Welcome to Fall 2018

Hello All!

I am so excited to move up to Senior Lit with you this year.  I know that we will have a fantastic semester together and I'm so excited to see you graduate this Spring.

As a reminder, the Precourse Reading for our Multicultural Lit class is "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.  Just as the last 3 years, you will complete a Dialectical Journal that will be turned in to turnitin.com.  You can find a copy of a template you can copy and use here.  You should bring the book with you, either physically or on an electronic device (personally I'm reading the kindle version on my phone) on the first day of school.

I'm looking forward to seeing you next Wednesday!  Enjoy your last week of break!

Kim Bundschu

Campbell High School

Senior Lit

Yearbook Adviser

Room 923

http://bundschu.blogspot.com/

770-609-5481

Precourse Reading for Next Year

Congratulations everyone!  

I want to thank you all so much for making this year so successful.  You are all amazing people and I am very grateful I got to have all of you in my room this year.  

I know the year is just now over, but as you know, the easiest way to start the next year strong is to do the Precourse Reading *before* the course starts.  You can find a copy of the assignment here.  You can make a copy of the Dialectical Journal Template here.  Go ahead and talk with your parents about picking up the book for the English course you're signed up for and make a plan for when you're going to complete this assignment.  If I were you, I'd do my future self a favor and plan to start reading the week of June 4th and complete the assignment the week of June 11th.  I would go ahead and order the book, and set reminders on my phone for those weeks so I make sure I do it.  That way I'd be done with it and it wouldn't be hanging over my head all summer.  Either way, make a plan that works for you and do it!

I hope you all have a fantastic summer.  

Course Extension

Hello All,

Some students were given Course Extension Contracts to sign and return.  If you need an extra copy of this, you can find it below.  Parents of Honors students should also read the Honors Letter for clarification about that situation.

Please sign and return this form.  As always, I hope we do not need to use these contracts, but I would rather have and not need them than need and not have them.

Course Extension Contract

Course Extension Letter for Honors

Thank you.

6 Days Left

Hello All,

We have only 6 days left of class before final exams!  We only have a few grades left so make sure you're on track!

Monday the 14th:

• Honors: Book Trailers to be shown in class
• On Level and Honors: Work on poetry packet

Tuesday the 15th:

• Honors: Book Trailers to be shown in class
• On Level and Honors: Finish work on poetry packet

Wednesday the 16th:

• Honors: Vocabulary Test Units 1-7
• On Level and Honors: Compose your Who am I poem and plan your presentation

Thursday the 17th:

• On Level and Honors: Revise, edit, and finalize your Who am I poem and plan your presentation.  Turn in your poem to turnitin.com

Friday the 18th:

• All:  Who am I presentations

Monday the 21st:

• All:  Review for Final Exam

Tuesday the 22nd:

• All:  Final Exam 1st and 2nd

Wednesday the 23rd:

• All:  Final Exam 3rd and 4th

Change in Plans for Tuesday

Hello All,

Getting Close to the End--Makeup Work and Human Rights and NonProfit Projects

Hello All,

As I've been saying the last 2 weeks in class, all makeup work is due today.  I'm not going to grade any makeup work turned in after this weekend.  The time has come and this is make or break time.

Look to the following list to double check that your group has turned in all of the assignments for this project.

Honors:
For your Human Rights Project make sure you turn in the following assignments on turnitin.com:

• Human Rights Project -- your notecards with in text citations (Bundschu)
• Human Rights Project Revision 1 -- your rough draft of your script with in text citations
• Human Rights Project Revision 2 -- your rough draft of your slides presentation
• Human Rights Project Revision 3 -- your final draft of your script with in text citations
• Human Rights Slides Presentation with Links if needed -- your final draft of your slides presentation with any links, pictures, and videos you've created

On Google Classroom:  

• Human Rights Presentation -- your final draft of your slides presentation with any links, pictures, and videos you've created

Yes, I need your slides presentation BOTH places.  On Google Classroom so that I can present it for you, on turnitin.com so I can grade it for you.

On Level:

For your NonProfit Presentation make sure you turn in the following assignments on turnitin.com:

• NonProfit Coalition Script -- your rough draft of your script
• Non Profit Coalition Script Revision 1 -- your final draft of your script
• Non Profit Visuals -- a google doc or slides that includes your digital visuals or links to your visuals, or a list of what you will have visually in your presentation

On Google Classroom:

• Non Profit Visuals -- the same google doc or slides that includes your digital visuals or links to your visuals.

Yes, I need your Visuals BOTH places.  On Google Classroom so that I can present it for you (if necessary), on turnitin.com so I can grade it for you.

Moving forward:

Next week we'll have our presentations on Monday, Tuesday, and maybe Wednesday.  We'll start our Poetry Packets and get your study guides for the final exam once presentations are done.  Honors will also be working on their book trailers next week.  

Your final major assignments will be:

1. Everybody: Creating and presenting a poem (instructions to come)
2. Honors: Unit 7 Vocab Quiz next Friday
3. Honors: Book trailers
4. Everybody: Optional vocabulary test over all units to replace the lowest grade on a previous vocabulary test
5. Final exam covering Rhetoric and Poetic Devices 

13 days left!  We can do this!

Progress Reports and Projects coming up

Hello All,

Friday the final progress report will be sent home.  We only have 24 more days of school left before the end of the year.

Friday will also be our Doll House Test.  Please make sure you have gone over the play and are prepared to answer questions, especially about the character's actions, personality, and interactions.

Next week we'll be continuing on to Arguments as Honors will complete the Human Rights Project and On Level will complete the Non-Profit Project.  We will end the year with some Poetry.  Our final exam will cover argument techniques and poetic devices and analysis--basically, how people communicate. 

Honors students also need to be finishing up their Independent Reading books next week to be prepared to work on their Book Trailers the week after. 

Keep working strong through these last 5 weeks of class.  You can do this!