Update: No School on Tuesday 3/27

Since we will not have school today, we will have to do our best to get as many presentations as possible on block day.

To alleviate the time crunch, We need to do a couple of things:
A) If you have a slide show, please share it with me at amberwest@mvcs.org.
B) I am willing to give a 5% extra credit to 5-7 people per class in exchange for a filmed presentation turned in via an emailed youtube link. These should meet the same general time and topic requirements. Please email these by the end of today if you want the credit.

For today's Online Learning Activity, please consider our next unit. We will be planning and holding a week of social issue debates. These debates are a way to practice critical thinking, research, public speaking, professionalism, and collaboration. One of the biggest tasks is finding the issues that you and a few partners would like to use. These issues need to be updated every year as our world is changing. Please complete J30 as a way to help me find the most current and interesting issues.

Journal 30:
In your journals please record at least three debatable topics/questions that you think could be added to this document. We will share them in class, and I will edit the actual document.

Week of March 26-29

Speeches this week!

Here is the assignment/rubric sheet.

Block Day, March 22-23 ~ My Turning Point Story

First, let's get some due dates for next week. Click here for a view-only link. 

• Any questions for your speech next week? 

Bedford Quiz (Section 39 - pages 425-431)

• When you finish, work on your speech.

Across a Hundred Mountains - Example Project
An intro song
and...
My Story

HW: Complete your speech before your due date next week!

Wednesday, March 21 ~ To the end now!

Grammar

• Take notes on Bedford 39e & Ex. 39-1 (p.430)
• Open-notes test on Block Day!!! (39 a-e)

ACROSS A HUNDRED MOUNTAINS
***Censorship page 221 ****

• Finish the novel tonight! 

HW: Be ready to share your reactions tomorrow. And perhaps a wee Reading Quizze????

Tuesday, March 20 ~ Which speechs have you chosen?

Grammar

• Take notes on Bedford 39 c&d (pages 428-430)

ACROSS A HUNDRED MOUNTAINS
****Beware of page 201 (chapter 44)******

HW: Read! (And work on your speech/story if ya like.)

• Honors: Pages 196-222 (Censored pages 201-201)
• Regular: Pages 188-219 (Censored pages 201-201)

Monday, March 19 ~ What will your speech be about?

 

Have you heard about the SAT workshop taught by Mr. Hallock? Click here to learn more. 
Also, here is a video about the boot camp option. 
 


GRAMMAR

• Take notes on Bedford 39a&b (425-428)

SPEECHES ARE COMING!!!

Tijuana

• Click here to review the story/speech rubric for our final project with this novel.
  

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• Discuss the reading
• Read tonight
• Honors: Read pages 173-195
• Regular: Read pages 162-187

Block Day, March 15-16 ~ What is a flagelante?

Grammar Quiz

• When you finish, work on reading homework.



What is a flagelante? Why is
Ama doing this?

• We will do reading circles after everyone finishes the quiz. 

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 HW Tonight: Read, add to timeline, write down a couple of questions.

• Honors: Read pages 137-172
• Regular: 125-161

Reading Circles

• Find 3-5 people to join your circle. No repeat jobs in each circle please!
• When you finish sharing your findings, you may read the next chapters together or split to work independently.

Wednesday, March 13 ~

GRAMMAR

• Complete the exercise on quotations here. 
• Heads up! Open-note grammar quiz on block day. (Apostrophes, quotations, colons, semi-colons, loose/lose, & too/to/two) 

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• Discuss theories, questions and timeline.
• Journal 29: Do you believe Juana is stuck in the cycle of poverty as seen in the graphic below? 
• As you read tonight's selection, prepare to fulfill your chose role tomorrow (see below). 

HW: Read and add to the timeline.

• Honors: Read pages 110-136
• Regular: Read pages 89-124

Reading Roles

Tuesday, March 13 ~ What is a sit-in anyway?

GRAMMAR

• Bedford Exercise 37-1 a-e (page 420-421).

ANNOUNCEMENT

• From a few student activists: Please join us on Wednesday, March 14th during break for a sit in at the amphitheater to protest gun violence at schools. We will be passing out information on how to register ant pre-register to vote. Posters are welcome as long as they are school appropriate and respectful. 

Who is La Llorona? 

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• Discuss timeline and J27
• Journal 28 ~ Continue to add to your timeline and record at least one theory and two questions from the reading.

HW: Read and complete Journal 28

• Honors: Read pages 87-109.
• Regular: Read pages 65-88.

Monday, March. 12 ~

GRAMMAR

• Take notes from Bedford, pages 413-420 (Your notes will be minimal because you already know most of it). 

Friends don't let friends get grammatically incorrect tattoos..
...or become president with incorrect Tweets!

Let hope's so...

100 MOUNTAINS

• Honors: Read pages 54-86 (What choices does Ama have? What is symbolized when Ama breaks the plates? How many months has Apa been gone?)
• Regular: Read pages 46-64 (What choices does Ama have? Guesses about Luna?)

HW: Journal 27

• Answer the questions next to your class in the bullets above.
• Create a dual-level time-line based on the one we started on the board. Fill in as much as you can from the reading. 

Block Day, March 8-9 ~ ICE, ICE, BABY!!!!

Dearest students,

You worked amazingly hard. Well done and thank you. No homework this weekend.




The agenda from the board was....

In-Class Essay today!

• Don't forget an MLA heading and to leave margins on both sides of the paper. 
• Don't forget to record your chose research question as the title of your paper.

After your essay....

• Please make sure your essay is on Turnitin.com
• Poetry/Short Story Contest Entries are due next week (Wed. 3/14)

Wednesday, March 7 ~ Get ready for ICE...not la migra :)

First a wee reading quiz.

GRAMMAR
Bedford Notes from 36e & Exercise 36-1 (p.412)

ICE

• Before we complete our in-class essays tomorrow, take a gander at the in-text citations on this example and here for a complete list or MLA guidelines. 

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• Discuss J26 if we have time.

HW: Prepare your thesis for tomorrow's essay. It is in response to your chose research question. Please do not write an extensive outline or essay ahead of time. Thesis and topic sentences are fine. Research paper will be returned for your use during the essay. 

Tuesday, March 6 ~ pages 30-45

GRAMMAR

• Take notes from Bedford 36a-d

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HW for Honors: Read pages 30-53 and complete Journal 26
HW for Regular: Read pages 30-45 and complete Journal 26

Journal 26

1. Compare the similarities between Adelina and Juana. You may want to use a Venn Diagram like this one.

            
2. How do you guess the old man coyote (with the bad eye) knows Adelina?
3. Do you think Anita's death was Juana's fault?
4. What is the significance of the story Apa tells Juana on her birthday? (33-34)
5. What is Miguel's main reason for leaving? Do you think he has other options?
6. What do the symbols represent? (owl, plates, the moon)

Monday, March 5 ~ 100 Begins!

RESEARCH

• Annotated Works Cited is due today!
• Don't forget to get it uploaded to turnitin.com by Wednesday for credit (10 pts.); also, I can't give you a larger grade for it until it clears without plagiarism.

GRAMMAR

• Confused Word: too vs. to vs. two
• Take a note and click here to test your knowledge. 
• How about loose vs. lose? 

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• HW: Read Pages 1-31. (If your digital pages differ, you should read nine mini-chapters, finishing with the "adelina" chapter about Don Ernesto giving Adelina her first apartment.)
• Here is a chapters pages key to help those reading digitally.

Block Day, March.1 & 2 ~ Grande begins!

Immigration Vocab Quiz

• Continue working on your Annotated Bibliography when finished.

IMMIGRATION RESEARCH

• Annotated Bibliographies due on Monday, 3/5 as hard copy.
• We will write the essay to accompany your research as an in-class assignment on Block Day. Please prepare your research well to set yourself up. Also, please plan ahead if you will be absent March 8 or 9. . 
• All is due to turnitin.com on 3/5 as well. 
• Peer Review: Check for MLA format, citation structure, annotation requirements, etc...

Some Helpful Links:

• MLA Format Review
• Annotations Review
• Citation Review
• Example.
• Annotated Bibliography Rubric (100 pts.)

ACROSS A HUNDRED MOUNTAINS

• Before you read...
• Opinion Poll (Agree/Disagree Activity)
• 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. Only through redemption can a person finally get rest and peace when there has once been a conflict.
• 4. There are some mistakes that cannot be redeemed.
• 5. I can stay up for 48 hours if I have to. 
• If time, read first ten pages (two chapters: Adelina and Juana)

HW: Finish Annotated Bibliograpy.