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Monday, November 3, 2008

English Technology Inservice 11.03.08

  • 6+1 Writing Traits--Continue emphasizing these traits as a followup to middle school emphasis. Use in rubrics as well as during instruction and editing.
  • High School Writing and Style Guide--Please distribute and regularly incorporate into writing instruction. Students should write their names on copies and keep in looseleaf binders for use in all content areas. Students are expected to keep these booklets from year to year. They may print replacements from the following link:
    http://www.hcpss.org/aboutus/writing_manual.pdf
  • INTRANET Access (CLC name and password) and Content
    E-Guides--Curriculum lessons for grades 9 and 10.
    DR Access
    Process to unblock sites--Call number on blocked page.
    Air Card from Verizon--Offers internet access anywhere.
    Kindles (Amazon.com)--Individual electronic devices for downloading etexts; may benefit nontraditional readers.
  • Grades are due to ITLs by 10:00 AM Thursday morning, November 6 this week.
  • NO Department Meeting on November 11 by consensus of the group in attendance.
  • Instead, ETS Training for Criterion Online Writing Evaluation Program will be held November 17 for all English teachers of Grades 9 and 10; Regular and Review Classes. http://criterion28.ets.org/cwe/index.php
  • Instead also, CPR Rhetoric Group will also meet sometime this month.
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~English HSA Online Resources~

~English HSA Online Resources~

  • Maryland HSA Overview & History
  • Class of 2009--First Class Required to Pass Tests for Graduation
  • High School Testing Content & Data
  • High School Assessment Testing Calendar
  • Publicly Released Test Forms--2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
  • Answer Keys & Scoring Rubrics
  • Online HSA Courses
  • Testing Options/Accommodations
  • Contact Information

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~from The Tragedy of King Richard II (Act 3, Scene 3) (1623) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MobRic2.html

Yet looks he like a king: behold, his eye,
As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth
Controlling majesty: alack, alack, for woe,
That any harm should stain so fair a show!


~from Moby-Dick (Chapter 96: The Try-Works) (1851) by Herman Melville (1819-1891)

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Mel2Mob.html

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.


~from Love's Phases (1899) by Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872-1906)
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/dunbar/poetryindex/love%27s_phases.html

Love hath the wings of the eagle bold,
Cling to him strongly
What if the look of the world be cold,
And life go wrongly?
Rest on his pinions, for broad is their fold;
Love hath the wings of the eagle bold.


~from What the Eagle Says (1999) by Xi Chuan (born Liu Jun, 1963)

http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/crevel.html

Among men there are men who are not men, just like among eagles there are eagles that are not eagles: there are eagles that are forced to pace up and down the alleyways, and there are men who are forced to fly through the air.