Honors World August 8- August 12

Monday- Finished analyzing "Batman Begins"
Tuesday- Practice Annotating "Hero of a Thousand Faces" Map Santiago's Journey
Wednesday- Archetype notes; Write paragraph in groups;
Thursday- Analyzsed "Not Everything's a Hero's Journey" as a class and students began brainstorming for an argumentative essay
Friday- Took Vocab Quiz; Took Alchemist Quiz; Finished practice brainstorming; Received "10 reason why we need heroes" and "Why Do We Need Super Heroes?" to annotate over the weekend

10th World Literature August 1- August 5

Monday- Introduce course; discuss flags as symbols; students created individual flags
Tuesday- Students created mission statements and symbols; global scavenger hunt; students put their symbol on part of the world (on map) that they have a connection to
Wednesday-Students review hero's journey; students are put into group and assigned a type of hero to create a poster with examples for
Thursday- Students presented posters as groups; writing instruction; Prompt "What type of hero is Odysseus?" is given to class; Brainstorm as a class for essay
Friday- Reviewed brainstorm from previous day; Wrote a thesis and body paragraph as a class; students got in groups from previous 2 days and wrote group paragraphs that support the thesis statement created at beginning of class

Honors World Lit August 1-August 5

Monday- Introduced course; discussed flags as symbols; created individual flags
Tuesday- reviewed hero's journey; Discussed types of heroes; students created posters in groups of examples of hero type they were assigned
Wednesday-Writing instruction;Students (in the same groups as yesterday) wrote group thesis statements and paragraphs
Thursday-Discussed rubric;Wrote group paragraph on poster; gallery walk-groups gave each other feedback; group re-wrote paragraph
Friday- Watched Batman Begins; analyzes Batman hero type and Batman's hero's journey

Coming back from the break

Hello all! I hope you were able to enjoy a week off from school. It won't be much longer for the return of Mrs. Magnus, so there are a few things we need to focus on going forward.

World Literature

Your papers are due Monday, April 11th. I need the following items when you turn in your assignment:  the final draft of your paper, annotated bibliography, a rough draft of your work, your two outside sources printed out and annotated, and your rubric.

Please make sure you have composed your final draft in MLA format. 

We will be starting Macbeth for Unit 3. This is a short unit. Also, we are scheduled for testing on Tuesday, April 12th. Please bring your headphones.

Honors World

Your papers are due Monday, April 11th. Your Unit 2 test will be Tuesday, April 12th. Monday will be a review day for the test. Wednesday, I plan to start Unit 3 with the anchor text In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. I highly encourage  you to pick up your own copy so you can annotate it.

-Mr. J

A message from Mr. Joiner

Hello all! Mr. Joiner again. I'm sorry that I haven't had the chance to post lately. I was sick last week, which has put me behind in grading several assignments. I intend to have those assignments graded by the end of this weekend.

MISSING ASSIGNMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!

If you are absent or serving a suspension, you are eligible to make up missed assignments. Until you do, you will have a zero for that assignment. I implore you to take responsibility for your grades by going to your student account on Synergy, find which days you were absent and the assignments on those days, make a list, and make time to come see me before school, before or after class, or after school so you and I can make plans for you to make up that missing work. Until you do, you will have a zero. The longer you wait, the more work you will have to do. 

HONORS WORLD

Thursday, March 3rd (TOMORROW), we will have the Socratic Seminar for Chapters 1-4 of The Power of One. Please have your dialectical journals and your 3 open-ended questions. Don't be average. Aim to ask as least two of your questions and make 5 comments during the seminar. 

Friday, March 4th, we have scheduled a vocabulary quiz and the The Power of One quiz for chapters 5-9. Bring your journals for chapters 5-9 as well. If you finished both quizzes before class is over, plan to work on your next set of journals that will be due Monday.

WORLD

2nd and 4th Blocks will continue to read A Thousand Splendid Suns as well as work on identifying direct and indirect characterization. Also, we will touch on two of the archetypes on the Unit 2 test: the Abusive Mother and Absent Father. 

Friday, March 4th, we will have a vocabulary quiz. Study, study, and oh yeah, study. 

Sincerely, 

Mr. J.

 

Greetings! This is Mr. Joiner. I have an email address for parents and students to contact me. The address is John.Joiner@Cobbk12.org. This is the best way to reach me if you have concerns about grades and assignments. 

The week of 2/1 - 2/5

Honors

Monday: Vocabulary #2, Group Project presentations

Tuesday: Group Project presentations, Miracle Rising documentary (annotated)

Wednesday: Miracle Rising, The Power of One pop quiz

Thursday: Introduction to Post-Colonialism (handouts)

Friday:  Vocabulary #2 quiz, Post-Colonialism 

10th Grade World

Monday: It's a Girl documentary (handout)

Tuesday: Introduction to A Thousand Splendid Suns (handouts)

Wednesday: Background information:  Women of Afghanistan (handout)

Thursday:  Introduction to Feminist Lens (handout)

Friday:  Vocabulary #2 quiz, Feminist Lens

To all students who have been absent from class

Please come speak to Mr. Joiner to make plans to make up any and all assignments you are eligible to make up. Please note that the Google drives hold many of your assignments and handouts for class, including vocabulary. 

Sincerely,

Mr. Joiner

10th World Literature and Honors World

Hi! This is Mr. Joiner. I have officially taken over for Ms. Magnus today. As of today, I do not have my email address from the school district, but I expect to have that by next week so that parents and students will have the opportunity to reach me. I will post the address here. For the 10th World Literature students, please have a personal copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini by Monday, February 2nd. Honors World be ready to present your projects on Monday. Enjoy your weekend!