Grade 12 College English

Today’s Agenda:

Today I showed you a few sites you might be interested in using to create your PSAs. Your PSA will be due on Monday. It’s posted on the class calendar.

Then we completed a note on the American Dream. You need to know that there are four manifestations of the American Dream:

The Dream of Making it Big

The Entrepreneur

The Rugged Individualist

The Perfect Family.

Tomorrow you will apply your knowledge of these four ideas by watching the movie Cinderella Man.

I was away at PD today but I left you with a public service announcement assignment. Your task was to create a proposal for three different types of PSAs. You will actually be making one of these PSAs. It’s up to you which one. You will have time to work on it tomorrow in class.

I am including links to cool sites you might want to try for your PSAs.

Online posters: Glogster

Make movies by typing text: Xtranormal

Free program for mixing and editing sound: Audacity

Today we talked about Public Service Announcements. We viewed a number of posters, and saw a few videos and discussed the criteria for an effective PSA.

Today’s agenda:

We will be in the library to work on our business letters. Make sure you follow the proper formatting as outlined on your sample business letter.

Today we watched a video on your digital footprint. If you were absent, pick up a copy of the article in the handout box.

We began the formal business letter assignment that you will be writing and sending to the creators of the 4th R book club unit.

Today’s agenda:

Journal Prompt: What is the most difficult thing about writing a research report? What areas do you think you need to work on? What areas do you think you do well in?

When you finish your journal prompt, please organize your binders. Some of them are disasters! If your binder is organized you can read silently.

Then we will move on to the business letter.

Don’t forget that your research reports are due Wednesday.

Today we took up the report questions and discussed how graphics can be used effectively to support the information in a report.

We learned that the purpose of a report is to provide information and in the case of an analytical report, to offer recommendations. Your report will be a combination of analytical and informational because at the end, you should be providing a list of local resources for your readers.

Remember, your first heading will be A. Summary, this is not an introduction, but a summary of the information readers will find in your report. Get right to the point.

Then students worked on creating their report outline.

Tomorrow we will be writing our rough drafts.

We continued to work on the report questions and they were due at the end of class along with a completed outline for the report. Remember, although we are writing the report in class, you are responsible for finishing the research on your own time. You must have at least 4 different sources.

Tomorrow make sure you have your research notes because we will be working on the rough draft in class.

Today we learned about plagiarism and tips for preventing it.

We then moved on to some questions about the structure and purpose of reports.

Tomorrow you will be creating an outline for your research report.