ANNOUNCEMENT PAGE

This page will contain special homework assignments which do not appear on the printed two-week assignment sheet you will receive in class. It will also forwarn you of changes in the printed schedule. Be sure to check this page if you have been absent from class, for you are responsible for homework assignments and deadline dates.

The main type of assignment here is the vocabulary word list chosen in class for a reading selection or the pages for a Newsweek reading assignment. The study cards for the words and the Newsweek activity sheets are generally due the next class period, whether you were in class or not.

T 1/20: Room changed from 5132 A to 8319

TH 1/22: The two-week assignment sheet is available in class today and has been uploaded the the Assignments page of this website.

T 1/28: Reminder: Meet in Computer Classroom 2117B today.

Newsweek article: Your assigned article is "A Fence Can't Stop the Future" from Newsweek.com. Download and print this article. Preview and read the article, following the directions on SUPP, pages 101 - 102. Fill in this activity sheet after you finish reading the article. Start the "Weird Words" section of your portfolio. Here's an example of that page:

WEIRD WORDS from NEWSWEEK

Cisneros, Henry. "A Fence Can't Stop the Future," Newseek, Jan. 16, 2009. Newsweek.com.

1) ". . . that U.S. dominance will soon be eclipsed, . . . "
verb, to surpass, outshown
noun: eclipse; adjective: ecliptic
Sarah's running time for the race will eclipse the old record held by Joceline.

Homework addition: 3) Complete your study schedules with additions and corrections indicated on your returned schedule. If you are behind in this assignment and other homework, get caught up! The late ticket policy goes into effect beginning with next Tuesdays's homework.

TH 2/5: The new assignment sheet has been uploaded to the Assignments page of this website and is available in printed version in class today.

Set I: The Kite Runner vocabulary for study cards due 2/10.

unscrupulous (8), veracity (12), aloofness (19), vehemently (24), indecipherable (30)

Instructions and a model for the cards are available on pages 123 - 124, SUPP.

TH 2/12: Set II: The Kite Runner vocabulary for study cards due 2/17:

abhor (52), indignation (5 How 4), viable (56), austere (61), guileless (78)

Magazine assignment due 2/17:

"South Korea's Pet Clone Wars" by Jennifer Veale, Tuesday, February 10, 2009, time.com.

Use the same response sheet as last time, pages 101 - 102 in the Supplement; It says "Main Idea and Supporting Details" on the top. Remember to do the two words for your "Weird Words" page of the portfolio.

TH 2/19: Set III: The Kite Runner vocabulary for study cards due 2/24:

furrowed (82), unkempt (85), chasm (87), facade (97), encapsulated (123)

Magazine assignment due 2/24:

Choose your own article. You can download the article from an internet news magazine or newspaper or cut out/photocopy an article from a print version of the magazine or newspaper.

**The article should be about the same length as previous ones, or longer, not just a snippet.
** The article should be current, from around February/March 2009.
**Think about the portfolio categories you need to fill as you make your choice.
**Underline/highlight and annotate the text.
**Fill out the response sheet from SUPP, 101 - 102, the same as previous assignments.

T 2/24: Prepare for Thursday's review by organizing/doing the following"
1) Do/Complete the 3 character charts for Amir, Baba, and Hassan, Supp pages 89, 91, 93.
2) Do concept cards (model on page 125, Supp) for the following terms from "Unity in Diversity," pages 126 - 134): universals, adaptation, relativity, ethnocentrism, values
3) For the 3 magazine articles we read and discussed together, bring them to class and think about the titles of these articles. How do the titles relate to the main ideas of the articles? Is figurative language used in the titles?
4) Organize and review your class lecture notes covering CH 1, 2, and 3 of BTG and the introduction to reading literature.

TH 2/26 :On next Tuesday's test, you can bring and use the following:

The Kite Runner book
Character charts from the SUPP, pp. 89 - 96 (not the Activity Sheets)
one page of notes you have prepared, one side, 8 1/2" by 11"

You may NOTuse the following on the test:
The BTG book
KR activity sheets
a dictionary
your vocabulary study cards
your "Word Parts" study grid

On your one page of notes, consider taking notes on the following:

MI and key details: "The Fence Can't Stop the Future," "Security Blanket", and "South Korea's Pet Cloning Wars"

MI and key details: "Superman and Me" (BTG 24 - 30), and "Unity in Diversity" (BTG 127 - 134)

KR: identification of key people, places, and events and their significance, if not already on your character charts

BTG Chapter 1 and lecture notes: keys to academic success--study schedules, time management, previewing textbooks, previewing chapters

BTG Chapter 2 and lecture notes: vocabulary development--context clues; prefixes, suffixes,and roots; dictionary use; study cards

BTG Chapter 3 and lecture notes: strategic reading--the three stages of reading, including meanings of schema and metacognition

DO NOT write down definitions from the KR study cards or the Word Parts grid on the page of notes. You must do memory work for those.

T 3/3: The new assignment sheet will be handed out in class today and has been uploaded to the Assignments page of this website.

TH 3/5: 1) Switch to the "outlining" form of the response sheet in the SUPP for the SF Chronicle article, as several students have used up the main idea/major details form. You must read, annotate, and think about the article before you work on the outline.

2) Set IV: The Kite Runner vocabulary for study cards due 3/10:

inevitably (138), coyly (141), teetering (146), palliative (156), chastise (165)

TH 3/12: 1) Magazine/Newspaper Assignment: Choose your own article. Use the SUPP "outlining" response sheet. Remember to do the "Weird Word" section for your portfolio.

2) Set V: The Kite Runner vocabulary for study cards due next Tuesday:

frenzied (170), chagrin (181), daunting (184), oblivious (188), bemoaned (188)

3) There is also a BTG assignment in Chapter 3. Check the Assignment page.

TH 3/19: Set VI--The Kite Runner vocabulary for study cards due next Tuesday:

pragmatic (201), grotesque (209), ruminate (231), arduous (233), unrequited (219),

Other HW Adustments:

2) Magazine article-annotate the article and use SUPP Outlines response, pp 103 - 4--choose your own article. Don't forget to do the two "Weird Words" for the portfolio.

3) BTG: review pages 169 - 185, DO Exercise 4.9, pages182 - 185.CHANGE AS FOLLOWS:
BTG: Read pages 169 - 182. DO Passages A, B, and C of Ex. 4.7 (pages 175 +) and Ex, 4.8 (pages 178 +)

We didn't finish discussing all of the Activity 6 questions for The Kite Runner today, so that will also be collected next Tuesday.

T 3/24: 1) The Supplement sheet for Activity 7 ( page 79) forThe Kite Runner gives you an example of the three question types--text, world, and personal--that you should design for each of the page sets. Here is another example for the Group 1 page set, pages243 - 251.

Text question: What changes does Amir see in Kabul when he and Farid go there to search for Sohrab?

World question: What countries today are experiencing the types of devastation shown in Kabul?

Personal question: What has happened in my own life that has been devastating, that has completely changed my life or turned it in a different direction?

2) You will work in groups on Thursday, with groups being responsible for page sets 2 - 6. In addition to determining the best three questions for your group, you will also be asked to design a transparency for you page set which lists the topic, key details, and a main idea sentence to cover your pages.

Here is an example of what your group will need to do for this activity:

Group 1, pages 243 - 251:

Topic: Changes in Kabul

Major details:

Farid drives Amir to Kabul--Amir with fake beard and dressed to look Afghani
Rubble and beggars everywhere
Mostly women and children
No more trees
Smell of diesel generators--electricity unreliable
The Taliban "beard patrol"--beards, black turbans, Kalashnikovs, whips, ride around in truck
"Don't stare at them," Farid says. Don't confront them, look at the ground
A beggar--former university professor--knew Amir's mother

Main Idea: Amir is stupefied by the changes he sees in Kabul.


TH 3/26: 1) Set VII--The Kite Runner vocabulary for study cards due next Tuesday:

ruefully (253), prudence (275), epiphany (282), calloused (286), lunacy (289)

2) Newspaper/Magazine Assignment: "Daily Red Meat Raises Chances of Dying Early," by Rob Stein, The Washington Post, Tuesday, March 24, 2009, www. washingtonpost.com. Use the same response sheet as last time--the outlining form.

3) Do as much of the BTG assigment as you are able. We still have 3 group presentations on KR to do on Tuesday, so we'll be behind on BTG.

T 3/31: The new assignment sheet is available in class and has been uploaded to the the Assignments page of this website.

TH 4/2: Set VIII: The Kite Runner vocabulary cards due the Tuesday after spring break:

impunity (301), intravenous ( 307), curtly (315), convulsed (320), irrevocably (320)

Here are some resources to assist you as you write your "Monkey Love" summaries:

1) Today's class hand-out sheet showing the outline of the cloned dog magazine article turned into a summary. If you were absent, you can e-mail me (lindgren@smccd.edu), and I'll send it to you.

2) SUPP, page 37, shows a summary of a 2-page article from another text, not ours

3) BTG, page 190--instructional tips on writing summaries

BTG, page 192--an example summary of the text selection right before it. Please note that this summary lacks important information in its first sentence, namely the title and author of the selection being summarized. The first sentence, then, is a problem, but the rest of the summary is fine.

See you on April 14th! Next week is spring break, as I'm sure you know.

T 4/14: Read The Kite Runner in the following page sets. For each set, determine the topic, the key details, and a MI sentence and put these on a piece of paper to be submitted.

1) bottom of 332 - 343
2) 244 - mid-351
3) mid-351 - mid-356
4) mid-356 - bottom of 363
5) bottom of 363 - 371

Students in class today were assigned questions on SUPP Activity 9, pp. 83 - 85 for class presentation on Thursday as we begin our review of the book as a whole.

We'll begin our review on Thursday with presentations of the Activity 9 questions as follows:

Question 1: Omar, Sylvia, Melinda
Question 2: Catherine, Joel, Angela
Question 3: Misha, Sara, Stephanie
Question 4: Kenneth, Kristen, Johanah
Question 5: Ben, Thomas, Kryztopf
Question 6: absentees and late arrivals who missed the assignments
Questions 7 - 9: if time, we'll do them together
Questions 10 - 19--for next week

Additions to the Word Parts grid from page 230 - 231 in BTG

- ician

-ologist

TH 4/16 Set IX: The Kite Runner vocabulary cards due next Tuesday:

affable (337), mileau (338), myriad (357), catharsis (357), impassive (358)


Magazine/Newspaper article: Choose your own article for the magazine/newpaper work, but switch response forms to the one that requires mapping: pages 107 – 108 in the SUPP. Because we’re behind in BTG , you can skip the question which asks for the predominant pattern of organization (questions IV), but should do the map. Look at the map you were given on Tuesday for the "Red Meat" article as an example.

Reminder: There is also a BTG assignment for next Tuesday. Check your assignment sheet or the Assignments page of this website.

TH 4/23: We are finished with our vocbulary card work because we have finished reading The Kite Runner. Cards from Sets 5 through 9 will be on the next test, so you have 25 words to review and study.

HW adjustments: HW: 1) Magazine project as assigned in class--use SUPP 107A & B-Mapping--your choice of articles
2) BTG pages 278 - 286: Do the preparation work, read, and do follow-up work for “Why is
Papa John's Rolling in Dough?”POSTPONE
REVISED BTG HW: Pages 247 - 256--do all the exerciese: 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 (You may already have done some of these exercises as previous homework. We are behind in BTG).
3) Review notes on themes of KR

T 4/28: HW adjustment:

"Why is Papa John’s Rolling in Dough," BTG pp. 278 – 286, plus the word parts grid (back of gold sheet) for pages 289 – 291. The exercises on pages 290 – 292 can be done for extra credit if you wish. Preview Chapter 6.

TH 4/30 The new assignment sheet to cover the next two weeks is available in class and uploaded to the Assingments page of this website.

The upcoming test will be Tuesday of next week, May 5th:

In-class: 30 minutes:
**vocabulary (card sets 5 – 9),
** word parts from the whole semester (2 gold-sheet grids),
** paragraph analysis (topic, MI, patterns of organization)

Take-home, open book, open notes:
**Kite Runner;
**literary terminology (plot, protagonist, etc.);
**BTG chapters 4, 5, 6--instructional material (check the chapter summaries);
**two magazine selections (“Red Meat,” “Saffron Uproots Poppies”);
**two BTG selections (“Monkey Love,” “Why Is Papa John’s Rolling in Dough?”);
**application of skills to a longer selection

TH 5/7: Magazine/Newspaper assignment: Read, annotate and do the response sheet (pages 109 - 110 SUPP), for the following article:

Friedman, Thomas L. "Swimming Without a Suit," The New York Times, April 22, 2009. nytimes.com.
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/opinion/22friedman.html?scp=1&sq=Swimming%20Without%20a%20Suit&st=cseithout a Suit,"

Note that Mr. Friedman is an "op-ed" columnist. That is, he writes opinion columns on the editorial page of The New York Times newspaper. This type of writing is different from news reporting, as we've discussed in class.

T 5/12 The last assignment sheet is available in class and uploaded to the Assignments page of this website.

TH 5/14 Progress reports were handed out today in class. If you were absent, you can e-mail me and I will send it to you this week-end: lindgren@smccd.edu

HOMEWORK AMNESTY: There is a one week amnesty until next Tuesday, May 19th, for missing magazine/newspaper assignments. No late tickets needed, no penalties for being late. THIS IS THE LAST DAY your instructor will accept these assignments, for you need to get them back in time to put your portfolio together.

Other late homework can be submitted as late as next Thursday, May 21st, the last day of instruction.

See the note below on the portfolio and extra credit work, both of which are due on the day of the final exam.

Reading 836 TTH class Final Exam: Thursday, May 28th, 11:10 - 1:40

The final exam will consist of two parts:

1) The test on BTG, Chapters 7 and 8-ONE PAGE OF NOTES, ONE SIDE, ALLOWED:
-----Terminology and application of skills-inference, connotation, denotation, various types of figurative language, fact/opinion, point of view, purpose, tone
-----Word parts from all of the grids (NOTES NOT ALLOWED ON THIS--DO THE MEMORY WORK)
-----Thomas Friedman's "Swimming Without a Suit" opinion piece from the New York Times, “What is the Quarterlife Crises? in BTG page 449 - 456, and Bill Gates' article about the "11 Things" students don't learn in high school.

2) Two reading selections that you have not seen before, one fiction and one non-fiction. You will be expected to prepare the selections ahead of time--dictionary work, annotations, coming to an understanding of these selections. On the day of the test, you may use your prepared selections and additional prepared notes and submit them with the test. They count for 5% of the grade.

SUBMIT PORTFOLIOS AND REMAINING EXTRA CREDIT WORK. NO LATE PORTFOLIOS OR EXTRA CREDIT WORK ACCEPTED. AFTER THE FINAL EXAM, YOUR INSTRUCTOR WILL NOT BE BACK ON CAMPUS UNTIL NEXT FALL.

Instructor's Final Exam Week Schedule:

T 5/26: Office 5104, 11 - 2

TH 5/28: Final Exam, Read 836, 11:10 - 1:40, Room 8319