Welcome, AP--Monday,
November 18th, 2013
When You
Come In
1.
Get the three Oedipus Rex packets off the heater!
Tuck them away safely until tomorrow.
2.
Put your name in big letters on the top
of your Animal Farm text, then leave
them by my candle, please.
3.
(Animal Farm Essay #1 should be shared
with me now.)
4.
Circle up! J
Reading Strategy Tracking
Big
Picture Idea: Literary Archetypes
1.
Handout
3.
Friday, we discussed ARCHETYPAL
SETTINGS.
4.
Today, discuss ARCHETYPAL
PLOTS—woo-hoo!
Group
Work Time = 2:32-2:50
·
We filled in all we could in our small
groups for ARCHETYPAL PLOTS.
ARCHETYPES ARE ONGOING
IN CLASS.
Vocabulary: Official Start to VOCAB WAR! (…six full weeks of excitement and learning)
We had
twenty-five minutes for all items below.
1.
Get yellow sheets, and write down the
myriad of vocab words you have used over the last few weeks.
2.
Do you want to print all your eligible
words and make a packet out of them? Let
me show you how to print, just so you see what your options are. (Some people went to the library to print.)
3.
How are you going to get organized, so
you know WHAT WORDS are eligible?
4.
Do you want 100 Words on quizlet? I can make that happen! J (I did make that
happen. Although we are not going to
quiz over these lists, some people said they would study them to help with
Vocab War.)
5.
Did you record the words you used in
your Animal Farm essays? I saw a myriad of vocab words.
Homework:
·
Quizlet Vocab--Quiz Monday,
11/25--Oedipus Rex Vocabulary
·
Vocab War—studying, using, recording
Welcome to Creative Writing! J
Monday, November 18th,
2013
When You Come In
(Before Tardy Bell Rings)
1.
Please initial next to your name on the
clipboard.
2.
Please grab your folder off the back
table.
3.
Please put your chairs in their normal
positions. J
Organization: Things I’m
Handing Back—Put them in your folder.
Ø WE#1: Ghosts, Monsters, Bullies Poem, Revised
Ø Class
Poem #1
Ø Cliché Story Comments—if both you and your partner have read them all,
you can tear out the staple, then recycle them.
Other Things: Put them in
your binder!
1.
Yellow page six—check it
together now quickly.
2.
Writing
Lesson Review: Make strong titles. Pass back the page, and discuss a few
examples of strong and weak titles (purple page 15)
3.
Vocabulary
Variety Worksheet II
Reading Strategy Tracking
Writing Experiment #7--I Am a Russian Tailor
Thirty
Minutes (Ten to explain and model; twenty to type)
Here's the assignment:
1. Write a poem about yourself that is filled
with lies.
2. Try to make up creative, dramatic lies,
rather than saying things such as “I have two cats” or “I love chocolate
pudding.”
3. Your Writing Task: Write a poem that is a series of creative,
dramatic lies!
4. Don’t worry about what order you put stuff
in—just type/write the lies as fast as you can!
Some Examples of Lines—Notice How They SHOW! (Concrete Details; Precise Diction)
1. I have dog breath, even though I
brush my teeth ten times a day.
2. I love to wake up early and watch the
sunrise.
3. I have seventeen middle names, one of
which is Gertrude.
4. My imaginary whip sound is the best in
the universe.
5. All the windows in my house are made
of titanium.
6. I think bright red and neon green look
good together.
7. I like it when people whine; it makes
me want to hug them.
8. I had to kill a unicorn yesterday.
9. I love to lick chalk dust
10. I heat my house with lightning and ten
tiny hamsters chained to an electric generator.
11. I burned all the books in my house last
week.
12. When I cracked two rocks together, I
created a squirrel.
13. I write everything down fifteen times on
pink paper.
Reminders About Your First Draft of RUSSIAN TAILOR
1. NO BODILY FUNCTIONS! Please, and thank you!
2. JUST WRITE, LINE AFTER LINE, LIE AFTER
LIE!
3. YOU WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO REVISE LATER
THIS WEEK:
Money
Grows on Trees
I
eat no meat whatsoever.
I
eat salad for a living it’s all I can find.
When
I sneeze pigeons come out my nose.
I
love it when bull sharks snack on my leg meat.
Washington
schools are nice and brand spanking new. I love them.
This
is Sparta.
Tonight
I will dine in hell.
I
shot the sheriff.
I
am so happy that pigs can fly.
I
taught them last week.
My
house is made of ginger bread and candy cane.
I
run a Columbian drug cartel.
I
lay eggs in my kitchen sink.
I
invented the wheel and sliced bread.
London
Bridge fell down last week.
I
have two left feet and one is a sausage.
My
blood is cherry flavored.
I
have a son named Damien.
Two
plus two equals chicken.
Alex
Meyer
Here's another model of what the poem would look like after it is
revised:
The
Truth and Nothing but the Truth
I
can throw it down better than Lebron James.
I
have hit more home runs than Babe Ruth.
I
beat Usain Bolt in a race without breaking a sweat.
I
decided to make the sky blue.
I
invented the wheel...it just came to me in the shower.
The
Apple logo was inspired by an apple I bit.
I
was the first to hear Kelly Clarkson’s song “What Doesn’t Kill You” in a
private concert.
I
have won the Iowa State Fair cattle show so many times it isn’t even
exhilarating anymore.
I
have been 3A State Champion in the Discus and Shotput for two years straight.
I
threw twice as far as everyone else.
It
was kind of an off day for me.
I
own a panda farm.
I
keep them in my basement and then sell them on Craigslist.
I
dated Zac Efron for three years.
I
ended it because it was getting too serious.
In
my free time, I like to take my private jet to my beach house in Hawaii.
I
love it when my sister comes home from college and I can get away with
everything.
My
sister and have never fought in our
lives.
I
love wearing dresses and nice clothes.
Sweatpants
are a sin.
I
despise sleeping.
It
makes me happy when I get to wake up at the crack of dawn.
Especially
for lifting at 6:25 every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
I
love going to school.
Getting
loads of homework is the highlight of my day.
Especially
when I get to stay up till midnight or later working on it.
Summer
is so boring there is no homework to keep you busy.
I
wish we had school all year around
I
have never lied, not even once.
Joni
Erwin
Workshop Time
“I
Am a Russian Tailor” (2o minutes)
1. Type at least twenty-five different
lines.
2. Be CREATIVE and DRAMATIC.
3. Use your vocab variety sheet to help you
be precise and descriptive.
4. Include as many senses (sight, sound,
texture, smell, taste, color) as you can.
5. When you complete #1-4, move on to the
items in blue below.
When You Finish
1.
Go
to our class folder, and find the spreadsheet called “Strongest Russian Tailor
Line”, and copy and paste your BEST LINE there:
https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aopq4r-bWrm_dEpQa3Iza3hfOWlpYmtxbjk2ajFJanc#gid=0
2.
Check
your grade on powerschool, and click on all the little notes I’ve left some of
you. If you can resolve one of these
issues, do so, and e-mail me—do not come talk to me about it. I want a written record.
3.
Play
free rice; 15,000 grains are due Friday.
(homework all week)
AP
Welcome to CPR! Monday, November 18, 2013
When
You Come In
1.
Please initial next to your name on the
clipboard.
2.
Please get out your History Channel dvd
notes over “Gods and Goddesses”.
Reading Strategy Tracking
College-Prep
Skill: Note-Taking
1.
Review
Friday’s sentence you wrote about note-taking—did it help with your notes from
Friday?
2.
What
are the big ideas we noted in Friday’s viewing?
3.
Write
me a sentence about what you’re going to do when you take notes today. (It can be a combination of Thursday and
Friday’s plans.)
4.
Date
your notes = 11/18!
Ø DVD VIEWING: Move the
chairs to make four rows of three, right in front of the screen, then grab some
popcorn—thank you, Vanessa! J
This took us the remainder of the block.
Vocabulary
Homework
1.
Play free rice: 15,000 grains
are due by Friday.
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