Journal # 17 2/28/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

Spike Lee

Classwork for Monday, 2/27/06

1. You may work in groups of 2 or three or as an individual.
   
2. Download this PowerPoint on Citing Sources MLA Style.
3. Take cornell notes on the material in the PowerPoint.
4. There will be a NOTES-ONLY quiz on Wednesday on this material!
   

Journal # 16 2/27/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist.

Clarence Page

Format for Research Assignment

Title of research
1. Date published...is it current?
2. Author...Is s/he credible and how...Dr., professor?
3. Thesis...how does this research work to prove your thesis?

Title of research
1. Date published...is it current?
2. Author...Is s/he credible and how...Dr., professor?
3. Thesis...how does this research work to prove your thesis?

Title of research
1. Date published...is it current?
2. Author...Is s/he credible and how...Dr., professor?
3. Thesis...how does this research work to prove your thesis?

Journal # 15 2/24/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

Muhammad Ali

Journal #14 2/23/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

Malcolm X

Due on Friday 2/24/06

You need to collect THREE pieces of research that meet the following conditions:

1. Does the date of the source match the level of currency you need for your paper? A source from the late 1970s wouldn't be appropriate for an examination of current multi-media issues or the latest microsurgery techniques, but it would still be appropriate for a study of Homer. Currency is more important in subject areas that are frequently researched (where theories are frequently rejected and updated); therefore, the physical and social sciences need more current sources than subjects like literature.

2. Is the author a credible source? In other words, has authority and expertise been established? There aren't ulterior motives coloring the text?

3. Is the source relevant to your thesis or question, i.e., useful? If the source argues thoughtfully and logically, helps you look at something differently, and gives you possible answers for your question or evidence for your thesis, then it's a keeper!

Please write down how your three pieces of research fulfill each of these qualifications.

Homework Due Thursday, 2/23

SAT Vocabulary 61-70

Journal #13 2/22/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela

Classwork for Monday, 2/21/05

Complete the following steps on RESEARCH:

1. Click on this link. This is the Purdue University Writing Center page on research.
2. Read and take notes on the the three sections contained within: Understand the types of resources, Critically read and evaluate those sources, and Note-take effectively.
3. Use this cornell note paper to take notes on what you read
   
4. REMEMBER, THIS IS FOR YOU! YOUR SENIOR PROJECTS WILL BE GREAT!

Journal #12 2/21/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

Classwork for Friday, 2/17/05

Click this link to your Senior Project Blog and comment on your classmates' thesis statements. BE CONSTRUCTIVE! Do not just write stuff like "Good job!" Give your fellow seniors something that they may use to make their thesis statement better. If you finish, go to 3rd period's work.

Journal #11 2/17/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Stokely Charmichael

Journal #10 2/16/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

Chuck D

Homework Due Friday, 2/17

All Vocabulary #41-50 and 51-60 if not already turned in.

Homework Due Thursday, 2/16

You need to bring your Senior Project Thesis Statement typed on a paper with your name and date.

Homework Due Wednesday, 2/15

1. I need to see your Academic Evidence of your Senior Portfolio.
2. You need to bring your Senior Project Topic typed on a paper with your name and date.

Journal #9 2/15/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Booker T. Washington

Journal #8 2/14/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.

Dante Alighieri

Homework Due Tuesday, 2/14

1. I need to see your Correspondence Section of your Senior Portfolio.
2. You need to bring your Senior Project Subject typed on a paper with your name and date.
   

Journal #7 2/13/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members, ... a heart of grace and a soul generated by love.

Coretta Scott King

Homework Due Monday, 2/13

Using the notes that you took on the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy and the speech analysis that you completed on both men, you will create a concept map leading to an essay comparing and contrasting the speeches.

In class today you wil construct a concept map using Inspiration software. This map is due on Monday, and as most of you are going to Palomar on Friday...GET IT DONE TODAY!

The essay will be four paragraphs long, including:

• an introduction with thesis statement
• a body paragraph discussing the content of the speeches
• a body paragraph discussing the elements of persuasion used in the speeches
• a conclusion restating the thesis while offering no new information

Use the following rubric to guide you...

Journal #6 2/9/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed.. . . I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.”

Paul Robeson

Senior Project are Coming!!!

We will be starting on your Senior Projects next week. The senior project consists of a 5-6 page research paper and a visual presentation of the information in your paper. To get your process jump-started, please visit the following links:

• SDCOE Grad Portfolio Site
  
• Choosing a Topic
  
• OWL Writing a Research Paper
• Teenspace Research & Writing
• How to Write an A+ Research Paper
• HowToStudy.com
  

Homework for Thursday 2/9

SAT Vocabulary 41-50:
extricate, facetious, fallacious, fortuitous, futile, gratuitous, hackneyed, homogeneous, impeccable, impervious

Journal #5 2/8/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience...

I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle
I make mistakes but learn from every one
And when it's said and done
I bet this brother be a better one
If I upset you dont stress
Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet.

Tupac Shakur

Classwork 2/7/06

1. Read and understand these Elements of Persuasion.

2. Now that you have read and taken notes on the speeches of JFK and MLK, I want you to listen to them: JFK MLK

3. Use this chart to analyze the elements of persuasion in these two speeches. For each category list the ways each speaker uses the individual elements.

Journal #4 2/7/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience...

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.Gwendolyn Brooks

Classwork 2/6/06

Click here and read the speech from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click here to print a cornell note sheet to take notes on the speech.
Notes due Tuesday.

Journal #3 2/6/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience...

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of inprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Classwork for Friday 2/3

Click here and read the speech from JFK's inagural address.
Click here to print a cornell note sheet to take notes on the speech.
Notes due Monday.

Final Jeopardy

You will write a short (less than 1 page) piece of non-fiction that contains the following elements:

• Tell me who your audience is
• Use logic…MAKE SENSE!
• Make sure that your writing has unity
• Use a FORMAL tone
• Make sure that there are at least THREE details
• Use 3 Royal Words
• Use 5 vocabulary words
• Use 2 examples of doublespeak
• Use nonbiased language