All handouts are available on Canvas, should students lose thier handouts they can print a copy on their own, I will not have extra available.
Do Now's for February- March are located on Clever, under Mrs. Dumbuya's Page (Drama Llama), then click on English Grammar 101 (looks like a power button). There each week they will have a different module and lesson to complete. Do Now's are due every Friday, if you are absent you are still responsible for them. You cannot submit Do-Now's late.
ACADEMIC RECOVERY FOR 3rd 9 Weeks DUE MARCH 13, 2020
Write a 6 page, 12pt font, Times New Roman, double-spaced essay. The essay should address time manganement, prioritizing tasks, and where else in life is one ever granted time to re-do things that should have already been completed. It should include at LEAST 4 academic sources , and it should be in MLA citation style and include a works cited page (not part of the original 6 pages).
Week of March 9:
Monday: Practice Argumentative Essay DUE ON CANVAS
Tuesday: Achieve 3000
Wednesday: Argumentative Kahoots
Thursday: Argumentative Essay Vocabulary Review
Friday: Practice Argumentative Essay
Week of March 2:
Monday: Complete the GA Milestones Practice Essay (SEE CANVAS FOR DETAILS)
Tuesday: Achieve 3000
Wednesday: Group Argumentative Essay
Do-Now: Module 8, Lesson 1
Thursday: Group Argumentative Essay
Do- Now: Module 8, Lesson 2
Friday: Argumentative Essay Background and Practice DUE ON CANVAS
Do-Now: Module 8, Lesson 3
Week of February 24:
Monday: GA Milestones Argumentative Essay Pre-Assessment
Tuesday: Achieve 3000
Wednesday: Quarterly Benchmark Assessment #3
Thursday: Review GA Milestones Argumentative Writing and Rubric
Friday: Complete another GA Milestones Practice Essay ( PLEASE SEE CANVAS FOR ASSESSMENT)
Week of February 17:
Monday- Review R & J
Tuesday- Achieve 3000
Wednesday- Review R & J
Thursday- Review R & J
Friday- Final exam on R & J
Week of February 10:
Monday- Read Act 3, Scene 1, complete handout. Paraphrase each line of Act 3, Scene 1-due Tuesday, 2-11.
Tuesday- Achieve 3000,"The Dream Lives On", "Hidden Figures"
Wednesday- Read Act 3, Scene 2 & 3
Thursday- Finish Act 3
Friday- Review the rest of the play briefly
Week of February 3:
Monday- Read Act 2, Scenes 5 & 6
Tuesday- Achieve 3000, Lovie Lends a Hand, Power Block Handout
Wednesday- Test on Act 2
Thursday- Power Block & Figurative Language
Friday- Act 2, RTI
Week of January 27:
Monday- Read Act 2, Scene 1 & 2 and and complete figurative language handout on R&J
Tuesday- Achieve 3000, Is that Real?, Theater by Candlelight Homework: Close Reader Act 2, scene 1 & 2 DUE FRIDAY!
Wednesday- Figurative Language Banquet Handout
Thursday- Read Act 2, scenes 3 & 4
Friday- Act 2,scene 3 quiz
Week of January 20:
Monday 20- No School
Tuesday 21- Achieve 3000, , Sentenced to Shakespeare, Shakespeare Goes to Afgahnistan
Wednesday 22-R &J Act 1 Scene 4 & 5, complete reading guide
Thursday 23- Work on reading guide, study Act 1
Friday 24- Test on Romeo and Juliet Act 1
Week of January 13:
Monday 13- Read Act 1, scene 2 in the textbook and complete questions 13-17 in the guided reading handout. (available on Canvas).
Tuesday 14- QBA #2 on Mastery Connect, then ONE Achieve 3000 Article, Shakespeare Lost and Found
Wednesday 15- Read Act 1, Scene 3 in the textbook and complete questions 18-22 in the guided reading handout. Quiz on Act 1, scenes 1 &2.
Thursday 16-Review figurative language,alliteration, personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, oxymoron. Take a quiz on figurative language.
Friday 17- Read Act 1, scene 4 & 5 of Romeo and Juliet and complete the reading guide handout. Quiz on Act 1, scene 5.
Week of January 6:
Wednesday 8- drama level up tutorial, Shakespeare background
Thursday 9- review new rules and regulations and classopoly class management game.
Frida 10y- begin reading Romeo and Juliet on page 181 of the textbook, Act 1, scene 1 complete questions 1-12 of the guided reading handout. (available on Canvas) Laws of Life Essay Due
*Winter Break Assignment: The Laws of Life Essay, 1.5-2, double spaced, typed 12pt font pages. Personal narrative. See handout for details. Due upon return from break. Email to Mrs.D or upload in canvas, DO NOT PRINT* DUE JANUARY 10
Winter Break Assignment: The Laws of Life Essay
500-700 words (1.5-2 pages) double-spaced and typed, 12 point font. Personal Narrative. Email to Mrs. D DO NOT PRINT!
What is the Georgia Laws of Life Essay Contest? The Georgia Laws of Life Essay Contest is a statewide writing and character education program for students in grades 9–12. Students are asked to select a maxim or “Law of Life” (such as “Honesty is the best policy” or “Kindness is the highest form of wisdom”) and to write an essay explaining how the maxim applies to the students’ lives.
Statewide Student Awards $1,000 - First place State Contest winner $1,000 - George A. Stewart, Jr., Character in Action Award* $750 - Second place winner $500 - Third place winner $300 - Fourth place winner STUDENT SCHOOL WINNERS $100 per School Winner for schools that generate the required minimum of essays per school size. STUDENT GRADE WINNERS Three $50 Grade Winner Awards (in addition to the School Winner Award) for schools that generate the required a minimum of 100 essays per grade level.
ESSAY REQUIREMENTS When writing a Law of Life essay, students should tell their unique story written “from the heart.” • Essays must be 500 to 700 words in length, typed and double-spaced. Students should include a word count, if possible. • Essays must be based on a student’s personal experience or observations. The essay should show how a Law of Life applies to a student’s life. Essays that focus on a historical character or that read like a book review are not winning essays. • Essays must contain a “law of life” expressed as a maxim, saying, or quote. “Honesty is the best policy” is a Law of Life; the word “honesty” is not.
A Law of Life is a wise saying or quote that contains words of truth, lasting meaning, or inspiration. Examples of Laws of Life include: o “The early bird catches the worm.” o “Don't pretend to be something you aren't.” o “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” o “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” o “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” o “You can’t buy love.”
Think about a true personal experience that has taught you about a Law of Life. The experience may have been a major event in your life, or it may have been a small, private moment when you came to understand something profound about life. Perhaps the experience was something traumatic, such as when you or family members were in a car wreck. Or perhaps the experience was something that makes you smile every time you think of it – the time your grandmother taught you how to bake a blueberry pie, or the time that you and a friend discovered that laughter was the best medicine. • Write an essay that relates your experience to a Law of Life. Be sure to clearly state the Law of Life in your essay! ▪ Remember that the best essays include lots of details. These details make the reader feel as though he or she was right there with you when the event o
Sample Maxims A “Law of Life” or maxim can be a quotation from a famous person, or a simple saying that you have heard. A “law of life” should be short and easy to remember.
1. “The highest form of wisdom is kindness.” - The Talmud
2. “What is success? To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “Strength is a matter of a made-up mind.” – John Beecher
4. The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. -- Anna Quindlen
5. “Loving someone deeply gives you strength, while being deeply loved gives you courage.” – Lao-tzu
6. “Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.” – Yogi Bajan
7. “Whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done! – Vincent Van Gogh
8. “Beauty is a light in the heart.” – Kahil Gibran
9. “Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted counts.” – Albert Einstein
10. “Don’t let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth
11. “No one knows what he can do until he tries.” – Publilius Syrus
12. “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.” – George R.R. Martin
13. “To listen, when nobody else wants to listen, is a very beautiful thing.” –Mother Teresa
14. “The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become. “– Charles Frederic DuBois
15. “There’s a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. So, think about that before you judge someone.” – J. Cole
16. “Sometimes you will never know the value of something until it becomes a memory.“– Dr. Seuss
17. “Good example is the best sermon.” - Benjamin Franklin
18. ““A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
19. “I could either watch it happen or be part of it.” – Elon Musk
20. “Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it.” - William Danforth
21. “Love is love.” – Sam Smith
22. “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
23. “Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
24. “Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
25. “It's such a happiness when good people get together.” ― Jane Austen, Emma
26. “There are few things, - whether in the outward world, or to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought, - few things hidden from the man who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
27. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet
28. “It’s . . . your time to live. Don't mess it up” – Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
29. “The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.” ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
30. “The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.” ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
31. “Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.” ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker, The Color Purple
32. “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
33. “When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
34. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
35. “It is good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure.” ― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train
36. “No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
Methods to Improve Your Personal Narrative by Justin Johnson, Teresa, Carolyn Barratt, Litlemissmaria et al. – Adapted by the Georgia Laws of Life Essay Team Method 1: Finding your focus
1. Pick your event. A personal narrative outlines one event in your life. It could be a failure, a change in your life, a realization, a childhood memory...anything. If it would be interesting to write about, it would probably be interesting to read. Think about a circumstance in your life that led to some result, consequence, or lesson learned. • It doesn't necessarily have to be huge or significant. Sometimes, the simplest of thoughts or circumstances can lead to a kind of poetic eloquence. If you emerge from your narrative thinking, "Yep, that's what it was like to be with my dad," then you have succeeded. There is nothing too small if it effectively communicates your message.
2. Determine your narrator and their knowledge. In this assignment, it is best to use 1st person, with and this 1st person being you.
3. Think about the flow. It may seem like going from A to Z is the only correct path, but it may not be. Though starting at the beginning definitely works, you may want to experiment with other chronologies for your story. • Flashback sequences are a fairly common and effective writing tool. You may also consider reflection, where you establish present day and then the narrator revisits a specific time in the past.
4. Jot down the events. Having a basic outline will help you organize your thoughts, see what details you need to include, and pick your writing methods. Only be concerned with the main points now. • This will set up the tone of your narrative, giving you an overall feel for your work.
Look over the Law of Life or maxim you have selected and think of what you are trying to get across. How do you want your audience to feel when they finish your piece?
Method 2: Writing your first draft
1. Start your story strong. Your lead is the most important part of the entire passage; it's what will draw your reader in and keep them interested in your story.
2. Have a beginning, middle and end. In short, a narrative is a story -- and a good story has a clear introduction, body, and conclusion. Your story should be in the body and it should adequately wrap up at the end. 16 • At the end of your story, your reader should feel like they have left with something. This should either be a moral or an understanding of a person or thought process. Summarize this in your conclusion.
3. Use dialogue in your story. It’s amazing how much we learn about people from what they say. One way to achieve this is through carefully constructed dialogue. Work to create dialogue that allows the characters’ personalities and voices to emerge through unique word selection, and the use of active rather than passive voice.[2] • Don't fabricate details. If someone didn't say something, don't put it in your story. Make your narrative as true to life as possible.
4. Give sensory details. Cover all senses such as taste, smell, touch, sight, and sound. If something is normally seen, talk about how it tasted. If it's just heard, mention how it is imagined. • Expand your vocabulary. Instead of "pretty," use "glorious"; instead of "smelled," use "inhaled"; instead of "burn," use "scorched." Vivid words create more vivid pictures.
5. Use similes and metaphors. Relate objects or events to other objects or events by using "like" or "as." These are two of the most common writing tools used and allow the reader to see the words you're relaying. • For example: Instead of using "I cut my arm," consider, "I gashed my arm and blood seemed to spew out like water out of a garden hose." Doing this will allow you to paint a picture in your reader's mind.
6. Put it all together. You probably have in front of you a retelling of events that's fun, emotional, dynamic, and grabbing. As you go over it, piece it in order, adding emphasis where emphasis is due and removing the details from the tangents you may have inadvertently started. Can you see it becoming cohesive? •
This is just your first draft. Some writers use third, fourth, fifth, and sixth drafts before they're happy with their work. Nitpick as you see fit, adding imagery here, a bit of dialogue there, and possibly even moving pieces around. When it clicks, you'll be able to breathe a sigh of satisfaction.