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For Monday, October 1: Answer the 14 questions for your passage (found on the back of the Passages for Stylistic Analysis handout). For the block day (October 2 & 3), write two paragraphs comparing and contrasting the style of your assigned passage with another passage on the handout.

For Monday, October 1: Vocabulary, Unit 2

For Tuesday, October 2: Historical Fiction assignment.

For Thursday, October 4: Beat due. A news story of 75-100 words for the student media web site. Write this in Google Docs and share it with Mr. Sloan.

Reread the last three chapters of UnSpun.  Bring the book with you to class on Monday, and be prepared to write about it.

Vocabulary, unit 1 is due Monday, 9/30.  If you didn’t buy the book at the booksale, it’s available at the Judge bookstore.

In class today we read a sample AP passage by a Victorian writer.

Here are some words you need to know:

terms
person
understatement
false dilemma
begging the question
reasoning in a circle
generalizing from insufficient evidence
controlling metaphor
paradox
truism
syntax

vocabulary
Victorian
cynicism
antipathy
unremitting
candor
whimsical
incisive
intangible
exhortation

For Monday, bring enough copies of a letter and interview questions for the alumni in your group. Don’t mail the letters and questions over the weekend.  Bring them to class on Monday.

Your group presentations are due Thursday at the beginning of class.

Now take your interview notes and write a personality profile about the person you interviewed over the weekend.

Read the introduction and chapter 1 in unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation.

Finish the book for Friday, 9/21.

Interview a person from another generation this weekend. Ask them what it was like for them when they were your age. Here are some suggested questions:

• When and where did you attend high school?
• What do you remember about high school?
• Who were your teachers? What do you remember about them?
• What kinds of things did you like to do when you were a teenager? What were some of the popular trends of the time?
• Were there dances like Homecoming and Prom? If so, what do you remember about them?
• Who were your friends? Did you have any friends at school that you stayed in touch with after you graduated?
• How well did high school prepare you for college and/or your professional life?
• Do you have any advice for today’s Judge students?

Interview notes are due Monday, 9/10.

Thanks to our volunteers who read their Judge Amnesty International news stories aloud in class today.  The winner is Madelyn M!

Today in class we read excerpts from On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Going Places by Jim Harrison.  Finish reading them in preparation for tomorrow’s essay about Travels with Charley and Baghdad without a Map.