Tuesday, 9/24/2013

Hello, CPR!

Tuesday, September 24^th, 2013

Homework Turn-In

Ø  Please put your name on your Foster packet, then put it on my circle table.

Ø  Make sure your cell phone is turned to silent and completely stowed away.

Ø  Bag your computer by 8:10.  Thank you!

Poetry Explication

1.      Put a Sonnet Back Together (in Vocab War Trios)

2.     You will need scissors, tape, and a blank sheet of paper from me.

3.     Once your team finishing putting the sonnet back together, put your names at the top of the sheet, then list THREE REASONS you think your version of the sonnet is correct.

4.     Start time = 8:27; end time = 8:42

Vocab (8:45-_______)

1.      Meet in your Vocab War teams, and update your grids.

2.     WE STARTED VOCAB WAR ON 8/30.

3.     EACH PERSON needs to fill out an orange sheet today.  (Write your answers on the back of the sheet, if needed.)

4.     Update your team points, and write them in a DIFFERENT color of marker, then put a box around your team’s info.

5.     Get out one set of the new vocab cards.  One of you quiz the other two on the vocab words for Thursday’s quiz.

6.     Turn in your orange sheet to my table when I call time.

7.     Okay—get one sheet of notebook paper out per group, and title it “Trio Pre-Quiz”, and date it:  9/24/2013.

Note-Taking

1.      Explore as many websites suggested by your classmates as possible in the time I give you (but at least five).

2.     Bookmark at least three websites (including your own, if that’s your top pick after exploring) that you can use the rest of the term as resources.

3.     E-mail the short names (or cut and paste the links) for your three choices, and give me a sentence reason for why you think each one is going to be useful to you in college note-taking.

Homework

Ø  Study for your vocab quiz Thursday.

Ø  Free Rice = 23,000 for Monday

CREATIVE WRITING
The Class Poem (Collaborative Poem)

What we’re going to do:

1.      Circle up.

2.     Each write a line of poetry.

3.     Fold the paper so the next person sees only our line.

4.     Pass!

5.     Repeat!

Here’s an example: 

• What are its strengths, things we want to emulate? 
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Strong diction
• Alliteration
• imagery
• What are its weaknesses, things we want to avoid?
• Rhyme
• Cliché
• Generic language

Exhaustion

The tree leaned into the wind

Fighting against a force it did not understand

An endless battle of two of nature’s forces

A battle with many casualties

Like the Alamo

People were dying left and right

Dropping like flies

Hurt to my eyes

Hurt to my heart

Pieces so far apart

Like a puzzle I used to put together

Oh hey, how about this weather?

The birds were singing and the sun was shining

And a warm breeze blew through the air

I took a deep breath and continued on my journey

Giving all my attention to the bald eagle flying above me

I gave no notice to the happenings around me

I fell into a dreamless sleep, the day finally collecting its toll

Like a smugly satisfied turnpike operator

Grinning madly from inside his glass booth.

Writing a Class Poem Guidelines

1.      Respect the line you’re given; follow the idea(s) you’re presented with.

2.     Write a fresh line each time you receive a poem; don’t have a theme or word you put in every time you get a poem.

3.     Use only appropriate language and topics (no beer, bodily functions, sexual innuendos, etc.)

4.     Look only at the one line in front of you; fold the poem after you write so that your line is the only one the person to your right sees.

5.     Don’t pass until you hear the signal.

6.     Initial in the left margin each line you write.

Now

1.     Write the last several lines of this poem, based on the line you see.

2.    Pass it to your right.

3.    When you get yours back, read the whole poem carefully.

4.   Edit as needed (gender and tense shifts, etc).

5.    Give it a knock-out title (NOT “My Crazy Class Poem”, etc.).

6.   Raise your hand if you want to read yours aloud.

AP English Peeps

Monday

When You Come In

1.      Please sign in.

2.     Reminder:  Impossible Thank-You Poem due w/final rubric on Friday (I’ll get you the rubric tomorrow, but it’s the same as the two I’ve given you before, only with no writing on it.)  J

3.     Reminder:  23,000 grains of free rice due Monday

Vocab (__2:03_____-__2:20_____)

1.      Meet in your Vocab War teams, and update your grids.

2.     WE STARTED VOCAB WAR ON 8/30.

3.     EACH PERSON needs to fill out an orange sheet today.  (Write your answers on the back of the sheet, if needed.)

4.     Update your team points, and write them in a DIFFERENT color of marker, then put a cloud bubble around your team’s info.

5.     Get out one set of the new vocab cards.  One of you quiz the other two on the vocab words for Thursday’s quiz.

6.     Turn in your orange sheet to my table when I call time.

7.     Okay—get one sheet of notebook paper out per group, and title it “Trio Pre-Quiz”, and date it:  9/24/2013.

2:40--“To an Athlete Dying Young” (pages 11-12)

1.      Let’s hear the poem out loud.

2.     With your partner, unpack the poem by answering the questions on page 12.  You have to fill in “Group Response”, but you may or may not have something filled in for every “Related Questions”.

3.     Let’s meet back up for a whole-class discussion of the poem and your responses on page 12.

3:10--Classwork/Homework

1.      I’ll read the Dylan Thomas poem aloud, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” on page 13.

2.     Do NOT listen to the poem at the link I gave you yet—seriously, don’t.  I’ll tell you why.

3.     Do answer the Reading Journal questions #1-#4. 

a.     Use complete, academic sentences.

b.    Use THEY SAY (quotes from the poem).

c.     Use I SAY (your interpretation).