April 11, 2013

THURSDAY! One more day until the weekend! Whoo! 

Here's what happened (Even though it's not much because it was 4 core!)

-No SSR sadly

-Q&A

-Workshop Time

Notes: 

During Q&A about the I-Search paper, we covered whether or not if we should talk about ourselves more and citations.

Reminders: 

-TURN IN YOUR REVISED COPY OF YOUR INTRODUCTION BY SATURDAY AT 8AM! 

April 10th, 2013

Happy Wednesday! 

Here's what we did in Ortega's:
-SSR
-Entered A#96 and A#97 in your notebook
-I-Search sample examination/ Q&A
-Workshop
-Share out

Notes for today:
-Ortega and the TA, Erika are gonna be looking over everyone's I-Search paper and they hope to see everyone's paper at least once a week.
-Make sure you print out your paper every time so you can  work on it in class.
-Keep up with the deadlines
-You can start your "Searching" section of your paper this week if you'd like but we'll be doing it this week.
       -Searching are the highs and lows of senior project
       -What's been helpful in driving your project/ what's the most difficult
       -You can acknowledge your mentor and your EQ in this section

The day of April 9th.

Welcome back from spring break! Yay!

Here's what happened:
-New writing groups
-Enter #93 Midterm Progress Reports, #94 iSearch Overview, and #95 iSearch Intro into your notebook.
-Explanation of iSearch paper!
-Wrote the rough draft

Notes for iSearch Paper
-Written in 1st person perspective
-Goal: Personally interact with the research
-Keep your rough drafts in your notebook.
-Intro: Should be like your sponge activity for two hour presentation. Keep in mind how are you gonna get the reader interested in what you're talking about.
-Ortega expects that for every half hour we spend in class, we match that at home to create a stellar paper.
-Make sure you keep up with the deadlines!

Reminders:
-Bring in your rough draft in!
-Tuesday, TONIGHT: 1st Draft
-Wednesday: 2 peer reviews
-Saturday at 8am: Revised Draft DUE.
-Turn in LC research books if you'd like to

Scribe 3/19

Today's class began with SSR the way it normally does. Afterward we continued to work on learning the difference between informal and formal writing. We went around the class hearing everyone's chosen paragraphs and then the informal/ formal versions of them. We did not finish. We had our usual lit circle discussion. Don't forget to do disc prep 7

• SSR
•  Academic tone
• Disc 6
• Disc prep 7

-Kendall

Better late than never...

Sorry for the late blog post but we don't have English until Tuesday anyway.

• SSR
• Book Talk
• Chose books

We ended our second Lit Cirlce books and now we're moving onto Non-Fiction. Mrs. Ortega chose 6 (7?) great books that we had the options to choose. After having the summaries explained to us, she drew sticks and formed new Lit Circle groups. Also, we have to review someone's Literary Analysis paper and print out the review someone gave to you. Our first discussion will be on Wednesday!

2/27/2013

Game plan for the day:

• SSR
• A#74 Literary Analysis Peer Review Instructions
• Peer Review

For assignment 74, we took notes on how we should give constructive criticism on a fellow classmate's paper. We were instructed to write our name, fill out a T-chart, read the essay and margin note with comments that could help better the student's essay. After this little lesson, we were handed papers not belonging to our table mates and used the guidelines Ortega showed us. For about 15 minutes, we silently reviewed essays and when we were done, we traded with a table mate. The day ended with a mid-February progress report. Also, we didn't have a notebook check today, but expect one in the next rotation.

2/26/2013

Hello, East House! I, Alyssa, will be your scribe for all of this week's English classes. Here we go.

• SSR
• A#73 - Literary Analysis Pointers
• Revisions

We began class with the usual SSR and quickly transitioned to assignment 73, "Literary Analysis Pointers." We discussed some of the most important pointers that you should consider when you're writing a paper to analyze a book. Near the end of the block, Ortega passed out our essays we wrote about our book which were already graded and we were asked to revise it. With that being said, a revised paper is due tonight on TurnItIn and don't forget to bring a hard copy tomorrow!

Also, we are having a notebook check tomorrow. You have been warned.