The English I semester grades currently posted on PowerSchool are the semester grades submitted for Spring Semester 2013.
Students who received a zero for the final draft of the research report either failed to submit their report to Turnitin.com or committed plagiarism. Students who failed to submit their research paper to Turnitin.com should submit to receive the score their papers earned. E-mail Mr. Stone (dstone@lla.org) once you have submitted and he will review your similarity report to see if you receive credit for your work. This third and final opportunity to follow instructions will expire on June 21, 2013.
If you are aware that you plagiarized while writing your paper, it would be better to keep the zero than to run the risk of getting a negative discipline record.
A grade change will be submitted if your research report score significantly improves your grade. If you received a zero due to plagiarism, you will receive a notice in the mail.
Have a great summer!
Mr. Stone
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
No Credit for Research Report
Students who have not submitted their research report to Turnitin.com have received a zero for their score for that assignment. Students who have submitted their papers to Turnitin.com currently have a blank. A score will be placed in next week when the grading is completed.
Turnitin.com is taking late submissions for this assignment. Mr. Stone will check again on Monday to see if students have submitted. (That will be more than a week past the deadline.) Parents will then be called if a paper has not been submitted and an additional twenty-four hour extension will be given before the score permanently becomes a zero.
Saying you have forgotten your password is not an acceptable excuse. Turnitin.com like the majority of web-based programs has a system for helping users who have lost their passwords.
Contact Mr. Stone (dstone@lla.org) if you have questions.
Turnitin.com is taking late submissions for this assignment. Mr. Stone will check again on Monday to see if students have submitted. (That will be more than a week past the deadline.) Parents will then be called if a paper has not been submitted and an additional twenty-four hour extension will be given before the score permanently becomes a zero.
Saying you have forgotten your password is not an acceptable excuse. Turnitin.com like the majority of web-based programs has a system for helping users who have lost their passwords.
Contact Mr. Stone (dstone@lla.org) if you have questions.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tests
Mr. Stone settled on the test given at the end of this week will only cover poetry. The final exam will only cover vocabulary.
Neither test will cover research concepts.
Neither test will cover research concepts.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Poetry Terms
Mr. Stone discussed more than half of the terms on the poetry review sheet and read numerous poems from the text as examples.
Homework: Write a cinquain and begin reviewing for the test over poetry at the end of this week.
Currently, Mr. Stone has scheduled for the test at the end of the week to have questions over research as well; however, he is seriously considering making that test only over poetry and including 25 research questions on the test given during the final exam period which will be a cumulative review of the 150 vocabulary words from Vocabulary Energizers.
Homework: Write a cinquain and begin reviewing for the test over poetry at the end of this week.
Currently, Mr. Stone has scheduled for the test at the end of the week to have questions over research as well; however, he is seriously considering making that test only over poetry and including 25 research questions on the test given during the final exam period which will be a cumulative review of the 150 vocabulary words from Vocabulary Energizers.
Cinquain
A cinquain is the name of a five-line stanza as well as a poetic form created by Adelaide Crapsey with influences from the Japanese haiku and tanka. Her creation is known as the American cinquain.
Crapsey created a syllabic verse form with a pattern of 2/4/6/8/2 syllables.
Others have adapted the form to be based on the number of words or parts of speech. In the word-based pattern, the cinquain has a pattern of 1/2/3/4/1 word(s) per line.
In the parts-of-speech-based pattern, the cinquain has a pattern of a noun/two adjectives/three words ending with -ing/a phrase/and another noun that is synonymous with the noun on the first line.
Students may follow any of these three patterns or attempt to combine the three together for extra credit.
The grading scale breaks down as follows:
____ [2] Line 1—2 syllables/1 word/noun
____ [4] Line 2—4 syllables/2 words/2 adjectives
____ [6] Line 3—6 syllables/3 words/3 words ending in –ing
____ [8] Line 4—8 syllables/4 words/a phrase
____ [2] Line 5—2 syllables/1 word/another word for the noun
____ [8] Makes sense
____ [5] Typed with proper heading
____ [5] extra credit for combining all three patterns
____ total out of 35points
Crapsey created a syllabic verse form with a pattern of 2/4/6/8/2 syllables.
Others have adapted the form to be based on the number of words or parts of speech. In the word-based pattern, the cinquain has a pattern of 1/2/3/4/1 word(s) per line.
In the parts-of-speech-based pattern, the cinquain has a pattern of a noun/two adjectives/three words ending with -ing/a phrase/and another noun that is synonymous with the noun on the first line.
Students may follow any of these three patterns or attempt to combine the three together for extra credit.
The grading scale breaks down as follows:
____ [2] Line 1—2 syllables/1 word/noun
____ [4] Line 2—4 syllables/2 words/2 adjectives
____ [6] Line 3—6 syllables/3 words/3 words ending in –ing
____ [8] Line 4—8 syllables/4 words/a phrase
____ [2] Line 5—2 syllables/1 word/another word for the noun
____ [8] Makes sense
____ [5] Typed with proper heading
____ [5] extra credit for combining all three patterns
____ total out of 35points
Monday, May 20, 2013
Submit Research Report to Turnitin
The hard copy that students submit in class will be used for grading; however, an electronic copy must be submitted to Turnitin.com for the student to receive a passing score. The submission must be completed by this Friday, May 24, 2013. Multiple days are given to allow students more than adequate time to compensate for any computer issues. Students should begin attempting to submit either on Monday or Tuesday.
Haiku
A haiku is a traditional Japanese poem of three lines with a set number of syllables: 5/7/5.
The poem should contain a seasonal reference: typical weather, description of representative stage of plant life or animal behavior, holiday, etc.
The poem contains a sense of contrast or tension between two elements.
The poem should capture a moment or a sense of the transient/passing sense of life.
Be sure your haiku is typed in MLA format: double-spacing, proper heading, header, specific title.
You may center the lines of your haiku or keep them left-justified. Please break typical MLA format and place an extra double-spaced return between your title and the poem to assure the reader sees the title and poem as separate.
The poem should contain a seasonal reference: typical weather, description of representative stage of plant life or animal behavior, holiday, etc.
The poem contains a sense of contrast or tension between two elements.
The poem should capture a moment or a sense of the transient/passing sense of life.
Be sure your haiku is typed in MLA format: double-spacing, proper heading, header, specific title.
You may center the lines of your haiku or keep them left-justified. Please break typical MLA format and place an extra double-spaced return between your title and the poem to assure the reader sees the title and poem as separate.
Research Papers Submitted--Haiku Due Next
Monday 20 May 2013 for Periods 1, 2, 5, & 6 and Tuesday 21 May 2013 for Period 7
Students submitted the complete rough draft of the research report with highlighting, the peer critique sheet, the revised draft with editing marks, and the peer edit sheet stapled together as one set.
In a separate pile, students submitted the final draft of their research report.
During class time students completed the exercises for Chapter Ten of Vocabulary Energizers.
Students received a printed handout of the poetry review sheet already available on the blog.
Homework: Finish the haiku begun long ago if not completed.
Students submitted the complete rough draft of the research report with highlighting, the peer critique sheet, the revised draft with editing marks, and the peer edit sheet stapled together as one set.
In a separate pile, students submitted the final draft of their research report.
During class time students completed the exercises for Chapter Ten of Vocabulary Energizers.
Students received a printed handout of the poetry review sheet already available on the blog.
Homework: Finish the haiku begun long ago if not completed.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Peer Edit of Revised Draft
Thursday for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday for Periods 1, 2, & 7
Students used the peer edit sheet provided by the instructor to guide them in editing the revised draft of a classmate's research report.
Homework: Complete the final draft of the research paper.
Students used the peer edit sheet provided by the instructor to guide them in editing the revised draft of a classmate's research report.
Homework: Complete the final draft of the research paper.
Typical Functions of Expository Commentary
*connect the specific concrete detail to the generalization of the paragraph's topic sentence.
-show the similarity between two or more concrete details
-contrast the difference between two or more concrete details
-show the similarity between an unfamiliar concrete detail from a source and another example that is a familiar part of the readers experience (draw an analogy)
-describe the significance /importance of the concrete detail
-show the similarity between two or more concrete details
-contrast the difference between two or more concrete details
-show the similarity between an unfamiliar concrete detail from a source and another example that is a familiar part of the readers experience (draw an analogy)
-describe the significance /importance of the concrete detail
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