English IV – Monday, 2/2 Phones in the vault Sit with Teamwork Teams Progress reports go out this week. Two teamwork videos for your quiz today: 1. Watch two excerpts from films that focus on team building - Coach Carter Video and Remember the Titans VideoVideo 2. After watching the videos, use your notes from Module 6 (both sets) and evaluate how the writers of these films used the information you’ve learned about team building and working in teams. There must be at least four direct connections—use the language of the notes. 4. One paper for each group with the team name and all members’ names on the sheet. Turn it in and then we’ll move on to a sinking yacht. RL.12.5 – Analyze how an author’s choices contribute to meaning and impact. RI.12.3 – Analyze a complex set of ideas and explain how ideas interact and develop through a text.

The yacht is sinking! You have a list of 15 people who are on a yacht that developed a leak and is sinking fast. There is only one lifeboat and it will accommodate only nine people—not one more can fit and are no more life boats or life jackets. Your team must come to an agreement as to which of the15 people gets to go in the lifeboat and be saved. However, you must also list those you save in order of importance — because if they run out of food and water the “less important people’ will have to be dumped overboard. You have ten minutes and will present your reasoning to the class. SL.12.1 – Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions, building on others’ ideas and expressing ideas clearly with support.

English IV – Tues/Wed 2/3 & 2/4 Phones in the vault Sit with Teamwork Teams When I release you to research, you may use any computer EXCEPT the one on the wooden desk. Today you will choose your topic, research it, write a statement of justification with citations in MLA format, and turn it in on Edmodo Include the MLA citations for the information you used to do your justification. This means the information needs to be put into the format you’d use for a works cited page. Use the tool on my English IV webpage. Your heading will take up a lot of space, because you need everyone’s name on it. RI.12.7 – Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information in order to address a question or solve a problem. W.12.2 – Write informative/Explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas. W12.8 – Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source.

English IV – Thursday 2/5 Phones in the vault and sit with Teamwork Teams Today you will complete: 1. your statement of justification with citations in MLA format, and turn it in on Edmodo. Include the MLA citations for the information you used to do your justification. This means the information needs to be put into the format you’d use for a works cited page. Use the tool on my English IV webpage. Your heading will take up a lot of space, because you need everyone’s name on it. 2. The MLA practice two-sided worksheet, using the Harbrace or OWLS 3. The review worksheet on creating PowerPoints using the PPT on Edmodo RI.12.7 – Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information in order to address a question or solve a problem. W.12.2 – Write informative/Explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas. W12.8 – Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source.

English IV –Friday 2/6 Phones in the vault and sit with Teamwork Teams Today you will complete: 1. The REVISION of your statement of justification with citations in MLA format, and turn it in on Edmodo. Include the MLA citations for the information you used to do your justification. This means the information needs to be put into the format you’d use for a works cited page. Use the tool on my English IV webpage. Your heading will take up a lot of space, because you need everyone’s name on it. 2. The MLA practice two-sided worksheet, using the Harbrace or OWLS 3. The review worksheet on creating PowerPoints using the PPT on Edmodo RI.12.7 – Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information in order to address a question or solve a problem. W.12.2 – Write informative/Explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas. W12.8 – Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source.