2nd Year Program 2011-2012

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2nd Year Program
2011-2012

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Updated list of all 2nd Year vocabulary.
For Thursday, 2/23/12: <
Read chapters 17-23 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
SO EVERYONE -- I STILL have not yet received ANY email edits from any of you on the Civil War essay. If you did an email edit, please print it out and bring it in to show me -- or, (Jesse, Misha, and Noah only) EMAIL it to me. Thank you!
Click on the icon at right to send pieces to other students for editing:
TO GET CREDIT for an email edit: print out the edited email that you send back to each person, and bring the printed email to me in class. ALSO print out the email edits you receive on your own pieces -- they are drafts that must come in at the end with the other drafts of your finished pieces.
MISHA and NOAH:
READ Skills List to add items to your own list of skills (in your draft folder) for writing. Be sure you are doing all of these things in your pieces before you send them to me.
OUTLINE & find quotes for an essay on ONE of the following topics (see sample outline organization that was in your packet):
1) Why is there power in ideas? Do ideas have as much influence on history as military power?
2) As a matter of historical fact, only about a third of the colonists supported the break with England. Why might so many people have preferred remaining a colony of England, or been reluctant to revolt? Do you think you would have signed The Declaration of Independence and supported the revolution?
Go my Examiner.com articles (orange button on this page) and read the article: Homework: no music allowed. ALSO -- go to the "English paper" link in the article & watch the cartoon.

Click on the icon at left to see what you will be doing in ART this year:
Click on the icon at right to see what movies we will be watching this year:

Snowboarding
by Baylie Holsman
Cold air rushes over my excited face:
I wait for this all summer.
My heart pounds like a drum
boom-da-boom-da-boom.
I cannot wait
to reach the top
when my board faces down
the steep, bumpy hill...
adrenaline pumps through
my shivering body.
I am ready to shred
white, chilly snow:
down I depart.

The Cliffs
by Ben Crogh
I hike up the side of the mountain thinking to myself, "I have got to commit and do it." My body starts to go numb. At the top, when I look down the overhang, I feel sick. A party boat goes by and the people yell at me to jump. So as I heave myself off the cliff, I have so many second thoughts.
The first time I ever went to the cliffs on the banks of Payette Lake, I wanted to jump the thirty-foot cliff. I could not get myself to do it: my heart was racing just standing up there, so I knew for sure I was not going to jump off of it. Instead of wasting my time just thinking about jumping the thirty-foot, I went to the eighteen-foot cliff. When I jumped off that, it was scary enough.
Now I stand at the top of the thirty-foot cliff. Looking over the edge feels like I am going to commit suicide. I finally jump… one, two, three, splash. Three seconds in the air feels like ten minutes.
I did it a couple more times until I started having fun. Kaden jumped the same cliffs and he was even more scared than I was. He told me about another cliff farther down the bank; the boat was started up and we headed over to the other cliffs. On our way, Kaden's sister wanted to surf, so we let her surf there.
When we first arrived, we both estimated that the cliff was about forty feet and we were pretty sure of it. We climbed up to the top, and just looking over the edge took the breath right out of me. Kaden was too chicken, so I had to go first. I jumped and soared through the air: I felt as if I had jumped off of a ten-story building. It was much bigger than the thirty-foot cliff and it was way scarier. That jump was one of the scariest and most fun things I have done in my lifetime. I do not think that I will ever go higher than a forty-five foot cliff just so I can stay alive, because that would be nice.

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Short story citations & notes on discussions:

Sucker by Carson McCullers
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Declaration of Independence
3rd Quarter Unfinished Pieces
(you have until March 15 to finish these pieces)

Ben:
                Revisions = 7/36
                Edits = needs 1 email
W of BP : one character description paragraph
W of BP essay outline
W of BP OR Declaration essay
Slave Dancer essay outline & intro paragraph
Civil War: 5 paragraph essay
5 more skills for skills list (check it first)
Tocqueville: interpretive paragraph
Tocqueville: evaluative paragraph
Transcendentalists essay
blue poetry

Hallie:
                Revisions = 21/36
                Edits = 100%
W of BP : one character description paragraph
W of BP OR Declaration essay
Constitution paragraph
Slave Dancer essay outline & intro paragraph
Civil War: 5 paragraph essay
Theme poem
Tocqueville: interpretive paragraph
Tocqueville: evaluative paragraph
Transcendentalists essay
blue poetry

Savannah:
                Revisions = 13/36
                Edits = need 1 email
W of BP : one character description paragraph
W of BP essay outline
Declaration essay outline
W of BP OR Declaration essay
Slave Dancer essay outline & intro paragraph
Civil War: 5 paragraph essay
Theme poem
5 more skills for skills list (check it first)
Tocqueville: interpretive paragraph
Tocqueville: evaluative paragraph
Transcendentalists essay
pink poetry

Vivienne:
                Revisions = 8/36
                Edits = needs 2 emails
W of BP essay outline
Declaration essay outline
W of BP OR Declaration essay
Constitution paragraph
Slave Dancer essay outline & intro paragraph
Civil War: 5 paragraph essay
Theme poem
Tocqueville: interpretive paragraph
Tocqueville: evaluative paragraph
Transcendentalists essay
green poetry

Baylie:
                Revisions = 24/36
                Edits = needs 1 email
Civil War: 5 paragraph essay
Theme poem
Tocqueville: interpretive paragraph
Tocqueville: evaluative paragraph
Transcendentalists essay
pink poetry

Jesse:
                Revisions = 10/36
                Edits = needs 2 emails
W of BP OR Declaration essay
Slave Dancer essay outline & intro paragraph
Civil War: 5 paragraph essay
Theme poem
5 more skills for skills list (check it first)
Tocqueville: interpretive paragraph
Tocqueville: evaluative paragraph
Transcendentalists essay
pink poetry

Misha:
                Revisions = 19/36
                Edits = 1/5
1st Person Narrative
HB paragraph (competing)
two character description paragraphs
timed essay: $1,000,000
Declaration: 5 paragraph essay outline
Civil War: 5 paragraph essay outline
Tocqueville: interpretive paragraph
Tocqueville: evaluative paragraph
Transcendentalists essay
pink poetry

Noah:
                Revisions = 28/36
                Edits = 1/5
HB paragraph (competing)
two character description paragraphs
timed essay: $1,000,000
Declaration: 5 paragraph essay outline
Civil War: 5 paragraph essay outline
Tocqueville: interpretive paragraph
Tocqueville: evaluative paragraph
Transcendentalists essay
pink poetry

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