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Freshmen English

Journalism


Senior English classes - third term


Classroom assignments

Wednesday 3 March 2010 - A day
Thursday 4 March 2010 - B day

Research paper practice instructions.
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Monday 1 March 2010 - A day
Tuesday 2 March 2010 - B day

Review the book One Day from page 129 to the end of the book.
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            B day
Final essay
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            B day

Tuesday 23 Feb 2010 - A day
Wednesday 24 Feb 2010 - B day

Review the book One Day from page 67-128.
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            B day

Monday 15 Feb 2010 - A day
Tuesday 16 Feb 2010 - B day

The famous Stanford Prison Experiment.
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Thursday 11 Feb 2010 - A day
Friday 12 Feb 2010 - B day

Review the story One Day from pages 18-66.
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            B day

Tuesday 9 Feb 2010 - A day
Wednesday 10 Feb 2010 - B day

Write an essay about the way in which characters in the story One Day work to preserve their humanity.
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            B day
The chart used for this essay can found here.

Friday 5 Feb 2010 - A day
Monday 8 Feb 2010 - B day

Research the Soviet gulag system.
            A day
            B day

Thursday 28 Jan 2010 - A day
Friday 29 Jan 2010 - B day

Write a sample resume, following an example given in class and these instructions.
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            B day

Tuesday 26 Jan 2010 - A day
Wednesday 27 Jan 2010 - B day

Bibliography writing practice, using five articles from newspapers and magazines on the Internet.
Homework due
Read pages 1-8 and then put together a picture, map, or graphic showing the setting and events found on those pages.
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Friday 22 Jan 2010 - A day
Monday 25 Jan 2010 - B day

Create the perfect Communist society. Your goals are 1. equality between all people. 2. everyone gets what they need. You have unlimited authority, power, and resources to get this done. Tell us how you would make that happen, then share the results with the class. Write the results in the reflection journal.
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            B day

Wednesday 20 Jan 2010 - A day
Thursday 21 Jan 2010 - B day

Using the Pudewa keynote outline research method, write a brief biography of Stalin.

Monday 18 Jan 2010 - A day
Tuesday 19 Jan 2010 - B day

Reflection essay based on Dr. King's "I Have A Dream Speech."
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            B day

Thursday 14 Jan 2010 - A day
Friday 15 Jan 2010 - B day

Research paragraph about Pavlik Morozov.
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Tuesday 12 Jan 2010 - A day
Wednesday 13 Jan 2010 - B day

Students practice research looking at the prison years of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the books he published about it.
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            B day

Tuesday 12 Jan 2010 - A day
Wednesday 13 Jan 2010 - B day

Students practice research looking at the prison years of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the books he published about it.
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            B day

Friday 8 Jan 2010 - A day
Monday 11 Jan 2010 - B day

Students read this newspaper opinion article and write a reflection essay about the writer's theme. Afterwards, students take the essay and put it on wordle.net.

Wednesday 6 Jan 2010 - A day
Thursday 7 Jan 2010 - B day

Research activity.

Links and other information

• The worksheet outlining the workday in the book One Day.

• Students listened to this recording on Martin Luther King day and reflected on the speech in an essay later in class.

Wordle.net is a website which allows people to upload text and have it arranged in a graphic display with most-commonly used words highlighted and words shown according to their relationships. Try it. It's cool.

First term page for Senior English.

Second term page for Senior English.

Contact information

Here's how to contact Mr. A:
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Paul Apfelbeck
Galena Interior Learning Academy
P.O. Box 359
Galena, AK 99741
Work - 907.656.2053
Home - 907.656.2380
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