English 10 Notebook Check 10/5/09 Page 4 - Table of Contents Page Title Date Grade # 1 Title Page 2 Syllabus 3 Rubric 4-7 Table of Contents 9/10 8 Pres. Obama Notes 9/10 9 My Goals, Actions & 9/10 Changes 10 Professional Introduction 9/14 Notes 11 Sicko Notes 9/18 12 Sicko Gist 9/18 13 Credibility Evaluation & 9/23 Persuasion 14 Sojourner Truth Thesis 9/23 15 Sojourner Truth Reasons 9/24 16 Academic Vocab Pt. 2 9/29 17 Sick Notes Pt. 2 9/29 1
Page 8 9/10 Pres. Obama Notes 3 Interesting Details Your Analysis 1. Watch and listen to the President s speech to students. 2. Write down any 3 sentences or phrases expressing ideas you find personally interesting, important or relevant in your life. 3. Try your best to accurately copy the phrase or sentence, but don t worry if it isn t perfect. 4. Try to select one quote from near the beginning, another from the middle, and the third from the end. 5. Feel free to do extra credit or honors level work and select more than 3, being careful to quote them precisely. EXAMPLE Explain why you selected the phrase or sentence. 1. What is interesting about it? 2. Why is it important? 3. Does it relate to your life? How? Michael Jordan was cut he said I have failed over and over again and that s why I succeed let your failures teach you. There are things that I fail at over and over again, like getting in good shape and working out every day instead of napping. I have to let myself learn, change and do things differently and get to the gym instead of taking those naps. 2
Page 9 9/10/09 My Goals, Actions, and Changes 3 Goals: 1 Reduce to a 34 waist and have all my pants fit loosely. 2 Improve my tennis play as a result of improved fitness and beat my opponents more often. (I lose more often now, and win only sometimes.) 3 Have a stronger, healthier body and more relaxed, calm, energized mind. Actions: 1 Go to the gym for at least 1 hour on Tuesday at 6 and Thursday at 5:30 and work out strong. 2 Go to yoga practice on Saturdays at 10:30 AM and practice yoga at home after tennis on Monday, Wednesday, and Sunday nights for at least 1 hour each. 3 Go to the park on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for a strong jog/hike up the hillside with the dogs. 4 Eat healthy food, more veggies, smaller portions, and better times of day (not 11PM). Changes: 1 Give up napping after Sylmar and before YMCA yoga teaching Tuesday and Thursday. 2 Give up drinking Friday nights and sleeping in Saturday mornings and go to yoga. 3 Give up lounging on the couch and practice yoga while I watch TV or read. 4 Give up pizza, booze, fried rice, late-nite dinners, and potstickers. I have shared my goal with my parents/guardian: 3
Page 10 9/14 Professional Introduction Notes 1. Interview someone from class you do not know. 2. Learn their whole name and what they like to be called. 3. Find out 3 interesting or important things about them that they would like to share with the class. BE DETAILED! 4. Check their homework (Page 9) and offer them advice for improvement. Goals/Actions/Changes 5. Be prepared to introduce your new partner. Tell us their name, 2 or 3 detailed and interesting things, and at least one goal/action/change. 4
Page 10 INTRODUCTION NOTES - EXAMPLE Joseph Siminski Joe Likes music all kinds favorite is Prog. Rock TOOL, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin Teaches Yoga Power Yoga Hollywood YMCA and Gold s GymLA Likes to eat junk food pizza burritos potstickers. One of his goals Win more tennis matches his girlfriend always wins. He wants to win more. Practice Get to know each other. 1. Find another pair of students that you don t know. 2. Introduce your partner to the pair, and listen to their introductions. 3. Repeat Performance Stand in front of class with a group and introduce your partner to the class. Answer questions and receive advice for improvement. Writing standard W 2.5 - Extend ideas presented in primary and secondary sources through original analysis, evaluation, and elaboration. Speaking and Listening Standard 1.8 - Produce concise notes for extemporaneous delivery. 5
Page 11 9/18 Sicko Notes DO NOT COPY INSTRUCTIONS Watch and listen carefully to the movie SICKO Chapters 1-5 (30 Minutes) by Michael Moore. Write down at least 10 15 phrases or sentences you think are important or interesting to you. 6
Page 12 9/18 Sicko Gist (General Summary) Period 6 Example The movie Sicko by Michael Moore is about Period 5 Example The movie Sicko by Michael Moore is about bad health care companies that deny people any help, even people that have health insurance just to save money. Many innocent people die, 18,000 who don t have insurance and many tens of thousands that do. They do this for selfish reasons, to increase their profits. The companies, the doctors, and the workers only care about the money. Some reasons people are being denied include racism, too thin or too fat, too old, minor problems like yeast infections, other pre-existing conditions or experimental treatments. 7
Period 5 Class Discussion The movie Sicko by Michael Moore is about health care companies that don t want to pay and want to save money by denying coverage to people that are sick. Many people are sick and need treatment. The health care companies are denying the treatment. Because of the denials, thousands of Americans are dying. Having insurance or not having insurance doesn t seem to matter and having insurance may not actually be worth it. They could promise miracles, but they don t do anything. They give some patients false hope that they may get insurance, and then call and deny them. To even get insurance, you have to meet their standards which are really high. They go through your medical records looking for pre-existing conditions to deny coverage. Even a yeast infection can deny you insurance coverage or payment for care. 8
Unit 1 Page 13 9/23 Credibility Evaluation & Persuasion Essential Learning Reading 2.8 Evaluate the credibility of an author s argument or defense of a claim by critiquing the relationship between generalizations and evidence, the comprehensiveness of evidence, and the way in which the author s intent affects the structure and tone of the text. ACADEMIC VOCABULARY Evaluate make a judgment about something based on careful analysis. Credibility the believability or truthfulness of an argument or claim. Argument Claim Position Opinion Thesis Point The thesis sentence of a persuasive text that clearly states or implies what the author wants you to do, believe, or agree with. 9
Page 14 9/23 Sojourner Truth Read Pages 40 41 then Page 42 Identify the writer s Thesis (Claim, Argument, Position, Point, Opinion) I think that twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. Sojourner Truth s position is that women and Negroes should get equal rights to the white men. 10
Page 15 9/24 - Sojourner Truth 4 Reasons Quote 4 Reasons I can work as much and eat as much as a man and bear the lash as well. Analysis Her experience working, eating, and getting whipped has been equal to men. Therefore, she thinks women should have equal rights. If my cup won t hold but a pint wouldn t you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full. Man had nothing to do with [Christ]. Even if Sojourner admits that women aren t as smart as men, that isn t a reason to deny them equal rights. It s just mean. Because a woman gave birth to Christ and God was the father, men had nothing to do with Christ. Women are holy enough to have equal rights. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down alone 11
Page 16 9/29 Academic Vocabulary Part 2 Reasons Argument a series of statements designed to persuade the reader to accept a claim or opinion. These statements can include additional claims, evidence and/or emotional appeals. Evidence Facts, statistics, examples, anecdotes (brief stories about real people), and/or quotations of expert opinions given to support a claim. These are called LOGICAL APPEALS. Emotional Appeals statements made using emotionally loaded words or emotionally moving evidence that create an emotional reaction in the audience. 12
Page 17 9/29 Sicko Notes Part 2 Watch chapter 6 of Sicko and take as many relevant notes as possible, writing key words, numbers or phrases as you watch. 13
Page B1-9/9 -Notebook Rules 1. Do not use for anything except ENGLISH CLASS WORK! 2. Do not tear out any sheets of paper EVER! 3. Bring it with you to class every day. 4. Take it home every day. 5. Write neatly and complete all your work. 14
B2 9/16/09 - Pleasure Reading 1. Due Monday September 21 Select and bring to class a book, magazines, or newspapers that YOU WANT TO READ! a. If you are reading short texts, like magazine articles and newspapers, or information online, you must print and keep your texts. Try to read on the same subject or topic. b. Choose something you have not read before and will not be required to read in school. 2. Each week, students will bring their reading texts to school on Fridays. 3. Students will read for 30 minutes for homework ANY 2 DAYS PER WEEK THEY WISH (or, twice on the same day). 4. At the end of 10 weeks, students will produce a report and give an oral presentation about their reading. 5. Each time a student reads, you will create a Reading Journal. 15
B3 9/16 - Reading Journals Use the B pages for your reading journals only. 1. Create a reading header. Date Time start Time Finish Pages Title Author 9/16 12:30 1:00 PM 3-25 LA Youth Jose Reyes 2. Write 5 10 sentences of general summary (gist). 3. React to one or two specific details with your thoughts or feelings. 4. Question anything you did not fully understand or would like to learn more about. EXTRA JOURNALS = EXTRA CREDIT 16
B4 EXAMPLE DO NOT COPY Do your own journal here. 9/16/09 1:40 2:00 p16 LA Youth Applying to college without stressing out Brandie Hanson 1. Brandie explains the steps she took planning for college. She took the SAT twice and got a good score of 1790, very close to her goal of 1800. She wanted a school close to her home, so applied to several. Application time was in October, so she had to work hard to get them in on time. In the end, she got accepted at all the schools she applied to and had her choice. She picked UCSD. 2. I thought it was cool how Brandy was smart and planned well for what she wanted for herself and her future. 3. How much does it cost to file all those applications? 17
EXAMPLE IF YOU READ MORE THAN ONE ARTICLE 9/16/09 1:40 2:00 - p16 LA Youth Applying to college without stressing out Brandie Hanson P27 LA YOUTH Lily Allen - Gabe Andreen P27 LA Youth Twilight CD Review Patricia Chavarria 1. Brandie explains the steps she took planning for college. She took the SAT twice and got a good score of 1790, very close to her goal of 1800. She wanted a school close to her home, so applied to several. Application time was in October, so she had to work hard to get them in on time. In the end, she got accepted at all the schools she applied to and had her choice. She picked UCSD. The other articles reviewed the music on new CD s by Lily Allen and the soundtrack to the movie Twilight. Gabe preferred Lily Allen s first album to this one, her second, and thought this one started to sound all the same. Patricia loved the Twilight Soundtrack for creating a vampire-ish vibe. 2. I thought it was cool how Brandy was smart and planned well for what she wanted for herself and her future. 3. How much does it cost to file all those applications? 18