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the Final! Let's get started!

The final is starting today with the questions. When you are done with the questions you will complete an essay. I will share the essay topic with you tomorrow or Thursday. 

The last Vocab Quizzes of you Senior Year!!

Here we go! We are trying this a new way. You have multiple ways to get to the quiz. I want to know what works best for you. You may choose to take the quiz as a guest (one of the questions is your name just in case it goes weird on us), or create the account. Creating the account takes about a minute though.

On your phones go to GoFormative.com

You want to join my class, the class code is: XNZM767

Quiz 14 Instructions:

Or you can use the "quick code" TZNT447

Or you can use direct link


Quiz 15 Instructions:

Quick Code: MWGC946

Direct Link

We are almost done!

As of now, grades are up to date in aeries and can be checked from parent and student accounts. 

Assignments still to be included in the final grade for ERWC:

Scrapbook, Friday May 28

Vocabulary 14 Monday, June 1

Vocabulary 15 Monday, June 1

Final Exam Essay, Tuesday June 2

Final Exam questions, Wednesday/Thursday June 3-4

Vocab Quiz 13

Essay submission form

Quiz 12

Monday May 11

1. Take Quiz
2. Peer Editing

You are to pair up with someone else who has completed a draft. The focus for today is the Introduction paragraph. I want the editor to read the entire essay out loud to the writer. (This can be condensed to just the introduction paragraph if needed for time. The decision belongs to the sub.) 

Writers: 

• After listening to your essay, does it say what you meant? 
• Any areas that don't match up with what you were thinking?

Editors: 

• How is the introduction paragraph? 
• Is there a thesis statement (a clear argument that lets you know the topic and argument being made by the writer)? 
• Is the writing clear and concise? or is it confusing?
• Are there two reasons that support the argument clearly stated in the introduction paragraph?

Homework:

Go home and clarify those introduction paragraphs. NOW I want you to start typing them in a google doc. Submit them HERE. This document will be your entire essay, but your homework for tonight is to edit and type your introduction paragraph only. 

Writing Prompt

On June 25, 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that juveniles who committed

murder could not be sentenced to life in prison because it violated the Eighth

Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Justice Elena Kagan,

writing for the majority, stated that “Mandatory life without parole for a

juvenile precludes consideration of his chronological age and its hallmark

features—among them, immaturity, impetuosity, and failure to appreciate

risks and consequences. It prevents taking into account the family and

home environment that surrounds him—and from which he cannot usually

extricate himself—no matter how brutal or dysfunctional.”

However, four justices strongly disagreed, arguing that mandatory sentences

reflected the will of American society that heinous crimes committed by

juveniles should always be punished with a sentence to life in prison. Justice

Alito noted that otherwise, “Even a 17 ½-year-old who sets off a bomb

in a crowded mall or guns down a dozen students and teachers is a ‘child’

and must be given a chance to persuade a judge to permit his release into

society…”

Write an essay analyzing the issues raised by these arguments. Be sure to

indicate which side you most strongly agree with. Support your position,

providing reasons and examples from your own experience and observations,

discussions you have participated in, and texts you have read for this module.

Your essay should be as clearly focused, well organized, and carefully written as

you can make it.

Questions such as the ones below will help you plan what you want say before

you begin to draft your essay.

• Do you agree with the majority of Supreme Court justices who argued to

abolish mandatory life in prison for juveniles who commit murder or with

the minority who argued to retain it?

• Which author or authors that we have read support your position? What

evidence do they provide?

• Which author or authors support those who disagree with you? What

evidence do they provide?

• Sketch out a plan for the arguments and evidence you will use in your essay.

• Write a working thesis. After you have finished your essay, reread your thesis

statement, and revise it if necessary.

Thursday May 7

http://cultivatingthought.com/essaycontest/