Per. 5 - Honors English SAS Assignments
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- 2015-2016 School Year
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- English
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We will also focus on improving our reading levels, editing skills, grammar precision, and our writing abilities. We will explore our voices and determine ways to express ourselves from writing to art to music. Working within the four Language Arts genres (Narrative, Expository, Response to Literature and Persuasion) and Common Core Standards, we will also analyze and evaluate others’ expressions of literature. For class novels, we will be reading The Outsiders, Speak, and Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion.
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“MEXICO NEXT RIGHT”
VISUAL RESPONSE ASSIGNMENT
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- Draw a map of the United States and Mexico. Create the border that separates the U.S. and Mexico. Instead of a line as a border, try to use symbols (based on Sandra Cisneros’s work) that show the differences between her U.S. and Mexico.
2. Your artwork should be a collage of full color illustrations, symbols, icons, or computer/magazine images that reveal the mood and tone of Cisneros’s setting.
- You should portray at least 5 symbols on each side of the border that symbolize the difference the author experienced when crossing from the U.S. into Mexico in “Mexico Next Right.”
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ASSIGNMENT: Write a paragraph describing Apple’s “Think Different” (narrated by Steve Jobs) commercial and how it effectively uses these icons of world change to sell its product and image (6-10 sentences).
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ASSIGNMENT: In a FOUR-paragraph response, analyze and interpret the visual representation of the Fixed and Growth Mindset on page 27 – complete as HW.
Use “brain” vocabulary, transitions, and sentence variety.
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Paragraph 1 (3-4 Sentences)
Introduce Topic
Title, Author, explain what the graphic is about
Paragraph 2 (5-10 sentences)
Analyze the Fixed Mindset side; describe each icon and why the artist chose to draw these particular icons (what they symbolize)
Paragraph 3 (5-10 sentences)
Analyze the Growth Mindset side (as compared to Fixed Mindset)
Paragraph 4
Conclusion (4-6 sentences)
Restate topic and what it was about
Create a conclusion – add your own commentary
DO NOT COPY THE WORDS IN THE GRAPHIC – IT’S BORING AND IT’S PLAGIARISM! Please, use your own words to paraphrase the ideas.
Extra Credit Option: Create your own graphic/artwork to illustrate the differences between the two mindsets.
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- Static – unmoving, still, unchanging (in a negative way).
Her AR level remained static over the year because she didn’t read challenging books.
- Persist – keep going even in the face of obstacles. No matter what comes your way, you must persist and not give up if you want to attain success.
- Mastery – the process of mastering a subject, skill etc. You can achieve mastery in basketball by practicing everyday.
- Fruitless – useless, failure to achieve desired results. We looked all over the web for Lakers tickets but our search was fruitless.
- Setbacks – a reversal or break in progress. Although we had a couple of setbacks on our trip (Flat Tire, bad weather), we made it to Vegas in less than 6 hours.
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“Brain Vocabulary”
Directions: Copy the vocabulary word(s) and copy the sentence from the article that uses the vocab word in it. (pgs. 23-26 in workbook) If there is no sentence, create your own.
Fixed Mindset – belief that intelligence remains the same throughout life – born smart, average, or dumb
- Growth Mindset – belief that with effort and perseverance you can grow your intelligence
- Cortex – the outer layer of the brain responsible for thinking.
- Potential – having the capacity to develop into something in the future.
- Contrary - opposite in nature.
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“Brain Vocabulary”
- Fixed Mindset – belief that intelligence remains the same throughout life – born smart, average, or dumb
2. Growth Mindset – belief that with effort and perseverance you can grow your intelligence
- Cortex – the outer layer of the brain responsible for thinking.
- Potential – having the capacity to develop into something in the future.
- Contrary - opposite in nature.
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VISUAL TEXT 1.1 BRAIN
- What does the barbell symbolize?
- What does the sweat represent?
- Why is he wearing sweatbands? What does that show?
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Personal Circle Map – Who am I?
Assignment: Create a circle map to DEFINE who you are. Use words, pictures, color, magazines, etc. to create a collage (no smaller than a sheet of paper, no larger than half a poster board) that shows who you are.
Inside circle: Your picture and/or your name
Outside circle: All the things that define you (favorite food, movies, books, friends, sports, etc.).
Square Frame: Who or what shaped who you are today (friends, family, school, church, teachers, etc.)?
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4 – circle map is totally complete and includes many pictures and words. There is great effort on design.
3 – circle map is complete and includes pictures and words. There is some effort on design.
2 – circle map is somewhat complete and includes either words or pictures. There is little effort on design.
1 – circle map is incomplete includes only words. There is no effort on design.