Emergency

This Post Will Help Us Review Two Kinds of Emergencies:

1.  Schoolwide Emergencies

2.  If Mr. Schwager Isn't at School Unexpectedly (such as alien abduction)

Monday, 8/31/15

* Open

• Copy
• Grammar:
• Compound Sentence 
• Definition: a sentence with two (or more) independent clauses and no dependent clauses. 
• Ex.  The car is on fire, so I think you should get out.

• Complex Sentence

• Definition: a sentence with only one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
• Ex. Since the car is on fire, you should get out.
• Ex. The path to my fixed purpose is laid on iron rails, on which my soul is grooved to run. -- Captain Ahab in Moby Dick

• Now, take the online quiz. 

* Prayer and Praise

• Announcements and Planning
• Seating
• MTB Club Today During Lunch in My Room
• Senior Trip with Schwager

* Review the Week

* Beowulf

HW: B -- 3000

Thursday, 8/27/15: Read Like a Warrior!

 


* Open

• Grammar: Copy and Label (Sentence Type):
• “I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up.”
  “They have no holidays.”  --Henry Youngman
  
  

* Turn in Your College Essay Part 1
 
* Prayer and Praise

* Notes and Beowulf

HW: Read Through 2,500

Musical Anthem: Live Like a Warrior! 

Seamus Heaney: Literary Warrior!

Wednesday, 8/26

* Open

• Today, Please Add a Google Class and Answer the Faith Questions
• If you have technical difficulties, then you may do this from home.

* Google Classroom Codes:

• 401 = 5ps4uu
• 403 = x3tpc0y   (0 is the number, not the letter)
• 406 = kxfywcx
• 407 = swc3kte

* Terms and Vocabulary

• Note that the Terms are in the Beowulf Study Guide

* Work on Your College Essay Assignment

HW:

• College Essay Pt. 1
• B - 2000
• Faith Questions (if you could not finish in class)

Tuesday, 8/25

* Open

•   Read the following Open Prompt.  Copy the sentence in bold, and label the type of sentence that it is. 
  
  
  2010.      “You can leave home all you want, but home will never leave you.” —Sonsyrea Tate
                  
  Sonsyrea Tate’s statement suggests that “home” may be conceived of as a dwelling, a place, or a state of mind. It may have positive or negative associations, but in either case, it may have a considerable influence on an individual. Choose a novel or play in which a central character leaves home yet finds that home remains significant. Write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the importance of “home” to this character and the reasons for its continuing influence. Explain how the character’s idea of home illuminates the larger meaning of the work. Do not merely summarize the plot.

* iPad Prop

* Open Essay Prompts

* Beowulf Discussion

• Begin Vocab. and Terms for Week 2
• See Guide

HW: Read B - 1500; Picture Day Tomorrow

Monday, 8/24/15: The Path to Power...and Sweetness

* Open

• Copy: 
• "Behavior that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere."
• "With this stone for a throne, I look down on my pond,
  But I cannot look down on the places beyond."
• What kind of sentence is each? 

• Review the Week
• College Essay Part 1
• Beowulf reading
• Senior Retreat

HW: Beowulf -- 1,000

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Thank you,

marcusschwager@mvcs.org

Recommendation Requests Through Naviance

The guidance office wants you to visit your counselor (rather than coming in for a class tutorial).

For those who need help with recommendation requests, there are two videos:

• 1
• 2

Note that our school may have different specific policies for unusual cases (such as more recommenders than recommendations allowed)...so, again, please see your counselor.

Now, please go see your counselor.

Enjoy,

Mr. S

Dual Enrollment

If you wish to take AP Lit. as a Dual Credit Course, you may.  Here is the handout. 

Dual Credit for AP Lit. comes through West Hills Community College.

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.

Thank you, 

Mr. S

Block Day: Week 1

* Open

• Grammar
• Compose one simple sentence and share it with your neighbor. 
• Pray and Recite
• Note: A number of you have read books from the quarter reading, and some asked about reading books outside of the literary period.  I relaxed the restriction on books for you, so if you have read a book from the quarter list already, you may read whatever you wish for your outside reading that quarter. 

* Let's Talk about College Essays: Part I: How Colleges Read Applications

• WWII
• The essay became a regular part of admissions after the WWII enrollment explosion.
• How Colleges Read Essays
• They seek to build a scholarly community.   
• "Precision Guesswork" (Princeton)
•  Recommendations
• Go to your recommenders
• Suggestion: Waive your right to access

• Interviews
• A two-way street (thing of some good questions for your interviewer)
• Roll with the punches

• The Essay
• Can you write?  Can you think?  What do you care about?
• For some schools, the essay is the most important part of the application, for others the essay may rank 2nd or 3rd (some may have no essay).  
• Organization, analysis, interpretation (same skills you've been honing elsewhere)
• The strange part is, you are analyzing your own experience. 

• Really, can you THINK?
• Do they hear YOU, or will they mark it DDI (Daddy did it)?

• Planning
• School CEEB Code: 053705
• Can you visit, interview, check in with, find on Facebook...faculty, students, or alumni?
• Who will recommend?  How many do you need?
• DI or DII sports?  File your NCAA Eligibility form. 
• Preregister for CSS/Financial Ad PROFILE
• Naviance
• Early action or early decision?  Time to move. 
• Oct. SAT?

* AP Practice  

* Anglo-Saxon Poetry

HW: Read Through Line 500 of Beowulf

Wednesday, 8/19

* Open

• Copy down the simple sentence and explain why it is simple:
• a. Because Sarah Smith eats dragons, she has scales. 
• b. Sarah Smith has scales because she eats dragons. 
• c. Sarah Smith has scales, for she eats dragons. 
• d. Dragon-eating, Death-cheating, sweetly beating Sarah Smith ate ten tasty dragons.
• e. This is an evil trick.  None of these are simple, silly. 

* Pray and Recite

* Terms (see above)

• Please work whilst I check your summer reading. 

* The Book Prop. (see the Outside Reading link under Reading)

HW: Finish Your Terms and Vocabulary; find a good book to read. 

Summer Reading Link with Links that Link to the Links

Here is the Summer Reading Link for Those Who Need It

Tuesday, 8/18

This is my dog:

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* Opening

• Grammar: Simple Sentences
• Copy: A simple sentence has only one independent clause (also known as a main clause) and no dependent/subordinate clauses.
• Now provide as many examples as you need from the following in your notes:
  
  Though a simple sentence doesn't contain any subordinate clauses, it isn't always short. A simple sentence often contains modifiers. In addition, subjects, verbs, and objects in simple sentences may be coordinated.
• Examples:
• John hit the ball. Simple sentence.
• John hit the gargantuan earth ball with a bat. 
• Still a simple sentence; I added modifiers and and a phrase (but didn't add a clause). 
• John and Larry and Sarah (but not Kim) hit and smacked and whacked the earth ball yesterday. 
• Still a simple sentence; I added coordinated subjects and verbs. 

•  So, what are counterexamples?
• John hit the ball while I drank iced tea. (This is complex because "while I drank tea" is a dependent clause.) 
• John hit the ball, and Jill caught it midair. ("and Jill caught it midair" is an independent clause...so the two make it a compound sentence.)

• More examples of deceptively simple sentences.
• "Your future is assured. You will live, secure and safe, Wilbur. Nothing can harm you now. These autumn days will shorten and grow cold. The leaves will shake loose from the trees and fall."
  (E.B. White, Charlotte's Web. Harper & Row, 1952)
• "They shot the six cabinet ministers at half-past six in the morning against the wall of a hospital. There were pools of water in the courtyard. There were wet dead leaves on the paving of the courtyard. It rained hard. All the shutters of the hospital were nailed shut. One of the ministers was sick with typhoid. Two soldiers carried him downstairs and out into the rain."
  (Ernest Hemingway, Chapter Five of In Our Time. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925)

• Thought for Food
• 'God made mankind,' is a simple sentence.
•  'On the sixth day God made man of the dust of the earth after his own image,' is also a simple sentence...but that doesn't make the meaning simple, just the structure. 

* The Lord's Prayer

*  Cædmon's Hymn 

• Copy down your first memorization poem. 
• You will have a quiz in no less than three weeks.  You will receive one point for each line written or recited.  
• That letter (æ) is an ash.  You may us it or "ae" when writing his name.  

* Review

• Literary History in Boxes
• Literary History in Sentences

HW:

• Twenty Annotations for the Anglo-Saxon Chapter.
• Begin Definitions for Your Vocabulary and Terms if you Wish

Schedules for a Normal Week