We finished our notes on Part 2, chapter 1, and read chapter 2 in class. Please finish reading Part 2, chapter 3 for homework. Be prepared to present tomorrow. I'll put you into groups.
Keep looking for Meursault's transformation into the absurd hero.
Which passages are key? Why?
Thursday, March 8, 2012
English 9
Friday, March 7: Good copy and edited draft of your "Penny in the Dust" paragraph. Please also staple your Paragraph Response Correction Sheet (based on your "The Father" paragraph) to the package. If you have not completed one, copy and paste the one below into a word document and print it out.
I'm looking forward to reading your new paragraphs! Please do not arrive to class without your work. If you need an extension (based on real circumstances) I will consider your request.
Friday: We'll finish reading the story, "The Veldt".
I'm looking forward to reading your new paragraphs! Please do not arrive to class without your work. If you need an extension (based on real circumstances) I will consider your request.
Friday: We'll finish reading the story, "The Veldt".
Paragraph Correction Response Sheet
Title of Assignment: ___________________________ Date: ________________________________
Mark I was expecting: __________________________
Mark I received: __________________________
The definition of insanity is expecting change to result from making the same mistakes.
CHOOSE YOUR TOP THREE PRIORITIES
In order to improve for next time, I want to learn how to:
1. ______________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The literary must-haves that I forgot to include were
1. _____ verb tense, no contractions,
2. _____ sentence variety (using short/long/medium sentences, varying the type and varying how the sentence begins)
3. _____ using synonyms for words that repeat a lot in the paragraph
4. _____ using pronouns such as this is or this means or it shows etc.
5. _____ forgetting the page number or not citing correctly
6. _____ forgetting that quotes can’t float so needing to integrate quotations
7. _____ forgetting to check for wordiness or slang
8. _____ forgetting the 13 steps (especially elaboration and transitions)
9. _____ sufficient evidence to prove my thesis
10. _____ insightful responses to the evidence I had gathered (or too-obvious observations)
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
English 10 A
I read you a number of poems today that really focus on using the imagination. Create new images. New things / situations / people to look at. Make us see what you see through your use of details which apply to the five senses. Add meaning through sound and structure (enjambement, juxtaposition, title, shape, caesuras, etc).
Bring your four poems to class tomorrow (typed) for peer editing. Ensure that all four poems match the criteria for this poetry portfolio. The criteria are clearly laid out on today's handout. Good luck.
PARTY PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS--EMAIL YOUR POEMS OR PASS YOUR POEMS TO YOUR PEER EDITING PARTNER. Take the edited poems home and revise and re-shape and re-craft. If you would like me to edit more poems, hand them to me Monday so I can return them to you by Tuesday.
Tuesday: poetry test (see the handout) Complete the 3rd section at home: A journal entry addressing at least three of the criteria to answer the question, How has poetry affected me?
Thursday March 15: Your poems are due. Include at least one edited draft per poem so that I can mark your understanding of the writing process--creating, drafting, revising, editing, polishing, presenting, publishing. Give your collection a title. NO need to decorate the cover.
Bring your four poems to class tomorrow (typed) for peer editing. Ensure that all four poems match the criteria for this poetry portfolio. The criteria are clearly laid out on today's handout. Good luck.
PARTY PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS--EMAIL YOUR POEMS OR PASS YOUR POEMS TO YOUR PEER EDITING PARTNER. Take the edited poems home and revise and re-shape and re-craft. If you would like me to edit more poems, hand them to me Monday so I can return them to you by Tuesday.
Tuesday: poetry test (see the handout) Complete the 3rd section at home: A journal entry addressing at least three of the criteria to answer the question, How has poetry affected me?
Thursday March 15: Your poems are due. Include at least one edited draft per poem so that I can mark your understanding of the writing process--creating, drafting, revising, editing, polishing, presenting, publishing. Give your collection a title. NO need to decorate the cover.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
AP Lit
We've read and made notes on Part 1 (1-60). We have read the novel on a symbolic level--looking for examples of imposing meaning on a meaningless universe, watching Meursault attempt to stay uninvolved and we have witnessed the murder of the Arab.
Read and re-read page 30. Notice the light imagery and that every time the sun is described there is a blade or spear or knife image attached. The sea is described as being on fire (more light images).
Look for sun and crying motifs in part 1.
Homework: Start reading Section 2. Have the first chapter read for tomorrow (7 pages).
Read and re-read page 30. Notice the light imagery and that every time the sun is described there is a blade or spear or knife image attached. The sea is described as being on fire (more light images).
Look for sun and crying motifs in part 1.
Homework: Start reading Section 2. Have the first chapter read for tomorrow (7 pages).
Writing 12
Get your stories edited as well as you can. Remember, these are first drafts but edit them well.
Be sure to follow the criteria on your sheet and double space it. Give it a title.
You have until June to revise. This process will give you the feedback you need to make a good story great!! You'll also get encouraged by reading stories by your peers.
Thurs: We'll hand out the stories and I'll give you some time to edit them. I then want to read a Carver story that looks absolutely simple on the surface but when you look at its construction, you'll see its brilliance.
Mr. Young will be here on Monday so please arrive on time. You will need to take notes and then afterwards write up your author response and hand that to me Wed. March 14th.
Thanks.
Be sure to follow the criteria on your sheet and double space it. Give it a title.
You have until June to revise. This process will give you the feedback you need to make a good story great!! You'll also get encouraged by reading stories by your peers.
Thurs: We'll hand out the stories and I'll give you some time to edit them. I then want to read a Carver story that looks absolutely simple on the surface but when you look at its construction, you'll see its brilliance.
Mr. Young will be here on Monday so please arrive on time. You will need to take notes and then afterwards write up your author response and hand that to me Wed. March 14th.
Thanks.
Monday, March 5, 2012
English 10 A
Thanks for your hard work today. I loved seeing you create poems out of the air!!
You need four revised poems for your portfolio. Wednesday, we'll create more poems.
Friday--Bring it your best revised four poems for peer editing.
Make sure you are following the criteria:
lots of imagery
surprise
a sense of structure, sound, sense
a resonant title
a glimpse of the human condition
You need four revised poems for your portfolio. Wednesday, we'll create more poems.
Friday--Bring it your best revised four poems for peer editing.
Make sure you are following the criteria:
lots of imagery
surprise
a sense of structure, sound, sense
a resonant title
a glimpse of the human condition
Lit 12
You should have a strong first draft now. Next steps:
1. Make sure that you have indeed proven your thesis.
2. Make sure that everything you discuss in the body of the essay is revealed in the introduction. Revise the introduction to match the body paragraphs.
3. Check that all body paragraphs have strong conclusions.
4. Check that all body paragraphs refer at some point to the overall thesis. Make connections to your thesis throughout the essay. Don't make the reader guess at these connections. Spell them out.
5. Finally, check for diction. Revise sentences--vary sentence length, type and beginnings.
6. Use strong verbs: emphasize, illuminate, depict, portray, exemplify, elucidate, Cut THere is, This is etc by re-writing the sentences.
Deadlines:
Bring a typed, double spaced, edited copy of your essay to class THURSDAY for peer editing. Don't arrive and ask to print it. Arrive with it printed. Marks awarded for arriving with the essay. Marks awarded for peer editing as well.
Wed. class: Review of the Renaissance unit for next Tuesday's unit test. Unit test consists of 15 multiple choice questions on the core list, plus a sight poem para. and a Lear passage paragraph analysis.
Thurs: March 8: Peer Editing
Friday: March 9 Renaissance Review
Tuesday: March 13 Arrive with your typed essay and your quote log.
Thursday; March 15 Lear notebooks are due. We will be choosing novels to read for our bookclub so DO NOT MISS THIS CLASS. IF YOU ARE LEAVING EARLY, SEE ME TO CHOOSE A NOVEL. I suggest you read the novel during spring break (if possible) so that you will not be so pressed for time when you return.
Novel choices:
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte (1847) Jane Eyre synopsis
Tess of the d'Ubervilles Thomas Hardy (1891) Tess synopsis
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte (1847) Wuthering Synopsis
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen (1813) Pride and Prejudice synopsis
Great Expectations Charles Dickens (1860) Great Expectations synopsis
1984 George Orwell (1948) 1984 synopsis
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood (1985) The Handmaid's Tale synopsis
1. Make sure that you have indeed proven your thesis.
2. Make sure that everything you discuss in the body of the essay is revealed in the introduction. Revise the introduction to match the body paragraphs.
3. Check that all body paragraphs have strong conclusions.
4. Check that all body paragraphs refer at some point to the overall thesis. Make connections to your thesis throughout the essay. Don't make the reader guess at these connections. Spell them out.
5. Finally, check for diction. Revise sentences--vary sentence length, type and beginnings.
6. Use strong verbs: emphasize, illuminate, depict, portray, exemplify, elucidate, Cut THere is, This is etc by re-writing the sentences.
Deadlines:
Bring a typed, double spaced, edited copy of your essay to class THURSDAY for peer editing. Don't arrive and ask to print it. Arrive with it printed. Marks awarded for arriving with the essay. Marks awarded for peer editing as well.
Wed. class: Review of the Renaissance unit for next Tuesday's unit test. Unit test consists of 15 multiple choice questions on the core list, plus a sight poem para. and a Lear passage paragraph analysis.
Thurs: March 8: Peer Editing
Friday: March 9 Renaissance Review
Tuesday: March 13 Arrive with your typed essay and your quote log.
Thursday; March 15 Lear notebooks are due. We will be choosing novels to read for our bookclub so DO NOT MISS THIS CLASS. IF YOU ARE LEAVING EARLY, SEE ME TO CHOOSE A NOVEL. I suggest you read the novel during spring break (if possible) so that you will not be so pressed for time when you return.
Novel choices:
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte (1847) Jane Eyre synopsis
Tess of the d'Ubervilles Thomas Hardy (1891) Tess synopsis
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte (1847) Wuthering Synopsis
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen (1813) Pride and Prejudice synopsis
Great Expectations Charles Dickens (1860) Great Expectations synopsis
1984 George Orwell (1948) 1984 synopsis
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood (1985) The Handmaid's Tale synopsis
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