I collected the Lorna Crozier paragraphs today. See yesterday's blog for details.
Due Monday, a new, typed poem. Keep following the criteria we have been practicing and include all of the following details in your poem. You choose the details:
1. A proper noun such as Boo Radley, Mr. Happy, Walmart etc
2. a noun: taxi, egg, canvas, scissors
3. a verb from the kitchen: bake, boil, baste, wipe, fry, saute
4. a phrase, out of Africa, into the lake,
5. describe the light (from the moon, the sun, a lightbulb, a lamp, the stars etc light low in the trees, pale, left over . . .
6. point of view (tell the poem from a unique point of view)
7. make the poem about something important to you this time rather than a big idea such as war, homelessness Try something that is on your mind, a person you have trouble understanding, what is it like to be you? etc
8. include an epigraph from one of your poetry books
How to cite poetry using MLA style:
How to cite . . .
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
English 11: Study for the vocabulary test . . .
Today, we read for 15 minutes, wrote our responses to Othello's soliloquy (see yesterday's blog for details) and played Vocab. bingo to prepare for tomorrow's quiz.
Study tonight.
We will finish off Act 3 tomorrow and start Act 4. Othello test coming soon (probably Tuesday). Make sure you have notes on all of the scenes we have read together.
Open notebook test.
We will be starting an independent novel unit next. You get to pick a novel.
In Jan. we will do poetry and essays and exam prep!
Study tonight.
We will finish off Act 3 tomorrow and start Act 4. Othello test coming soon (probably Tuesday). Make sure you have notes on all of the scenes we have read together.
Open notebook test.
We will be starting an independent novel unit next. You get to pick a novel.
In Jan. we will do poetry and essays and exam prep!
Writing 12: Story due Monday . . .
Please help us reach our goal. Bring 10.00 or a gift card for that amount by Monday.
Writers are a generous lot. Please give.
We spent over an hour writing our stories today. You will also have tomorrow's class to write. Friday is Bill Gaston.
Remember, book Friday, Jan. 16th to support the youth poetry event at Hillside Coffee and Tea. Event starts at 7:30. Come early to sign up for the open mic.
Writers are a generous lot. Please give.
We spent over an hour writing our stories today. You will also have tomorrow's class to write. Friday is Bill Gaston.
Remember, book Friday, Jan. 16th to support the youth poetry event at Hillside Coffee and Tea. Event starts at 7:30. Come early to sign up for the open mic.
English 10: Lorna Crozier paragraph due Wed.
I returned your edited poems. Using those suggestions, we edited today's poem, which I then collected. I'll return it to you as soon as they are marked. Be sure to keep all your drafts. We also added the next two words, 53 and 54, and we read for 15 minutes. What a great class!
We are writing a paragraph on the poem, "The Child Who Walks Backwards" by Lorna Crozier during class today.
Here is a sample thesis:
Spend time thinking about the poem and what you want to write about before preparing your thesis statement. If you are excited about the topic, your reader will be too. Be sure to explain how each technique adds to the theme.
We are writing a paragraph on the poem, "The Child Who Walks Backwards" by Lorna Crozier during class today.
The question is:
In a formal, literary paragraph of 300 to 500 words, examine the way
Crozier's literary techniques add to the theme of the poem.
Here is a sample thesis:
Through
the use of imagery, assonance and enjambement, Lorna Crozier, in the
poem, "The Child Who Walks Backwards" reveals that children are victims
of violence and in a world that "lies / sleeping," nothing will change.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
English 11: Act 3: The Seduction Scene
If you were away, be sure to get the notes as we filled three boards today.
Read Othello's first soliloquy of the play on page 157. Take notes on the following:
How is Othello affected by Iago's poisonous conversation?
Notice the way that he is speaking. How have the images changed?
What do these images reveal about his mood?
Does he defend Desdemona at all? Why not? What is it about the possibility of her unfaithfulness that disturbs him so deeply?
Make notes on the soliloquy. Read the notes on page 156 as well.
Be prepared to write a short paragraph during class tomorrow on the question below: What is revealed about Othello's state of mind in his first soliloquy on page 157? Create a strong thesis statement that you feel is an insightful interpretation of Othello's character.
Vocabulary Test Thursday on the words: 1 to 20 and 26 to 56.
Read Othello's first soliloquy of the play on page 157. Take notes on the following:
How is Othello affected by Iago's poisonous conversation?
Notice the way that he is speaking. How have the images changed?
What do these images reveal about his mood?
Does he defend Desdemona at all? Why not? What is it about the possibility of her unfaithfulness that disturbs him so deeply?
Make notes on the soliloquy. Read the notes on page 156 as well.
Be prepared to write a short paragraph during class tomorrow on the question below: What is revealed about Othello's state of mind in his first soliloquy on page 157? Create a strong thesis statement that you feel is an insightful interpretation of Othello's character.
Vocabulary Test Thursday on the words: 1 to 20 and 26 to 56.
Writing 12: Lots of deadlines to remember . . .
SAVE FRIDAY, JAN. 16TH NOW. TAKE THE NIGHT OFF OF DANCE, WORK, DINNER WITH GRANNY, ETC. as you will need to attend this literary event of youth writers.
THREE OF you will be chosen to represent our class. Tomorrow, we'll write down the names of all the students interested in auditioning. This is an honour to represent us. I'm looking for strong readers and poems that would appeal to a diverse audience.
Dec 8th: You need to have finished writing the first draft of your story. BRING A COPY TO CLASS FOR MARKS.
Dec. 12th Bring two copies of this edited draft for workshop. You pick the group. Max. 3 members per group.
Dec. 12th we workshop.
Final draft for marking is due Tues. Dec. 16th! (You will still have a chance to do further revisions before this story makes it into your manuscript which is due Jan. 28th.
Talk to the teacher today whose class you have signed up to read to. Read and re-read the criteria several times so that you do a phenomenal presentation! Be prepared to discuss your work, your writing and editing process, why you write, where you hope to publish, why you took the course, etc. Be sure to introduce each poem well so that your audience knows what to listen for.
PLEASE BRING GIFT CARDS TOMORROW OR $10.00 FOR OUR TEEN DRIVE FOR XMAS.
THREE OF you will be chosen to represent our class. Tomorrow, we'll write down the names of all the students interested in auditioning. This is an honour to represent us. I'm looking for strong readers and poems that would appeal to a diverse audience.
Dec 8th: You need to have finished writing the first draft of your story. BRING A COPY TO CLASS FOR MARKS.
Dec. 12th Bring two copies of this edited draft for workshop. You pick the group. Max. 3 members per group.
Dec. 12th we workshop.
Final draft for marking is due Tues. Dec. 16th! (You will still have a chance to do further revisions before this story makes it into your manuscript which is due Jan. 28th.
Talk to the teacher today whose class you have signed up to read to. Read and re-read the criteria several times so that you do a phenomenal presentation! Be prepared to discuss your work, your writing and editing process, why you write, where you hope to publish, why you took the course, etc. Be sure to introduce each poem well so that your audience knows what to listen for.
PLEASE BRING GIFT CARDS TOMORROW OR $10.00 FOR OUR TEEN DRIVE FOR XMAS.
English 10: Edit Thursday's poem . . . hand in tomorrow
Today, I handed back the USSR logs, the vocabulary tests and your Mockingbird essays. We read two of our peers' essays and wrote two strengths and one weakness for each essay and then did the same for our own essay.
We read a poem to our partner and added a new poem to our poetry log.
I collected a new poem from each of you. (This poem is similar to Thursday's poem, however, you get to pick a new "big idea" and your own key images).
Today, we edited Thursday's poem using the following criteria:
Sound: Add sound through as many of the following devices as you can: onomatopoiea, assonance, dissonance, alliteration, internal rhyme, rhythm, repetition
Line breaks and enjambement: How do you break your lines. Make each line count.
Cross out all the adjectives.
Cross out all the cliches.
Look for surprise. If your reader can predict the next line, cut that line, or move it to the end of the poem. Surprise reflects thoughtful description. Think of Crozier's lines "plummets like a wounded bird" or "sparks burn stars into his skin".
So what? No matter how nicely a poem may sound, it needs to also make us think and feel. The theme must be implied through action, point of view, description etc, right?
Check that you explain what you mean. For example if you think something is indulgent, how would you show that? What does indulgence sound like, feel like, smell like, taste like? Appeal to all five senses when describing things.
Hand in a new, edited draft of Thursday's poem tomorrow.
We added the words scandalous and indulgent to our list today.
We read a poem to our partner and added a new poem to our poetry log.
I collected a new poem from each of you. (This poem is similar to Thursday's poem, however, you get to pick a new "big idea" and your own key images).
Today, we edited Thursday's poem using the following criteria:
Sound: Add sound through as many of the following devices as you can: onomatopoiea, assonance, dissonance, alliteration, internal rhyme, rhythm, repetition
Line breaks and enjambement: How do you break your lines. Make each line count.
Cross out all the adjectives.
Cross out all the cliches.
Look for surprise. If your reader can predict the next line, cut that line, or move it to the end of the poem. Surprise reflects thoughtful description. Think of Crozier's lines "plummets like a wounded bird" or "sparks burn stars into his skin".
So what? No matter how nicely a poem may sound, it needs to also make us think and feel. The theme must be implied through action, point of view, description etc, right?
Check that you explain what you mean. For example if you think something is indulgent, how would you show that? What does indulgence sound like, feel like, smell like, taste like? Appeal to all five senses when describing things.
Hand in a new, edited draft of Thursday's poem tomorrow.
We added the words scandalous and indulgent to our list today.
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