Double Entry Journal

The file with the template for the double entry journal is now available for upload in this post: http://noblesenglish.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/assignment-speak-double-entry-journal-assignment/

Students can also find the file on the school server under the ENG2D icon.

Happy typing!

Remember the assignment is due Monday, November 16th.

HOMEWORK: November 5th

Today’s Homework:

• Read “Third Marking Period” section of Speak (page 137).
• Work on poem and prose piece for The Pluralist (due Monday)
• Work on rough draft of Speak double entry journal
• If incomplete today, complete rough draft of Speak double entry journal for “Second Marking Period.” This will allow you to play Boggle tomorrow!

ASSIGNMENT: Speak Double Entry Journal Assignment

Print a copy of this outline for your “Reading Section” here:

As we read Speak, place a Post-It note on pages where you see a quotation that seems worthy of analysis and discussion. You can select quotes on the basis of:

• character development
• advancement of plot
• communication of themes
• personal connections (text to self, text to text, text to world)
• literary devices

Go through your Post-It notes and collect a total of 15 quotes (five minimum from each section) from the novel for a double-entry journal that you will type and hand in at the end of the unit. We will complete the five quotations from the “First Marking Period.” Collect additional quotes for extra credit. All your quotes must come from pages 49 to 197 (from the “Second Marking Period” onward).

Students must complete the following template for rough work: Double Entry Journal_Speak. Students may also use this template for typing their good draft of the assignment

CLASS NOTE: Punctuating Titles

Note from Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

For a printable handout version of this class note, click here: CLASS NOTE_ Punctuating Titles

Punctuating Titles

According to MLA format, these are the guidelines for punctuating titles:

• Longer texts (or big things) that can stand on their own like books, are italicized or underlined (choose one or the other but never both).
• Shorter texts (or little things) that are dependent or that come as part of a group, like chapters, are put into “quotation marks.”

 For example:

A CD is a major (big) work that can be divided into smaller parts or songs. The song names (small part) are punctuated with quotation marks.

The Sweet Escape, by Gwen Stefani, includes the song “Wind It Up.”

Italicize or underline any published collection, like a book of poetry. Put the individual entry, like a poem, in quotation marks; however, a long, epic poem that is often published on its own would be treated like a book. The Odyssey is one example.

Individual works of art like paintings and sculptures are underlined or italicized:

• Michelangelo’s David
• Mona Lisa

Note: A photograph, which is much smaller than a work of art, is placed in quotation marks!

Titles and Names to Italicize

• A novel
• A ship
• A play
• A film
• A painting
• A sculpture or statue
• A drawing
• A CD
• A TV Series
• A cartoon series
• An encyclopedia
• A magazine
• A newspaper
• A pamphlet

Titles to Put Into Quotation Marks

• Poem
• Short story
• A skit
• A commercial
• An individual episode in a TV series (like “The Soup Nazi” on Seinfeld)
• A cartoon episode, like “Trouble With Dogs”
• A chapter
• An article
• A newspaper story

More Tips on Punctuating Titles

Some titles are merely capitalized and not given additional punctuation. These include:

• Religious works, like The Bible or The Koran
• Buildings
• Monuments

HOMEWORK: November 4 2009

Now that all students have a copy of Speak, there will be nightly homework on the novel.

Tonight’s Homework:

Speak Reading Schedule

• “Third Marking Period” pages 95 to 137 for Friday, November 6th
• “Fourth Marking Period” pages 141 to 197 for Monday, November 9th

Other Homework:

• Speak Double Entry Journal Assignment: Rough draft of the five+ quotations/reasons/explanations for the “Second Marking Period” pages 49 to 92. There WILL be a homework check tomorrow.
• The Pluralist Assignment: Typed good draft of one poem and one prose entry for the Pluralist contest.
• “Punctuating Titles” worksheet for students who missed this assignment last week
• Character Profiles for Speak (see this post for link and outline)