Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Through the Tunnel

Read "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing

Be sure to make a post on your ROAR blog, you need ten for this term

Culture Vulture? No 10th grader has completed their assignment yet...

huge Culture Vulture

You don't even know how huge this is!

Habits of Mind Lecture: Junot Diaz. October 9th, 6:30pm

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz will be joining us in the first Habits of Mind lecture of the 2008-2009 year. Lecture will be open to all staff, students, and community members who wish to join. For more information, or to RSVP for the lecture, please contact 617-635-6789 ext. 214 or nlawton@boston.k12.ma.us

Boston Day and Evening Academy Directions

Dudley Station.

Exit the station and walk towards the major intersection of Malcolm X Ave./Warren Street/Dudley St.

Walk up Warren Street towards the Urban League. The Dudley Square library branch will be on your right.
Take a left onto Kearsarge Ave and walk up the hill to the school which will be on your right.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Film Culture Vulture!


Here's a great film festival that is happening this week!

Films are shown at Boston University and Harvard Film Archive.

See the full listing here:

http://bostonlatino.bside.com/2008/schedule

Get that ROAR blog online

For tomorrow,

1: read the short story "It Can't be Helped" p. 355

2: create a ROAR blog and let me know its web address

Friday, October 3, 2008

Share your ROAR blogs here!

Now that you have created a ROAR blog, time to share.

Give a comment to this post, and provide the web address of your blog.

ROAR assignment

Now that you have your book, time to get reading. You must create a blog and inform me of its location by Tuesday.

Here is how you will take notes as you read:

ROAR Blog
Introduction
As you read your ROAR books this year, you are required to keep a record of your reading. For each book, you must compose 10 sections of 5/4/3/2/1 notes and post them on a blog.

You may not post more than 2 times in one day. If you do not have easy access to internet, hand write your notes and then take 10 minutes after school to post on your blog.

Assignment
5- strong comments about characters and plot
4- insightful questions
3- vocabulary words and definitions; give page #
2- examples of literary terms; give page #
1- summary sentence

Create the Blog
http://www.blogger.com/

1: create a Google account
2: name your blog, make it interesting!
3: chose template for colors and layout
4: comment on our class blog and share your blog’s address

Thursday, October 2, 2008

ROAR!!! oh, and that paper...

Last thoughts about the paper...

1: The overarching question is whether to teach Huck Finn. But, your paper must address whether the book, or the narrator, or the author is racist. This is why RASH is so important. By understanding the RASH, we can evaluate the book.

2: Works Cited. MLA all day. You should have at least 5 sources that are cited.

3: quotations? Each body paragraph should have a direct quotation. Thus, each paragraph must have a citation. If there is no page number, then just list the author's name.


Happy writing.