Welcome, AP English
Peeps! J
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Happy Tuesday,
August 27th, 2013
Business
Ø Record
your information on the free rice tracking sheet.
Ø Turn
it in to your folder in the file cabinet.
Central
Questions We Ask in This Class
1.
What
does a good reader do?
2.
What
does a good writer do?
3.
Are
you talking to the text?
Ø
We’ve
started answering these questions, and we will continue our work on these
questions today.
Reading and
Writing: View our Good Readers, Good
Writers responses:
Nabokov
1.
Review
your annotations thus far.
a.
Glean-
to extract from various sources
b.
Naïve-
innocently dumb
c.
Buxom-
plump
d.
Parlor-
front sitting room/ formal living room
e.
Ephemeral-
short lived
f.
Futile-
useless
g.
Provincial-
known for cultural stuff
h.
Protracted-
lasting longer than expected
2.
Ask
questions over last nights reading.
3.
Make
clarifications.
4.
What
is one take-away you have from the piece at this time?
5.
Was
your BIOGRAPHICAL approach helpful in your reading this far? Did it add to your understanding?
6.
What
would Nabokov think about the BIOGRAPHICAL approach?
Independent
Reading and Annotating
Ø
Continue
reading and finish annotating (pages 15-8) Nabokov’s “Good Readers, Good
Writers”. (Don’t forget to breathe.)
* * * *
Welcome to Creative Writing!
Ø
Tuesday,
August 27th, 2013
When You Come In
1.
Please
initial next to your name on the clipboard.
2.
Pick
up the free rice tracking sheet.
3.
Turn-Ins--Please
put the following in your
folder in the file
cabinet:
a.
Free
rice tracking sheet, once you’ve filled it out
b.
Page
5
c.
Page
6
Vital
Information About Class
Ø
REMINDER: The Blog:
www.kdubzclasses.blogspot.com
Ø
REMINDER: Always access freerice from my link on the
blog, to remind yourself to play in our class group.
Ø
REMINDER: During classtime, use your computer as a
tool, not a toy.
Big
Picture: Trust
Ø
...the
cornerstone of this class (page 1).
Writing Experiment #2
1.
Go
to your google drive.
2.
Click
on the red square that says "Create", then "Document".
3.
Head
your paper with the MLA format (Look at your Around the Block poem, if you
can’t remember.), then start typing your writing experiment (directions below).
Writing Experiment #2: Grateful/Break Up/Dinner
1.
Select
ONE of the following choices to write about.
2.
Type
for the full twenty minutes.
3.
No
one will read this but me.
4.
When
I call time, do a word count of your document, and put type that in parentheses
next to your name.
5.
Print
to the Media Center, but do NOT go get it.
I will send one person down to collect them.
Starting at ______; Ending
at _______
#1:
I’m Grateful
Even the
dreariest, most awful weeks aren’t bad twenty-four hours a day. Think of a few things that have happened this
week that you’re grateful for.
#2: Breaking Up
Woody Allen
once said,
“It’s better
to be the leaver than the leavee.”
Do you
agree? Would you rather dump someone
than get dumped yourself? Which do you
think is more painful?
#3: Dinner Party
If you could
invite any three people from any period in history to a dinner party (food,
conversation), whom would you invite?
Describe each person, and explain why you chose him or her.
Writing
Lesson: Clichés
1. Clichés--page _____—what
are they? Why are they bad for our
writing?
2. Create
anti-clichés (p. __11__). (Ten
Minutes) (Started _12:52___;
ending _1:02___)
a. It has to make
sense! (be true)
b. It has to be
original.
c. It has to put a
picture in our heads!
3. Trade three times for smileys.
a. Read your partner’s ten anti-clichés.
b. Put a smiley and your initials by the TWO
you feel are strongest.
* * * *
CPR
Click here for the Harvard article:
http://guides.library.harvard.edu/sixreadinghabits
Howdy, College-Prep
Reading!
Happy
Tuesday—August 27th, 2013
When
You Come In
Ø
Please
initial next to your name on the clipboard
Ø
Grab
a free rice tracking sheet, and fill it out.
Ø
2,500 grains of free rice due today
Ø
7,500
grains due by Tuesday, September 3rd—you’re welcome! J
“How to Mark a Book” Class Discussion
1. What are the three most meaningful ideas/words you drew from the
reading?
2. When we conclude our discussion, please put your name on your
pages, and put them in your folder in the file cabinet.
Business/Handing
Stuff In
1.
Record
your information on the free rice tracking sheet.
2.
Turn
in all the following to your folder in the drawer:
a.
Free
rice tracking sheet
b.
“How to Mark a Book” annotations in your
turn-in folder in the file cabinet.
c.
Whitman
and LeGuin journal entries
Big
Picture
1.
Syllabus
(handout)
2.
Skills/Mid-Term
Reflection (back of handout)
3.
Thinking
Prompt: What is a “literary
movement”? Can you think of ones you
talked about in American Lit or American Novel?
a.
Transcendentalism
(Romanticism)
b.
Puritan
4.
How
Class Will Be Organized
a.
Time
Periods: http://www.online-literature.com/periods/timeline.php
b.
Reading
Instruction
c.
Analysis—how
to look at literature—variety of approaches
d.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Ø
Put
your first ten cards in the order on the sheet—quick like bunnies--and then
we’re going to make the magic happen!
Ø
We
spent fifteen minutes pronouncing the words, then discussing their meanings and
uses.
Read
and Respond
1.
“Interrogating Texts: Six Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year
at Harvard” (link on my blog)
2. Read
“Introduction: Thinking-Intensive Reading”
3. Read
#2: Annotate.
4. Head your
paper “Harvard Intro and #2”, and date it with today’s date.
5. Write or
type a paragraph reaction to what you read, which includes one or more of the
following:
a. something
you learned that will help you in this class and/or at college
b. a
connection to the Adler “How to Mark a Book” essay (required)
c. a question
you had
d. something
you agreed with
e. something
you disagreed with
Reminders
Ø
Look
up words you don’t know, and write their definition next to the word in the
text you’re reading.
Ø
Wiki
any references you’re unfamiliar with, so you have SOME idea what the writer is
talking about.
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