Monday, April 3 ~ EQ: Can you identify a dangling modifier?

Dangling Modifiers exercise #3

Discuss reading, timeline and your questions from Journal 13.

Read to page 115.

Reading quiz tomorrow!

Block Day, March 30-31 ~ EQ: What is Grande saying with the MOON motif?

What does a cataract look like?

WARM-UP: GRAMMAR

• Practice Dangling Modifiers with Exercise 2 here. 

NOVEL: ACROSS A HUNDRED MOUNTAINS

Discuss

• What is your vibe on Don Elias?
• Why does Juana hate the owl? What does it symbolize? 
• What do you gather about Ama's past from her interactions with Abuelita Elena and Don Elias?
• Other questions/thoughts/theories? 

      Let's make a timeline in your journals.
 
      Opinion Poll

1. It should is the responsibility of the oldest child to care for the younger siblings when the parents are working.
2. My parents have sacrificed something to give me a better life. 
3. I can't sleep when I have unfinished or unresolved business in my life.
4. There are some mistakes that cannot be redeemed.
5. I would do anything for my family in a time of desperation.

 HW:

• Read pgs. 46-86 Continue adding events to the timelines.
• Journal 13: Record at least three questions you have from the reading.
• WATCH OUT! That nasty paragraph I warned you about is at the end of the last chapter. 

Wednesday, March 29 ~ What is a Dangling Modifier?

NOVEL

• Reading Quiz (Pgs.1-29)

GRAMMAR

• EQ: What is a dangling modifier? Make notes in your Grammar Journal.
• Then try this exercise.

HW: Read pages 30-45 and complete Journal 12

Journal 12

• What can you gather so far about Juana? 
• What can you gather so far about Adelina?
• Why do you guess that Adelina refers to her father's ashes as her redemption? (12)
• What do you guess of the old man coyote with the bad eye? 
• Do you think Anita's death was Juana's fault?
• What is the significance of the story Apa tells Juana on her birthday? (33-34)
• What is Miguel's main reason for leaving? Does he have other options?
• Talk about symbols: owl, plates, the moon.

Tuesday, March 28 ~ Annotated Works Cited is due!!!

Turn in hard copy AWC assignments AND upload the digital copy to turnitin.com.

Takes Roots/Immigration Vocab Quiz

·       HW: Read pages 17-31. Reading quiz tomorrow?

Monday, March 27 ~ Last day to finish your research!!!

Roots & Immigration Vocab Quiz tomorrow!

Discuss the book so far. Read pages 5-16.

HW: Finish your Annotated Works Cited assignment. Upload the final assignment to turnitin.com AND bring a hard copy to class. 

Here is the rubric. 

Annotated Bibliography Rubric

Here is the original example.

Here is the rubric.

Block Day, March 23-24 ~ Who is Reyna Grande?

ANNOUNCEMENT! 

• Would you like to get baptized? Go to the lunch meeting today (3/23) in B-15. 
• See Mr. Talley or Mr. Davis with questions.   

Meet our author, Reyna Grande

Meet our author, Reyna Grande

ROOTS - Last day of Roots!!!!!

• Sign, signi – sign, mark, seal
• Test – to bear witness
• Thesis, thet – place, put
• Typ – print
• Voc – call

RESEARCH

• Citation Races (The first perfect citation wins the round)
• Winning team gets 5 pts. E.C. 

ACROSS A HUNDRED MOUNTAINS

• Journal 11: Author Notes ~ Take half a page of bullet point notes on our author, Reyna Grande, while you watch this video. 
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• HW: Finish your Annotated Works Cited (10 cites due Tuesday) and Read pages 1-11 in our new novel. 
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Wednesday, March 22 ~ My best friend is an OWL

ROOTS

• Onym - name
• Phon - sound
• Rog, roga - ask

RESEARCH

• First of all, do you already know this?
• Next, go to the OWL at Purdue to take notes on how to cite an article in MLA.
• Journal 10: Practice on this article.

HW: Work on your Annotated Works Cited. Final Drafts due Tuesday.

Tuesday, March 21 ~ Wikipedia is WEAK sauce!!!

ROOTS

• Mand – command
• Mem – remember
• Mon –  warn, remind

RESEARCH

·        EQ: What makes a website a legitimate source? 

Tips for finding reliable websites:

• Make sure the website is up to date (Preferably under 5 years old unless researching a historical issue).
• Use websites that cite their sources.
• Avoid citing commercial websites (.com).
• Do not cite Wikipedia or similar user-edited sites.
• Use Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/ - for scholarly articles.
• Use Google Books - http://books.google.com/ - for books you can read online.
• BASE - http://www.base-search.net/ - for academic open access web resources.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - http://www.doaj.org - for academic open access web resources.
• Look for .gov sources when it comes to reporting on official law or policy items.

Practice ~ Annotations Review
Copy this paragraph into Notability and work on ordering the sentences to reflect a WHO, WHAT, WHY annotation.

1. Krikorian says that he doesn't agree with immigrants “becoming an American just by them saying the oath of citizenship.” He believes that they should earn the right to serve in the armed forces by first forming their relationship with the United States.

2. The unique perspective offered in this article is how people can expect illegal immigrants to fight for a country that is not theirs.

3. Author, Mark Krikorian is a nationally recognized expert on immigration issues and Krikorian has been the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) since 1995.

4. More than 37,000 green-card holders serve in the military account for about 3% of active-duty soldiers.

5. Krikorian states that they should avoid developing a mercenary army that is made up of illegal immigrants that are loyal to their countries. 

HW: Turn your articles into the beginning of your official assignment.

• First, create a beautiful new Google doc, complete with heading, title (Annotated Bibliography), and drop indentations. See example here
• Just under the title, type out your research question.
• AND find and annotate another two articles (10 total for this assignment).

Monday, March 20 ~ What makes a good research question?

Roots

• Loqu, locut –talk, speak 
• Liter – letters
• Log, logo, ology –word, study, speech

RESEARCH

         EQ: What makes a good research question?

Draft your research question and post it here. 

Do you know these search tips?

• Journal 9: Using your research question, record 5-8 key words you will use in your search. Use at least two tricks from this link.
• Always use keywords, not a sentence or a question.
• Use "" (quotations) around phrases such as "Wild Bill".
• * (asterisk) is a wildcard e.g. nurs* will search for nursing, nurses, nursed etc...
• In Google, - (minus) will exclude a certain word (-university).
• In a Google search, use ~ (tilde) to search for similar words (~college will also find university).
• Use a Google Advanced Search to limit your results to just .org (non-profit), .edu (educational institutions), or .gov (government) websites. This will also let you limit to a date range.
• Look at the references on sources you found helpful to lead you to more sources.

What is an Annotated Works Cited? It's basically a bibliography with very specific summaries.

How do I write an annotation? The purpose of the annotation paragraph is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited -- in short -- you are asked to comment on and/or explain why each source cited is useful. 

• WHO -- Who wrote it and why does this person have authority on the topic?
• WHAT -- What did it say? Summarize & comment on the article; compare or contrast this work with another you have cited -- does it agree or disagree? 
• WHY -- Explain why you think this article is a good addition to your research.  Also, comment on the intended audience -- who was the intended audience and most importantly why was it written.
• See an example here.

HW: Find and annotate two new articles.

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