Bibliography for an Internet Source

Author's/Editor's Last name, First initial.  (year published).  Title of the piece or website name.  Available:  give address of the site [date you found it].

No author.  (No date).  Herman Lufdip:  His life and work.  Available: http;//biographies.com/lufdip.htm [2011, November 10].

Which superpower would you most like to have-- invisibility, super strength, or the ability to fly? Describe what kinds of things you would do with your powers.

CRT Demo

Argumentative Topics and Possible Sources

Argumentative Topics and Possible Sources

Danyon: Con  Bryce:  Pro-  There should be random drug checks for high school athletes.
Michael: Pro  Adam:  Con-  There should be year-round school for K-12.
Nicole:  Pro  Whitnie:  Con-  Cell phones should be allowed in schools.
Izaleah:  Con  Makiah:  Pro-  Homework should be banned.
Gavynn: Con Mavrick: Pro -The U.S. should do alternative fuel sources instead of fossil fuels.
Ellie:  Con  Madi W.:  Pro-  It is unethical to eat meat.
Mattie A:   Pro  Kira: Con -  Schools should ban junk food sales.
Quincee:  Con  Kiley:  Pro- Television is a bad influence.
Sara: Pro Mikaeli: Con  -Beauty pageants do more harm than good.
Ally: Con Tony: Pro-  Testing on animals does more good than harm.
Nick: Pro Brady: Con-  The US should ban the death penalty
Jaxon:  Con  Jace:  Pro-  Extracurricular activities should be drug tested first.

Explain the protective steps Miles Clifton had carried out during the early years of Clifton.  (In other words, what did he provide at first to make sure that Clifton Village was ethical and safe?)  What assistance had recently been cut off?

Angie Star 4

1. Devin wondered if February 18 2013 would be his last day alive. 
2. The closest city was Beijing China and it was four hours away.
3. The tuxedo man said "Come with me without a fight."
4. "You must be joking" Angie said.

Write Your Own Courageous Character

Essential question: How are acts of courage revealed in writing? 

You are going to write a 1-2 page fictional story about a person who does an act of courage.  During the process of creating your story, think about the essential question.  How will you reveal your character's courage to your reader?  What kind of thoughts, words, and actions will give them away as a courageous character?

Casabianca

Casabianca

The poem "Casabianca,” by Felicia Dorothea Hemans, was based on a true incident. In your opinion, was he courageous or crazy? Write a well-developed RARE response, giving at least three examples from the poem/story to back up your claim.  Edit your writing for the grammar conventions studied so far this year.

Intro to Arguments and Persuasion

Intro to Arguments and Persuasion

Types of Reasoning and Arguments

• Read each of the following bike helmet essays together out loud.
• As you are reading, look up any words you do not know the meaning of (dictionary.com works well).
• As you are reading, decide:
• which position the author is arguing for using page 8 ("Intro to Arguments and Persuasion") to help you figure out what "position" means; how you know that is their position - words they use that help you figure it out)
• which type of argument the author is using ("Types of Reasoning and Arguments") ; and how you know that - words they use that help you figure it out
• Fill in the chart as you are reading each essay.

Bike Helmets 1

Bike Helmets 2

Bike Helmets 3

Bike Helmets 4

Bike Helmets 5

Bike Helmets 6

Describe the typical school day for Hannah and Jessie Keyser.

Your choice!! :)

List five problems Jessie could encounter as she traveled outside Clifton.

Describe Jessie.  Explain why Mrs. Keyser chose her over Hannah to make the dangerous trip out of Clifton.

Are certain kinds of lies ok?  Write about that.

Describe your favorite season (fall, spring, summer, or winter). Tell what kinds of things you like to do during that season.

Emporer's New Clothes Interpretive Questions

Read everything FIRST!
Choose any four of the following questions to answer.

1. Why are the swindlers successful?

2. Why is it a little child who first says what everyone else is only thinking?

3. Why do people repeat what the child said, rather than deny it?

4. Why do people whisper that the Emperor has no clothes on before they shout it out?

5. Why does the Emperor decorate the swindlers and make them knights?

6. Why are we told immediately that the two weavers are really swindlers?

7. Why does the Emperor send “two nice old officials” to see how the weaving is coming along?

8. Why does the author make the townspeople eager to know if their neighbors have faults, but not eager to test themselves?

9. Why does the Emperor go through with the procession even after the people have cried out that he has no clothes on?

10. Why doesn’t the Emperor know immediately that the people are right when they shout that he has no clothes on?

11. Why is someone who has many clothes seen at the end of the story without any clothes on at all?

An interpretive question has more than one possible answer, and each answer is supported from the story. Your job is to write two completely different answers to each of the questions you choose to answer, and you must use information in the story to prove your two answers.

Use RARE to answer the questions.

What is Diphtheria?

Diphtheria

DW- Your choice today!  ...but no stories about your classmates. :)