(Rubens)

THE GODS MUST
BE CRAZY

INSTRUCTIONAL
SEQUENCE

1. MLA Sequence

4. Ancient Greece

a. 11/13 and 11/17
b. 11/18

5. Parenthetical References

6. Greek Mythology Overview

1. How the Trojan War Began
2. The Story of Helen

10. Letter Home-Project Information: Parent Letter, Rubric, Project Calendar and Plagiarism Policy

Hardcopy of most parts of project are distributed to students. Topic choice is confirmed by Q. and a parent confirmation page is signed and returned. Research and project development will include homework.
Student example of project paper on Pandora. Copy and Pandora and Prometheus

11. Paraphrasing Lessons

a. Paraphrase #1 on Greek Creation Myth

b. Paraphrase #2 on Cyclopes

c. Paraphrasing Research: Hot Sheet Double-folder

12. Annotated Bibliography

Full MLA works sited for text. A minimum of 3 text sources from Tech. Must skim through info in sites to find at least three that have info to prove thesis. In English will do highlighting activity and Hot Sheet, numbering corresponding to research copies.

Site print-out due in Tech 12/10

Correct sites on 12/11

Image search: 12/12

Write a thesis statement with a minimum of 5 substantiating topic sentences proving the thesis and a conclusion that gives a message, moral, theme, main idea or lesson. Numbered paragraphs corresponding to numbers of research copies.

14. First Draft: Graphic organizer on right side and research on left. Numbers and highlighting corresponding for each paragraph. First draft with full bibliography
Graded for completion points and all items in folder (to be listed on a rubric)

15. Second Draft: Spell and grammar checked, corrections from first draft, silent reading for self-correcting and A-Maker in Englishread and out loud to someone who signs off-

16. Third Draft: Graded for improvement points from First Draft Rubric. Final day to work in class on paper is 1/9. All work on the research paper after the 9th must be scheduled after school with Dr. Questad and Mrs. Schmidt.

16. Final Draft: Expected on 1/9, but may be turned in any day until 1/16. For a paper to be graded as a final draft it must have the Final Draft Rubric on it.

First Draft: 12/19

Second Draft Edited 1/8

Third Draft or Early Bird with a Final Draft Rubric: 1/9

Final: 1/16

First Draft: 12/19

Second Draft Typed 1/7

Third Draft - Earlybird: 1/9

Final: 1/16

 1. Sequential vocabulary begun: daily voc. in notebooks

Friday(or end of week) tests on vocabulary and reading in The Odyssey as assigned (2nd qtr)

2. MLA - Memorization of Modern Languages Association approved bibliography for Internet sources

3. Parenthetical References- Parts I and II

 4. History lecture

1. Myth Lecture: Draw a Mind Map (lecture in pictures)
2. History Lecture: Draw a Timeline
3. Parts III and IV are just written out with some arrows.
4. Quiz

6. Plays performed by teams

1. How the Trojan War Began
2. The Story of Helen

7. Topic and Thesis -Choose a topic and develop a thesis after a thesis lecture

8. Project Information: Parent Letter, Rubric, Project Calendar and Plagiarism Policy

Hardcopy of most parts of project are distributed to students. Topic choice is confirmed by Q. and a parent confirmation page is signed and returned. Research and project development will include homework.
Student example of project paper on Pandora. Copy

10. Graphic Organizer

Write a thesis statement with a minimum of 5 substantiating topic sentences proving the thesis and a conclusion that gives a message, moral, theme, main idea or lesson. The organizer will be graded by Q and submitted to senior mentors for classes 2 & 6.

11. First draft - reviewed with graphic organizer by Q and mentors

13. Third draft - final mentor review and conference

14. Final Draft with Rubric and other papers

No late final draft is accepted, even if absent during our prior workdays. There have been modifications in the calendar to allow for extra time throughout the project for those who have been absent. Send draftdue to school with a parent or friend.

16. Read The Odyssey (begin while working on research paper) from the textbook, taking quizzes each Friday on the week's reading and vocabulary.

Book 9: tape
Book 10: volunteers with pre-assigned parts (photocopied and given to them for practice)
Book 12: girls pre-assigned Circe parts, boys pre-assigned Odysseus parts and narrator
Book 21: Everyone is class with pre-assigned lines and practice time: first half reads to class first day, second half reads to class next.
Book 22: Class vote on how to read (silent, pre-assigned, volunteers or partners)
Book 23: Partners alternate the reading and present their choice of question from page 567. Writer reads question, speaker uses notes completed by writer which they both "composed."
Presentations graded with bonus points.

Adapted Work Assignments
for students with special permission from Dr. Questad and Mrs. Schmidt