Ms. Priv's Homework

Week 11: Mar. 15-19 (start of 4th qtr.)

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Class ID--      3090655

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Directions: go to turnitin.com and register as a new user. Follow the steps and turnitin will guide you through setting up your account. If you have already set one up, you just need to login and add a class.

pTunes Instructions:

Go to iTunes Music Store

Click on iTunes U

Click on Universities and Colleges

Choose Arizona State University

Under ASU Community, choose IDEAL

Under Districts, Schools, and Organizations, choose Paradise Valley School District

My videos are under Language Arts

Blogging: You must go to blogger.com and set up a Google account using your pvlearners email and password. Once you have this account, login into the URL for the particular blog I have assigned. You must join as a "Follower" to each blog. After reading what I am asking of you from that particular blog, scroll to the bottom of the screen to Post A Comment. Type your answer in the box and hit Publish Post button. You will only be able to accomplish this if you have a Google account.

***Remember, anytime you have any problems with blogging, do not ignore the assignment. Write your answer out and turn it in the following morning OR send it to me as an email on my pvlearners account using YOUR pvlearners account.

Seniors:

3/15: Start Vocab #11 (this quiz will be taken on Monday, 3/22.

Sr. scrap #10 due. Next: News Events from My High School Years.

Pick up The Plague book from the bookstore.

Intro to The Plague and its Effects on Literature (notes).

Group time

H/W: Sickie Writing and Poem: Write a brief narrative about a time when you were so sick you thought you were going to die.

Then, turn it into a poem, personifying death as Dante did in the Danse Macabre.

3/16: Syllable Saying Puzzle---complete it correctly along with the saying and you will get extra credit.

How to do a Works Cited page correctly using citationmachine.net

Group time or Read

Sickie writing and poem due today.

Last chance to clean out folders of Qtr. 3 work.

3/17: Read excerpts from "A Hole in the Sky"

In groups (no more than 4), Create-A-Contagion, writing a story like we just read using the following elements:

• 1.Name the disease and describe how it originated.
• 2. Its properties and symptoms
• 3. The consequences to those afflicted
• 4. The state of the world after the disease has run its course.

Group time or read

Bring your Plague books with you to class tomorrow.

3/18: Read class contagion stories and vote.

Background to Year of Wonders novel.

Read Chapt. 1 together and distibute reading ?s (due 4/12)

Watch plague scenes from The Stand

Reminder: all Gothic and Horror stories are due tomorrow.

It is an assembly schedule: wear black and white