Tuesday and Wednesday are alternating blocks, as are Thursday and Friday this week.

English 12: Vocabulary Test 9.  Senior Paper Work.  For Thursday, finish the "Using Research" section summaries in your GC assignment: Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing.  Writing With Statistics.  Avoiding Plagiarism.

English 10H: Vocabulary Test 7.  Discuss "Death of Caesar" painting that was used on vocabulary test.  Discuss the three questions from the Caesar introductory/biography material from Monday.

English 12: Finish the Conducting Research summaries and turn in on GC. This was supposed to be done today, so get it done and turned in.  Prepare for Vocabulary test tomorrow.

English 10H: We will have Vocabulary Test 7 tomorrow. Today we watched and took notes over Julius Caesar’s biography video. Notes were divided between personal traits and leadership traits of Caesar’s and how one category translates to the other. The following three questions were also posed: What type of character do you expect Caesar to be in the play? What types of relationships do you expect Caesar to have with the other characters? What traits and characteristics do you expect Shakespeare to emphasize or exaggerate about Caesar and the other characters?

Friday 1/9:

English 12:  Discussion of the initial senior paper pre-write questions from the GC assignment.  Assigned 6 sections from Purdue OWL to analyze.  Conducting Research: Research Overview, Evaluating Sources, Searching the Web.  Using Research: Writing with Statistics; Quoting, Summarizing, and Paraphrasing; Avoiding Plagiarism.  For each of the 6 subsections you need to summarize the key elements of the reading from the OWL sections.  This needs to be added to the GC assignment.  For Monday, you only need to complete the 3 Conducting Research section summaries.  Vocabulary Test is Tuesday 1/13 next week.

English 10H: Group work on the Reading Images article.  Vocabulary Test 7 next week will be on Tuesday 1/13 -Wednesday 1/14 due to the altered schedule.  Enrollment is Thursday/Friday.

English 12: Vocabulary: articulate, circuitous, discursive, grandiloquent, punchy, ponderous, buzzword, learned (adjective), universal, withitness.  Begin Senior Paper Guide on Google Classroom.  For Friday, using a potential issue/topic, answer the following:  Why does it matter now?  How did it get to its current state?  Why will it matter in the future?  How does it apply at the Global, National, Local levels?

English 10H:  For Friday, read Reading Images and complete a dialectical journal entry for each of the sections of the article, using the blue headings as dividers.  Vocabulary List 7

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English 10H: Many groups have not submitted a copy of their original artwork from the project along with their recreation.  This was one of the required elements in the Following Directions section of the final grade.  I will enter grades accordingly, but if you have not submitted this I suggest you make it happen.  I am also missing the questionnaire from  some groups.  Again, grades will be entered accordingly.  They will be final Tuesday night.