March 10th AND 11th Daily Plans

9th Grade - Both these days were reserved for working on the Antigone essay. On Thursday, we reviewed the components to a well-written and complete essay. Basically, students were asked to come up with all the necessary pieces to create a piece of writing that could stand alone (the expectation is that a student could give his/her essay to another adult, and that adult could make perfect sense of what the argument being proven is without having read Antigone).

The assignment sheet is attached on this blog under "Assignments and Projects." However, the basic format is a five paragraph essay, which would look like -

1) Intro - Hook, background information, thesis
2) Body paragraphs - Topic sentence, Concrete Details/Direct Evidence from the text, Commentary/Analysis and Warrant (why does your evidence connect?), transition
3) Conclusion - Wraps up the argument, provides a "so what" for the reader, potentially expands the topic beyond Antigone.

We worked on a MODEL body paragraph outline in class on Thursday, and spent all of Friday developing a full outline and starting the rough draft.

HOMEWORK - FULL OUTLINE DUE MONDAY, FULL DRAFT TO BE WRITTEN BEFORE TUESDAY.

FINAL ESSAY DUE WEDNESDAY, REGARDLESS OF ATTENDANCE.

S.S.R. PROJECTS DUE BEFORE 3/25!

10th Grade - Both these days were reserved for working on the TKAM Creative Writing Projects. On Thursday, students had time to both work in class and in the library to gather resources that could be connected to the novel, and to begin working on the written components.

On Friday, I started class by providing a MODEL analysis for connecting a song to TKAM. Using the song "Modern Man's Hustle," by Atmosphere, I demonstrated to students that there were about 16 different ways in which the song could complement the novel. Obviously using all 16 connections would go beyond the scope of what is requested (2 paragraph minimum, using every connecting piece would turn out to be 3-5 pages overall), but this was meant to show students HOW MUCH is possible.

The rest of the class was dedicated to getting actually writing done; by the end of class on Monday EVERY student needs to have a rough draft of the ENTIRE WRITTEN COMPONENT completed.

PROJECT IS DUE WEDNESDAY, REGARDLESS OF ATTENDANCE.

HOMEWORK - Project ready to hit Monday's checkpoint - all media collected and ready to go, full draft of written component.

S.S.R. PROJECTS DUE BEFORE 3/25!