JUNIOR ENGLISH OPENING DAY

Hess Style

Buchanan High School

FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS 3X5 Card

Print you name on lined side (use name most familiar to you – appropriate nickname)

Print your last name

Print your current grade 10, 11, 12

Write any problems you may have that will impact your success in this class.

In two sentences tell me if you do keep track of your grades and assignments on the internet. Explain why or why you do not attend to the internet opportunity to view your grades and assignments.

GOAL AND PURPOSE

To meet standards and expectations established

by the State of Michigan in Language Arts.

Prepare you to meet successfully the demands

and expectations of written expression and

reading comprehension in education and in

business.

FOCUSING ON…

Improvement

Learning with a purpose

Literary Skills

Reading

Writing

Speaking

Listening

Language

JUNIOR ENGLISH

Agenda Reading

Writing

Speaking

Thinking

Discussing

Studying

Presenting

Researching

Practicing

Preparing

READING

Book Love Approach

READING

READ the books!

GOAL AND PURPOSE You will employ multiple reading strategies and

resources to probe a literary piece in a scholarly manner.

Strategies will include

recognizing the importance of tone

the importance of speaker the impact of the situation and setting, language, sounds of poetry, and the internal and external structure of poetry.

The course will emphasize analytical reading and writings skills. These include: critical reading, writing strategies, organizational skills, and an understanding of the writing mechanics that will result in clear, mature writing. Student’s assignments require them to read, analyze and evaluate sources.

INDEPENDENT READING

You pick!

Read whatever you’d like!

Read 100 pages a week goal!

At least 1 book a month

REQUIRED READING

Everyone will read…

Tuesdays with Morrie

The Little Prince

Night

READING

A 1997 non-fiction novel by American writer Mitch Albom

Newspaper columnist (successful sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press), Mitch Albom recounts time spent with his 78-year-old sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, at Brandeis University, who was dying from Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS).

Albom, a former student of Schwartz, had not corresponded with him since attending his college classes 16 years earlier. After seeing Schwartz on Nightline, Albom called Schwartz, who remembered his former pupil despite the lapse of 16 years. Albom was prompted to travel from Michigan to Massachusetts to visit Schwartz.

A newspaper strike frees Albom to commute weekly, Tuesdays, to visit with Schwartz.

The resulting book is based on these fourteen Tuesdays they meet, supplemented with Schwartz's lectures and life experiences.

READING o A poetic tale, with watercolor illustrations

by the author, in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid.

o The story is philosophical and includes social criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world.

o The adult fable, according to one review, is actually "...an allegory of Saint- Exupéry's own life—his search for childhood certainties and interior peace, his mysticism, his belief in human courage and brotherhood.... but also an allusion to the tortured nature of their relationship."

Though ostensibly styled as a children's book, The Little Prince makes several observations about life and human nature.

READING

A work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War.

In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the father-child relationship as his father declines to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful teenage caregiver.

BOOK CLUBS

Choose the book you

want to read, and you

will read that book

with a small group.

Work will also be done

as a team.

One each semester

COMING OF AGE

Realizing one is

growing up.

Bildungsroman

READING A novel by Rudolfo Anaya in which his young

protagonist, Antonio Márez y Luna tells the

story of his coming-of-age with the guidance

of his curandera, mentor, and protector,

Ultima.

It has become the most widely read and critically

acclaimed novel in the Chicano literary

canon since its first publication in 1972.

The novel reflects Chicano culture of the 1940s in

rural New Mexico.

Anaya’s use of Spanish, mystical depiction of the

New Mexican landscape, use of cultural

motifs such as La Llorona, and recounting of

curandera folkways such as the gathering of

medicinal herbs, gives readers a sense of the

influence of indigenous cultural ways that

are both authentic and distinct from the

mainstream.

READING A 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger.

It has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, alienation, and rebellion.

It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages.

Around 250,000 copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than 65 million books.

The novel's protagonist and antihero, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion.

The novel was included on Time's 2005 List of the 100 Best English-Language Novels Written Since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century.

READING A coming-of-age novel by

Mexican-American writer, Sandra Cisneros, published in 1984.

It deals with a young Latina girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago with Chicanos and Puerto Ricans.

Esperanza is determined to "say goodbye" to her impoverished Latino neighborhood.

Major themes include her quest for a better life and the importance of her promise to come back for "the ones I left behind."

READING

A novel by American author Sue

Monk Kidd.

Set in the American South in

1964, the year of the Civil

Rights Act and intensifying

racial unrest.

The coming-of-age story

addresses the difficulty of

loss and betrayal.

It received critical acclaim and

was a New York Times

bestseller. It was

nominated for the Orange

Broadband Prize for Fiction

and was adapted into a film

directed by Gina Prince-

Bythewood.

READING A thoughtful, complex and moving

story about loss and discovery of identity, love and the ability to change and the restorative powers of nature.

Seventeen-year-old Pete Shelton's life revolves around helping his friend Abe McMichael build Riverside, a nature preserve dedicated to the memory of Abe's brother, Paul.

Then one summer a troubled runaway shows up—a girl named Nora who claims to be Paul's daughter.

All her life, Nora has lived with secrets and lies, never knowing anything about her father.

Although enemies at first, Pete and Nora slowly begin to piece together their shadowy pasts . . . and discover that their lives intertwine in a way they never imagined.

READING

A 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou.

It is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma.

The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16.

In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice.

BREAKING THE NORM

Doing or going about

things differently

Not conforming

READING BREAKING THE NORM Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s

chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever... “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thought crimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching... A startling and haunting vision of the world, 1984 is so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the influence of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.

READING BREAKING THE NORM

"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful

words heralded the end. When a

nuclear holocaust ravages the

United States, a thousand years

of civilization are stripped away

overnight, and tens of millions

of people are killed instantly.

But for one small town in

Florida, miraculously spared,

the struggle is just beginning,

as men and women of all

backgrounds join together to

confront the darkness.

READING BREAKING THE NORM

George Orwell's timeless and timely

allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a

downtrodden society’s blind march

towards totalitarianism.

“All animals are equal, but some animals

are more equal than others.”

A farm is taken over by its overworked,

mistreated animals. With flaming

idealism and stirring slogans, they set out

to create a paradise of progress, justice,

and equality. Thus the stage is set for one

of the most telling satiric fables ever

penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for

grown-ups that records the evolution from

revolution against tyranny to a

totalitarianism just as terrible.

READING BREAKING THE NORM Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring "masterpiece ...

one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century"

(Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone

concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our

"brave new world"

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world

literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal,

technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically

bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to

passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all at the cost of

our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius

[who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the

Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable

talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s

keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New

World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of

readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a

warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-

provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of

the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise

speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-

entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the

arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

READING BREAKING THE NORM

With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance--until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?

READING BREAKING THE NORM

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Lois Lowry has written three companion novels to The Giver, including Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.

READING BREAKING THE NORM

This is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . . In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.

READING BREAKING THE NORM

A play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959.

The title comes from the poem "Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes).

The story is based upon a black family's experiences in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood and their struggle to improve themselves.

WRITING

ALL THE TIME!

Papers

Essays

Journals

Weekly reflections

Thesis statements

Vignettes

Timed responses

GOALS AND PURPOSE

You will use multiple writing strategies and resources

to articulate and support the thesis of your

writing.

Strategies will include :

developing voice

emphasis through repetition, rhythm, and imagery.

recognize and utilize multiple literary techniques to edit

and enhance your writing

Techniques will include simile, metaphor, allusion,

alliteration, assonance, hyperbole, litotes,

zeugmas, personification, and onomatopoeia.

Students will generate writing from their journals,

reading, discussion and research experiences.

WHILE WRITING, WE WILL FOCUS ON…

Good things writers do.

Varied Sentences

Strong verbs

Voice

Flow

Strong, clear thesis

Literary devices

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Mistakes writers make.

Commas

Sentence branches

Grammar

Mechanics

Capitalization

Run-ons

Fragments

Craft Editing

SPEAKING

Formally speeches

Informally in groups

THINKING

About what you’ve read

About life

About future

About others

DISCUSSING

Books

Thoughts

Questions

Life

STUDYING

Literature

Literary Terms

Stylistic Techniques

Rhetoric

Vocabulary

PRESENTING

Projects

Keynotes

Power Points

Ideas

RESEARCHING

A career interest

A college

1-3 pages, college essay including a Works Cited page

5 sources Books

Interviews

Visits

Career Cruising

MLA format

Consider College

SAT/ACT scores

Job availability

PRACTICING

Skills

Grammar

SAT

PREPARING

SAT / MSTEP state

test

Further courses

College

Life

TEAMWORK

Sitting in pods Group Work

Employability skills

Packets Group Grade

Individual papers & projects

All participate To receive credit, must

function as part of team

Each person will have a role and/or responsibility

TEAM ROLES LEADER Manages or supervises. Keeps group

or team focused. “Quarterback”

RECORDER Scribes the assignments and notes.

Makes sure all present group members’ names are on the work.

“Secretary”

GOPHER Gathers necessary supplies & papers.

Turns in assignments. “Messenger”

REPORTER Speaks for the group. Shares information aloud to the class. Voices concerns and questions. “Speaker”

TEAM ROLES

TEAM ROLES

Switch roles so that EVERYONE has the

opportunity to…

REFLECTIONS Reflections – journal metacognition

Everyone must turn in a private, weekly journal.

Due Friday in tower OR via email

On your role in the group

Reflect on own personal learning & growth

How the group is proceeding, working, & getting along

Who’s pulling or not pulling his or her weight

Rank

1-5 5 being BEST

group

self

WEEKLY DEMONSTRATIVE QUIZ

Sentence of the week concept.

Mini-grammar concept

Demonstrate knowledge

Create own sentence

What are you reading?

Book of own choosing

What have you learned?

Where are you in the book?

Are you making progress?

MLA FORMAT

You will be using this structural format for all of your writings.

ALL work will have the MLA heading…

Name First & last

Teacher name Mrs. Hess

Class/Hour English - 4

Date Day Month Year

New Student

Mrs. Hess

English—5

10 September 2015

MRS. HESS’S CLASSROOM

EXPECTATIONS

EXPECTATIONS -- #1

I need to show respect for

Mrs. Hess, my fellow

classmates, and

myself.

EXPECTATIONS -- #2

I understand that I

am to be prepared

for class.

CELL PHONE POLICY

I understand that I must leave

my cell phone in Mrs. Hess’s cell

phone hotel on red days and

that I am not to access it all.

On yellow days, I may use it for

class activities.

On green days, I have

unlimited access.

If I do NOT comply, my phone

will be turned into the office.

NO! NO! NO! ZONE

I understand that Mrs. Hess

is old school.

She believes in proper

etiquette.

In her classroom, I may NOT

wear a hat, use ear buds or

headphones, or have food or

drink (only water is allowed).

EXPECTATIONS -- #3

I need to take an

active part in my

education.

EXPECTATIONS -- #4

I understand that

cheating and/or

plagiarism will

not be tolerated.

EXPECTATIONS -- #5

I need to be in Mrs. Hess’s

classroom and in my

seat ready to learn

when it is time for

class.

EXPECTATIONS -- #6

I understand that Mrs. Hess

believes that there is a

time and place for

everything.

EXPECTATIONS -- #7

If I don’t live up to

Mrs. Hess’s

expectations or

if I break school

rules, I know that

I will have to face

the consequences.

EXPECTATIONS -- #8

Mrs. Hess does

assign homework,

and it is due the

very next day for

full credit (no

excuses).

EXPECTATIONS -- #9

If I have difficulties in

class, I understand

that I can ask

Mrs. Hess for help.

She is available during

class, before or after

school, or I could

even e-mail her at

chess@buchananschools.com

EXPECTATIONS -- #10

I understand that

Mrs. Hess uses

points for grading.

GRADING SCALE

GRADING WEIGHTS

Writing 20%

Reading 20%

Speaking/Listening 20%

Language 20%

Assessments/Exit Projects 20%

WHEN ABSENT…

Check your email.

I will send you what you have missed and what you need to do.

You will get a day for each day absent…just like the school policy.

However, if a test or paper has been assigned (previously) and you knew about it, you are expected to take the test and to turn in your paper.

1ST HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

Go to the website.

chess.buchananschools.com

Go over the Classroom

Expectations with

your parent(s) and/or

guardian(s).

Print out the last page and

then you and your

parental unit need to

sign it.

Turn in by this Friday.

2ND HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

Bring a book of own choosing…

Who’s your favorite author?

What’s your favorite book?

What are your interests?

ANY QUESTIONS?