Wednesday, March 30, 2011
3-30-11
As of this week, this is what you should have done. We did a Joliffe on "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell on page 529 in your book. We answered the Discussion questions on page 539-540 and did the questions on Rhetoric and style. We read together and did a Joliffe on "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan. We read "Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Official Language." We answered the Exploring the Text questions and wrote a one page essay on whether or not you agree or disagree that English should be our national language. We started our research papers, so, if you don't have a topic, find one, make sure you have it in class. We spent a lot of time going over these topics in class, I hope you have a few down ready to discuss so you can start. I'm working on posting the layout for the project soon. Any questions, you know where to find me.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
College Night
This free Workshop will explain in less than an hour, how we will
assign you a mentor to help you sign up for and receive at least
six admissions awards in the next few weeks.
Your parents will also learn how they are able to afford this great program for
their family. This is one program and is intended for the entire family
as a one-time expense, for less than the first year’s cost of books.
All families, regardless of financial strength, are qualified and invited either on
Monday March the 28th at 7:00pm or Wednesday the 30th at 7:00pm to learn about this program at the Tracy Elks Lodge, 6400 West 11th Street, Tracy, CA 95304
Reserve your seat....please call (209) 229-1256 to rsvp for your family!
Four year plans are available today, for YOU.
At the Workshop, we will announce a $20,000.00 Essay contest which you can sign up for at the
Workshop and earn this valuable tuition credit in May this year, if you are the selected winner.
Join us in March and plan to change your LIFE.
assign you a mentor to help you sign up for and receive at least
six admissions awards in the next few weeks.
Your parents will also learn how they are able to afford this great program for
their family. This is one program and is intended for the entire family
as a one-time expense, for less than the first year’s cost of books.
All families, regardless of financial strength, are qualified and invited either on
Monday March the 28th at 7:00pm or Wednesday the 30th at 7:00pm to learn about this program at the Tracy Elks Lodge, 6400 West 11th Street, Tracy, CA 95304
Reserve your seat....please call (209) 229-1256 to rsvp for your family!
Four year plans are available today, for YOU.
At the Workshop, we will announce a $20,000.00 Essay contest which you can sign up for at the
Workshop and earn this valuable tuition credit in May this year, if you are the selected winner.
Join us in March and plan to change your LIFE.
Monday, March 21, 2011
3-21-11
For today:
You should have finished your Huck Finn Final by now. If you have not, see me about possible make-ups.
We have read the first two essays in our text books: Politics and the English Language and A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood. For both, you should have answered the questions for discussion and questions on rhetoric and style. They are due by Wednesday if you have not finished in class.
For homework on Wednesday, check out and read this article:
http://harvardmagazine.com/print/2752?page=all
Come ready to discuss this article next week.
You should have finished your Huck Finn Final by now. If you have not, see me about possible make-ups.
We have read the first two essays in our text books: Politics and the English Language and A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood. For both, you should have answered the questions for discussion and questions on rhetoric and style. They are due by Wednesday if you have not finished in class.
For homework on Wednesday, check out and read this article:
http://harvardmagazine.com/print/2752?page=all
Come ready to discuss this article next week.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
2-17-11
Grammar 174-175 Review D & E
Discussed Huck, watched a video on Twain and then discussed how it related to chapters 21-25 - looking at Jim's character and how he misses his family. This interaction resulted in Huck seeing Jim in a more human light.
Homework for Tuesday, Read chapter 25 up through chapter 35 (stopping at chapter 36). Annotate chapters.
If you have time, feel free to start and work on your REHUGO due next Thursday.
Discussed Huck, watched a video on Twain and then discussed how it related to chapters 21-25 - looking at Jim's character and how he misses his family. This interaction resulted in Huck seeing Jim in a more human light.
Homework for Tuesday, Read chapter 25 up through chapter 35 (stopping at chapter 36). Annotate chapters.
If you have time, feel free to start and work on your REHUGO due next Thursday.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
REHUGO #4
Nisha Rangel
AP English 3
Mr. Soeth
February 16, 2011
REHUGO #4 - Current Event Analysis: Why should or why
shouldn't homosexual couples be allowed to marry?
A. Article citation's at the end of the essay.
a) Should Gays Be Allowed to Marry? by Kathy Henry
b) I Finally Understand Why Homosexuals Shouldn't’t be Allowed to Marry by Marcus
Zabimaru
B. a) In the first article Kathy Henry states that gay marriage should become
legalized because marriage is a commitment between two adults, not two adults of a
different sex. She goes on to state that gender should not be an obstacle and the
American society should not be ones to judge when a mockery is made almost everyday
by heterosexual couples divorce.
b) Marcue Zabimaru is against the legalization of gay marriage by going back to
ancient traditions of heterosexual marriages and evolution by stating if homosexual
couples should marry then they should be able to reproduce like heterosexual
couples. He then goes on to say that gay couples do not make as good of parents as
heterosexual couples and that society will not conform to the change of legalizing
gay marriage.
C. a) Henry uses examples of the American lifestyle and how it hypocritical by
allowing one couple to achieve marriage and not the other. She goes on to state that
many gay individuals have the same jobs as straight individuals and since they are
allowed to hold the same jobs, why not the same rights? Also by creating a reference
to the "American Dream" and how denying homosexual rights of marriage we are not
fulfilling that opportunity of gaining a true "American Dream."
b) In Zabimaru's essay, he slightly uses a religious background to his argument,
which helps support him because many people have the same religious beliefs and by
creating this argument it can persuade those of similar ideas. Another crucial part
of his essay is how he lists his examples of arguments and provides information to
glorify why that is the way he feels.
D. a) Henry uses juxtapostiton throughout most of her essay by providing examples on
how one type of couple is to the other. For example, "Although American society
denies the right to marriage to gays, it glorifies heterosexuals who make a mockery
out of marriage by marrying and divorcing a succession of partners." by stating how
heterosexual couples have the opportunity to marry, but abuse it, persuades her
audience to feel sympathy for homosexual couples. Henry also uses allusions to
better her argument; "According to some individuals, America is the greatest country
in the world. It is supposedly filled with opportunities for everyone, not just
financially but an opportunity to be free from judgement. This is not true.
Everyday, millions of people are denied a right many take for granted." By alluding
to the "American Dream" it gets the audience to think about the opportunities they
have and if it truly is the American dream.
b) Zabimaru uses process analysis throughout the entire essay, listing all
reasons why he believes gay marriage should not be legal. He uses reasons such
as "Marriage is an ancient tradition and has always been a union between a man and a
woman." and "The union between a man and a woman is a fertile one, while homosexual
relationships can't without help lead to children." Listing his arguments helps to
persuade the reader to possibly agree with his reasoning or come up with their own
to go along with his. Zabimaru also uses rhetorical questions such as, "I'm sure
change is still always bad; no one wants a change in the basic structure of our
society right?" and "So, why is this important to me?" to get the audience to wonder
about his approach and to get readers to rethink their opinion.
E. While I do have my religious aspects of marriage, I still believe that love is
love and people should be able to marry as they wish. Who is to say that a guy
cannot marry a guy or a girl cannot marry a girl? No one has the right to criticise
an individuals choice of lifestyle. Plus, there is no reason to worry about everyone
else's personal aspects of life, but your own, and people need to realize that.
Marriage is something sacred, a commitment, if both can remain faith full, why must
the orientation matter?Hopefully one day there will be true equality for all, and
homosexual couples can gain their marital rights.
MLA Citation for Articles:
Henry, Kathy. "Should Gays Be Allowed to Marry?" EzineArticles. 29 May 2007. Web. 16
Feb. 2011..
Zabimaru, Marcus. "I Finally Understand Why Homosexuals Shouldn't’t Be Allowed to
Marry." HubPages. June 2009. Web. 17 Feb. 2011.
AP English 3
Mr. Soeth
February 16, 2011
REHUGO #4 - Current Event Analysis: Why should or why
shouldn't homosexual couples be allowed to marry?
A. Article citation's at the end of the essay.
a) Should Gays Be Allowed to Marry? by Kathy Henry
b) I Finally Understand Why Homosexuals Shouldn't’t be Allowed to Marry by Marcus
Zabimaru
B. a) In the first article Kathy Henry states that gay marriage should become
legalized because marriage is a commitment between two adults, not two adults of a
different sex. She goes on to state that gender should not be an obstacle and the
American society should not be ones to judge when a mockery is made almost everyday
by heterosexual couples divorce.
b) Marcue Zabimaru is against the legalization of gay marriage by going back to
ancient traditions of heterosexual marriages and evolution by stating if homosexual
couples should marry then they should be able to reproduce like heterosexual
couples. He then goes on to say that gay couples do not make as good of parents as
heterosexual couples and that society will not conform to the change of legalizing
gay marriage.
C. a) Henry uses examples of the American lifestyle and how it hypocritical by
allowing one couple to achieve marriage and not the other. She goes on to state that
many gay individuals have the same jobs as straight individuals and since they are
allowed to hold the same jobs, why not the same rights? Also by creating a reference
to the "American Dream" and how denying homosexual rights of marriage we are not
fulfilling that opportunity of gaining a true "American Dream."
b) In Zabimaru's essay, he slightly uses a religious background to his argument,
which helps support him because many people have the same religious beliefs and by
creating this argument it can persuade those of similar ideas. Another crucial part
of his essay is how he lists his examples of arguments and provides information to
glorify why that is the way he feels.
D. a) Henry uses juxtapostiton throughout most of her essay by providing examples on
how one type of couple is to the other. For example, "Although American society
denies the right to marriage to gays, it glorifies heterosexuals who make a mockery
out of marriage by marrying and divorcing a succession of partners." by stating how
heterosexual couples have the opportunity to marry, but abuse it, persuades her
audience to feel sympathy for homosexual couples. Henry also uses allusions to
better her argument; "According to some individuals, America is the greatest country
in the world. It is supposedly filled with opportunities for everyone, not just
financially but an opportunity to be free from judgement. This is not true.
Everyday, millions of people are denied a right many take for granted." By alluding
to the "American Dream" it gets the audience to think about the opportunities they
have and if it truly is the American dream.
b) Zabimaru uses process analysis throughout the entire essay, listing all
reasons why he believes gay marriage should not be legal. He uses reasons such
as "Marriage is an ancient tradition and has always been a union between a man and a
woman." and "The union between a man and a woman is a fertile one, while homosexual
relationships can't without help lead to children." Listing his arguments helps to
persuade the reader to possibly agree with his reasoning or come up with their own
to go along with his. Zabimaru also uses rhetorical questions such as, "I'm sure
change is still always bad; no one wants a change in the basic structure of our
society right?" and "So, why is this important to me?" to get the audience to wonder
about his approach and to get readers to rethink their opinion.
E. While I do have my religious aspects of marriage, I still believe that love is
love and people should be able to marry as they wish. Who is to say that a guy
cannot marry a guy or a girl cannot marry a girl? No one has the right to criticise
an individuals choice of lifestyle. Plus, there is no reason to worry about everyone
else's personal aspects of life, but your own, and people need to realize that.
Marriage is something sacred, a commitment, if both can remain faith full, why must
the orientation matter?Hopefully one day there will be true equality for all, and
homosexual couples can gain their marital rights.
MLA Citation for Articles:
Henry, Kathy. "Should Gays Be Allowed to Marry?" EzineArticles. 29 May 2007. Web. 16
Feb. 2011.
Zabimaru, Marcus. "I Finally Understand Why Homosexuals Shouldn't’t Be Allowed to
Marry." HubPages. June 2009. Web. 17 Feb. 2011.
2-16-11
Grammar 173-174 Review B & C
Talked about two chapters in Huck, chapter 14, Huck and Jim's discussion on King Solomon, and Huck's lying about Jim being white and having small pox to scare away the posse hunting escaped slaves.
Finished going over AP essay samples, looking at different types of grades and discussing why.
For tomorrow, make sure you have read up through chapter 25, also, REHUGO. Don't worry about attaching the articles, just post your citations.
Talked about two chapters in Huck, chapter 14, Huck and Jim's discussion on King Solomon, and Huck's lying about Jim being white and having small pox to scare away the posse hunting escaped slaves.
Finished going over AP essay samples, looking at different types of grades and discussing why.
For tomorrow, make sure you have read up through chapter 25, also, REHUGO. Don't worry about attaching the articles, just post your citations.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
2-15-11
Reading quiz on Huck Finn
Brief discussion on book, scored annotations for chapters 11-20.
Looked at Student writing samples on the AP test.
For tomorrow, if - for some reason - you did not have your annotations finished, or woudl like a better score, bring them tomorrow.
We will be having a close discussion/reading on chapter 16 and on, when Huck and Jim share their stories and then make analogies afterwards. We will also talk about the Grandefords and their feud. REREAD IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE REMEMBER THIS PART!
For Thursday, REHUGO 4 and chapters 21-25.
Brief discussion on book, scored annotations for chapters 11-20.
Looked at Student writing samples on the AP test.
For tomorrow, if - for some reason - you did not have your annotations finished, or woudl like a better score, bring them tomorrow.
We will be having a close discussion/reading on chapter 16 and on, when Huck and Jim share their stories and then make analogies afterwards. We will also talk about the Grandefords and their feud. REREAD IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE REMEMBER THIS PART!
For Thursday, REHUGO 4 and chapters 21-25.
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