Welcome to English 10 Honors!

Some of you have expressed interest in looking at an outline for the paper that you are writing this weekend.  I have attached an outline here for you to use if you so desire.
I hope this helps!

Note-taking template

 

Debate Resolution:

The enactment of censorship over the last eighty years is justified.

Topics: These are topics that will need to be understood generally and specifically.  The setting for this research is the United States 1930 – 2010. 

Religious censorship:  separation of church and state (ex. “In God We Trust” on money) and censorship of religion in school curriculum:  evolution vs. creationism; school prayer.

For example, an affirmative stance would be: religion has NO PLACE in schools.  

For example, a negative stance would be: you should be able to voice religious views on school property (teach religious curriculum, etc.)

Political censorship:  blocking information about public figures, war-time censorship, McCarthyism.

For example, an affirmative would be: it is okay for the government to censor what is told to the public. 

For example, a negative stance would be: the public has a right to know of any information that is obtained by the government: policies and safety-related matters

censorship of the Visual/Fine Arts:  painting, drawing, photography, sculpture

For example, an affirmative would be: visual arts need to be censored to protect the public from questionable/controversial images/subjects/ideas.

For example, a negative stance would be: visual arts should not be censored as guaranteed by our right for freedom of expression.

**Knowledge and understanding of the first amendment rights should be included in your research for all of the above topics.

Source List and Notes

While researching for your debate and paper, you will need to take notes. Your debate must cite valid research sources, statistics, quotations, and other logical evidence. Please be able to cite all your evidence during your debate.

SOURCE LIST:  You will write the source, in the correct format on your source list (Works Cited) page.  For the purpose of notetaking, label your different sources with a different number (1,2,3, etc.).  SOURCES SHOULD BE ALPHABETICAL!!

*The only sources you are allowed to use are the library databases: SIRS databases, GALE/Infotrac, ABC-CLIO, Opposing Viewpoints, Historical Newspapers, etc.

NOTES:  Label each note “card” with the number of its source (the same one that’s on the source list) and a title so that you can tell what’s on it at a glance. Write down things like concepts, statements, or quotations that go along with your main idea.  Your notes may be done electronically or on index cards.  They need to be organized by topics and include a source number that corresponds with your source list.  (Topic headings could include: case studies, background information, etc.) 

You will need approximately two or three single-spaced pages of notes. 

Please see the kind of notes you should take below:

Summary:  Taking a lot of information (i.e. main idea, basic plotlines, etc.) from an article and completing rewording it for your own information.  Not necessary to directly cite this information within your paper as long as you are using your OWN words!!

Paraphrasing:  Taking parts, words, or phrasing from a text to explain a topic, but not using a direct quotation.  You must cite this within your paper!

Direct quotations/Statistics/Facts:  Taking direct words, facts, or statistics from a text to help strengthen a point.  You must always cite the source of this information within your paper!

FIRST DRAFT OF YOUR NOTES IS DUE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22^ND

An example of a note entry:

Background information on McCarthyism

• Joseph McCarthy was a republican senator of Wisconsin known for attracting headlines with his charges of communist infiltration in American organizations.
• McCarthy’s accusations were usually baseless and ruined the careers of many distinguished citizens.
•   He became front-page news in 1950, when he publicly charged that more than two hundred secret communists had infiltrated the State Department.

(Summary/Source 1)

Nice job on your perfect paragraphs!

Today you finished your perfect paragraphs, participated in a literature circle on your banned/challenged book, and found out what subtopic of censorship you will be researching. 
For the next couple of days we will put aside Fahrenheit 451 and focus on our research for the debate and paper.  Tomorrow we will meet in the library and start our research.  Your homework tonight is to REREAD your censorship overview article (political, religious, or fine arts) and take notes on the "Preparation for Censorship Research" chart.  Please see today's PowerPoint for more information about class, the library, and other announcements.

Censorship articles can be found under the November 3rd/4th blog post (if your originals were lost).

1.  Keep reading your Banned/Challenged book - LITERATURE CIRCLES are tomorrow!
2. Complete your role preparation assignment!!  Make sure to read your role description carefully.
3.  Read over and annotate the Debate project description.  Make sure to take the SURVEY that is found on the back of the sheet.  Tomorrow I will collect these surveys (therefore make sure to label the survey WITH YOUR NAME!).
 

1.  Read pages 93-110 (finish Part II) in Fahrenheit 451.
2. Start working on your literature circle role sheet. See attached document.

1.  Read pages 71-93 in Fahrenheit 451
2. Find examples of your symbols in Part 1 and Part 2. 
3.  Continue reading your independent reading book.  You should be at least 1/3 of the way through this book by now.

Read THROUGH page 68 in Fahrenheit 451 (finish Part I).
Read "Genesis 11" (this text is alluded to in F451).  After reading this text answer the below two questions on the back of the paper.
1.  Why does Beatty say that the woman was erecting her very own "Tower of Babel"in her house?
2.  If the woman (and her books) represents the "humans" what does Beatty represent?

Study for your vocabulary 9 quiz on Friday.  The quiz will be on ten words: allocate - gnarled (word #7, copious, is cut off so it will not be on the quiz).

Today's PowerPoint

HOMEWORK DUE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2010

1.        IN FAHRENHEIT 451, read to the line: “The Mechanical Hound” on page 24.

2.        As you read take notes on the character analysis chart (yellow paper) on the dialogue between Clarisse and Montag and what Clarisse reveals to us about Montag’s character at the beginning of the book?

3.        EXTRA CREDIT - Write down two questions to ask the author, Kimberly Marcus, about her book, Exposed, or the writing process.

*WE WILL MEET IN THE CLASSROOM TOMORROW AND THEN GO TO THE LIBRARY.

 

What did I pass out today?

·         Unit Calendar   

·         Vocabulary 7 Words (Quiz on Friday)

·         Character Analysis Chart

·         Corrected work

·         Grade report sheet.