Please copy the following chart into your notes leaving room to write down some notes on Chapter 15 "Icarus"

Complacency (happy in your position unaware that certain dangers may exist)	Textual evidence to support	Explanation/Analysis of how it shows a relation to Icarus
Failed ambition (not reaching a goal)
Hubris (too much pride; arrogance in your abilities)

Quick Write #6:Start with reading pg. 208-top of 212

By the end of class today, you should have the following assignments finished:
1. Questions #1-8 on worksheet #6 (9 and 10 will be bonus questions)
2. Quick Write #6

Quick Write #6: Analyze how style and content contribute to the power and beauty of Ch. 12

style- rhetorical devices (characterization, diction (word choice), conflict, setting, metaphor, symbolism, allusion)
content-what happens in the plot during this section

power and beauty-- How does it help him get his point across? How does it make the section memorable (lasting images or information)? How does it help strengthen the central ideas expressed (racism, identity, oppression, etc.)?

 (TAG/Thesis)  In The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, the author uses style and content to add power and beauty to Ch. 12. (Reason) This is because the rhetorical devices of __________ and _______ and the content about ______________ make it memorable to the reader.

(Don't start the body paragraph with "a quote that proves this to be true is"--Use a topic sentence: tells the reader what the paragraph is about--keep it in order of how you laid it out in the intro (in the example above the writer used rhetorical devices first"

(E/E)The author uses the rhetorical device metaphor to add power to chapter 12. On page ___ he states, "______________________". This metaphor adds power to the chapter because________.
He also uses imagery in describing ________________ when he states, "__________ ". This adds power to the chapter because_____________________.

(E/E) The author uses specific content in his writing to add power and beauty as well. He gives a description of slavery on page _____ as it states, "_______________________________." This information adds power to the chapter because_________________.

(S) Chapter 12 is an important chapter in the book because _______________________.

Today's reading and quiz..

Ideas for content:

• To highlight Malcolm X’s early experiences speaking to Nation of Islam followers,
• the author includes quotations of the content from Malcolm X’s lectures about the horrors of slavery. 
• The quotations the author includes focus on the degrading and harmful effects of the slave masters’ rape of African-American women.

We will start p. 200 and stop top of 205.

Quiz:
Read from the first full paragraph on page 205 (Today, when thousands of Muslims and others…” to the top of page 208 (“3604 South Wayne Road, Wayne, Michigan”) and use this section of the reading to answer the questions below

When you are finished with the quiz, make sure questions #1-8 on worksheet #6 are complete

Remember, college essays are due no later than Friday!!!

Today we will:
1. Take the following notes in red:

Quick Write #6: Analyze how style and content contribute to the power and beauty of Ch. 12

style- rhetorical devices (characterization, diction (word choice), conflict, setting)
content-what happens in the plot during this section

power and beauty-- How does it help him get his point across? How does it make the section memorable (lasting images or information)? How does it help strengthen the central ideas expressed (racism, identity, oppression, etc.)?

2. Read pages 196-top of 200 (Chapter 12 "Savior")

3. Questions 1-5 worksheet #6 (you downloaded it with worksheet 5 if not here is the link again)

4. Watch movie*

Agenda for Thursday! Note: For those people who were absent on this day--make sure get the STEAL notes from a friend--they are not available on the blog

1. Take your STEAL notes
2. Finish the chapter reading p.189-194
3. Work on QW #5

Quick Write Help:

T—In The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley, Malcolm develops more during the course of Chapter 11. (R-)This is mostly because going to prison is a major turning point in his life.

E—

E—

E*--

S—

When you come in start -IMMEDIATELY--by finishing #1-5 from yesterday: we will start on page 182 in about 5-10 minutes

Today we will:

• Read the following pages: 

                  182-183 from "Mr. Muhammad, to whom I was writing daily," to "sometimes as much as                                               fifteen hours a day"
                 

                                             skip ahead

                  185-87 from "Two other areas of experience" to "of that black convict's lifelong                                                          experience"

• Finish questions #6-10

• Begin our STEAL notes for the next Quick Write (#5)--we will work on this tomorrow after finishing the chapter (if there is time available)

Note: Tomorrow we will work on the notes above if we run out of time and work on writing QW #5---(on the back of Worksheet #5).

Friday--College Essay Writer's Workshop----come prepared!!!!!

Today's Agenda: Preparing for Friday and Quiz #3

1. Start a Word Document for your college essay/MLA Heading
(See the MLA Sample paper)

2. Read pages 176-middle 180
Questions #1-4 should be done by the end of today

3. Fill in #5:
Malcolm accuses the white man of using "promises, trickery, and manipulation" to control India through Great Britain's East India Company because they were "brown" and "heathen". In China, they brought opium in to keep the Chinese "narcotized" to take control of their trade (181).

4. Quiz--when you are finished please sit quietly while others are working

Homework: Please continue to work on your college essay (personal narrative) for Friday.

Read the following college essay and answer the 1 short answer question that follows. You must use the RACE strategy we learned in class to receive full-credit. You may use your notes or the blog for help. You may not talk or you will receive a zero. Please HAND WRITE your answer on a sheet of paper and place it in the box when you are finished. Go ahead and read some of the other sample essays while you are waiting.

"Spring Instead of Summer—Jacqueline"

(http://apply.jhu.edu/apply/essays/#essay7)

Sometimes I had dreams of being in plane crashes with my twin brother, Matt.

We’re standing on the wing of a plane, balancing in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Matt is screaming, “No! I don’t want to jump! Where’s the water? Where’s the water?” A wave rushes over the wing and takes us under. Matt calls, “Jacqui!” reaches for my hand, and I wake up.

I know a lot about my backstory because it has shaped who I am and who I want to be. Knowledge of this story is necessary—I need to keep the words alive, even if time wants to quiet them. I know my story so that I do not forget, so that I can tell others.

My brother, Matt, is visually impaired and has autism. We were born in May instead of August, sixteen weeks early, during spring instead of summer. Of all the seasons, maybe we should have been born in winter. Matt and I clung together on the icy medical tables. Winter children, at home in the frost, trying to take air into translucent lungs.

The facts of our story are easy to tell. I can tell about the identical scars that run from our shoulder blades to our chests. How our doctors and parents looked at us, in our isolettes, with heavy eyes. About the five percent chance of survival that we beat, or the likelihood that Matt would never be able to see and I would never speak. I can tell others that I would not change our story—that I want to tell it throughout my lifetime, because it has a purpose. I can say that the dream of us clinging together on the plane wing in the middle of the Atlantic is a continuation of how I feel and who I am.

It’s harder, though, to tell of the pride I feel whenever my voice carries across the room. Nine years of voice therapy, nine years of learning how to project and nurture my one working vocal cord—I’m afraid people won’t understand. They might just think of it as a story with a nice ending. But my goal is not to tell a nice story—it is to make others feel something deep in their chests, like I do.

It’s even harder to share the very core of who I am; the fact that Matt and I are forever tied together with the story of how we were born. We are here for different reasons—mine to write and be his guide; his to make others happy, like he makes me. Where we come from and how we got here makes us who we are in this moment. That’s the purpose of our story; that’s what I want others to know.

My half of our story allows me to exist in a world that is parallel to Matt’s. Few others fit in his world—but I must. And my ability to fit into his world drives… everything. It makes me strive to see him smile, even if it’s a hint of one that appears when I tell him his socks are totally cool. It brings my dreams of plane crashes alive, so I can release those feelings into my writing, and truly be part of his world. I must fit into Matt’s world forever, and so I must be a good enough sister to tell his story.

My backstory makes me who I am—a writer, a guide, a sister. I am a girl standing on the wing of a plane, eager for my words to stretch to every continent. Eager for everyone to know my story.

Question:

1. What are two qualities or characteristics that the author wants Johns Hopkins University to see about her? Give textual evidence to support your answers. Why might these be qualities or characteristics that would make her a successful college student?

Here is the link to the website where the essay occurs for additional reading: 

More sample essays....

Re-post: The College (Narrative Essay) is the most important assignment of quarter 1!

Your task: Write an essay of roughly 500 words in which you tell about a significant experience or experiences from your life that show a quality or multiple qualities that would make you a valuable addition to a college or the deserving recipient of a scholarship.
Here are some examples for you: Mckinley Student Sample  / Essays that worked
Step 1: Brainstorm
*Read some examples to get the idea.
*Use the idea generator to get ideas.
*Look for patterns in your web. Group similar ideas and events together.
*Still stuck? See me or ask your group for ideas.

Step 2: Draft
*Use narration to show rather than tell. A narrative essay tells a short and vivid story. Omit the introduction, and write 1 or 2 paragraphs that grab and engage the reader's attention and explain what it reveals about you.
*The conclusion should be brief--nail down the meaning of the events described.

Step 3: Revise
*Have someone in your group read it and tell you what he/she thinks. Ask them if they can guess the qualities you are trying to convey--Did they get it right?
*Note: Spelling and grammar errors and fuzzy narration will make your essay memorable--in a bad way.

College Application Prompts/Idea Generator:

Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story. 

Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn? Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again? 

Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there and why is it meaningful to you? 

Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
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What are your major accomplishments and why do you consider them accomplishments?

Does any attribute, quality or skill distinguish you from everyone else? How did you develop this attribute?

What was the most difficult time in your life and why? How did your perspective on life change as a result of the difficulty?

Have you experienced a moment of epiphany, as if your eyes were opened to something you were previously blind to?

Start page 165-pg. 171

For the reading on pages 165-171, again there will be no worksheet--it will be multiple choice questions on the quiz page you will answer AS AN ASSIGNMENT GRADE, NOT A QUIZ.

We will start by reviewing mood for question #2 using the mood worksheet.

Work for today in my absence--please do it, take it seriously, it counts as a grade!

*Today, you will be reading parts of Ch. 10 pages 156-163 and answering the questions below:
1. Who was Bimbi and how does he influence Malcolm?
2. How does Malcolm describe the prison? What are his feelings about it?
3. What does Reginald attempt to convince Malcolm to do? How does he feel about it?

When you are done you can work on finishing the questions from Tuesday on pages 148-153 if you have not done so already.

Directions for today's class:

Period 4/5: We are going to use this time to make-up the Accuplacer Test (because we never took it and it counted for a 100 pt quiz grade)--So log into the quiz page and do that first...

*When you are done, finish the questions from yesterday (they are on the blog still) #1-4 on pages 148-153

*If you have any extra time, you can go back and finish Friday's work (homework).
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Period 7/8: We will start by reviewing mood for question #2 using the mood worksheet.

*When you we are finished, we will finish the questions from yesterday (they are on the blog still) #1-4 on pages 148-153

*If you have any extra time, you can go back and finish Friday's work (homework).
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Period 11: Finish the questions from yesterday (they are on the blog still) #1-4 on pages 148-153

*If you have any extra time, you can go back and finish Friday's work (homework).

Today's Agenda: Friday we will be in 162!!!/Tomorrow the 1/2 day will be used for make-up work!

First, here is a list of all the assignments so far this quarter:
1. Questions for "Swimming" and "Loss of a Father" (sample college essays)
2. Questions "The N-word"
3. Questions "The Foreword"
4. Accuplacer Test (4/5 hasn't taken it yet, I know)
5. Worksheet #1, Quick Write #1
6. Worksheet #2, Quick Write #2
7. Worksheet #3, Quick Write #3
8. "Worksheet 4" (yellow worksheet or blog, Quick Write #4 using chart on STEAL) yesterday!
9. Quizzes 1 and 2
10. Reading Diagnostic (today)
11. College Essay*******100 pts!
12. Class participation (running-total)

Second, log-in to the quiz page and take your Reading Diagnostic Test (you can write the answers down on a scrap and then input them at the end if you like) but DO NOT WRITE ON THE TEST ITSELF.

Third, when you are done, I'm going to give you a copy of an excerpt of Ch. 8 "Trapped": Please read it and annotate it for class on Thursday--THIS IS A HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT WHICH YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR--IT ISN'T AN OPTION

A successful annotation will have the following: (look at the ch. 3 one I did for help)

1. Circle unknown vocabulary--look it up!
2. use the annotating bookmark, but focus on the basics:
! for something important
? for question/confusion
* something very interesting to you 
3. bracket off paragraphs and write notes about the reading/observations you are making

Notes from class

STEAL characterization	Malcolm Little	“Red”
Speech	*Has never really heard slang/swearing	*Speaks slang; “city” vocabulary
Thoughts	*Is intrigued by the city *Feels isolated/alone	*Is intrigued but troubled by the city *Feels part of a group (gangsters), but trusts no one but Sammy
Effect on others	*His brother Reginald looks up to him	*Reginald still looks up to him *Becomes well-known for his illegal activities *Is a target of the law
Actions	*Needs help from Shorty to get adjusted to the city *Lives on the hill with Ella/intends to find a legitimate job *finds new and better ways to hunt *gets in trouble at school/fighting *smart in school but discouraged from succeeding	*Helps Reginald become adjusted to the city (gets him a new suit) *Is involved in crime(gambling, guns, drugs) *Finds new and better ways to sell drugs *Acts “crazy” to avoid the draft
Looks	*Looks like a “hick” looks “country” (his suit, his hair)	*Has a “conk” *Wears suits (provided illegally)

Quick Write #4 must be done in class today!!

Last week we took some notes on the STEAL method of characterization:
Speech
Thoughts
Actions
Effects on others
Looks

Copy down the following notes--we will fill in the right hand side together based on Ch. 6: "Detroit Red" and today's reading.
Read pages 111-114

Quick Write#4: How does Malcolm Little evolve over the course of the reading up until this point? (Ch. 1-6). (In other words: How does he change from the beginning of the book until what we have read so far?)

• Give at least 2 adjectives in your description of Malcolm (min. 1 of the beginning and min. 1 later on)
• Give a minimum of 2 pieces of textual evidence 
• Make sure you explain/analyze your choices of adjectives (connect your evidence to your adjective)

Some things of importance:
Monday (today)--Quick Write #4
Tuesday--No regular Quiz--Reading Diagnostic Test
Wednesday--1/2 day--those in class will have time to work on typing their college essays
Thursday--Begin reading ch. 8
Friday--continue ch. 8/college essays due!!!
LONG WEEKEND ENJOY!
Tuesday 10/13--guest speaker
Wednesday workshops--PSAT for underclassmen--seniors will have important workshops