Monday, September 30, 2013

Monday, September 30th, 2013


Hello, AP!
Monday, September 30th, 2013

When You Come In
1.      Please sign in.
2.     Please grab your journal off the back table.
3.     Reminder:  23,000 grains of free rice due today

Vocabulary Practice:  Quizlet Poetry Terms
1.      Our vocab list for this week is the Poetry Terms.
2.     I’ve made you a quizlet stack to use all week:
3.     This will replace freerice for this week.  Instead of doing free rice, do the quizlet.
4.     The poetry terms quiz is Tuesday, over all thirty-seven terms.

Reflection
1.      Read my comments on Free Write #1 in your journal.
2.     Read over my comments on your google doc regarding your strongest quote journal and your strongest Reading Journal.
3.     Fill out the yellow self-evaluation for your TP-CASTT work, and put it on my table by the candle, please.

“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” on page 13.
1.      Open up your RJ to the responses to this poem.  You should have answered questions #1-#4. 
2.     Read your answers; do they do the following?
a.     Use complete, academic sentences.
b.    Use THEY SAY (quotes from the poem).
c.     Use I SAY (your interpretation).

What is Poetry?
1.      TP-CASTT presentations
a.     Circle it up!
b.    Tell us what page you’re on when you present, so we can be there, too!
c.     Rather than being just an audience for them, get into the discussion with questions and comments.
2.     TP-CASTT as a formula
a.     Benefits
b.    Limitations
c.     How might this help at college? 

Vocabulary Practice:  Quizlet Poetry Terms
5.     Our vocab list for this week is the Poetry Terms.
6.     I’ve made you a quizlet stack to use all week:
7.     This will replace freerice for this week.  Instead of doing free rice, do the quizlet.
8.     The poetry terms quiz is Tuesday, over all thirty-seven terms.





Welcome to Creative Writing!
Ø  Monday, September 30th, 2013

When You Come In
1.     Please initial next to your name on the clipboard.
2.     Please pick up your Autobio Poem off the back circle table.
3.     23,000 Grains of Free Rice is due today

Writing Lesson #8 = Make Strong Titles
1.     Grab an Earthbook.
2.     Read “Tips on Titles” on page 14.
3.     Complete the worksheet on page 15, using your Earthbook.
4.     Put your name on the top of the page, and turn it in on my table, next to my candle.
5.     Go on to the quizlet over poetry terms.

Vocabulary Practice:  Quizlet Poetry Terms
1.      Our vocab list for this week is the Poetry Terms.
2.     I’ve made you a quizlet stack to use all week:
3.     This will replace freerice for this week.  Instead of doing free rice, do the quizlet.
4.     The poetry terms quiz is Tuesday, over all thirty-seven terms.

Revision:  Final Draft of Autobiographical Poem
1.      Read your second draft of the poem to yourself, and then I’m going to ask you five questions about it.
2.     The questions I’ll ask you are actually our rubric items.  Review the rubric with me now.
3.     We went through the rubric, and we graded our 2nd draft of the poem, and we thought about what we still need to work on in this final revision. 
4.     Take as much time as you need to revise your poem to a final draft.  (We will be reading these aloud in class later this week.)
5.     Fill out the LEFT SIDE of the rubric with numbers, AND by filling in the blanks (reflection and self-assessment).
7.     Print your final copy.

ABSENT PEOPLE:  I have shared the AUTOBIO POEM RUBRIC WITH YOU IN OUR CLASS FOLDER ON GOOGLE.

Reminder:  The only acceptable places to be on your computer today are as follows:
1.      The blog
2.     The sites/links on the blog
3.     An online dictionary or synonym finder
4.     Google drive
5.     Pandora/Groove Shark/iTunes, for a few seconds—not a million!
If LAN School tells me your any place else, you will receive zeros for all assignments today.

Vocabulary Practice:  Quizlet Poetry Terms
5.     Our vocab list for this week is the Poetry Terms.
6.     I’ve made you a quizlet stack to use all week:
7.     This will replace freerice for this week.  Instead of doing free rice, do the quizlet.
8.     The poetry terms quiz is Tuesday, over all thirty-seven terms.







CPR
Monday, September 30th

When You Come In
·     Sign in.
·     Get your annotated poem off the back circle table, please.

Renaissance Poetry:  Edmund Spenser’s Sonnet 30
1.      Review your annotations.  (I’ve given you a daily grade for your work on the poem so far.)
2.     How was TP-CASTT helpful?
3.     How could you use it at college?
4.     Class discussion
a.     Circle up!
b.    Take notes in a DIFFERENT color of ink on Sonnet 30 today.  You’ll turn this poem in again at the end of discussion.
c.     Speak one at a time!
d.    Use the monkey!
e.     Goal:  create an organic conversation, where everyone speaks at least once!


Vocabulary
1.      Our vocab list for this week is the Poetry Terms.
2.     I’ve made you a quizlet stack to use all week:
3.     This will replace freerice for this week.  Instead of doing free rice, do the quizlet.
4.     The poetry terms quiz is Tuesday, over all thirty-seven terms.

Note-Taking Reflection
1.      Get your Dark Ages notes back.
2.     Review them.
3.     Get on the google doc, and read my comments about your note-taking.
4.     Review the three note-taking websites you said were helpful.  (If you don’t remember which three you picked, look in your “sent” e-mail, and find the e-mail you sent me last week.)
5.     After reviewing them, type me a paragraph on the google doc about two things:
a.     What would you do differently with your Dark Ages notes to make them more effective, knowing what you know now?
b.    What have you learned about taking notes for college in general?  What are reminders/tips/helpful hints for you personally?
6.     Entitle your paragraph, “ 9/30/2013—Note-Taking”
7.     Thank you!




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