Assignment: Eng11: Dickinson, 3 Date:Wed, Jan 31, 2007
English10 CompositionRead aloud in class:
“Apparently with no surprise” (385) Note the use of metaphor and personification
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant” (386)In your journal, paraphrase the poem line by line
Read aloud: “Success is counted sweetest” (388) Explain “taps.” Relate the poem to the painting.
Discuss analogy.
In your journal, write one paragraph that answers one of the “Shaping Interpretations” questions on page 390.
Assignment: Eng10: Keeping a Commonplace Book Date:Wed, Jan 31, 2007
English11 American LitFocusing prompt: Write down a favorite quote or saying and briefly explain how it might give you an idea for an essay or a story.
Discussion: analyze the subjects and verbs in each of your sentences. Do they all agree?
What is a commonplace book? Do you keep a bulletin board at home? What purpose does it serve? Have you ever kept a scrapbook or photo album? What did you put into it and why? A commonplace book is similar. It’s a place to store things that are meaningful to you. It’s a source of ideas and development for your writing.
Share what your brought to class as assigned yesterday. After each reading, take 1-2 minutes to write notes in your commonplace book, including your personal responses, and the source of the passage.
In the “commonplace book” section of your class notebook, you can write down questions, lyrics, jokes, menus, quotes--anything you find interesting or thought provoking.
Reading: read p. 18
With a partner, discuss how this idea might be turned into a story: “You cannot be a hero without being a coward.” George Bernard Shaw
Grammar Link: Do 1-5 on page 19.
Writing: Turn one of the quotes in your commonplace book into a longer story.
Assignment: Eng11: Emily Dickinson, 2 Date:Tue, Jan 30, 2007
English10 CompositionRead “slant rhyme” on page 380. Write a defintion of it in your journal, along with 3 examples from the Dickinson poems we’ve already read. (15 minutes)
Read aloud in class:
“The Mirror Girl--stares back at me” (380)
“Some keep the Sabbath going to Church” (381)
“I taste a liquor never brewed” (382)
“Much madness is divinest sense” (383)Discuss: extended metaphor
Relate “Some Keep the Sabbath” to Emerson and ThoreauWrite a paragraph using specific quotes from this poem to answer this question:
What is Dickinson’s relationship to nature, and how is this revealed in the metaphors she chooses?Do not form your paragraph as the answer to a question. Instead, write a self-contained paragraph with a strong topic sentence, that includes at least 3 quotations. The paragraph must be at least 6 sentences long.
Assignment: Eng10: Using a Learning Log Date:Tue, Jan 30, 2007
English11 American LitFocusing prompt: In paragraph form, write an explanation of the material you learned in a recent biology (science) class.
Check: Did you use commas to separate any items in a series?
Discussion (raise your hand): How do you keep track of your school assignments? What notes do you take for classes?
Learning logs can help make sense out of hard-to-understand material, answer questions about it, and provide a study tool for tests.Levels of notetaking: notes or jottings
Formal notes or logs.Meeting AYP in Polson
10 minutes: read p. 12- 14
Discuss learning logs.Keep a learning log for biology for 1 week. We’ll evaluate these Monday.
Using commas to separate items in a series, p. 15.
Homework: Bring to class a brief but meaningful passage (a verse from a poem or song, a quote from an article or book). How will you remember this assignment?
Assignment: Eng11: Emily Dickinson, 1 Date:Mon, Jan 29, 2007
English10 CompositionRead “Emily Dickison” p. 371
Read silently pages 371-373 - (10 minutes)
Read aloud in class:
Heart! We will forget him! ((374)
If you were coming in the Fall (376)
The Soul selects her own Society (378)A future test will include these elements of literature:
apostrophe
metaphor
personification
slant rhyme
alliteration
analogy
Listen to musical version” Because I could not stop for death”
In your journal, write one paragraph in response to one of the “Shaping Interpretations” questions on page 379. It should not sound like an answer to a question. It should be a well-made paragraph that could stand alone. It should have at least 6 sentences.
Do not mention yourself or your thoughts and feelings. Stay focused on a close reading of the poem. Do not include vague boilerplate about how well-thought out Dickison’s words are or how good a writer she is.
Assignment: Eng10: Begin Journals Date:Mon, Jan 29, 2007
English11 American LitFocus prompt: Write three sentences about subjects you might like to record in a personal journal.
Assign seats. Discuss class rules.
Discuss engrams and exograms. Discuss 2-column notes.
Your class notebook should have
a section for vocabulary words
a section for grammar rules
a section for a commonplace book
a section for drafts10 minutes: Read p. 8 - 10, taking notes. Discuss the reading.
Write a journal entry, p. 11
Assignment: Eng 11: Semester Test, Part 2 Date:Wed, Jan 24, 2007
English10 CompositionTimed essay, 1 question.
Assignment: Eng10 Comp: Final Essay Exam To Kill a Mockingbird Date:Wed, Jan 24, 2007
English10 Composition40 minute in class writing from outline on To Kill a Mockingbird
Assignment: Eng 10 Comp: Create an outline Date:Tue, Jan 23, 2007
English 10 Speech & MediaDeveloping a thesis
Basics of outlining an essay about a literary topic
Assignment: Eng 10 Media: Oral Book Reports Date:Tue, Jan 23, 2007
English10 CompositionBook reports (oral to whole class).
No plot summary.
Use the form of a persuasive speech to argue for your interpretation of a theme in your novel.
Assignment: Eng 10: Final Quiz: To Kill a Mockingbird Date:Tue, Jan 23, 2007
English11 American LitEng 10: Final Quiz: To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapters 12 to end of book
Assignment: Eng 11: Semester Test, Day 1 Date:Tue, Jan 23, 2007
English 10 Speech & MediaTimed essay. One question.
Assignment: Eng 10: Media: Book Reports Date:Mon, Jan 22, 2007
English11 American LitBook reports (oral to whole class).
No plot summary.
Use the form of a persuasive speech to argue for your interpretation of a theme in your novel.
Assignment: Eng 11: Oral Book Reports Date:Mon, Jan 22, 2007
English 10 Speech & MediaOral book reports to whole class.
Assignment: Eng 10 Media: Revising for conventions Date:Fri, Jan 19, 2007
English10 CompositionWork on book reports (which will begin Monday).
Reports should follow this form
Assignment: Eng 10: To Kill a Mockingbird Date:Fri, Jan 19, 2007
English11 American LitHomework: Read to page 280
Assignment: Eng 11: Book Reports Date:Fri, Jan 19, 2007
English 10 Speech & MediaWork on oral book reports, due Jan 24
Assignment: English 10 Media: Analyzing television 2 Date:Thu, Jan 18, 2007
English11 American Litfinish Waltons: episode
Take notes on various characters:
What do they desire?
What problems do they face?
What virtues do they display?List 4 adjectives to describe the characters that hold the following roles
father
mother
boys
girls
neighbors or outsidersWhat are the rules of the storyworld the film creates? (social, economic, ethical)
Assignment: Eng 11: Review quarter final exam Date:Thu, Jan 18, 2007
English10 CompositionReview final exams
Assignment: Eng 10 Comp To Kill a Mockingbird Date:Thu, Jan 18, 2007
English 10 Speech & MediaIn class: Watch video
Homework reading: to page 254
Assignment: Eng 10: Media: Analyzing television Date:Wed, Jan 17, 2007
English10 CompositionWatch Waltons: episode
Take notes on various characters:
What do they desire?
What problems do they face?
What virtues do they display?List 4 adjectives to describe the characters that hold the following roles
father
mother
boys
girls
neighbors or outsidersӔWhat are the rules of the storyworld the film creates? (social, economic, ethical)
Assignment: Eng 10: To Kill a Mockingbird Date:Wed, Jan 17, 2007
English11 American LitHomework: Read to page 237
Assignment: English 11: Final Exam Date:Wed, Jan 17, 2007
English 10 Speech & MediaThe final exam for the quarter will be a timed essay on a topic dealing with American Romanticism, and dealing with Longfellow, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe and Melville.
Assignment: Eng 10: Media: Complete draft of essay Date:Tue, Jan 16, 2007
English11 American LitFinished draft of Pride and Prejudice essay due by end of period
Assignment: English 11: Strategies for timed writings Date:Tue, Jan 16, 2007
Effective paragraphs: Unity, development, coherence
Correctness: Sentence fragments, run-on sentences, capitalization