November 6, 2017 - November 9, 2017 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade English

Monday, November 6th:

In #233

9^th grade IAB Informational Reading Test

Tuesday, November 7th: 

In room #223 to finish testing

IAB 9^th Grade Informational Reading

For those who are finished with the test, read Maya Angelou’s “Woman Work” and answer those questions that are circled: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and then write a short poem that is modeled on Woman Work but it’s going to be about your life: “I’ve got homework to do….”
This will be due tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 8th: 

Please turn in your reading log (notes) for The Cask of Amontillado

For extra credit, you may type it and submit it to schoology.

For extra credit, you must bring a signed ticket to dance show.

For extra credit, you must bring a signed ticket to the Halloween show.

Answer the circled questions:

1. Name the five activities listed by the speak of "Woman Work".

3. What does the catalog of images in "Woman Work" tell you about the life of the speaker? Where do you  think she lives?

4. What is the tone of the poem "Woman Work"? What is the woman's attitude towards her life? Cite details to explain the tone of the poem.

5. Look at the second through fifth stanza. Who is the woman addressing? What are the things the woman is asking for?

7. How would the poem be different if it were written by a man?

Writing "My Day"

Using the poem "Woman Work", write a poem about your day.

Start the poem off with "I've got  - " and then list the things you have to do during the course of the day.

Posted Tue Nov 7, 2017 at 1:04 pm

If you have not already, you need to turn in your packet for The Cask of Amontillado

Poe's Last Days

Page 185

Bottom of the left hand column

“According to Moran and his wife….”

Milan:

Drenched in sweat, pale, delirious

Spectral: ghostly and unreal

Thursday, November 9th: 

Finished reading "Poe's Last Days" 
Reading Log 

Began reading "A Case of Rabies" 
Reading log 

Top of page 186  of “Poe’s Final Days” 

Finish reading "Poe's Last Days" 

Reading log 

 Incoherent:

Trenton: speech that suggests the speaker is not in a sane state.

Taylor: Expressed in an incomprehensible state.

When Moran questions Poe, his answers are incoherent. He did not know what happened to his trunk. He also said that he left his wife in Richmond – but Poe’s wife was dead, and he had broken up with his fiancée.

What were Poe’s last words?

Trenton: “Lord help my poor soul.”

And when did he expire?

October 6^th at 3 a.m.

Expires means to die.

Diego: the only family members who visited Poe were the two daughters of his uncle-in-law, Henry Herring.

Diego: Poe became violent and had to be held down by two nurses.

Do we know how and why Poe died?

Moran reported that Poe’s heavy perspiration, trembling, and hallucinations suggest that  he died of delirium tremens, mania a potu.

Profuse: heavy, a great deal of

Lethal:

Milan – deadly

What do most of the people, including the doctors, think Poe died from?

From heavy alcoholism.

Congestion of the brain is what doctors referred to as alcoholism. Congestion of the brain is a euphemism for death by alcoholism

Euphemism: a more polite expression for an embarrassing thing, situation, or event.

“I have to powder my nose” is a euphemism for going to the bathroom.

Cerebral refers to the brain

Inflammation: inflamed, swollen, infected

Vigorously:with great energy, with great strength

Disputed: argued

Poe’s immune system was already weakened by years of alcoholism. He was already sick with a fever, and he was simply too drunk to care for himself.

“Poe’s Death is Rewritten as Case of Rabies, Not Telltale Alcohol”

Page 187

Cardiologist: a heart doctor

Reading: Diego

Lizbeth:

Maligned: falsely accused, slandered

Comatose: in a coma

Belligerent: angry and aggressive, ready to start a fight

Reading:

David

Hydrophobia: fear of water

Many people do not know that they have been bitten by a rabid animal. It can take a year for the symptoms to appear.

Dr. Benitez believes that Poe had died from encephalitic rabies.

Temperance advocate: someone advocates that no one drinks.

Dr. Benitez believes that Dr. Moran had become a temperance advocate and had changed the detail of Poe’s death to convince people that drinking was dangerous and should be banned. 

October 31, 2017 - November 3, 2017 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade English

Monday, October 30th: 
Finish reading the articles on Edgar Allan Poe's death.

Tuesday, October 31st: 
Watch Edgar Scissorshand

Wednesday, November 1st: 

Edgar Allen Poe

“A Haunted Life”

Consumption is a 19^th century name for tuberculosis, which  is caused either by bacteria or a virus. In the 19^th century it was fatal.  

Conservative: one who believes that the traditional way of doing things is the best way to live.

The French loved Poe as a writer long before the Americans realized his genius.

Masons: a closed society that was open only to white wealthy men of influence and power.

A mason is a brick layer or a wall builder.

Refuge: a place of safety

Refugees are fleeing from war torn countries and are seeking refuge in the U.S. and in Europe.

Delirious: feverish and drifting in and out of consciousness.

Tavern: a bar or a saloon, a place where people go to drink

Page 184 “Poe’s Final Days” 

Time Line: 

Poe departed from Richmond, Virginia, to Baltimore, Maryland. His eventual goal was to go to New York City!!!!

Early morning of Thursday, September 27^th Poe set out from Virginia to Baltimore.

There is no reliable evidence what happened between that time and October 3^rd when he was discovered in a tavern, ill and delirious.

Physician is a doctor!

Taverns were used as polling places. In the 19^th century women were not allowed to vote so that was why taverns were used as polling places.

Polling places were where men went to vote!!!

Poe was found in a delirious state, feverish and drifting in and out of consciousness, and dressed in a stranger’s clothing.

David: a printer by the name of Joseph Walker discovered Poe looking very bad. 

Stopped at page 184, “When Snodgrass arrived at Gunnar’s Hall, he found Poe….”

Right hand column, second paragraph.

Wednesday, November 2nd: 

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Tomorrow, Friday, November 3^rd, please turn in your notes for The Cask of Amontillado, which we were working on as we were reading the short story.

Be sure to entitle your class notes: “The Cask of Amontillado Class Notes”.

Open books to page 184 in “Poe’s Final Days”

Reviewed yesterday’s notes

Alejandra read:

When Joseph Walker found Edgar Allan Poe, he had a look of vacant stupidity and was dressed in dingy torn clothing.

Dingy: dirty, soiled, damp with dirt and sweat, discolored

Where did this scene take place?

Gunnar Hall, a tavern (bar) that was also being used as a polling place.

Who was Joseph Evans Snodgrass?

He was an editor and a physician who knew Edgar Allan Poe.

Who suddenly arrived at the tavern?

Henry Herring, an uncle by marriage to Edgar Allan Poe.

Why didn’t this person want to help Edgar Allan Poe?

Because when Henry Herring gave Edgar Allan Poe and his family a place to stay, Poe was not only ungrateful but rude and abusive – particularly when he was drunk! (And that was often!)

What did this person suggest instead?

To call a carriage and take him to the hospital.

At this point what state was Poe in as he was carried into the carriage?

Poe was delirious; he was insensible and muttering.

Contributing students: Lizbeth A., Alejandra, David, Diego,

Lizbeth A. reads:

Ventilated: air in the room is fresh and circulated.

Milan, Lizbeth, Julian gave definitions for the word ventilated.

Where was Poe sent?

To the hospital, Washington Medical College Hospital –  answers provided by David and Cierra,

When was Poe admitted?

Five in the afternoon – Diego, Lizbeth

Who was his admitting physician?

Dr. John J. Moran, a young doctor who lived at the hospital, was the attending physician.

What was the physician’s opinion of Poe?

He thought Poe was a great man with a rarely gifted mind.

Cierra – read

What state was Poe in when he arrived at the hospital, according to Dr. Moran and his wife? He was in a stupor!

What is a stupor? Dull, irrational, half-conscious state frequently brought on by high fever.

What is delirium? Semi-conscious muttering, feverish dreams

Describe Poe’s physical and mental state.

What is spectral? Ghostly; not real;

Who arrived at the hospital?

Why would Poe not have welcomed this man’s visit?

What does inadvisable mean?
Not a good thing to do!

 

October 23, 2017 - October 27, 2017 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade English

Monday, October 23rd: 
Work on the Vocabulary Packet for The Cask of Amontillado 
 Read The Cask of Amontillado 
Reading log

Page 175 – The Cask of Amontillado

Milan updated us on the story.

The Narrator has told Fortunato that he has bought a cask of very expensive wine called Amontillado. It is during Mardi Gras, when that kind of wine is hard to come by. The Narrator HATES Fortunato!!!! Do we know why the Narrator hates Fortunato? No! The only thing we know is that the Narrator says that he has endured a thousand insults at the hand of Fortunato and he cannot bear it any longer. Is the Narrator reliable? No, he is a little crazy.

The Narrator wants revenge and the prediction is that someone is going to die!!!!

Why do you think the Narrator told Fortunato the story about the Amontillado?

What do we know about Fortunato?

He is a man to be respected.

He loves wine. He is a connoisseur of wine!

Who is Luchesi? He is the arch nemesis of Fortunato! They are rivals in their knowledge of wine!!!!

Finished reading the short story!

Go over tomorrow~

Tuesday, October 24th: 
The Cask of Amontillado vocabulary, grammar, and literary packet:
Went over the vocabulary:

Absconded: past participle of abscond which means to run away and hide.

Bianca: After Amy got into an argument with her mom, she absconded from the situation.

Alejanda: My friend had absconded from her family for two days.

Obstinate: Stubborn; to stand against

Alejandra: I am very obstinate when it comes to racism.

Jose: My ex-best friend said I was really obstinate which is why we are not best friends any  more.

Jose is very obstinate when it comes to eating in Ms. Bridges’ class.

Gesticulation: a motion having to do with the hands to add force to a speech.

Bianca: The director told Oliver to use more gesticulation when speaking as the character.

Julian: My dad uses a lot of gesticulation when he scolds me.

Melanie: The poet uses gesticulation to add meaning to the words.

Crypt: a burial chamber, usually under the floor of a church.
Diego read the definition of crypt.

Bianca: Florence went to jail for kidnapping a child and holding him hostage in a crypt.

Salamata: Last week my mom and I discovered a crypt under the church.

Trenton: I absconded from the crypt where he held me hostage.

Jestice: I buried my grandma in a crypt.

Circumscribing: to limit, to restrict the action of.

Bianca: I circumscribed my kids from playing too many video games because I am worried about their health.

Trenton: The police started to circumscribe the man’s movements as they arrested him.

Alejandra: My mother is circumscribing my activities every time I want to hang out with my friends outside of Highland Park.

Endeavored: tried or tried to do something.

Jestice – read the definition

Jasmine: My brother endeavored to do his homework.

Bianca: Billy endeavored very hard to raise money for the school; he raised $24, 000 more than he needed.

Lisbeth: All babies endeavor to walk when they learn how to stand.

Exercise 2: Writing Sentences in an Ornate Style:

Find the original sentences in the short story The Cask of Amontillado 
"I put up with Fortunato's many injuries, but I was determined to revenge myself when he dared to insult me. 

1.     The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.  Lizbeth – bonus points!
FFinally, we reached the bottom of the stairs. 

2.     We came at length to the foot of the descent and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs. – Julian
"" I didn't want to frighten you, but you should be careful!"

3.     “True – true,” I replied; “and indeed, I had no intention of alarming you unnecessarily – but you should use all proper caution.” – Lizbet
""A drink of this medoc will warm us up!"
"   “A draft of this medoc will defend us from the damps!”

Tomorrow finish the packet.
Act out the scenes from the story
Do a kahoot as a review! 

Wednesday, October 25th: 

You are going to turn in your packet when you take the test on The Cask of Amontillado!!!!

Please get out your packet and your book. Please turn to page 238 in the packet and finish #5 in Exercise 2:

 5. We could not see the back wall of the recess by the weak light of Fortunato’s torch.

Hint: pages 178

“It was in vain that Fortunato, uplifting his dull torch, endeavored to pry into the depths of the recess.

You are going to turn in your packet when you take the test on The Cask of Amontillado!!!!

Verbal Irony: when someone says something he or she doesn’t mean.

Milan and Julian demonstrate verbal irony. The difference between verbal irony and sarcasm is with sarcasm you want the person to know you are being snarky. With sarcasm the person wants the other person to feel silly or dumb or hurt. With verbal  irony you do not let the person know you don’t mean what you are saying.

Situational Irony: when a scene has an unexpected outcome. When the audience expects the scene or the play to turn out a certain way, but it turns out in a completely different way than the audience expected.

Dramatic Irony:

Melanie, Trenton, Bianca – when the audience and the other characters know something that another character doesn’t know.

Bianca gives an example of dramatic irony from a film entitled “Streets”. A girl is talking to a boy whose brother has just been shot. It turns out that she used to talk to the dead brother, but the boy doesn’t know that.

3. Dramatic irony:  Montresor means it when he says his family motto – No one attacks me without being attacked. However, Fortunato doesn’t realize he is about to be attacked!!!!

4. Verbal Irony: Montresor doesn’t care about Fortunato; in fact, he intends to kill him!!!!!  Montresor is pretending to care so that Fortunato won’t suspect his true motive – which is murder!!!!!

5. Verbal Irony: Montresor is saying things that would suggest he cares about Fortunato. But in fact, as he is saying to Fortunato, “Let me first render you all the little attentions in my power”,  Montresor is actually killing him!

Thursday, October 26th: 
Go over The Cask of Amontillado vocabulary, grammar, and literary packet:

Heightened Style:

Bianca, David, Jestice

Syntax is how words are put together to make a sentence.

Heightened Style uses unusual words, similes and metaphors, complicated syntax.

Heightened Style:

It was about dusk, one evening  during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend.

Plain style of the same sentence:

I met my friend just before nightfall during the carnival season.

Here are some features of  heightened style:

1.     Words of many syllables, poetic, or uncommon

2.     Allusions to historical or literary persons.

3.     A formal tone

4.     Figures of speech, such as similes and metaphors

Jestice, David, Bianca

At the end of the crypt, there was another crypt that was smaller.

Bianca, David:

Skeletons were laying against the wall to the vaulted ceiling, similar to the catacombs of Paris.

Bianca:

Three sides of the crypt were still “ornamented” in this fashion.

Alejandra:

Against the fourth wall, a huge pile of bones had fallen down, forming a huge mound of bones.

Diego, Bianca:

Because the bones had fallen, we could see a small room in the fourth wall. The smaller room was four feet in depth, three feet in width, and about six or seven feet in height.

The smaller room did not seem to have been built for any specific reason. It was just the space between two huge columns to support the ceiling of the crypt and the wall of solid granite.

Unusual Words:

Lizbeth:

Promiscuous

Lizbeth:

Circumscribed

Bianca:

Interval

Diego:

Especial

David:

Ornamented

Alejandra:

Constructed

Bianca:

Merely

Allusions to Historical Periods:

David:

Paris catacombs

Figures of Speech:

Cierra:

Its walls had been ornamented with human remains.

For homework:

Reader’s Response

“Revising Two Paragraphs”:

Please rewrite it on a separate sheet of paper and staple it to the packet.

The packet will be due when you take the test!!!!!

Played “Kahoots” – The Cask of Amontillado”

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”.