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FINAL READING JOURNAL
Thanks for all of your hard work this year. As a reward here is some information to help you get ready for the final essay:

Essay Topic: How does the relationship in your scene change over the course of the play? Why does it change?

In the final essay you will be asked, in the conclusion, to connect the relationship in the play to a similar relationship in your life that has dealt with a similar problem. (e.g. for Banquo/Macbeth have you ever had a friend that didn't listen to you?). To get thinking about and ready for this conclusion write one quote from the play that shows something about the relationship. Tell me the story of the relationship from your life and compare it to this quote. How was your situation similar/different?

Lastly here is the best Macbeth presentation so far. See if you can do better! media type="youtube" key="-S0mQ2faWjI" height="315" width="420"

10/11/2011
Today is simple. We will be learning how to make a title page. Then we will be looking at the second draft of your introduction paragraph which I will be **MARKING THIS SATURDAY MORNING.**

First Draft Example

Second Draft Example

04/11/2011
Please complete the following for Monday. Make sure the new pages are tagged with your name. **__This page is the third mark that will count towards your essay__.**

Essay: Introduction Draft
This will be the first draft of the first paragraph of the essay you are writing for this unit. This paragraph needs to start with an attention grabber. I think the best way to find this is to look at your personal connection in your last reading journal, RJ14, and see if there are any important questions you have about your topic. REMEMBER the attention grabber is not about any texts, it is about the IDEA of your topic.

After your attention grabber introduces the title and author of your secondary text (Song, Movie, or News). Rather than summarizing your secondary text start looking at a specific example to think about your question. THIS DOES NOT HAVE TO USE PPEs. Instead write an in-depth paragraph that uses your second text to answer you attention grabber. In other words, you have to end your paragraph with an answer, YOUR OPINION, about one aspect of your topic. Like the attention grabber try to end FOCUSING ON THE IDEA NOT THE TEXT.

HERE is an example of an introductory paragraph.

27/10/2011-

 * Read chapter 16, 17, 18 for homework this weekend.**

These two new pages (Reading journal 14 and Character Connections 2 are due on Monday). Make sure both new pages are tagged with your name. **__These pages are the Second marks that will count towards your essay__.**

Reading Journal 14
Pick one of the following topics for your essay: 1) 'Nigger' and the power of language 2) Women and Pride/Shame 3) Empathy and Fear/Hate

These topics are very open. For example if you are doing the first topic you can think about any word that has power, and how it works (who has the power over who, how?).

For this journal write a paragraph exploring how YOU connect to this topic. Think of real examples from your life and use them to explore, question, and think about your topic. For example, if you are doing the last topic you could talk about why you would dislike having a gay child. You could even try using empathy to imagine what it is like for the child who is gay and knows their parents fear having a gay child.

Character Connection 2
Pick one of the following essay types:

1) Text to Text: Book to Movie 2) Text to Text: Book to Song or 3) Text to World: Book to News

You need to choose which secondary text (movie, song, or news) you are going to be looking at for your essay. For movie the easy choice is Time To Kill, but if you want to do another film, go ahead. For songs, the easy choice are the songs we have talked about in class, but again you can use a different songs. And for the news it is up to you to find a news story you think connects to one part of the text.

Think about which text you are choosing and what part of the book you think it connects to. Pick one character from that part of the book and make a new page with your name in the title. Tag it with your name and the name of character you chose. Describe the text and find at least one quote from your character that connects to your text. Explain the connection!

21/10/2011-

 * Read chapter 12, 13 and 14 for homework this weekend.** These two new pages (Reading journal 13 and Character Connections 1 are due on Monday). Make sure both new pages are tagged with your name.


 * __These pages are the first marks that will count towards your essay__.**

Reading Journal 13
Our essays that we will start next week are going to be compare/contrast essays where you look at something outside of the book and connect it back. I want us to practice that in this journal.

In the two paragraphs below use at least **five** of these words:
 * attributes, analogous, feminine, promptly, simultaneous, concealed, sin, privileged, ramshackle, obliged**

CHAPTER 11- Look at the topic of courage. Find an example of someone who YOU think is a courageous hero. Contrast the person who you think is a hero with Ms. Dubose. To do this you will write a mini-paragraph (only one PPE).

Topic- Introduce your hero and explain why they are courageous (use the word 'because').

Point- Write a short sentence getting us ready for the proof Proof- write a paraphrase of ONE fact about Ms Dubose. After this proof Cite the author and page number. Explain- Look at this fact about Ms Dubose and **contrast** her with your hero. Use at least three sentences to explain how they are different and if you think they are both hero's and why.

Conclusion- Looking at your PPE above conclude with what you think what makes someone courageous.

Character Connection 1
Chapter 12- Pick one major character (including Calpurnia) from this chapter. This can be different from the major character you picked before. Find one quote from the book that shows something about the personality of a major character. Make a new wiki page titled 'Character Connection 1' and __Tag it with two tags: the character's name and your name__. Write down this quote with citation and then save the page.

Go to our To Kill a Mocking Bird Page and click on that major character's name. Read other peoples quotes they have found from earlier in the book. Copy and paste one into your character page that you think has something in common with the first quote. Look at the two quotes and think about what they show about your character (e.g //they only listen to people they respect//).

I want you to make a text to text connection. Find a song for your character, a song that captures their personality (e.g. []). Write an informal paragraph comparing the song and the quotes. Do not just simply say what the characters personality is, use the evidence to show a deeper understanding of why they act how they do.

16/10/2011- Reading Journal 12
An easier reading journal for this weekend CHAPTER 8/10- Find two quotes, one from each chapter, you can add to your Major or Minor Character pages. Below the quote explain what it shows about their personality. CHAPTER 9/11- Chapter 9 is where we first hear the phrase "nigger-lover". It is said by children to Scout. We hear similarly bad words from Ms Dubose in chapter 11. Think about those two hateful people when you listen to the following song and read these lyrics. Try to answer the question: **where does their evil (or hate) come from?** Is this darkness in you too?

__Have You Passed Through This Night by Explosions in the Sky__ This great evil - where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we mighta known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow or the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night? media type="youtube" key="W-5F_gdiMfg" height="315" width="420"

10/08/2011- Long Weekend Reading Journal
This weekend you have to AT LEAST read chapters 4 and 5. If you want to read further that would be a smart idea.

Besides those two chapters you also have to read [|this newspaper article about empathy and evil]. Afterwards complete Reading Journal #11.

__Reading Journal #11__
Answer one of the two following questions 1a OR 1b. Also do number 2. Each answer should be 3-6 sentences long: 1)a) Pick someone you do not like in your life. Explain why you do not like them. Then try to empathize with their situation. Explain life from their perspective. 1) b) Try using empathy for Boo Radley. Put yourself in his mind. Write **as if you were him** and describe why you stabbed your father. 2) Where does evil come from? Find one example of PURE EVIL in the world today. Link to a newspaper article about this evil. Explain at least two details from [|my newspaper article]to help you understand where this evil came from.

10/06/2011- IN CLASS JOURNAL QUIZ
Before you can start this work you have to have finished the last two journals.

There are three things you have to do in this quiz: 1) Reading journal #10 2) Major Character Page 3) Minor Character Page

__1)Reading Journal #10__
Write one text-to-self connection in your reading journal about Burris Ewell in chapter 3. Compare your life to his. In this journal you have to use four of the following vocabulary words:
 * reckoned, deliberately, mortification, illicit, gouges, 'ya hear?'**

__2/3)Major/Minor Character Pages__
Make two new pages, one for a Major Character and one for a Minor Character.Your tags should look like this:

Each page should have quotes. The Major page should have three quotes from or about that character. The minor page should have one quote. ALL QUOTES NEED PAGE NUMBERS. After each quote write a sentence explaining how this shows their personality. LASTLY for your Major character page add one link (text to text connection!) to a website or video about them.

09/30/2011
Here is your NINTH reading journal. It is about chapter one and chapter two of [|To Kill a Mockingbird (THIS IS A WEBSITE THAT CAN HELP WITH VOCABULARY)] Remember that I expect it to show me you have put some time and thought into your work:

__Reading Journal #9__
Chapter 1: Watch this video of the song //What's He Building Down There? by// Tom Waits below and read the [|lyrics here] media type="youtube" key="JaLjwSpZ6Cs" height="315" width="420"

- Write a short paragraph comparing Boo Radley to the man in Tom Waits' //What's He Building Down There?// Specifically explain how Dill's fascination with him is just like this song.

BONUS: Guess what he's building down there. Also guess what Boo Radley really looks like.

Chapter 2: Write a short paragraph describing the WORST trouble you ever got into with a teacher in a school. What did you do? What happened? Why was the teacher mad? What did your parents think? For full marks compare your experience to Scout's experience with Miss Caroline. Did Scout get in worse trouble then you? Explain why? Was it because of a misunderstanding like Scout?

09/23/2011
Here is your EIGHTH reading journal. It is about [|Poetry by Pablo Neruda] Remember that I expect it to show me you have put some time and thought into your work

__Reading Journal #8__
Part 1: DO NOT USE A DICTIONARY! (I'm watching...)

- What are two root words inside of 'infinitesmal'? Write the two words and then guess what this word means - What is the suffix of 'likeness'. Write down three other words that use this suffix. Guess what likeness means. - in this section of the poem below 'void' has two synonyms. Can you guess what they are? "drunk with the great starry likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss,"
 * void,**

- Lastly use the context to guess what **unfastened** means here: "and suddenly I saw the heavens unfastened and open,"

Part 2: - In your reading journal write a short poem about anything using the four words: infinitesimal, void, likeness, and unfastened

09/09/2011
Here is your seventh reading journal. Journals five six and seven will be marked as part of your assignment. Remember to write in complete sentences.

__Reading Journal #7__
Write a reflection about your role in this project? Did you like your job? Did you like working in a group? Explain problems you had as well as things you enjoyed. What role would you like to be next time? What are some lessons you learned about this sort of 'divergent' film/writing project that will help you the next time we do something like this with //[|Macbeth]//?

6/09/2011
Here is your sixth reading journal **due Friday morning**. Remember they need to be a full paragraph of at least 4-6 sentences.

__Reading Journal #6__
Find one video, or website that connects to your role. For example if you are an actor in a murder mystery find a video of someone acting in a murder mystery. If you are a writers of a children's fantasy, find a video or a website about how to write fantasy stories. Post a link to this video or website and then write a paragraph explaining how you can use ideas from this video to help with your group work.

31/08/2011
Here is your fourth and fifth reading journal questions. Remember they need to be a full paragraph of at least 4-6 sentences.

__Reading Journal #4__
Twins shows us that we live in two worlds at the same time: the real world we live in, and the imaginary world of our minds and stories. Do you think we should be reading stories about murder in school? Could the stories in the imaginary world have any impact on the real world of your life and other students? How does an imaginary story like Twins change your real life? Remember to use **evidence** from the story to help you examine your ideas.

__Reading Journal #5__
Which story starter did your group pick? What creative genre is your group choosing? What is your sub-genre? Which story are you presenting (newspaper or creative)?

Focus on the genre you will be working on. Search the internet for conventions of that genre, write down three important ones in your journal. What role are you? In this journal I want you to write about how you can use your role to show these three conventions (if you are newspaper writer start thinking about the 5 Ws, write your headline etc.).

26/08/2011
Here is your second and third reading journal question. Remember it needs to be a full paragraph of at least 4-6 sentences.

__Reading Journal #2__
Firstly, did you understand the story 'Twins'? Who was the killer? How do you know? Show proof from the story to support your idea. Are there any parts that still confuse you? Quote one part that is still unclear and explain why it does not make sense. Use these ideas to lead to a bigger question: Did you like 'Twins'? Why or why not? Do you normally like this genre of story? What type of story is it? Make sure you show specific proof from the story.

Below your paragraph write five hard vocabulary words from the story with their definitions.

__Reading Journal #3__
To get ready for the[| group project you are working on next week] I want you to start brainstorming about Paperclips. For this journal you have to do two things. You have to goto the 3U PAPERCLIP PAGE and press 'edit'. You have to add four things to this page.

Firstly, you have to add three story ideas to the 'PAPERCLIP STORY STARTERS' section. You do not have to write a whole story, just write one line that gives someone enough to start a story. Make sure to put your name above your three ideas.

Secondly you have to add a 'PAPERCLIP LINK'. Search the internet for cool paperclip websites, pictures, or videos. Post the best one you can find to our list. If you can't find anything good, or the best ones have all been taken, make your own! Take a picture or make a quick video of something cool with a paperclip and put it up here.

Lastly, this is a reading journal where **everyone** is using the same page. Please respect each other's work. This is the first post fo[|r your first group project]. **Anyone who is caught deleting or changing someone else's work will lose marks.**

21/08/2011
Hello all 3U students. This is the homepage of our 3U class wiki. This is the website where you will be doing reading journals for the whole semester.

This page you are reading right now is the home page. It is where I will be posting your work. On the left hand side of the page is the navigation bar. Here you will find all of the classes I am teaching this semester, some of my old classes' work, and a tag cloud. See if you can figure out what a 'tag cloud' is....

So today there are a few things to do. First make sure you have finished the blogsearch. Secondly, make sure you have signed up to wikispaces. Thirdly, make sure you have sent a request to be able to contribute to this wiki page.To do this press "Join this Wiki" in the top left of this page.

If you have done all those things you are ready to make your first, official **reading journal**. To get started on this press our class name on the left.

Need Help?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVOQOK9L8uk
 * Click on the help link above to learn more about how to use your wiki.
 * Or email me : markkowgier@gmail.com