Sample Speech outline

I.

          A. Ever wonder why kids really dread moving? Well its not cause our peers are the easiest to get along with.

          B. When kids move from one district to another its not that bad because they might know someone that lives there. When they move state to state that’s a WHOLE other story.

          C. By the end of this I would hope to make it easier to understand why in my opinion moving really sucks.

          D. Moving isn’t really as great as parents make it to seem.

II.

          A. A few months ago I lived in nice sunny Charlotte, North Carolina.

                   1. There everything was just so much fun. I guess living with your older cousins has its perks to.

                   2. The atmosphere was just much more chilled in relaxed I didn’t really worry bout anything.

                   3. I just got so accustomed to everything out there.

                   4. Then I got hit with the big surprise. I was moving back to good old Jersey.

             B. Have you ever watched a cartoon and in the cartoon that character just gets whacked across the face with  something hard and painful?  

                   1. Well that’s exactly how I felt at that moment. My jaw just dropped.  

                   2. I stood there so long with my jaw dropped it actually started to ache a little.

                   3. Everything was just so surreal. I thought to myself maybe if I mope long enough and just look flat out depressed my mom would change her mind.

                   4. NOPE… We wee still moving and my life was still ruined forever.

          C. Parents don’t understand the struggle to make new friends.

                   1. To make new friends we would actually have to be sociable in a new school and hope that the person who your trying to make friends with doesn’t think your downright weird.  

                   2. To kids or at least to me its so hard to just meet new people.

                   3. Honestly I’d rather be that loner kid that no one talks to just so I don’t have to actually strike up a conversation with someone.

          D. When I moved to Mays Landing and started Oakcrest I had idea and one idea only:     

                   1. “If anyone talks to me that’s fine talk to them make friends. If they don’t oh well you’ll forever be alone.”

                   2. That is exactly how I went my first week at Oakcrest.
                   3. To my advantage people were actually nice and wanted to talk to me.        

III.

          A.  The second week of school wasn’t as bad I actually survived.

          B. I say all this to say moving can be a great thing if the kids not a teenage kid that’s probably all emotional and pumped up on 

Project Samples

Here's a few samples that you can look at for tomorrow's hero project:

Lindsay Lohan

Watchmen

Sample Sentences Unit 4

Vocabulary Unit 4 Sample Sentences

1.        My mom just surmised that I ate the cookies out of the cookie jar without seeing me take it.  (Natashia Cooper)

2.       The marauding of the bear stopped when he found food.  (Sam Corso)

3.       Oedipus defiled his own mother and it’s disgusting.  (Cameron Garcia)

4.       For an artist, their hearth is the studio; whether it’s long hours recording, painting or dancing, it feels like a second home.  (Cece Holeschak)

5.       Although the bus took the brunt of the impact, there were still passengers who were injured severely in the accident.  (Alex Ho)

6.       You could tell they lived a life of piety when they prayed each night before dinner.  (Melissa Zou)

7.       His complexion was swarthy, almost the same shade as his dark hair.  (Etimbuk Ukpe)

8.       The police are struggling to contain the onslaught of riots and protesting going on in Ferguson.  (Brooke Szarzynski)

9.       In the Hunger Games, Katniss sang a dirge to Rue as she is slowly dying.  (Kaitlyn Scardino)

10.   The sanctimonious attitude of some celebrities is not attractive to the public audience.  (Jessica Bixha)

**Study for the quiz tomorrow!

Vocabulary Words: Oedipus

1. kindred
2. dirge
3. gouge
4. blasphemy
5. onslaught
6. brunt
7. hearth
8. defile
9. marauding
10. sanctimonious
11. surmise
12. swarthy
13.  begot
14. vagabond

Email me your essays here:

Please email me your essays: Times New Roman, Double-spaced, 12-point font by Saturday at 11:59PM.

Email an attachment(and put in the body of email)to: emailmrsrock@gmail.com

Thanks, and have a fabulous Turkey Day: )

Oh Oedipus, You So Tragic!

Your assignment: Find a parallel tragic hero in modern history, literature, movies, television,etc.

Complete a full, written sketch of your modern tragic hero. Follow Aristotle's definition. You will have a chart(which we will get on Monday) that very nicely illustrates these qualities. Use the chart!!!

Yeah, you can probably Google this. You can find millions of professor-given examples online. But c'mon, this isn't so hard. Utilize your interests to get this done. Me, I love celebrity gossip, so I'm likely to pick some sad starlet. Or Steve Jobs. Maybe.

Is anyone off-limits? Of course. Actual tragic heroes, from literature? Off-limits. And what constitutes modern, you may ask? For me, it should be a figure that existed or was created anywhere from 1900 to the present. That's a pretty big window.

This can't be emailed to me because I'd like it to be pretty. I'd like a picture of your hero, surrounded by their Aristotlian, (is that a word?) tragic qualities. You should be as specific as possible. If every hero needs a flaw, for example, you should name that flaw. Maybe even give an example of it in action. If I was doing Steve Jobs(ahem...this another no-no for you guys), then I may say his flaw was his ego. That ego was deadly, in fact, because it led to him believing he could cure his cancer without modern medicine, which, in turn, killed him. Tragic stuff.

Here's my pathetic example...here

I only completed one of the six characteristics, but I hope you get the point. Contact me at any point before the due date(January 2nd!) if you have a question.

Rock out.

Some Essay Resources

Tomorrow, your rough draft is due.

On the side, I have posted citationmachine.net and the handy-dandy powerpoint-ish thing you saw today.

Here is a sample MLA paper, complete with works cited:

MLA Paper

Tomorrow, we will peer edit and talk conclusions and MLA format.

Research Day 2, Question 6

Follow these links to some very popular sites and stories.  Tell me if they're credible or not, and explain why.

1. Kanye

2. Facebook

3. Vick

4. Dogs

5. Ebola

6. Speak 1

7. Speak 2

Unit 2 Samples

Name____________________

English I Honors

Mrs. Rock           

Vocabulary Unit 2 Sample Sentences

1.        The girl didn’t want anyone to know about her sadness, so she went through her day smiling superficially. (Wilfred Salvatierra)

2.       It was indisputable; he was going to be grounded no matter what he had to say.  (Ben Delano)

3.       As I approached the volcano, I could hear an ominous rumbling.  (Matthew Carter)

4.       Hypothetically, Olaf shouldn’t be alive!  Elsa has ice powers, not life power.  (Hannah DuBois)

5.       The modernity of the building stood out against the old buildings surrounding it.  (Lena Nguyen)

6.       When my brother’s eyes gleamed with joy as soon as he saw chocolate sitting on the counter, I preemptively snatched it away and stuffed it inside my mouth.  (Melissa Zou)

7.       Many of us have a hard time with the infiltration of a straw through a Caprisun, which is why we usually have to ask someone nearby for help.  (Alexa Dimino)

8.       One student rebel went in the principal’s office and created a very violent coup against the grading policies.  (Bernice Ntambwe)

9.       The boy’s rationale for being late to class was that he tripped and his books flew all over the hallways.  (Louis DiFabio)

10.   The inception of my relationship with Ms. Chiappini was the moment we realized we shared a mutual love of the Baby Sitters Club book series.  (Mrs. Rock)

**Study for the quiz tomorrow!

Vocabulary Unit 2 Definitions

Vocabulary Unit 2

1.       Indisputable-unable to be challenged or denied, beyond doubt

2.       Preemptive-taken as a measure against something possible

3.       Superficially-concerned with outward appearance or what’s on the surface; fakely

4.       Ominous-the feeling that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen

5.       Coup-a highly successfully, unexpected attack or takeover

6.       Hypothetical-based on a guess, not well-supported by available evidence

7.       Inception-beginning

8.       Modernity-the quality of being present or with recent times

9.       Rationale-reasons

       Infiltration-to break into stealthily 

Watch your Tone! (this weekend...)

This weekend, please read through page 77, stopping at "Coloring..."

Also, please complete the tone sheet I gave you in class for pages 65-66 ONLY.  ("Peeled and Cored.")


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Downloading Speak

There are a couple of options here.

Click the link on the right.  You should get a .pdf file.  If you're on a tablet or phone, you may have to selection "view web version" before you can see the links.

Once you click on it, download it if you are using a computer.

If on your phone/tablet, save it somewhere.  Here's what my iphone looks like when I click it:

I just open in iBooks and go.

Read through page 20 for tonight's homework, and thank you so much for volunteering: )

Sample Sentences Unit 1

1. Hitler believed that the German people had supremacy over all other races and religions, which resulted in the Holocaust and World War II. (Megan Miller)

2. Erin imagined her near future to be a dystopia when she found out her mom had cancer. (Sarah Putiri)

3. Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only president who served a tenure of 12 years. (Preston Phommathep)

4. The insurgency gave up their plans when they realized how indestructible the U.S. Government is. (Wilfred Salvatierra)

5. Superstorm Sandy was so cataclysmic that we are still re-building houses in Ocean City, Atlantic City, and Ventnor. (Layla M)

6. The main impetus of his fear of death was his inability to comprehend it. (Ben Delano)

7. Most of the populace of Mays Landing goes to Oakcrest High School. ( Matt Carter)

8. The viceroy learned everything he could about the country before it was time to take the throne from the current ruler. (Melissa Zou)

9. The team became complacent when they were up by three touchdowns; then they lost to the mighty Falcons! (Tobi Fadugba)

10. The Thanksgiving community pantry was stocked with a plethora of canned goods. (Bernice Ntambwe)

It's Vocab. Time...(plethora of groans)...

Tonight, I would like you to complete one sentence for each vocabulary word(10 total), complete with context clue. Please be aware that sentences that are either illegible or fail to contain context clues will be counted as a zero.

 Here are some helpful links in relation to this week's vocabulary:

Old sample sentences, for ideas: Sample Sentences 2013
Old quiz, to get a vibe on my style: Old Vocab 2013

Vocabulary Unit 1

Vocabulary Unit 1 1. Viceroy 2. Populace 3. Impetus 4. Cataclysmic 5. Insurgency 6. Complacent 7. Dystopia 8. Plethora 9. Tenure 10. Supremacy Please define these words by tomorrow, referring to Chuck Klosterman when needed.

Essay Prompt: Friday

For absent folks and period 11, here is your essay prompt. Don't give yourself any more than 40 minutes to complete. Respond to the following prompt in 4-6 paragraphs: In his essay “You Say You Want a Revolution,” Chuck Klosterman says that “We have reached a point where the reinvention of America is impossible, even if that were what we wanted. Even if that were what everybody wanted.” Do you agree or disagree with Chuck Klosterman? Do you think America is a country that will not see significant change in the near future? Why or why not? Use examples from literature, history, pop culture or personal experience to explain your answer.

Get your book descriptions here!

Straight lifted from Amazon.com, here are your book choices for our first Honors I novel.

 We will primarily be reading this at home, so think about which book you would be most interested in reading. I will post the poll soon so you can vote.

 Choice #1: Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson Since the beginning of the school year, high school freshman Melinda has found that it's been getting harder and harder for her to speak out loud: "My throat is always sore, my lips raw.... Every time I try to talk to my parents or a teacher, I sputter or freeze.... It's like I have some kind of spastic laryngitis." What could have caused Melinda to suddenly fall mute? Could it be due to the fact that no one at school is speaking to her because she called the cops and got everyone busted at the seniors' big end-of-summer party? Or maybe it's because her parents' only form of communication is Post-It notes written on their way out the door to their nine-to-whenever jobs. While Melinda is bothered by these things, deep down she knows the real reason why she's been struck mute...

 Choice #2: The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous – it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.

 Choice #3 Life of Pi, by Yann Martel The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?

 Choice #4 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.

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