Research Project/Animal Farm Background Evaluation

Research Lesson

Evaluation

Answer the following questions with as much detail as possible.  Your answers should be complete and are due at the beginning of class on Friday 3/7/14.

• List your group members and their contribution to your lesson.
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• What did your group teach and how did you present the information? 
• What made your lesson interesting?
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• What did you learn from this teaching experience? 
• Describe your evaluation, and based on your evaluation what did the class learn?
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• What grade do you think you deserve for this presentation?

Welcome to Sophomore English

On this blog I will post information about the fun, activities, assignments, projects and learning that we are doing in Sophomore English.  As I become more technologically savvy I will upload handouts and assignments, and continue to post things you need to know to be successful in class.  We have spent the first few weeks of school getting to know each other and the expectations of the classroom, and now it is time to begin the fun. 

Week of Dec 10th - Dec 14th

This week we will begin reading Twelve Angry Men, and explore the ideas of characterization and the United States judicial system.

Week of Dec 3rd - Dec 7th

This week we finished reading Animal Farm.  Study guide questions for chapter 6-7 were due on Monday and study guide questions for chapter 8-10 were due on Wednesday 12/5.  For all questions text support was required.  Thursday we had another dynamic socratic seminar and explored the questions:
Which character shows the greatest intelligence?
Describe how tyranny, oppression, and self-determination play a role in Animal Farm.
Friday we had an open book essay test.  For those that didn't finish in class, the test is due on Monday 12/10.  See me if you have any questions or need to catch up.  Friday 12/7 will be the last possible date to turn in any late Animal Farm assignments.

Week of Nov 26th - Nov 30

I have fallen behind in my weekly blog posts, but I'm sure you have been keeping track of class activities on the classroom white board.  Please see me if you have any questions or have fallen behind and want to catch up!
Animal Farm begins...we started by doing back ground research on:
Russian Revolution of 1917
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Communism/Socialism
Capitalism
Totalitarianism
Propaganda

Animal Farm is an allegory (refers to historic events) and it is important to understand the context prior to reading the novel. The following is the schedule for the week:
Monday - read chapter 1-5
Tuesday - Test on chapter 1-5
Wednesday - Reading Day, read chapter 6-7
Thursday - Chapter 6-7 discussion questions
Friday - Read chapter 8-9 for Monday

Week of Oct. 1st - 5th

This was a full week with reading Lord of the Flies and vocabulary - quiz on Friday 10/5.  We read chapters 1-8 and prepared for a Socratic Seminar.  Socratic Seminar is a discussion lead by students and is based on Socrates idea that learning takes place through inquiry.  The key to a successful seminar is PARTICIPATION!  Open-ended discussion questions were turned in on Friday (10/5) and will be used to start the discussion.  Next week (10/8-10/12) we will finish reading the book, continue discussion and begin a project based on the novel.  Also, expect more DGP fun and a possible quiz at the end of the week.

Week of Sept. 24-27

We did Week 3 of DGP and learned about participles and compound sentence parts.  Our sentence was standing on a ladder i slipped and broke a window.  Come see me if you are feeling confused or frustrated by DGP (and no, I didn't invent diagramming, but it sure is fun)!  We read the first three chapters of Lord of the Flies and had a quiz over chapter 1 on Monday.  Stay caught up on your reading because I love pop quizzes.  We also had vocabulary words for the first three chapters.  Definitions were due on Thursday.  You can turn them in to me on Monday for partial credit.  Be prepared for a vocabulary quiz and quiz over chapter 1-3 on Monday.  Discussion questions for chapter 1-3 were given out on Thursday.  Be sure to provide page numbers and text support for your answers.  We will go over them on Monday 10/1.  Have a good three day weekend.  Read chapter 4 for Monday.