English II – 1/08/14Bell ringer – Practice ACT paragraph: Copy the correct letter for each one.

My grandma Dee is a great storyteller and entertainer. 1)That is her way of passing down family history and describing our heritage. My 2) favoritest stories are about her early days in an area of Chicago known as Bronzeville. So last week, we 3) drive Grandma back to her old neighborhood to see the places we’ve heard about since we were old enough to remember.

1. A. no change

B. It

C. They

D. Telling stories

2. F. no change

G. favorite

H. most favorite

J. most favoritest

3. A. no change

B. drived

C. drove

D. driven

1st semester grammar review and practice:

Please complete this in your English II notebook.

I will be collecting notebooks either this week or next depending on your class period.

Directions: Take notes and then fix the sentences on the next slide.Please copy:

A fragment lacks either a subject or a complete verb.

A run-on incorrectly runs together two complete ideas without using a conjunction or punctuation.

Please copy and fix these sentences:

1. I want to go to the store let’s stop at the park after we get our groceries.

2. I really wish it was thirty degrees out for hate freezing my butt off.

3. After go to the movies, let’s eat pizza.

Poster brainstorming – essential questions for this unit1. How is beauty related to power?

2. What is beauty?

3. Who decides what is beautiful?

4. What is just about our current society?

5. What is unjust about our current society?

6. What/who creates the current violence or conflicts in our society?

English II – 1/09/14Bell ringer – Practice ACT paragraph: Copy the correct letter for each one.

As we entered Bronzeville, Grandma reminded us that in the 1930s the Chicago Bee newspaper 1) editor James J. Gentry, named the area for the color of the people who lived there. She pointed out a glistening, fourteen-foot bronze map of the neighborhood that appeared at the beginning of the Bronzeville Walk of Fame. We 2) take photographs of the statues and plaques honoring African Americans and of the 24 exotic 3) benches, that looked like works of art. Her favorite bench was shaped like a dress, dotted with bright red circles surrounded by rings of golden yellow paint.

1. F. no changeG. editor, James J.

Gentry; namedH. editor, James J.

Gentry namedJ. editor James J.

Gentry named

2. A. no changeB. takedC. tookD. taken

3. F. no changeG. benches lookingH. benches that lookedJ. benches which looked

1st semester grammar review and practice:

Directions: Take notes and then write your own sentences.Please copy:

Conjunctions can be used to join short, choppy sentences into longer and more cohesive ones.

Please write three sentences using the following words:

1) although

2) nor

3) while

4) for

1/09/14 journalOn your sixteenth birthday, how would you feel about being forced to have a surgery to become “pretty” even if it meant looking like everyone else? What would you want to change about yourself? Or would you fight not to have the surgery even if it meant risking your own life?

English II – 1/10/14Bell ringer – Practice ACT paragraph: Copy the correct letter for each one.

Soon my brother pointed to a 15-foot-tall statue of a man dressed in a suit of worn-out shoe soles, carrying a tied-up suitcase and waving. 7) My Grandma Dee, she explained that the Monument to the Great Northern Migration was a tribute to the African Americans who moved here from the South in the early 1900s. During this period, Bronzeville was a successful and spirited African-American community. 8) Stately, stylishly ornate, graystone mansions graced the tree-lined streets and also tall, dignified brownstone houses. Modern, geometrically styled stores and office buildings lined Grand Boulevard. 9) Famous Bronzeville resident Ida B. Wells was a civil rights activist and suffragist. Grandma said that, in her childhood, the area was always bustling 10) with people shopping strolling or visiting with neighbors. Music from the blues and jazz clubs drifted from doorways where famous musicians such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong once played.

7. Which of the following revisions to the underlined portion would be LEAST acceptable?a. She explainedb. My grandma explainedc. Grandma Dee explainedd. Grandma explained

8. f. no changeg. Stately, stylishly ornate, graystone mansions graced the tree-lined streets. Tall, dignified brownstone houses did also.h. Stately, stylishly ornate, graystone mansions graced the tree-lined streets with tall, dignified brownstone houses.j. Stately, stylishly ornate, graystone mansions and tall, dignified brownstone houses graced the tree-lined streets.

9. Should we keep sentence 9? a. yes, it is relevantb. no, it disrupts the flow of the paragraph

10. f. no changeg. with people shopping, strolling, or visiting with neighborsh. with people shopping, strolling or visiting with neighbors.j. with people shopping, strolling, or visiting, with neighbors.

1st semester grammar review and practice:

Copy and then add commas to the following sentences.

1) I am going to the store to buy bread coffee and milk but I would also love a donut.

2) Although I go to Uplift a school on the north side I live on the south side.

3) By the end of the semester David please prove to me you deserve a B.

4) Last night I went to the Jay-Z concert and oh my god am I tired today.

Utopia vs. DystopiaPlease copy in your notebooks:

Utopia: A society that is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions.

VS.

Dystopia: A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, or moral control. Dystopias, through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, make a criticism about a current trend, societal norm, or political system.

THINK: What would your utopia look like?