Present Continuous Tense

Present Continuous Website:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfectcontinuous.html

Exercises 7 - 14 can help you greater understand how to use the past, perfect, and perfect continuous tense in your writing for the newspaper writing this week.

Reliable (Trustworthy) News Sources

www.guardian.com

www.bbc.com

www.nytimes.com

www.washingtonpost.com

www.theatlantic.com

www.motherjones.com

www.reuters.com

www.aljazeera.com

Newspaper Template Link for Google Docs

Here is a template link for you to use on Google Docs to make your newspaper headline.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fagiNfZ6fp-IjaJdVavRQzMWX-81mpGdyVrPYT5qv-o/edit?usp=sharing

Common Irregular Past Participles in English

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/past-and-past-participles-of-common-irregular-engl.html

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/unreg_verben.htm

Make a list of 10 past participle verbs and use them in a sentence.

(5 points extra credit)

Project: Protest in America

What are protest movements that are currently occurring in the United States?

What is the main idea of these protest movements?

What is the purpose of these movements?

Research reliable news sources with articles ONLY from the past 3 months.

Identify what the people in this movement are struggling for, what progress have been made in the movement, the conflict / actors of this movement, and any resolution in this protest movement.

- police brutality

- black lives matter

- women's rights

- environmental movements (climate change)

Read ahead, chapters 4 - 6 before class.

Conflict in Literature

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/7-types-of-narrative-conflict/

Every work of literature, and much nonfiction narrative, is based on at least one of the following conflicts. When you write a story or a biography, or relate a true event or series of events, you need not focus on such themes, and there’s no reason to state them explicitly (except in passing, perhaps, to provide insight about a biographical subject), but you’re wise to identify the conflicts inherent in your composition and apply them as you write.

1. Person vs. Fate/God
This category could be considered part of conflict with self or with society (many people count only four types of conflict, including those two and conflict with another person or with nature). That’s a valid argument, as one confronts fate as part of an internal struggle and religion is a construct of society, but explicitly naming fate (Oedipus Rex) or God — or the gods (The Odyssey) — as the antagonist is a useful distinction.

2. Person vs. Self
A person’s struggle with his or her own prejudices or doubts or character flaws constitutes this type of conflict (Hamlet).

3. Person vs. Person
Any story featuring a hero and a villain or villains (The Count of Monte Cristo) represents this type of conflict, though the villain(s) is/are often representative of another antagonist in this list, whether a villain is in essence an alter ego of the protagonist (thus representing the conflict of person versus self) or stands in for society.

4. Person vs. Society
When the protagonist’s conflict extends to confronting institutions, traditions, or laws of his or her culture, he or she struggles to overcome them, either triumphing over a corrupt society (I draw a blank here), rejecting it (Fahrenheit 451), or succumbing to it (1984).

5. Person vs. Nature
In this conflict, the protagonist is pitted against nature (Robinson Crusoe) or a representation of it, often in the form of an animal (Moby Dick).

6. Person vs. Supernatural
Superficially, conflict with the supernatural may seem equivalent to conflict with fate or God, or representative of a struggle with an evocation of self (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) or nature (The Birds). But this category stands on its own feet as well.

7. Person vs. Technology
Humanity’s innate skepticism about the wonders of technology has resulted in many stories in which antagonists use technology to gain power or in which technology takes over or becomes a malign influence on society (Brave New World).

Interview Clip with John Steinbeck

1.) As you listen, try to write the question asked.

2.) Identify why the interviewer asked the question.

3.) Write a similar question and use evidence from your first article.

4.) Research additional facts about John Steinbeck and the Grapes of Wrath.

Order of Presentations

Order of Presentations:

Wednesday 7/151.     Wilson
2.     Fedja
3.     Ekaterine
4.     Xuan
5.     Robiya

Thursday 7/166.     Mei Yan
7.     Sendy
8.     Li Qiu
9.     Yang Ting
10.  Chong

Monday 7/2011.  Vanessa
12.  Yi Ting
13.  Ming Qiang
14.  DJ

Struggles in our Lives

Assignment: Over the weekend, you will begin to create a project that will explain personal struggles in your own life. 

Some questions to think about before beginning your project: 

1. What is a struggle in your own life?

2. How did / do you deal with this struggle?

3. How is this struggle related to a struggle from the Great Depression?

4. Are the struggles similar or different in nature? Why?

5. How has your struggle built your character?

6. How did struggles during the Great Depression build people's characters in the 1930s?

Class Ideas:

Home: 

I have a strange father. We never talk a lot. Also, I don't want to talk with him because he is so strange.

My struggle at home is that I have to study alone.

In China, my father lost his job when I was 16 years old. I was preparing for a test, but there was no income and I couldn't take the test.

My mother always struggles for me to have a better life.

My struggle is that I lived in my country my whole life and this is the first time  moving. When I moved to another country and wasn't easy for me.

Peers:

I can't hang out with my friend anymore because I had to move to another country.

I had to leave my home country and move to the United States. Now, I feel very sad about this situation.

Sometimes when I speak my pronunciation is not very good, so people will laugh.

I can't speak English very well yet, but still manage to make friends.

School:

I work very hard to earn good grades.

My friends every day tell me that I never am going to learn and be a good student :(

When I came to Emma Lazarus, I felt very bad. I didn't know any English. I couldn't communicate with my teachers or classmates. I don't yet have friends.

I go to school, then I have to work after school. After this, I have to finish my homework and this can be very tiring.

I always work very hard because I want to become a nurse.

I can't get good grades even though I work very hard.

My difficult struggle is that I want to pass all of my final exams. I studied until 1 a.m. every night.

I am discriminated against by teachers and other students. It has helped me build my character.

I need to work most of the time after school because I must pay for my own rent or anything else that need.

Nation:

When I came to the U.S., I didn't understand the country at all. I don't know its culture or how people think. So I have to communicate and learn the culture through English. But, my English is not very good.

In my home country I was considered to be in the lower class. People thought that I had no money because of the way I dressed and because sometimes I had to borrow money from my friends.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015: Research

Research of Roosevelt's Programs to Combat the Depression:

Here is the main website with reliable research links:

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/100-search-engines-for-academic-research/

The history websites are numbers 71 - 81. 

Google Slides

Instructions for Google Slides

Tuesday, June 7th: Summary

Today we worked diligently on writing our summaries in class. Thank you for your hard work :)

Summary Review

I can summarize pertinent information for a reading. 

I can outline the macrostructure of the reading (introduction, body, conclusion, major divisions within the body.

#1 Examine the title: identify and define key words; paraphrase title.

#2 Intensively read the introduction; work through the scaffolded organizer to identify all elements.

#3 Sample the first sentence after the introduction of each body paragraph to get an overview of its information.

#4 Generate an overall meaning of the text.

Writing our summary:

#1 Give a one sentence overview or topic statement.

#2 List and explain key details. Focus on coherence with each paragraph topic.

#3 Leave out irrelevant or unimportant details.

#4 Use of sticky notes for these details in each paragraph.

Mandatory Homework (5 pts.)

Write a summary for a chapter from your independent reading book. Use the strategies we practiced in class today. Don't get discouraged because your chapter may be longer than our reading today; just use all of your skills and focus on the most important information.

In addition, this is a great website that goes over writing summaries: http://powerupwhatworks.org/strategy-guide/summarizing

Monday, July 6: Happy Time and Happy Days - Extra Credit Homework

Hello Everyone!

It was great to meet you all today and I am excited about all that is ahead for the month of July :)

Tonight's extra credit homework consists of the following:

Pre-read Happy Times and Happy Days, only pages 268 - 270. Post a reply to this page with the following:

1.) List five unknown vocabulary words with the appropriate definition. Write a sentence using each new vocabulary word appropriately.

2.) Write 3 questions that you have about the reading.

3.) Write a short paragraph summarizing the most important information you took away from the reading. No need to write a lot here, just want to see how much you understand from the reading. 

When your reply, please use your full name so I can give you credit!

This will be worth 5 extra credit points and will count towards your written assignments, worth 20% of your grade!