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These handouts are to help you with the completion of your reading logs each week. They will be handed out in class, and I would recommend page protectors. However, should you need to make additional copies they are here for you. 

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Each week you will be assigned a reading log to complete while reading your AR book. These will not only ensure that you are reading 30 minutes each night, but that you are comprehending what you are reading as well as help you pass the AR tests. 
Each week a different log will be assigned, and you will not know which one until that Monday. These are being provided for you here, in case you should lose your reading log after it has been provided to you for the week. 

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Power Point for Cornell Notes
 
These notes will help students complete the weekly grammar homework. 
Students also have a small red grammar textbook which was checked out to them to reference, if needed.

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Here is a copy of all the grammar for the year. If you happen to loose a copy of the grammar that was given in class, print out the week that we are working on.

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Here are the copies for the MLA format foldable and other MLA resources we used in class.

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Here is the MLA power point we used in class to take notes. If you loose your notes, please copy these down.

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Here is the powerpoint we will use to explain how to properly paraphrase, quote, and summary.

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By studying poetry, students can gain a greater understanding, not only of literature and language, but of themselves and the world they live in. Poetry can increase students' literacy and linguistic awareness and can help students to expand their oral and written vocabularies. Reading poetry also helps students to become more aware of the ways in which language can be used and the rhythms, images and meanings that can be created.

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Developing an in-depth understanding of how writers use persuasive techniques and elements of argument to convince others of the veracity, validity, and appeal of their claims not only develops students’ academic skills, practices, and understandings of this genre, but also helps to ensure that students have the capacity to examine, develop and present their own claims, evidence, and reasoning in a logical and effective manner.  

 

Do you love your Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo…? Well, listen up! Your favorite video games are on trial for murdering millions of brain cells in children. In this unit, you will be a lawyer working on the Video Game Court Case. Your challenge will be to write a convincing opening argument for either the prosecution or the defense to be presented to the jury on the opening day in court.

To help you prepare for your day in court, you will go back in time to study the art of argument and to learn how to formally argue a controversial issue. You will also conduct research – every good lawyer does his/her homework on a case prior to a court date.

 

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Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston—an account of a young girl’s experiences at an internment camp in the United States during World War II. It reveals how the time Jeanne Wakatsuki spent at Manzanar shaped her identity—her sense of who she is and what she might become. The Central Question: How do our confrontations with justice and injustice help shape our identity? How do those confrontations influence the things we say and do?

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In this unit, students will be reading grade level stories and adapting them to picture books for elementary age students.  Students will analyze stories and also create their own original children’s books with a clear theme and enduring literary archetypes.  These books will teach students lessons about life and encourage them to read.

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Here is the document for our grammar/college poster board project.

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Here is the clip from youtube for Cask of Amontillado.
 
 

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Social Networking or Antisocial Networking was developed for use in eighth grade near the beginning of the year and to require two to three weeks of class time. The module was designed to explore the ways in which research findings, including data, can be used as evidence in making an argument as well as to give students a chance to practice purposeful annotation leading to writing an accurate summary and personal response. The final writing assignment asks students to analyze and respond to a short argument that presents an opposing view and produce an on-demand essay; subsequent instruction focuses on revising to improve essay organization.