Governor Brown Checks in with people of CA

THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: More lies from the head honcho corporate reformer

This story has been picked up by Valerie Strauss over at The Washington Post.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/school-turnaroundsreform/fact-challenged-education-poli.html

Posted at 5:00 AM ET, 03/11/2011

How Bill Gates misinterprets ed facts

By Valerie Strauss

This was written by Richard Rothstein, a research associate at theEconomic Policy Institute, a non-profit created in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers. This appeared on the institute's website.

11-3-10 periods 1-3 HW

p. 38 2nd soliloquy

Explain Hamlet's state of mind.

Provide evidence with quote.

Embed quote in your own sentence structure.

See previous links for guidance.

+20

Mr. D

Thank you Matt and Mitchel for correcting my spelling.

11-1-2010 periods 1-3 Soliloquy

Post on your blog.

1. Explain what makes Hamlet's speech on pp. 26-29 a soliloquy (refer to definition http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/glossary_p.htm)

2. What insights has Hamlet given the reader into his character's thoughts?

*Practice embedding a quote (refer to Davis' site/Writing Support/Embedding Quotes or http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/01/).

+20

Wed., 10-28-2010_periods 1-3

Follow everyone else's blog.

Use two browser windows simultaneously.

Get links from Davis's blog.

Go to your "dashboard."

Click "add" in the "Reading list."

Cop/Paste URL's into the field.

Now you can view everyone's newest blog posts at a glance.

Mr. D.

10-26-2010 HW periods 1-3

1. Create your personal blog.

2. Reply to this post with your blog's URL (http:...).

3. Do last night's blog question, if you have not already done so.

+20

Mr. D.

Mr. D Does Homework Too

1. pp. 10-12 summary

Impending war with?

Blank and Blank have the same names.

*Hamlet has suddenly gotten more confusing.

Denmark (ruler?)

vs.

Country? (Fortinbras)

Marcellus wants to know the 411 about why everyone in Denmark is buzzin around ready to go to war. Horatio talks about some old enemies and about how supernatural events are harbingers of bad events. Marcellus, Horatio, and Bernardo think that the ghost is just a harbinger of the upcoming war with Norway. How wrong they are. Ghost enters.

2. inverted syntax

"A mote it [the ghost] is to trouble the mind's eye" (Shakespeare 12). (object/verb/subject)

Modern English would follow the pattern of "It is a mote...." (subject/verb/object)

from Apple dictionary

mote |mōt|nouna tiny piece of a substance : the tiniest mote of dust.PHRASESa mote in someone's eye a fault in a person that is less serious than one in someone else who is being critical. [ORIGIN: with biblical allusion to Matt. 7:3.]ORIGIN Old English mot, related to Dutch mot ‘dust, sawdust.’

Blah, blah, blah.

Mr. D. is out.

Mon. 10-25-10 Hamlet Q, periods 1-3

*Jordan West is right. Mr. D. messed up. He skipped a step since he didn't have you share blog URL's yet. Sorry. Just reply to my post for now. My mistake. Thank you, Jordan.

1. summarize pp. 10-12.

2. give an example of inverted syntax from the text pp. 2-28.

+20

periods 1-3 Hamlet Harbinger Q

1. Explain why the sightings of the king's ghost are a harbinger of things to come for Hamlet.

2. What are the sightings of the king's ghost a harbinger of?

Hamlet Book Numbers

Periods 1-3,

Please respond to this post with your full name, student ID# and Hamlet bar code number. +10

Thank you

Mr. D.

Senior Research Topics

Please post your name, date, period and the topic(s) that you plan on exploring. +20

Period 6 persuasive thesis statements

Directions:

1. Read the example thesis statements

2. Read the thesis statements that need corrections

3. Pick two thesis statements to correct

4. Reply to my post with the original thesis statements and their corrections

*Please explain your thought process for making the corrections.

+10 pts

Examples:

Cell phones should be banned from school campuses.

Cell phones should be allowed at school, but they shouldn’t be used in class.

Cell phone devices should be allowed at school.

Students should be able to use cell phones on campus.

At Gunderson High School, the use of cell phones should be banned.

Gunderson High School should eliminate prohibit the use of cell phones on campus during school hours.

Correct:

Cell phones should be allowed on campus and they are not used during class.

Gunderson should not let their students use their cell phones during school.

Gunderson should keep cell phones.

We should be able to use cell phones during lunch.

We should be able to use cell phones during lunch and passing periods.

Cell phones should not be allowed in school campus.

Cell phones should be allowed on school campus during lunchtime.

Although there is an equal amount of for or against reasons, a good amount including myself would say no to cell phones on school campus.

Yes for emergencies.

Yes so students could call parents after school.

No causes distractions in class.

Period 5 persuasive thesis statements

Directions:

1. Read the example thesis statements

2. Read the thesis statements that need corrections

3. Pick two thesis statements to correct

4. Reply to my post with the original thesis statements and their corrections

*Please explain your thought process for making the corrections.

+10 pts

Examples:

Cell phones should be allowed in school.

Cell phones shouldn’t be allowed on campus.

Cell phones should be banned from all school campuses.

Correct:

Students should not use cellphone on campus.

Cellphones are allowed in school.

This topic has been an argue for long time ago, and they had accept them, but they should be removed from class.

Cellphones should be allowed in school campus for emergency only.

Cell phones should be on campus.

Cell phones should be allowed to use in school campuses.

Is a good thing because phones aren’t always just used for phone calls but for “sexting.” Which a lot students do it’s a big distraction & bad.

Many schools don’t want students to have phones.

Its not a good idea to not let students have their cell phones on campus.

Cell phones on campus should be allowed but only students should have it only we they have an emergency or may leave school for an emergency.

During our passing periods and lunch is our free time out of class. We should be able to use or cell phones.

Teachers should be allowed student to use cell phone on campus.

Mr. D.

SAT dates + iCal

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/calenfees.html

webcal://ical.gunderson.sjusd.org/davis/12th%20English_Davis_09-10.ics

9-8-09 HW Q's from Beowulf Part I Notes

Please post any questions that you have from the reading Pp. 21-28 on your blog.

Your post may include sidebar questions that you were unable to answer or are unsure about.

You can also include any other questions/misunderstanding that may be in your notes.

Beowulf Part I Vocab.

Please post the five unknown/difficult vocabulary words that you identified from Beowulf Part I.

Include the page number and line number.

Authentic Sentence Structure/Grammar Errors

Please reply with one sentence from another student's essay that seems to contain errors. You don't have to be able to identify the errors or be able to fix them, although you can try if you like.

*Also please include the sentence before and after the sentence that contains errors. Make the sentence with errors bold.

I want to follow your blogs

Please copy and paste the URL (address) of your blog into a comment for this post.

Heroes/Archetypes

Pick a hero from your brainstorm list to analyze.

What culture does your hero represent?

What attributes does your hero possess that make him a hero?

The hero's attributes will tell you a lot about the values of the hero's culture and vice versa.

Tap prior knowledge/predict (Holt Pp. 1-17).

What attributes do you think the Anglo Saxons value?

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