Thursday, 11/12/2009

MODERN PROSE

• We read for about seventy minutes.
• Half the class gave book quick-chats.
• I reminded everyone to bring money and a library card tomorrow.

AP


Villanelle Sharing

• I handed out and explained the Villanelle Guesses sheet.
• I read each villanelle aloud, and people jotted notes and guesses about the poem and its author.
• When I finished reading, we guessed whose was whose.

Essays on Poetry--Read and Summarize (In-Class Work Time)

• While I got the RJs organized and started reading them, people read Robert Frost's "The Figure a Poem Makes" (pp. 107-8), highlighting and annotating main points, questions, arguments and agreements.
• People got iBooks and typed the five main points (relevant and powerful to each reader) of the Frost essay.
• They did the same for the five main points of the Vendler essay, "About Poets and Poetry" (pp. 99-103).  
• Some people finished, but most did not, so we will allow ten minutes of classtime tomorrow to conclude the point-listing.

Homework

• None--but the dress rehearsal of the play is tonight, so check it out, if you can, at 7:30.

CREATIVE WRITING


Homework Due

• Death of Language/List of Twenty Words

Sharing

• We finished guessing and revealing the secrets.  :-)

Reflection/Organization

• We looked at page 3, and, as a class, we answered all the questions on that page about what this unit has been about.  Good job!
• I put four seniors in charge of the small sharing groups, and we selected the groups.
• We passed back papers, and we logged in our writing to the manila folder.  We also selected three things we might want to read in small sharing group tomorrow.
• I called each person in class back so he/she could read me the earliest memory poem.  We talked about which version was more effective, and why.
• Everyone got onto this blog to see how to check for assignments when absent.

Writing Assignment

• Where Were You Last Night?  (handout)  I explained how to start the assignment, and I read Nicole's story as a model.  We had thirty minutes to type our stories, and most people had time to swap iBooks with someone and comment on his/her story as well.  Everyone saved the first draft.  We'll let it sit for a few days, and return to it on Monday.

Homework

• None