What's in a Name?

Today's Goals: Reading, a pre-assessment of your knowledge of rhetorical strategies and a close reading of a sign.

1. Read
2. Take a quick quiz to see what you already know about some common rhetorical strategies.
TAKE THE QUIZ


3. Read the sign below with your partner. 
Who is the intended audience?
What is the author claiming?
How does the author support his/her claims?


Homework Reminder: Your final drafts of your article are due Wednesday, April 15. You will also need to "Call It In." (Get the number from me, a friend, or on the chart inside the classroom.)

Finishing up your stereotypes report

Today is your last day in class to work on your stereotypes report.

• Use the post from Friday for the outline that you can use to organize your article.
• Use these frames to help you. (Some will especially help with your last two paragraphs.
• I am locking the essays to grade them at 3pm on Wednesday, 4/15. (Note that this is changed from what the blog said on Friday.)

Homework: You must "call in" your essay and read it to my voicemail before 9pm on Wednesday 4/15. (See the directions below and/or take a picture of the chart in the room.)

To call it in:

1. First, practice reading your essay out loud a few times.
2. Use the Google Voice box in the sidebar to call if you do not know the number, or call the number on the "Call it in" chart in class.
3. State your name and period clearly.
4. Read your essay to the voicemail. 
5. You do not need to call back if it cuts you off after 3 minutes.

Writing about Stereotypes

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The Goal: Make progress, add paragraphs, to your essay about stereotypes at our school.

You will need:

I. Introduction, including a revised version of your rhetorical precis from 3/27.
II. A description of our research process. (We will work on this together in class today.)
III. An explication of our quantitative data. (We wrote this together on Wednesday.)
IV. A description of our qualitative data. (You worked on this yesterday.)
V. Your conclusions about what this research data says about our school.
VI. Your suggestions of what our school could do to improve student learning based on the data we collected.

Today work on pulling together everything you already have into paragraphs at the top of your essay template document. Together we will write about our research process. Then you can work on your last two paragraphs.

Click here for some helpful sentence frames!!!

Quantitative: Data that can be expressed in numbers, like the number of people we interviewed or the percentage of people who gave a particular answer. 

Qualitative: Data that you need to look at closely to see patterns, often comes in words, like the words people used to describe the stereotypes about their group. 

Generalizations: The similarities you see in the data. When you start to write, "Most ____ said that____" you are making a generalization. 

Conclusions: The opinions you form based on the data. "Since most _______ say that ________ our school should consider___________."

Homework: Note that your essay is due on Monday at the end of the period.

Data Analysis - Looking for Trends

Today's Goal: Writing about qualitative data and pulling together some parts of our essay we wrote yesterday.

We read first!

Tabs you need today:

1. Your English Journal
2. The "Writing About Stereotypes" assignment template shared with you in Google Drive.
3. The copy of the spreadsheet data that you will make by following Step 1 on the assignment template.

The Plan:

1. Read
2. Open your English Journal
3. Find the "Writing about stereotypes" assignment template I shared with you in Google Drive. 
4. Find the link to the spreadsheet of data. (See Step 1.) Make your own copy of the spreadsheet. 
5. Follow the steps in Step 2 on your assignment sheet. Talk to your partner about your answers. 
6. Look at the scoring guide in Step 4. You will need each of those parts in your essay. 
7. Copy over the writing we did yesterday about the quantitative data. Put it at the top of your assignment in Step 3. 
8. Copy over the rhetorical precis we wrote on 3/27. With a bit of revision it will become part of your essay also. 

Quantitative: Data that can be expressed in numbers, like the number of people we interviewed or the percentage of people who gave a particular answer. (We wrote about this yesterday in your English Journal.) (Use this link to look at the data if you were absent.)

Qualitative: Data that you need to look at closely to see patterns, often comes in words, like the words people used to describe the stereotypes about their group. 

Generalizations: The similarities you see in the data. When you start to write, "Most ____ said that____" you are making a generalization. 

Conclusions: The opinions you form based on the data. "Since most _______ say that ________, our school should consider___________."

Homework: Note that your essay is due on Monday at the end of the period.

Gathering Data: Day 2

Yesterday you interviewed two peers, one in class and one on your own. Take out your notes from those interviews.

Today you will enter the data you collected into a Google form and together we will look at it and see what it might be trying to tell us. 

Enter Interview Data Here

BOOK REVIEWS ARE DUE TODAY!

Your choices:

1. Put it in the in-class inbox. make sure your name is on it. It's late if it's not there by the end of the day.
2. Share it with me on Google Drive. Title it correctly (period# last name, first name - March Book Review). It's late if it's not shared by the end of today.

If you are absent: 

First, go input your interview data, and make sure you turn in your Interview Papers to me.

In class we wrote a paragraph in our English Journals about the qualitative data relating to the interviews that you got from around campus.

Use this link to look at the data to write the qualitative data analysis

Data Gathering: Day 1

Goal: Begin the process of investigating stereotypes at PLHS.

The Plan:

1. Read
2. New writing assignment
3. Interview a peer
4. Book Reviews

Do students at PLHS experience stereotype threat?

You have been reading about stereotype threats.  We will respond to that article by doing our own research about stereotypes on our campus.  Today you will interview two peers about the kinds of stereotypes they are affected by and how they cope with that.  (I will give you the interview questions in class.)

Tomorrow we will enter your findings into a Google Form and begin to analyze the data.


Book Reviews:
THESE ARE DUE TOMORROW.

1. Use the models from yesterday and the suggestions on this chart to write your book review.
2. If you turn it in on paper, it must be in my inbox by the end of the day tomorrow.

If you share a document with me on Google Drive you MUST title it properly (period# last name, first name - March Book Review)

Essays are unlocked for revision. 

1. Revisions must be done by Monday, April 20
2. You must email me to ask for a regrade using the revision protocol.

Book Review Models!

By Lauren Schroer

Happy Monday!

I hope you had an amazing spring break! 

Now that we're all rested, we're going to start today by looking at some book reviews that you can use as models for your book reviews that are due on 

Goal #1: Looking at awesome book reviews

1. Take some time to read this book review about a book called The Alchemist.
2. In your English Journal, write about what makes this book review a good book review. What are the qualities that make it strong? What is the difference between a book review and a summary?
3. If you would like another example to learn from, check out this one about City of Thieves.

Goal #2: Rhetorical Precis 

1. Before you left for break, you wrote a rhetorical precis. Go find it in your English Journal and read it.
2. Take a look at this rubric to see what things you might be missing. It is very specific! 
3. I will be grading your rhetorical precis. Use the rubric to make sure that you have EVERYTHING you need to have in your rhetorical precis. Use the resources below if you don't remember what it looks like!

If you finish all of this, maybe start writing your book review. Even if you aren't done reading, you should be in a place where you can do at least the first couple paragraphs.

A note about grades:
You should have all gotten an email over spring break that has your scores for the Poe/Laughton essay according to the scoring guide. After school today I will unlock your essays so that you can revise them. If you choose to revise, your revisions must be done and submitted to me no later than Monday, May 20.