Friday, May 4th

Friday, May 4th 

Today we spent the class period working on our Last Lecture Presentations. Make sure you check that your backround for the presentation works on the computer in class. Everyone must present on assigned day. Bring your pink rubric to class on your day of presentation.

Monday 5/7:                                   Wednesday 5/9:                                      Friday 5/11:

1) Jack B                                         1) Jeff R                                                 1) Anna Q.  
2)Collin M                                        2) Ryan McConnell                                2) Andrew O.
3) Alexa Franks                                3) Kati Ansay                                         3) Madeline P.
4) Katy Roehrs                                 4) Olivia Batdheller                                 4) Jess S.
5) Joe Johnson                                  5) Mitch Boh                                          5) Conor McC.
6) Jake Palmer                                  6) Tyler Utsler                                         6) Sam M.
7) Conor McHugh                             7) Kylie Lemay                                       7) Ben B.
8) Jere Weliver                                   8) Sean Fritter                                        8) Jaden G.
9) Molly B.
Enjoy your last weekend of high school! Be safe and be prepared to finish strong the last week.

Wednesday, May 2nd.

Hello Everyone,

For todays PLC day we took our last quiz of the year on chapters 13-18. and we signed up for our lasst lecture presentations! The presentation dates are,

Monday 5/7:                                   Wednesday 5/9:                                      Friday 5/11:

1) Jack B                                         1) Jeff R                                                 1) Anna Q.  
2)Collin M                                        2) Ryan McConnell                                2) Andrew O.
3) Alexa Franks                                3) Kati Ansay                                         3) Madeline P.
4) Katy Roehrs                                 4) Olivia Batdheller                                 4) Jess S.
5) Joe Johnson                                  5) Mitch Boh                                          5) Conor McC.
6) Jake Palmer                                  6) Tyler Utsler                                         6) Sam M.
7) Conor McHugh                             7) Kylie Lemay                                       7) Ben B.
8) Jere Weliver                                   8) Sean Fritter                                        8) Jaden G.
9) Molly B.

Be ready to work on your last lecture on Friday since that is all we will be doing that day. Be sure to be well prepared for your Last Lecture Presentations!

Monday, April 30th

Hello everyone! Today in Smith's class, we discussed the final chapters of Brave New World. Before we began discussing, Smith handed us our Last Lecture rubric for the project. She also told us that the Last Lecture final will be going into the Writing category because it is the category that makes the final about 15% of our grade. For some of us, this is a great opportunity to raise our grade a bit! Hurray! Our homework for Wednesday is to review chapters 9-18 in Brave New World because we have a fairly large quiz on Wednesday. This will be the last grade to be put into the grade book until our final, so it is smart to do well on the quiz! Also, you should be working on your Last Lecture presentation. We will be given time after the quiz on Wednesday to work it and all of the class on Friday to work on it as well. Mrs. Smith said that if you need any help this weekend with your Last Lecture, that you should talk to her right away because her week this week is very hectic! She also said rehearsing before you present is a very good idea because we will only be given 5 minutes to present next week. If you go over 5 minutes you will be stopped in the middle of your presentation and lose points; you will not be able to finish your presentation. So aim for 4 to 5 minutes, in my opinion, just to be safe. Other than that, see you all Wednesday!

April 27, Friday

Hello everybody,
We are coming down to the last two weeks of class, but we have some big things left to do.

For Monday, you need to have the last chapters of Brave New World read and a summary response written for them. We will have a Socratic on Monday, so come with questions!
Wednesday, there will be a quiz over chapters 10-18. Remember, this quiz will be as hard as the last one, so make sure you have read all the chapters.

Today, we had a work day to do whatever you needed. You could catch up on reading, write your LL 3, or work on your LL presentation. We looked at the rubric that Smith will be using to grade us and talked about the requirements for the presentation. Here are just a few of the key points:

• Dress professionally
• This is worth 250 points. No jeans and t-shirts!

• Use all three of the lectures you have written
• You have to include all three of your essays in order to receive full credit. 

• Be creative 
• Don't make everyone fall asleep while listening to you

• Clarity, Effectiveness, and Organization 
•  Have one common theme tying everything together

 Here is a link to the rubric, but we will be getting a hard copy next week anyway:

http://arapahoe.littletonpublicschools.net/Portals/7/Language%20Arts/Smith/Last%20Lecture%20Presentation%20Rubric.doc

We will be presenting the LL's May 7, 9, and 11

Have a great weekend

April 25, 2012

Hey everybody!!
Happy donut Wednesday!


We had a socratic seminar this beautiful morning where the main themes were:

• happiness
• being content because your life is the only thing you know
• power
• conditioning- are we conditioned??
• the parallel between the stark white world, and the colorful wild
• two seperate worlds
• Bernard vs. Carl Marx
• true happiness vs. false happiness
• sadness

Homework is to read 15-16, last lecture part 3, and last lecture presentation

Enjoy your day!

April 23, 2012 SCRIBE

Hello ladies and gents,
Well for starters Ms. Smith wasn't here! So Mr. Rosenberg was our sub. We were all very sleepy today since it was a Monday (yuck Mondays!) Today we listened to music that relates to Brave New World. We asked ourselves several questions... What is being satirized? What is being sacrificed? What connections can you make? We discussed each song as a class. I couldn't find a list of all the songs so here are some of them. Feel free to look up the lyrics on GOOGLE.

Money- Pink Floyd, A Great Day for Freedom- Pink Floyd, Breathe- Pink Floyd, Which Way to America- Living Colour, How to be a Millionaire, - ABC, Beverly Hills- Weezer, Grand Illusion- STYX, Subdivision- Rush.

Your Homework is...
Read BNW 13-14
Summary Response 7-12
Work on last lecture 3 and presentation
AND GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY!!!! ITS SOOO BEAUTIFUL!

April 18

Hello everyone. Today in class we presented our montage assignments which were covering certain themes in chapter three such as family, role of women, manufacturing, and many more. They were all very good and interesting.
Remember we have a quiz over chapters 1-9. Know character names, what certain colors mean, and details from those chapters.
Homework: study for quiz, Last Lecture part 3, LL conference