//melvindale.melnapschools.com/apps/classes/1000704/assignments/ Class Name: 1st Hr. Honors Lit/Comp 1-2 Collard - Semester 1 Instructor(s): Jennifer Collard en-us SchoolSitePro //melvindale.melnapschools.com/homeworkItem6803210 //melvindale.melnapschools.com/apps/classes/1000704/assignments/
Please complete the Final Exam. While most people will be able to complete the final exam DURING our class time on Wednesday, the exam itself is due just before midnight on Wednesday in case anyone needs more time to answer the questions. Please read the directions on the top of the page to help you complete the exam.

Thank you for your hard work, dedication, and creative learning this semester! Let's finish strong! You've got this!

Mrs. Collard

P.S. I have been grading, and will continue to grade, your essays and essay-related assignments, including Source Logs (for 10th grade) submitted late. While I am checking emails, I am not responding immediately because I am focused first on grading. You are welcome to email me; just know that a response will not be immediate. Thank you.
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Attached are two documents. The document titled, "Write Your Essay Here," is where you can type your essay. The document titled, "Essay Formatting" is a guide to help you format your essay correctly. Please use that guide. Correct formatting is an essay requirement.

Finally, there is a link to a helpful Purdue OWL website about how to set up your essay. This website has a helpful visual with notes that can explain what to include and why.

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1 - At a minimum, your job is to complete the Thesis Statement portion of your Outline.
2 - You are also encouraged to work on your outline further, as the due date will approach very soon.

The entire outline is due on Monday, January 11th at midnight. We will have the majority of our class on Monday, January 11th to work on the outline so that you can ask questions, etc. However, please work on this BEFORE class so you can ask questions DURING that class time.
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After you have been assigned to a group, please complete the Group Slides using your ACE Summaries to help you. Your group will need to discuss the summaries you each wrote, and will then have to decide the most helpful information to put on the slides. This is due before you leave class today. Each Group may turn in 1 slide presentation, so long as each group member's first and last name is on the front slide. YOU WILL NOT GET CREDIT IF EACH GROUP MEMBER'S FIRST AND LAST NAME IS NOT ON THE SLIDE. Thank you!


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After reading the Newsela article about the Heidelberg Project in Detroit, complete the ACE Summary and submit it to Google Classroom. Remember: this article and summary will help you write your persuasive essay. You will not be able to write the persuasive essay without understanding this article. Use the sentence stems provided to help you write the summary.
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--> Any portion of the article that stands out to you

Annotate by labeling what you think the author's key ideas, supporting ideas/details, and/or supporting examples may be.

This article will be the basis of what we write our Persuasive Essay about.

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It's important that you understand why you received a particular grade for the Short Story Assessment. Please watch both Loom videos, and then complete the Google Forms assignment.

Please watch the videos in the order they appear. The first video explains how I graded the assessment, with a focus on the rubric. The second video is a really good student example.

After you complete the LOOM videos, please complete the attached Google Form for a grade.

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Your Short Story Assessment gave each of you a chance to write about the characters and story that we discussed in depth in class. As we continue writing - and as we move into a writing unit with an essay - knowing how to use FANBOYS can be especially helpful. FANBOYS are conjunctions (linking words) that connect different parts of a sentence together. Getting practice with FANBOYS can help your writing right away. In other words, it's a quick way to level up your writing.

To help you do that, please do the following:
1 - Watch the Kahn Academy video on Coordinating Conjunctions. Kahn Academy does a good job, but they sometimes use words and phrases that can be a little complicated. If you feel a little unsure of what the speaker means, just keep listening. Overall, this is a good video that should be helpful.

2 - Complete the No Red Ink exercise titled, "Identifying Coordinating Conjunctions" (FANBOYS). (You should do this lesson before the second No Red Ink Lesson.)

3 - Click on the next circle (gray circle with a key in the middle of it) to go to the next assigned lesson and exercise. This next lesson and exercise is called, "Identifying the Function of FANBOYS." Please complete the Lesson and Practice portion. (NOTE: The "Quiz Me" and "History" portion are optional.)

Try to complete as much of this assignment as you can in class today. If you do not finish, the due date is Tuesday, Dec. 1 just before midnight.
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Last week, you researched an article of your choice when you completed the “Research an Article” document. (You can find that document under “Assignments: Week 12. You can also find the two videos about Click Restraint that we discussed.)

For our shortened week this week, I’d like you to clean up the summary you wrote in the “Research an Article” document. You already wrote a summary for the article of your choosing. Think of that as a rough draft. Now, using the ACE Summary Template, please do the following:

1 – Pull up the article you selected last week for the “Research an Article” assignment.
2 – Reread the summary you wrote on the “Research an Article” document last week.
3 – Reread the article you choose for the “Research an Article” document.
4 – After rereading both the summary you wrote last week and the article you chose last week, use the ACE Summary Template I’ve attached for this week, do the following:

--> Complete Steps 1-3 on the ACE Summary Template.
--> Complete Step 4 on the ACE Summary Template. You can use your original summary as a guide but consider the summary you wrote last week as a rough draft. THE SUMMARY YOU ARE WRITING FOR STEP 4 TODAY SHOULD BE A REVISED, NEW SUMMARY THAT INCORPORATES THE INFORMATION FROM STEPS 1-3 ON THE ACE SUMMARY TEMPLATE.

This is your only assignment for today. So please make it a good one! When I grade your ACE Summary, I will give a completion grade for your “Research an Article” document, but I will give a larger grade for the ACE Summary.

Thank you for your time, effort, and energy. I’m proud of what you are doing, and I hope that each of you has a truly wonderful Thanksgiving Break!

P.S. Try as best as you can to get this done during class today so you don't have homework. If you do not complete it during class, finish it as soon as possible so you don't have homework. The due date is Tuesday, November 24 before midnight, but finish it sooner than that so you can relax!


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