Monday, 2/24/2020 |
Tuesday, 2/25/2020 |
Wednesday, 2/26/2020 |
Thursday, 2/27/2020 |
Friday, 2/28/2020 |
Creative Writing: Muse Tuesday: Conrad Wednesday: Chase Thursday: Malin Friday: Izzy Open-Ended Assignment - first draft is due next FRIDAY Last few days of the blog assignment: Woohoo! The Blog Assignment Blog Link Sheet- Sign up, Please |
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Honors English: 20 minutes study and figure out "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" - Dylan Thomas Don't study the other two poems on this handout as it will blow your mind. Spend another 10 minutes looking at what you don't understand and preparing questions for me. Woohoo! ORB time - Don't forget your outside reading book. Poetry Final Quest shall be next week! |
Tuesday, 2/18/2020 |
Wednesday, 2/19/2020 |
Thursday, 2/20/2020 |
Friday, 2/21/2020 |
Creative Writing: Carry on with your blog assignment. The Blog Assignment Blog Link Sheet- Sign up, Please Consider your larger project-- the first draft will be due next Friday. You will have a free period tomorrow to work. |
Creative Writing: Open-Ended Assignment - first draft is due next FRIDAY Carry on with your blog assignment. The Blog Assignment Blog Link Sheet- Sign up, Please |
Creative Writing: Muse Project starts Monday. Here our the fearless leaders for next week: Monday: August Tuesday: Conrad Wednesday: Chase Thursday: Malin Friday: Izzy Open-Ended Assignment - first draft is due next FRIDAY Carry on with your blog assignment. The Blog Assignment Blog Link Sheet- Sign up, Please |
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Honors English: Study your handouts, notes and term for 20 minutes. |
Honors English: WOTD Organize your notebook. Study your handouts, notes for 20 minutes. Bring in a sharpie and a sheet of writing that inspires you for our Black Out Poetry Project. Bands will perform on Friday! |
Honors English: WOTD We discussed "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning in class today. Organize your notebook. Study your handouts, notes for 20 minutes. Bring in a sharpie and a sheet of writing that inspires you for our Black Out Poetry Project. Bands will perform on Friday! |
Honors English: Band break up on Monday. New families will be forming! Bring in your Outside reading book. One more week of poetic forms then our Final Poetry Quest and Iron Poet Competition. |
Monday, 2/10/2020 |
Tuesday, 2/11/2020 |
Wednesday, 2/12/2020 |
Thursday, 2/13/2020 |
Creative Writing: This is a writing conference at CCA. It is excellent. Woohoo! Click here to sign up. Your Blog assignment should start NEXT TUESDAY. Tuesday to the following Monday. Lying - Here is a link to a sample memoir that might inspire this morn. Your FINAL VERSION of your biographical vignettes will be due THIS THURSDAY FYI: Here is the rubric for our vignette assignment Bring in a signed syllabus as well. |
Creative Writing: Our Google Classroom Code is: 44h2vcq Read for inspiration: "A Four Week Experiment That Will Change Your LIfe" (HuffPost) Read for inspiration as well: "Lifestyle Experiments" Or read: "30 Examples of 30 Day Challenges that will Change Your Life" The Blog Assignment Blog Link Sheet- Sign up, Please Your FINAL VERSION of your biographical vignettes will be due THIS THURSDAY FYI: Here is the rubric for our vignette assignment |
Creative Writing: The biographical Vignettes (500 word or a bit more each with one thread of connection) are due tomorrow. PRINT THEM OUT BEFORE CLASS, UNLESS YOUR NAME IS CONRAD. FYI: Here is the rubric for our vignette assignment |
Creative Writing: Biographical vignettes are DUE in class. Here's a sample blog idea and post for you. How to create a blog in Weebly How to create a blog in Wordpress the Blog assignment should start this upcoming TUESDAY! Woohoo! The Blog Assignment Blog Link Sheet- Sign up, Please |
Honors English: In class: Satire in "Barbie Doll" and "A Work of Artifice" by Marge Piercy. HW: Woohoo! Your memory poem is due tomorrow. Remember the layers: Final version on top with three older versions below. All stapled and printed BEFORE class. |
Honors English: Memory Poems are due in class today. Tonight you need to analyze Robert Frost's "Design" Human or Machine? Who wrote these sonnets? |
Honors English: Work with your tribe to make the perfect sonnet about a couch. Remember that I care about the form and the meter. You will have 30 minutes to finalize your high art and then perform it before the adoring crowd. |
Honors English: Revise and tweak your sonnet so that you have ONE clean print out by next TUESDAY. You will have 15 minutes in class to label it to perfection with your group. Poetry Quest on Tuesday. Don't prepare. Just be here with your notes. Dramatic readings will follow. |
Monday, 2/3/2020 |
Tuesday, 2/4/2020 |
Wednesday, 2/5/2020 |
Thursday, 2/6/2020 |
Friday, 2/7/2020 |
Creative Writing: Biographical Vignette: Draft 1 & a Signed Syllabus. Don't forget to print your draft 1 of the biographical vignette. |
Creative Writing: With a partner or trio Peer Editing Day 1 Bird by Bird -Anne Lamott HW: Make a real draft, edit or make a second memory. Same criteria as the first: Biographical Vignette:ory |
Creative Writing: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Do you know who you write like? HW: 1. Edit, revise, tweak, your first vignette. Consider structure, beginnings, and endings. 2. Think about your blog assignment. Have an idea festival. Your FINAL VERSION of your biographical vignettes will be due next THURSDAY (a week from tomorrow). FYI: Here is the rubric for our vignette assignment |
Creative Writing: BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT! Bring in a copy of your second vignette! Take inspiration from our prompts today. Your FINAL VERSION of your biographical vignettes will be due next THURSDAY (a week from tomorrow). FYI: Here is the rubric for our vignette assignment Bring in a signed syllabus as well. |
Creative Writing: Click here to sample Dave Egger's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Your FINAL VERSION of your biographical vignettes will be due next THURSDAY (a week from tomorrow). FYI: Here is the rubric for our vignette assignment Bring in a signed syllabus as well. |
Honors English 1. Revise and push your memory poem into a very specific NEW direction. NOTES from class. We also read and got inspired by Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" Play with the strong "c" sound like Hayden or the temperature. 2, Print & sign the syllabus too! 3. Don't forget a reading book. |
Honors English: WOTD Let your poems lie fallow for the night. Band practice tomorrow. Bring your A game. Rest. Spend time with your family. Bring in your outside reading book. |
Honors English: WOTD Revise for VERSION 3 of your memory poem. Take it in another direction. Bring your print out to class by Friday! Back to school night is tomorrow! |
Honors English: Print out a THIRD version of your poem that is pushed in a distinct direction. Bring a print out to class tomorrow. Bring in a signed syllabus as well. |
Honors English Today we learned about satire in poetry. Woohoo! Analyze "A Work of Artiface" DUE TUESDAY! TWEAK, adjust and fine tune your FINAL VERSION. On your final copy, label everything you have included in your piece: sound devices, metaphor, simile, assonance, consonance, alliteration, symbol, enjambment, caesura, etc. Yes, it should be in MLA format. Turn in all three versions UNDERNEATH your final version. I want to see your progress. We will have a read out or share out on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Bring in a signed syllabus as well. |
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Monday, 1/27/2020 |
Tuesday, 1/28/2020 |
Wednesday, 1/29/2020 |
Thursday, 1/30/2020 |
Friday, 1/31/2020 |
NO SCHOOL |
NO SCHOOL |
Creative Writing: Write about why you are here in this class. Bring in a journal that brings you joy. Bring in a book that is fun for you to read. |
Creative Writing: Don't forget to bring a journal that brings you joy. Bring in a book and a pen/pencil as well. HW: Finish one to two pages of dialogue between TWO of the characters you created today from our pareidolia experiment. (Click here to access the ppt) AND bring in an object or picture from your childhood that inspires memories. |
Creative Writing: HW: Eavesdrop on a few conversations this weekend. Listen to how people really talk. What is left out? Print & sign the class syllabus. It is linked below. Classwork: Consider your dialogue: ttps://jerryjenkins.com/how-to-write-dialogue/ |
NO SCHOOL |
NO SCHOOL |
Honors English: WOTD: peruse, copious, abundant. How to Take Efficient & Neat Notes (watch this video and take notes) - that's funny. Look up 5 facts about Plato that are worth remembering. Yes, add to your notes from today. |
Honors English: Read and take notes on the two poems by Rita Dove. Mark up the text. Try to figure out what is happening in EACH stanza. Do not spend more than 30 minutes on these poems. Be efficient with your time. WOTD List is HERE |
Honors English: WOTD List is HERE Memory Poem Assignment - Bring in one printed draft of your memory Don't forget your ORB book (the book you want to read for fun),. HERE IS THE TPCASTT method from class. |