There are a number of places that you can find practice ECA material on the internet to help you get ready for the English 10 End of Course Exam.

Eleanor Roosevelt Speaks to the American Civil Liberties Union

ECA Term Flashcards

Practice ECA Skills

Analyzing a Writing Prompt

ECA Prep on Quia

ECA Jeopardy

Next week, we will be reviewing many of the skills we have been working on all year (close reading, breaking down the prompt, BEST Answer, constructed responses, essay writing). You know better than anyone whether or not you are ready for this test. As I have tried to instill in you all year, you are ultimately responsible for your own learning and success. If you feel that you need to do some extra practice prior to Tues. May 10, and Wed. May 11 when we will be taking the English 10 ECA, use some of the links above, or some of the paper copies of practice assignments that I provided you in your folder after taking the Acuity test.

We ended National Poetry Month with some black out poems.

Poetry Appreciation Lesson

Learning to love Verse

• Rhymes
• Rhythms
• Images

Unit Vocabulary –

Alliteration          Assonance          Consonance          End Rhyme          Foot          Internal Rhyme

Onomatopoeia          Quatrain          Repetition          Stanza         Verse

Traditional Forms of Poetry

Ballad          Blank Verse          Cinquain          Couplet          Elegy          Free Verse

Haiku          Limerick          Lyric          Ode          Sonnet

Invented Forms of Poetry

Alphabet Poetry          Clerihew Poetry         Concrete Poetry          Definition Poetry         List Poetry

The final slideshow turned out a bit longer than most will want to watch all the way through, but it has been a big project. None of the student comments have been scripted or edited. Parents can click through to find their student’s pictures and videos. Once again, huge thanks to everyone involved in making this project such a success – @Charles__Youngs, NWP, National Writing Project IWP Indiana Writing Project, Robert P. Bell Teacher Education Grants, Matt Friend -Engineering Teacher at WHS, Kyle Rees – Art Teacher at WHS NCTE National Council of Teachers of English And all of the fantastic English 10 students at WHS. What great work this has been. Another example of why I love teaching.

 

Watch our slideshow at https://youtu.be/XULp_blO7Ms

N. Swink kept working until, with the help of classmates, he finished this circuit with four lights.  This was by far the most complex circuit design.  Way to stick with it Noah.

Such outstanding work.  I never imagined these would be so good.  Great work by all.

 

 

 

I am getting so excited about next week’s project.  What about you?

Mon. April 11

Argue – Claim * Persuade * Propose

To provide reasons or evidence to (support) or oppose something; persuade another by reason or evidence; contend or maintain that something is true. The Justification that you will be writing to accompany your Lighting The Hero’s Journey project is a form of argumentative writing. You will need to engage ideas critically, and support your ideas.

• Review Partner’s Journey Graphic Organizer
• Selecting which story to use for collaborative project
• Selecting which Stage to Focus on and Start Writing the Justification
• Begin Image Search   

 

Here is an example of the graphic organizer that each of you have been assigned to do for a story of your choice.  Remember you can do your analysis of the 12 stages of the hero’s journey for any book or movie that you know well enough to pick out the individual details for.  I have selected to do my example on To Kill a Mockingbird simply because most of you have read that book this year and my examples will make sense to you.

Turn Friday’s Homework into the tray prior to the start of class. 

While grading your homework this weekend, I realized that a few of you are still struggling with the elements of compare and contrast. Here is the text book response to the compare and contrast question about Gilgamesh and Beowulf:

Gilgamesh built Uruk and the keeping place for Anu and Ishtar; Beowulf destroyed Grendel and Grendel’s mother. Both accomplished heroic acts for their communities.

For a few extra credit points, leave a comment to this blog post by the end of the day that compares and contrasts this response with the response you turned in. You may even use the notes I wrote on your homework to help you out with this.

Also, let’s talk just a little bit about pronouns. What is a pronoun and why would it not be a good writing strategy to being a written response with a pronoun?

Unit notes will be collected again on Friday (April 8, 2016 by the end of the school day). Please be aware that all of your notes for the unit must be included in one file that you upload to Canvas. This means:

1. If you did not receive all of your points for any section of notes the first time around, you should have corrected them prior to turning them in for the second time.
2. You will be graded on the previous four sections being complete, as well as the following new sections for this week – Support, Medieval Romance, Vocabulary, Reading Notes.
3. You cannot wait until the last minute and simply take pictures of your notes and add the pictures individually to the Canvas assignment.

Support – Site * Justify * Maintain

To support something is to offer evidence, examples, or data in order to illustrate or bolster your claim or conclusion; cite those sources of information that justify your position.

Medieval Romance using Arthurian Legend

Vocabulary Builder Words 

assay	adroitly	entreated
adjure	largesse	peril
feigned	righteous	interred

 

Begin In class read aloud ”from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”