JUNIOR ENGLISH OPENING DAY

Hess Style Buchanan High School

GOAL AND PURPOSE To meet standards and expectations established

by the State of Michigan in Language Arts.

Prepare you to meet successfully the demands and expectations of written expression and reading comprehension in education and in business.

FOCUSING ON…

Improvement

Learning with a purpose

Literary Skills Reading Writing Speaking Listening Language

JUNIOR ENGLISH Agenda

Reading Writing Speaking Thinking Discussing Studying Presenting Researching Practicing Preparing

READING

Book Love Approach

READING

READ the books!

GOAL AND PURPOSE You will employ multiple reading strategies and

resources to probe a literary piece in a scholarly manner.

Strategies will include recognizing the importance of tone the importance of speaker the impact of the situation

and setting, language, sounds of poetry, and the internal and external structure of poetry.

The course will emphasize analytical reading and writings skills. These include: critical reading, writing strategies, organizational skills, and an understanding of the writing mechanics that will result in clear, mature writing. Student’s assignments require them to read, analyze and evaluate sources.

INDEPENDENT READING

You pick!

Read whatever you’d like!

Read 100 pages a week goal!

At least 1 book a month

REQUIRED READING

Everyone will read…

Tuesdays with Morrie

The Little Prince

Night

READING

A 1997 non-fiction novel by American writer Mitch Albom

Newspaper columnist (successful sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press), Mitch Albom recounts time spent with his 78-year-old sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, at Brandeis University, who was dying from Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS).

Albom, a former student of Schwartz, had not corresponded with him since attending his college classes 16 years earlier. After seeing Schwartz on Nightline, Albom called Schwartz, who remembered his former pupil despite the lapse of 16 years. Albom was prompted to travel from Michigan to Massachusetts to visit Schwartz.

A newspaper strike frees Albom to commute weekly, Tuesdays, to visit with Schwartz.

The resulting book is based on these fourteen Tuesdays they meet, supplemented with Schwartz's lectures and life experiences.

READING o A poetic tale, with watercolor illustrations

by the author, in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid.

o The story is philosophical and includes social criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world.

o The adult fable, according to one review, is actually "...an allegory of Saint- Exupéry's own life—his search for childhood certainties and interior peace, his mysticism, his belief in human courage and brotherhood.... but also an allusion to the tortured nature of their relationship."

Though ostensibly styled as a children's book, The Little Prince makes several observations about life and human nature.

READING

A work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War.

In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the father-child relationship as his father declines to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful teenage caregiver.

BOOK CLUBS Choose the book you

want to read, and you will read that book with a small group.

Work will also be done as a team.

One each semester

COMING OF AGE

Realizing one is growing up.

Bildungsroman

READING A novel by Rudolfo Anaya in which his young

protagonist, Antonio Márez y Luna tells the story of his coming-of-age with the guidance of his curandera, mentor, and protector, Ultima.

It has become the most widely read and critically acclaimed novel in the Chicano literary canon since its first publication in 1972.

The novel reflects Chicano culture of the 1940s in rural New Mexico.

Anaya’s use of Spanish, mystical depiction of the New Mexican landscape, use of cultural motifs such as La Llorona, and recounting of curandera folkways such as the gathering of medicinal herbs, gives readers a sense of the influence of indigenous cultural ways that are both authentic and distinct from the mainstream.

READING A 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. It has since become popular with adolescent readers for

its themes of teenage confusion, angst, alienation, and rebellion.

It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages.

Around 250,000 copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than 65 million books.

The novel's protagonist and antihero, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion.

The novel was included on Time's 2005 List of the 100 Best English-Language Novels Written Since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century.

READING A coming-of-age novel by

Mexican-American writer, Sandra Cisneros, published in 1984.

It deals with a young Latina girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago with Chicanos and Puerto Ricans.

Esperanza is determined to "say goodbye" to her impoverished Latino neighborhood.

Major themes include her quest for a better life and the importance of her promise to come back for "the ones I left behind."

READING A novel by American author Sue

Monk Kidd. Set in the American South in

1964, the year of the Civil Rights Act and intensifying racial unrest.

The coming-of-age story addresses the difficulty of loss and betrayal.

It received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller. It was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a film directed by Gina Prince- Bythewood.

READING A thoughtful, complex and moving

story about loss and discovery of identity, love and the ability to change and the restorative powers of nature.

Seventeen-year-old Pete Shelton's life revolves around helping his friend Abe McMichael build Riverside, a nature preserve dedicated to the memory of Abe's brother, Paul.

Then one summer a troubled runaway shows up—a girl named Nora who claims to be Paul's daughter.

All her life, Nora has lived with secrets and lies, never knowing anything about her father.

Although enemies at first, Pete and Nora slowly begin to piece together their shadowy pasts . . . and discover that their lives intertwine in a way they never imagined.

READING A 1969 autobiography about the early

years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou.

It is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma.

The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16.

In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice.

READING An American classic and great bestseller

for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

BREAKING THE NORM

Doing or going about things differently

Not conforming

READING BREAKING THE NORM Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s

chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever... “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thought crimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching... A startling and haunting vision of the world, 1984 is so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the influence of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.

READING BREAKING THE NORM

"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly.

But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.

READING BREAKING THE NORM George Orwell's timeless and timely

allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

READING BREAKING THE NORM Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring "masterpiece ...

one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" (Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our "brave new world" Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

READING BREAKING THE NORM With more than five million copies

sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance--until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?

READING BREAKING THE NORM "My name was Salmon, like the fish;

first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."

So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.

READING BREAKING THE NORM This is the classic thriller of science run

amok that took the world by storm. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . . In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.

READING BREAKING THE NORM

A play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959.

The title comes from the poem "Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes).

The story is based upon a black family's experiences in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood and their struggle to improve themselves.

WRITING ALL THE TIME!

Papers Essays Journals Weekly reflections Thesis statements Vignettes Timed responses

GOALS AND PURPOSE You will use multiple writing strategies and resources

to articulate and support the thesis of your writing.

Strategies will include : developing voice emphasis through repetition, rhythm, and imagery. recognize and utilize multiple literary techniques to edit

and enhance your writing Techniques will include simile, metaphor, allusion,

alliteration, assonance, hyperbole, litotes, zeugmas, personification, and onomatopoeia.

Students will generate writing from their journals, reading, discussion and research experiences.

WHILE WRITING, WE WILL FOCUS ON…

Good things writers do. Varied Sentences Strong verbs Voice Flow Strong, clear thesis Literary devices

Simile Metaphor Personification

Mistakes writers make. Commas

Sentence branches Grammar

Mechanics Capitalization Run-ons Fragments

Craft Editing

SPEAKING

Formally speeches

Informally in groups

THINKING About what you’ve read About life About future About others

DISCUSSING

Books Thoughts Questions Life

STUDYING

Literature Literary Terms Stylistic Techniques Rhetoric Vocabulary

PRESENTING

Projects Keynotes Power Points Ideas

RESEARCHING

A career interest A college 1-3 pages, college essay

including a Works Cited page

5 sources Books Interviews Visits Career Cruising

MLA format Consider

College SAT/ACT scores Job availability

PRACTICING

Skills Grammar SAT

PREPARING

SAT / MSTEP state test

Further courses College Life

TEAMWORK

Sitting in pods Group Work Employability skills

Packets Group Grade Individual papers &

projects All participate

To receive credit, must function as part of team

Each person will have a role and/or responsibility

TEAM ROLES LEADER Manages or supervises. Keeps group

or team focused. “Quarterback”

RECORDER Scribes the assignments and notes. Makes sure all present group members’ names are on the work. “Secretary”

GOPHER Gathers necessary supplies & papers. Turns in assignments. “Messenger”

REPORTER Speaks for the group. Shares information aloud to the class. Voices concerns and questions. “Speaker”

TEAM ROLES

TEAM ROLES Switch roles so that EVERYONE has the

opportunity to…

REFLECTIONS Reflections – journal metacognition Everyone must turn in a private,

weekly journal. Due Friday in tower (paper) OR via

Google Classroom On your role in the group Reflect on own personal learning &

growth How the group is proceeding, working,

& getting along Who’s pulling or not pulling his or

her weight Anything you want to share

1 page Rank

1-5 5 being BEST group self

WEEKLY DEMONSTRATIVE QUIZ

Via Google Classroom

Sentence of the week concept. Mini-grammar concept Demonstrate knowledge Create own sentence

What are you reading? Thought Journal

Book of own choosing Summary Analysis Quotation

MLA FORMAT You will be using this

structural format for all of your writings.

ALL work will have the MLA heading… Name

First & last Teacher name

Mrs. Hess Class/Hour

English - 4 Date

Day Month Year

New Student Mrs. Hess English—5 10 September 2015

MRS. HESS’S CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS

EXPECTATIONS -- #1

I need to show respect for Mrs. Hess, my fellow classmates, and myself.

EXPECTATIONS -- #2

I understand that I am to be prepared for class.

CELL PHONE POLICY

I understand that I must leave my cell phone in Mrs. Hess’s cell phone hotel on red days and that I am not to access it all.

On yellow days, I may use it for class activities.

On green days, I have unlimited access.

If I do NOT comply, my phone will be turned into the office.

NO! NO! NO! ZONE

I understand that Mrs. Hess is old school.

She believes in proper etiquette.

In her classroom, I may NOT wear a hat, use ear buds or headphones (except when it’s a Yellow Day), or have food or drink (only water is allowed).

EXPECTATIONS -- #3

I need to take an active part in my education.

EXPECTATIONS -- #4

I understand that cheating and/or plagiarism will not be tolerated.

EXPECTATIONS -- #5

I need to be in Mrs. Hess’s classroom and in my seat ready to learn when it is time for class.

EXPECTATIONS -- #6

I understand that Mrs. Hess

believes that there is a time and place for everything.

EXPECTATIONS -- #7

If I don’t live up to

Mrs. Hess’s expectations or if I break school rules, I know that I will have to face the consequences.

EXPECTATIONS -- #8

Mrs. Hess does assign homework, and it is due the very next day for full credit (no excuses).

EXPECTATIONS -- #9 If I have difficulties in

class, I understand that I can ask Mrs. Hess for help.

She is available during class, before or after school, or I could even e-mail her at chess@buchananschools.com

EXPECTATIONS -- #10

I understand that Mrs. Hess uses points for grading.

GRADING SCALE

GRADING WEIGHTS

Writing 20%

Reading 20%

Speaking/Listening 20%

Language 20%

EXAMS/Exit Projects 20%

WHEN ABSENT… Check your email. I will send you what you

have missed and what you need to do.

You will get a day for each day absent…just like the school policy.

However, if a test or paper has been assigned (previously) and you knew about it, you are expected to take the test and to turn in your paper.

1ST HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT Go over the Classroom

Expectations with your parent(s) and/or guardian(s).

Fill out the Google Form. Submit by Monday.

2ND HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

Bring a book of own choosing… Who’s your favorite author? What’s your favorite book? What are your interests?

ANY QUESTIONS?