Description: agenda

April 20 (ACE) and 24 (BDF), 2012

English 10
1 - Animal Farm
     - finish the movie
2 - Lord of the Flies
     - Introduction activity - "Did You Know...?" worksheet
HW: begin studying for vocab. quiz (ACE - 4/27, BDF 4/30)


English 11
BR: on a post-it note, write down what you think the PURPOSE of the research paper is, then post on front board
1 - Research
     - go over purpose (to prove that the author had specific influences on his or her writing
       that show up in the novel that you read)
     - "How To" introduction PPT (see me)
     - DO NOT: use the word "thing", use first or second person (I, me, you, your, we) unless
       it is in a direct quote, use the full or first name of the author once you have used the full  
       name once (use only last name), use contractions.
2 - Transcendentalist Poetry
     - Complimentary Whitman poems: "I, Too" - Langston Hughes and "To Walt Whitman" -
       Angela de Hoyos
              - annotate (write both on back of TPCASTT sheet, one each) - use "I Hear America 
                Singing" as a model
             - TPCASTT analysis of "I, Too" - TURN IN
HW: ROUGH DRAFT!!  Typed, in MLA format, with a clean Works Cited page attached.