English III

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English III

• September 4th-7th

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September 4th

• Bell ringer
• Vocabulary
• Check portfolios for students who did not bring
  them on Friday
• Play werewolf to help students visualize what it
  would have been like to have lived through the
  Salem Witch trials
• Read and discuss Are Americans still Puritan?
• Continue The Crucible if time permits

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Bell ringer

• Imagine you live during the time period of the
  Salem witch trials. Someone has accused you of
  being a witch. What will you do?

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Vocabulary

• Catharsis
• The release of pent-up emotions, for example
  through drama
• Caustic
• Able to burn or corrode organic tissue by
  chemical action scathing biting
• Cavalier
• Showing a lack of proper concern
• Censure
• To express strong disapproval of
• Circumscribe
• Restrict limit define logically, draw a line
  around

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Vocabulary

• Cacophony
• A harsh discordant mixture of sounds
• Cajole
• Persuade someone to do something by sustained
  coaxing or flattery
• Callous
• Insensitive and cruel
• Callow
• Inexperienced and immature
• Capricious
• Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood

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September 5th

• Bell ringer
• Continue reviewing thesis statements by
  completing the thesis statement review activity
• Continue reading The Crucible and create a flow
  map of the major events so far in the play

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Thesis statement review

• You have part of a strip of paper in front of
  you.
• Create three thesis statements about three of the
  words on the strip.
• Trade with a partner and give suggestions about
  how to improve the thesis statement.
• Trade back and make corrections

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Bell ringer

• Why are thesis statements important?

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September 6th

• Bell ringer
• Review vocabulary
• Learn about paraphrasing, summarizing, and
  quoting
• Continue reading The Crucible and find themes in
  the play (use paraphrases, summaries, and quotes
  to back up your answer) you will turn this in
• Provide one theme, one summary, one paraphrase,
  and one quote

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Bell ringer

• Fear can be a great motivator. Do you think it
  is better to use fear as a motivator or kindness?
  Why?

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How to Quote

• Quotations are the exact words of the source.
  Quotations should be surrounded by quotation
  marks.
• Example Quote "I really wish I could go to
  North Brother Island, but it is closed to the
  public" (Killy).

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How to Paraphrase

• Paraphrasing is where you write in your own words
  what the writer wrote in amount the same amount
  of words. You would not condense here as you
  would with doing summaries. Use quotation marks
  around any words that are not your own.
• Example Paraphrase Ms. Killy wants to visit
  North Brother Island in New York, but cannot as
  access is restricted.

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Summarizing

• Summarize by condensing a large amount of
  information into a small amount of
  information.Should be written in your own words.
  Basically, you should start out with something
  longer and make it into something shorter. You
  write about what something mainly talks about.

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Bibliography

• If citing a source you need to include a
  bibliography that shows where you got your
  information from.
• Should be in alphabetical order by authors name.
• If there is no author for one work then put it
  after all of the other works.
• If there is no author for multiple works put them
  after the other works and then those works goes
  in order by their titles.
• Everything after the second line should have a
  hanging indent. To do a hanging indent you can
  just tab over one time,
• like so.

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In Text Citations

• You should provide information in parentheses
  after the quote, paraphrase, or summary as to
  where the information came from.
• This information should include the page number
  if there is one and the authors name.

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In Text Citations

• Example of in text citation It has been found
  that narwhals die from being enclosed in ice
  (Killy).
• If there is a name and a page number the name
  comes first and then the page number.
• Example of in text citation It has been found
  that narwhals die from being enclosed in ice
  (Killy 12).

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September 7

• Bell ringer
• Vocabulary quiz
• Continue reading The Crucible
• Discuss whether or not the punishments during the
  Salem witch trails were humane
• Discuss whether or not some of the superstitions
  that existed during that time still exist today
• Continue working on summarizing, paraphrasing,
  and quoting with The Crucible

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Bell ringer

• What is due today?

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Create each of the following

• A quote about the setting
• A paraphrase about one character
• A summary of the play thus far
• A quote about what is wrong with Betty