AP English Peeps
Howdy, and Happy Thursday!
September 19th, 2013
When
You Come In
1.
Lay the following on my table,
please:
a.
Vocab Card bag, with your name on a
sticky-note
2.
Your metaphor was also due today, but
we will look at them tomorrow.
3.
Grab a quote sheet and tape off the
usual desk. J
2:02-2:12--Journal
Quote (Today’s Theme: Poetry)
·
Write for ten
minutes on ONE of the following quotes.
·
Write the
quote you’ve chosen at the top of your journal page
“Painting is poetry that is
seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
--Leonardo da Vinci--Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect
and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal;
“Poetry is a deal of joy and
pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
--Kahlil Gibran--Lebanese-born
American philosophical essayist, novelist and poet; 1883-1931
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know
that is poetry.”
--Emily Dickinson--American Poet;
1830-1886
Review: How can we respond to a quote?
Ø
COMMENT: Disagree (in part or in whole).
Ø
QUESTION: Ask a question.
Ø
COMMENT: Agree (in part or in whole).
Ø
LANGUAGE: Respond to both the LITERAL and the
FIGURATIVE meaning.
Ø
CONNECT: …to something in your
own life or experience.
Ø
CONNECT: …to something else
you’ve read or viewed.
Ø
Start
at 2:02; end at 2:12
Journal
Entry Explanation
1.
Share
with a NEW person today. Write your
partner TWO specific comments, and aim for academic language in your writing.
a.
At
least two detailed sentences
i. Agree.
ii. Tell him/her if the journal made you
think of a new idea/or something you hadn’t considered.
iii. Add on to an idea he/she says.
iv. Compliment their vocabulary—diction!
v. Disagree, respectfully. J
vi. Create a spiffy illustration (like a
crouching cat).
b.
Signed by you
Poetry
Sharing
·
Onomatopoeia
Poems!
o
Write
your FAVORITE word from his/her poem
o
Write
one nicely-constructed, academic sentence about a strength of his/her poem.
o
Sign
your name.
o
Pass
to the author, when everyone’s done writing.
Poetry Spotlight =
Billy Collins and
“Forgetfulness”
Billy Collins and
“The Lanyard”
Writing
Assignment: Impossible Thank-You Poem
1.
Do
you see how “The Lanyard” is an impossible thank-you poem?
2.
Check
out the rubric for this assignment.
3.
Rough
Draft = due tomorrow for peer
conference
a.
Typed
b.
Ready
to share at 1:55 tomorrow
c.
Save
in your personal google drive
d.
You
will share with me and one other person at 1:55.
e.
E-mail
me today if there is someone you would rather not be paired with for the peer
conference (topic too personal, etc.)
4.
Final
Draft = due Monday; we will
fill out the rubric in class
@3:00
= Vocab Work!
· Pronunciation
· Elaboration or
clarification
· Bingo
Study your words
tonight, because tomorrow we play Slap It!
(You do not want to be unprepared for Slap It!)
Howdy, CPR!
Let’s Get Ready for the
Exam!
1. Please turn off you
phone, and put it on the index card on the heater.
2. Please pick up your
Professor Foster article off the wooden table.
Leave it out on your desk to use during the exam, please.
3. Sit where there is no
one on either side of you.
Exam Turn-In
1. Turn in your exam to my circle
table.
2. Turn in your Professor Foster
article right next to it.
3. Play free rice—20,000 grains due
by Monday
Vocab Practice Links
http://writeathome.polldaddy.com/s/100-words-every-high-school-graduate-should-know
* * * *
Welcome to Creative
Writing!
Ø
Happy
Thursday, September 19th, 2013
When You Come In
Ø Please sign in.
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.
Writing Lesson #4: Revision (Around the Block—1st
to 2nd; final revision upcoming)
Writing Lesson #5: Build
your vocabulary—freerice!
Writing Lesson #6: Connotation
versus Denotation
Sharing
1.
Read
us your favorite six-word memory (from the website), and tell us why you
like. (Round One)
2.
Read
us the original six-word memoir you’re sharing, and we’ll give you claps. (Round Two)
Class
Discussion Questions
1.
How
did DICTION affect your writing of your original six-word memoirs?
2.
How
will Free Rice practice help you use stronger diction when you write?
Writing
Lesson #6: Connotation versus Denotation
1.
Remember
how we said some words are loaded, that they have baggage, that they have
CONNOTATIONS that have to do with our own personal associations?
2.
Well,
turn to page 19, to “Playing with Words”, then take a look at the examples I
have on the big screen. Do you see how
people are basing their choices on the CONNOTATIONS of the words, instead of
the DENOTATIONS?
3.
I’m
going to give you five minutes to fill in as many words as you can. You CAN USE any of the twenty words you
listed for Death of Language.
4.
We’ll
share out our best word from each category.
5.
Feel
free to borrow! Once you write them
down, they’re yours to keep and use! ;-)
Writing Experiment #9: Autobio Poem
Handout
1.
Fifteen
minutes to work in class; homework = fifteen more minutes to finish, then share
this with me AFTER you finish it
2.
Can
you show what you’ve learned in our previous lessons?
IF you
finish early = Diction Practice = Free Rice
20,000
grains by Monday
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