Daily Agenda and Upcoming
Assignments
Junior English Language: Rhetorical Analysis [AP]
Mr. Sanders
I post our Daily Agenda in class on PowerPoint slides. If you're absent
or need to check class events and assignments, just click here for the
link.
Monday, April 13
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In Class
◦ Turn in Working Drafts of Research Essays.
We’ll begin scheduling Research Team
Presentations this week.
◦ Practice AP Passage
◦ The Great Gatsby
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Upcoming
◦ Tuesday: Discussion of The Great Gatsby
chapters 5-6
Wednesday, April 8
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In Class
◦ Grammar and Vocabulary
◦ The Great Gatsby
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Upcoming
◦ Thursday: Quiz on chapters1-4/Research Team
Work
◦ Friday: Grammar-Vocabulary Quiz/Research
Team Work
◦ Next Week: Finish discussions of the
remaining chapters of the novel.
Tuesday, April 7
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In Class
◦ Don’t forget to make you Broncos Read selection by
2:35 tomorrow.
◦ Grammar and Vocabulary
◦ The Great Gatsby: Discussion of Chapters 3-4
 You’ve read Thomas Paine, Lincoln, King, Malcolm X, Emerson,
Banneker, Jefferson, and a whole host of other thinkers about
American culture and politics. What do you say American
patriotism is? What is Fitzgerald’s position on it?
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Upcoming
◦ Wednesday: Continue this conversation.
◦ Thursday: Quiz on chapters1-4/Research Team Work
◦ Friday: Grammar-Vocabulary Quiz/Research Team
Work
Monday, April 6
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In Class
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Housekeeping
Collect Synthesis Papers
Grammar and Vocabulary
Broncos Read
Upcoming
◦ Tuesday-Wednesday: Discussion of Chapters
3-4 of Gatsby
Wednesday, April 1
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In Class
◦ What questions do you have about Synthesis
Essays?
◦ Finish Discussion of Chapter 1 of Gatsby and
Begin Discussion of Chapter 2
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Upcoming
◦ Thursday: Reading and Writing Day
◦ Monday: Synthesis Essay Due
Tuesday, March 31
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In Class
◦ Change of Plans: Reading and Writing Day
◦ The Great Gatsby or the Synthesis Essay
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Upcoming
◦ Wednesday: Finish Discussion of Chapter 1 of
Gatsby and Begin Discussion of Chapter 2
Monday, March 30
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Welcome Back!
In Class
◦ A small dose of housekeeping.
◦ Begin discussion of The Great Gatsby.
◦ The Idle Rich and Chapter 1
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Upcoming
◦ Tuesday: Finish chapter 1 and begin chapter 2
discussion
◦ Monday, April 6: Synthesis Essay Due
(Science/Nature)
◦ Monday, April 13: Working Draft of Research
Essay Due (CHANGE)
Wednesday, March 18
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In Class
◦ Introduction to The Great Gatsby
◦ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y041eT6QrI
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Upcoming
◦ Thursday: Begin discussion of Chapter 1 of
TGG.
◦ Break: My advice is to finish the reading of The
Great Gatsby and work on your Synthesis
Essay.
Tuesday, March 17
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In Class
◦ Synthesis Essay Prompt
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Upcoming
◦ Wednesday: Introduction to American Culture
and Commerce Unit—The Great Gatsby
(Fitzgerald) and All My Sons (Miller)
◦ Thursday: Begin discussion of Chapter 1 of
TGG.
◦ Break: My advice is to finish the reading of The
Great Gatsby and work on your Synthesis
Essay.
Friday, March 13
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In Class
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Online
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Grammar and Vocabulary Week 14 Quiz
Discussion of “A Clone Is Born” and “Free Will”
Discussion of “A Clone Is Born” and “Free Will” Ends
Monday
Upcoming
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Monday: PARCC Testing—no attendance for juniors
Tuesday: Quiz on “A Clone Is Born” and “Free Will”
Thursday, March 12
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In Class
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Online
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Grammar and Vocabulary Week 14, Step 4
Discussion of “A Clone Is Born” and “Free Will”
Discussion of “A Clone Is Born” and “Free Will”
Begins Friday Ends Monday
Upcoming
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Friday: Grammar and Vocabulary Week 14 Quiz
Monday: PARCC Testing—no attendance for juniors
Tuesday: Quiz on “A Clone Is Born” and “Free Will”
Wednesday, March 11
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In Class
◦ Grammar and Vocabulary Week 14, Step 3
◦ Survey for Journalism
◦ Begin Discussion of “A Clone Is Born”
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Upcoming
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Thursday: Read “Free Will”
Tuesday, March 10
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In Class
◦ Grammar and Vocabulary Week 14, Step 2
◦ Prep for Quiz
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Online: This discussion is not a replacement
for your participation in class.
Upcoming
Wednesday: Quiz on “Seeing Through Computers” and “Is
Google Making Us Stupid?” and Survey for Journalism. Read
“A Clone Is Born”
 Thursday: Read “Free Will”
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Seeing Through Computers
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How does computer use shape our thinking?
Advice: Start with a discussion of your
personal experience, including how this
online discussion is shaped by the use of
computers, and very quickly dig into a
discussion of Turkel's argument. Pay close
attention to the following concepts: the
evolution of the use of the concept
transparency, the use of algorithms to imitate
and predict human behaviors, the examples
of CAD and telephones, and Turkel's
discussion of "the culture of simulation."
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
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How does computer use shape our thinking?
Advice:You've already had the opportunity
to discuss this question on a personal level
with "Seeing Through Computers," so dig
into the concepts discussed by Carr in
relation to the question: Lewis Mumford’s
analysis of the mechanical clock, Taylorism,
the development of writing and the printing
press, and potential cultural losses that may
result from highly efficient means of
communication.
Monday, March 9
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In Class
◦ Grammar and Vocabulary Week 14
◦ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
◦ What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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Online
◦ Post comments on Turkel and Carr by
Wednesday.
 Upcoming
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Wednesday: Quiz on “Seeing Through Computers”
and “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and Survey for
Journalism
Friday, March 6
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In Class
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Discussion of “Seeing Through Computers” and “Is
Google Making Us Stupid?” Both of these discussions
are online. Start with “Seeing Through Computers.”
Upcoming
◦ Tuesday: We’ll finish our discussion of both
these pieces.
◦ Wednesday: Quiz on “Seeing Through
Computers” and “Is Google Making Us
Stupid?” and Survey for Journalism
Thursday, March 5
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In Class
◦ Synthesis Essay—Daylight Savings Time
(practice)
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Upcoming
◦ Friday: Discussion of “Seeing Through
Computers” and “Is Google Making Us
Stupid?” Both of these discussions are online.
Start with “Seeing Through Computers.”
Wednesday, March 4
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In Class
◦ Synthesis Essay Information/Model
◦ Discuss “Seeing Through Computers”
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Upcoming
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Thursday: In-class Synthesis Essay—Daylight Savings
Time (practice)
Friday: Finish Discussion of “Seeing Through
Computers” and Begin “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
Monday, March 2
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In Class
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Housekeeping—Sagan and Hawking Quiz
ACT Announcements
Turn in Bibliography and Research
Introduction to “Seeing Through Computers” and
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
Upcoming
◦ Wednesday: Read and prepare to discuss “Seeing
Through Computers”
◦ Thursday: In-class Synthesis Essay—Daylight
Savings Time
Wednesday, February 25
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In Class
◦ Discussion of “Can We Know the Universe?”
 What does it mean in the 21st century to know the
universe, or anything else for that matter?
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Upcoming
◦ Thursday: Quiz on “OPOTU” and “CWKTU?”
◦ Friday: Grammar and Quiz and Research Team
Meetings
Tuesday, February 24
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In Class
◦ Grammar & Vocabulary
◦ Discussion of “Our Picture of the Universe”
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Upcoming
◦ Wednesday: Discussion of “CWKTU?”
◦ Thursday: Quiz on “OPOTU” and “CWKTU?”
◦ Friday: Grammar and Quiz and Research Team
Meetings
Monday, February 23
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In Class
◦ Grammar & Vocabulary
◦ Discussion of “Our Picture of the Universe”
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Upcoming
◦ Tuesday: Finish Discussion of “OPOTU” and Begin
Discussion of “Can We Know the Universe?”
◦ Wednesday: Finish Discussion of “CWKTU?”
◦ Thursday: Quiz on “OPOTU” and “CWKTU?”
◦ Friday: Grammar and Quiz and Research Team
Meetings
Friday, February 20
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In Class
◦ Wow! It’s hard to get any momentum when we aren’t in
school!
◦ I thought it would be best to use today as we had
originally planned it—for Research Team Work—and
postpone our discussion of “Our Picture of the Universe
until Monday.
◦ Database Trial: http://www.barrington220.org/Page/14860
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Upcoming
◦ Monday: Discussion of “Our Picture of the Universe.” The
focus of the discussion is the argument he makes about
the changing nature of that picture. Be prepared to talk
about the relevance of each stage and the conclusions
Hawking draws.
Thursday, February 19
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In Class
◦ Discussion of “Our Picture of the Universe”
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Upcoming
◦ Friday: Research Group Work
◦ Monday, March 2: Research and working
bibliography are due.
Tuesday-Wednesday, February 16-17
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In Class
◦ Housekeeping
◦ Fill out Non-test Forms for the March 3 ACT
◦ Wednesday: Begin Discussion of “Our Picture of
the Universe”
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Upcoming
◦ Thursday: Finish Discussion of “Our Picture of
the Universe”
◦ Friday: Research Group Work
◦ Monday, March 2: Research and working
bibliography are due.
Wednesday, February 11
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In Class
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Discussion of “Can Science Be Ethical?”
Upcoming
◦ Thursday: Read “Our Picture of the Universe”
and Research Team work(databases and
documentation)
Tuesday, February 10
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In Class
◦ Quiz on “The World and the University”
 We may watch a 7:00 video if it will stream.
◦ Discussion of “Can Science Be Ethical?”
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Upcoming
◦ Wednesday: Finish Discussion of “Can Science
Be Ethical?”
◦ Thursday: Read “Our Picture of the Universe”
Monday, February 9
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In Class
◦ Housekeeping—G & V Week 12 Quiz
◦ Research Project Essential Questions: How do
experts in this field ask and answer these
questions?
◦ Discussion and Prep for Quiz on “The World and
the University”
 We may watch a 7:00 video if it will stream.
 Thesis of “The World and the University”
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Upcoming
◦ Tuesday: Quiz on “The World and the University”
and Discussion of “Can Science Be Ethical?”
◦ MARCH 2: ALL RESEARCH DUE
Friday, February 6
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In Class
◦ Week 12 Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz
◦ Read “Can Science Be Ethical?” and consider
the implications of his initial question.
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Upcoming
◦ Monday: Finish Discussion and Prep for Quiz
on “The World and the University”
◦ Tuesday: Quiz on “The World and the
University” and Discussion of “Can Science
Be Ethical?”
Thursday, February 5
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In Class
◦ Grammar and Vocabulary Week 12, Step 4
◦ Discuss “The World and the University.” Pay
particular attention to the botany lesson from
Griswold and the development of the meaning of the
word university.
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Upcoming
◦ Friday: Week 12 Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz. I
won’t be in class tomorrow, so the most constructive
use of your time is to read “Can Science Be Ethical?”
and consider the implications of his initial question.
◦ Monday: Finish Discussion of Muir and Prep for Quiz
on Tuesday
Wednesday, February 4
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In Class
◦ Grammar and Vocabulary Week 12, Step 3
◦ Essential Questions for Research Project (JSTOR)
◦ Discuss “A Letter to Thoreau”
 Audience, Writer, Argument (Bottleneck & Global Land
Ethic)
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Upcoming
◦ Thursday: Read “The World and the University.”
Pay particular attention to the botany lesson
from Griswold and the development of the
meaning of the word university.
Tuesday, February 3
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In Class
◦ Housekeeping: Grammar Week 11 and
Thoreau Quizzes
◦ Turn in Essential Questions Handout for
Research Project
◦ Grammar and Vocabulary Week 12, Steps 1-2
◦ Discuss “A Letter to Thoreau”
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Upcoming
◦ Wednesday: Finish Discussion of “A Letter to
Thoreau”
Monday, February 2
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In Class
◦ Housekeeping: Grammar and Thoreau
Quizzes
◦ Turn in Essential Question Handout for
Research Project
◦ Grammar and Vocabulary Week 12, Step 1
◦ Discussion of “A Letter to Thoreau”
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Upcoming
◦ Tuesday: Finish Discussion of “A Letter to
Thoreau”
JSTOR Access
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Go to http://www.jstor.org/ and click on the
LOGIN button that is to the right of the
JSTOR logo in the right hand column of the
page.
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To activate your trial account please use
these login credentials:
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UN:BarringtonHS
PW:researcher
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Friday, January 30
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In Class
◦ Week 11 Grammar & Vocabulary Quiz
◦ Small Group Work on Essential Question for
Research Project
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Upcoming
◦ Monday: Finish Discussion of “A Letter to
Thoreau”
 See the three questions at the end of Wilson’s
essay.
Thursday, January 29
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In Class
◦ 3rd: Catch up on grammar and vocabulary and
prepare for the quiz and then begin the
discussion below.
◦ Discussion of “A Letter to Thoreau”
 Ted Talk: “Advice to Young Scientists”
 See the three questions at the end of Wilson’s
essay.
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Upcoming
◦ Friday: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz Week
11
Wednesday, January 28
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In Class
◦ Finish Film: Alone in the Wilderness
◦ Quiz on “Where I Lived and What I Lived For”
◦ 4th Hr: I’ll be in class today, so you can work
ahead on grammar and vocabulary to prepare for
the quiz.
◦ 3rd Hr: I’ll be in class on Thursday, so you can get
caught up on and prepare for the
grammar/vocabulary quiz.
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Upcoming
◦ Thursday: Read “A Letter to Thoreau”
◦ Friday: Week 11 Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz
Tuesday, January 27
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In Class
◦ Film: Alone in the Wilderness
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Upcoming
◦ Wednesday: Quiz on “Where I Lived and
What I Lived For”
◦ Thursday: Read “A Letter to Thoreau”
◦ Friday: Week 11 Grammar and Vocabulary
Quiz
Monday, January 26
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In Class
◦ Grammar and Vocabulary Week 11, Step 1
◦ “Where I Lived and What I Lived For”
 Quiz Stuff
 Group Questions
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Online
◦ Continue discussion until the end of today. Everyone
posts!
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Upcoming
◦ Tuesday: Film Alone in the Wilderness
◦ Wednesday: Finish Alone in the Wilderness and
complete quiz on “Where I Lived and What I Lived
For” >>>Change of Schedule<<<
Friday, January 23
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In Class
◦ “Where I Lived and What I Lived For”
 Review of Group-written Questions and Discussion of
“Where I Lived”
 Finish the Discussion?
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Online
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Everyone needs to post and read all posts by Monday,
January 26. BTW, the ones that are posted are great!
Upcoming
◦ Next Week: Grammar and Vocabulary Week 11
◦ Monday: Read Wilson’s “Letter to Thoreau”
◦ Tuesday: Quiz on “Where I Lived”
Quiz Stuff
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“I am the monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to
dispute.”
Feature(s) of the Hallowell farm
“Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, forever
again” (5).
“I went into the woods because I wished to live my life deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn
what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I
had not lived” (6).
“Weather this danger and you are safe, for the rest of the way is
down hill” (9).
“My instinct tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, as
some creatures use their snout and fore paws, and with it I would
mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the
richest vein is somewhere hereabouts; so by the divining-rod and
thin rising vapors I judge; and here I will begin to mine.”
Thursday, January 22
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In Class
◦ “Self-reliance” Online Quiz Executive Decision
◦ Interrogation of Text and SOAPSTone
◦ “Where I Lived and What I Lived For”
 Review of Group-written Questions and Discussion of
“Where I Lived”
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Online
◦ Everyone needs to have posted and read all posts
by Monday, January 26
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Upcoming
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Friday: Final Discussion of “Where I Lived”
SOAPSTone
Speaker: Context Issues
 Occasion: Includes exigence
 Audience: Empirical, Mediated, Targeted,
Agents of Change, Intended
 Purpose: Self-explanatory
 Subject: Self-explanatory
 Tone: See Tone Words handout
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NOTES: From Whole to Part and Part to Whole,
Idiosyncrasies in the Text, Applications of Tone Analysis
Interrogation of Text
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Authentic Questions: Ask real questions.
Reasoning: From Whole to Part & Part to Whole
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Words
Sentences
Paragraphs, Chapters, Sections
Whole Piece
Outside of Text (Comparison & Contrast)
 Personal & Literary Connections
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Questions
◦ Factual: Who and What
◦ Interpretive: What does this mean? What does
_____ mean by _____?
◦ Evaluative: How is this like/unlike that?
Wednesday, January 21
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In Class
◦ Online Testing Integrity
◦ “Self-reliance” Quiz Online
◦ Where I Lived and What I Lived For”
 Group Work on Text-based Essential Questions
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Upcoming
◦ Thursday: Review of Group-written
Questions and Discussion of “Where I Lived”
◦ Friday: Final Discussion of “Where I Lived”
Tuesday, January 20
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In Class
◦ “Self-reliance” Discussion
 What nugget of wisdom inspired, challenged,
confused, or annoyed you?
 Why is that one important to you?
 How does it connect to Emerson’s argument?
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Upcoming
◦ Wednesday: Quiz on “Self-reliance” and Read
“Where I Lived and What I Lived For”
Friday, January 16
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In Class
◦ “Self-reliance”
 What nugget of wisdom inspired, challenged, confused, or
annoyed you?
 Why is that one important to you?
 How does it connect to Emerson’s argument?
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Online Discussion
◦ Self-reliance is a complicated concept in today's world,
maybe impossibly so. What has been your experience
(success or failure) with it?
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Upcoming
◦ Tuesday: No Grammar and Vocab next Week. We’ll finish
our discussion of “Self-reliance.”
◦ Wednesday: Quiz on “Self-reliance” and Read “Where I
Lived and What I Lived For”
Thursday, January 15
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In Class
◦ “Nature” Discussion
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Upcoming
◦ Friday: Self-reliance” Discussion
Things to Think About
Someone should take notes or list decisions
as they are made by the group.
 Someone should set up a Google Doc to
share with the group for a Working
Bibliography.
 If you’ve worked through my list of topics
and need more flexibility, let me know.
 Would you rather questions are off limits.
 Research Goals: High Degree of Readability;
Primary Source Material; Full Text; Something
That’s 1st Person
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Things to Think about Continued …
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You’ll know you’re group is working well
when EVERYONE comes to class with an
article on the topic that they’re excited
about, and everyone reads it.
Wednesday, January 13
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In Class
◦ If you have not successfully logged in to my
online classroom, please do so now and let me
know if you were successful.
◦ Research Project
 Research Group: How’s that going?
 Research Question: Spend today browsing the Internet
and talking to your team about good ones.
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Upcoming
◦ Thursday: Read “Nature” and prepare to discuss
(“transparent eyeball”)
◦ Friday: Read “Self-reliance” and prepare to discuss
(Nuggets of Wisdom)
Tuesday, January 13
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In Class
◦ Check your BSD220 email and login to the online
classroom. Find Research Project Assignment
Sheet, “Nature,” and “Self-reliance.”
◦ Overview of Research Project
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Upcoming
◦ Wednesday: Small Group Work (Research
Question)
◦ Thursday: Read “Nature” and prepare for a
discussion
◦ Friday: Read “Self-reliance” and prepare for a
discussion (Nuggets of Wisdom)
Monday, January 12
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In Class
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Welcome back!
No Grammar and Vocabulary This Week
Canvas Sign-in and Introduction
Overviews of Research Unit and Science, Nature,
and Human Nature Unit
 Handouts and Readings Posted on Canvas
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Upcoming
◦ Thursday: Read “Nature.”
◦ Friday: Read “Self-reliance.”
◦ Monday, January 26: Begin Week 11 of Grammar
and Vocabulary.