Carlos Barrera

Monday May 5 2008

4th Block-

You will be writing an essay and posting it on to:

www.pearsonsuccessnet.com

instructions are on www.quizlab.com

2nd and 3rd Block:

Today in class we will do these tasks:

1. We will revise the best of the timed-writes and post the revised version into quizlab paragraph by paragraph.

2. Then we will use our scantron and select our two best sections of Friday's test to do on quizlab. You will be doing approximately 20 questions.

Ask me if confused.

This Friday we will be presenting our Hurricane Katrina PowerPoints.

Monday April 28 American Lit Honors

Today in class we will work on our Hurricane Katrina Project.

When you put text or photos on to your PowerPoint slides you must cite them.

Here is an example below:

And there have been numerous studies and reports that this was going to happen. So it's not like this just came out of nowhere. The Army Corps of Engineers have been messing around with this levee system for 40 years, and it's still not, after these billion dollars they spent this past year, they're still not safe (Lee, 2006).

or

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(GISuzer.com, 2005)

You will create a  Works Cited Page: This can be generated by using Citation Machine: http://tinyurl.com/3yvtvg 

Works Cited

GISuser.com. "Hurricane Katrina Satellite Image". Flickr.com. 8.28.2005. Creative Common, Some rights reserved. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/gisuser/40719712/>

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: Harper and Row, 1937.

Lee, Spike. "Spike Lee on Race, Politics and Broken Levees." Interview with Reese Erlich. All Things Considered. National Public Radio. WLRN, Miami . 13 Aug. 2006. Transcript.


Lee, Spike, dir. When the Levee Broke: A Requium in Four Acts. 2006. DVD. HBO, 2007.

"Spike Lee Produces a Vision of Katrina." News and Notes. National Public Radio. WLRN, Miami. 13 Aug. 2006.

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This week in Barrera's class:

On Tuesday will view clips of Robin Williams in the film "Dead Poet's Society" as we learn about the poet Walt Whitman.

On Wednesday we will read several Walt Whitman poems in the Red American Lit text.

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On Thursday we will have a double-timed write --you can see the prompts below as well as view student examples for each of the two prompts:

Download timed_write_the_eagle_andthe_dalliance_of_the_eagles.doc

Download ap_english_styled_essay_thoreau_quote.doc

Download student_sample_essay_for_thoreau_quote.doc

Download student_sample_essay_of_comparison_of_eagle_poems.doc

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On Friday Blocks 2 and 3 we will have a test on the following which can be currently found on quizlab

www.quizlab.com

The AP style questions for "Between the World and Me" (Richard Wright poem)

The AP style questions for "On Seeing England for the First Time"

The AP style questions for "Preface to Leaves of Grass"

The AP style questions for "There Was a Child Went Forth"

Block 4 will have a simulated EOCT test

Thursday-Friday April 24-25 American Lit Honors

Update on Hurricane Katrina Project:

We are going to do it on PowerPoint.

1. Every group will have a cover slide and a work cited slide then you will have a slide for every member in the group. You can collaborate on all the slides but if there are 4 members in your group—these means the body of your presentation has 4 slides minimum.
2. Pick a member if the group to host the PowerPoint on their student account. I learned how to go to your accounts and put it on a flash drive. Then, I will burn the presentation on to a compact disc and also host it on the blog.
3. I will go over the due dates in class today as well as sign your grade sheets for anything that was due yesterday.

We will be in the computer lab today, tomorrow (not 2nd block), and Monday.