Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 29 April - 2 May

We completed the last unit with an in-class essay today:
Given Anthony Bourdain Layover; Julia Child The French Chef "Beef Bourguignon"; The Galloping Gourmet "Jambalya"; Rachel Ray "Pesto"; and Jacques and Julia Cook at Home "Beef Bourguignon":
Explain in a short essay (including an introduction and body paragraphs) how food broadcasts have changed over the last fifty years.

Use specific examples from our viewing (open notes). You may use OAKS support materials: e.g. graphic organizers; scoring guides; guideline for revision; word lists, etc.

On Tuesday and Thursday, Juniors will complete their state writing assessment. Seniors will have time to review and revise their thesis rough drafts. Juniors should receive their rough drafts with feedback on Tuesday the 7th. All students will have at least one week between receiving their evaluated rough draft and the due date for their final draft.

Ms. Margolis will guest teach on Thursday and next Monday.

Thursday, 18 April

ACT Reminder for Juniors:

You may NOT bring a cell phone into the testing room -- not at all!

You MUST be in the room by 8:15 AM next Tuesday (8:05 is much better!).

Class today began with turning in the rough draft of the thesis. Before turning the draft in students self-assessed and self-edited based on these criteria:

and

These notes from previously may make the key words connections concept more clear:

After completing work on the rough drafts, writers had a prompt, and then completed their analysis of the collection of micro-fiction.

Thursday, 18 April

ACT Reminder for Juniors:

You may NOT bring a cell phone into the testing room -- not at all!

You MUST be in the room by 8:15 AM next Tuesday (8:05 is much better!).

Class today began with turning in the rough draft of the thesis. Before turning the draft in students self-assessed and self-edited based on these criteria:

and

perhaps these notes will help make the key word connections clearer

After all drafts were turned in, we continued analyzing food shows on TV. This time we viewed an episode of the Galloping Gourmet as he prepared Jambalya.

As we viewed this episode students took notes on clues about how cultural attitudes towards cooking, and towards food have shifted.

Tuesday, 16 April

Juniors rotated out of class to forecast with their counselors.

Much of class was devoted to reviewing the episode of Layover with Anthony Bourdain and then viewing the first episode of The French Chef by Julia Child and comparing and contrasting the two programs.

The class also discussed the rough draft of the thesis that is due on Thursday. All students should bring their thesis to class on Thursday (even if for some crazy reason it is not yet complete).

Monday, 15 April 2013

In class we viewed an episode of an Anthony Bourdain episode. While watching the class took notes on:

How is Seattle similar to and different from Portland?

Is Anthony Bourdain funny? interesting? a jerk?

What food intrigued you?

What food did you find gross?

If this were your show, what would you do differently?

We will discuss these questions in class on Tuesday.

Remember that rough drafts of the entire thesis are due on Thursday.

Tuesday, April 9th

Note Change in Due Date: Rough Draft of the Thesis is now due on Tuesday, April 16th!

Students got back their model sections back today, and they turned in completed outlines. Outlines will be returned on Thursday, April 11th.  All students should bring thesis materials to class on Thursday; juniors will be spending a large part of class time completing ACT Registration.

Mr. Zartler gave a lesson on several common problems students had in making writing their model sections. Students had time during class to practice fixes to these issues and to conference with Mr. Zartler about them.

Thursday, April 4

Many students got there model section back today. The rest will be returned on Tuesday of next week (Monday is a PM block schedule, we will not have class).

Mr. Zartler located the missing writing, if he thought he had misplaced yours you do NOT need to email a copy.

Class today was built around developing the outline for the thesis. The outline is to be turned in on Tuesday. It should include all the notes for the thesis.

Mr. Zartler gave these notes many notes and examples including the following:

How to: It is pretty easy to create the outline for your thesis IF you have completed note cards. If you have 50-75 note cards you are in good shape.

To figure out what your outline will be you will take your note cards and sort them. Begin with your “Working Hypothesis” card. Put this at the top of a large desk or table. Then begin sorting your cards into stacks. Each stack should be on one major theme, topic, or idea that will help support and explain your hypothesis (there should also be a stack off to the side for cards that you are not going to use). You will probably make 2-5 useful stacks at this stage. Each of these main stacks will be a section of your paper.

Once you are done with the first sorting you should decide what order you will present the sections you have created. Put your stacks in the order you will put them in your paper from left to right. Next you should number each and every card in every stack. Take all the cards from the first section that will be in your paper and mark each of these cards with a Roman Numeral “II;” put this number on the far left of the top line of every card in the stack. (Roman Numeral I will be for the introduction to your thesis.) Take the cards for the second section of your thesis and mark all of these cards with a Roman Numeral III. Repeat this until you have written a roman numeral in the upper left corner of EVERY note card you are going to use.

After you have numbered every card according to the section it is going to be, begin the next process of sorting your cards. Take all of the “II” stack and see if you have a card that represents the thesis for this section. If you do not then create a new card that has the thesis for the first section. Add a “A.” to the card just after the “I” (e.g. II. A.). Next, take all of the cards in the stack and sort them into related piles. Depending on the breadth or complexity of this particular section you are either creating piles that represent paragraphs in a section, or you may be creating 2-3 subsections to a section.

Once all of the cards in the section have been sorted into piles, each stack needs receive a capital letter. Cards that will be in the introduction to the section will receive the letter “A.”, cards for the first body section will be labeled I.B., the second body section I.C., etc. If your section has subsections, and not just paragraphs that the capital letters will represent the sub-sections. Cards in subsections will need to be sorted into stacks to create paragraphs.  If a section has sub-sections then paragraphs will receive an arabic number after the capital letter, e.g. II.B.1, II.B.2, etc. Each time you create a stack of cards that is a sub-section, you should create a card that states the thesis of that sub-section. This card will always be the letter “A” that follows the roman numeral. Each time you create a stack of cards that represent a paragraph (generally a stack of 2-5 cards would be appropriate for a paragraph) create a Topic Sentence card for that paragraph. Keep this card on the top of each stack of cards that represents a paragraph.

Repeat the process of sorting cards within each section and subsection until you have labeled every card with a Section, (Sub-section -- if applicable), and paragraph Number or letter.

You may be wondering what all this sorting has accomplished; in short you have created your entire outline by sorting your cards!

Monday and Tuesday, 1-2 April

Mr. Margolis guest taught. The class read and discussed a variety of memoir pieces built around food. Students should get copies of the reading and follow up writing assignments from Mr. Zartler.