Scholars, please note the following:
Today we reviewed the requirements and recommendations for the synthesis essay.
Tomorrow you will write a synthesis essay.
You will also receive three handouts, which I will copy and paste below.
Wednesday, you need to have read and annotated pages 1-104 of 1984.
Friday, we will have current event and journal day. Jackie Tien is presenting second period; we have open slots in every other class.
Okay, please peruse the following for three handouts: Post-Trial Metacognition Assignment; Vocabulary creative writing assignment, and the first vocabulary list for 1984, which have been color-coded for your reference.
Post-Trial Metacognition
Scholars, you all did a good job at trial this year. I hope that re-trying Dick and Perry against the ninth grade was an enlightening experience.
So that you may reflect upon your practice, please provide thoughtful, thorough, written answers (in complete sentences) to the following questions and provide documentation (via turnitin.com and hard copy) when appropriate.
1. Regardless of your role, describe in detail your trial preparation and performance. Please attach all documents that you generated for trial as noted below.
If you were an attorney, you should submit the list of questions that you asked your witness (either through direct or cross examination) with page number references. If you were an attorney who did not interrogate during trial, submit your questions as though you did so, and please so note.
If you were a research attorney, submit any written work that you composed. Also, if you compiled work not composed by you, submit a hard copy only.
If you were a witness, you should submit a list of answers with page number references. If you were a witness, but did not testify during the trial, submit your documents as though you did testify in court, and please so note.
If you were a print journalist, you should submit the work that you composed, even if I will see your contribution as part of as group project.
If you were a journalist involved in any other kind of media, please submit any written work that you may have generated as you prepared for trial.
If you were an overseer or a bailiff, as noted above, please describe your preparation for and contribution to the trial, and submit written work, if any, that you composed (turnitin.com and hard copy) or generated (hard copy only).
If you do not fall into any of the foregoing categories, see me for special instructions.
2. Describe your reaction and assessment of the trial experience. What emotions did you experience during the trial? What thoughts flashed through your head? Did your reaction(s) to trial surprise you? Why or why not?
3. What did you learn from participating in the trial?
4. What improvements would you suggest to the trial preparation or procedure?
5. Describe your reaction to the judge’s ruling in your trial.
6. What grade would you give yourself for your trial participation and performance? Why?
Answers to the foregoing questions and supporting documentation, if any, is due to turnitin.com on or before Monday, February 14, 2011 (Happy Valentine’s Day). A hard copy is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, February 15, 2011.
Fabulous, Interactive, Creative, Vocabulary-Learning Writing Assignment
It’s simple, really – please note the following:
If your surname begins with A-L, please write the first half of a story using 20 words from the first two pages of the second In Cold Blood Vocabulary sheet. End your half of the story with a cliffhanger or at least a scintilla of suspense or at least a myriad of choices as to how to finish the story. Underline all vocabulary words, and make this work absolutely spellbinding or profoundly artistic in some manner.
If your surname begins with M-Z, please write the first half of a story using 20 words from the last two pages of the second In Cold Blood Vocabulary sheet. End your half of the story with a cliffhanger or at least a scintilla of suspense or at least a myriad of choices as to how to finish the story. Underline all vocabulary words, and make this work absolutely spellbinding or profoundly artistic in some manner.
Submit your story to turnitin.com on Thursday, February 17, 2011, and bring TWO hard copies to class on Friday, February 18, 2011.
Make sure that your half-story represents your best work. Prepare to be fascinated.
1984 List #1
WORD | DEFINITION | POS |
Contrived (1) | ||
Oblong (2) | ||
Sanguine (2) | ||
Sordid (3) | ||
Tableau (3) | ||
Frowsy (6) | ||
Nebulous (9) | ||
Disarming (11) | ||
Urbane (11) | ||
Clandestine (13) | ||
Inexorable (14) | ||
Lucid (14) | ||
Odious (16) | ||
Equivocal (18) | ||
Gambol (23) | ||
Repudiate (35) | ||
Collated (39) | ||
Multifarious (43) | ||
Pedantic (46) | ||
Derisive, deride (48) | ||
Saccharine (50) | ||
Strident (53) | ||
Fulminate (54) | ||
Venerate (55) | ||
Proliferate (60) | ||
Inextricable (64) | ||
Tacit (65) | ||
Debauchery (65) | ||
Sinecure (75) | ||
Palpable (82) | ||
Slatternly (96) | ||
Incongruous (99) | ||
Lassitude (102) | ||
Squalling (102) | ||
Procure (102) |
This vocabulary sheet is due Thursday, February 10, 2011.
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