Date: August 31

Warm-Up:  Should we utilize our draft for our current military conflict? Why? Justify your answer.

1. Homework – discuss and collect
2. “A War for Us, Fought by Them,” p. 637
1. Key vocab: conscription, acute, protracted
2. Comprehension: 4
3. Purpose and Audience: 3
4. Style and Structure: 1
5. Journal entry:

3.       Review vocab – hand back sentences and write them on the board

4.       Senior Project – go to www.chsseniorproject.weebly.com and do the brainstorming activity on the PLanning tab.
b.      Key vocab:

c.       Instruction: Brainstorming, p. 12 of SP booklet

d.      Closing: Discuss with birthday partner

5.       Streetlight intro

e.      Objective: At the completion of this lesson, I will be able to identify abstract ideas, generalities, and specifics in a written work

f.        Key vocab: abstraction, metastasize, sedate, entrepreneur

g.       Instruction: Streetlight highlighting and article

h.      Practice: A few lines on their own

i.         Closing: Read only yellow

HW – Interview ten people on whether or not they think we should have the draft and why

1. See me before school this week to make up the SAT writing assignment.
2. Read the next couple pages of the Vietnam War packet. Get key vocab from a  classmate.
3. See Senior Project Intro powerpoint on Senior Project tab.
HW - go to the Documents and Links tab. Read the article on teens and sleep and answer questions.

1. You will need to come in and make-up Vocab 6 quiz no later than Thursday, April 7.
2. Get vocab 7 below.
3. Read pages 209-218 of TTTC..
HW - write a paragraph using all words

1) A1 and A5, read up to page 184. B2, read up to 188.
2) Use the following to edit your judges' letter:
 Reader A –
1) Check formatting – date should be spelled out (March 21, 2001). Check block-letter formatting.
2) Edit for punctuation, grammar, and spelling. Read from the last sentence up. Pay particular attention to the two common errors:

IC cc IC. <- needs a comma
IC, IC. <- Comma splice – change comma to period or semicolon or add a coordinating conjunction

Reader B –
1) Underline two sentences you like either for content or for language. Indicate what you like about the sentence.
2) Write the following sentences:
Your tone is . . . .
You present yourself as someone who is . . . .
One thing I learned about you by reading this letter is . . . .

HW - Finish letter for Tuesday/Wednesday, work on project. Vocab quiz on Thursday/Friday.

1. Have read up to the appropriate page:
A1: 161
A5: 164
B2: 178
HW - come prepared to do a show-n-tell type speech. Bring an item and have notes on three things you can say about the item in terms of what it says about you. Min. 2 minute speech.

A1 and A5: Write a letter to a character in the novel or the author. The letter must contain two well-developed paragraphs, two details from the book and content that links the book to your life in some way.
B2: Answer the following questions:
1. In the twelve times Bowker drives around the lake, he thinks about three people in whom he cannot now confide. Who are they, and why can't they help?

2. Why does Norman Bowker feel so alienated from the people of his hometown?

3. How does the drive-in experience alienate him further?

4. Contrast the clean lake in Sunset Park with the contaminated field in Vietnam. How is each representative of the people found there? Why does Norman jump into the lake?

5. When have you wanted to talk to people but felt you couldn't? Relate this experience to Bowker's.

6. Why does Jimmy Cross blame himself?

7. Why did the mortaring start while the men where in the field?

8. Whom, if anyone, is to blame for Kiowa's death?

1) We read from TTTC. A1 and A5, read pages 124-136. B2, read pages 131-136.
2) We checked out outside reading books from the library.
3) Read page 76 of SP booklet.
HW - do vocab six exercise on quia.

1) Finish "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong"
2) Get notes from PowerPoint on Vocab 6
3) Letter to a character: Write a letter to Mary Anne Bell, Rat Kiley, the narrator, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, or Curt Lemon’s sister. You can give advice or relate their story to your life in some way.

Requirements:

• Proper letter formatting – salutation, date, and closing are to be included
• At least two well-developed paragraphs of at least eight sentences each
• Include at least two details in each paragraph that come from the book
• Give commentary on those details in some way
• Vary your sentence type – be able to label a simple, compound and complex sentence in each paragraph
• Use transitions both between paragraphs and within paragraphs

1) Come prepared to give your speech in class on Friday/Monday
2) We read out of TTTC -
A1 and A5 -
B2 -

1) Read pages 76 through 85 of TTTC.
2) Research paper speech - we will be giving the research paper speeches in class starting on Wednesday/Thursday this week. Come prepared with a PowerPoint that covers the process of writing the paper and the content of the paper. Time: 4 to 6 minutes.
3) On Friday/Monday have completed the research paper self eval that is on the web page.

Get a copy of The Things They Carried. Read pages 62-76.