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Homework 8/30

1. Get contract signed by parent or guardian

2. Enroll in Turnitin.com (directions below in addition to what I gave you in class today)

B Day, I gave you the wrong Class ID today! Here's the correct one: 4256769. Password is still bruce.

A Day, your class ID is 4256764. Password bruce

3. Complete Beginning of Course Survey and essay

Due: 9/2 (B day); 9/6 (A day)

Homework

1. Email me (JLBruce@carrollk12.org) with your favorite song/band, movie, book.

2. B day only: use the CORRECT Class ID # to enroll yourself in Turnitin.com by Tuesday

Homework

1. Are you missing any work (like emails, contracts, surveys, essays, etc)? Get it in if you are.

2. Post one of your responses to the discussion board of Turnitin.com.

A day, due 9/12.

B day, due 9/13

3. B day ONLY, label each of your responses with the 5 modes of Response Theory.

Homework 9/12 (A day)

1. Complete Response Theory Reflection and submit (as a draft) to Turnitin.com by Wednesday's class. If you submit this draft but wish to make revisions to it based on any discussion/clarification that takes place in class on Wednesday, you may. Revisions will be due Friday.

2. Looking ahead, it looks like our unit assessment will be next Tuesday (9/20). For this, you will have to demonstrate understanding of and the ability to apply the essential skills of Reader Response Theory, active reading, and MLA Style. Study Guide posted below!

Homework 9/13 (B day)

1. Complete Response Theory Reflection and submit to Turnitin.com by Thursday's class.

2. Looking ahead, our unit assessment will be next Wednesday (9/21). For this, you will have to demonstrate understanding of and the ability to apply the essential skills of Reader Response Theory, active reading, and MLA Style. Study Guide posted below!

Homework 9/14 (A day)

1. Do you need to make revisions to your Response Theory Reflection? If YES, do so and submit your revised versions to Turnitin.com by Friday's class. If NOT, you're good (assuming you already submitted to Turnitin.com)

2. Unit assessment on AR, MLA, and RRT still planned for next Tuesday (9/20). Study Guide below.

Homework 9/15 (B day)

1. Complete the back of your blue sheet (develop and support a theme for "The Scream").

2. Unit assessment on AR, MLA, and RRT still planned for next Wednesday (9/21). Study Guide below.

Homework 9/16 (A day)

1. Complete the back of your blue sheet (develop and support a theme for "The Scream").

2. Unit assessment on AR, MLA, and RRT is planned for next Thursday (9/22). Have you checked out the Study Guide????

Homework 9/19 (B day)

1. Finish AR “Ambush.” Develop at least one configure and coherence. Email your coherence to me.

2. Friday = mastery quiz on MLA Style, Active Reading, and Response Theory. Study guide below.

Homework 9/20 (A day)

1. Finish AR "Ambush." Develop at least one configure and coherence. Email your coherence to me.

2. Monday = mastery quiz on MLA Style, Active Reading, and Response Theory. Study guide below.

Homework 9/21 (B day)

1. Mastery quiz on Friday! See study guide below.

2. Submit "Ambush" TSP by 11:59 on Friday to Turnitin.com

Homework 9/22 (A day)

1. Mastery quiz on Monday! See study guide below.

2. Submit "Ambush" TSP to Turnitin.com (due Monday).

Homework 9/23 (B day)

1. Print out a copy of your "Ambush" TSP and bring to class on Monday.

2. If you are missing assignments, get them in asap for half-credit.

Homework 9/26 (A day)

1. Post to the discussion board of Turnitin.com. You'll find directions when you click on the posting with today's date.

Homework 9/27 (B day)

1. Self-evaluate your "Ambush" TSP using the criteria on the green rubric given to you in class today. Make revisions to your TSP and submit this to Turnitin.com by Friday's class.

2. In "Ambush," locate 10 words or phrases used as NPs. Highlight these to show their context. Number each one 1-10.

Homework 9/28 (A day)

1. Self-evaluate your "Ambush" TSP using the criteria on the green rubric given to you in class today. Make revisions to your TSP and submit to Turnitin.com by Monday's class.

2. In "Ambush," locate 10 words or phrases used as NPs. Highlight these to show their context. Number each one 1-10.

Homework 9/30 (B day)

1. In "Ambush," locate and highlight 10 words or phrases used as ADJs. Draw an arrow from these to the NP they modify.

2. Complete the definitions on your pink Narrative Elements page.

Homework 10/3 (A day)

1. In "Ambush," locate and highlight 10 words or phrases used as ADJs. Draw an arrow from these to the NP they modify.

2. Mastery quiz retakes due by 10/11.

Homework 10/4 (B day)

1. Historical context research project: Interview and Summary due Monday 10/10; Bibliography due to Turnitin.com by Wed 10/12. For easy to use audio software, consider http://www.audiopal.com/.

2. Mastery quiz retakes due by 10/13.

Homework 10/5 (A day)

1. Mastery quiz retakes due by 10/12

2. Complete discussion board posting on Turnitin.com

Homework 10/6 (B day)

1. Interview/summary due Monday

2. Bibliography due Wednesday

3. Mastery quiz retakes due by 10/13

Homework 10/7 (A day)

1. Locate 10 words, phrases, or clauses used as ADVs in “Ambush.”

2. Interview/Summary due Thursday. For interviewing help, try Audiopal

3. Bibliography due Monday 10/17

4. Reading #1 and AR notes due 10/13

Homework 10/10 (B day)

1. Locate 10 words, phrases, or clauses used as VPS in “Ambush.”

2. Bibliography due Wednesday. Submit to Turnitin.com.

3. Reading #1 due Wednesday. Submit AR quotes and notes to Turnitin.com.

3. Mastery quiz retakes due by 10/13.

Homework 10/11 (A day)

1. Reading # 1 due Thursday. Submit AR quotes and notes to Turnitin.com.

2. Interview and source summary due Thursday.

3. Bibliography due Monday. Submit to Turnitin.com.

Homework 10/12 (B day)

1. Reading #2 due Friday. Submit AR quotes and notes to Turnitin.com.

2. Complete your role for Friday's Lit Circle with information from Readings #1 and #2.

Homework 10/13 (A day)

1. Reading #2 due Monday with AR to Turnitin.com.

2. Complete your colored sheet for lit circles on Monday (for readings 1 & 2).

3. Bibliographies due Monday to Turnitin.com.

Homework 10/14 (B day)

1. Reading #3 due Tuesday with AR to Turnitin.com.

2. Complete pink form/function review sheet (both sides!) for Tuesday's class.

3. Form/function quiz on Thursday.

Homework 10/17 (A day)

1. Reading #3 due Wednesday with AR to Turnitin.com.

2. Complete pink form/function review sheet (both sides) for Wednesday's class.

3. Form/function quiz next Monday.

Homework 10/18 (B day)

1. Reading #4 due Thursday with AR to Turnitin.com.

2. Form/function quiz on Thursday. Know the information on the front side of your pink sheet. Be able to apply that knowledge in an activity similar to the back side of the pink sheet.

3. Complete questions 1-4 from your Lit Circle handout (green) individually for next class.

Homework 10/19 (A day)

1. Reading #4 due Monday with AR to Turnitin.com.

2. Form/function quiz on Thursday. Know the information on the front side of your pink sheet. Be able to apply that knowledge in an activity similar to the back side of the pink sheet.

3. Complete questions 1-4 from your Lit Circle handout (green) individually for next class.

Homework 10/20 (B day)

1. Reading #5 with AR quotes and notes to Turnitin.com.

2. Complete Lit Circle role sheet for Tuesday.

Homework 10/24 (A day)

1. Reading #5 with AR quotes and notes to Turnitin.com.

2. Complete Lit Circle role sheet for Wednesday.

Homework 10/25 (B day)

1. Reading #6 with AR quotes and notes to Turnitin.com for next class.

2. Narrative Profiles due Monday, 10/31.

Homework 10/26 (A day)

1. Reading #6 with AR quotes and notes to Turnitin.com for next class.

2. Narrative Profiles due Tuesday, 11/1.

Homework 10/27 (B day)

1. Narrative Profile due Monday.

Homework 10/28 (A day)

1. Finish discussion questions if you did not finish them in class.

2. Narrative Profile due Tuesday.

Homework 10/31 (B day)

1. HSA Benchmark signature due Wednesday.

2. Complete Patterns 1-3 handout.

Homework 11/1 (A day)

1. HSA Benchmark signature due Thursday.

2. Gather AR notes for Thursday.

3. Pick 3 sentences from the back of the Patterns 1-3 notes that were NOT done in class. Slot, label, and ID the pattern.

Homework 11/2 (B day)

1. Benchmark Corrections due Friday.

2. AR notes (all notices and signifies for novel assignments) due Friday.

3. Patterns 1-3 review due Friday.

Homework 11/3 (A day)

1. Benchmark Corrections due Monday.

2. Use AR notes (quotes and notes/notices and signifies) to develop configure and coherence for Monday (see your yellow sheet).

Homework 11/4 (B day)

1. Develop configure and coherence (on yellow sheet) for Tuesday.

2. Patterns 1-3 quiz next Thursday.

Homework 11/7 (A day)

1. Complete "Your Story" brainstorming (blue).

2. Patterns 1-3 review (white 1/2 sheet).

3. Patterns 1-3 quiz Tuesday, 11/15.

Homework 11/8 (B day)

1. Complete "Your Story" brainstorming (blue sheet).

2. Patterns 1-3 quiz on Thursday.

3. Complete remainder of blue Patterns 1-3 review sheet. We will go over answers before taking the quiz.

Homework 11/9 (A day)

1. Complete draft of "Your Story" and send via email.

2. Patterns 1-3 quiz next Tuesday.

Homework 11/10 (B day)

1. Complete draft of "Your Story" and send via email for Monday.

Homework 11/11 (A day)

1. AR (notice/signify) "Song of Napalm" for Tuesday's class.

2. Patterns 1-3 quiz Tuesday. Complete review sheet in preparation.

Homework 11/14 (B day)

1. Complete front side only of pink "Your Story Evaluation" sheet. Revise your narrative based on this reflection. Email to me by Wednesday's class.

2. Expect a quiz on (1) the content of your Kissing Case article and (2) an evaluation of the source.

3. Comma reasons + compound sentences quiz on Wednesday

Homework 11/15 (A day)

1. Complete front side only of pink "Your Story Evaluation" sheet. Revise your narrative based on this reflection. Email to me by Thursday's class.

2. Comma reasons + compound sentences quiz on Thursday.

Homework 11/16 (B day)

1. Complete source evaluation sheet (green) for Friday's class.

Homework 11/17 (A day)

1. Complete source evaluation sheet (green) for Monday's class.

2. If you didn't finish your revisions of Patterns 1-3, do so for next class.

Homework 11/22 (B day)

1. Narratives (your story, not the one about the rollercoaster) should be (1) reflected upon using the back of the pink sheet, (2) revised accordingly, and (3) emailed to me by our next class.

2. Actively read the two poems ("Song of Napalm" and "Facing It") with 10 notices/signifies each. Summarize what happens in each poem or what each poem is about in a paragraph each.

Homework 11/28 (A day)

1. Complete Storytelling Reflection (white or yellow) for your Rollercoaster story.

2. Have you sent me a revision of Your Story (not the Rollercoaster) based on the front side of the pink sheet (plot, characters, conflict, setting)? If not, do it ASAP.

Homework 11/29 (B day)

1. Complete green reflection sheet for Your Story in order to make any final revisions. Submit your final narrative to Turnitin.com and bring a hard copy for Thursday's class.

2. I will be collecting the active reading (10 N/S) and paragraph (what is the poem about?) for "Song of Napalm" next class. Make sure it's complete.

Homework 11/30 (A day)

1. Complete the back side of your pink sheet to reflect on narrative elements and consider experimentation in YOUR story.

2. REVISION #2 for your story (not the rollercoaster) due next class. Bring a copy with you!

3. Quiz on narrative elements Friday, 12/2.

Homework 12/1 (B day)

1. Complete the front side of your 1-3 Revision sheet.

2. Quiz on narrative elements Monday.

Homework 12/2 (A day)

1. Complete YOUR STORY reflection questions and directions for final edits

2. Final version of YOUR STORY due to Turnitin.com and in hard copy on 12/6

3. HSA parent signature due 12/6

4. Quiz on terms related to our narrative unit = Tuesday

Homework 12/5 (B day)

1. Actively read (10 N/S) the directions for your Psychological Response Unit Research assignment.

2. If you didn't finish it in class today, make sure your Pattern 1-3 Revisions are complete for class on Wednesday.

3. Quiz on narrative elements moved to Wednesday (luck you!).

Homework 12/6 (A day)

1. Actively read (10 N/S) the directions for your Psychological Response Unit Research assignment.

2. If you didn't finish it in class today, complete the corrections for Benchmark #2.

Homework 12/7 (B day)

1. HSA Benchmark #2 corrections due Friday.

2. E-notecards (15 cards from at least 3 sources) are due to Turnitin.com for Friday's class.

Homework 12/8 (A day)

1. E-notecards (15 cards from at least 3 sources) are due to Turnitin.com for Monday's class.

Homework 12/9 (B day)

1. E-sourcecards (3+) and Annotated Bibliographies (for 3 sources) due to Turnitin.com for Tuesday's class. Use the information on the pink sheet to help you if you can't remember what to do.

Homework 12/12 (A day)

1. E-sourcecards (3+) and Annotated Bibliographies (for 3 sources) due to Turnitin.com for Wednesday's class. Use the information on the pink sheet to help you if you can't remember what to do.

Homework 12/13 (B day)

1. Psychological Trauma Research outline due to Turnitin.com for Thursday's class. Use the information on the blue sheet to help you if you can't remember what to do.

Homework 12/14 (A day)

1. Psychological Trauma Research outline due to Turnitin.com for Friday's class. Use the information on the blue sheet to help you if you can't remember what to do.

Homework 12/15 (B day)

1. Revision of Psych Trauma Research outline due to Turnitin.com for Monday's class. Use the information on the yellow sheet to guide your revisions.

2. Novel permission slips due 12/20.

Homework 12/16 (A day)

1. Revision of Psych Trauma Research outline due to Turnitin.com for Tuesday's class. Use the information on the yellow sheet to guide your revisions.

2. Novel permission slips due 12/20.

Homework 12/19 (B day)

1. Novel permission slips due 12/21. If you're able to purchase the novel, please send me an email and let me know.

2. Semicolon practice: do #s 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 13-15 on the white semicolon handout to practice using Rules #1 and #2.

Homework 12/20 (A day)

1. Novel permission slips due by 12/22. If you're able to purchase the novel, please send me an email and let me know.

2. Semicolon practice (white handout).

Homework 12/21 (B day)

1. NOVELS and PERMISSION SLIPS!!! :)

2. Semicolon practice

3. Look at fancy county rubric that's attached to your essay. Figure out 10 things the rubric wants you to do and list those in your own words. You may email this to me or bring it in on notebook paper.

Don't forget about HSA Review Sessions this afternoon: 2:45-3:45 in A122!

Homework 12/22 (A day)

1. NOVELS and PERMISSION SLIPS!!! :)

2. HSA Benchmark #3 parent/guardian signature and corrections due after break (January 3rd).

Don't forget about HSA Review Sessions this afternoon: 2:45-3:45 in A122!

Homework 12/23 (B day)

1. NOVELS and PERMISSION SLIPS!!!

2. HSA Benchmark #3 parent/guardian signature and corrections due after break (January 4).

3. Use County Writing Revision Checklist (blue) to revise your diagnostic essay. Submit your final version to Turnitin.com by 1:00 on January 4th. Be ready to hand in the blue sheet and your original essay in class.

Homework 1/3 (A day)

1. Email me if you have purchased or otherwise obtained a copy of the novel. Bring your novel for Thursday's class.

2. ATD excerpt with tone analysis (green handout).

HSA Review Sessions this week after school, 2:45-3:45.

Homework 1/4 (B day)

1. Email me if you have purchased or otherwise obtained a copy of the novel. Bring your novel for Friday's class.

2. Tone/cat paragraph (at least 4 sentences).

HSA Review Sessions this week after school, 2:45-3:45.

Homework 1/5 (A day)

1. Complete 5 of the style rows on the green handout.

2. Get a good night's sleep and eat a healthy breakfast in preparation for Monday's HSA. Good luck! You'll do great :)

Homework 1/6 (B day)

1. AR the pink handout (excerpt from the Alexie novel). You should have at least 7 sets of N/S.

2. Finish the modifiers practice and take the modifiers quiz.

3. Bring your Alexie books (if you got one) on Tuesday.

Good luck on the HSA on Monday!

Homework 1/9 (A day)

1. Have the front side of your style chart (green handout) complete for Wednesday's class and discussion.

2. Reading #1 (pages 1-31) and Quotes & Notes due for Wednesday's class.

In case you lose your copy, the reading calendar is posted below.

Homework 1/10 (B day)

1. Have the back side of the green tone handout completed for Thursday's class.

2. Reading #1 (pages 1-31)/Quotes and Notes due for Thursday's class. If you didn't get a book from me today, check with me tomorrow morning.

Homework 1/11 (A day)

1. Reading #2/Quotes and Notes due for Friday's class.

2. Complete discussion questions (yellow handout).

Homework 1/12 (B day)

1. Reading #2/Quotes and Notes due for Tuesday's class.

2. Complete discussion questions (yellow handout).

Homework 1/13 (A day)

1. Reading #3/Quote and Notes due for Wednesday's class.

2. Which of the three poems best describes the attitude and lifestyle of Junior, his parents, and/or another specific person on the rez? Explain your choice and justify it with specific examples (quotes) from both the poem and the novel.

Homework 1/17 (B day)

1. Reading #3/Quotes and Notes due for Thursday's class.

2. Complete Active Reading (notice/signify) for the three dream poems and “Gray Wolf’s Daughter.” Be prepared to explain how these texts connect to ATD.

Homework 1/18 (A day)

1. Reading #4/Quote and Notes due for Friday's class.

2. Quiz on colons and semicolons will be the class after next.

Homework 1/19 (B day)

1. Reading #4/Quotes and Notes due for Monday's class.

2. Summative quiz on colons and semicolons next class (Monday).

Homework 1/20 (A day)

1. Reading #5/Quotes and Notes due for Tuesday's class.

2. Summative quiz on colons and semicolons next class (Tuesday).

Homework 1/23 (B day)

1. Reading #5 plus Quotes and Notes

2. Email: summative writing assignment (due Wednesday). See the pink handout for specifics!

3. Do you have any books that belong to me? if so, bring them in!

Homework 1/24 (A day)

1. Reading #6 plus Quotes and Notes

2. Email summative writing (due Thursday)

3. Do you have any books that belong to me?

Homework 1/25 (B day)

1. Reading #6 plus Quotes and Notes

2. Complete the metaphor handout (3 metaphors with quotes and page numbers + create original metaphors for 3 of the 5 characters listed).

3. Do you have any books that belong to me?

Homework 1/26 (A day)

1. Reading #7 plus Quotes and Notes

2. Do you have any books that belong to me?

Homework 1/30 (B day)

1. Reading #7 plus Quotes and Notes

2. Actively read "Metaphor" and compose an extended metaphor of your own in poetic form (no fewer than 10 lines).

Homework 1/31 (A day)

1. Compile a list of 10 topics (abstract nouns) related to the novel. Email this to me for Thursday's class.

2. Complete ONE side of the green style handout. Using the style of the excerpt as a model, convey information about your own life in Junior's narrative style. A draft on notebook paper is fine.

Homework 2/1 (B day)

1. Compile a list of 10 topics (abstract nouns) related to the novel. Email this to me for Friday's class.

2. If you didn't finish one side of the green handout, make sure you have that done for Friday's class. You do not need to work on your list or tribe rewrite for homework.

Homework 2/2 (A day)

1. Take one topic and turn it into a theme. Then, (1) post it to the DB of Turnitin.com (no repeats) and (2) support two classmates’ themes with a specific example from the text and/or a quote from the text.

Homework 2/3 (B day)

2. Finish your PowerPoint for Tuesday's class. Email it to me.

Homework 2/6 (A day)

1. Revise your theme for focus and precise, academic language. Include 3 properly punctuated quotations to support this theme. Email to me.

2. Finish PowerPoint if not completed in class. Send by email.

Homework 2/7 (B day)

1. Revise your theme for focus and precise, academic language. Include 3 properly punctuated quotations to support this theme. Email to me.

2. PowerPoints (for either style piece or your metaphor poem) due Thursday. If you haven't sent me the Word documents containing the text for these pieces of writing, do it asap.

Homework 2/8 (A day)

1. Draft a thesis statement from your theme (notes posted below). Provide at least 4 quotations from the novel to support this thesis statement. Email your thesis and supporting quotes to me for Friday's class.

2. Bring a book to read in class on Friday!

Homework 2/9 (B day)

1. Ms. Heller told me that you didn't get all of the way through the information about thesis statements--and that's ok. For Monday, locate 3 more quotes (for a total of 6) to support your theme, and bring that information with you to class. We will add in your methods to complete your thesis statements on Monday.

2. Bring a book to read in class on Monday!

Homework 2/10 (A day)

1. Revise thesis statement and turn it into the beginnings of an essay for Tuesday. Follow these directions. On a Word document, include your revised thesis statement and 2 best supporting quotes. Under each quote, explain how it demonstrates your method AND how it supports your theme (bullets). MLA Style. A sample "essay" is posted below if you need it.

2. Bring your books!

Homework 2/13 (B day)

1. Print out the most recent copy of your thesis statement and supporting quotes and bring it with you to class on Wednesday. We will clarify thesis statements then.

2. Bring in a novel to read independently on Wednesday.

Homework 2/14 (A day)

1. Add an introduction to your "essay" for ATD. Email for Thursday's class.

2. Bring in a novel for Thursday.

Homework 2/15 (B day)

2. Bring in a novel for Friday!

Homework 2/16 (A day)

1. Make final revisions to ATD "essay" and submit to Turnitin.com for Wednesday's class. Make sure your essay is proofread and formatted in MLA Style.

2. Quiz on dashes and commas Wednesday.

3. Bring in your book!

Homework 2/17 (B day)

1. Revise ATD "essay." Send by email. Due Thursday.

2. Quiz on dashes and commas Thursday.

3. Bring in your book!

Homework 2/22 (A day)

1) ATD Intro “Essays” due Friday to Turnitin.com. Students needing help should sign up for Flex or before/after school.

2) Actively read (at least 10 N/S) the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicolas Carr in preparation for Friday’s class. Here is the link to the essay: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/ . Students may email or handwrite their active reading notes.

Homework 2/23 (B day)

1) ATD “Essays” due Monday. Students needing help should sign up for Flex or before/after school.

2) Actively read (at least 10 N/S) the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicolas Carr in preparation for Monday’s class. Here is the link to the essay: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/ . Students may email or handwrite their active reading notes.

Homework 2/24 (A day)

1. Archetypes research: locate information about color, natural, hero, or oppositional archetypes. Either print or email this information (not the URL but the actual information you want me to print) to me for class on Tuesday.

Homework 2/27 (B day)

1. Add intro to essay. Email for Wednesday's class.

2. Quiz on dashes, commas, parentheses Wednesday.

Homework 2/28 (A day)

1. Resubmissions for the ATD intro essay are due to Turnitin.com by next Monday (3/5). When you submit your essay to Turnitin.com, make sure you give your yellow reflection sheet to me. See me during Flex if you need help.

2. Archetype presentations are due on Thursday. See me during Flex if you need help.

Homework 2/29 (B day)

1. Discussion board posting due next class.

2. Introduction essay revisions will be due next Tuesday. If you need help with your introduction or with any other parts of your essay, sign up for Flex mod.

3. Bring books for independent reading.

Homework 3/1 (A day)

1. Final introduction essays due to Turnitin.com on Monday. Reflection sheets and drafts from Tuesday are due in class.

2. "Better Man" archetype analysis (pink handout).

Homework 3/2 (B day)

1. Archetype presentation due Tuesday.

2. Revisions of your intro essays are NOT due Tuesday because I want to conference with each of you first.

Homework 3/5 (A day)

1. Locate a song with archetypal significance. Email the lyrics and an explanation of the archetype and what it contributes to the overall text.

2. Bring a books for independent reading!

Homework 3/6 (B day)

1. "Better Man" archetype analysis due Thursday.

2. Final introduction essays due Thursday to Turnitin.com.

Homework 3/7 (A day)

1. Superhero visual and written component due Friday.