English 3 Honors

• Completed
  • SAT Vocab #66-70 (Collecting at 75)
  • Final Wrap up of the Declaration of Independence Sections 4 & 5

    

  • Completion of Final Packet Questions with Evidence
  • Final Annotations & Upload to Focus
• Submitted
  • DOI Questions & Annotations to Focus
• Homework
  • Student Declaration of Independence to Turnitin on Teams NO LATER THAN Friday @11:59pm
    • Review Samples on: Declaration of Independence Analysis Project
  • Get your Copy of The Great Gatsby by 11/5 for EC, 11/12 for on time

Journalism 1

• Completed
  • CNN Student News of the Week

• • Review of Expectations for Current Week Articles
    • Planning for Article 3 will be in the Notebook check next week
  • Viewing of  Revision of a boring Intro to a story

• • • Original Text:

      "Good morning! I'm speaking to you live from the West Wing of the White House. Today we have a very unique opportunity to take part live in an extremely historic event which..."

    • Notes:

      "Unique" means "one of a kind." Something can't be very unique, nor can it be extremely historic. While we're at it, do we have to use the word "live" twice in the first two sentences like we just cracked the technology?

    • Revision & Improvement:

      "Good morning. Eleven months ago a 1200 pound
      spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Eighteen hours ago it landed on the planet Mars. You, me, and 60,000 of your fellow students across the country along with astro-scientists and engineers from the Jet Propulsion Lab in Southern California, NASA Houston, and right here, at the White House,
      are going to be the first to see what it sees, and to chronicle an extraordinary voyage of an unmanned ship
      called Galileo V."

      • Specific Details are what make us know what’s happening
      • Elevated vocabulary is what makes it important
      • THIS IS WHAT WE ARE STRIVING FOR!!! You CAN do this too!
  •  Chapter 3 Notes on what makes a story Newsworthy!
• Submitted
  • Nothing in class today
• Homework
  • Finish your Article 3 for Qtr 2, make sure that you are varying what you have selected in previous weeks and following the Thrifty Zeizel structure.