Due Monday 11/3
1) Typed, full draft of your TBAS essay with Introduction, 4 body paragraphs, and Conclusion.
2) Read Lincoln: An Autobiography Chapter 2. Quiz on Chapter 1 and 2 on Monday when we return.
3) Read your Civil War Books. Prepare for the Letter #2 due on Tuesday 11/4
Please:
Turn in your Writer’s notebook
Turn in another copy of your Family Interview.
Due Tuesday:
Civil War Independent Book Partner Letter #2
Due Tuesday:
Your first letter to your Civil War Independent Book Partner! You must come to class with 2 copies of your letter and one must be turned into me. Make sure that your letter addresses a few of the examples we discussed in class.
Important
There will be NO QUIZ tomorrow in class on Lincoln. We will save the quiz for Chapter 1 and 2 until after minimester. Yea!
Due Monday:
Read your Independent Civil War book for at least one hour this weekend. You may want the Civil War Cheat Sheet to help you get some of the terms in your book.
Read Ch. 1 in Lincoln: An Autobiography. (Ch. 2 will be assigned Monday so you can also read this chapter if you so choose.)
Due Tuesday:
Your first Civil War letter is due to your partner! 
Wednesday to Friday: Minimester!!
Please check the schedule below for the upcoming conference schedules on Friday, November 7 and Friday, November 14. These schedules are a chance for advisees and their families to meet with advisors. Please indicate two schedule times when you are available to meet and post them in the “comment” section with your name(s) and your child’s name. I will check these postings often and will fill in the schedule on a first come, first served basis. I am looking very forward to our conversations about our work and progress so far this year.
Due Thursday:
1. Resistance to Slavery Essay: Now that you have written a draft of your introduction with a thesis, tonight you must write the first 2 body paragraphs. The first body paragraph will flesh out one example of your first category of resistance. The second body paragraph will flesh out another example of your first category of resistance. Use the graphic organizer that we have been using in class. (click here for a copy). Do follow the guidelines in the graphic organizer!
REMINDER:
#1 You must get your own copy of one of the Civil War books by Friday! See yesterday’s blog lost for the list with notes about each book .
#2 Tomorrow you will get a copy of Lincoln: A Photobiography that we will begin to read and relate to slavery.
Due Wednesday:
1) A completed draft of your TBAS introduction. You should have at least 6 hearty sentences (an interesting lead-in sentence + title, author, genre + two forms of enslavement + your entire thesis). Write this draft introduction directly onto the sheet provided in the essay packet today.
2) An Writing Workshop entry in your writers notebook based on the topic that you chose last week.
Due Friday: Have your Civil War Independent book in hand on Friday.
Reminder for Monday: First letter to your partner DUE in class.
Due Monday:
TBAS ch. 5. Select two new kinds of resistances, write down their page numbers and write a paragraph about each that includes their goal.
Due Wednesday:
20 minutes of writing in your writer’s notebook.
Due Friday:
Have in your hand your Civil War book. We have been unable to post the list with the notes about the texts! Instead, here are the titles and authors, and you can go on Amazon.com to learn about the ones you remember Jennifer speaking about today. So sorry about the list not being up yet.
1. Beatty, Patricia. Jayhawker.
2. Brenaman, Miriam. Evvy’s Civil War.
3. Crane, Stephen. Red Badge of Courage.
4. Dean, Robert. Echoes of Anderonville.
5. Doctorow, E. L. The March.
6. Elliot, L.M. Annie Between the States.
7. Fleishman, Paul. Bull Run.
8. Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain.
9. Hicks, Robert. The Widow of the South.
10. Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils.
11. Jiles, Paulette. Enemy Women.
12. Kantor, McKinley. Andersonville. Pulitzer Prize Winner.
13. Keith, Harold. Rifles for Watie. Newberry Award Winner.
14. McCaig, Donald. Jacob’s Ladder.
15. Mrazek, Robert. Stonewall’s Gold.
16. Peck, Richard. The River Between Us.
17. Reeder, Carolyn. Across the Lines.
18. Reeder, Carolyn. Shades of Gray.
19. Reit, Seymour. Behind Rebel Lines.
20. Rinaldi, Ann. The Last Silk Dress.
21. Rinaldi, Ann. Amelia’s War.
22. Rinaldi, Ann. Numbering All the Bones.
23. Rinaldi, Ann. The Girl in Blue.
24. Shaara, Michael. Killer Angels. Pulitzer Prize Winner.
25. Shaara, Jeff. Gods and Generals.
26. Wells, Rosemary. Red Moon at Sharpsburg.
Due Friday, October 17:
1. Create a campaign poster for your candidate using policy topics and discussion from debate three. Refer to the REVISED Presidential Debate Three Assignment for the specific details of your poster.
2. REVISED “Theme for English B” poem due at 8:20am following guidelines exactly!
Due Monday, October 20:
Read TBAS ch. 5 (pages 117-129), and find two more examples of resistance that interest or strike you. Record their page numbers and write a paragraph about each, including the goal of the resistance.
O N G O I N G
Due Wednesday, October 22:
At least 20 minutes of writing in your writer’s notebook.
*Remember to watch at least one hour of tonight’s final presidential debate from 9-10:30pm!* Revised assignment below.
Due Thursday:
1. Finish TBAS ch. 4, pages 97-116.
2. Select two more examples of resistance that interest and strike you. Either copy down the passages or record their page numbers.
3. Write a paragraph about each type of resistance you chose and be sure to include the goal(s) of the resistance.
Due Friday
Create a campaign poster for your candidate using policy topics and discussion from debate three. Refer to the REVISED Presidential Debate Three Assignment for the specific details of your poster.