American Literature
This week was mostly spent finishing the play and preparing for the essay.  All the essay instructions can be found here.  We did a sample set of claims with Linda.  That document is here.

Humanities
This week was mostly spent finishing Night and starting the collaborative essay.  We did a close read with evidence that could be used in the essay, and we spent a lot of time writing in the computer lab.  Here is the essay instruction/topic document.

SF Stories
This week, we read chapter 1 and the first part of chapter 2 in Crown of Dust and annotated pages from it.  We are keeping track of the things we don’t understand.

English 10 and English 10 H
Today in class, you'll be reading "Only Daughter" (or listening to it being read to you).  Then you will complete this three-page questions/writing prompt handout.

Your questions should be answered completely, and you need to write a full page (minimum) story for the final question.

Desktop Publishing
All of your instructions are on this document.  The assignment is due at the end of class.

This week, American Literature and SF Stories spent the week finishing their projects (character videos and podcasts respectively) and creating rubrics to grade them.  Then we watched/listened to all the finished projects and graded them on the rubrics we designed.

Here are the podcast instructions. Here are the 3rd period podcasts.Here is the 6th period rubric, and here’s the document we used to score the first one.  Here is the 3rd period reflection.

Here are the character video instructions (1  2). Here are the 1st and 4th period videos.  Here is the rubric for 4th period.

Humanities spent the week reading and finishing reading journals (see below).  On Friday, we talked about essay topics and selected groups for collaborative essay writing.

Humanities Night Reading Journals

• #1: Chapter 1, Pages 1-20, 1/25 My Example
• #2: Chapter 2-3, Pages 21-32, 1/28 My Examples: 1 2
• #3: Chapter 3, Pages 33-54, 1/31 My Examples: 1 2
• #3.5, Chapter 4, Pages 54-62, 2/1 My Example
• #4, Chapter 5, Close Read pg 63-65, 2/4 Instructions     Examples: 1 2
• #5, Chapter 5, Pages 65-80, 2/5 Instructions Example
• #5.5, Chapter 5, Pages 65-80, 2/11  (This is for anyone who did not finish to pg 80 in RJ 5)
• #6, Chapter 6-8, Pages 80-106, 2/11 (This is due by Thursday at the start of class)

Note: All the notes I take in class (including example reading journals for the novels we read) will be in this folder in Google Drive and loaded on the playlist.  I am currently going back and adding correct titles on them with name/class/date/activity so you can find the picture easily.

American Literature:
On Monday (2/4), 1st period looked at DOAS pages 38-50.  Everyone read the lines of just their character - Biff or Happy - and wrote down observations. This was Reading Journal #3.  On Tuesday (2/5), we looked at the difference between true identity and perceived identity and read pages 17-21 to determine whether Willy is accurately remembering the boys or if it's partially his insane mind making them to be who he wants to be.  For 4th period, we worked in the computer lab on scripts on both Monday and Tuesday.  On block day (2/6-2/7), both classes worked on filming our character videos.

Humanities:
On Monday (2/4), we read an independent close read of pages 63-65 and did Reading Journal #4. On Tuesday (2/5), we talked about the purpose of the minor characters listed here, and wrote the Reading Journal (instructions in the picture).  On Wednesday (2/6), we watched this video and worked on finding examples of when the narrator Elie is different from the author Elie.  Narrator Elie is 15, Author Elie is 30.  We used this document to compile examples of when Author Elie is speaking instead of Narrator Elie.  Every group needs to have one example added for any chapter before class on Friday.  We will be reading chapter 6 in class (to page 82) on Friday so read ahead if you enjoy reading at home.

SF Stories:
We have been and will be working on our podcasts all week.  They are due Monday (2/11) at the end of the period (we will be in 182 that day so you'll have time to work).


Documents created and completed 
(these are all the documents from this semester so far): 


American Literature:
1. Personal Introduction Letter
2. My History as a Reader (includes 5 Books That Changed My Life)
3. Clearing the Attic (Writing Warmups)
4. How We Read Novels

5. DOAS Character Video

Humanities:
1. Personal Introduction Letter
2. This I Believe
3. Writing Warm-ups (changed to Clearing the Attic on Thursday)
4. Derren Brown "Apocalypse"

5. Writing Advice 
6. Writing Warmup
7. Night Close Read 

San Francisco Stories
1. Personal Introduction Letter
2. San Francisco Stereotypes
3. Writing Warm-ups (changed to Clearing the Attic on Thursday/Friday)
4. Travel Brochure for your SF Neighbourhood (uploaded as a .docx file to Google Drive & shared)
5. Sources for Travel Brochure 
6. Principles of Podcasting
7. Grades and Stuff (6th period only)