November 2 nd through 6 th

1. November 2nd through 6th

2. Monday, November 2nd • Practice Multiple Choice • Reading Check Quiz (short) • Close reading of Chapter 1 • Evidence/commentary assignment • SL background research assignment

3. Tip of the Day • Make sure you answer the prompt

4. Scarlet Letter Reading Schedule • 1-5 due today • 6-16 due Friday, November 6th • 17-21 due Monday, November 9th • 22-end due Wednesday, November 11th

5. Tuesday, November 3rd • Go over MC • Circle maps of Scarlet Letter • BRING NOTE CARDS TOMORROW!!!

6. Tip of the Day • Show your work (thinking). You’ll be rewarded for what you do well.

7. Happy Tuesday • Now, the use of culture is that it helps us, by means of its spiritual standard of perfection, to regard wealth but as machinery, and not only to say as a matter of words that we regard wealth but as machinery, but really to perceive and feel that it is so. If it were not for this purging effect wrought upon our minds by culture, the whole world, the future as well as the present, would inevitably belong to the Philistines. • Matthew Arnold • Put the first sentence into your own words. How does the sentence’s complexity add to its impact? • Where are the most important words in the second sentence of this passage--at the beginning or at the end? What effect does this have on the reader?

8. Chapter 1 • Discuss main idea • How does Hawthorne create anticipation regarding the rest of the novel? • Circle map • Inner= meaning • Outer= phrases essential to making meaning • Function= grouping; • Example on board • Assign students motifs • Find 3 quotes for your motif

9. Wednesday, November 4th • Vocabulary Words • Modern-Day Hester Assignment • Summary/Paraphrase/Quote assignment • Sample Synthesis Essays

10. Tip of the Day • Analyze. Show how a resource of language (a rhetorical or literary device) works.

11. Welcome to class • You need: • Informed Argument • Notebook • Writing implement • You need to be able to: • Identify three kinds of notes: Summary, quote, and paraphrase • Write summary, paraphrase, and quote note cards • INSTRUCTIONS: • Who gets to make decisions about the human body? Write a paragraph presenting your position on this question. • Write as much as you can in five minutes. Do not stop or pick up your pen(cil).

12. Summary • Reducing large chunk of text to small: • Paragraph, section, article 1-5 sentences • Support position with expert opinion. • Express a key concept • Set up an anticipated argument • In Thoreau’s “Walking” he asserts that man, in his ideal state, is wild.

13. Paraphrase • Translate another writer’s ideas into your own words. • 1 sentence=1 phrase or sentence • Writer controls language • Use specific information, ideas, facts • Thoreau: man experiences life most fully when he surrounds himself with nature.

14. Quote • Writing another author’s words verbatim • Only when words can/should not be replaced • Can be: • three word phrase • sentence or two • More (include one long quote) • Credibility of authority’s voice • Supports your claim • Always elaborate on it • Thoreau: “All good things are wild and free.”

15. “Designer Babies and Other Fairy Tales” by Maureen Freely • What do we know about this author and text? • Assignment: • Read pp. 240-244 • Consider how article helps answer: Who should get to make decisions about the human body? • Write 4 notes: • Summary • 2 paraphrase • Quote • Share with a neighbor.

16. 5 Items to include on card . A Para. 5. Para. to indicate paraphrase rather than quote. If it is a quote, write quote, if summer, write summ.

17. 1. Card Topic Topic is the kind of information on the card. Think of it as the title, or main idea of the card. After writing down the information, figure out how you could briefly categorize, or title it. A Para.

18. Card Topic For example, if you are writing a paper on the life and works of the poet, Langston Hughes, you may have cards with topics such as: • Hughes' upbringing • Hughes' influences • Hughes' poetry • Hughes' political beliefs • Hughes' influence on America

19. 2. Source Title • The source title is the name of the book, magazine, website, etc., in which you found the information. • You will want to also turn your card over and list ALL Catalog Card information (publisher, etc.). A Para.

20. Giving Your Source a Letter • In the previous example, the source was given a LETTER, instead of writing out the entire title, author, etc. -Write out the citation for the source on a source card, and give it a letter. • Use the letter on the note cards to specify which source provided which fact.

21. Source Card Source A Marsh, Murdo William. " Langston Hughes." Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. ScottJones. Chicago: Illinois Press, 1993. 345-351.

22. 3. paraphrased information • It is helpful to paraphrase, or summarize, your research on the index cards while you are taking notes. If you are consistent in paraphrasingat this stage, then you will be certain not to accidentally plagiarize someone else's work. You will also have less work to do when you are actually writing the paper.

23. 4. page numbers • It is important to be accurate with the page numbers on your note cards, as you will need them for citations throughout your research paper. A Para.

24. Sample Note Cards Organized by Card Topic A A Para. Para. E B Para. Para.

25. Citing my source!! Information for this presentation came from the following source • “Researching and Organizing Your Paper:The Note Card System.” English Works! at Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. Published: 1997-present. Retrieved 7 March, 2006. <http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/notecard.html>

26. Groupings for 2nd period • Group 1 • Haley Cowan • Amy Kalinowski • Ryan Naziri • Richard Bowser • LexiMichels • Group 2 • Rebecca Stephenson • Austin Bath • Caroline Whitehurst • Nora Sugar • Amanda Jones • Priya Patel • Group 3 • Danielle Moloney • Browne Warren • Jerrod Powers • Casey Oliver • Casey Daly • AshlynAycock • Group 4 • Michael Phillips • Louisa Clark • Jordan-Marie Smith • Forrest Cherry • Sarah Phillips • Emma Grace Moore • Group 5 • Olivia Frere • Anna Ormond • Charlie Shelton • Colleen MacGilvray • Bryan Hernandez • Chavonna Counts • Group 6 • Natalie Ballard • Morgan Green • Molly Gidley • Emma Tucker • Chase Smith

27. Groupings for 3rd period • Group 1 • Bailey Hu • KylerZary • Lindsay Tyndall • Christine Hong • Will Lee • Chrissy McMillan • Group 2 • Anna Stephenson • Shanthi Ravi • ArunAjmera • Mary Katherine Owens • Brenda Simiyu • Molly Kerrigan • Group 3 • Jamie Cook • Brenna Owens • Hillary Weismiller • Kristen Joyner • Kelen Townsend • Kristen Easters • Group 4 • Kyle Leggett • Kara Gay • Danielle Mitchell • Jenna Hanna • Julia Webber • FaizahSiddiqi • Group 5 • Brittany Avin • Daniela Pimentel • Ryan Qualliotine • Marta Lambert • Lauren Frazier • Lindsey Corbett

28. Thursday, November 5th • Peer evaluation of synthesis essay

29. Tip of the Day • Understand the scale of abstraction: from the concrete to the abstract. Play on that scale

30. Friday, November 6th • Reading Check quiz • 2nd • Evaluate top synthesis essays • 3rd • Library to research for modern Hester

31. Tip of Day • Talk intelligently about tone. At least be able to identify formal vs. informal.