2ndSixWeeks

**2nd Six Weeks**

 * Be sure to __print__ out all assignments and __turn them in to me__ upon returning to class. You may also email me assignments at __chyde@lcmcisd.org__** **or __bhyde@lcmcisd.org__. Don't forget to check the __Vocabulary page__ and the __Warm Ups page__ for make up work as well.** If you missed one day, your make-up work will be due one day after you get back. If you missed 2 days, then 2 days after you get back. Warning: If you did not turn a __legitimate__ excuse in to the office, this means you were truant (an unexcused absence). You may not make up work for truancy.

[|Hooks notes.docx] Write an essay using //The Crucible//, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," and The Red Scare to show how fear and suspicion can destroy a society.
 * 11****/3 (A-day) and 11/4 (B-day)**
 * 1. Read and highlight the following print out. After reading the following print out, get the assignment from #2 and rate the 9 opening paragraphs 1-9. 1 being the best and 9 being the worst. Keep these notes about Hooks until after the TAKS test in March.**
 * 2. Go to the following link. Cut and paste 9 opening paragraphs from these free student essays into a word document. Print it out. Highlight the __thesis sentence__ in each opening paragraph in yellow. Then, in green, highlight the __hook__ in each opening paragraph. Then in pink, highlight the __work/s and author/s__ in each opening paragraph. Turn in. Plagiarized student essays are at least good for something. HaHa!**
 * [|Free Student Essays]**
 * 3. Print out the following worksheet. Do this worksheet addressing the prompt:**

[|Drafting an Opening Paragraph Graphic Organizer.docx]
 * 4. Group votes on who wrote the best opening paragraph and uses it on your group's large graphic organizer (in-class only). The person that wins will get a higher score.**

__[|Writing Coach]__ [|developing-thesis-statements[1.doc]] 1. Print out the graphic organizer. Fill in the stem bubbles with information that will help support the essay prompt. For //The Crucible// and McCarthyism, the information should be **direct quotes**. For "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," the information should be indirect or paraphrased. Include **parenthetical documentation** __at the end of your sentences in all bubbles.__
 * 11****/1 (A-day) and 11/2 (B-day)**
 * 1. Vocabulary Test -**If you are absent, in ISS, or DAEP, you will need to come see me before or after school to make up this test. I do not send tests out to ISS or DAEP. This is your responsibility. Test deadline is **Friday (11/4)** and then it will permanently be a zero. Friday is also the __end of the six weeks__.
 * 2.** Read pages 208-209 in the Writing Coach ETextbook. You must come see me or send me an email to get your username and password for this ETextbook. This is not the same __as the ETextbook:Literature.__ Take notes about these 2 pages and turn in for a grade.
 * 3. Homework: Do the following worksheet about developing a thesis statement and turn in. Due at the beginning of next class!**
 * 1****0/28 (A-day) and 10/31 (B-day)**
 * 1****0/28 (A-day) and 10/31 (B-day)**

[|Essay Prewriting Graphic Organizer] [|Parenthetical Documentation.docx]


 * [|ETextbook: Literature]** (Click on this to view //The Crucible// text. Follow instructions from 10/4-5 if you forgot how to view the text.)

??Still confused about parenthetical documentation?? Click on the link below. Type in anything you want to know about MLA in-text citations (aka parenthetical documentation), works cited, citing sources, or anything about the writing process. This is an extremely helpful cite. 1. Log on to the [|ETextbook: Literature]. 2. Click on **To Do**. 3. Select **Comparing Literary Works: from //Good Night, and Good Luck//**. 4. Under the heading, __**Before You Read**__ select **Comparing Literary Works** and read all of it. 5. Select the heading, __**While You Read,**__ and read all 16 pages of //Good Night, and Good Luck.// 6. Still under the heading, **__While You Read__**, select **Critical Reading** and answer all questions and all parts of the questions in complete sentences. __Save__. __Print out and turn in__. (Daily grade) 7. Writing Assignment: Explain how fear and suspicion affects one of the characters of the movie/script(//Good Night, and Good Luck)// in a fully developed, multi-paragraphed essay. (Quiz Grade)
 * [|Owl Writing Lab]**
 * 1****0/24 (A-day) and 10/25 (B-day),** **1****0/26 (A-day) and 10/27 (B-day)**
 * 1****0/24 (A-day) and 10/25 (B-day),** **1****0/26 (A-day) and 10/27 (B-day)**

1. Research online about McCarthyism. Find an article that has a lot of information. Print the article directly from the webpage that you are getting it from. If you are working in a group, you will need one copy for each member of your group. If you are in ISS, DAEP, or homebound, you are in a group all by yourself. If you are absent(on this day only), you have been assigned a group and can get this printout when you get back. If you are absent on this day and for the next class, then you are in a group by yourself. 2. Writing Prompt is assigned to the group: Write an essay using //The Crucible//, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," and The Red Scare to show how fear and suspicion can destroy a society. (Do not actually write this essay now. We are in the Prewriting stages.) 3. While keeping in mind the essay prompt, read and highlight important information from the article you printed out about McCarthyism (The Red Scare). 4. Print out the following document about parenthetical documentation and use for step #5. [|Parenthetical Documentation.docx] 5. Print out the graphic organizer. Fill in the stem bubbles with information that will help support the essay prompt. For //The Crucible// and McCarthyism, the information should be **direct quotes**. For "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," the information should be indirect or paraphrased. Include **parenthetical documentation** __at the end of your sentences in all bubbles.__
 * 1****0/20 (A-day) and 10/21 (B-day)**

[|Essay Prewriting Graphic Organizer]


 * [|ETextbook: Literature]** (Click on this to view //The Crucible// text. Follow instructions from 10/4-5 if you forgot how to view the text.)

??Still confused about parenthetical documentation?? Click on the link below. Type in anything you want to know about MLA in-text citations (aka parenthetical documentation), works cited, citing sources, or anything about the writing process. This is an extremely helpful cite. 1. We finished the movie version of //The Crucible//. 2. We watched the //Twilight Zone// episode, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street." If you are in ISS, DAEP, or homebound, you are still responsible for knowing the plot and key points of this film. If you have Netflix streaming, you can view it there, or you might be able to rent it front Blockbusters. As a last resort you can purchase it from this wesite [|The Monsters are Due on Maple Street]for $1.99 or free with some membership thing.If you can't do either of these, you must come into tutorials to view the 25 minute video on or before 10/20__! Then do the attached worksheets: [|Monsters are Due character chart.doc] [|Monsters on Maple Street.doc] Viewing "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" is imperative for your next assignment, so be sure to get it done! However, viewing //The Crucible// movie is not imperative since you have read the play.
 * [|Owl Writing Lab]**
 * 1****0/18 (A-day) and 10/19 (B-day)**
 * 1****0/18 (A-day) and 10/19 (B-day)**
 * 10/14 (A-day) and 10/17 (B-day)**
 * 1. Turn in your completed //Crucible// study guide.**
 * 2. //The Crucible//Test.** If you are absent, in ISS, or DAEP, you will need to come see me before or after school to make up this test. I do not send tests out to ISS or DAEP. This is your responsibility. Test deadline is Friday (10/21) and then it will permanently be a zero.
 * 2. //The Crucible//Test.** If you are absent, in ISS, or DAEP, you will need to come see me before or after school to make up this test. I do not send tests out to ISS or DAEP. This is your responsibility. Test deadline is Friday (10/21) and then it will permanently be a zero.

[|Crucible Fragments and Run-ons.doc] [|Tragedy and Allegory- Crucible Act IV.doc]
 * 10/12 (A-day) and 10/13 (B-day)**
 * 1. We watched the movie version of //The Crucible//.**
 * 2. Do the following assignments and turn in:**
 * 2. Do the following assignments and turn in:**

==‍**//The Crucible// TEST is NEXT CLASS! __Come to AM tutorials Friday, 10/14 (8:05-8:30). Wink! Wink! Hint! Hint! (In Mrs. Hyde's room B-25)__ **==

2.. Click on //ETextbook// below, but please __read all instructions listed below first__. Use your first initial and last name with no spaces and no caps as your user name and your student ID as your password. If they do not work, please come speak to me or send me a message. 4.. Select **The Crucible, Act IV** 5.. Select **While You Read** -read Act 3 of //The Crucible// while answering **ALL side questions in complete sentences** – be sure to press the **save** button! On the **Penguin Author Notes** just acknowledge that you read them in the box. You can access the side questions by selecting the blue **MORE** buttons or selecting the journal icon in the top right corner. 7.. Select **Critical Reading** - answer all questions in complete sentences. Save. 8.. Select **I'm Done (only if and when you actually __finish__ reading Act 4 and you complete the assignments)** 2.. Click on //ETextbook// below, but please __read all instructions listed below first__. Use your first initial and last name with no spaces and no caps as your user name and your student ID as your password. If they do not work, please come speak to me or send me a message. 4.. Select **The Crucible, Act III** 5.. Select **While You Read** -read Act 3 of //The Crucible// while answering **ALL side questions in complete sentences** – be sure to press the **save** button! On the **Penguin Author Notes** just acknowledge that you read them in the box. You can access the side questions by selecting the blue **MORE** buttons or selecting the journal icon in the top right corner. 7.. Select **Critical Reading** - answer all questions in complete sentences. Save. 8.. Select **I'm Done (only if and when you actually __finish__ reading Act 3 and you complete the assignments)** [|Friend of the Court brief.doc]
 * 10/6 (A-day) and 10/7 (B-day)**
 * 1.** Finish all of //The Crucible// Study Guide. (Study guide help is available in tutorials only.)
 * 2**. Create a Tombstone for one of the characters from the play. First research the real person online: full and real name, date of birth, date of death (might be unknown), how they died, and at least five facts about their life. Write this down on notebook paper because you will be turning this in. Then write them an epitaph on their tombstone using the same format as the warm-up for today and the facts that you learned from your online search. Be sure to make your tombstone creative by including artistic details and put some grass at the bottom.
 * //The Crucible// Test: 10/14 (A-day) and 10/17 (B-day)**
 * 10/4 (A-day) and 10/5 (B-day)**
 * 1. Read //The Crucible//, Act IV**
 * 10/4 (A-day) and 10/5 (B-day)**
 * 1. Read //The Crucible//, Act IV**
 * 3.** While in the ETextbook click on **To Do**
 * 6..** Select **The Crucible, Act IV**
 * [|ETextbook: Literature]**
 * 9. Complete your study guide (yellow) for Act 4.**
 * 9/30 (A-day) and 10/3 (B-day)**
 * 1. Finish reading Act III**
 * 1. Finish reading Act III**
 * 3.** While in the ETextbook click on **To Do**
 * 6..** Select **The Crucible, Act III**
 * [|ETextbook: Literature]**
 * 9. Complete your study guide (yellow) for Act 3.**
 * 10.** Complete the following brief in __**detail**__.