Taking the Final: December 20, 2018

Focus: How can I demonstrate my growth as a reader and writer this semester?


Please have out the following:

• Your hero's journey book
• Your synthesis essay
• A pencil (and maybe a pen, too)
• Your prep sheet

Your exam time ends at 9:55, but you may take extra time if you need it.

When you finish, please staple the rubric to the top of your exam and turn it in.

Please also turn in your hero's journey book if it is a school copy.

If you finish early, please prepare quietly for your other finals.

Prepping for the Final: December 17, 2018

Focus: How do we finish preparing for the final exam?

1. Warming up with three good things and our course evaluation

2. Recapping expectations for the final exam

• Click HERE for the review sheet you received a few weeks ago.
• Please bring a pencil, your synthesis essay, the prep sheet, and your hero's journey book.
• Remember that our final is on Thursday, Dec 20 at 8:30 sharp.

3. Creating a prep sheet for the final with a book club partner

4. Concluding with my final grade math

89.50% = A -
89.49 = B +

79.50% = B -
79/49 = C +

HW:
For THURSDAY, 8:30 AM

• Bring a pencil, paper, and your hero's journey book.
• Look through your previous three-columned notes.
• Reread and bring the prep sheet you created today.
• Review your five IXL lessons.

Building Your Reading Muscles: December 14, 2018

Focus: How do we build our reading muscles?

1. Warming up with your final IXL reviews of 2018, tag-team!

• Sentences, fragments, and run-ons
• Phrases and clauses
• Nouns
• Semicolons, colons, and commas
• Verb tenses

2. Enjoying your final day of reading your independent book; if you have not yet done so, please complete your book review.

OR researching a myth from your "culture" and sending it to me.

• What groups do you belong to? Ethnicity? Religion? Hobbies, gifts, and passions?
• What heroes can you find in your groups / culture?
• Can you find an online text of one of your hero's stories? Send it to me!

3. Concluding with my final grade math:

89.50% = A -
89.49 = B +

79.50% = B -
79/49 = C +

HW:
1. Look over the exam review sheet I gave you a few weeks ago to help you figure out how to prepare.

2. Show up on time for our final exam, which is on Thursday, December 20 at 8:25 am. Bring the following items with you:

• Your hero's journey book
• Your synthesis essay (the copy with my feedback and rubric)
• The prep sheet you're creating on Monday
• A pen or pencil

What Secrets Has Your Text Revealed? December 13, 2018

Focus: What secrets have your characters revealed by the conclusion of your text?

1. Warming up with Post Secret

2. Enjoying your final day of Hero's Journey Book Clubs

3. Reflecting with your final exit ticket

HW:
1. For FRIDAY, DEC 14: 

• All make-up / revised course work due, INCLUDING YOUR INDEPENDENT READING BOOK REVIEWS. No work for English 10 will be accepted after this date.

• Bring your independent reading book to class for the last time this year.

2. Your final is on Thursday, December 20 at 8:30 am. Be early. Missed exams will result in an automatic 50% deduction, so set your alarm now.

Pin the Semicolon on the Sentence! December 12, 2018

Focus: How do we use semicolons for clarity and command?

1. Warming up with a Ted Ed quick review of semicolons

2. Playing "Pin the Semicolon / Comma / Colon" on the sentence

3. Sharing the most important symbolism of the semicolon: Project Semicolon



4. Finishing your hero's journey books

HW:
1. For THURSDAY: Finish your book and prepare your final syllabus.

2. For FRIDAY, DEC 14: 

• All make-up / revised course work due, INCLUDING YOUR INDEPENDENT READING BOOK REVIEWS. No work for English 10 will be accepted after this date.

• Bring your independent reading book to class for the last time this year.

Hero's Journey Book Clubs, Day 6: December 11, 2018

Focus: How is your novel working towards resolution?

1. Warming up with plural / possessive noun bingo!

2. Enjoying our penultimate day of Hero's Journey Book Clubs, Day 6

3. Wrapping up with an exit ticket

HW:
1. For THURSDAY: Finish your book and prepare your final syllabus.

2. For FRIDAY, DEC 14: All make-up / revised course work due, INCLUDING YOUR INDEPENDENT READING BOOK REVIEWS. No work for English 10 will be accepted after this date.

The Return Home: December 10, 2018

Focus: Why must the hero return home at the end of the journey?

1. Warming up with three good things

2. Enjoying our final hero's journey film clip (1:17:12)

• How does Moana's dragon battle reflect her own, internal battle?

• What does the battle resolve for all characters involved?

• How does winning this battle enable Moana (and Maui) to return home?

• When Moana returns home, how do things change? What stays the same?

• When she returns home, how has Moana changed? How has she stayed the same?

• In your opinion, why must the hero return home at the end of the journey?

3. Indulging in our final memoir writing exercises of the year

Click here for the prompts.

4. Sharing your memoir writing with your book club members, if time allows

HW:
1. For TUESDAY: Assigned book club reading / syllabus creating.

2. For THURSDAY: Finish your book and prepare your final syllabus.

3. For FRIDAY, DEC 14: All make-up / revised course work due, INCLUDING YOUR INDEPENDENT READING BOOK REVIEWS. No work for English 10 will be accepted after this date.

Building Your Reading Muscles: December 7, 2018

Focus: How can we build our grammar and reading muscles?

1. Warming up with an idea on how to deal with final exam stress: Taking 10 Mindful Minutes

2. Relaxing into our independent reading books

3. Playing noun bingo!

HW:
1. Take 10 mindful minutes.

2. For TUESDAY: Assigned book club reading / syllabus creating.

3. For FRIDAY, DEC 14: All make-up / revised course work due, INCLUDING YOUR INDEPENDENT READING BOOK REVIEWS. No work for English 10 will be accepted after this date.

Book Clubs, Day 5: December 6, 2018

Focus: How do we make nouns possessive, and how is the hero's journey playing out in the second half of our book club books?

1. Warming up with a possessive noun interview

Step 1: Ask your partner the following questions, and write down his/her responses:

• How many brothers and sisters do you have?
• Do they have their own rooms?
• Do you have your own room? What kinds of things are in your room?
• How many pets do you have? What kind? Where do they sleep? What kinds of toys do they have?
• What does your kitchen look like?
• How many bathrooms does your house have?
• Where do the different people in your house tend to hang out?
• What objects do you associate with the different people in your house?
• What's your favorite space in your house, and why?

Step 2: Make at least FIVE POSSESSIVE phrases or clauses based on what you wrote down. YOU CANNOT USE THE SAME POSSESSIVE NOUN MORE THAN ONCE. Try to use both singular and plural nouns.

Example:

• Molly's house has two bathrooms.
• Her brothers' rooms are always messy.
• The dog's and cat's dishes are in the kitchen.
• The cat leaves its toy mouse on the stairs.
• Her stepsister's homework is all over the dining room table.

2. Enjoying our Hero's Journey Book Clubs, Day 5

3. Wrapping up with an exit ticket

HW:
1. For next TUESDAY: Assigned book club reading.

2. For FRIDAY, DEC 14: All make-up / revised course work due, INCLUDING YOUR INDEPENDENT READING BOOK REVIEWS. No work for English 10 will be accepted after this date.

Warming Up: December 5, 2018

Focus: How do you keep your book club active, engaged, and focused?

1. Warming up with ideas for book club warm-ups

2. Prepping for Day 5 of book clubs by reading, creating warm-ups, and developing text-based questions

HW:
1. For next THURSDAY: Assigned book club reading.

2. For FRIDAY, DEC 14: All make-up / revised course work due. No work for English 10 will be accepted after this date.

Book Clubs, Day 4: December 4, 2018

Focus: What is a threshold guardian, and how is this figure significant to the hero's journey?

1. Warming up with memoir writing on your own heroic journeys

2. Enjoying Book Clubs, Day 4

Please make sure you take a moment to discuss my feedback on your previous syllabus.

3. Wrapping up with an exit ticket

HW:
1. For next THURSDAY: Assigned book club reading.

2. For FRIDAY, DEC 14: All make-up / revised course work due. No work for English 10 will be accepted after this date.

Hero or No Hero? December 3, 2018

Focus: What makes a hero a hero?

1. Warming up with three good things and a sample piece of writing that needs your help!

2. Meeting Jesus Malverde; using three-columned notes to unpack his story

• Click HERE if you'd like to view the reading strategies bookmark.

• Click HERE if you'd like to type your three-columned notes; please be aware that you will be handwriting them on your final.

3. One side of the room vs. the other: Debating on whether or not Malverde should be considered a mythical hero

• What steps of the hero's journey does he fulfill or fail to fulfill?
• What traits does he share with our other heroes?
• How is he different from other heroes?

4. Self-reflecting on your three-columned notes

HW:
1. For TUESDAY: Assigned book club reading and syllabus.

2. For FRIDAY, DEC 14: All course work due, including your book review, essay revisions, make-up work, etc.