Tag Archives: Anthem

English 10: “Our Country” Project

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Emily Mullins

Today, I assigned the “Our Country” project, and after we watched an introductory video to the basic forms of government, you got into groups of no more than 4 to work on designing your own country. It is due on … Continue reading →

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English 10: Appositives

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Emily Mullins

We finished going over the appositive worksheet from yesterday, and I reconfirmed that your extra credit opportunity in your essay was to use correctly and underline no more than three appositive sentences. The due date for the final draft of … Continue reading →

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English 10: Anthem Extended Response Essay

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Emily Mullins

Your assignment today, after we finish going through the sample essay from yesterday, is to choose one of your take home test questions to develop into an extended response paper. You will have 40 silent minutes to complete the task. … Continue reading →

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English 10: “Invictus” and Anthem Take Home Test Discussion

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Emily Mullins

We started the day by going through this poem, titled “Invictus,” and we worked to make connections to Anthem and “Harrison Bergeron.” I checked these poems in for points. We also turned in our notebooks today. After, we did a … Continue reading →

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English 10: “Harrison Bergeron” and Anthem Take Home Test

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Emily Mullins

We first began completing the questions from our short story we read together yesterday, titled “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. You were able to work in small groups. We talked about them after we watched the short film, based … Continue reading →

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English 10: Grammar Survey and SSR

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Emily Mullins

Please take the following grammar survey, so we can go over it after SSR. As soon as you are done taking it, begin silently reading. Ten points today for reading silently the whole time. We will then go over the … Continue reading →

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English 10: Concept Mapping, cont.

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Emily Mullins

We continued our work for our Concept Maps in our small groups. These are due by the beginning of the hour on Thursday and must be ready to present then. We will read silently tomorrow and do some grammar work … Continue reading →

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English 10: Ch. 9-12 Quizzes Returned and Concept Mapping Begun

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Emily Mullins

We first watched this Adora Svitak TEDTalk and discussed her message, thinking about authorial intent we discussed last week, and we also wrote down in our notebooks how her ideas could connect to any represented in our novel or those … Continue reading →

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English 10: End of Anthem and SR Reflections, cont.

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Emily Mullins

We met in Rm. 116 to finish up our reflections. We tried to take about 20 minutes to wrap it up, and you then uploaded it to turnitin.com. Immediately after we finished the book together as well as completing corresponding … Continue reading →

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English 10: Ch. 9-10 of Anthem + Summer Reading Essay Reflection

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Emily Mullins

We started the day by completing some bell work under our Ch. 10 annotations. It is linked here. After, I stamped in the “Authorial Intent” work from yesterday, along with your Ch. 9-10 annotations. We went over the Ch. 9-10 … Continue reading →

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