Welcome, AP English
Peeps! J
·
Friday,
September 6th, 2013
Business
Ø Sign
in, lovelies.
Ø Pick
up your UNREAD journals off my circle table.
You need to write in them today.
Please leave them with me when you leave at 3:20.
Ø Exciting
Update: I got one done today! J I WILL have them all read and commented on by
classtime Monday.
Homework
Seed
Maximalism
and Minimalism (handout)
1.
Let’s
read this together, and then you stew about it a bit.
2.
Save
your two sentences into our class folder by classtime Monday.
3.
Here’s
our shared folder: https://drive.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/?tab=wo#folders/0B4pq4r-bWrm_a0tNRlN2VFBlMGc
Ongoing
Question
·
How
do we get our brains to look at literature—and life in general—in new and
illuminating ways?
o
Are
Critical Approaches one answer?
Critical
Approaches
Goals:
1.
Use
at least one approach on two of the stories we’ve read thus far.
2.
Explain
your approach and your interpretation to the class.
3.
Start
thinking about which approaches might work best for what types of reading (if
any).
4.
Ten
minutes to get ready for your SHORT presentation (four minutes)—2:15-2:25-ish
5.
(If
you don’t need the prep time, please play free rice.)
Vocabulary
1.
Take the quiz.
2.
Bring me your
quiz.
3.
Play freerice
in our class group, APillionaires.
Homework
1. Maximalism and
Minimalism sentences (saved in class folder by classtime Monday)
2. Free Rice = 12,000
grains
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Welcome to Creative
Writing!
Ø
Happy
Friday, September 6th, 2013
When You Come In
1.
Please
initial next to your name on the clipboard.
2.
12,000
grains due on free rice on Monday, 9/9/2013
Writing
Lesson #2: Choosing Precise Adjectives
(p. 14)
1. Share your STRONGEST
answer when your number comes up.
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
6. Free Rice
**If LAN School tells me your any
place else, you will receive zeros for all assignments today.
If
you finish with everything listed on the blog to the best of your ability, then
come see me.
Writing
Experiment #4--Earliest Memory (Continue and Finish)
How
to Turn Your Paragraph Into a Poem
1.
Remember
my paragraph? Now look at how I turned
it into a poem.
2.
Here’s
how I turned my earliest memory story into a poem.
3.
What
do you notice?
Rescue
Two babies
Up to their belly buttons
In the immense jet black tub
The girl steps out
Sees her brother, peachy-white
She sees the silver handle
Turns the knob
All the way
Towards the wall
Steam rises off the water
Drifting up to the white ceiling
Baby brother turning pink
Waving skinny little arms
Screaming
Mom runs in
His savior
Creating
Your Poem
1. Writing
Lesson: Get out your Vocab Variety sheet, and USE IT TODAY! :-)
2.
Leave everything on the page. I
want to see your paragraph(s), your questions and answers, and finally your
poem. All three are part of the grade.
3.
Now
you turn your paragraph into a poem!
4.
Print
it. I’ll send someone to get them all in
a bit, and then you can turn them in.
Yay!
Printing
Reminders—Each and Every Time!
1.
Have
you doublespaced the whole story (no extra spaces between paragraphs though)?
2.
Have
you paragraphed the story?
3.
Have
you titled the poem? (It can be
singlespaced, to save space.)
4.
Do
you have the MLA format for heading correctly in your upper left corner?
5.
Did
you print front/back?
Vocabulary-Building: Free Rice
1.
You need a big vocabulary to write precisely.
2.
Go to my blog, find “Creative Writing”, and
click on the freerice link there.
3.
Change your level so that it’s at your best
level, or a level or two below that. DO
NOT START OVER AT LEVEL ONE! L
4.
Make sure you are playing IN the group, or
your points won’t register with me.
5.
Play until you have 12,000 grains, or until I
call time. Thanks!
After
Lunch
1.
Most
people still have a way to go to get to 12,000 grains on free rice.
2.
If
you are working diligently on free rice, I will gladly give you the next chunk
of time to work on it, because vocabulary is important to writing better, and
to reading better.
3.
If
you are past 12,000 grains, and you have something else you’d like to/need to
work on, come see me.
4.
When
Garrett gets back with papers, I will go through them. If I’m missing yours, I’ll message you to
re-print. Otherwise, consider yourself
golden for today!
Now
1. I’m going to have
Kennedy and Colton pass out folders.
Please update your red free rice sheet.
You’ll need to
change the date for “9/3” to today’s, 9/6.
2. Thanks!
3. E-mail me (google mail) with this sentence: Last week, my level was ______; now it’s
______.
4. Put your folder back
in the file cabinet, after you do that.
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Howdy, College-Prep
Reading!
Friday,
September 6th, 2013
When
You Come In
1.
Sign in.
2.
Pick up extra Vocab War sheets, if needed. Make Vocab War part of your daily life.
3.
12,000 grains of free rice are due
Monday
Backbone
Literature: Greek Mythology
Big Idea
Ø
Listen
for resonances, echoes, patterns:
o
Beauty
o
Balance
o
Revenge
o
Jealousy
o
Incest
o
What
other motifs (repeated themes) are we hearing?
o
Sex
o
Trickery/deceit
o
Defiance
o
Severe
punishment
o
Sons
overthrowing fathers
o
Prophecy
o
Kidnapping
o
Swallowing
problems
Importance
of Beasts and Creatures
a.
Represented
evil in conflicts between good and bad
b.
Gave
mortals the chance to slay them and become heroes
c.
Offered
so many answers and explanations for disasters such as shipwrecks and volcanoes
Beast/Creature
Presentations
1.
Creatures
a.
Triton
b.
Pegasus
c.
Amazons
2.
Half-human,
half-animal
a.
Centaurs
b.
Satyrs
c.
Gigantes
d.
Harpies
e.
Sirens
f.
Medusa (Killed by Perseus)
3.
Monsters
a.
Typhon
b.
Pythos
c.
Cerberus (Hercules had to fetch it as a
labor.)
d.
Hydra (Hercules had to kill it;
Hera made it a constellation.)
e.
Sphinx (Defeated by Oedipus)
f.
Chimera (Killed by Bellerophon)
Homework for
Monday
Ø
Study your
thirty vocab cards for a quiz.
Ø
Play freerice. (12,000 grains due by Monday)
Ø
Update your
Vocab War grid.
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