New Dates!

I updated the calendar to reflect new dates and the DPM essay reassessment: Vardaman would say it's not a fish.

More Inclement Weather

No school Tuesday, per the CFISD website. Perhaps I'll see y'all on Wednesday? Please look at what I posted earlier today and start preparing for our discussion. (See below.)

K/H Stuff: New Vocab, AILD Socratic Seminar Info/Notes

Here's the Vocab 15/16 Notes: Please study. Dewey Dell would agree.

Socratic Seminar / class discussion questions: Because someone's mother is a fish. Or a horse. And you need to figure that out.

Here are some archetype notes to consider, too: Mark your text for interesting archetypes.

Inclement weather nonsense.

I hope you had a wonderful Friday sleeping in and whatnot. What we had planned to do on Friday, we will simply do Monday. K/H will do vocab 13/14, and on-level will reassess the most recent persuasive piece.

Lookin' forward to it. See you then. If you're taking the SAT on Saturday, good luck. :o)

Character List - As I Lay Dying

Here's a list of characters we've seen so far: Click Here

English II Book Club!

This year's sophomore book club features:

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

“A jaw-dropping true story . . . raises urgent questions about race and research for ‘progress’ . . . an inspiring tale for all ages.”—ESSENCE 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a remarkable feat of investigative journalism and a moving work of narrative nonfiction that reads with the vividness and urgency of fiction.”— NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO 

Rebecca Skloot’s Homepage and book trailer:http://rebeccaskloot.com/

 Non-Fiction Book Club Details

Beginning after school in the library:

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

*Bring the book and have the first quarter of it read by the first meeting date!

Meeting dates: Jan 28, Feb 11, Feb 25 and March 11

Persuasive Structures - Mrs. Wise's Whole Packet!

By popular demand - here is the whole persuasive packet (essays, kernels, and all)!

Yep. Just click here.

The PDF is 46 pages total. If you're going to print it - we focused on pages 5-19. The rest is great information, too. Feel free to look through it.

Side note: On page 4 of the PDF, it says that Expository is on the exam - this was true on the December retest. This packet was originally made as a remediation packet. So if you're taking the English II EOC for the first time this year, you do not have an expository essay on your test.

Credit/Source: Gretchen Bernabei and Judi Reimer

Current Quizlets for Everyone!

[K/H] For Unit 13: Right Here
[K/H] For Unit 14: Right Here

[On-Level] For Unit 7: Right Here

Persuasive Models and Structures

New Persuasive Structures: This is what we focused on in on-level on January 9 & 10. For more structures, see previous posts (they're in a link).

Board Notes from January 9-10.

Notes for this week: Persuasive Structures & Faulkner Terms (K/H)

In case you were absent:

Faulkner terms (gothic/satire/SoC) [updated 1/9/14] Click Here

"New" Persuasive Structures to try! Click here