Comp Strats--3/4/15

March 4th

Day Thirty-Seven--Happy Wednesday

1:10 Dismissal

9:20-10:20

NO SCHOOL YESTERDAY DUE TO ICE

When You Come In

1. Initial next to your name on my clipboard for attendance.
2. Drop your phone in the phone hostage center.  Put your phone BEHIND your name card, please.
3. Get a yellow and white handouts off the phone table.
4. We do NOT have read and relax time today.

Strategy Practice

• What are Literary Archetypes?
• https://drive.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/?tab=wo#folders/0B4pq4r-bWrm_bndRQ2c5Tk0xekk
• Why should we recognize them?
• How will they make us stronger readers?

What are the four big questions in this fairy tale unit?

1. What are the characteristics of a fairy tale?
2. How do modern versions of the stories (in movies, tv, books, etc.) differ from the original versions from The Grimm Brothers and from Hans Christian Andersen?
3. Why are fairy tales one of the four cornerstones of BACKBONE LITERATURE?
4. What happens when you twist a fairy tale, or make fun of the fairy tale format?

Characteristics of a Fairy Tale

• Handout with discussion

How Fairy Tale is Your Fairy Tale?

• Handout
• Schoology assignment

Comp Strats--Monday, 3/2/15

Day Thirty-Six--Happy Monday!

March 2nd , 2015

When You Come In

1. Initial next to your name on my clipboard for attendance.
2. Drop your phone in the phone hostage center.  Put your phone BEHIND your name card, please.
3. Grab your book and orange sheet for read and relax.
4. Please do not ask me today about anything from last week.  If you need help on something from last week, come in during advisory tomorrow morning, please.  Thanks!

Big Idea for Our Last Ten Days Together:  Strategy Work:  Literary Archetypes

1. We keep telling the same stories over and over again--why?
2. If you know what to look for, you’re  better able to see patterns in what you’re reading.
3. The purpose of today’s work  is to familiarize ourselves with literary archetypes in more detail.
4. Take a look at the definition of a literary archetype and our master list of archetypes:  https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/document/d/1IqF4W73h9OarzT8o3fmFgUBqKR2i6TfCQm85MvK8Jfs/edit
5. Let’s look at a place to record examples of these archetypes.  This is where you will do you work today:  https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/spreadsheets/d/1nAcuKJfBTxsif4_PYvrYtBfyw_BuQghh8P25gtkEHgk/edit#gid=45137369

Let’s do these together now:

Big-Picture Thinking:  Archetypes!

Where would you put these plots?

1. High School Musical 1
2. Finding Nemo
3. Holes
4. Star Wars
5. The Dark Knight
6. Inception
7. Gravity
8. She’s the Man
9. Silver Linings Playbook
10. Shrek

ASSIGNMENT (on schoology)

1. Make a copy of this doc--do not write on it:  https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/spreadsheets/d/1nAcuKJfBTxsif4_PYvrYtBfyw_BuQghh8P25gtkEHgk/edit#gid=45137369
2. Put your last name in front of the title, and make sure the doc is clearly visible in the appropriate google folder.
3. Fill in as many blanks as you can in the twenty minutes of work time I give you.  Hint:  even if you average only one a minute, you should have AT LEAST twenty archetype examples--and that is a bare-bones minimum.
4. Use the books you’ve read this term as possibilties.
5. Feel free to skip around!  Don’t get stuck on one blank!
6. Read the detailed explanations for what each archetype is.  I want you to learn what the various archetypes are, so you will recognize them in the future.  How will you learn them if you have no idea what they are?

Pair-Share (started rond 1 @ 11:15; round 2 @11:23; round 3 @ 11:28;

1. Discuss your examples so far.
2. A Word of Caution:  Poach answers from each other as desired.  (Don’t poach if you’ve never heard of the movie/story/etc.)
3. This goes for your own individual answers as well.  If you’re researching movies or shows that have a mountain setting, that’s great--but make sure you’ve seen the moview--otherwise, that is not an example you’re going to be to remember or speak about in detail.
4. Each of you share your findings, and continue to fill in your individual spreadsheet.

We did not have any time to read and relax today.

Creative Writing--Friday, 2/27/15

Day Thirty-Five--Happy Friday!  2/27/15

When You Come In Sign in, please. Put your phone in the hostage center. Grab your page 32 off the phone table, please! You do NOT need computers out, so please leave them put away.

Focus for the Last Eleven  Days Showing, Not Just Telling Revision

Writing Lesson:  Show, Don’t Just Tell Review--pass back page 32 from yesterday, so you can put that back in your binder. 1.      Difference between “literal” and “figurative language” (p. 32) 2.     Least Vivid to Most Vivid (p. 32 ) 3.     Diction Sandra Cisneros (p. 32) 4.     Vocabulary Variety—reminder Writing Lesson:  Show, Don’t Just Tell—How to Create Imagery 1.      Imagery (Emily Bronte)—(p. 33)  https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/document/d/1D3KtU8hrmbonPcARHIgXf38Yv-SKlPLl6SeK1WiK9tA/edit

• What time is it?  
• We have to start working on the Prompt Word Peer Conference no later than 2:55!

Writing Assignment:  Sense Poem Pre-Write Before we do this assignment, we’ll pretend school is our favorite place to be, and we’ll do the Visualizing Worksheet together, just to make sure we all know waht we’re doing. 1.   Think of a place you love to be. 2.   Fill out the Visualizing Worksheet listing twenty concrete details.)  https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/document/d/1mdcYwaV1V1E8YDxMfIFElepYbZWLAFszYl8SvgwPJhw/edit NOTE:  I want you to think about what you’ve learned about diction, about one word making a difference, about vivid and precise writing when you list your details. 3.   Number them. 4.   Use your Vocab Variety sheet for help with diction. Trade!  On your partner’s paper, do the following: Circle or box their FOUR strongest, most vivid details. Write three questions you have on the back of the paper about this place. Sign your name on the back as well! Remind them to number each detail, if they didn’t already do that, please. FINALLY, make sure your name and topic are listed in the top right box, then turn this sheet into the drawer.

One word can make a difference! How is this notion connected to the assignment you are currently working on--the Prompt Word Poem?

2:55 at the latest!  Prompt Word Poem Peer Conference

1. You had a twenty-five line start due by the beginning of class today.
2. We’re doing to peer conference it now, using the rubric to help us make comments.
3. You as the reader fill out the RIGHT column with numbers, then fill the blanks out with evidence from the poem to support your score.
4. Make AT LEAST ten comments on the writer’s draft online, just like you did with the Childhood Fear Poem and the Autobio Poem.
5. Writer, you do nothing on the rubric at all.
6. Reader, give the rubric to the writer when you finish.
7. I will take up the rubric before you leave, and we will use it Monday to make final revisions on this piece.
8. I am going to give you ______minutes to continue working on it now.

Homework

• Complete the no red ink grammar activities.

Creative Writing--Thursday, 2/25/15

Day Thirty-Four--Happy Thursday,  2/26/15!

When You Come In Sign in, please. Put your phone in the hostage center. You do NOT need computers out, so please leave them put away.   Have books open to page 32.

Timeline

• 2:15-3:20

Focus for the Last Twelve  Days

1. Showing, Not Just Telling
2. Revision

Writing Lesson:  Showing, Not Just Telling 1.      Difference between “literal” and “figurative language” (page 32) A)    Definitions B)    Poster:  http://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally 2.     Least Vivid to Most Vivid (page 32 )--Place the sentences in order form least vivid description to most vivid description. A)    Our barelegged mammas dance down the steps and join us in the rain. B)    Our barelegged mammas come down the steps and join us in the rain. C)    Our barelegged mammas dance down the steps and join us in the fresh, clean rain. D)   Our barelegged mammas come down the steps and join us in the fresh, clean rain. 3.     Diction Sandra Cisneros (p. 32)  https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/document/d/12ni98K3zGfFb6YycpIqJ2mnMfwLM9uO0PhQBWdO1CFU/edit 4.     Diction Reminders:  Your Vocabulary Variety Sheet and www.thesaurus are your constant companions when you write for the rest of the term. Daily Points:  Turn It In for a Daily Grade ·      Please put your name at the top of page 32,  and turn it into the drawer.

• One word can make a difference!
• How is this notion connected to the assignment you are currently working on--the Prompt Word Poem?

Prompt Word Poem (pages 23-25)

1. You had a ten-line start due by the beginning of class today.
2. What strategies did you use to get started writing on this poem?
3. I am going to give you ______minutes to continue working on it now.

Homework

• Have at least twenty-five lines written on your Prompt Word Poem when class begins tomorrow.

Comp Strats--Friday, 2/27/15

Day Thirty-Five--Happy Friday!

February 27th, 2015

When You Come In

1. Initial next to your name on my clipboard for attendance.
2. Drop your phone in the phone hostage center.  Put your phone BEHIND your name card, please.
3. Grab your book and orange sheet for read and relax.
4. Circle up for vocab work.

Vocabulary

1. To Curtail
2. Obstinate
3. To Collaborate
4. Austere
5. Transitory
6. Prolific
7. Tenacious

Read and Relax, 11:03-11:33

• Book chats:  Jose, Megan, Derek, Antoine
• Library- Hannah A, Antoine C

Comp Strats--Thursday, 2/26/15

Day Thirty-Four--Happy Thursday!

February 26th, 2015

• 1:05-2:10

When You Come In

1. Initial next to your name on my clipboard for attendance.
2. Drop your phone in the phone hostage center.  Put your phone BEHIND your name card, please.
3. Grab your book and orange sheet for read and relax.

Strategy Review

• What was some advice you got from the college podcasts that stayed with you?
• If you haven’t finished this assignment yet, do so for homework, and turn it in by classtime tomorrow--no extensions beyond that.

Read and Relax Until 1:47

• Finish and turn in Bookmark Journal #4 today--no extensions.
• Library = Lydia and Mercedes

1:50--Vocabulary Review

• Take the vocab pre-quiz on paper.
• Come get the key, and score it.
• Get on quizlet, and star the ones you missed.  Study just those words for the rest of the block.
• If you score 100% on the quiz, please study the new word list:  “ACT Prep Words #1.”
• I’ll stop you at 2:07--don’t quit early!  :-(

Advanced Creative Writing--Thursday, 2/26/15

Day Thirty-Four--Thursday, February 26th, 2015

When You Come In

• Grab the two yellow papers on the desk.

Children’s Story Prep

1. Interview Schedule and Directions
2. Potential Writing Buddy Interview Question
3. Children’s Story Recommendations from Two Years Ago
4. Rausch Writing Buddies (page 1)
5. Packet pages 2-7

Trio Work

1. Get a chidren’s story and sticky notes.
2. Write ONE good element from the story on yellow.
3. Write ONE weakness on pink.
4. Repeat, until you have covered the strengths of each book.  Talk to each other!  :-)

What Makes a Good Children’s Book?

Read and Annnotate

1. page 2
2. page 4
3. page 6

• Read a children’s book when you finish, please!