Week 6: February 9-13

RECENT DOCUMENTS

• Biography Parallel Reading Schedule  
• Study guides for Biography Parallels
  (I do not plan on printing these for you, but you may request one individually):
• Breaking Night
• Boys in the Boat
• The Pact
• Half Broke Horses  
• Research Project Documents
• Topics you listed from Butcher Paper Brainstorming -- note I did not edit or evaluate these topics, I simply listed them off from what you all came up with.  Some of these need some definite fine-tuning.
• Step 1WORK (turn this in)
• Step 1 INFO (resource -- don't turn this in)
• Step 2 WORK
• Step 2 INFO
• Step 3 WORK
• Step 3 INFO
• Step 4 WORK (to come Tuesday)
• Step 4 INFO

UPCOMING DUE DATES

RESEARCH PROJECT

• Monday 2/9: Step 2 (work) due at the beginning of class
• Thursday 2/12: Step 3 (work) due
• Friday 2/13: Step 4 (work) due

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY

• Tuesday 2/10: Extra Credit After School Help Session (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds) -- see the extra credit page for more info)
• Wednesday 2/11: Permission forms for extra credit due (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds) -- see the extra credit page for more info)
• Monday 2/16: Dialectical Journals for extra credit due (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds) -- see the extra credit page for more info)
• Wednesday 2/18:  Extra Credit assessment during X Block

BIOGRAPHY READING SCHEDULE

• Wednesday 2/11: Biography Reading Quiz 1 -- see reading schedule posted above 
• Wednesday 2/18: Biography Reading Quiz 1 -- see reading schedule posted above

WEEK AT A GLANCE:

Monday 2/9

• Using the story "Rainy Day and Mondys" (scroll down to ACT II and find the right facing arrow to play this segment) from This American Life as a model, note how reporters move between expository information (facts and background) to narrative (stories and experiences).  Consider the power of human stories/pathos to illustrate facts/logos
• For homework tonight --
• go to the topics page on This American Life, and find some key words related to your topic.  You may not find an exact match, but you will find something in the same neighborhood -- think it through, you will find something.
• Click on the topic and look at the stories (blurbs) and find one that matches your topic in some way
• Listen to the first ten minutes of the story
• Complete a T-chart like we did in class today with three details for facts and background, three details for narrative, and one explanation for theme.
• Think about how the reporter moves between facts to explain an issue and experience to illustrate the human part of the story

Tuesday 2/10

• Reading day for biography quiz on Wednesday
• Writing conferences

Wednesday 2/11

• Biography Quiz 1
• Interview techniques
• Work on Step 3 and Step 4

Thursday 2/12

• Step 3 due at the beginning of class
• More interviewing techniques
• Work on Step 4

Friday 2/13

• Step 4 due at beginning of class
• More interviewing techniques, mock interviews
• Get ready for interviewing