October 16, 2017 - October 20, 2017

Monday, October 16th: 

Quizlet:  tinyurl.com/LevelCUnit2

Structure for Second and Third Body Paragraph

Mini-Topic Sentence

Two to four sentences developing the mini-topic sentence

Introduction to the quotation or evidence to support your mini-topic sentence

The quotation or the evidence - paraphrased in your own words

Two to four sentences to show how the quotation or evidence supports your mini-topic sentence

Transition sentence - last sentence of the paragraph which ties up the ideas and provides a bridge to the next mini-topic sentence.

Work on the third body paragraph and the final concluding paragraph in the library today.

Tuesday October 17th: 
Please make sure you turn in your Unit Two vocabulary. For many of you, it is very late. 

Your persuasive essay on animal rights will be due today at 11:59.  Here are the rubrics for receiving a good grade on this assignment: 

Rubric for Essay

To receive an “A”, you must do the following: The essay: ·      is 1.5 spaced ·      has, as a minimum, a 500 word count (approximately two pages) ·      has  paragraphs that are no more than half a page in length ·      is factually accurate ·      has a thesis statement, which gives a framework and a guide to the essay ·      has quotations from the text to support the writer’s position ·      has 5% or fewer grammatical errors such as: sentence fragments, fused sentences, and/or comma splices, and correct use of commas, semi-colons, and capitalization The heading: ·      Has a title ·      The student’s name, date, and period are on the upper left side of the first page The introductory paragraph has: ·      A thesis statement (what the essay is about and the position of the writer) ·      The title of the play and the full name of the author ·      A “grabber” that catches the interest of the reader ·      One sentence per main idea that will be discussed later on in the essay ·      A transitional sentence that provides a bridge to the next paragraph

The body paragraphs (paragraphs 2, 3, 4, etc.): ·      Should be no more than half a page in length ·      Should have a mini-topic sentence which helps the reader understand what the paragraph is about ·      Must refer to the text to support the points the writer is making ·      For every point the writer is making, the writer must provide proof from the text to support her point ·      Must have a short quotation and/or a paraphrase of the text to support the point the writer is making ·      Should have a transitional sentence that acts as a bridge to the next paragraph

The Conclusion: ·      There should be no new material in the last paragraph ·      There should be a brief summing up of the main points – one sentence per main idea ·      A final point that sums up the writer’s conclusion

Tuesday, October 17th: 
Absent today due to illness. Students work on their papers. 

Wednesday, October 18th: 

Page 174

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe

Setting:

Venice, Italy

19^th Century – 1800s

Vocabulary:

Fortunato is the name of a character.

It would be ironic if a person whose name is Fortunate is unlucky.

Utterance: speech

Avenged: to redress or right a wrong.  When someone commits a wrong against  an innocent person and someone defends the wronged person.

Precluded: to take an action before an event to prevent something bad from happening.

Milan: Diego says that when his mom is in a bad mood, Diego goes into another room with his little dog Chapo.

To preclude bad grades be sure to do your homework.

Impunity: freedom from punishment and harm.

Retribution: punishment.

I must not only punish but I must get away with it (with impunity).

Redress is revenge!!!! To redress a wrong! To revenge a wrong!

Redresser: a revenger!!!

“It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.”

A wrong is unrevenged when the bully doesn’t suffer the same amount of pain as the victim.

The narrator is unreliable. This means that the narrator cannot necessarily be believed either because s/he is deliberately lying or is insane.

Immolation: destruction

The narrator misleads Fortunato by continuing to smile in his face, but his smile is at the thought of Fortunato’s destruction.

Thursday, October 19th:

Period 4:

Pass out  The Cask of Amontillado vocabulary packet

Went over the vocabulary words:

1.     Precluded – to prevent

Trenton: I hope doing drugs does not preclude your opportunities.

Bianca: Stacy started a new route to get to class to preclude seeing her sister.

2.     redresser – an avenger

Melany: The redresser stopped the children from fighting

3.     Imposture: fraud or deception

Milan: Through an act of imposture, a man posing as my grandfather tried to pick me up at school.

Melany: A man committed an act of imposture when he tried to steal a credit card.

4.     Accosted: To be approached or spoken to in a rude way.

Alejandra: When my family and I went to a restaurant, we complained to the management when we were accosted by the hostess.

Please open your books to page 174 in The Cask of Amontillado

Vocabulary: Connoisseurship: expert knowledge

Quack is an incompetent person; particularly a doctor.

What is the one thing that Fortunato takes seriously? Wine!!!!

Fortunato prides himself on being a wine connoisseur – or wine expert!

Fortunatao was dressed like a clown.

What is Amontillado?

Amontillado is a wine!!!!!!!!!

Luchesi is Fortunato’s rival in the wine drinking and tasting department.

Notice how the narrator manipulates Fortunato into going with him to his home to taste the Amontillado.

Suffer means to grudgingly allow. “I suffered him to come with me to the party.”

October 9, 2017 - October 13, 2017 Weekly Agenda

Monday, October 9th: 

Please open your books to page 27, please get out your notes on the video, and a piece of paper and a pen.

Today we will work on your thesis statement and your introductory paragraph.

The thesis statement is a sentence that has the topic and your position on the topic.

Julian:

Animals are very smart and therefore they should be treated better.

David:

Because animals are much smarter than we realize, they should be treated with greater respect.

Because animals are capable of thinking and feeling, we should not hunt them or eat them.

Trenton:

Animals are just as smart as humans and therefore, humans shouldn’t think they are superior them in any way.

Animals are___________________; therefore, animals should be treated______________________.

Cierra:

Animals are very smart and have feelings; therefore, humans should respect them.

Outline for the Essay:

Introductory Paragraph:

Where does the thesis statement go?

Bianca: Anywhere in the first paragraph

Grabber or a hook

Anecdote –

Lizbeth: a short or interesting story about a real incident or a real person

Include three things you are going to write about in your essay.

Transition sentence!

The First Body Paragraph

The mini-topic sentence – the idea or position

The mini-topic sentence lets us know what the paragraph is about.

Three or four sentences to develop the mini-topic sentence

Introduction to supporting evidence

Evidence – something which supports the thesis statement

The evidence can be a quotation or an anecdote from the video or the article we read.

After the evidence, explain, or analyze, or paraphrase the quotation in order to show how the evidence supports your thesis.  This should be about two to four sentences.

The transition sentence which will then take you to the next body paragraph.

Repeat the body paragraph two more times!!!!!!

Conclusion:

Restate your thesis statement

Briefly go over the main points to support your thesis statement

Then write one strong concluding line.

Do not include new information in the conclusion.

Now, what you need to do is write the introductory of your essay!!!

Share out of first paragraph!

Diego

Julian

For homework tonight: work on your introductory paragraph and your first body paragraph.

Tuesday, October 10th: 
Absent
Students worked on essay 

Wednesday, October 11th: 

Shortened, special schedule today - PSAT Testing and Senior College Fair 

Work on the introductory paragraph

Move onto the first body paragraph

Thursday, October 12th: 

Students constructed a class body paragraph for the essay:

Body Paragraph

The first thing that goes into the body paragraph:

Diego – The mini-topic sentence

The second thing that goes into the body paragraph: 

David – three or four sentences that will develop the topic sentence

The third thing that goes into the body paragraph:

Lizbeh – introduction to support evidence (quotation or a paraphrase)

The fourth thing that goes into the body paragraph:

Alejandra – the evidence

Alejandra – the quotation or paraphrase of the information

The fifth thing that goes into the body paragraph:

Idalia – explain or paraphrase or analyze the evidence to show how it supports your thesis. This should be two to four sentences

The last thing that goes into the body paragraph: 

Bianca – The transition sentence to the next paragraph

Build a Body Paragraph!!!!

Topic Sentences

Animals are very intelligent and should be treated the way humans are treated.

Topic Sentence:

For many years scientists thought that only humans were intelligent enough to use tools, until one day a scientist saw a bird using a stick as a tool to dig for food. 

This develops the mini-topic sentence:

This shows that animals can think and use tools to get what they want like food, just like we do.  Scientists have found that there are many animals that use tools.

Examples:

Milan:

For example, elephants use their trunks as tools to do work not only for themselves but also for humans.

Yessenia:

Another example is Fu Manchu, an orangutan, who escaped from his enclosure by stealing a wire from a louvered air vent and using it to pick the lock from his cage.

Hilaryd:

According to Eugene Linden, in his article “Can Animals Think?”, the zoo keeper noticed that Fu Manchu stowed the wire in his mouth so he could  plan future escapes.

Yessenia:

This shows that Fu Manchu, an orangutan, figured out not only how to use a wire as a tool, but also had the intelligence to hide it so he could use it again for future escapes.

Transition Sentence:

Milan:

These aren’t the only examples of animal intelligence. There are many more examples that haven’t been discovered of animals using tools.

 Cierra:

We humans treat animals based on what scientists think and say, not knowing that animals think, feel, and know how to do things we humans don’t.

Another examples of animals being smart:

Julian: When you ask your dog where your cousin is and she takes you to him.

Bianca: A dog learned how to jump on a mattress after watching two little girls jump.

Hilaryd and Yessenia:  A dog has learned how to watch traffic patterns before crossing the street.

More Examples of Animals Being Smart:

Milan: Hurricane evacuees released their animals before the hurricane. The animals, dogs and cats, were smart enough to find high ground so they survived the flooding.

For homework tonight:

Please write your introductory paragraph, your paragraph on animal intelligence, and your paragraph on animal emotions.

Friday, October 13th: 

2^nd Body Paragraph

Mini-topic statement:

Yessenia

Animals have feelings, too, even if they don’t show it.  Animals have their own language and humans may not be able to “read” or understand their language.

Lizbeth found this online:

According to Jackson Galaxy, the famous “cat whisperer”, when your cat does a slow blink, she is telling you that she is feeling happy and content with you. This is called a “kitty kiss”.  Many people don’t like cats but it is because people do not know how to interpret cat language.

Milan:

Another example that shows animals have feelings is when Milan meows at her cat, her cat will meow back at her, which starts a “meowing” conversation that ends with her cat running to her and rubbing against her.

Julian:

Elephants have been known to destroy the villages of poachers who have killed members of their herd.

Another example is from a youtube video, “Why Elephants Never Forget“, which states elephants have been known to attack villages of poachers who have killed members of their herds.

Jason read his paper based on a true story found on the “Modern Dog” website about a dog who grieved so much over the death of his owner that he refused to eat, and  eventually died.  This dog literally died from grief.

David:

Elephants have funeral rituals  which honor their dead. They will stand guard close to their deceased elephant family member – their mother, their sister, their daughter – for several days and lovingly touch the body.

Another example of elephants expressing emotions is when they encounter a dead elephant that is not a part of their family.  The herd will stop for some time and carefully and respectfully examine the bones and the body of the stranger elephant.


Rubric for second and third body paragraphs:

Structure for Second Body Paragraph

Mini-Topic Sentence

Two to four sentences developing the mini-topic sentence

Introduction to the quotation or evidence to support your mini-topic sentence

The quotation or the evidence - paraphrased in your own words

Two to four sentences to show how the quotation or evidence supports your mini-topic sentence

Transition sentence - last sentence of the paragraph which ties up the ideas and provides a bridge to the next mini-topic sentence.

Conclusion:

You restate your thesis statement.

You briefly write one sentence per main idea in the essay

Then one final concluding sentence which states your main idea.

Please do not add new information

Please do not write “In conclusion”.