Hello, Reading!
Day Seventeen
When You Come In
· Please sign in.
· Please get the TWO green vocab sheets off my desk.
· Please find your new seat. This is your reminder that the term is one-third over. Have you finished book one, and are you started on book two? If not, you need to start reading outside of class.
New Vocabulary
· Austere Opposite = fancy; luxurious
· Catalyst
o My Decision: I made a Hot Pocket
o The Catalyst: I was hungry.
o My Decision: I cleaned my room.
o The Catalyst: My mom said I couldn’t go out with friends until my room was clean.
Read-Aloud and Strategy Practice
· Make an Inference!
o Inference versus Obseravtion
§ Observation is what you see.
§ Inference is what you figure out.
o Far Side Cartoon
o Williams Jay Smith poem
A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red
Sits at my elbow and toasts my bread.
I hand him fat slices, and then, one by one,
He hands them back when he sees they are done.
o Sentences from “A Pair of Silk Stockings” (Handout)
· “The Wife’s Tale”
o We started this in first block (ten minutes), and we’ll continue it tomorrow.
o In second block, I handed the pages out and explained them, but we didn’t begin the story.
Read and Relax (thirty minutes)
· Lindsay
· Haley
· Jo
· Morgan C.
· Katie Z.
· Mariah
· Alan S.
· Jase
· Kelby
· Allan R.
· Travis
Hey, AP!
Monday, 9/19/2011
Day Seventeen
When You Come In:
· Please sign in!
· Please pick up the two blue papers on my desk.
· Find a new seat—NOT in the same place with the same people as the last three weeks. Put your name on a sticky note, and plaster it on your new chair!
Metaphor Challenge
· Find the strongest metaphor on the face of the planet, or at least a phenomenal one that grabs you by the throat.
o Metaphor: a direct comparison of two unlike things
o Simile: a comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
Here’s my nomination:
“How I wish you could see the potential,
the potential of you and me.
It's like a book elegantly bound but,
in a language that you can't read.
Just yet.”
--Death Cab for Cutie, “I Will Possess Your Heart”
Due Date: Friday, 11:20AM, saved in the “Metaphors” collection/folder in google docs
Journal Quote: Poetry—it’s our focus for the next week and a half.
11:33-11:43
· “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
--Leonardo da Vinci quotes (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
· “Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
--Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)
· “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
--Emily Dickinson quotes (American Poet who has been called the New England mystic, 1830-1886)
People I need journals back from today:
· Mitch
· Jared
· Cammy
· Jessica
Poetry Scavenger Hunt
· (Handout)
· Started at 11:49; worked until 12:45, with thirty-five minutes out for lunch.
Poetry—Some Direction on How to Approach
· “The Nature of Proof in the Interpretation of Poetry, by Laurence Perrine (pages 22-30)
· We read and discussed pages 23 and 24 in class. We talked about tone, argument, They Say/I Say—and we basically summarized each paragraph in our own words.
Organization
· We made sure our final drafts of the minimalism essay were saved on google docs, and we handed in our rough drafts and peer conferences.
Homework
· DUE TUESDAY: Read Perrine, pages 23-27, and make careful, thoughtful, specific annotations on each page--show your thinking so I can see what you see, hear, and think.
· DUE WEDNESDAY: Vocab Sushi
· DUE FRIDAY: Earth-shattering Metaphor (saved in folder on google docs)
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