Friday, Jan. 20 Agenda

•TTTC One Pager

•Pick the paper you would like to use

•Make sure you have proper supplies to create it (I would say you DEFINITELY want color, unless the lack of color is something that you are incorporating into your interpretation)

•Finish your one-pager, and hand it in.  The rest of the time can be finishing your paper, finishing your book completion, working on missing work, or if you have nothing else, I will give you a task

•Book Completion sheet (staple the assignment sheet to your NINE sentence starters)

•Your final draft needs to be printed out by 9:55, here’s what you need (the first thing listed should be on the top, last thing on the bottom, then paper clip it all together):

•Rubric

•Typed paper in 12pt font, double spaced

•If you wrote about 1 or 2 careers, your artifacts will be turned in too

•Works Cited page

•Body paragraphs: can be in any order that you feel works for your paper’s organization

•Basic info of career

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•End body para, which is the best choice and why (compare/contrast the careers, or explain why, based on the above information, this one career is the best for you)

Thursday, Jan. 19 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Explain One Pager on The Things They Carried

•Assessment on The Things They Carried = Creative One Pager TOMORROW, plan a little now!!

•Things to plan: quotes, sketches of images, overall ideas, what your intention/meaning is

•Career Project work time

•YOU MUST MEET WITH ME TODAY if you didn’t yesterday

•LOOK AT YOUR RUBRIC TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

•Body paragraphs: can be in any order that you feel works for your paper’s organization

•Basic info of career

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•End body para, which is the best choice and why (compare/contrast the careers, or explain why, based on the above information, this one career is the best for you)

•Don’t forget that your paper needs an introduction and a works cited page.  Use the rubric to check that you are prepared to hand in your paper tomorrow!!

•You need to meet with me about a portion of your paper: if you have questions on a comment I made, or if you want me to check through a paragraph, or if you want to take a look at what you have created for the artifact(s), those would be good choices to meet about.

•Book Completion sheet due tomorrow!!

Wednesday, Jan. 18 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Career Project work time: Intro example

•YOU MUST MEET WITH ME TODAY or TOMORROW

•Body paragraphs: can be in any order that you feel works for your paper’s organization

•Basic info of career

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•End body para, which is the best choice and why (compare/contrast the three)

•You should be working on or revising your body paragraphs or reading your book for your book completion sheet (or working on missing work if you have any) [if you have nothing English related to do, come to me and I will give you a task]

•Class Answers for Mary Anne’s Transformation Questions

•Read “Ambush” p 131, then in WN: Compare “Ambush” to “The Man I Killed.” How are they similar, how different? Why did he write about basically the same thing twice? Which do you like more? Why?

•Assessment on The Things They Carried = Creative One Pager Friday

Tuesday, Jan. 17 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Career Project work time: If you had shared your draft yesterday, work on comments, otherwise WORK ON DRAFT AND SHARE ASAP!!!

•Body paragraphs: can be in any order that you feel works for your paper’s organization

•Basic info of career

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•End body para, which is the best choice and why (compare/contrast the three)

•YOU SHOULD BE DONE WITH THE OTHER PARAGRAPHS AND WORKING ON THIS AND AN INTRODUCTION ROUGH DRAFT TODAY: but most of you aren’t…so GET TO WORK ON BODY PARAGRAPHS AND STOP WASTING TIME

•Contact someone with one of the jobs and ask questions (day in the life, what advice, etc), make sure to record answers to use on the paper (email counts)

•“The Man I Killed” p124

•In Writer’s notebook: How do Kiowa and Tim react to bad situations? Why did the narrator keep repeating the same things? Why did he make up all of this background for the dead man?

•When done you can work on your body paragraphs or your book completion sheet.

•REMINDER: Your book completion sheet is also due on FRIDAY!!  Make sure you are finishing up those nine sentence starters with a shorter paragraph each

Monday, Jan. 16 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: English Use Artifact created by you…

•Career Project work time: ROUGH DRAFT DUE TODAY!!

•Another site to use, especially for skills needed: onetonline.org

•Body paragraphs: can be in any order that you feel works for your paper’s organization

•Basic info of career

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•End body para, which is the best choice and why (compare/contrast the two-three) or explain why the one career is the only one for you

•You need to contact at least one person in one of your careers.  If you contact more, that means you have to do less research (day in the life and reading/writing/speaking/listening information)

•REMINDER: Your book completion sheet is also due on FRIDAY!!  Make sure you are finishing up those nine sentence starters with a shorter paragraph each

Friday, Jan. 13 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Discussion on “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”, writing when done with discussion

•Career Project work time: ROUGH DRAFT DUE MONDAY OF ALL BODY PARAGRAPHS!

•Body paragraphs: can be in any order that you feel works for your paper’s organization

•Basic info of career

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•End body para, which is the best choice and why (compare/contrast the two or three) or WHY you know this is the only career for you

•You need to contact at least one person in one of your careers.  If you contact more, that means you have to do less research (day in the life and reading/writing/speaking/listening information)

Thursday, January 12 Agenda

•Bell Ringer- Finish “Sweetheart…”pg 105-end: Discuss questions with partner when done

•Career Project work time

•Finish Notes (HOMEWORK IF YOU AREN’T DONE BY END OF HOUR!!): again the MOST IMPORTANT PART is the ENGLISH SKILLS section

•Career Cruising site has LOTS of information when it comes to the day in the life part as well as the basic info

•Onetonline.org has lots of the skills information

•Body paragraphs: can be in any order that you feel works for your paper’s organization

•Basic info of career

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•End body para, which is the best choice and why (compare/contrast the two or three if you have them)

•You need to contact at least one person in one of your careers.  If you contact more, that means you have to do less research (day in the life and reading/writing/speaking/listening information): I need to see questions TODAY!! (at least 10)