Assignment: Eng10: Write a narrative of personal experience Date:Mon, Feb 05, 2007
English11 American LitFinish “Mrs. Kelly’s Monster”
Open your biology learning logs on your desk. Those who have them do the viewing and representingӔ activity on page 15. The rest of you write in your journal.
Discuss the writing process. Do the assignment on page 28: Write about an experience that changed your life.
When you are finished: do the self-evaluation on page 31.
After that, proofread using the checklist on page 31.Rubric:
1. Is there a clear account of the details of the incident?
2. Is there an indication of the changes that resulted from the incident?
3. Is there a description of the writer’s feelings?
4. Do you get a sense of the writer as a person, including a personal tone?
5. Do details about the characters and setting make the incident clear and orient readers?
6. Does the writing clearly indicate what the writer learned and what others might learn?
Assignment: Eng11: Emily Dickinson, 5 Date:Fri, Feb 02, 2007
English10 CompositionRead p. 394 (10 minutes)
Discuss: How are feelings and comments in the letters echoed in the poems?
Journal: Write one paragraph in response to one of the “Shaping Interpretations” questions on page 295.
Assignment: Eng10: The Writing Process Date:Fri, Feb 02, 2007
English11 American LitFocusing prompt: Write three sentences about an experience that changed your life.
Discussion: Review your sentences to be sure you have no double negatives p. 27
Read p. 28 -31 (10 minutes)
Discuss the writing process. Do the assignment on page 28.
When you are finished: do the self-evaluation on page 31.
After that, proofread using the checklist on page 31.Rubric:
1. Is there a clear account of the details of the incident?
2. Is there are indication of the changes that resulted from the incident?
3. Is there a description of the writer’s feelings?
4. Do you get a sense of the writer as a person, including a personal tone?
5. Do details about the characters and setting make the incident clear and orient readers?
6. Does the writing clearly indicate what the writer learned and what others might learn?Remember to bring your biology learning logs to class on Monday.
Assignment: Eng11: Emily Dickinson, 4 Date:Thu, Feb 01, 2007
English10 CompositionReview personification.
Read “Because I could not stop for death” (391)
“I heard a Fly buzz--when I died” (392) Discuss alliteration
“I died for Beauty--but was scarce” (393)In your journal, complete a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting “I died for Beauty” with Keats ”Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Include themes, images, and toneAn interpretation of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Assignment: Eng10: Reader-response journals Date:Thu, Feb 01, 2007
Focus prompt: List the creative ways you respond to what you read.
Discuss writing: Proofread your writing to be sure there are no sentence fragments.
Discussion: Have you ever had a strong reaction to a story or poem you’ve read? Positive or negative? A reader-response journal gives you a chance to talk back and express your feelings about a work, often making discoveries as you write.
Read: P. 20 - 22 (10 minutes)
Note questions to consider on page 22.
Review sentence fragments, page 23.
Writing: Write a journal entry responding to a piece of literature you have read lately. You can do this in the form of a letter to the author. We’ll read some of these tomorrow.