One of the last assignments!

Lost Coastlines – Okkervil River

[Will Sheff]Packed and all eyes turned inNo one to see on the quay, no one waving for meJust the shoreline recedingTicket in my hand I'm thinking wish I didn't hand it in'cause who said sailing is fine?Leaving behind all the faces that I mightReplace if I tried on that long rideLooking deep inside but I don't want to look so deep inside yet[Jonathan Meiburg]Sit down, sit down on the prow to wave backThere might not be another stop further on the lineLook out, look out at each town that glides byAnd there's another crowd to drown in crying eyes[Will]And see how that light you love now just won't shineIt might just be another star that's high and far in some other skySo we sing, 'Is that marionette real enough yet to step off of that setTo decide what her dance might be doing?'Ruining the play, too, and in the ensuing melee escaping.Packed up all of our bags, the ship's deck now sagsWith the weight of our tracks as we race beneath flags black and batteredRattling our swords in service of some fated foreign lords[Jonathan]We sail out on orders from him but we findThe maps he sent to us don't mention lost coastlinesAnd nothing we've actually seen has been mapped or outlinedAnd we don't recognize the names upon these signs[Will]And every night finds us rocking and rolling on waves wild and whiteWell we have lost our way, but nobody's gonna say it outright

Revolution - Beatles

You say you want a revolutionWell you knowwe all want to change the worldYou tell me that it's evolutionWell you knowWe all want to change the worldBut when you talk about destructionDon't you know you can count me out, inDon't you know it's gonna be alrightAlright AlrightYou say you got a real solutionWell you knowwe'd all love to see the planYou ask me for a contributionWell you knowWe're all doing what we canIf you want money for people with minds that hateAll I can tell you is brother you have to waitDon't you know it's gonna be alrightAlright AlrightYou say you'll change the constitutionWell you knowwe'd all love to change our headsYou tell me it's the institutionWell you knowYou better free your mind insteadBut if you go carrying pictures of Chairman MaoYou ain't going to make it with anyone anyhowDon't you know it's gonna be alrightAlright ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT


Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash

I hear the train a comin'; it's rollin' 'round the bend,And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when.I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on.But that train keeps on rollin' on down to San Antone.When I was just a baby, my mama told me, "Son,Always be a good boy; don't ever play with guns."But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry.I bet there's rich folks eatin' in a fancy dining car.They're probably drinkin' coffee and smokin' big cigars,But I know I had it comin', I know I can't be free,But those people keep on movin', and that's what tortures me.Well, if they freed me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine,I bet I'd move on over a little further down the line,Far from Folsom Prison, that's where I want to stay,And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away.

Assignment – Song Research
Read through the songs. What do they mean? What are the songs talking about? What feelings are invoked by the songs? What can you relate these songs to? What other songs do you know by these people to truly give you a sense of the artists’ point-of-view? What references do you get within the songs that “take us to another place”?

Write a short analysis of each song. Dissect each line to do this.
Look up the other references on the internet and submit another analysis of that.

Due Tuesday at the start of class.

Peer Editing/Proofreading

Now that you are completed* with your Maya Paper, you will need to have other students proofread it. Pair together and read each others' papers. Please, be honest with your evaluation - it will be graded, too.

Each student should have 2 other people (in 12th grade) edit their papers. If you would like other people to do so, that is fine. You just need 2 others from 12th grade.

*If you are not finished with your paper today, you will need to finish it up and get it edited. Everything is due Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 5pm (you will have class time to edit if necessary)

List of items due next Tuesday:
1) 750-word essay - 100 points
2) Bibliography - 50 points
3) All articles that I gave you - 50 points
4) All notes taken on those articles - 100 points
5) Peer editing forms - 2 in total - 50 points

Total = 350 points

12/16/2008

YOUR LAST CHANCE FOR HELP IN CLASS:

EQ:
How do we write paragraphs? What information belong in each paragraph?
How do we write quotes within a paragraph?
What is flow? What is voice?

DO NOW:
Paraphrase the following information:

"Mayan life was dominated by the Sun and Venus, both of which the Maya connected to warfare. Venus, a fearful power, was also associated with sacrifice, fertility, rain, and maize (corn). Maya writings have been interpreted to indicate that raids were undertaken during important Venus positions, such as its first appearance as the morning star or the evening star. These raids have come to be called star war events. Ancient manuscripts also suggest the Maya had the ability to predict solar and lunar eclipses, accurate to within a day."

Once you are finished, work on finishing up your information for your paper. Again, the first ROUGH DRAFT is due January 6, 2009. Everything will be due that day - information, notes, and rough draft.

If you would like to meet with me today, we should have time in class AND I will be here until 5:30pm tonight.

A look ahead to after break: Keep in mind that we will be working on citations and peer editing when we return from break.

12/09/2008

Continue Reading and Start Researching

DO NOW:
Figuring out what to do now. Look at the research that you have accumulated.
IN AN EMAIL TO ME...
Create a list of words that you would put into a google search.
Search google for those terms.
Next to each term, write 4-5 website results that you found.

Agenda:
DO NOW.
Keep using the websites from last week.
I'll be coming around to help students with their outlines and paragraphs.

HW:
From the list of websites that you found, skim the information and determine WHAT would be useful from the site. You can continue the email that you created before.

12/02/2008

DO NOW: Using the outline that you constructed last week, start to fill in the outline with quotes/paraphrases that you have found during the last couple weeks of research. Email me your results.

Essential Questions

• How do we start to turn an outline into a paper?
• How do I glean notes from the internet?

HW: Write a rough draft of ONE body paragraph for your paper. This paragraph should be between 150-200 words.

Today, you will use websites to get information for your paper. The expectation is that you are looking at these sites and jotting down notes on them. You will turn in these notes with the paper you turn in after break.

Select one of the following sites are as follows:

http://www.ancientscripts.com/maya.html For this site, you will simply read what is there.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mayacode/ For this site, I would like you to focus on the following sections, A Masterpiece Revealed, Decode Stella 3, and Map of the Maya World.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO GO TO THIS SITE:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mayacode/pod-spea.html

November 25, 2008

DO NOW: In an email to me (franklin.pcs@gmail.com), please answer the following questions:

1) What would you consider an exciting project? If you were given a project to do for a grade, what would it be? The stipulation is that you would have to present it. This does not mean you would have to write a paper on it, but be able to talk academically/professionally about your project.

2) Create a VERY basic topic outline for the Christmas break paper. When you are finished, start looking for quotes that will work in each section.

11/19/2008

Using databases:
The goal for today's assignment is to understand how to use databases for our Passages. In order to be comfortable with the sites, we need to use and analyze them. When you start Passages, already knowing the sites will make researching easier.

Guiding Questions:

• What types of information can databases available to the school provide me?
• How do I use these databases?

What I want you to do:

1. Go to http://perspectiveslibrary.wordpress.com/
2. Select the tab, Library Resources.
3. Click on the "Electronic Resources..." hyperlink.
4. Use, explain, and evaluate the following databases:

• Student Resource Center Gold
• FirstSearch
• Newsbank
• ABC-Clio (Search one of the sites, then explain the differences with the others)

Answer the questions (BE SPECIFIC):

• When you log in, what does the database do?
• Are there hyperlinks that you can click on?
• Are there special searches you can do?
• What types of information can you get with this database?