September 12-16

Welcome back!  This week, we'll continue learning more about the Joad family and The Grapes of Wrath as you work on your Setting the Stage projects, due on Friday, September 16.  As we read, we'll continue to learn the basics about rhetorical analysis including logos, pathos and ethos as we analyze and evaluate how Steinbeck and other writers use these techniques to persuade their audience.  We'll also enjoy our first four-corner debate.

MONDAY: Journal warm-up.  Chapter 7 discussion - are there still businesses running today like the used car dealership depicted in this intercallary chapter?  How do you think this chapter serves Steinbeck's overall purpose?  View Setting the Stage samples.  Read next portion of Grapes, Chapter 8 in class.  Independent Reading check-in.  Rhetorical analysis: logos, ethos, pathos: notes, examples, videos. 

Due: Read Grapes, Chapter 7 and the first 10 pages of Chapter 8.

Independent Reading - be up to at least the first 20 pages and annotate to the side.  Look for rhetorical techniques that we've talked about in class that the author is using to achieve their purpose.

Homework: Finish Chapter 8 of Grapes of Wrath.  

Continue working on the Setting the Stage project, due on Friday, September 16.

WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up.  Discuss Grapes, Chapter 8.  Excerpts from Steinbeck's Nobel Prize acceptance speech.  Hear about how the novel was received: its commercial success and the controversy and bans.  Four-corner debate with examples, evidence: should some books be banned in the United States today?

Due: Chapter 8 of The Grapes of Wrath finished.

Homework: Study for the quiz.

Finish Setting the Stage project, due next class.


FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Quiz covering vocab, grammar, and Grapes readings so far. Turn in Setting the Stage assignment and enjoy each other's projects. Logos, pathos, ethos role play activity.  Read Grapes, Chapter 9 in class make a list of what you would bring on a similar journey if you had to move and could only take one backpack with you.  Note any logos, ethos, or pathos in the chapter.  Chapter 9 exercise in groups.  Begin Grapes Chapter 10 and the journey west with the Joads.

Due: Setting the Stage project.

Homework: 

1. Finish reading Grapes, Chapter 10.

2. Ask your parents/guardians how you/your family came to be in California and be ready to talk about it in class next week.

3. Create your first post on the Independent Reading discussion board in Turnitin.com - one comment that is a minimum of three sentences long. (See below and sidebar for instructions.)

• The discussion boards are on Turnitin.com and can be accessed with the following codes:

 Class ID: (select yours - just one of these)

A. Technological Trailblazers - 13548857
B. Influential Voices in Race Relations - 13569174
C. War - 13569194
D. Environmental Action - 13580250
E. American Horror - 13580271
F. The American Woman - 13580282
G. A Search for Strength - 13580300
H. & I. Politics and Shifting Identities - 13580309
J. The American Man - 13580315

• Password (the same for all of them):  soaps
• Please add your discussion group as a class. 
• Click on the Discussion Tab towards the upper right hand side of the screen. 
• Find the first post with the assignment question.
• Reply to that post.