Career Day Speakers Form

All Classes: Use this form to record reactions, thoughts, questions for your Career Day Speaker. Click here: Speakers Form 

Agenda for Periods 2, and 4

Click the link to access your Agenda. The guest teachers have been provided this notification as well.
Additionally, period 4, the link to the Video about the Periods of American Literature and the Powerpoint for you to read and take notes on EACH literary period can be found by clicking here:
Powerpoint of Periods of American Literature. A quick video can be found here: Video of first 5 periods of American Literature. We will have a quiz on the first five literary periods next week- Monday.

Introduction to American Literary Periods

Link to handout

Agenda for English Periods 1 and 2

Good Morning! As promised, please complete the assignment that I sent to you on Shmoop.  If you have not created a Shmoop Account, you will need to create an account, then add our class.  The The Magic Student Word is : UNSATISFYING. My email address is LGUY@LAUSD.NET. The Class Code for Period 1 is 36411 and for Period 2: f140 The following students can assist you: Guadeloupe; Jaylen; Jose; Edwin (period 1) and Reggie, Daphne; Seth; and Kyla (period 2) with creating an account and then adding our class.
Assignments:
1. Silent Reading of your novel 15 min (period 1)
2. Digital Dialectical Journal Entry.  There are Reading Reaction Records near the SOAPS Tray if you want to complete a paper journal instead. Submit to Mrs. Wilson.
3. Take the Shmoop Drills Assigned to your class.
4.  Finish your Article of the week SOAPS and submit to Mrs. Wilson
5. Period 1: Use the two sources that follow  traditional timeline and a pictorial timeline, called, Storyboard That of the American Literary Periods.  Create your own timeline of sorts with the Name of the Literary Period; the dates; and 2 concerns or issues writing of that time period addressed.
Period 2 Reflection: Type and upload a one page reflection answering the following: "How do you think gender/sex influences thinking and decision making?" Use knowledge from yesterdays brief discussion/warm-up in your answer.

11the Grade English Agenda and Obectives

Objectives: To create a NEW account or use a preexisting account with a learning management platform: Shmoop
To demonstrate evidence of reading comprehension through Article of The Week; Academic Summary/Vocabulary Study.
To discuss Do Men/Boys Think in Different Ways or Reason Differently than Women/Girls?
What does the science say?
To Analyze Characters in The Godfather by discussing their character and reading a text, "Why Men Reason Poorly" and writing a Eulogy for Sonny from any of the followings character point of views: the Don; Hagen; Connie; Michael; or Mother Corleone.
To continue to read our own novel and make journal entries using the Say, Mean, Matter or Matter, Mean, Say Format either online (padlet) or on paper.
To complete a two paragraph response to our CFA#3 on Coral Reefs.
To take a Diagnostic Assessment in Shmoop.
To begin a New Unit: The Enlightenment and The Narrative of Frederick Douglass.
Homework Period 4: Finish your SOAPS and Summary if you did not finish. Read an additional 10-15 pages of your novel and then create a Digital Journal based on your reading.