Category: English 2

5/29

Research and work on source notes – Google Classroom

5/30

Research and work on source notes – Google Classroom

5/31

Pro Con Chart Overview and Assignment – Due by midnight

Google Classroom

6/1

Resume resource notes – Due Monday at midnight – Google Classroom

 

Remember:

One Website and verify trustworthy with CRAAP Test checklist

Two Database (Gale) ohslmc.com

One book

One of your choice

The magic number is FIVE…five total source notes, five evidence points per source note, five corresponding commentaries.

Rock like a hurricane!

 

5/21

Complete Essay

5/22 AND 5/23

Lord of the Flies Movie/Functional Skills Basketball Game

Write down ten substantial differences between the movie and the novel

5/24

Go over research project assignment.  Have students annotate assignment and ask questions.  Present students with topic choices and permission form.  All forms located on Google Classroom.

5/25

Teach students how to use GALE research system.  Have students research their own chosen topics.  Go over research and source notes briefly.  All located on Google Classroom.

5/16

SIT IN SURVIVAL GROUPS.

 

GET OUT ONE PIECE OF PAPER PER GROUP.

 

WRITE THE NAMES OF ONLY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PRESENT IN YOUR GROUP.

 

TITLE THE PAGE “LOTF TEST.”

GO DOWN A LINE.  WRITE “TEST NUMBER: ___”

 

GO DOWN A LINE. NUMBER 1 THROUGH 44.

 

BRACE YOURSELVES: it is 44 questions. You have NO TIME to goof off.

 

5/17, 5/18, 5/21

Get you books, paragraphs, and blank lined paper out.

Sit in assigned seats.

 

Hook

Thesis

 

Body paragraph

2 pieces evidence (cite) (Golding 64).

Commentary why or how the evidence proves your point

 

Body paragraph

Different – 2 pieces of evidence commentary

 

Conclusion – how something from the book related to your world today

 

 

 

1. Introduction
2. Hook
3. Thesis Statement
4. Body Paragraph 1 – Similarities
5. Topic Sentence
   1. evidence illustrating they are similar
      1. Commentary (2 sentences) explaining how this proves your TS and WHY we care
   2. evidence #2 illustrating they are similar
      1. Commentary (2 sentences) explaining how this proves your TS and WHY we care

• Body Paragraph 2 – Differences

1. Topic Sentence
   1. evidence illustrating they are different
      1. Commentary (2 sentences) explaining how this proves your TS and WHY we care
   2. evidence #2 illustrating they are different
      1. Commentary (2 sentences) explaining how this proves your TS and WHY we care
   3. Conclusion connecting Lord of the Flies essay to the present day

READ CHAPTER 12

Assign these questions to four different groups

Remember

• Ralph, who begins the chapter being hunted in the jungle, finds the pig’s head, the ‘Lord of the Flies.’ What does he do with it?
• When Jack can’t get to Ralph, who is hiding in some dense brush in the jungle, what new approach does he take to get to his enemy?
• Ralph runs to the beach to escape the hunters and finds someone unexpected. Who does he find on the beach?

Understand

• What brought the naval officer to the island?
• When the naval officer finds Ralph on the beach, he reacts with a mixture of emotions. Explain what he seems to feel at the sight of Ralph and the members of Jack’s tribe.
• When Ralph is hiding in the thicket, how do Jack’s hunters know where to find him?

Apply

• Situational irony comes up when there’s tension between what actually happens in the story and what you, as the reader, expected to happen. Explain the situational irony of the boys’ rescue at the end of the novel.
• Deus ex machina is a literary device. When writers put characters in a terrible situation and then suddenly, out of nowhere, they give the characters a way out, that’s deus ex machina. Explain how that term applies to the end of Lord of the Flies.
• A literary motif is an idea that keeps appearing throughout a book. Explain how the motif of predator and prey functions in this final chapter of the novel.

Analyze

• Percival, one of the littleuns in the group, was only able to say his name and address at the beginning of the novel.  Now, when he approached the naval officer, “he sought in his head for an incantation that had faded clean away.”  In other words, he no longer remembers his name.  Explain the significance of this moment.
• Why don’t the boys celebrate when the naval officer comes to rescue them?
• Contrast the naval officer’s expectation of the boys with the reality on the island.

5/15

Please get into your question groups from yesterday

We will review the questions quickly, and then play a review game in your survival groups.

https://www.playfactile.com/schuster

Read Chapter 11

1. Write a summary of what happens at Castle Rock including what happens to Piggy, to Ralph, and to the conch.
2. What problem does Ralph and Piggy experience at the beginning of the chapter? What are three steps they take to solve this problem? Include information from chapter 11 in your answer.
3. What is the author’s purpose for attacking Piggy? Provide one detail from chapter 11 in your answer.
4. Cliffhanger! I want you to write down evidence of what is happening now that helps to foreshadow what you think will happen in the concluding chapter.  Include evidence from chapter 11 AND your predictions that stem from this evidence.

5/8

QUIZ!

Nature vs. Nurture. The nature versus nurture debate is about the relative influence of an individual’s innate attributes as opposed to the experiences from the environment one is brought up in, in determining individual differences in physical and behavioral traits.

So you should be looking for evidence of the way someone was raised OR how them being out in nature has made them revert to their innate form.

Structure for a compare/contrast paragraph was handed out.  Students first attempt at such a paragraph.

5/9

Get your notebooks from the front of the room.

Open to a blank page.

Title it:

5/9/18 Sample Compare and Contrast Paragraph

Write along with students:

Jack and Ralph have many similarities and differences.  First, Jack and Ralph are the same because both want to be leaders.  For instance, Jack and Ralph argue over who is to be in charge and so both form their own tribes.  Additionally, they both are respected by the other children on the island.  The respect the other children have for the two leaders is evident because the other children hang on their every word and do as they say.

1. Topic Sentence
   1. Similar
      1. Inference from text (a leader)
         1. Evidence that this inference is true (gets food)
      2. Inference from text
         1. Evidence
      3. Different
         1. Inference
            1. Evidence
         2. Inference
            1. Evidence

What I will check tomorrow:

Did you read chapter 10?  Is there ONE NOTE per PAGE for chapter 10.

4/30

“Caged Bird” frame storyboard.

5/1

Copy essay questions and chart.  Read chapter 6 and answer chapter 6 questions.

Period 2 and 3 WEDNESDAY

Get out journals:

Sneeze 5/2/18 – 6 minutes

Write down these questions, skipping five lines in between each:

1. The author makes reference to the past and to the future in this chapter.   Which character is thinking about these things?
2. What, in particular, does he remember in the past?  How does it make him feel?
3. What, in particular, does he think about in the future?  Who else is part of this conversation?

 

Have them get into their “Survival Groups.”  Read chapter 7, with focus on these questions, answering them along them way in their notebooks.

Twenty minutes left in class: Have students get into pairs, NOT threes or fours.  They may work alone or in pairs.  ONE “Battling Boys” close reading PER GROUP.

English 2 THURSDAY

• Sneeze 5/3/18 – write in notebooks for 5 minutes
  What is bravery? Given the events of chapter 7, which character is most brave (Ralph/Piggy/Simon/Jack)? Prove your point.
• Read Chapter 8 in Survival Groups…if groups are not on task, then write down their names and I will take off “life points.” – Students may BORROW the half sheet questions and share them. The next class will need them, so make sure they are returned.

 

Periods 2 and 3 FRIDAY

Read the paper titled BEELZEBUB out loud to the entire class.  This article is meant to help them understand chapter 8 and the title of the novel.

Hand out Lord of The Flies storyboard, one per person.  Follow directions on the sheet.  They may use my colored pencils, etc. (in the basket at the front of the room).  It is expected that they will put everything back neatly.  Appearances COUNT towards the grade, as do all presentations and work in life.  If you can’t draw well, I get it…but it should appear as though you tried your best and interpreted the text correctly.  If I cannot tell what you are trying to communicate, I will not grade it.

5/7 Monday

Read Chapter 9

Complete Venn Diagram on Jack and Ralph.  Have 5 points for each section with corresponding page numbers.

Sit in survival groups.

Read chapter 5

Decide who is at fault for the island falling apart in your groups by finding FIVE pieces of evidence for events that cause problems in the chapter.  Given page numbers and provide an explanation.