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THIS WEEK:

1. Finish any/all unfinished work for which you would like credit.
2. Begin exam prep (review sheet coming by Wednesday).  EXAM FORMAT
   1. 100 points
   2. 60 points: combination of multiple choice/short answer
      1. Journalism basics and rules
      2. First Amendment
      3. Media Law (court cases/censorship etc)
      4. Writing and style
      5. Basics of video (composition/ How to tell a story in video
      6. Basics of design (CRAP etc.)
      7. Photo/video composition
3. 40 points: Practicum
   1. OPTION 1:  Write a story from provided notes and quotes.
   2. OPTION 2:   Create a storyboard/plan for a video from provided notes and quotes.

MONDAY:  Received new vocab packets.  Extras on front table.

Week was spent reading independently.  Be sure to fill out logs.  If done with your book, you had the choice to read anything else you wanted or work on your to-be-graded draft of the Dead Poets Society paper.

INDEPENDENT READING LOGS

At the start of class THURSDAY we took 8 minutes and , at the bottom of our logs wrote to this prompt:  WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE SUBJECT OF YOUR BOOK SO FAR.  After the 8 minutes was up, we took another two minutes and revised (paragraphing , spelling, capitalization, punctuation etc).

On Thursday, we submitted the logs for this week.

On Friday, a new log went out to classroom.

REMEMBER: DRAFT OF DPS paper due today.

Here is the proper way to cite the film in your works cited page.

INDEPENDENT READING WEEK

You should be WELL into your book by the end of the week.

DRAFT OF DEAD POETS PAPER DUE WEDNESDAY

• Cite Transcendentalist Works this way  (Emerson “Self-Reliance”)
• Should include works cited page.

VOCAB UNIT 5 practice  VOCAB UNIT 5 practice

LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of this week you will

1. Have selected a book (biography, autobiography or memoir) to read for your independent reading unit.
2. Understand the requirements of the project.

IN CLASS:

• MONDAY/TUESDAY  Introduction, library time, book selection.
• WEDNESDAY:  C.E. gives sample book talk, goes over project requirements
  • Independent Reading Presentation Rubric
  • Sample presentation
• W/F:  Reading time

LEARNING TARGETS:  Be able to explain how the film Dead Poets Society embodies the ideas of the Transcendentalists.

IN CLASS:

• Tuesday:
  • Received new vocab packet (Quiz 12/7)
  • Watched first third of Dead Poets Society.
• Wednesday:
  • Watched second third of DPS
  • Vocab Practice
• Thursday
  • Finished DPS.

LEARNING TARGETS: as a result of today’s class, you should be able to apply the readings of Emerson and Thoreau to new situations.

ASSIGNMENT: See classroom. (You “interviewed” Emerson and Thoreau).

C.E.’s notes on WALDEN

1.  Took vocab quiz
2.   Brief BIOGRAPHY VIDEO ON HENRY DAVID THOREAU
3.  VIDEO (GREAT BOOKS “WALDEN”)

LEARNING TARGETS:  By the end of class today you should be able to

1. Explain similarities in theme between Emerson’s “NATURE” and Whitman’s “WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN’D ASTRONOMER”
2. Explain , in your own words, the main ideas of Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”
3. Identify key quotes in “Self-Reliance”

IN CLASS:

1. Compared Nature and Learn’d Astronomer (Discussion)
2. Watched 10-minute video (EMERSON)Watched 10-minute video (EMERSON)
3. Read and analyzed “Self-Reliance” (HANDOUT)