Category: English 8
Tuesday, January 30th – All Classes
Indie Read
🖋️Quickwrite #5: YOUR Ideal Writing Group
MEET/SHARE: Meet your writing group for this semester. Share QW#5 with each other. And then share one of the 4-part notepages from your writer’s notebook. Consider the choices you made and follow the discussion where it leads.
8th HOUR ONLY: Check out the assignment sheet (handed out in class but also posted in the tab above for English 8 Writing Assignments).
TO-DO: Be sure you have taken a look at the additional sources & thought about how they connect, what you have to say, and which ones you want to work with. If you would like print copies, email Mrs. C which pieces you need sometime TODAY!
UPCOMING: We’ll work with sources the next two days in class. Time for reading, thinking, & creating 4-part notepages.
Monday, January 29th – All Classes
Mrs. C was out today. . .
We used classtime to check out the additional sources available for the upcoming cited commentary paper. Also – Independent Reading. 🙂
TO-DO: Read sources, notice connection & overlap, choose which sources you plan on using for your paper.
Friday, January 26th – English 8 (Hour 8)
🎬 Book Trailers & Indie Read
🖋️Quickwrite #4: YOUR Previous Research Experience
STUDY: Research Is a Conversation ▶️ https://www.library.unlv.edu/node/233 & Presentation/Notes on Conducting Academic Research (quick version in class)
DEADLINE/TO-DO: Check to make sure you have 4-part notes pages for each of the 5 sources we read over the last week and a half. Catch up if needed.
UPCOMING: Cited Commentary Assignment – “Internet” Theme
Thursday, January 25th – All Classes
📖 BookTalk & Indie Read
STUDY: MLA Works Cited page “How To” – Create a practice works cited in Dropbox Drafts folder using citationmachine.net (MLA setting) – see the MLA videos in GClassroom if needed
TO-DO: Finish your SWIC registration (if you are in a DC section of class and are eligible for credit). See slides from last Friday in GClassroom.
Wednesday, January 24th – All Classes
📖 BookTalk & Indie Read
STUDY: 4 Part Note-Taking Strategy Practice & MLA Tips (They Say, Quote, I Say, Question format)
📝 NOTEPAGE: Practice 4-Part Note Strategy & MLA In-text Citations – poem varies by class (find digital copies & video links in today’s GClassroom stream)
- DC Eng8 – Hour 1 – “The Man” by Taylor Swift
- DC Eng8 – Hour 3 – “When the Fat Girl Gets Skinny” by Blythe Baird
- Rhet-Comp II – Hour 6 – “Friend Zone” by Dylan Garity
- Eng 8 – Hour 8 – “Can We Autocorrect Humanity?” by Prince EA
TO-DO: Finish your SWIC registration (if you are in a DC section of class and are eligible for credit). See slides from last Friday in GClassroom.
Tuesday, January 23rd – All Classes
Indie Read
STUDY: 4 Part Note-Taking Strategy Practice & MLA Tips (They Say, Quote, I Say, Question format)
📝 NOTEPAGE: Practice 4-Part Note Strategy & MLA In-text Citations – text/online article varies by class (find digital copies in today’s GClassroom stream)
- DC Eng8 – Hour 1 – “The Boys Are Not All Right” by Michael Ian Black (New York Times.com)
- DC Eng8 – Hour 3 – “I’ve Talked with Teenage Boys” by Laurie Halse Anderson (Time.com)
- Rhet-Comp II – Hour 6 – “Split Image” by Kate Fagan (ESPN.com)
- Eng 8 – Hour 8 – “My Month Without the Internet” by Diana Wagman (LATimes.com)
TO-DO: Finish your SWIC registration (if you are in a DC section of class and are eligible for credit). See slides from last Friday in GClassroom.
Monday, January 22nd – All Classes
E-Learning Day!!
📝 STUDY/ASSIGNMENT: 4-part note strategy practice – watch a TED Talk (links & transcripts posted in GClassroom today – video varies by class hour) & make a notepage using the strategy we’ve been practicing. Submit a photo of your notepage as evidence of your attention & learning.
- DC Eng8 – Hour 1 – “Selfies Aren’t Selfish” by NaAsiaha Simon
- DC Eng8 – Hour 3 – “How to Raise a Black Son in America” by Clint Smith
- Rhet-Comp II – Hour 6 – “A Solution to Gun Violence Found in US History” by David Farrell
- Eng 8 – Hour 8 – “You Are Not Alone in Your Loneliness” by Johnny Sun
NOTE: Watch the additional short video about MLA in-text citing with a timestamp (since you are now citing a video and they don’t have page #s).
TO-DO: Read something. . . . just because 🙂
Friday, January 19th – English 8 (hour 8)
STUDY: Watch “How and Why We Read” Crash Course by John Green
🔄Reading Rate Calculation – In the upside down, read for 10 minutes and use this info to set a reallistic individual goal for 2 hours of reading (if we didn’t finish this, we will wrap it up on Monday).
STUDY/PRACTICE: Using sources from the last two days, practice quoting, paraphrasing, & MLA in-text citation.
TO-DO: Read something amazing this weekend &&&& Do any work you are behind on in this course (catch up your notebook, submit your letter).
Thursday, January 18th – All Classes
📖 BookTalk & Indie Read
STUDY: 4 Part Note-Taking Strategy Practice & MLA Tips (They Say, Quote, I Say, Question format)
📝 NOTEPAGE: Practice 4-Part Note Strategy & MLA In-text Citations – text/essay varies by class (find digital copies in today’s GClassroom stream)
- DC8 Hour 1 “The One Who Defines Me” by Aisha Saeed from Our Stories, Our Voices
- DC8 Hour 3 “Binge” by Tyler Oakley from Binge
- Rhet-Comp 8A “Feminism” by Roxane Gay from Bad Feminism
- Eng8 “The Social Ranking” by Taylor Lorenz from Extremely Online
PAST DUE:
- Notes from E-learning day (see Tuesday’s GClassroom)
- Letter 1 (DC8 & Eng8) was due in Dropbox in-class on Friday (check your email for notices about missing or too short work)
Wednesday, January 17th – All Classes
📖 BookTalk & Indie Read
STUDY: 4 Part Note-Taking Strategy (They Say, Quote, I Say, Question format) & Practice
📝 NOTEPAGE: Practice 4-Part Note Strategy & MLA In-text Citations – text varies by class (find digital copies in today’s GClassroom stream)
- DC8 “11:20” by Michael Paterniti from Love and Other Ways of Dying
- Rhet-Comp 8A “In Our Genes” by Hannah Moskowitz from Our Stories, Our Voices
- Eng8 “Googling Strangers” by John Green from The Anthropocene Reviewed
PAST DUE:
- Notes from E-learning day (see yesterday’s GClassroom)
- Letter 1 (DC8 & Eng8) was due in Dropbox in-class on Friday (check your email for notices about missing or too short work)