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LESSON PLANS FOR MR. HOPKINS
FOR THE WEEK OF: Oct 8th-12th 2007 ENGLISH
1-2 PER 1, 2, 3, and 7:
Mr. Hopkins Contact Information Phone:
268-6262 Quote
of the Week:
jerry_hopkins@gfps.k12.mt.us “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks
Homework Hotline: 268-7299 ext 8383
of changing himself .”
Leo Tolstoy THROUGH
DECEMBER, I WILL HAVE A STUDENT TEACHER FOR 2ND AND 3RD
PERIODS Monday -- Outside
read -- Introduce
Speech (see notes below). -- Review
some of the speech topics (authors) -- The
student will sign up for the MT Author speech after school. If they do
not do it after school, they can sign up for it in the library. Tuesday Advisory
Day --
In the library. --
The 1st ½ of the class will be an orientation about
bisonlibrary.com --
The 2nd ½ will be working on finding information about their
topic. Wednesday -- Computer
lab in the library. -- Continue
to search for resources for their speech. Thursday -- Last day
in the library -- The
student will be on the floor of the library (out of the computer lab)
using books and encyclopedias to further enhance their speeches. Friday Blue
and White Day—5 extra credit points -- Outside
read -- We will
wrap up the library time and return to the classroom. -- I will
give an example speech on Mike Mansfield, also showing a proper outline
and works cited page. -- We will
begin reading works from the anthology The
Last Best Place. MT AUTHOR SPEECH NOTES I. This will be a biographical speech. A. Who do you admire as a celebrity? B. What do you want to know about them? 1. Where they were born, who their parents are, where they went to school, etc.
2. This is the type of information you are going to be
researching about your subject. II. The point of this speech is to give a biographical speech of one Montana author. A. You will need key details of their life in order to give this speech, such as: 1. Early Life 2. Education 3. Personal Life 4. Literary works 5. Awards 6. Notable events in their life 7. Influences
8. Death (if applicable) III. The speech will be between three to five
minutes in length. IV. The speech will be worth 250 points. It will be due Tuesday October, 23rd. (You will have five school days after the library to use the computers at school [in the library or in SC 103] in order to complete the research for the speech. A. You will have three days in the library to work on the beginnings of your speech. 1. Tuesday, October 9th 2. Wednesday, October 10th Tues and Wed will be in the computer lab
3. Thursday, October 11th Thurs. will be on the
floor, looking for books. !!WHILE IN THE LIBRARY, YOU MUST USE
CITATION SHEETS!! V. You can find these citation sheets to the right of the door inside the computer lab and behind the row
of computers on the floor. VI. The citation sheets will be used to create your works cited page. A. Citation sheets are a way of crediting a source (you will ultimately cite all the sources you use in a works cited page) B. IF YOU DO NOT CITE YOUR SOURCES, IT IS PLAGIARISM. Therefore, you must site every source you take information from and use in your speech. (i.e. web-sites, pictures, encyclopedias, books, etc.) C. There are different kinds of citation sheets. Each sheet displays what its use is for at the top of
the sheet. Meaning, you CANNOT
use a book citation sheet for an Internet source. VII. You MUST
have at least four
sources. Two may be from the Internet, but two
must be from a print source. You can have more than four sources (you probably will with pictures). You MAY NOT use Wickipedia as source. This is an Internet site that can be edited by anyone; it is not a very reliable source. Dot COM= Commercial; Dot ORG= Organization; Dot EDU= Education. O-R-G’s and E-D-U’s are much more reliable than Dot Com’s. They are usually non profit and the most reliable
sources. VIII. With these sources, you will construct a works cited page. The works cited page is worth 100 of the
250 points possible. We will go the works cited page when we
return from the library. IX. The speech itself is worth 100 of the 250 points possible. The speech must be presented on note cards (I have some if you need them). You are giving a biographical speech, meaning you are
summarizing someone’s life. However, since you are giving a
speech about an author, you
must
include
summaries of at least two books or pieces the author wrote or spoke. X. You must have a visual aid. The visual aid will be worth 25 of the 250 points. The visual aid must be presented on a poster board. You can purchase several poster boards at the Dollar Store. At least on object on the aid must be original (meaning you made it). It can be writing, a drawing, a timeline, etc. It CANNOT simply be a collage of pictures you print from the Internet. There can be pictures, but
there must be something original on there too. XI. Finally, you must have an outline, which is worth 25 of the 250 points. An outline is a skeleton of your speech. Like a human skeleton, an outline cannot stand alone, but you have the general idea what the shape of the body and the speech is. It is the main points of your speech. We will go over this
when we go over the works cited page. XII. The outline and the works cited page are the only two documents that need to be typed. They are also
the only two items I will collect during this process. SPEECH
BREAKDOWN Speech-100 points Works Cited- 100 points Visual Aid- 25 points Outline- 25 points ______________________
250
points This is the first LARGE assignment you have this year. DO NOT blow it off! Make the most of your time in the library! Use the five school days before the due date to get it done! Make no mistake, this grade will strongly effect your overall grade—whether it helps or hinders it is completely up to you. You can check out a jump
drive from the library. You can save things on you iPod—you are more
than welcome to bring those to use as a jump drive. If you have your own
jump drive, please bring that.
THE
SPEECH IS DUE ON OCTOBER 23RD! IF YOU ARE NOT READY TO GO
THAT DAY, YOU WILL NOT GET A SECOND CHANCE! YOU WILL NOT GET AN EXTRA
DAY! YOU MUST BE READY TO PRSENT THE DAY YOU ARE CALLED!
YOU WILL HAVE ROUGHLY FIFTEEN DAYS TO COMPLETE THIS, OVER TWO
WEEKS. DO NOT THINK IF YOU ARE ABSENT ON THE 22ND OR 23RD
YOU WILL GET EXTRA DAYS TO COMPLETE IT. YOU HAVE HAD PLENTY OF TIME. THE SPEECH IS DUE THE 23RD OF
OCTOBER...FOR EVERYONE!!
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