Learning Tasks for Monday, March 17
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Objectives:
I can make connections between poetry and learning.
I can analyze plot elements in film.
1. Writing into the Day
Set a SMART goal for Poetry 3. How will achieving this goal benefit you? What resources or support do you need in order to reach your goal?
2. Finish Dead Poets Society
Do you think it is important to learn about poetry? Why or why not?Mr. Keating introduces students to the Latin phrase "Carpe Diem." Do you "seize the day?" Explain.Describe the setting of the movie. Why is it significant? How would the movie be different if it took place in a more modern setting?One of the central conflicts of Dead Poets Society is Individuality vs. Conformity. Select a character and analyze his/her struggle with this conflict. Is the conflict man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. himself, man vs. fate/divine/supernatural?Read the following quote by Professor John Keating from the movie Dead Poets Society. What do you think it means? Why? "We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”Read the following quote by Professor John Keating from the movie Dead Poets Society. What do you think it means? Explain. "I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things a different way. The world looks very different up here . . . Just when you think you think you know something you have to look at it in another way..."
Learning Tasks for Tuesday, March 18
GOOD LUCK ON THE ACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOOD LUCK ON THE ACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Learning Tasks for Wednesday, March 19
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Objectives:
Objectives:
1. Writing into the Day
2. Readings
We will read and discuss Edgar Alan Poe's "Annabel Lee" and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool."
3. Assignment
Choose four lines of a poem or song of your choice. You may even write the four lines if you are feeling especially creative. Analyze the sounds (use of alliteration, assonance, and rhyme) and meter (use of rhythm) in your chosen lines. Share your analysis on this discussion. Your analysis should be at least 100 words.
Be sure to include your four lines at the beginning of your analysis!
Learning Tasks for Thursday, March 20
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Objectives:
Objectives:
1. Writing into the Day
From "Humans of New York":
"What’s the most frightened you’ve ever been?"
"Probably when I was five, and I learned I had Polio."
"What’s one way that Polio improved your life?"
"It made me more tolerant of failure in others."
Think of your biggest fears, failures, and challenges. How can facing or overcoming them improve your life?
2. Readings
We will read and discuss Donne's "Holy Sonnet 14," Thomas' “Do Not Go Gentle into
That Good Night,” and Nikki Giovanni, “Nikki-Rosa.” (Side-note: Nikki Giovanni came to ECU last year! She was amazinggggg!!! :D )
3. Quiz: Form
Review the poems we've read today, including the poems' speakers, audiences, and purpose. Take the Blackboard quiz in the Poetry III: Form folder. The quiz has a five minute limit.
1. Writing into the Day
Learning Tasks for Friday, March 21
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Objectives:
Objectives:
1. Writing into the Day
Write an obituary for the last thing you threw away.
2. Assignment: Sonnets for Everyone
This exercise will ask you to pay attention to the rhythm and rhyme of a sonnet. You should be begin this activity by refreshing your memory about what a sonnet is. Use your textbook and the course lecture notes to help. Then complete the steps below:
1. Choose a sonnet from Sonnet Central.
2. Read and understand the sonnet thoroughly, looking up any terms that need defining.
3. Learn about the sonnet's author. In the case of some the more obscure writers, this may be a challenge; in other instances, you may find the amount of information a bit overwhelming. Let me know if you need any assistance.
4. Write a discussion board post which introduces your sonnet to your teammates. You should explain the sonnet (at least 100 words), introduce the author of the sonnet (25-100 words), and finally write a full paragraph (at least 100 words) answering the question "how does sound influence meaning in your chosen sonnet?"
Your entire post should be a minimum of 225 words, not including the sonnet you have chosen, which you should reproduce in your post as well. You may not write about a sonnet that someone else has already chosen. Be sure to check your classmates' posts.
3. Poetry 4
If you finish early, begin reading poems from the Poetry 4 folder.
Write an obituary for the last thing you threw away.
2. Assignment: Sonnets for Everyone
This exercise will ask you to pay attention to the rhythm and rhyme of a sonnet. You should be begin this activity by refreshing your memory about what a sonnet is. Use your textbook and the course lecture notes to help. Then complete the steps below:2. Read and understand the sonnet thoroughly, looking up any terms that need defining.
3. Learn about the sonnet's author. In the case of some the more obscure writers, this may be a challenge; in other instances, you may find the amount of information a bit overwhelming. Let me know if you need any assistance.
4. Write a discussion board post which introduces your sonnet to your teammates. You should explain the sonnet (at least 100 words), introduce the author of the sonnet (25-100 words), and finally write a full paragraph (at least 100 words) answering the question "how does sound influence meaning in your chosen sonnet?"
Your entire post should be a minimum of 225 words, not including the sonnet you have chosen, which you should reproduce in your post as well. You may not write about a sonnet that someone else has already chosen. Be sure to check your classmates' posts.
3. Poetry 4
If you finish early, begin reading poems from the Poetry 4 folder.
Learning Tasks for Monday, March 24
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Objectives:
I can make connections between poetry and learning.
I can analyze plot elements in film.
1. Writing into the Day
Set a SMART goal for Poetry 4. How will achieving this goal benefit you? What resources or support do you need in order to reach your goal?
2. Readings
We will read and discuss Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" and Gary Soto's "Oranges." Don't forget to read Mr. Stumpf's Lecture Notes!!!
3. Assignment: Symbolism
What symbolizes you? A rock? A tree? A tiger? An eagle? A pencil? Choose anything in the known universe to symbolize you. Write either a descriptive paragraph (at least 200 words) or a poem of at least 10 lines to fully explore and explain your symbol.
Comment on at least one of your classmates' posts.
Learning Tasks for Tuesday, March 25
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Objectives: I can...
-generate ideas for a paper.
-analyze a writing prompt for understanding.
1. Writing into the Day
Objectives: I can...
-generate ideas for a paper.
-analyze a writing prompt for understanding.
-generate ideas for a paper.
-analyze a writing prompt for understanding.
1. Writing into the Day
2. Essay #3: Poetry Explication
Your third essay is a poetry explication which is a detailed reading and analysis of a text. This means that you should take your reader through, in this case, a poem and point out any images, figurative language, symbols, allusions, traditional (or non-traditional) forms, etc. More importantly, you should form this analysis around a specific thesis which links all of your observations into a coherent and unified point. You may use any poem in your textbook in writing this explication.
Prewriting: Use your journal or notes from class for your paper. Try writing an extended journal entry that not only records your impression of the poem, but also begins to give a close reading of it. If your poem is short, try remarking about every word of the poem. Since you are still at the level of prewriting, don't worry about every one of your points making complete sense. If there is a central or extended metaphor, explore the ramifications of the comparison. Wander as far from the poem as you want at this stage: it may lead you to an original idea.
Planning and Drafting: Your introduction is arguably the most important part of an essay, so take some time to think about ways of making your introduction an interesting, unique, and engaging paragraph. Is there something about the poet's life that you can discuss which can lead into your theme? What about the setting of the poem? Take time to introduce not only the poem, but also some of the ideas that the rest of your paper will explore in more detail. Then, of course, state in as precise terms as possible, what your main argument will be. In this essay, your thesis should answer the following question: what is the theme of this poem and how does the writer use the formal elements of poetry to arrive at that theme? An example of a thesis: Theodore Roethke uses ambiguous language, a waltzing rhythm, and dark imagery in the poem, "My Papa's Waltz," in order to illustrate a child's confusion at the abuse he suffers from his beloved father.
Next, make a rough outline of your body paragraphs. Will you have separate paragraphs for metaphor, imagery, form, etc? Or will you mirror the structure of the poem and work through the poem line by line, stanza by stanza? This is less original but perfectly acceptable; just don't allow yourself to simply restate the poem in prose--that would be the equivalent of summarizing a story. One way to avoid this is to write the topic sentences of all your paragraphs before you start writing the rest of the essay. This helps keep your comments related to your own theme.
Finally, try to give some attention to not only content, but the form of the poem as well.
Documentation: Titles of poems, like short stories, are put in quotation marks.
Ex.: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In-text citations should note line numbers. Ex: (line 5).
For quotations that are four lines or longer, indent twice and reproduce the lines exactly as they appear in your text. Like block quotation from prose works, these quotations do not need quotation marks.
The essay should be approximately 3 pages, typed, MLA format. No outside sources except the poem you have chosen!
3. Prewriting
Peruse your textbook for a poem that interests you. As suggested by Mr. Stumpf, use a journal, list, or annotations to document your reaction to a poem. This will help you once you begin writing!
4. Thesis Statements
Once you have selected a poem, create a thesis statement for your paper. Remember that your thesis must be a debatable claim. What are you going to argue about your particular poem? Keep all the literary devices we've learned from the Poetry Unit in mind while creating your thesis (e.g. symbolism, figurative language, sound, meter, etc.).
2. Essay #3: Poetry Explication
Your third essay is a poetry explication which is a detailed reading and analysis of a text. This means that you should take your reader through, in this case, a poem and point out any images, figurative language, symbols, allusions, traditional (or non-traditional) forms, etc. More importantly, you should form this analysis around a specific thesis which links all of your observations into a coherent and unified point. You may use any poem in your textbook in writing this explication.
Prewriting: Use your journal or notes from class for your paper. Try writing an extended journal entry that not only records your impression of the poem, but also begins to give a close reading of it. If your poem is short, try remarking about every word of the poem. Since you are still at the level of prewriting, don't worry about every one of your points making complete sense. If there is a central or extended metaphor, explore the ramifications of the comparison. Wander as far from the poem as you want at this stage: it may lead you to an original idea.
Planning and Drafting: Your introduction is arguably the most important part of an essay, so take some time to think about ways of making your introduction an interesting, unique, and engaging paragraph. Is there something about the poet's life that you can discuss which can lead into your theme? What about the setting of the poem? Take time to introduce not only the poem, but also some of the ideas that the rest of your paper will explore in more detail. Then, of course, state in as precise terms as possible, what your main argument will be. In this essay, your thesis should answer the following question: what is the theme of this poem and how does the writer use the formal elements of poetry to arrive at that theme? An example of a thesis: Theodore Roethke uses ambiguous language, a waltzing rhythm, and dark imagery in the poem, "My Papa's Waltz," in order to illustrate a child's confusion at the abuse he suffers from his beloved father.
Next, make a rough outline of your body paragraphs. Will you have separate paragraphs for metaphor, imagery, form, etc? Or will you mirror the structure of the poem and work through the poem line by line, stanza by stanza? This is less original but perfectly acceptable; just don't allow yourself to simply restate the poem in prose--that would be the equivalent of summarizing a story. One way to avoid this is to write the topic sentences of all your paragraphs before you start writing the rest of the essay. This helps keep your comments related to your own theme.
Finally, try to give some attention to not only content, but the form of the poem as well.
Documentation: Titles of poems, like short stories, are put in quotation marks.
Ex.: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In-text citations should note line numbers. Ex: (line 5).
For quotations that are four lines or longer, indent twice and reproduce the lines exactly as they appear in your text. Like block quotation from prose works, these quotations do not need quotation marks.
The essay should be approximately 3 pages, typed, MLA format. No outside sources except the poem you have chosen!
3. Prewriting
Peruse your textbook for a poem that interests you. As suggested by Mr. Stumpf, use a journal, list, or annotations to document your reaction to a poem. This will help you once you begin writing!
4. Thesis Statements
Once you have selected a poem, create a thesis statement for your paper. Remember that your thesis must be a debatable claim. What are you going to argue about your particular poem? Keep all the literary devices we've learned from the Poetry Unit in mind while creating your thesis (e.g. symbolism, figurative language, sound, meter, etc.).
Learning Tasks for Wednesday, March 26
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Objectives: I can...
-organize a paper.
-identify and use drafting techniques that work for me.
Objectives: I can...
-organize a paper.
-identify and use drafting techniques that work for me.
-organize a paper.
-identify and use drafting techniques that work for me.
1. Writing into the Day
2. Drafting
Using any of the drafting techniques posted on the classroom wall (by the windows!), begin writing your rough draft. Remember, a rough draft is NOT a perfect draft!
***Ms Jones will check your draft for a grade tomorrow, so be sure to work diligently.
***Ms Jones will check your draft for a grade tomorrow, so be sure to work diligently.
Learning Tasks for Thursday, March 27
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Essential Question: How can literacy skills promote effective communication and understanding?
Objectives: I can...
-apply feedback to my writing.
-organize and draft an essay.
Objectives: I can...
-apply feedback to my writing.
-organize and draft an essay.
-apply feedback to my writing.
-organize and draft an essay.
1. Writing into the Day
From "Humans of New York":
"Who would you say has influenced you most in your life?"
"My 7th grade math teacher, Mr. Tejada."
"How did he influence you?"
"It’s hard to explain. He’s the only one who would give me extra credit when I was failing. And if I didn’t know something, he’d know what to do."
Who has influenced YOU the most in your life? Why?
2. Conferences
1. Writing into the Day
From "Humans of New York":
"Who would you say has influenced you most in your life?"
"My 7th grade math teacher, Mr. Tejada."
"How did he influence you?"
"It’s hard to explain. He’s the only one who would give me extra credit when I was failing. And if I didn’t know something, he’d know what to do."
Who has influenced YOU the most in your life? Why?
You will meet one-on-one with Ms. Jones to discuss your paper. While you are waiting for your turn, you should be working on your draft.
Learning Tasks for Friday, March 28
Essential Question: How does revision improve writing?
Objectives: I can...
-apply feedback to my writing.
-revise and edit my writing.
Essential Question: How does revision improve writing?
Objectives: I can...
-apply feedback to my writing.
-revise and edit my writing.
-apply feedback to my writing.
-revise and edit my writing.
1. Writing into the Day
2. Writing Workshop
Using feedback from Ms. Jones and help from your peers, you will workshop your paper. This means that we will collaborate to provide informal constructive criticism of each others' work.
3. Homework
Be sure to make revisions over the weekend!
2. Writing Workshop
Using feedback from Ms. Jones and help from your peers, you will workshop your paper. This means that we will collaborate to provide informal constructive criticism of each others' work.
3. Homework
Be sure to make revisions over the weekend!
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