1. Silent Reading
2. Grammar--Adverbs
3. Drafting Professional Letter--practice and in class examples
4. Lit. Circles
5. Review Vocabulary (Due Next time---Test On Monday!!)
Professional Letter, Vocab, and Grammar all due on Monday!!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tuesday--February 26, 2008
1. Silent Reading
2. Lesson--Professional Letter Overview
3. Class Discussion--Truth vs. Perceptions
4. Lit. Circles
2. Lesson--Professional Letter Overview
3. Class Discussion--Truth vs. Perceptions
4. Lit. Circles
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
1. Silent Reading
2. Introduce Literature Circles and Roles (handout on this!)
3. Get into the lit circles and begin reading your books (handout of the reading schedule!)
4. HOMEWORK--DUE FRIDAY
1. 10 facts about the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict (modern and ancient)http://www.mideastweb.org/nutshell.htm
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/middle_east/conflict/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-Palestinian_conflict
2. Map of Israel (including Gaza Strip, West Bank...etc.)http://www.mideastweb.org/misrael.htm
http://www.mideastweb.org/misrael.htm
3. 10 facts about Johannesburg --history and modern
http://www.joburg.org.za/
http://www.southafrica-travel.net/north/a1johb01.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Johannesburg
4. Define Apartheid--Give a Brief History of it in South Africa
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid
Remember to Read!!
2. Introduce Literature Circles and Roles (handout on this!)
3. Get into the lit circles and begin reading your books (handout of the reading schedule!)
4. HOMEWORK--DUE FRIDAY
1. 10 facts about the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict (modern and ancient)http://www.mideastweb.org/nutshell.htm
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/middle_east/conflict/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-Palestinian_conflict
2. Map of Israel (including Gaza Strip, West Bank...etc.)http://www.mideastweb.org/misrael.htm
http://www.mideastweb.org/misrael.htm
3. 10 facts about Johannesburg --history and modern
http://www.joburg.org.za/
http://www.southafrica-travel.net/north/a1johb01.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Johannesburg
4. Define Apartheid--Give a Brief History of it in South Africa
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid
Remember to Read!!
Monday, February 11, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
1. Silent Reading
2.Take Poetry Final
3. Share Poems
4. Turn in Poetry Books (100 points)
2.Take Poetry Final
3. Share Poems
4. Turn in Poetry Books (100 points)
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
1. Silent Reading
2. Analyze Poem "Dying" by Emily Dickinson (bio on her life)
3. Grammar
4. Class Poetry Activities
5. Review for Test
2. Analyze Poem "Dying" by Emily Dickinson (bio on her life)
3. Grammar
4. Class Poetry Activities
5. Review for Test
Poems to Memorize--Due March 3
Sonnets
At the round earths imagin'd corners by John Donne
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent by John Milton
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day, Sonnet #18 by William Shakespeare
Not marble nor the guilded monuments, Sonnet #55 by William Shakespeare
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Composed upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth
Tales
Lord Randall by Anonymous
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings
Ode on the death of a favorite cat by Thomas Gray
The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear
Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
An Apple Gathering by Christina Rossetti
The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
All the world's a stage by William Shakespeare
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
From Snow-Bound, 11:1-40, 116-154 by John Greenleaf Whittier
Meditations
Oh Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Stanzas by Emily Bronté
To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendall Holmes
Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins
To Autumn by John Keats
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Shiloh or The Martyr by Herman Melville
The House on the Hill by Edwin Arlington Robinson
From Adonais, 49-52 by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
Mnemosyne by Trumball Stickney
Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson
From In Memoriam by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Kraken by Lord Alfred Tennyson
A noiseless patient spider by Walt Whitman
At the round earths imagin'd corners by John Donne
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent by John Milton
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day, Sonnet #18 by William Shakespeare
Not marble nor the guilded monuments, Sonnet #55 by William Shakespeare
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Composed upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth
Tales
Lord Randall by Anonymous
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings
Ode on the death of a favorite cat by Thomas Gray
The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear
Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
An Apple Gathering by Christina Rossetti
The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
All the world's a stage by William Shakespeare
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
From Snow-Bound, 11:1-40, 116-154 by John Greenleaf Whittier
Meditations
Oh Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Stanzas by Emily Bronté
To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendall Holmes
Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins
To Autumn by John Keats
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Shiloh or The Martyr by Herman Melville
The House on the Hill by Edwin Arlington Robinson
From Adonais, 49-52 by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
Mnemosyne by Trumball Stickney
Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson
From In Memoriam by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Kraken by Lord Alfred Tennyson
A noiseless patient spider by Walt Whitman
Friday, February 8, 2008
Monday: February 11, 2008
Nothing tells your Valentine that you care for them like a subscription to The Economist!! By the way, you are all WAY too young to have a Valentine. And remember, Saint Valentine was the patron saint of friends, familys, and lovers...it says so on his grave in Dublin. So remember to celebrate your great friends on Thursday and don't give into Hallmark Capitalism!!
POETRY FINAL ON FRIDAY!!!!!
DUE: POETRY UNIT (how to read a poem, focus on language, focus on meaning, focus on sound and structure....worth 50 points)
1. Silent Reading
2. Proofreading #3 (due next time!)
3. Analyze Poem-- "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by e.e. cummings (also his bio)
4. Get handout on Oh Captain, My Captian--bio of Walt Whitman
5. Create Alliteration Poem with group
HOMEWORK: Create an inspiration poem!!!
This Friday you have your poetry book due! This is an original book of poems that you type up, illustrate, design a cover for, and put together. It is worth 100 points.
This is the order your poems should go in:
1. Narrative Poem (childhood memory)
2. Alliteration Poem
3. Limerick
4. Haiku
5. Inspiration Poem
6. Metaphor Poem
7. Original Poem (free verse or any other form you want--no limericks or haikus! nothing about roses, rainbows, or the sun!!)
You get 30 points for a cover (title, name, design), illustrations, and neatness
POETRY FINAL ON FRIDAY!!!!!
DUE: POETRY UNIT (how to read a poem, focus on language, focus on meaning, focus on sound and structure....worth 50 points)
1. Silent Reading
2. Proofreading #3 (due next time!)
3. Analyze Poem-- "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by e.e. cummings (also his bio)
4. Get handout on Oh Captain, My Captian--bio of Walt Whitman
5. Create Alliteration Poem with group
HOMEWORK: Create an inspiration poem!!!
This Friday you have your poetry book due! This is an original book of poems that you type up, illustrate, design a cover for, and put together. It is worth 100 points.
This is the order your poems should go in:
1. Narrative Poem (childhood memory)
2. Alliteration Poem
3. Limerick
4. Haiku
5. Inspiration Poem
6. Metaphor Poem
7. Original Poem (free verse or any other form you want--no limericks or haikus! nothing about roses, rainbows, or the sun!!)
You get 30 points for a cover (title, name, design), illustrations, and neatness
Monday, February 4, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Obama Rocks!!
DUE:Grammar and Childhood Memory Poem (Narrative Poem)
1. Silent Reading
2. Grade Grammar--Verbs and Verb Phrases
3. Journal Entry: Give 2 examples of simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, and onamatopoeia
4. Handout: Focusing on Sound and Structure.
This now completes your poetry packet. You need to gather these papers together and turn them in on Friday:
A. How to Read a Poem
B. Focusing on Language
C. Focusing on Meaning
D. Focusing on Sound and Structure
5. How to write a Limerick and a Haiku
6. Review all Figurative Language and Poetry Strategies for Test!!!
HOMEWORK:
Create an original Limerick and Haiku!
DUE:Grammar and Childhood Memory Poem (Narrative Poem)
1. Silent Reading
2. Grade Grammar--Verbs and Verb Phrases
3. Journal Entry: Give 2 examples of simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, and onamatopoeia
4. Handout: Focusing on Sound and Structure.
This now completes your poetry packet. You need to gather these papers together and turn them in on Friday:
A. How to Read a Poem
B. Focusing on Language
C. Focusing on Meaning
D. Focusing on Sound and Structure
5. How to write a Limerick and a Haiku
6. Review all Figurative Language and Poetry Strategies for Test!!!
HOMEWORK:
Create an original Limerick and Haiku!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Today is the Utah primary campaigns! Keep a close watch to see who takes Utah!!!!
1. Silent Reading
2. Anaylyze poem: The Raven (with a little help from the Simpsons!)
3. Grammar-Verbs
4. Compose a poem about a childhood memory (narrative Poem) ***
5. Focus on Sound and Structure
The Poetry Unit will be due on Thursday!
***Narrative Poem Requirements
Must have two similes or metaphors
Must have one use of alliteration
Must have deliberate punctuation
Must have at least 8 lines, formed into stanzaz
Must be typed
Illustrating is a Good Thing!
1. Silent Reading
2. Anaylyze poem: The Raven (with a little help from the Simpsons!)
3. Grammar-Verbs
4. Compose a poem about a childhood memory (narrative Poem) ***
5. Focus on Sound and Structure
The Poetry Unit will be due on Thursday!
***Narrative Poem Requirements
Must have two similes or metaphors
Must have one use of alliteration
Must have deliberate punctuation
Must have at least 8 lines, formed into stanzaz
Must be typed
Illustrating is a Good Thing!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
1. Silent Reading
2. Analyze a Poem in Journals
3. Finish up Focus on Language
4. Ode to Poetry Song
2. Analyze a Poem in Journals
3. Finish up Focus on Language
4. Ode to Poetry Song
Monday: January 28, 2008
1. Silent Reading
2. I can't remember what we did, this is my problem, this is why I need to update the blog everyday. I think we worked on our sentence combining poems! Ahh! My brain is gone!
2. I can't remember what we did, this is my problem, this is why I need to update the blog everyday. I think we worked on our sentence combining poems! Ahh! My brain is gone!
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