Last Day

Last day to turn in work for the five-week progress report.

View The Outsiders or complete make up work.

Photograph poem

Choose a photograph that holds emotional significance for you. It might be a photo of yourself, a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, friend, or a pet.

For this assignment, your readers will not see the photograph with their eyes. You want them to see it in their mind, so write the details with clarity. Describe the background, the physical features, clothes, colors, time, place, context. Be specific.


Standard 2.1c Write physical descriptions


Homework: Finish all assignments by 2/29 including book report and study island.

Recurring themes day two

Take exam
on finding recurring themes.

Homework: Finish Book Review and Study Island by 2/29.

Bring in a photo of someone you care about. Choose a photograph that holds emotional significance for you. It might be a photo of yourself, a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, friend, or a pet.

For this assignment, your readers will not see the photograph with their eyes. You want them to see it in their mind, so write the details with clarity.

Finding Recurring Themes Exam

Take exam
on finding recurring themes.


Homework: Finish Book Review and Study Island by 2/29

Click this for complete poem: 536. Ode. Intimations of Immortality. William Wordsworth. The Oxford Book of English Verse

Quick Write: Write about someone you care about.

Review theme form
for Grand Mothers.

Homework: Finish book report and study island by 2/29.

Test on Monday: Finding Themes

Three days of stations in PE3

Station 1: Study Island (LRA 3.5 Identify and analyze recurring themes, W 1.3 Support theses or conclusions with analogies, paraphrases, quotations, opinions from authorities, comparisons, and similar devices.)

Station 2: Cut-Out Poem, (READING 1.0 Word Analysis, LRA 3.1 Articulate the characteristics of different forms of poetry, LC 1.4 Correct grammar)

Working in groups cut out 10 nouns, 5 verbs, 3 prepositions, 2 adjectives, and 2 adverbs per group member.

A preposition shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun an another word in a sentence.

examples: above, in, out, past, since, through

A verb shows action or state of being.

examples: walk, talk, think, believe, is, am

Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns.

examples: tiny, three, furious, sunny

A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea.

examples: Andy, park, book, truth

Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or adverbs.

examples: quickly, slowly, well

With the words that were cut out, each group member will make a poem on a poster by pasting the words on construction paper. The student will also display the poem on the poster and rewrite the poem on a regular piece of paper with a proper heading.

Grading Guidelines

Appearance: Poster reflects student’s pride in his or her work. All words are cut out and no words are formed with letters that have been cut out individually. The copy of the poem produced by hand is neat and legible.

Sound: The combination of words on the page is interesting. The words may alliterate, rhyme, produce a rhythm, or otherwise just sound cool.

Meaning: The words on the page seem to make some kind of sense. There should at least be a hint of meaning.

Copy the poem by hand or by typing, hang up the poster and turn in the copy.

Assignment is worth 50 points.

Station 3: Find the theme (LRA 3.5 Identify and analyze recurring themes)

Read the following works of literature and complete a theme form
for each.

Excerpt from The Cay provided in class.

Birdfoot's Grampa

The old man
must have stopped our car
two dozen times to climb out
and gather into his hands
the small toads blinded
by our lights and leaping,
live drops of rain.

The rain was falling,
a mist about his white hair
and I kept saying
you can't save them all,
accept it, get back in
we've got places to go.


But, leathery hands full
of wet brown life,
knee deep in the summer
roadside grass,
he just smiled and said
they have places to go to too.

- Joseph Bruchac

Read Grand Mothers by Nikki Giovanni on pages 409 - 414 in the Language of Literature.

Read "Old Man" by Ricardo Sanchez. Write notes in the margins of the poem about possible themes.


Homework: Finish book report and study island by 2/29.

Make up day

Complete make up work



Homework: Book report and study island due 2/29/08

Valentine's Day

Watch a sonnet in dialogue from Romeo and Juliet.

Pass out progress reports and discuss them.

Make flash cards:



Half the class will work on StudyIsland while the other half works on their essays.



Homework: Book report and StudyIsland due 2/29

View "Tell-Tale Heart"

Quickly Prepare: Turn to page 625, take out a sheet of paper, and title it "Tell-Tale Heart" Questions.

Write and answer question two on page 631.

Write and answer the following: What could possibly be the theme of "Tell-Tale Heart"? State the theme. Support your theme using examples from the story and your own reasoning.

Discuss mood in "Tell-Tale Heart."

Fill out chart below

______________Page, Para. Quote____How it affects mood___
Punctuation


Rhyme


Alliteration


Repetition

______________________________________________



Homework: Finish study island assignments and book report by 2/29/08.

Quick Write: Would did you learn in the past two days in the stations exercise. Think about Edgar Allan Poe, alliteration, vocabulary, StudyIsland, etc.

Review progress of the over due "Monkey's Paw" theme comparison essay. Review student samples and provide class time to students who have not yet completed the assignment to complete it.

Essay Rubric

Essay Checklist

Poe stations continued--see Friday's post

Poe Stations

Station 1 Art (Tetzlaff PE1)
Draw the setting in a nightmare.

Station 2 Biography (Tetzlaff PE1)
Video on Poe and study questions.

Station 3 Vocabulary (Tetzlaff PE1)
Match the definitions below with the words/pictures
Write the letter of the definition in the space provided next to the word.

Station 4 Study Island (Hilbert PE3)

Complete the two current assignments: “Recurring Themes” and “Support Your Thesis.” If you finish, do "Revise, Revise, Revise!" and "Evaluate the Text," which will be due for the ten week report card.

Station 5 “Tell-Tale Heart” (Hilbert PE3)

What is your mood right now? _______

Read “Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe starting on page 625 in The Language of Literature.

What mood or moods do you think Poe was trying to create in “Tell-Tale Heart”?

The feeling or atmosphere the writer creates for the reader is called the mood.

View part one of Tell-Tale Heart below:



View part two of Tell-Tale Heart below:



Station 6 “The Raven” (Hilbert PE3)

Read “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe silently. As you read highlight words that rhyme in blue and highlight words that alliterate in green.

Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. For example the line “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,” nodded, nearly, and napping alliterate because they all start with the same letter.

After reading “The Raven,” view the version presented in The Simpsons.

Was the Simpsons version what you expected after reading the poem?

What do you think the poem means? What happens in the poem?


Link: sevenload.com

Concise, coherent, and formal

View "Minstrel Man" and see if the young person in the video has the same response as you.

Flash Cards:




Finish Periodic Assessment Review:

Number your paper 1, 26-31, skipping 5 lines between each number.

Question 1: Which questions can be correctly aswered without reading the selection? Explain.

For questions 26-31, write the letter for an answer that you believe to be wrong and explain.
Write the letter for what you believe is the right answer and explain.

Homework: Finish study island assignments and book report by 2/29/08.

Minstrel Man

by Langston Hughes

Because my mouth
Is wide with laughter
And my throat
Is deep with song,
You do not think
I suffer after
I have held my pain
So long?

Because my mouth
Is wide with laughter,
You do not hear
My inner cry?
Because my feet
Are gay with dancing,
You do not know
I die?



--Hughes's life and work were enormously influential during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.

Quick Write: Who is the author and what is the title of the poem. What does the poem mean to you? Do you agree that people can appear happy on the outside, yet be suffering on the inside? Explain.

Pass out progress reports and score summaries for the last periodic assessment. Discuss.


Title your paper Periodic Assessment Review

Number your paper 1, 26-31, skipping 5 lines between each number.

Question 1: Which questions can be correctly aswered without reading the selection? Explain.

For questions 26-31, write the letter for an answer that you believe to be wrong and explain.
Write the letter for what you believe is the right answer and explain.


Homework: Finish study island assignments and book report by 2/29/08.

New seating, new folders, old rules

Quick Write: What can you do to make PE3 a better learning environment? What can you do to improve your grades and test scores.

Copy and discuss .

Finish essays:

checklist 10 pts.
rough draft 25 pts.
Final 65 pts.

Final draft must be double-spaced, 12 pt. font, and the first line of every paragraph must be indented 1/2".



Homework: Finish study island assignments and book report by 2/29/08.
Final draft of essay.

Finish essays and revise in groups

Homework: Study Island and Read

Proofreading symbols

Review the proofreading symbols on page R34 of The Language of Literature.

Write a four paragraph essay discussing the themes of Simpsons' version and W. W. Jacobs's version of the "Monkey's Paw." Use the rubric and checklist. 25% of your grade will be based on the quality of the revision process.



Homework: