Kalpana

Daily Journal Name Game Novel (Mexican White Boy) Movie (My Name is Khan) Social Issue Write-up based on the movie Tolerating Intolerance (article) Short Story - Chinus Achebe (Dead Men's Path and Sacrificial Egg) Poem- Night of the Scorpion My Favorite Person (Narration) Rhetorical Modes/Patterns Grammar, editing, and revising Portfolio

Documentary on the brain []

The Story of Stuff Video []

6/18/12 HW 1. Please post the journal entry from this morning 2. Please post the "Brain" documentary reflection 3. Please post your problem paragraph/page 4. Come to class with thoughts about your favourite person in your life - family member, movie star, friends, sibling, activist, novelist, singer, etc.

6/19/12 1. Journal writing 2. Picturebooks 3. //Tolerating Intolerance// 4. The favourite person 5. Novel (100 pages completed by today)

Tolerating Intolerence by Rider (Article) []

6/20/12 Please make sure to post all the assignemnts immediately. There is no exception to this requirement. I shall send you to the lab tomorrow if you do not post the same. Thank you. Rhetorical Modes - Description, Narration, Classification, Persuasion, Illustration, Cause and Effect, Definition, and Comparison and Contrast. HW 1. Post the morning journal 2. Bring two bumper sticker messages for discussion and writing activity 3. Complete the narrative on "My Favorite person" 4. Brainstorm for the rhetorical mode assignment. Each one of you chose a mode in class and I hope you wrote down the same. 5. Edit the diagram exercise because we will be asking the 3rd through 5th graders to draw the figure based on your description tomorrow 6. Edit the writing based on my directions. I have underlined the problem sentences in your submission

6/21/12 Comma splice, run-on, and sentence level errors continued. We will work on your own writing and correct all the errors pertaining to the above issues. [] Thesis statement, topic sentences, supporting details, and transitional expressions Peer review of the narrative

Movie Questions Kayanna - In the airport, did the officers search him because he was distracted or because he was of a different race? Why was Khan's brother against the marriage even though they were raised by an accepting mother? Aristeo - What you think Khan really wants to tell the president of the USA? Why do you think the other muslims did not pray with Rizvan on the bus? Aubrey - Why do they presume that Khan is a terriorist? Why did Khan give $500 to a different religion(christian only event)? Augusta - Why does he have such a hard time talking to people? Why are people so amazed by the way Khan prays? Ivy - Why does he want to fly all the way to DC to tell the president that he was not a terrorist? Why was Mandira mad at her sister-in-law? Julianna - How does autism affect someone's ability to communicate? Why was Khan willing to go through so much pain/struggle to tell the president that he was a not a terroist? Why was Mandira so mad at Khan after the killing and why does she leave him? Josh - What is he playing with in the airport? Will khan be with his wife Mandira again? Jonah - Why does Khan want to meet the president? What happens to the kids who killed Sam? Alyssa - Why didn't Reese tell the cops about who killed Sam? Sydney - Will Reeses ever tell the truth and regret?