Period 3 English Honors 9 Scribe September 6, 2013

Today we had Mr. Rosenberg as our substitute.
1. Mr. R. collected the SAT 2 Lesson 2 practice. Next week's is Lesson 3 which is due on Friday and a vocabulary test also on that day!

2. Anybody who redid the Lord of The Flies annotations were due today, along with the original rubric.

3. Another thing we did was take the vocabulary test on Lesson 2 of the SAT 2 book. Mr. Rosenberg's extra credit question was: What kind of dogs (same breed) does the sub have? Answer: Australian Shepard.

4. After that, we finished reading Act 1 of Othello, which we reviewed in small groups after on what happened in Act 1.

5. Finally, we took the quiz over Act 1 in our self-selected groups.

Homework: Conference, reread Act 2 of Othello (take notes)

Important: 

To what extent do jealousy and betrayal rule our choices/ lives or affect our relationship?

Link of Agenda: https://docs.google.com/a/lpsk12.org/presentation/d/1rUv55HzUT4HX7Y5JWl9I9ifCp7Fe0hLeuVbLZSXxrFw/edit#slide=id.gfe3afe7e_039

Period 5 Honors English Scribe Courtney Caviness 9/6/13

9/6/13

Homework:

conference, reread act 2: take notes or make annotations

What we did today:

took up SAT Lesson 2 exercises

Turned in LOF redo annotations

Took SAT 2 quiz

Reading Othello up to Act 2

Then Quiz on what we have read this far.

Othello annotations: Act 1, Scene 3, Line 60-Act 2

Othello is on trial in front of the Duke, because Brabantio thought he used witchcraft on Desdemona

Othello goes on to explain how much he loves her.

Desdemona enters and tells her father how much she loves him.

So Brabantio agrees to give Desdemona his blessing but only because he is her daughter but he really hates Othello now.

They move to talk about the war in Cyprus, and Othello agrees to go to war but wants his wife to go with him.

It was decided that Iago,Othello,and Desdemona will to Cyprus and Othello will go tonight and Iago will watch over Desdemona.

Roderigo finds out about the marriage and want him to kill himself, but Iago convinces him otherwise and says that he should earn some money to use to g to Cyprus an woo Desdemona. So to earn money he will sell his land.

Iag is hatching a plan: to get rid of Cassio and take his place and get rid of Othello as well.

Scribe for Period 5 - Honors 9 - 9/5/13

1. We started class out today by turned off the word verification of our personal Bully Blog. In order to do this, press the arrow next to the white paper button then click Settings. After this, go to posts and comments. Scroll down to Show word verification and change it from yes to no. 
2. After that, we finished reading and acting out Act 1 Scene 1 and part of Act 1 Scene 2 while annotating (connections to self, text, world) and we asked questions to better our understanding of Othello. Also, we added quotes to the boards (anger, betrayal, jealousy, etc.)
3. Next, we watched two different versions of Act 1 in Othello and we compared each of them.
4. Homework:
• Letter conference
• Review notes on Act 1 to study for quiz tomorrow
• Study for SAT quiz and finish SAT Lesson 2
• Redo annotations for Lord of the Flies due tomorrow

Scribe for Period 3 - Honors 9 - 9/4/2013

1. We started class today by taking out our SAT book and going over questions we had about Lesson Two. The problems are due Friday and the quiz is also on Friday so make sure you study!

2. We watched the first scene from the movie Othello. Yesterday we watched the opening scene from a different movie of Othello so we compared and contrasted the two. The movie today showed more detail than yesterdays. It showed the secret wedding where Desdemona's dad was not present and that Brabantio mentioned that his bad dream came true when he heard Desdemona and Othello eloped. We will keep watching scenes from the movie as we continue to read the book so we can better understand it.

3. Another thing we did to better understand the book was act out Act 1 Scene 1. We chose three people to be Brabantio, Iago, and Roderigo. They read aloud the lines while standing in front of the class and the rest of the class annotated. Mrs. Smith helped with the annotations by asking questions of our own and elaborating. Every time somebody had a question, they put their hand up and we stopped the reenactment of the play to answer it. We will continue acting out the play as we read the book.

4. Homework:

• SAT Lesson 2 exercises (DUE: Friday) 
• Study SAT Lesson 2 words
• Finish reading/annotating act 1 scene 1
• Redo LOF annotations (DUE: Friday) 

Scribe for Period 3 - Honors 9 - 9/3/2013

Scribe for Period 3 - Honors 9

1. We started class today by taking out our SAT book. We read over all the words and definitions as a class out loud for lesson two. Sometimes it helps to say the words and definitions out loud when trying to memorize them.

2. Also, make sure your summary/response is posted to YOUR blog. There is no late work.

3. What we worked on the most today was starting the book Othello by William Shakespeare.

• Mrs. Smith has copies of Othello that you can use. If you are using one of her copies you have to use sticky notes to annotate or keep an annotating journal online. If you bring your own copy you can write on it however you want.
• How to annotate correctly - When annotating Othello, show all your thinking. Annotate like you did Lord of the Flies, with questions, thoughts, connections, etc. Also make sure you know the background of Othello before you start reading because it will help you understand the text better. REMEMBER - Othello was not written to read, it was written to be performed. Keep that in mind while you are reading.
• Reading the book - We started reading the book in class out loud starting at page xiii (Shakespeare’s Othello) and ending on page xxiv (Shakespeare’s Life). This is just the introduction to the book so it was a little bit harder to annotate to. One annotation we made was on page xiii at the end of the first paragraph when we asked “What is a standard barrier?”

 4.   After reading Mrs. Smith told we are going to be watching two different movie versions of Othello. (only the first scene) We started watching the first one in class. After we watched a little we talked about what we could get from it.  Some of the things we noticed were;

• The man named Iago and the man named Lieutenant Roderigo are working together.
• Roderigo had told the king his daughter, Desdemona, is eloping with Othello so the king sends his best guards to go find her.

5. After watching some of the movie we closed by reviewing the homework. The homework is;

• Annotation redos for Lord of the Flies is due this Friday.
• Make sure you know when you are going in for your conference.
• SAT practices are due Friday. SAT quiz Friday.
• At home reread the notes you take on Othello so you better understand the story. (we will be doing this every night after we read.)

Scribe 9H Period 5 8/30

Summary:

Topic sentence: title, author, main idea

Summarize main points of movie. Can you use some specific examples, but better stick to big ideas.

Concluding sentence

*NO OPINION

*NO PERSONAL WORDS: I, me, my, our, we, us, you, your

Response:

Topic sentence: argumentative/reactionary statement with a why

Specific examples and explanation to support thesis (2-3)

Concluding sentence

*Opinion back up by fact

*No personal words

Big ideas:

Bullying physically: mentally hurts people

It everyone works together, we can stop bullying

society’s choice to ignore bullying has tragic effects

bullying has grown exponentially

Smith’s Example Topic Sentence (DO NOT USE): Lee Hirsch, in his documentary “Bully”, portrays society’s choice to ignore the exponential growth of bullying which has led to tragic outcomes.

Smith’s Example Concluding Sentence (DO NOT USE): If society continues to deny the epidemic of bullying, according to Hirsch, more young lives will be lost.

Post them together on your personal blog.

All of that emotion that you have been holding back for past few days comes out in your response. This is your time to argue. Use your ideas and add why to fuel the explanation.

8-28 Scribe 9 Honors Period 3

8/28/13

• We looked at the schedule for the day: https://docs.google.com/a/lpsk12.org/presentation/d/1jZn2Kv0-UvNonsNIoNqelPnB7DmUo0Fak3UXT_24E3o/edit#slide=id.gfc4f6bb8_2_13

• Morning announcements

• We looked at the the SAT Exercises and went over some questions that there were
• Exercise 3: Question 2

If you have an effusive personality, then it _______ of you. Motor oil will _______ across the gravel if it spills out of the can.

The first answer is pours out because the prefix e means “out” or “from” and the root fus means “melt” or “pour out”, so the two combined means “pour out or from” and “pours out” fits into the sentence perfectly.

The second answer is is found when you use the root meanings listed above the questions, di means “apart” and fus means “melt” or “pour out” so they combine to make the answer, diffuse.

• We continued the movie Bully along with our notes which we typed on Google Docs
• A summary of the movie is provided in the following link: http://www.npr.org/2012/03/29/149629170/bully-a-provocative-and-essential-documentary
• We looked for key points to make our summary response which we will write when we finish the movie