Take Home Final

Click here for the take-home final for English 10 and 10H.

If you choose Option II, you may want to listen again to parts of the radio show we heard in class.
Go to this link, then look for the "Full Episode" link. It may take a few minutes to buffer, but it's all there.

PowerPoint Jeopardy

Here is the template for PowerPoint Jeopardy. You will notice that the $100 question and answer for each category has already been filled in. You will be filling in all the other ones.

Homework due Friday/Monday

In the play, we never actually see what Parris saw when he came upon the girls in the woods, but we hear a lot about it in the text.

In the movie, parts of that scene are shown.

Try to recognize the choices made by the filmmakers and find examples in the text of the play that informed those choices.

Write this comparison in one or two paragraphs (about 250 words). Be sure to cite specific examples from the text.

For BLOCK SEVEN, this is due Monday, April 21

For BLOCK FOUR, this is due Friday, April 18

Audio of The Crucible

Here are some audio files of The Crucible you may find helpful. You should read along when you do it, but you will have to jump a few sections as they made a few small cuts in the recording.
pp. 49 to 62 (10 minutes)
pp. 63 to 71 (8 minutes)
pp. 72 to 81 (9 minutes)
pp. 84 to 120 (30 minutes)

Homework for Acts Two and Three

These questions (click here) are due Friday, April 11 for Block 7, and Monday, April 14 for Block 4.

Homework for Act One

Click here for the study questions due on Wednesday. Remember, you only have to do 12 out of the 23 questions.

Due Wednesday April 9 for Block 7 and Thrusday April 10 for Block 4.

Frankenstein Quiz

Here is the Frankenstein Quiz we did in class today.

Mind Manager PDFs we worked on in class.
McDonald's Visit, block 7
McDonald's Visit, block 4
Supersize Me
Eating Habits

Check it out: Here is the entire movie Supersize Me on a site called FreeDocumentaries.com

Fast Food Essay Due March 12

Requirements for the essay

• Minimum of five paragraphs
• First paragraph is an introduction
• Last paragraph is a conclusion
• The three body paragraphs in between must be based on these SHAPER format. If you need to re-acquaint yourself with this format, grab a worksheet from class or click here.
• Your completed essay will be graded according to this rubric.
  

Essay Prompt

Most people know fast food is unhealthy, yet almost everyone chooses to eat because it is convenient, cheap and tastes good. Like any business, the primary goal of a fast food restaurant is to make money, and so far there doesn’t seem to be as much money in selling food that is healthy first and convenient-cheap-tasty second. The rate of overweight and obesity is increasing rapidly for adults and children. Common sense tells us that this has a lot to do with how much fast food we eat.

Whose fault is this? There are many factors to consider; yes, no one is being forced to eat fast food, but how can a company knowingly contribute so directly to this serious problem?

Where does personal responsibility end and corporate responsibility begin?

Your essay should explore this question throughout, but you can build this around a more specific topic such as advertising to children, the rules of capitalism, what’s actually in the food, or any other aspect of the subject you find interesting.

Be sure to pull information from the book Chew on This, the film Supersize Me, and from the actual visit we made to McDonalds.

The final draft of the essay is due March 12.

Use this rubric to understand how the essay will be graded.

Work for today, Feb 12

Start by taking the Moodle quiz for the week of Feb 11-18 called Chew on This pp. 156-202.
The password is beef.
There are only three questions on this quiz.

THE ASSIGNMENT for today is a mix of creative writing and textual analysis.

Write a good-sized monologue with one of the following titles:
I am a Cow, and This is My Story
or
I am a Chicken, and This is My Story

Use as much information as you can from Chew on This, particularly pages 156-191.

When you turn it in, be sure to observe the GUIDELINES for written work. (I know it says in that document that some exceptions will be make for creative assignments, but you should still stick to the basic rules of double spacing, name/class/date in the top right, etc.)

Primary, Seconary and Tertiary sources

Complete six rows of this worksheet.

McVideo Game

If one of you video-game-addicted teens can figure out how to win at this game, I'll put it on the Smart Board and give 30-45 minutes of class time to give each student a chance to play. I played it once, but didn't really get it, because I'm very old.
So see if you can play and win!
Click here for the McDonalds Video Game.

Five Facts from Chew on This

Here is the worksheet I passed out in class today. Collect five fact from the book -- in this case a fact is something the author is brining in, usually from a study or some other published source, to support the opinions he expresses throughout the book.

For the counter-arguement exercise, you are not trying to disprove the facts, you are simply using them to show how it might be possible to show a different or opposing opinion, even within the context of the same fact.

Homework for our next class meeting...

... read pages 7 to 36 of Chew on This and be prepared for a short quiz on this section.

Here is a more detailed schedule of the upcoming reading and quizzes.