Week 3

Week 2 11B	Class Work	Homework
Monday Turn in Syllabus the following Monday  for 100 points Extra credit if and only if you have completed all assignments!	Complete * The Unread City Present Index Cards Discussion of Visual texts 1-3 Text 4 Pre Reading Standard W2.1 Using the writing strategies of grades eleven and twelve outlined in Writing Standard 1.0, students: 2.1 Write fictional, autobiographical, or biographical narratives: a. Narrate a sequence of events and communicate their significance to the audience. b. Locate scenes and incidents in specific places. c. Describe with concrete sensory details the sights, sounds, and smells of a scene and the specific actions, movements, gestures, and feelings of the characters; use interior monologue to depict the characters’ feelings. d. Pace the presentation of actions to accommodate temporal, spatial, and dramatic mood changes. e. Make effective use of descriptions of appearance, images, shifting perspectives, and sensory details.	Study for Vocabulary Exam on texts *  Going up in LA by Reuben Martinez And Coming Home to Van Nuys Turn in Verb Grammar Packet
Tuesday	Correct Vocabulary Exam Resume Model * *	Draft 1 of your resume *
Wednesday	Quick write on a one place in Los Angeles you go to eat. Use sensory details *	TBA * *
Thursday	Vocabulary Exam* Reread Coming Home to Van Nuys *	TBA*
Friday	Junior Project Assignment: 10 More Facts and print out 1 table showing statistics, graph, map *	Revised Resume Due*

Week 2 11B

Week 2 11B	Class Work	Homework
Monday Turn in Syllabus the following Monday  for 100 points Extra credit if and only if you have completed all assignments!	Review Reading A Visual text * The Unread City Texts 1-4 Discussion of Visual texts 1-3 Text 4 Pre Reading Standard W2.1 Using the writing strategies of grades eleven and twelve outlined in Writing Standard 1.0, students: 2.1 Write fictional, autobiographical, or biographical narratives: a. Narrate a sequence of events and communicate their significance to the audience. b. Locate scenes and incidents in specific places. c. Describe with concrete sensory details the sights, sounds, and smells of a scene and the specific actions, movements, gestures, and feelings of the characters; use interior monologue to depict the characters’ feelings. d. Pace the presentation of actions to accommodate temporal, spatial, and dramatic mood changes. e. Make effective use of descriptions of appearance, images, shifting perspectives, and sensory details.	Read Texts 1-4 for the Unit The Unread City * Read text 4 Going up in LA by Reuben Martinez for the GIST Complete Vocabulary Self- Assessment Chart
Tuesday	Examing a Writer’s language * Diction Tone Word Choice Level of Formality Connotation Letter of Intent Model *	Reread Going up in LA by Reuben Martinez and take 2 pages of Cornell Style Notes  *
Wednesday	Quick write on a one place in Los Angeles you go to eat. Use sensory details *	First reading of Coming Home to Van Nuys and Vocabulary self-assessment Chart* Vocabulary Exam on Thursday *
Thursday	Vocabulary Exam* Reread Coming Home to Van Nuys *	Complete Loaded Words (words with strong emotional connotation) table *
Friday	Junior Project Assignment: Conduct enough research to complete Ten Index Cards with Key Facts, Data, and Statistics on your Junior project *	Revised Letter of Intent and 10 Index cards are due Monday. Submit the revised Letter to Turnitin.com and bring your Index cards be ready to present to class*

Stanford Career Center Model Resumes and Business Letters

Resumes, CVs, Business Letters

Letter of Intent Format and Model

Letter of Intent Format

Your Street address

Your City, State, Zip

Today’s Date

Junior Project Committee Member

School Street address

School City, State, Zip

Dear Junior Project Committee Member:

Paragraph 1:                  Describe the general area of interest, for example:

                           history, music, art, and why you have chosen this

                           area. Explain what you already know or have

                           accomplished in this area.

Paragraph 2:                  Include the specific research your paper will focus on,

                           some of the ideas you hope to include and what will

                           be possible resources.

Paragraph 3:                  Begin with a transitional sentence showing the relation-

                           ship between your paper and your community service and/or physical product. Describe

                           your product, who’s involved, potential costs, potential

                           time spent, and possible resources.

Paragraph 4:                  Explain your understanding of plagiarism and the reper-

                           cussions of such an act.

Sincerely,

Signature

Your Name (typed)

Sample Letter

600 S. McCadden Pl.

Los Angeles, CA 90019

October 12, 2008

Hollywood High School

1521 North Highland Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90028

Dear Junior Project Committee Member:

My dream is to go to New York and study journalism, and one-day work for a prestigious magazine. My passion is writing and expressing my opinion and personality in my writing. I am an effective communicator and I am able to socialize with different kinds of people. I want to major in journalism, and have a bachelor’s degree in public relations. I am currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Crimson Chronicle, our high school newspaper, and already I have made positive and practical changes that will add to the credibility and efficiency of the newspaper. I am a natural leader, and I will always strive for what I want to accomplish in my life.

My Junior Project topic is a chance for me to put together my talent in creativity, journalism, and effective marketing. Every time I buy a magazine, I notice that every model is skinny and that some of the merchandise (clothes, jewelry, make-up, etc.) is expensive, and things most girls are not able to afford. My community service project was working with anorexic teens.  Therefore my physical project will be to put together a magazine that appeals to all teenage girls, regardless of their physical appearance, personal type, or social status. I want to know what these girls want to see in a magazine, so I plan to conduct statistically valid surveys in different areas, and ask girls what their ideal magazine would contain, and the things they do not like about the magazines that are currently in circulation. I plan to do all the photography myself; I will include models that are thick, thin, tall, short, etc. A magazine should be able to elevate a girl’s self esteem regardless of her body, and communicate with them at personal level. I am well aware that my project will take time and hard work, but I am willing to do it all because not only will I enjoy it, but also I will make a difference by communicating with teenagers who live in the same world as I do, and have the same questions and fears I have.

My research paper will focus on the influence magazines have over today’s youth, and the unhealthy and superficial image that these magazine categorize as normal. Simply flipping through some of the most popular magazines can automatically make a girl feel insecure and depressed. The reality of my generation is that we are materialistic, and magazines only enforce this idea. I guarantee that I will not plagiarize, and that all the work I will present will be original, and will be a result of my own ideas and beliefs.

Sincerely,

Anastasia Gulaff

Week 1 Syllabus

	Class Work	Homework
Monday Turn in Syllabus the following Monday  for 100 points Extra credit if and only if you have completed all assignments!	Textbook Distribution * Junior Project Essay Physical Project Community Service PowerPoint or Keynote Presentation	Junior Project Outline and Page 8 and 9 *
Tuesday	Grammar * Letter of Intent Model *	Junior Project Outline page 11*
Wednesday	Junior Project Conferences And Grammar Exercises*	Final Selection Page 14*
Thursday	Junior project Conferences and Grammar Exercises*	Conference Sheet Completed by Friday*
Friday	Junior Project Conferences and Grammar Exercise*	Letter of Intent Due to Turnitin.com by 11:59 PM Sunday*