Journal Write for April 30th

Please go to this link and read the article-- we will write about the idea of technology and how we can fit it into our lives smoothly:

Ozy Link

Journal write:
NEW RULES  4/30/2015
Cell phones and Facebook and twitter, oh my! Snapchat caught me in a nap-- Oh snap!
Texting while driving is a relatively new problem, even if distracted driving is as old as the kids screaming in the back seat..
Write three NEW rules that might allow us to manage our phone use the best way, according to you.

This is NOT a test!

Thanks goodness that whole week of intense testing is over.  I know many of you have to still go through AP tests, but here is English class we are on to other things.
THREE VITAL POINTS:
1- You must be finished reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at this point. The activities we will wrap up with depend on you having a good understanding of what happens in the book and a chance to think about what it might all mean to us, here, in the year 2015.

2- Here is the activity we began this week and will continue with on Thursday:
Women and Heroes

3- We are also experimenting with how understanding sentence structure can change our writing lives:
SENTENCE STRUCTURE HANDOUT TO KEEP AND USE
We handed in a grade-able sample of a sentence that begins with a participial phrase today-- see me if you were absent.

Papers Due!

Wednesday, April 15th:
Tax returns and Major Papers are DUE!
Thanks!
Mrs. E

Cuckoo for Arguments!

We are working on the elements of argumentative essays as we finish reading the text:
April 13th Lesson
April 14th Lesson   PTSD Pamphlet
Evidence:
1- We did a "One Minute Mystery" in class-- see Mrs. Eddy for handout.
2- Nurse Ratched Speaks: Critical Reading Exercise
Criteria for Argumentation:
Argument vs persuasion and criteria for Carnegie Hero Award.
Reading: Finish Part 3 of the text by Thursday, April 16th
Wednesday the 15th we go to the testing lab to learn about the testing site for SBAC
Next Week: SBAC testing.

Guilty by Insinuation

Wednesday April 8th:
Here is a critical reading into the words and effects of Nurse Ratched's character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey.
Here is the assignment we worked on in class in groups. PLEASE find a classmate to consult with if you need to make this up outside of class--thanks!
"Guilting" Raised to an Art Form
Mrs. Eddy

The "science" behind the Cuckoo's Nest

We are currently learning about the lobotomy, a procedure that is used, but never mentioned by name, in the text.  Everyone in  the time that the book was published would know what this procedure was, as we will see in the film. Here is the assignment for the film or your own research if you choose not to watch the film:
The Lobotomist: Documentary film: PBS: The American Experience 2008.
Lobotomist Assignment: Reaction Paper

Cuckoo Questions and Article on Teacher Angst

This week we read through page 69 and answered the following questions with short paragraphs:
Questions #1 Cuckoo
Oregonian Article Instructions:
1-Read the Essential Question and keep it in mind as you read and mark the article.
2-Answer the question with your ideas on the front of the page.
3-Turn the page over (the article is just one page-- the .pdf attached here has three-- sorry!)turn the page over and, on the back, write a short reaction paper:
Q: What do you think about the ideas brought up in the article? Please address yourself to specific ideas/statements from the text as you write freely about your own opinion.

HOMEWORK:
Read through page 91 by Monday, April 6th
Time Line and Budget for Book Project due Monday, April 6th