Speech to Inform

Speeches were delivered all week.

Tuesday: 1-8

Wednesday: 9-15

Thursday: 16-23

Friday: 24-30

Field Trip to the Guthrie

All English 10 students will be going to the Guthrie on May 1st to see A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Field Trip Money is being collected with the signed permission slip. Check (made payable to Osseo Senior High) or cash for $32.50 is due by March 14th.

Scholarship money is available through High Achievers and Kopp Scholarship. Please talk to your counselor to obtain these funds.

Smartboard

On Thursday, we all learned how to use the smartboard, which I will be using in March for grammar. On the smartboard, we annotated and analyzed the poem "Traveling through the Dark." The worksheet of questions is due Friday.

On Friday, students worked in the lab on the speech outline, which is due at the end of the hour.
Speech topics need to be approved by Ms. Sasse.

Speech to Inform Information

1. Draw # for speeches
2. 8 ways to start and end a speech
3. Powerpoint on Speech to Inform
4. Movie Clips from The Office and Dead Poet’s Society
5. Write a thesis (include the three main parts of the speech)
6. Tomorrow: Poetry analysis with the Smartboard

Speech to Inform

1. Collect typed paper on tone in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
2. Trial today
3. Directions on “Speech to Inform”

Happy Valentine's Day

1. Write a Valentine's poem
2. Turn in paragraph on the tone of hobbits
3. Turn in paragraph on the tone of Ultima
4. Write a paragraph on the tone in "Sinner's in the Hands of an Angry God"- due typed on Tuesday

Introduction to AP Skill: Tone

1. Turn in What’s That You Say and Irony worksheet in basket
2. Pick up three ring binder
3. Put Tone and hobbit packets in it.
4. Notes:
Tone: Attitude toward topic and audience

Paper Due - zero points tomorrow

1. Write a letter to Sheila Asasto.
· Thank her for being a guest speaker
· Tell her what you learned from her or what you found interesting
· Ask her any questions that have not been answered.
2. While you are writing the letter, I will collect the following:
· Claim, evidence, warrant paper (typed)
· 10 journals (dream or the Crucible) (not typed)
3. Analysis worksheets on The Crucible
Think due today.
Irony and Diction is homework.

Guest Speaker

Updated 12/28/07 Sheila McNellis Asato, M.A., is the founder ofMonkey Bridge Arts, a center dedicated to thegrowth, transformation and healing of individualsand the community through the arts, dreaming andcreative development. Sheila is an artist and Japan specialist. Dreams arean integral part of her creative practice and callingas an instructor in the arts. Her work focuses on thehealing and spiritual aspects of cultivating an active relationship with imagery through dreams and art.

Sheila Asata spoke about dreams.

Claim, Evidence, Warrant paper on a theme in the Crucible is due Tuesday

10 journals are due Tuesday.

Skits

1. Crucible in one minute skits
2. Correct Crucible Test
3. Review Claim, Evidence, Warrant

Test on The Crucible

Test on The Crucible - 100 points

Finish movie/plan skit

1. Finish movie on The Crucible
2. Study for the test tomorrow - 100 points
3. Plan the skit to present on Friday (see rubric)
4. Speaker on Monday on dreams
5. Journals/Dreams due on Tuesday

The Crucible movie

1. Hand back papers (no more late work) (grammar tests were 6 weeks ago and now packed up)
2. Watch video
3. Study for Test on Thursday

Character Poster Due

1. Character poster due today
2. Correct quizzes
3. Hand out journal entries
· 10 dream journals or 10 Crucible journals or a combination of both are due Tuesday, February 12th
· February 11th is the guest speaker on dreams
4. Video on Act III and IV on The Crucibl
Preview of the week:
· 100 point test on Thursday
· Claim, evidence, warrant on themes
· CEW paragraph due on Thursday, typed
· Crucible in one minute skits on Friday

Quiz Act IV

1. Watch 3 short clips
2. youtube: The Crucible in one minute
3. Quiz Act IV
4. Discussion sheet due
5. Cause/effect sheet due
6. 100 point test next Thursday
7. Friday: Crucible in one minute skitsCharacter poster due Monday