercial, and in turn made 30 million off one year, according to UTube.
Apple Nike Honda Insight ad sheet. Honda Insight
This link tells you some important facts about the Honda Insight. Did they choose the right ad approach?
Mercedes: Faithful and why they took the approach: safety
Nationwide's old ads: Greatest Spokesman ad / why they made it
Nationwide's new ad: Julia Roberts, and why
Domino's Old Ad:
Domino's New Ad Campaign
Using Rhetoric when making a claim: Logic and fallacies
MYTHOLOGY
House on Mango Street SCR Template: click here!
Then: 1. word process on the template,- RUN SPELLCHECK and read/edit.
2. save SCR to your folder,
3. print, and
4. turn it in!
Literary Terms Definitions:
Allusion: From Finding Nemo: Here's Brucey
From The Shining: Here's Johnny
ROMEO AND JULIET
video/ website links: Emotion v. Logic: I love Justin Beeber and Sangaya crying teenager and
Brain Anatomy and Functions teenage brains Adolescent brain growth spurt/pruning
World suicide statistics v. American suicide statistics TIME article- pruning, hormones
ROMEO AND JULIET MOVIE REVIEW:
Assignment 1. Write a Movie Review for the Baz Luhrman production we viewed in class. Imitate style /fluency from your sample packet.
Highlight three sentences in your movie review sample packet that you will imitate in your review.
Modify your rough draft, so that your Movie Review includes THREE SENTENCE IMITATIONS about the movie
"Romeo and Juliet." Highlight or italicize or bold the three sentences in your review that are imitations.
Use the Always/Sometimes/ Never rubric that your class created. This will be your grading sheet.
PRINT YOURSELF A COPY! Staple it to the printout of your word- processed movie review.
Per. 1: Click Here - Movie Review Rubric Per One
Per 3: Click here - Movie Review Rubric Per Three
Per 6: Click here - Movie Review Rubric Per Six
TURN IN:
- Your highlighted packet (highlight the three sentences you imitated)
- Your word processed movie review.
- Your printed rubric stapled to your review (if you don't like your own period's review, print one from a different period that you do like.)
- Your Always/Sometimes/Never
Assignment 2. Write a One Page Response to the following prompt:
At the end of the play, the Prince, Verona's legal authority, states that some of the people present will be pardoned, and
some shall be punished. The question remains: who? Pick two of the characters, living or dead at the end of the play, whom
you feel to be the most to blame for the deaths in the play. Assume the role of a District Attorney. For each of the characters
you selected, state what you would charge them with, then use specific details from the play to defend and support your charge.
For each piece of evidence you present, explain why a jury would be convinced towards a conviction for the charge you selected.
You may write your One Page Response in pen, or you can word process it. You will be graded on:
* Content
* Critical thinking/ effort/ creativity
* Capitalization/ Punctuation/ No Excuses errors
Iranian Revolution Slideshow http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/middle_east_the_iranian_revolution/html/2.stm
LORD OF THE FLIES:
Golding's video - what is the nature of evil in society?
Zimbardo's TED talk:
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_makes_a_hero
INSTRUCTIONS: Lit Terms Quotes assignment
LORD OF THE FLIES CER
Prompt: Use the following as a guide for your CLAIM:
In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses _________________________ (fill in your literary term) to reveal his theme that _________________________________________________.
New York Times article: The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Video : The Milgram Experiment
The Hero's Journey: Jesse Vaughn video
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