Honors+NonFiction+T1+0910

code format="ocaml" Honors English 10A: NonFiction code ||< PS: Roots Vocab Due Wednesday October 1: ||< Thursday, Oct. 8 Friday, October 9 Speeches Monday-Friday ||< Suffixes pg. due Thurs., 10/22 ||< ** Schedule (read for the day listed):** To clarify: ^ "The History of Thanksgiving." 2008. History.com. 23 Oct. 2009 [|http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=214843.] >"Thanksgiving Day." __Encyclopædia Britannica__. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 23 Oct. 2009. <[]>. || Tuesday: Here it is, friends. The moment you've all been waiting for, the extra credit assignment YOU MAY COMPLETE ONLY ONCE ALL OF YOUR OTHER WORK HAS BEEN TURNED IN OR I WILL NOT GRADE IT, is here now: Extra Credit Wiki Assignment, due Friday, November 6 by midnight. Follow all directions in order to earn credit. || Darfur articles: [|Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes] [|At Stanford, Tutoring Helps Make a Janitor Less Invisible] ||< [|American Rhetoric.com] ||< [|Research Project Calculator] ||< Crucible Webquest online ||  ||
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 * < [[file:090908Non Fict Day 1.ppt]]
 * Handouts
 * Source & Content Analysis due Monday (file below)
 * Truth assignment due tomorrow
 * Speech outlines due
 * research assignment
 * issue research
 * Speech outline return
 * issue research
 * speeches start Monday
 * Mon. 10/26: Act 1
 * Tues. 10/27: Act 2
 * Weds. 10/28: Act 3
 * Thurs. 10/29: Act 4, webquest due
 * Fri. 10/30: Essay Test
 * Update on our Thanksgiving conversation**: I went to find research for the discussion we had on Friday and found that I had a couple of my facts crossed. If you want to learn more, check out the [|History Channel website] and snoop around a bit. [|HistoryWorld] is another place to research the topics we discussed in class in a historical context.
 * The Pilgrims celebrated thanks-givings as a a way to show appreciation for blessings such as, but not exclusive to, a successful harvest.^
 * The "first Thanksgiving" you learned about in grade school was not considered a thanks-giving by the Puritans because it was not a religious ceremony, it was a party.^
 * Abraham Lincoln actually proclaimed the last Thursday in November a national day of thanksgiving in 1863.^
 * In 1939, FDR made the 4th Thursday in November an official national holiday to extend the Christmas shopping season and bolster the economy.>
 * complete autobiography reading from yesterday
 * partner paragraph
 * read "A Woman Without Fear"
 * < [[file:Essay of Self Intro-2per.doc]]
 * [|Public Statement by Eight Alabama Clergymen]
 * [|Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail]
 * "Running for His Life" by Michael Hall ||< [[file:0102 RootsPrefix.rtf]]
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 * [|Aristotle on Rhetoric]
 * [|Plato on Rhetoric]
 * [|What is rhetoric?]