When You Come In
1.
Pick up your manila folder.
2.
Get your Ogden Nash poem off
the circle table.
3.
Read your comments.
4.
Draw BOX around your best
poem.
5.
Open the poem on google, then
copy and paste it into the doc in our class folder: “Best Ogden Nash Poem”.
6.
Willis: submit them to EB when we’re done.
7.
9:52-9:54
Sharing
· Let’s
hear your best poem aloud! J
Death of Language
Twenty Words = Prompt Word Poem
1.
Read my Death of Language comments on your google
doc.
2.
Your grade is on your self-assessment paper
(white), which I will pass back.
Writing
Assignment: Prompt Word Poem (yellow page 17)
Analysis
1. Look at the model for this assignment (Lauren Carter; yellow sheet),
and look at the words she had to use (pink).
2. Please put your name on the top of the paper. (Each
partner needs to show his/her own work on the green sheet for a daily grade.)
Prompt Word Poem
Analysis Directions
1. Find and Highlight on the poem (yellow) the fifteen words she used from the class list (pink). Note: She had 27 to choose from; she only used
15—required.
2. Draw a BOX around VERBS that put an image in your mind (at least
five).
3. Underline the last word of each line.
4.
Talk with your partner about the kinds of word Lauren chose to end each line with. Make a
generalization, based on what you see in the poem.
5. Circle four separate instances of alliteration (similar sounds at
the beginning of words). Your pairs of alliterative words need to be
within the same stanza.
6. Discuss with your partner what
effect the stanzas have on
how you read the poem.
FYI:
1.
At the end of
worktime, we’ll discuss your analysis.
2.
You will turn in
your sheets for a daily grade, so make sure your names are on them.
3.
(I will take these
up tomorrow; I want you to have a physical copy to use today during workshop
time.)
4.
STARTED @ 10:15-ish;
ending at 10:32-ish
Ø Starting Your Own Prompt
Word Poem
1. The words are in our class folder.
2. Workshop
Time = twenty-five minutes today to familiarize yourself with the words, get an
image or a conflict, and start typing
3. Due: WEDNESDAY
w/rubric
WE NEED TO GET SANTA’S
HELPER LETTERS FINISHED.
1. Read over
your comments from Megan. Do whatever
she told you to do.
2. Look at
her changes in “File” then “See Revision History.” Do you understand the corrections she made?
3. Read over
your paper comments from Friday. AFTER
you’ve edited or revised based on those comments, recycle those comments.
4. Download this google doc to WORD, and save it on your desktop.
5. Create a fun border. Sarah W.
and others will show you how, so let them know when you’re ready for that.
6. Use a fun, readable font.
7. If your letter is two pages, print front/back.
8. If your letter is only one or two lines on the next page, see me for
help getting it to fit to one page.
9. Print your final copy to the library. I’ll send someone to get them shortly.
Welcome to CPR!
Monday, December 16th,
2013
Homework Due
1. Put your name in big letters on the top
of PAGE 6, then put on the heater,
please. I’ll have them back
to you in a jiffy!
a. Page 6
2. Regarding your annotations over all assigned
pages: I will take up your
ENTIRE novella on Tuesday to assess your annotations. This will be a major homework grade.
Re-reading Quietly
On Your Own (10 minutes)
1. Review annotations from pages 30-64.
2. Start filling out page 9 (MOTIFS) and
page 12 (STYLE ELEMENTS) in your packet.
Start @
11:25-11:35
Class Discussion and
Trios (20 minutes)
1. Compare your notes from all the following
pages. Borrow from each
other, page until everyone in the trio has all the blanks on all the pages
filled in:
a. 8
b. 9
c. 11
d. 12
2. Let me hear your best academic discussion.
Started 11:41; ending at 11:58-ish
Motifs We See So Far (two-thirds through book)
1.
Danger/threat from older men
2. Death
3. Shyness
4. Shame
5. Names
6. Growing up
7. New experiences
8. Friendship
9. Poverty
10. Sisters
11. Family
12. Esperanza’s name
13. Family differences
14. Neighborhood
15. House
16. Lack of confidence
17. Nicknames
18. neighbors
Questions?
Predictions? Wonderings?
1.
Speak one at a time; otherwise, it’s not really a group
academic discussion.
2. Answer one person’s
question fully before we move on to another.
3. Acknowledge what
someone says, either overtly or with body language.
Quiz, then Quiet, Independent
Work Time
1. Take
quiz #2.
a. Craft specific answers.
b. Use your text and annotations for help.
c. Use a detail from the text to go along with
YOUR point. Prove your answer is the correct one.
d.
This will take two to three solid sentences per question.
2. Turn it in at my candle, and pick up the last
section of the novella.
Homework for
Tomorrow
1. Finish your quiz.
2.
Read and annotate Mango, pages 65-91. Stop at 91.
I
want to read that chapter aloud and in class together.
2. Start to fill out the Character Chart on page 7, but I
won’t take it for a homework grade until Thursday.
Reading
Reminder—Annotation
Ø Please annotate the
following items as you read, in addition to your own brainy comments.
a. Mark metaphors and similes with a symbol.
b. Ask questions
c. Comment.
d. Make inferences.
e. Motifs (an idea or object that appears
repeatedly)
Welcome, APILLIONAIRES!
Monday, December 16th,
2013
When You Come In
· Please put your name in big letters on top of “It’s Greek to Me,”
then turn it in by my candle.
· Sign in.
· Study quizlet for five
minutes—we’ll take the two quizzes after that:
2:05.
· After you turn your quizzes in, please peruse the WORDLE
assignment in the AP google doc folder.
Thanks!
BackBone
Literarature: Greek Mythology—
Questions, Resonances,
Echoes
· Why is it EVERYWHERE, still, after thousands of years?!
· Motifs
· Archetypes
Note:
I’m putting all our class review
here:
Review from Friday—what
do we remember?
1.
Iris
a.
Goddess of the rainbow
b.
Messenger of Hera (similar to Hermes)
c.
Conducted souls to underworld (similar to
Hermes)
d.
Styx river connection?
2.
Aesclepius
a.
God of medicine and healing
b.
Son of Apollo
c.
Staff with snake = modern–day physician’s
symbol
d.
Healed so well he brought back a person from
the dead; Hades was mad; Zeus killed Asclepius, but then made him into a
constellation
e.
Invoked in Hippocratic oath
3.
Pegasus
a.
Winged horse
b.
Made into a constellation
c.
Result of Poseidon and Medusa’s mating
d.
Friend/helper to various heroes
4.
Amazons
a.
Fierce women warriors
b.
Highly skilled with bows
c.
Daughters of Ares
d.
So dedicated to shooting arrows they cut a
breast off to shoot better
e.
Didn’t tolerate men; opposite of phallocentric
5.
Centaurs
a.
Half-horse, half-man
b.
More serious than satyrs
c.
Skilled warriors
d.
Liked to celebrate
Presentation
Order for Round #4
1.
Hecatoncheires
2.
Sirens
3.
Harpies
4.
Hydra
5.
Chimera
6.
Sphynx
7.
Cerebus
8.
Medusa
9.
Minotaur
Homework
· Wordle! J
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