Tuesday+November+6,+2012

Tuesday, November 6th: 3rd period—Mass Media [Channel 1 Time from 9:49-10:08; Class from 10:12-10:55] >>> 4th period—English 11 [10:59-11:42] >> and read your reading books >>>> 5th period—Yearbook [“A” lunch from 11:46-12:06; class from 12:09-12:52] to interact and collaborate with others. W.6 8th period—Newspaper [2:30-3:13]
 * Ethical/legal summaries
 * Share one of the two news flashes and your paragraphs
 * Turn both in
 * Media Ethic Presentation Assignment
 * Go through assignment sheet and rubric
 * Show examples from past years
 * Get into groups
 * Choose and sign up for topics
 * Work days: tomorrow, Thursday, and possibly Friday
 * Presentations due Monday [tentatively]
 * Presentation styles? Glogster, Prezi, Power point, Spicynodes
 * Go to Room 15 for rest of class to work
 * Iowa Core Focus
 * Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information so that each new element builds on that which precedes it to create a unified whole; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. W.10-12.2.
 * Continue The Crucible Act III Summative Assessment taken during class
 * Go over assessment’s expectations of short answer/essay questions, including MLA in-text citations
 * **You should strive for excellence!**
 * Tomorrow’s class may be used to finish if need be
 * After your assessment is completed tomorrow, you will jot down Act IV vocabulary
 * Iowa Core Focus:
 * **Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as ****inferences drawn from the text. (RL.8.1.) **
 * ##### **Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing. **
 * Yearbook t-shirt designs—show email
 * Survey Monkey Mini-Mags
 * Need to make sure we have not left off any staff members
 * Go to Room 15 to work in eDesign on:
 * Mod designs for social media idea Brad shared
 * Template for Student Life spreads, such as Homecoming
 * Template for Sports spreads
 * Ad Sales follow-up
 * $4445 [THIS YEAR SO FAR]; $3050 [LAST YEAR]; $1195+
 * Iowa Core Focus
 * Production and Distribution of Writing
 * Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising,editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. W.5
 * Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and
 * Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and
 * EDITION #1 ASSESSMENT [CLARA—ABSENT MONDAY]
 * Critique
 * Self-assess
 * Go to Room 17 to work
 * Work on next edition [comes out November 26th]
 * Iowa Core Focus
 * Production and Distribution of Writing
 * Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting,
 * or trying a new approach. W.5
 * Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. W.6

Welcome to class! Today is the test over Act III.

As we move forward in the year, we are building on what we know and prepping for the future. In many essay tests you are required to write a solid paragraph form essay response with citations. Here is a refresher on how to cite in MLA format. Please use the following information for your essay questions today on the test. You will be graded on the in text citations in your essay answers from here on out.

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:
 * Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263). **


 * Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263). **


 * Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263). **

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information: Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford U.P., 1967. Print.
 * Author's Last name, first name. Title. Where is was printed: Name of publisher., year. Print. **

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