Remember:
I NEED ALL PERMISSION SLIPS ASAP!
and
BRING A LUNCH ON THURSDAY!
As for class stuff, don’t forget to look up five books on the Minuteman Library Network (mln.lib.ma.us), and write down the call number/author/title. Even if you already have books at home, look up five at the main library. You will not be checking out five of them, but at this point you have no idea which books will be good or not.
See you tomorrow.
Hey gang,
Reminder that your WYR project idea is due on March 9th, and your Long-term essay is due on March 16th. Here is what we covered today:
For every research paper you do (or, heck, EVERY PAPER you do EVER), it is good practice to do this little excercise–
1. I want to know about _____________________,
2. because I want to know why/how/where/etc. _______________________________,
3. so that my audience, ______________, will know ________________________.
For this paper, here is an example–
1. I want to know about A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN,
2. because I want to know HOW IT CONNECTS TO AMERICAN HISTORY CLASS,
3. so that my audience, MR. GREINER, will know THAT I CAN CONNECT HISTORY AND LITERATURE WELL AND PULL RELEVANT EXAMPLES FROM THE TEXT.
Keep that in mind, and your paper will be GOLD! In fact, if I could do it all again, we would do that at the beginning of every paper we ever wrote. Eh, you live, you learn.
See you in class tomorrow.
Hey 7th graders,
Your homework tonight is to:
1. GET YOUR PERMISSION SLIP SIGNED! FIELD TRIP INFORMATION, if you need it.
2. Pick five books from the library that will help you on your Enrichment project. Go to www.min.lib.ma.us, then click on the catalog link. Be sure to change the location to Brookline!
Then, type or write down each book’s author, title, and call number.
Bye!
One week to go:
On Wednesday, your last two journal entries are due. You can find these on the Industrialization Unit Syllabus.
You also received the Write Your Rep Project today. If you need more copies, go to that category. (You can find the categories on the bottom right hand side of the page.)
AlSO, you got the Study Guide for this Thursday’s test and Syllabus for the week.
Please post your topic ideas on the comments section below BY MARCH 9th.
Click below for the documents:
Write Your Rep topsheet
Letter Format and example
Running out of time in class is too bad.
Anyway, your homework, due on Wednesday (I pushed it back so we can talk about it in class some more) is to answer the following question:
“Should the Espionage Act have been found unconstitutional?”
If you think yes, it is because it limits free speech. If no, then you should argue that the government needs to be able to limit freedoms to ensure safety, especially during war time.
Use the information from the packet! Cite the law! Pull in your vast knowledge of World War I. Its worth 10 points towards your test grade, and should be at least a page long.
If you need a packet: Schenck v. US Documents
ALSO: For Wednesday, you need to read the two poems handed to you today and do the response questions on the poets view of African-Americans in society and throughout history. Unfortunately, I do not have a PDF, but if you want to look them up, it is Langston Hughes’ “I too Sing America” and James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.”
Tomorrow, we will have our mock trial.
The trial asks whether or not the 1917 Espionage Act is constitutional or not. It was challenged by Charles Schenck after he was convicted for mailing 15000 pamphlets linking the draft with slavery.
Schenck v. US Documents–for anyone who would like to see the witness list, explanation, and procedures.
Be ready to mock some trials tomorrow!
Hey gang,
I’ve been posting less on here because all your homework and explanations are on the Industrialization Unit Syllabus. As for the project that we have been working on in class, that can be found by clickign the Lowell Mills Project link on the top of this page.
A QUICK CHANGE TO THE SYLLABUS–Journals will be collected on THURSDAY, not WEDNESDAY. This gives you an extra day to do your work. I expect that you use this extra time to make sure that your work is consistent with the expectations talked about in class today. A quick reminder:
These are paragraphs, which means:
A. Start with a topic sentence. This is your argument, what you plan on talking about. It organizes the rest of your paragraph. Don’t just start answer the question, sum up your answer in a topic sentence!
B. PROVE THE TOPIC SENTENCE. The only information in your paragraph should be stuff that proves your topic sentence. Don’t include random information just because it is in the book. Quotes or specific examples fom the book are super.
C. CONCLUDE–A common mistake is to not sum up your argument at the end.
D. Limit the “I think”s. The reason for this is because it does nothing to strengthen your argument. I know it seems like protection just in case you are wrong, but it’s not. All it does is make it look like you are guessing.
See you tomorrow!
So, the age of no homework is drawing to a close. My throat hurts from lecturing. And no one likes to listen to me talk anyway. I apologize that I cannot post the powerpoints on the website. I used to be able to on my old website, but I havent figured it out yet. Maybe some day.
Anyway, tomorrow we will finish learning about the race riots and move on to our MOCK TRIAL! YES!
(Its on Schenck v. US…get ready to argue for some limitations on civil rights during war time!!!) (Ok, so I dork out on this stuff.)
Today, as the sun reached its highest point in the sky, two competitors faced off on the most highly anticipated sporting event of the weekend.* The first competitor was the diabolical, highly trained, and ruthless Feldman, who had been attempting to scare her competitor all week by drawing unrealistic pictures of her burning a taller competitor with a flamethrower while he cried. The second competitor, Greiner, did not flinch from such verbal and mental abuse, but rather used it as a further proof that he weilded a more important weapon–the weapon of justice.
Greiner, the inexperienced but determined swordsman, met Feldman on the field of battle, and a hushed sense of fear and expectancy fell over the crowd.** Luckily, Greiner had one secret weapon other than the weapon of justice. He was able to switch fighting styles so that the ruthless tyrant Feldman would not have an advantage. This was due to the fact that he was too big to fit into any of the other equipment. Anyway, the eppee fight was on.
In Round One, Greiner displayed a combination of ignorance and aggressiveness the likes of which Feldman had never experienced. He was able to stab her foot, her leg, and her arm. Feldman struck back, stabbing Greiner’s front leg kinda hard. He might develop a bruise. And, at the end of Round One, GREINER PREVAILED!***
However, this only made Feldman angrier. At this point, she unleashed a wave of wild, boorish assaults, charging and screaming and stabbing. Greiner was stabbed in the heart, the stomach, and the neck. At one point, he got lucky and got the leg, but that was it for him. On the tie-breaking point, the pitiless Feldman slew the stout-hearted but doomed Greiner, ending his dreams of winning what has become known as “Swordmaggedon…the greatest sword battle, ever.”
PS No Homework this weekend.
*Except the Superbowl.
**Ok, the crowd was made of Jenny, Juli, Nat, and Lili, and there wasn’t so much of a hushed silence as a series of “You’re gonna lose, Greiner!” taunts.
***I’m pretty sure it was only because I am at least a foot taller.
Seriously, you guys are nuts.
I answered as much as I could…leave new questions on this post.
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