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Welcome to Ms. Lukas DeWinkeleer's Teacher Webpage.  Please feel free to contact me any time with questions or concerns.  The quickest way to reach me is via email.  See my contact information below.

Please note the above tabs for each of my classes.  I will be updating these daily agendas, so if a student is absent, he or she will be able to check what we did that day from home.  I will keep adding the most recent agenda at the top of the page, so you can always see what we did on previous days.

I look forward to a great year!

Contact Information:

Email: mdewinkeleer@londonderry.org

Phone: 432-6941 Ext. 2865

Schedule:

A Period: Journalism I in room 201

B Period: Journalism I in room 201

C Period: CP English 11 in room 201

D Period: Lunch

E Period: CP English 11 in room 201

F Period: Journalism II in room 201

G and H Periods: Prep

 


Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Class Activities:

 

HW: Depiction of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” due on Friday

 

CP English 11 Menu for the Day

Monday, September 17, 2012

Class Activities:

HW: Depiction of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” due on Thursday

Friday, September 14, 2012

Class Activities:

Thursday, September 13, 2012Class Activities:

 

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

 

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

 

Class Activities:

 

What to do:

  1. Click on the website below on your computer:

http://www.annebradstreet.com/Default.htm

 

As you are reading, please look for the answers to the questions below.  Be prepared to use these answers when doing your homework tonight. (See below.)

  1. When did Anne Bradstreet write many of her poems?
  2. What are the subjects of most of her poems?
  3. Name some of the qualities that describe Anne Bradstreet.
  4. What are some words that describe her writing style?
  5. Click on the tab at the top that says “Biography”  and answer these questions:

                  What was Anne’s journey like to America?

                  What tragedy struck the Bradstreet home?

 

  1. Now click on this website and be able to answer the questions below. Again, be prepared to use these answers when doing your homework tonight. (See below.) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4616663
  1. What was the journey like to America for Anne Bradstreet and her fellow passengers?
  2. How did Anne feel about coming to America from England?
  3. What were some of their visions of America?
  4. What was the reality of what they saw when they arrived in America?
  5. How did the Puritans’ and especially Anne Bradstreet’s faith in God help them throughout their journey to America and once they arrived in America?
  6. In Anne’s mind, what did it mean to be a good daughter?
  7. What is a shallop and what were they used for?  What happened to some of the people on these shallops?
  8. When Anne and her fellow settlers landed in America, what were their observations of the people of Salem who greeted them at the shore?  What were their homes and living conditions like?
  9. Governor John Endecott was one of the members of the “Advance Party” that had been sent a year before the ship that hosted Anne Bradstreet, Governor John Winthrop, Deputy Governor Dudley, etc.  What was the misunderstanding about food supply that occurred between Endecott and Winthrop?
  10. Since they decided not to stay in the deteriorating Salem, where did they go next?
  11. What had the Native Americans done to the land that impressed the new settlers?
  12. What kinds of things did Anne write about?  How did her writing influence the people of that time period?

 

  1. HOMEWORK:  Due Tomorrow
    1. Read the poems “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “Upon the Burning of Our House” that were given to you.
    2. Please use the knowledge you acquired from your readings today to analyze and understand the poems.  You need to make annotations in the margins about what the poems mean, what kinds of religious references she makes, how who she is and what she endured influenced her writing, etc.
    3. Write a brief paragraph for EACH poem explaining what you think each poem means based on your annotations.

This is worth 20 points.  You will only get complete credit if I can see that you took the time and thought needed to analyze the poems and you used the knowledge of the history to write your annotations and paragraphs.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Class Activities:

HW: Webquest due on Wednesday.  Be prepared to discuss your findings.

 

Friday, September 7, 2012

Class Activities:

HW: Webquest due on Monday.  Be prepared to discuss your findings.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

 

 

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

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Thursday 30, 2012

 

Class Activities:

  1. Read K:drive handout and practice getting onto the K:Drive.
  2. Create your folder in your class folder.
  3. Read this agenda! J Do what is asked of you below.
  4. Click here for the SAT Question of the Day. 
  5. Spend a few minutes looking at collegeboard.com since this is an incredibly useful tool for you to use in preparation of the SAT.
  6. Click on www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/ and read the word, definition and sentence.  We will be doing this every day to increase your vocabulary.
  7. Open the program “Inspiration”.  Click on “Diagram.”  Play around with this program (create boxes, place pictures and text, etc.) since this is something we will be using the rest of the year and on your final exams.
    • Assignment:
      • Create an “Inspiration” document and save it in the folder you created.
      • Make a box with your name in it.
      • Connect boxes and write words in it that describe you.
      • Place images on your page that help show what you like and who you are.
      • Please have a minimum of FIVE boxes/images surrounding your name.
      • Hand this document in for 15 points.

 

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

1. Share "What it Means to be an American" assignment

 

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

 

1. Fill out cards.  (See me!)

2. Attendance/Intor.

3. Syllabus

4. Assignment: "What Does it Mean to be an American?" 25 pts.  Due tomorrow.

HW: "American" assignment due Wednesday.

 



Journalism I Menu for the Day

 

Friday, September 14, 2012

 

Class Activities:

  • Stand up quiz on Chapter 3
  • Get handouts on how to hand in stories and discuss
  • Get outline handout for story  (15 points)

HW: Outline due Monday

 

Thursday, September 13, 2012

 

Class Activities:

  • Brainstorm for October stories

 

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

 

Class Activities:

Cut out stories and discuss

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

 

Class Activities:

Look at newspapersClass Activities:

Get handout on common mistakes from first stories.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Class Activities:

Stories Due by the end of class today.

 

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Class Activities:

Stories Due by the end of class tomorrow.

 

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Class Activities:

Stories Due by the end of class Friday.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Class Activities:

Quiz on chapter 1.

Hand in Ch 1 HW

 

Thursday, August 30, 2012

1. Get books

2. Get Chapter 1 Reading Guide

3. Interviews

HW: Read Chapter 1 by Tuesday and complete reading guide.  20 points.  Quiz Tues.

August 28, 2012

 

 

 

 

1. Editor introductions

2. Interview/ JI story interviews

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

1. Fill out cards

2. Attendance

3. Syllabus

4. Class Interviews assignment