Welcome, AP English
Peeps! J
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Happy Wednesday,
August 28th, 2013
Business
Ø Sign
in, please.
Shifting
Gears
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Tomorrow,
I’ll ask you to type a reflection about the reading and discussion you’ve done thus
far.
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But
today, I want to move in a new direction, a direction where you read a fiction
story, the respond to it in your journal, then create some academic discussion
with a partner.
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Also
tomorrow
o
Turn-in
day
o
In-class
vocabulary work (handout)
o
Vocab
War explanation (handout)
New
Unit Focus: Minimalism! Who’s excited?! ☺
“Popular Mechanics” (pp. 19-20)—short story by
Raymond Carver
1.
Read
and annotate the story.
2.
Answer
questions 1-5 in your journal. Use a
complete sentence or two for each one!
3.
Answer
questions 6, 7 and 8, but answer these in the following way:
a.
Rephrase
the question as the start of your answer.
b.
Answer
the question with “I SAY”—your interpretation.
c.
Support
your “I SAY” with “THEY SAY”—what the text (“Popular Mechanics”) says. Put quotation marks around the evidence you
use.
4.
Label
your answers, “Popular Mechanics” Reading Journal, please.
5.
If
you finish your reading journal early, please work on your vocab-building,
either free rice or the online hundred-word list.
6.
Once
everyone’s ready: pair-share with a new
partner. Afterwards, we will discuss as
a class ONLY those responses you and your partner have questions about.
Tableaux
(three trios and one pair)
• Get with
your group, and create a tableaux.
• We’ll
perform the tableaux pieces after you have a few minutes of prep time.
CREATIVE WRITING
Welcome to Creative Writing!
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Thursday,
August 29th, 2013
When You Come In
1.
Please
initial next to your name on the clipboard.
Vital
Information About Class
Ø
REMINDER: Always access freerice from my link on the
blog, to remind yourself to play in our class group.
o 7,500 grains due by Tuesday,
September 3rd
Writing Experiment
#1—
Around the Block
Model = Gracey
Murphy’s poem
Follow the
directions on the handout, please.
Revising
to a Second Draft
1.
Take
a look at the Vocabulary Variety handout I’m giving you. Let’s talk about how one word makes a
difference. Use this sheet today and
every day, until you don’t need it anymore.
2.
Read
your peer conference comments—some or all of these should help you revise your
poem.
3.
Make
at least ten revisions to your poem to make it stronger. Here’s what you can do to revise:
a.
Add
words
b.
Delete
words
c.
Switch
words and lines around
d.
Take
out one word, and substitute a stronger one
e.
Make
a strong title.
f.
Make
all your line breaks strong.
4.
When
you think you’re done, click on “FILE”, then “SEE REVISION HISTORY”. Count how many revisions you made—do you have
at least ten?
5.
Share
it with me (“Kerrie Willis”) on google docs.
6.
Play
free rice until we go to lunch at 12:05.
(Use your computer as a tool, not a toy, lovelies!)
After
Lunch
1. You have five
minutes to finish steps #1-5 in blue on the blog. (Free Rice if you’ve finished all five steps
already.) END @ 12:44
2. Then I will show you
a few things on the cliché stories.
3. Then you can work on
your stories!
Collaborative
Writing Assignment:
Group Cliché Story
Cliché
Trio Story Requirements/Grading
1) Yes No We used as many clichés as possible to
create a fictional story.
2) Yes No We boldfaced the clichés so they stand
out from the story.
3) Yes No We used least four sentences of dialogue
in quotation marks.
4) Yes No Type between one and one and a half pages.
5) Yes No We doublespaced our story.
6) Yes No We used paragraphs to indicate shifting
ideas.
7) Yes
No Our story is classroom
appropriate.
Homework
=
Free Rice—7,500 grains due by Tuesday, September 3rd
CPR
Howdy, College-Prep
Reading!
Thursday—August
29th, 2013
When
You Come In
Ø
Please
initial next to your name on the clipboard
Ø
Get
your List 3 card spread on your desk, please.
Vocabulary
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Put
your List 3 cards in the order on the sheet—quick like bunnies--and then we’re
going to make the magic happen!
Big
Ideas:
1.
Start
listening and looking now for resonances, echoes, patterns.
Backbone
Literature: Greek Mythology
1.
Review from
yesterday, with paper copies
2.
Literary Eras
3.
Unit Overview
4.
Introduction
to Backbone Literature—Greek Mythology
5.
Creation Myth
Research
Time from Now Until 9:35
1.
Read your yellow biography about your
god/goddess.
2.
Highlight or annotate details you
might want to use on your Barbie.
3.
Go to my blog, and click on the link
for “Greek Mythology”.
4.
Do more research on those three
sites, so you have plenty of vivid details for your Myth Barbie.
Homework for Tuesday
1. Myth Barbie Presentation
2. 7,500 grains on free rice
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