English 10--3/5/2019

Jump Off
--Please pick up each of the following from the front table:

• the halfsheet titled "Claim Templates With TAG About a Writing Strategy in Literature"
• a manila folder
• the halfsheet titled "Article of the Week/ThinkCERCA #2 (Research Unit)"
• the sheet titled "The CRAP Test"

S. the C.

--Wrapping Up With the End in Mind: You will write a two paragraph literary analysis response in which you...

• show that Coelho is implementing a writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) within the novella The Alchemist
• explain how Coelho uses the writing strategy to develop an emergent theme of the story.

This writing assignment also serves as the "40" component of the second 60/40 reading assessment.

--agenda/HW

Transition
--Please take out your copy of the "The Alchemist Novella Unit--End-of-Novella-Unit Literary Analysis Written Response Exemplar" document from last class block.

Writing Workshop -- End-of-Novella-Unit Literary Analysis Written Response
--oral reading of "Claim Templates With TAG About a Writing Strategy in Literature" halfsheet
--MODELING each of the templates on the SMART Board with paragraph #1 of my written response (symbolism in the novella)
--writing paragraph claim
--Closure -- Handwriting Paragraph #1

• copy down the first sentence(s) of the (hopefully?!) exemplary written response

--For HW, use the halfsheet to write the claim for YOUR written response.

Research -- Inquiry-Based Argumentative Research Paper
--my manila folder shared, which includes my sheet from our last visit to the library

• I strongly recommend that you, too, put together a research folder in which you can keep all of your materials moving forward!

--oral reading of the first direction on the "Article of the Week/ThinkCERCA #2 (Research Unit)" halfsheet

--MODEL use of the "CRAP Test" with my article titled "American Meritocracy Is Killing Youth Sports"

• Does this article "pass"?

--oral reading of the second direction on the halfsheet

--MODEL active/purposeful reading with the beginning of my article

LIBRARY

• find a proper source by running the "CRAP Test"
• print the source
• actively/purposefully read the source (complete the AoW #2 assignment)

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM this Thursday, 3/7 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).
Writing

--Continue thinking about your upcoming literary analysis written response.

• About which writing strategy will you write?
• What is a strong theme statement for the novella?
• What pieces of evidence from the novella do you intend to use?

You can expect to continue moving forward with the exemplar next class block.
--Use the "Claim Templates With TAG About a Writing Strategy in Literature" halfsheet to write the claim for YOUR written response by the beginning of NEXT class.

--Continue thinking about the following questions:

• Research Unit: What might you argue with regard to your research topic?
• We will be heading back over to the library again next week!
• End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?

--Finish actively/purposefully reading AoW #2 (YOUR article!) as per the directions in the box on the "Article of the Week/ThinkCERCA #2 (Research Unit)" halfsheet.  Expect to place your best work in the black basket at the beginning of NEXT class.
HW (Class Preparation)
--Read at least 5-10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  Your book must be finished by the END OF THIS WEEK.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!

• "Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you" (Carlos Ruiz Zafon).

Miscellaneous

--Be thinking about the memoir genre.  Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?

--Work toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal?!