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.

Final for English 10H – A proposal for next semester’s project

Next semester, each student will complete a major project. The objective of the project is to show your knowledge, your ability to analyze and synthesize information, and above all your creativity with regard to what we have been studying in class.

Your final for this semester will be a proposal describing what you plan to do for your project. This proposal will have two components:

1. A written document, outlining what you plan to do
2. An oral presentation in front of the class (on finals day) describing your plan.

Types of projects

You will create your own assignment, and there are many, many possibilities.

The project can be a traditional research-based essay, a creative adaptation in the form of a screenplay or musical, or maybe you will create a detailed specifications for a proposed theme-restaurant called Indian Island Bar and Grille. There are unlimited ways to show your knowledge and skills. Here are some possibilities below. For any of these, you would need to use one of the books we are reading in class as your source material.

• Screenplay
• Stage Play
• Short film
• Comic Book or story board
• Annotated edition of a book we’ve read
• Audiobook
• Theme Park Design
• Web Page
• Television Series Pitch
• Sitcom
• Cop drama
• Panel discussion
• Jerry Springer-esque
• Reality show competition
• Children’s musical
• Video game
• Short Story

These are only a few possibilities. You are certainly welcome to come up with your own format.

IMPORTANT: You are certainly allowed to do your project on something we will be reading next semester, such as The Crucible (a play by Arthur Miller) Chew on This (non-fiction book about the fast food industry or Romeo and Juliet.

How will my proposal be graded?

Written

The written proposal is worth 50 points. At the end of this document is an example of what it might look like.

Your proposal must cover the following:

Objective	Short statement explaining what your project is and what book it is based on.
Checkpoints	Four separate bullet points explaining what you will have accomplished by each checkpoint. Each checkpoint must represent a significant effort on your part.
Final Product	Description of what your project will look like when you turn it in. If it is a written work, what sort of cover will it have? If it is a web page, will you turn in a disk with a few sample pages printed out? If you build a scale model of Dr. Jekyll’s street, how big will it be?
Literary Analysis	Although your work will be highly creative, it must be fundamentally connected to one of our texts. Make it evident in your proposal how your project will show a deeper understanding of the text. At least half of your grade for the project depends on this category. When creating your proposal, make sure that the work you plan to do depends on the text you’ve chosen.
Research	Your project must be designed in a way that makes it necessary to consult other sources. For instance, if you decide to create a Jekyll and Hyde board game, you will need to research how many board games out there have similar themes. Or, you could research late 19th Century British architecture in order to draw the write types of buildings on your board game.
Format and Professionalism	At each check point, as well as when you turn in the final project, your work must be presented in a professional way. For projects that are pure writing (research paper, screenplay, etc.) all you need is a nice report cover or binding. Anything digital (sound, video clips) should have a printed label and envelop, and attached to a short written document explaining what it is.

Oral Presentation

This is worth 20 points.

You will speak to the class for 8 to 10 minutes about your plan.

Do not read from your written proposal. You may refer to it so you can remember to cover everything, but you will speak extemporaneously.

You only need to talk for about three or four minutes. The rest of the time you will open it up for questions from the students. This should turn into a brief discussion in which the students give you ideas to help you shape your plan.

Example of a written proposal

Biff Student

Bridges Academy

English 10

Project Proposal

Overview

I will write a screenplay version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Literary Analysis

This project is appropriate because I will have to understand the book on a deep level in order to write the screenplay. Because movies condense everything down to only a couple hours, a screenplay must use only the most essential parts of the book. Finding those essential parts will require strong literary analysis skills on my part.

Checkpoints

• Checkpoint 1 – Film Treatment competed. The treatment will describe in narrative form everything that happens in the screenplay. It will also show how I am altering certain elements of the characters and setting to make the movie more accessible to today’s audience. But the essence of Oscar Wilde’s story will be preserved.
• Checkpoint 2 – I will turn a detailed scene-by-scene outline.
• Checkpoint 3 – I will turn in the first half of the script
• Checkpoint 4 – I will turn in the second half of the script. At this point I will ask the teacher to provide notes for my rewrite.
• FINAL – I will turn in the rewrite of my script.

Research (Due at checkpoint 1)

I will find out how many other film versions of this book have been made. I will find out whether these movies were successes or failures by looking at reviews.

Format

The script will be written in traditional screenplay format.

Guilty or Innocent?

Last week, you all should have completed this worksheet, but I don't everyone has turned it in. We're doing it again today, but with another character. Please do this work on the computer (rather than printing it out). If that presents a problem for you, let me know and we can work around it.

The worksheet is a character study for And Then There Were None, and you should have chosen one character in the book to analyze through significant quotations made by and about that characters.

Choose a second character, but make sure no one else in the class chooses the same person. There are ten main characters in the book and four of you, so even after you all do two characters there should be (wait while I get out my calculator) two unclaimed characters after everyone is done.

Just so we are clear: You are doing the same worksheet two times (though some of you are already done with the first one) -- a different character for each worksheet.

Characters to choose from (remember you need TWO!)

1. Anthony James Marston
2. Mrs. Ethel Rogers
3. General John Gordon Macarthur
4. Mr. Thomas Rogers
5. Emily Caroline Brent
6. Justice Lawrence Wargrave
7. Dr. Edward George Armstrong
8. William Henry Blore
9. Philip Lombard
10. Vera Elizabeth Claythorne

MySpace profile for ATTWN character

Use this worksheet to complete the MySpace-style character assignment.

Be sure to reference page numbers in at least three of your responses on this worksheet.

We will work on this in class today and Friday (11/16) and it is due then.

Block 7 -- Here are the characters you chose for this assignment:
Oliver - Mr. Blore
Austin - Vera Claythorne
Stephen - Justice Wargrave
Daniel - Philip Lombard (?)

Block 4
Maddie - Emily Brent
Elan - Vera Claythorne
Leonore - Mrs. Rogers
Max - Philip Lombard

The Ag Map

Here is a PDF of the MindManager map we did in Block 7 -- but I would like BOTH blocks 4 and 7 to use this as a resource.

And Then There Were None reading schedule

On this day		Be finished with this section	…end on this page	# of pages to read for that day
Block 4	Block 7
Friday, 10/26		I	16	15
		II	38
		III	56
Thursday, 11/1	Friday, 11/2	IV	67	32
		V	81
Monday, 11/5	Tuesday, 11/6	VI	96	29
		VII	108
Wednesday, 11/7	Thursday, 11/8	VIII	124	28
		IX	150
Friday, 11/9	Monday, 11/12	X	163	19
		XI	177
		XII	190
Tuesday, 11/13	Wednesday, 11/13	XIII	203	40
		XIV	220
Thursday, 11/15	Friday, 11/16	XV	236	33
		XVI	245
		Epilogue 1	259	23
Monday, 11/19	Tuesday, 11/20	Epilogue 2	275	16

Library Field Trip TUESDAY 10/30

Here is Sherry's email, in case you see it here first...

This is a second reminder about our field trip to the LA Public Library downtown next Tuesday, October 30.

• We need all students at the NoHo Metro Station (NE corner of Lankershim and Chandler) by 8:30 AM. Our train leaves before 9.
• Pick-up will be at the same location by 3 PM.
• Barry is making arrangements for those who are participating in the cross country meet at Pierce Tuesday afternoon.
• Your kids will need $5 (in ones or a five) for the subway, and either a sack lunch or money to buy lunch at Olvera Street. They should also have an LAPL library card.
• NO LAPTOPS or big backpacks.
• My cell phone is (818) 430-2254. I should be reachable except between 10-12 when we’re in the library, or when we’re on the subway.

Please let me know by MONDAY if you’re having transportation problems!