4 February: 4th period

1) Read “An Interview with Diana Sheets: Reading in the Age of the Internet” (handout). Follow instructions below.
2) Groups created a poster of important information found in the interview for the research process.
3) Generate at least 7 questions for Part 2 and turn in.


Create a Works Cited entry for the interview/article.
Answer the following questions/follow the instructions:
QUESTION 1:
(A) Make a chart of the information Sheets provides in her answer to question 1.
(B) What sources does she cite?
(C) Summarize the 3rd paragraph (“It’s important to keep…”). Give an example from your life that supports what she is saying here. Give an example that refutes what she is saying.
(D) What does it mean when she says that “there is very little vetting occurring on the Internet”?

QUESTION 2:
(A) In your own words, explain how “the Internet is our Wild, Wild West.”
(B) Explain the metaphor using examples.
(C) What kinds of deception might you encounter online? Give examples of these.

QUESTION 3
(A) In your own words, explain what “content scraping” is.
(B) Are you guilty of “content scraping”? If so, how?
(C) What can you do to avoid this?

QUESTION 4
(A) In your own words, explain how “autobiography is the least reliable of genres.”
(B) Scenario: You are writing your autobiography. You tell how you recall an incident from your life. A person who was part of the incident recalls it differently. Who is right? Explain how this makes your autobiography unreliable.
(C) What is the difference between a sophisticate reader and a naïve reader when it comes to autobiography?

QUESTION 5
(A) Summarize Sheets’ answer.

QUESTION 7:
(A) Paraphrase the answer to question 7.

QUESTION 8
(A) Why are people not reading primary sources?
(B) How are book reviews used?
(C) Why is it important to form your own judgments?
(D) Define “anemic” and “myopic” as they are used in this answer.
(E) Paraphrase the last sentence “The fact that…”

QUESTION 9
(A) How does Sheets say that journalism is being affected by the Internet?
(B) List a piece of advice Sheets gives in this answer. How can you use this advice?

Feb 3: 1st period

Turn in work assigned on Friday, January 30.

MLA works cited blog entry notes. Instructions for Weblog works cited entries can be found here: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/09/ (scroll down toward the bottom)

Students read 2 blogs and completed the following for each and turned in:

1. Create a works cited entry for each.
2. Read each blog then
   •Summarize each in 2-3 sentences.
   •Assess each by answer the following questions:
   •(a) What makes it a credible source?
   •(b) How might you use this source in a paper?
   •(c) What, specifically, might your paper be about?
   •(d) What is the goal of the blog?
   •(e) Is it biased or objective?
3. For each blog, use a quote in a sentence of your own. Use correct parenthetical citation to cite the source.

Part 2: "What You Want to Find Out" due end of class.
•Put an MLA heading in the top left hand corner of your paper (no need to double-space when handwriting. No need for a header either.)
•Make a list of questions that will help focus your research.
•When finding sources, you will use these questions. Your sources should help you answer the questions.
•Remember: don’t be too general. Your paper is only 1500 words long.

Today's PowerPoint can be found on the y-drive, "Research" folder.

Feb 2: Research Practice

Practice included:
1. using quotes and paraphrases in a paragraph
2. using weblogs as sources, summarizing, assessing, reflecting (annotated bibliography practice). Using quotes from blogs in a sentences and citing them properly.

See PowerPoint "Feb2" on y-drive "Research" folder for specific notes and instructions.

Due today:
1) "French Fries"
2) 2 blog entries

Due Wednesday:
1) Part 1 of I-search (2-4 paragraphs about what you already know about your topic) due beginning of class
2) Part 2 of I-search (generate questions you want to find the answers to) due end of class

January 29: 4th period

Students took notes over paraphrasing and quoting.
Students made sample paraphrase note cards.
Students were given the research paper assignment.

Check google calendar on the left for important dates.

January 28, 30: 1st period

January 28
Students took notes over paraphrasing.
Students practiced paraphrasing.
Students were given the research paper assignment.

Check google calendar on left for important dates.

January 30
Mrs. Woodliff was out today.
Students were given a folder with various handouts.
Students were given instructions to follow that require these handouts.

"The Pot of Basil" January 7 & 8

Journal: Write a paragraph about something that intrigues you.

Decameron quiz

Decameron notes:
4th day: love stories with unhappy endings
Filomena tells the story of Lisabetta and Lorenzo
Macabre story; recalls elements of the plague as described in the introduction

Continue in green packet:

• Read "The Pot of Basil" folk song.
  Skim the poem; underline or highlight unfamiliar words.
  Read the poem. Define words you need to make better sense of the poem.
  Follow instructions at top of page.
• Read "The Pot of Basil" tale. follow instructions in bold.

ASSIGNMENT (due next week)
Read either “The Deceived Girl” or “The Willow Tree” (both folk ballads)
Summarize it (in the margins is fine)
Then, as a group at your tables, write and illustrate a short story as influenced by the poem.
You may sketch your story as a storyboard first, then write it.
Your story must be at least 200 words.
You must have at least 4 illustrations to go with your story.
When writing the story, consider what happens between the stanzas of the poem. (What is missing that you may include in the story?)

Plague Literature: January 5 & 6

Journal: choose 2 of the following to write about. 75 word minimum each:

1.Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
2.Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
3.Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
4.The cure for grief is motion.

Take notes over PowerPoint on the plague.

Plague Literature packet (green).
Read the introduction to The Decameron. Answer questions 1-17.
Prepare for a quiz next class.