Pick poems suitable to grades 10 and 11. Think about how you will introduce the poems. Time yourself.
Work on the manuscript this weekend. Edit. Edit. Edit.
Manuscripts due Wed. Check yesterdays' blog to discover what we have to do next.
Friday, January 23, 2015
English 10: Read Act 4!
Pay attention to all of Juliet's lines. Take notes on Act 4, Scenes 1 and 3 (analyze Juliet's speeches). For the rest of the act, ensure you know what is going on and why.
Next week: We finish the play, watch the play, review for the exam and our last day is our poetry cafe. Choose two poems to read and bring some goodies to share!
You can study for the exam by looking on-line and re-reading all the works I have marked for you this year. Know your strengths. Improve any weak areas.
Next week: We finish the play, watch the play, review for the exam and our last day is our poetry cafe. Choose two poems to read and bring some goodies to share!
You can study for the exam by looking on-line and re-reading all the works I have marked for you this year. Know your strengths. Improve any weak areas.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Book Drive! Last day . . .
Please donate a book before Friday. Last day for essays is Friday unless you have asked for an extension.
I collected the sky poems today. We did the vocab. test on 1-70. Marks were lower than they should be. Some students will need to work hard before next week's final test. Study.
We read a poem by John Updike called, Ex-Basketball Player. You can google it if you were absent. Ask me for a poetry package.
Due Monday: A formal, literary paragraph on the Lorna Crozier poem about the abused boy or the Updike poem about Flick.
Crozier poem question: Discuss the attitude toward child abuse revealed in the poem. Be sure to support your thesis with sufficient proof and follow our literary-must haves sheet, cite correctly, incorporate quotations, and discuss the quotations in detail so there is a clear connection between the evidence and your thesis.
Updike question: Discuss the character of Flick. Create a thesis that defines the attitude toward this young man revealed through the poem's imagery.
Also due Monday: HAVE YOUR NOVEL READ. HAVE YOUR 25 POST-ITS CHOSEN. BE READY TO DISCUSS THE APPEARANCE VS REALITY THEME.
I collected the sky poems today. We did the vocab. test on 1-70. Marks were lower than they should be. Some students will need to work hard before next week's final test. Study.
We read a poem by John Updike called, Ex-Basketball Player. You can google it if you were absent. Ask me for a poetry package.
Due Monday: A formal, literary paragraph on the Lorna Crozier poem about the abused boy or the Updike poem about Flick.
Crozier poem question: Discuss the attitude toward child abuse revealed in the poem. Be sure to support your thesis with sufficient proof and follow our literary-must haves sheet, cite correctly, incorporate quotations, and discuss the quotations in detail so there is a clear connection between the evidence and your thesis.
Updike question: Discuss the character of Flick. Create a thesis that defines the attitude toward this young man revealed through the poem's imagery.
Also due Monday: HAVE YOUR NOVEL READ. HAVE YOUR 25 POST-ITS CHOSEN. BE READY TO DISCUSS THE APPEARANCE VS REALITY THEME.
Writing 12: Focus--Manuscript! Due Wed. Pick up the guidelines.
I collected two new pages of fiction today. The ones I have read so far are brilliant.
You should be hearing from The Claremont Review in the next few days so be sure to check your email.
Next Wed. in the lab, you will be sending pieces to Aerie International and Polyphony H.S.
Fiction for Aerie must be 1500 words or less.
Know what you wish to send where and keep a list:
Claremont Review submission for spring or fall issue (Via envelope). Up to 5 pieces.
Claremont Review contest (your longest story) Fill in a cover page and hand in. DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON THE CONTEST STORY. ALL ITEMS ARE JUDGED ANONYMOUSLY.
BCTELA contest (less than 1500 words. No name on the story).
Aerie International (Up to five pieces)
Polyphony H.S. Depending on how many poems you sent them, you will have 2 or 3 spots left for short stories.
Best not to double submit the same pieces to Aerie and The Claremont Review.
Don't send the same story to the C.R. contest as you do to the C.R. submission as that will look awkward if a poem they have already published or plan to publish gets picked as a winner. YOU GET DISQUALIFIED. OUCH.
This is the business of writing. Take it slow. Be prepared though.
Know what you want to send where.
Meet in the lab on Wed.
Friday and Monday are work blocks. Get your work edited. Let me see anything new that you want to put in the manuscript. Monday is the last opportunity you will have to edit as we are in the Learning Commons for our reading on Tuesday.
You should be hearing from The Claremont Review in the next few days so be sure to check your email.
Next Wed. in the lab, you will be sending pieces to Aerie International and Polyphony H.S.
Fiction for Aerie must be 1500 words or less.
Know what you wish to send where and keep a list:
Claremont Review submission for spring or fall issue (Via envelope). Up to 5 pieces.
Claremont Review contest (your longest story) Fill in a cover page and hand in. DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON THE CONTEST STORY. ALL ITEMS ARE JUDGED ANONYMOUSLY.
BCTELA contest (less than 1500 words. No name on the story).
Aerie International (Up to five pieces)
Polyphony H.S. Depending on how many poems you sent them, you will have 2 or 3 spots left for short stories.
Best not to double submit the same pieces to Aerie and The Claremont Review.
Don't send the same story to the C.R. contest as you do to the C.R. submission as that will look awkward if a poem they have already published or plan to publish gets picked as a winner. YOU GET DISQUALIFIED. OUCH.
This is the business of writing. Take it slow. Be prepared though.
Know what you want to send where.
Meet in the lab on Wed.
Friday and Monday are work blocks. Get your work edited. Let me see anything new that you want to put in the manuscript. Monday is the last opportunity you will have to edit as we are in the Learning Commons for our reading on Tuesday.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
English 11: BOOK DRIVE!!! Typed poem due tomorrow!
Bring in books by Friday for Claremont's Book Drive. Bring books you think kids or teens or adults would enjoy reading. THANKS!
Thanks for being such a great audience for Amy and Allie today. It's not easy to present to one's peers and you really made them feel welcome. Thanks to Selena, Pharyn and Jon for reading their poems to the class.
We practiced writing 20 lines, replacing adjectives with nouns.
Instead of saying the red sky, say the Charlie Brown sky or the Boo Radley sky or the Hitler sky or the good-cop-bad-cop sky etc.
After you create twenty of them, choose one for your title.
Under that title (the title will create a mood for your poem) write a memory of something that happened to you or you witnessed on a playground. Write and write and write. When you have finished writing, you are ready to write a poem using some of the lines from your quick-write.
Now, create a typed draft of a poem. Use the sky title. Include at least two of our three sound devices (alliteration, assonance or dissonance), don't have rhymes at the end of lines, you may have rhyme within the lines or scattered throughout the poem, use nouns instead of adjectives throughout.
Example:
The Mr. Rogers Sky
She remembers summer.
Empty swings, silence like grasshopper wings
origami wings, paper wings. Summer.
No one home. No babysitter. No brother.
She remembers summer.
Grandfather's funeral.
The stink of garbage after the city strike,
no trucks swaggering in cul-de-sacs,
empty streets and houses.
Grasshoppers, brothers, prayers.
The swollen streets, empty.
Today: I collected the personal essays, the checklists, the drafts and the MLA Works Cited sheets. Good job everyone.
So much to explore.
If you have any questions about Writing 12 or English 12 Enriched / AP Literature, let me know.
Thanks for being such a great audience for Amy and Allie today. It's not easy to present to one's peers and you really made them feel welcome. Thanks to Selena, Pharyn and Jon for reading their poems to the class.
We practiced writing 20 lines, replacing adjectives with nouns.
Instead of saying the red sky, say the Charlie Brown sky or the Boo Radley sky or the Hitler sky or the good-cop-bad-cop sky etc.
After you create twenty of them, choose one for your title.
Under that title (the title will create a mood for your poem) write a memory of something that happened to you or you witnessed on a playground. Write and write and write. When you have finished writing, you are ready to write a poem using some of the lines from your quick-write.
Now, create a typed draft of a poem. Use the sky title. Include at least two of our three sound devices (alliteration, assonance or dissonance), don't have rhymes at the end of lines, you may have rhyme within the lines or scattered throughout the poem, use nouns instead of adjectives throughout.
Example:
The Mr. Rogers Sky
She remembers summer.
Empty swings, silence like grasshopper wings
origami wings, paper wings. Summer.
No one home. No babysitter. No brother.
She remembers summer.
Grandfather's funeral.
The stink of garbage after the city strike,
no trucks swaggering in cul-de-sacs,
empty streets and houses.
Grasshoppers, brothers, prayers.
The swollen streets, empty.
Today: I collected the personal essays, the checklists, the drafts and the MLA Works Cited sheets. Good job everyone.
So much to explore.
If you have any questions about Writing 12 or English 12 Enriched / AP Literature, let me know.
Writing 12: Computer Lab Today . . .
Have you chosen your pieces yet for next Tuesday's reading?
We have Ms. G-C's English 10 class coming to watch and probably one other English class, plus do invite your friends, family, teachers, admin. Don't let Uncle Harry miss this event!!
I have put all of the marks into the computer. Be sure to check the list and check it twice.
Two pages due tomorrow. Two postcard stories or two pages of a new story.
Manuscript is due Wed. You will have Thurs, Friday, and Monday to prepare, edit, and revise your manuscript. Next week, Wed, Thurs, Friday, we will send your work out for publication and talk about ways to continue writing and publishing while not in a class.
Yay.
We have Ms. G-C's English 10 class coming to watch and probably one other English class, plus do invite your friends, family, teachers, admin. Don't let Uncle Harry miss this event!!
I have put all of the marks into the computer. Be sure to check the list and check it twice.
Two pages due tomorrow. Two postcard stories or two pages of a new story.
Manuscript is due Wed. You will have Thurs, Friday, and Monday to prepare, edit, and revise your manuscript. Next week, Wed, Thurs, Friday, we will send your work out for publication and talk about ways to continue writing and publishing while not in a class.
Yay.
English 10: Vocabulary Test . . .
If you were absent, read Act 2, scenes 5 and 6 and get the notes.
Tonight: Finish reading Act 3, Scene 1. Study for your vocabulary quiz tomorrow on 1-70.
If you had an extension on the section C composition, please submit with the peer-edited draft.
Tonight: Finish reading Act 3, Scene 1. Study for your vocabulary quiz tomorrow on 1-70.
If you had an extension on the section C composition, please submit with the peer-edited draft.
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