Daily Agenda for Friday, Sept. 7, 2012

Dual Credit

  • Class Opener—Warrants--A warrant is certain assumptions that underlie all the claims we make. It is a belief or principle we take for granted.
  • Example from text:

Claim: Advertising of cigarettes should be legally banned.

Support (Evidence) Cigarettes are harmful to our health.

Warrant: Advertising of things harmful to our health should be legally banned.

Situation: Over the last five years, girls at Montgomery County High have received higher grades than boys in every subject and yet the MoCo boys consistently score higher on the ACT than the girls do.

Claim: The ACT is biased against girls.

The warrant for this claim is the belief that something must be preventing the girls from showing their academic excellence on the ACT.

  • Do warrant activity
  • Do warrant exercise with the back of your T-chart…work with a partner
  • Lecture on MLA Parenthetical Documentation—TAKE GOOD NOTES!!!
  • Homework—Read the portion assigned for Chapter 6—pp. 202-222—Target only important, relevant information and bullet notes you take (These will be taken up and there WILL BE A QUIZ!!)

Daily Agenda for English III Sept. 7, 2012

  • Bell Ringer—ACT Prep—Focus—Subject/Verb Agreement
  • Presentation of Questions from yesterday’s group work.
  • Begin reading ACT Two---The Crucible—
  • If time permits, begin answering ACT 2 questions.
  • Exit Slip: Using two lines from the play show the tension that exists between Elizabeth Proctor and her husband John.

Bell Ringer September 7, 2012 English III

  1. Her contribution to the world of music, and indeed to society as a whole, was great.
  1. NO CHANGE
  2. Contributions
  3. Contributing
  4. Having contributed
  1. Each of the first three taxis I saw were too far away to hail.
  1. NO CHANGE
  2. Was
  3. Are
  4. Is
  1. Fitzgerald helped pave the way for other black singers and brought jazz to a larger audience.
  1. NO CHANGE
  2. the paving of
  3. Paving
  4. Omit the underlined portion
  1. The number of citizens sixty years or older totaled more than forty million in 1988, and one out of every nine Americans were sixty-five or older.
  1. NO CHANGE
  2. is
  3. have been
  4. Was
  1. Our community and our heritagehas enemies.
  1. NO CHANGE
  2. have
  3. had
  4. will have had