Complete persona practice dialogues. 

1. Make sure that your notes from the persona dialogue presentations are stapled to the back of your final transcript of Meeting of the Minds, which is due at the start of class on Monday, June 4. Highlight in your transcript where the 3 conception connections from the class dialogues appear in your transcript. 

2. RE-READ the grading criteria for the "Meeting of the Minds" transcript (BLUE SHEET) to make sure you have all of the other required content. PUT YOUR NAME ON THE ASSIGNMENT SHEET (BLUE) AND HAND IT IN WITH YOUR FINAL: "MEETING OF THE MINDS."

2. Make your letter and dish for the Puritan Picnic.  See "document" above for the assignment!

3. Be sure to make provisions to take your project home on Monday.  If I don't keep it for decorations, it will be thrown out at the end of the day on Monday, June 4. 

1. Please tell me today who you will be doing your presentation with and work with that person today. 

2. Please start part 3 and 4 of the final today with your partners and be sure it is completed on Monday at the end of class. Your presentation on the day of the final must be 3-4 minutes. 

 

Part 3 (1/2-1 page-group work)

Using your knowledge of the strategies of visual rhetoric, analyze your campaign poster using visual rhetoric vocabulary to analyze and explain the purpose of your campaign and all of the visual choices that you make from size, text, position, color, font, and image—especially the metaphor!  Bold all visual rhetoric vocabulary you use in your discussion. Dig out those texts on visual literacy!

A "Works Cited" must be included at the end of this series of writing!

The Campaign Poster and Presentation

Part 4: Create a Visual Rhetoric Campaign Poster (25 points-group work)

In google docs, or a media of your choice which you share with me, work with no more than 2 other people to create a campaign poster that compels others to share an interest and concern in your social issue. Your poster MUST have an extended metaphor that works to identify the victims (birds), the perpetrators (combine), those working to find solutions (Mac), and the solutions (fishing and laughter) During the presentation which you will give during the final hour, you will explain the social issue and explain and analyze the metaphor that you and your group created for your poster. 

Finish the final review packet and study chapters 6-12 for the final exam

Study for the graph matching portion of the final exam on Monday.  Also, study chapters 6-9 for the multi-choice portion during finals week.  STUDY!

Part 2 (1/2-1 page): Using Kesey’s metaphor, explain your social issue (25 points- individual work)

 Explain your social issue and then explain who is like a "bird" and why.  Who is the "Big Nurse"  figures and why. Who is the "Combine" and why etc.  Use the quotations you found in your research to support your argument, but use snippets this time and your own language to frame, contextualize, and analyze. 

Test Chapter 11

Final Exam Review (24-72) are due Friday

Finish the Semester Review (multi-choice)

Have yellow note sheet ready for me to review

 Please see the above document for detailed instructions about our next to last class activity. 

 Class/Homework

Part 1 (1/2-1 page): Analyzing the Extended Metaphor in Cuckoo (25 points- individual work)

What are the metaphors that criticize the abuse of power and the abuse of patients in Cuckoo’s Nest? Explain how Kesey uses metaphors to characterize and ultimately criticize the social issue of patient treatment in mental health institutions.  Using specific passages from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, analyze how he uses metaphors to criticize the different problems in the hospital.  Your analysis must draw on evidence from all four parts of the novel. 

Final Review Packet problems 24-48

Test Chapter 11 tomorrow

finish graph matching problems, Semester Review packet: chapter 7(14-25) and chapter 8(1-11)

Chapter 6 Semester Review (1-24) and Chapte 7 (1-13)

Chapter 11 Review #1 (1-5,8-11) and Final Exam Review #1 (1-22)

 Class: Library, Mural Room

1. Please print out your quotations from your social issue that you linked to the metaphor of "Birds," "Combine" etc. Hand these in to the sub or to me today.  

2. Print out your articles and share them with those who have the same social issue, so that you all have a collection of resources and ensure there are no duplicates. 

 

3. Find the rock star quotations that come from Cuckoo's Nest that also establish the metaphor you connected your social issue to. Again, create a bank of quotes with the following headings and matching quotations:

• Under "Birds" put quotes that illustrate the patients as the birds; 
• Under  "Big Nurse" put quotes that show the nurse as a machine/mechanical;
• Under  "Combine" put quotes that show the organizations, rules, or societal expectations that reinforce the negative causes of this social issue;
• Under "Mac" and "Fishing"  put quotes that show Mac  working to change/improve this issue;
• Under "Flying over the Nest" put quotes that show changes and corrections that come as a result of Mac.

 

Please be sure that you have the two articles that you used in your final paper.  On the front page of each article, you should have a 3-4 sentence summary of the whole article and active reading that you will use in your argument tomorrow to discuss why Blankets should or should not be taught in Literature and Society.  

 

Please make a photo copy of this work and hand it in to me so that you have grades for these two articles on the books. 

Use the handout from class for details about this FINAL EXAM PROJECT: a video essay about human rights.  The MAIN PART of your presentation is about how TEENAGERS can get involved in the issues you are explaining.  The easiest and MOST EFFECTIVE way to do that is to TAKE the audience to the website and SHOW US all the different things we can do in Park Ridge, Illinois, to get involved with the issues.  DEMONSTRATE where the links go on the pages and what options we have to contribute to the cause or to learn more about the issue.  Doing a competent job of guiding us around the website and showing SPECIFIC actions for us to take is a GREAT WAY to meet one of the main requirements of this assignment, but there is more to it than that.  Read the handout carefully.

 

This assignnment is 15% of your semester grade.

Build a kite that will fly for at least 30 seconds, and decorate the kite to reflect characters and themes from The Kite Runner.  Use the handout from class, which is here on this web page, to see more details and  online instructions for kite building.  DO NOT BRING THE KITE TO SCHOOL UNTIL I GIVE YOU A WEATHER REPORT AND AN EXACT DATE FOR KITE FLYING.

1. Make sure your social issue is approved. It must be an American social issue.  If you need a list of topics, take a look at this LRC website. (Link will only work at school, so get the LRC database access codes if you want to search at home. ) You must leave here today with an approved social issue. 

 

 

2. Find at least two articles on your social issue that allow you to find the following evidence that you will type up the quotations for and create a "Works Cited" at the bottom.  You will need at least one quote per topic, but more is better. 

 

At the end of this list, put the Works Cited for all of your sources and staple them to the bottom of this sheet. 

 

3. Finish reading Cuckoo's Nest

 

 

Test Chapter 9 Rational Expressions and Equations