LOTF Test!

Remember, your Lord of the Flies test is tomorrow!

The format is 80 multiple choice/matching questions, scantrons will be provided as always.

- Remember, it's important to know who said what during the novel (or who is the most likely to say a particular line - whose personality does it sound like?)
- Your study guide questions, if completed, are going to come in handy. Think back to our class discussions. These are vital to your success on this test!

Your Lord of the Flies Portfolio is due next Monday, 04.27.09. If you have any questions, you can respond here or shoot me an email at cphillips@csisd.org.

Finally, I want to get your reaction to the novel. Love it? Hate it? Why? Tell me!

Good luck tomorrow!

Mr. P

Can you persuade me NOT to give you a test? I think not...

Hey Students -

As promised, here's a brief overview of tomorrow's test and what you should probably (and by probably, I mean DEFINITELY) brush up on between now and then.

The test is 70 multiple choice/matching/true-or-false questions (no short answers or essays!).

- fact, opinion, & nonfact
- difference between an appropriate/inappropriate thesis
- logical fallacies
- ability to identify persuasive techniques in print ads
- using excerpts to identify ethos, pathos, & logos

Hopefully, this clears things up. If you need further clarification (other than specific test questions), go ahead and shoot me an email at cphillips@csisd.org.

Good luck.

- Phillips

Ethos, Pathos, & Logos

Hey Students -

Here is the assignment that we've been working on for the past couple of days in class - identifying ethos, pathos, & logos in advertising.

Your Assignment:
- Find a total of three advertisements (one representing ethos, one for logos, & one for pathos)
- Cut the advertisement out and staple it to a sheet of paper

- On the notebook paper, write a FULL (5-8 sentences) paragraph ANALYZING the advertisement. Be sure your paragraph answers the following questions:

- What is the purpose of this ad?
- Who is the intended audience?
- Why might the advertiser have designed the ad the way they did?
- Is the ad effective? Why/why not?

Remember, this is due AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD tomorrow. We'll continue our discussion on logical fallacies - look for them when you're watching TV tonight!

Happy hunting,

Phillips

Grade it Yourself!

Here's what we went over in class on Monday & Tuesday. I urge you to use this whenever you're making final touch-ups to your paper tonight. Remember that this is due tomorrow! Leave a comment if you have any questions! Good luck!

-Mr. Phillips

TKAM essay

“grade it yourself” Rubric

1. MLA Format (BLUE): Check to see if your ENTIRE paper is MLA formatted. Highlight or underline the following criteria in BLUE (according to instructions) where you see them on your paper. Give yourself points for following CORRECT formatting in the following areas:

_________2 points: 1 inch margins on all sides (Use the inch strips to verify the margin. Draw a dashed line along each 1 inch margin.)

_________2 points: double spacing throughout. If you have extra spacing between your heading and the title or between the title and body of the paper, draw a big X in the space and give yourself a zero. If you have extra spacing between paragraphs, draw a big X.

_________2 points: heading on left side of paper, double spaced (Highlight or underline each line.):

Your name

Mr. Phillips

English I – H - period

18 November 2008

_________2 points: name/page numbers top right side of paper (Highlight or underline each.):

Your name # (ex: Oliver 1)

_________2 points: title, centered on top line. The title should not be bold or underlined. (Highlight or underline.)

Total Points for MLA format (Circle in BLUE):______/10

2. Introduction (GREEN): Read through your introduction and complete the following tasks by highlighting or underlining in GREEN. Give yourself points according to the following criteria:

_________5 points: Highlight or underline your THESIS STATEMENT. It MUST state the topic about which you are writing AND be the last sentence of your introductory paragraph.

_________5 points: Bracket [ ] the title and author of the novel.

_________5 points: Put in parenthesis your bridge (the statements which connect the attention getter to the thesis). You MUST have a connection here!

Total Points for Introduction (Circle in GREEN):______/15

3. Thesis Statement (YELLOW): Read through your thesis statement and complete the following tasks by highlighting or underlining in YELLOW. Give yourself points according to the following criteria:

_________5 points: Highlight or underline your THESIS STATEMENT (yes, AGAIN! It is that important!). It MUST state the TOPIC about which you are writing AND be the last sentence of your introductory paragraph.

Total Points for Thesis Statement (Circle in YELLOW):______/5

4. Topic Sentences (ORANGE): Read through your body paragraphs and complete the following tasks by highlighting or underlining in ORANGE. Give yourself points according to the following criteria:

_________5 points: Highlight or underline the topic sentence in your FIRST body paragraph. It MUST relate (be a subset of) the thesis sentence.

_________5 points: Highlight or underline the topic sentence in your SECOND body paragraph. It MUST relate (be a subset of) the thesis sentence.

Total Points for Topic Sentences (Circle in ORANGE):______/10

5. Textual Evidence (PENCIL): Read through your body paragraphs and complete the following tasks by underlining in PENCIL. Give yourself points according to the following criteria:

_________4 points: Underline the first quotation (piece of textual evidence) in your FIRST body paragraph. It MUST be a direct quotation from the novel IN QUOTATION MARKS. If it is a dropped quote (standing by itself as a sentence), write the word DROPPED in the margin and do not give yourself points.

_________1 points: Circle the internal documentation at the end of each quotation. It MUST contain the page number.

_________4 points: Underline the second quotation (piece of textual evidence) in your FIRST body paragraph. It MUST be a direct quotation from the novel IN QUOTATION MARKS. If it is a dropped quote (standing by itself as a sentence), write the word DROPPED in the margin and do not give yourself points.

_________1 points: Circle the internal documentation at the end of each quotation. It MUST contain It MUST contain the page number.

_________4 points: Underline the first quotation (piece of textual evidence) in your SECOND body paragraph. It MUST be a direct quotation from the novel IN QUOTATION MARKS. If it is a dropped quote (standing by itself as a sentence), write the word DROPPED in the margin and do not give yourself points.

_________1 points: Circle the internal documentation at the end of each quotation. It MUST contain the page number.

_________4 points: Underline the second quotation (piece of textual evidence) in your SECOND body paragraph. It MUST be a direct quotation from the novel IN QUOTATION MARKS. If it is a dropped quote (standing by itself as a sentence), write the word DROPPED in the margin and do not give yourself points.

_________1 points: Circle the internal documentation at the end of each quotation. It MUST contain the page number.

Total Points for Textual Evidence (Circle in PENCIL):______/20

6. Commentary (RED): Read through your body paragraphs and complete the following tasks by bracketing in RED. Give yourself points according to the following criteria:

_________5 points: Bracket AT LEAST 2 sentences of commentary/explanation in your FIRST body paragraph. These must follow your FIRST quotation (textual evidence) and explain your thoughts on the quote and how the quote relates to the topic sentence of that paragraph. Possible half credit if you only have one sentence. (2 points out of 5)

_________5 points: Bracket AT LEAST 2 sentences of commentary/explanation in your FIRST body paragraph. These must follow your SECOND quotation (textual evidence) and explain your thoughts on the quote and how the quote relates to the topic sentence of that paragraph. Possible half credit if you only have one sentence. (2 points out of 5)

_________5 points: Bracket AT LEAST 2 sentences of commentary/explanation in your SECOND body paragraph. These must follow your FIRST quotation (textual evidence) and explain your thoughts on the quote and how the quote relates to the topic sentence of that paragraph. Possible half credit if you only have one sentence. (2 points out of 5)

_________5 points: Bracket AT LEAST 2 sentences of commentary/explanation in your SECOND body paragraph. These must follow your SECOND quotation (textual evidence) and explain your thoughts on the quote and how the quote relates to the topic sentence of that paragraph. Possible half credit if you only have one sentence. (3 points out of 5)

Total Points for Commentary (Circle in RED):______/20

7. Conclusion (PURPLE): Read through your conclusion and make sure it is present and closes your essay.

_________10 points: Check to see if you have a conclusion. Highlight the part of your conclusion that refers back to your introduction.

Total Points for Conclusion (Circle in PURPLE):______/5

8. Sophisticated sentence structure (pink). Highlight each usage of a semicolon or colon. Verify that they are used correctly. If you have at least one, give yourself full credit. If you have one used incorrectly, do not give yourself points.

Neither of them had done one thing wrong to the community; both were merely trying to help.

Total Points for sentence structure (Circle in PINK) _____ /10

TOTAL POINTS EARNED add your points for all of the above items________________

REDUCTIONS:

1. Common errors (BLACK): Mark the following criteria in BLACK.

_________5 points for each contraction

_________10 points for each use of the word “I” or “me” or any other 1^st person pronoun

_________10 points for each usage of the word “you” or “your”

______ 5 points each for punctuation order of quotations. The correct order is “blah” (34). If your period is anywhere other than AFTER the close parenthesis, you lose points.

TOTAL REDUCTION Total Points for ERRORS__________

Reminder for Tomorrow

Students -

This is just a reminder that tomorrow we will be working on our research in the library, so come straight to the library rather than the classroom. We'll talk about how to go about looking up information and actually using books (remember those things?) rather than the internet. You will be allowed to use a database source, but I would prefer that you use actual books.

Remember while in the library that you are honors students and should conduct yourselves as such. Look over your topics tonight and have in mind what you would be the most interested in writing about.

See you in the library!

Mr. Phillips

Today's Discussion

1st & 3rd Periods:

We'll briefly discuss this tomorrow before class, just in case you don't get a chance to read this.

After looking over today's discussion that took place in the computer lab, I must say that I am EXTREMELY disappointed for the most part. I take partial responsibility for this in that the directions may have not been made clear enough or emphasized heavily enough. However, after attempting to count the numerous instances where the discussion went horribly off topic or random, pointless comments were made, I lost track. When we do fun things like this, it's to give you a break from sitting in your desk and talking about the book and allowing you to interact with your classmates in a different environment.

Clearly, many of you were unable to handle this. It is great to insert a funny, random comment every now and then, but when over half of the postings become nonsensical, random comments such as "Who likes lemons?" or mentioning that you didn't do the reading for the weekend because you were busy playing XBox 360 the entire weekend it becomes offensive to me. I am doing this to help you. I am definitely not angry, just disappointed because I expected more from Honors students.

Now, don't get me wrong. There were those of you that stayed on task the entire time and I am grateful that you did so. This is not addressed to you at all. Thank you so much.

Your assignment for tomorrow is to completely finish the novel and we'll discuss what happened.

3rd Period Online TKAM Discussion

Students,
You will write FOUR comments. TWO should answer the questions below. TWO should respond to classmates' comments.

Write your FIRST NAME ONLY. If you are responding to a comment, write, "in response to (name)..."

The ground rules:

BE NICE!

Try to write in standard English (not texting or IMing) but I understand that spelling and grammar errors will happen. This is not final-draft quality.

Be thorough with your response and include text evidence. Remember that you are HONORS students!

1) Who is your favorite character? Why?
2) What is your favorite part? Why?
3) Look up some info on the Scottsboro Boys. How is the real-life trial of the Scottsboro Boys similar to/different than the trial in the novel?
4) What are your thoughts of the trial?
5) What is up with the title?
6) What is your favorite quote/line from the novel?
7) Do you have any questions or anything that you don't understand?