Monday, November 7, 2011

Monday, November 7th, 2011


CREATIVE WRITING!

When You Come In
1.      Please put Homework due:  Journal #1 in the drawer.  Remember, you need to staple the assignment half-sheet on top first.
2.     Please sign in.
3.     Grab an iBook, and sign in to google docs.
4.     Print three copies of your trio cliché story, and make sure each member of your trio has a copy in his/her hand.

Sharing—Trio Cliché Stories
·       Let’s see if we can save these into the Creative Writing folders today.
·       Now let’s share some!

Revision—Around the Block  (1st Block Only)
1.      Get your original back.
2.     You’ll notice I’ve made three comments.  What do you notice about these comments? 
3.     Now I’m going to show you FOUR WAYS I want you to revise this poem.  You’re going to work on this poem in FOUR WAYS to make it a stronger piece of writing than it is right now. 
4.     You have to show your work on your original draft by marking it up.
5.     FIRST:  Open your first draft on your google docs.
6.     NEXT: Revise your first draft, making at least ten changes.
a.     Four ways
b.     Vocabulary Variety sheet
c.     Anything you want to add, subtract, or substitute
d.     Title
7.     Check out what happens in “Revision History”!  J

If you finish before 9:30, read Earthbook, and fill out a red Earthbook assignment sheet (due Thursday).  (2nd Block at twenty minutes to read; 1st block did not do this today.

NOW
1.      PLEASE SIGN OFF GOOGLE DOCS, BUT LEAVE THE IBOOK ON.
2.     PUT YOUR FIRST DRAFT OF THE AROUND THE BLOCK POEM IN YOUR MANILA FOLDER.
3.     HAND ME YOUR FOLDER ON THE WAY OUT THE DOOR.

Homework
·       None



AP ENGLISH!

Art Institute Guest Speaker (first half of block)

Review for Myth Final (Thursday)
1.      Myth figures—this is a complete list, but NOT complete notes, by any means!  You have those in your journal and on your flashcards.
2.     Myth notecards—two more rounds
3.     What can you expect to see on the Greek Myth Final on Thursday?
o   Yellow sheet figures (63)
o   Blue page 19—can you think of at least one story that would illustrate each of the themes/instances on that page?
o   Themes—can you think of at least one story that would illustrate each of the following themes?
§  Father versus son
§  Eating people
§  Jealousy
§  Incest
§  Affairs
§  Women’s roles
§  punishment

Myth Outline Conferences  (I have your outlines, but you and I haven’t talked.)
4.     Abby
If your name is listed below, I do not have your Outline/Persuasion Map:
5.          Shelby W.
6.         Mitch
7.          Jared
8.         Nathan
9.         Wesley

Homework for Tonight
1.      Take your flashcards home.
2.     Compare them to your yellow pages, and highlight the ones you’re missing.
3.     Create at least ten piles of connections, using as many cards as possible in each one.
4.     Paperclip them together in piles for me to check tomorrow, and to start your pair-share.

For example, I would put Pandora and Prometheus and Zeus together.
And here’s my connection:  Zeus and humanit-- 
·       Prometheus made the first man from clay, and then he stole fire from Zeus so men could keep themselves warm, cook, etc. 
·       Zeus was furious about this theft of “gods-only” property, so he punished Prometheus by chaining him to a rock, there to have his liver pecked out and eaten every day for eternity.
·       Zeus also punished men by created Pandora, the first woman.


Here’s another one:  women who receive the vengeance of the gods—
Medusa—punished by Athena after Poseidon had sex with her.
Metis—eaten by Zeus to avoid the prophecy that her offspring would overthrow him
Atalanta—turned into a lion by Aphrodite (or Zeus) when she and her husband defiled the temple


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