Howdy, College-Prep
Reading!
Monday,
September 9th, 2013
When
You Come In
1.
Sign in.
2.
Pick up extra Vocab War sheets, if needed. Are you making Vocab War part of your daily
life?
3.
12,000 grains of free rice are due
today; WRITE DOWN YOUR LEVEL
AND GRAINS NOW, SO YOU CAN UPDATE YOUR RED SHEET TOMORROW!
Vocabulary
1.
Hey,
lookie what I found: (from Tracy
Kidder’s book, Home Town)
a.
“He
wanted to become ‘almost a ghost figure’ to the denizens of the overlapping drug worlds of
Northhampton. He wanted the dealers and
users to think he might be anywhere, on the theory that fear might slow them
down, and he imagined that stories about the bald-headed narc might make a id
at the high school hesitate when first offered pot or cocaine or heroin.”
b.
“It turned out he’d bought some crack, all
right, but had run into Carmen inside the building and they’d simply absconded with the drugs.” (p. 114)
2.
Take
the quiz.
3.
Staple
your pre-test on the BACK of your “for real” test, then lay it face-down on the
heater.
4.
Play
free-rice until I call time. (17,000 due for Monday, 9/16)
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 DONE
b.
Pegasus DONE
c.
Amazons DONE
2.
Half-human,
half-animal
a.
Centaurs DONE
b.
Satyrs DONE
c.
Gigantes DONE
d.
Harpies DONE
e.
Sirens DONE
f.
Medusa (Killed
by Perseus)
3.
Monsters
a.
Typhon DONE
b.
Pythos DONE
c.
Cerberus DONE(Hercules had to fetch it as
a labor.)
d.
Hydra DONE (Hercules had to kill it; Hera made it a
constellation.)
e.
Sphinx (Defeated
by Oedipus)
f.
Chimera (Killed
by Bellerophon)
Homework
Ø
Play
freerice. (17,000 grains due by Monday)
Ø
Play Vocab
War, and update your grid.
Welcome to Creative Writing!
Ø
Happy
Monday, September 9th, 2013
When
You Come In
1.
Please
sign in.
2.
Please
get headphones or earbuds you can use this block.
Review
Writing Lesson #1: Avoid clichés.
Writing Lesson #2 Use precise words--not general, relative,
or vague ones.
Writing Lesson #3: Diction
matters. Use Vocabulary Variety.
Organization
1. On google
drive, click on "Collections Shared with Me".
2. DRAG our
Creative Writing class folder on top of/into your "My Drive" so you
can access this.
3. You MUST get
this working today so you can access the shared document and type in your three
favorite six-word memoirs.
W/Me
in the Library When You Get the Card
1. Read your
Earliest Memory Poem aloud to me.
2. Discuss
revision ideas (poetic elements).
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.
The
Six-Word Memoir Overview
1. Be
PRECISE. (Writing Lesson #2)
2. Use your
Vocabulary Variety sheet! (Writing Lesson #3)
THINK ABOUT THIS:
Rumor has it that when
writer Ernest Hemingway was asked to write a short, short story, he penned
this:
“Pair of baby
shoes: never worn.”
That’s only six words,
but it tells a story.
Reading
#1 (Fifteen Minutes)
1.
Explore
the six-word memoirs and stories here:
BE PATIENT--THE LINK TAKES A MINUTE TO LOAD! http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/
2.
Read
people’s memoirs. You can browse, or you
can click on a certain subject area, if you’re interested in memoirs on one
topic.
3.
Type
your THREE FAVORITE classroom appropriate six-word memoirs IN OUR CLASS FOLDER
in google drive in the document named, “Favorite Six-Word Memoirs”. Here's the link:
Writing
#1 (Fifteen Minutes)
1. Create/type
THREE six-word memoirs--that way, you can do a funny one, a serious one, and
whatever else you come up with. THESE
ARE ORIGINAL SIX-WORD MEMOIRS, CREATED BY YOU RIGHT NOW.
2. Grading
Criteria:
a. Use PRECISE words.
b. Use your VOCABULARY VARIETY sheet for help.
c. Type all three memoirs on the same page.
d. Give each
memoir its own title (which doesn’t count in your six words).
e. Use the MLA
heading.
This is what your paper should look like:
This is what your paper should look like:
Victoria Bennett
Ms. Willis
Creative Writing (Six word Memoirs)
05 April 2013
The Buzzer Ends It
One opening, One fulfilment: One Inadequacy
Rudy
Floppy ears, black spots: my puppy
This is Me
Opinionated, Blonde, Blue-eyed, Loving, Careful, Truth-teller
3. Print to the
Media Center (but don’t go get it).
Lecture
and Quiz--Let's See What You Know!
(Fifteen minutes)
1. Listen to
the lesson at this link:
2. Take the
quiz to see if you understood the main points of the lecture.
3. E-mail me
your quiz score (from your school g-mail).
All you do is put your score as the title line. You don’t actually have to write a message.
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 17,000 grains, or until I
call time. Thanks!
Welcome, AP English
Peeps! J
·
Monday,
September 9th, 2013
Business
1.
Sign
in, por favor!
Journal—Free
Write #1 (Title and date it,
please.)
·
Write for a
full ten minutes on any topic of your choosing. 2:00-2:10
·
No one will
read it but me.
o
Good
news: half of you get your journals back
“for real” today.
o Bad news: I
will toy with the other half of you, by giving your journal back, then taking it away again at 3: L
§ Lynnette
§ Amber
§ Sam
§ Kristine
§ Caitlin
§ Erica
Vocab
1.
9th
Grade Vocab List
2.
Check
out MY Vocab War finds--Hey, lookie what I found: (from Tracy Kidder’s book, Home Town)
a.
“He
wanted to become ‘almost a ghost figure’ to the denizens of the overlapping drug worlds of
Northhampton. He wanted the dealers and
users to think he might be anywhere, on the theory that fear might slow them
down, and he imagined that stories about the bald-headed narc might make a id
at the high school hesitate when first offered pot or cocaine or heroin.”
b.
“It turned out he’d bought some crack, all
right, but had run into Carmen inside the building and they’d simply absconded with the drugs.” (p. 114)
3.
Get
your vocab quiz back.
4.
New
words:
a.
Eschew
b.
Rife
5.
Meet with your team.
a.
Update your grids
b.
Total your points; put page totals at
the bottom right of each page.
c.
Write your points up here under your
group name by 2:48.
Maximalism
and Minimalism—Let’s check out
those sentences!
Homework
· Vocab War
· Free Rice = 12,000 by Monday, 9/16
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