Week 7 March 28th-April1

Week 6	Class Work	Homework
Monday Turn in Syllabus the following Monday  for 100 points Extra credit if and only if you have completed all assignments!	The LAST  Meow Activities 15 and 16 *	READ 17, 18, and 19*
Tuesday	Time Essay *	Activity 20 Revise your Draft*
Wednesday	Peer Review of Draft  *	Activity 21Edit and post Final draft  to Turnitin.com by Thursday 5PM *
Thursday	Beginning of reading Into the Wild Week*	Read Into the Wild *
Friday	Holiday	Read Into the Wild

Grading Rubric Reminder

Students who are sophisticated writers and who pride themselves in being format AND content adept will readily understand that a research paper is a formal document that college professors will expect to be letter-perfect, even at the submission of the first draft; with this astute understanding taken into account, students must face the most strict requirements for such a document not only in the information that is researched, documented, and composed, but also in the Modern Language Association rules of research paper documentation. There is no excuse for errors in such an important assignment and although some leeway is provided for students at the secondary level, the post-secondary stringent grade marking and expectation of letter-perfect work is not only expected, but demanded. With that in mind, at the secondary level, the following marks were used in scoring senior research papers:
A Produces markedly superior work
B Produces superior work
C Demonstrates satisfactory work
D Needs to improve progress in work
F Demonstrates little or no progress in work

These descriptors are courtesy of Los Angeles Unified School District Form 34-H-1, titled "Criteria for Marks."
The following list denotes possible reasons students' research papers were marked down and does not represent every infraction that may be made:

1. Pages not numbered according to Modern Language Association (MLA) format requirements
2. Four-line heading not formatted according to MLA requirements
3. Spell-grammar check not used (run-ons, spelling errors and other such breaches)
4. Slang or trite expressions used in a formal document
5. Pronoun usage ("I", "You") and contractions are NOT PERMITTED in formal documents
6. Sources used are not reliable and do not reflect "Digital Library" type sources
7. No personal interview with an expert, expert not properly credentialed for reader, or interview not listed in Works Cited list
8. Widows/orphans improper formatting not fixed
9. Works Cited page sources not used in paper but listed in Works Cited page and/or Works Cited in two-page format instead of one page
10.Working outline and/or final draft of outline not provided
11.Page or paragraph length criteria not met
12.Citations listed in body of document not correctly formatted according to MLA requirements
13.Research paper deadline not met

Week 6

Week 6	Class Work	Homework
Monday Turn in Syllabus the following Monday  for 100 points Extra credit if and only if you have completed all assignments!	The LAST Meow Activity 1,  2, and 3 *	Activity 4*
Tuesday	Activity  5 and 6  *	Finish 5 and 6*
Wednesday	Activity 7  *	Activity 8 Highlight and Annotate *
Thursday	Activity 9 *	Activity 10 *
Friday	Activity 11 and 12	Activity 13 and 14 (pre-write) Monday Activities 15 and 16 Timed Essay Next Tuesday!

Week 5 Juvenile Justice

Week 5	Class Work	Homework
Monday Turn in Syllabus the following Monday  for 100 points Extra credit if and only if you have completed all assignments!	Activity 13 in groups *	Activity 14 *
Tuesday	Activity  15  *	Activity 16  This requires Internet research! *
Wednesday	Activity 17  *	Activity 18 Outline ( Classic Roman Numerals) your draft*
Thursday	Essay Activity 18 *	Activity 19 *
Friday	Activity  20 and 21 Submit Essay to Turnitin.com By 5 PM	Activity 23 Reflection Follow instructions, print out of essay do Monday.

Week 4 Juvenile Justice

Week 4	Class Work	Homework
Monday Turn in Syllabus the following Monday  for 100 points Extra credit if and only if you have completed all assignments!	Activities to prepare for New unit on Juvenile Justice Read ( Highlight and Annotate )pp.39-48*	Activity 1and 2 and*
Tuesday	Activity  3 *	Activity 4 *
Wednesday	Activity 5 *	Activity 6 and 7 *
Thursday	Activity 8 *	Activitiy 9 and 10 *
Friday	Activity 11 Submit to Turnitin.com*	Activities 12 and 13*