Tuesday, 1/27/2009

AP ENGLISH

Homework Due

• "Home Burial" annotations
  

Poetry Discussion

• We talked about "Introduction to Poetry", "Eating Poetry," and "The New Poem".  
  

Housekeeping

• We got the Frankenstein pages for the textbook.
  
• We organized our binder into sections: textbook; writing (orange); Professor Foster (yellow).
  

Frankenstein

• We talked about the frame story, what it is, and how it affects the narrative.
  
• We talked about "gothic" elements.
  

Diction

• We talked about "fondling the details".
  
• We also discussed "ghetto".
  

Homework

• Select a passage from Frankenstein you feel is worthy of further discussion.  Write down the pages where it can be found, a few key words to identify it, and why you want to discuss it.
  
• Think about how/if your language changes based on who's in the room with you.
  

CREATIVE WRITING

Discussion

• We reviewed pages 4 and 5 and made sure everyone knew what plagiarism and academic fraud are.
  
• We talked about material that would be inappropriate to turn in for class, and we took notes on page 1 of our textbook.
  
• I answered the rest of the lunchbox questions.
  

Organization

• We logged in the cliché stories and the I Am a Russian Tailor poems (folder).
  
• We decorated our name tags.
  

Read Aloud

• We finished all the cliché stories except Tanaeya's.
  
• We each shared the strongest detail (line or two) from our I Am a Russian Tailor poem.
  

Writing Tip

• Choosing Precise Adjectives (p. 22)--we started talking about what general and relative terms are, and why we should avoid them.
  

Homework

• Writing Experiment #3
  
• Write for fifteen minutes (or more) on one of the Writing Resistance topics on page 17.
  

ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING

Suspense Writing

• We read James Pinkerton's "How to Write Suspense", and then we wrote our own suspense stories, trying to incorporate as much of his bad advice as possible into them.
  
• We put the stories up on the Big Screen and read the aloud.
  

Organization

• We logged in our Suspense Stories and our I Had the Weirdest Dream poem.
  
• We decorated our folders.
  
• We decorated our nametags
• I went over possible class 

Homework

Dear Kiddo (p. 7)--at least one page long (typed, doublespaced, preferably)