Day 117

Objective:  The students will complete another MC Practice and poem analysis.

1.  Stamp and discuss "What Lips..."

2.  MC Practice:  On your computer:  MC Practice Number 3 on College Board.

3.  "Judged by my goddess..." analysis.

Day 116

Objective:  The students will practice a Q1 Prompt.

1.  Get out your computer and write 1/2 an essay for the following:  You have 20 minutes to submit.

In W.B. Yeats' poem, "When You Are Old," the speaker reflects on the passage of time and the nature of love.  In a clear and thoughtful essay, discuss how Yeats uses literary devices such as imagery, tone and structure to convey the speaker's emotional journey to express the poet's purpose.

2.  Analyze "What lips my lips have kissed..." for discussion and writing.

 

Day 115

Objective:  The students will go over outlines and analyze a new poem.

1.  Get out your outlines for stamps.  No unstamped work will be in this last packet.

2.  Discuss my slide shows of these chapters.

3.   Analyze:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEHjBPS21A8

William Butler Yeats, “When You are Old” (this one sounds depressing!):  Due tomorrow.

Day 114

Objective:  The students will know the musical devices used in Poetry.

1.  Get the new cover sheet for our last Poetry Unit III.

2.  Get the Perrine's Book.  

3.  On TWO separate papers, outline both chapters so that we can be ready to read a poem on Monday and finish our poetry units.  (We are a week behind Herrera's class)

Yes, you many have some homework!  Get it done for stamps on Tuesday.  Have a fun 4 days off.

Day 113

Objective:  The students will complete their last MC Practice for Extra Credit of the year.

If I haven't introduced our CBU Guests yet...  Mr. Posey and Ms. Heavenlee will be here for about 50 hours observing and working with you.  Make them happy that they are going into teaching!

1.  Get the new improved unit cover sheet.

2.  Go over Echoing Green and Garden of Love

3.  "Spring" Group MC Practice

4.  Turn in completed packet for points. 

Yesterday's Quiz:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/194ulloKMiQuqCHLkG835ciy0GR7xJ8x4x8XR70bANjs/edit?usp=sharing

Day 112

Objective:  The students will practice identifying poetic devices.

Introduction:  Our second visitor from CBU is here today to start her 30 hours of observation.  Her name is Ms. Heavenlee and she is here to see my best class in action.

1.  Poetic Devices Review.  Get a blank paper out and number 1-16.

2.  Complete yesterday's poem analysis and put together your packet.

Day 111

Objective:  The students will analyze two poems.

1.  You have two poems left to finish the packet.  You have two days to analyze them.  You will write an intro paragraph for both, I just have to write the prompt for "The Garden of Love."

2.  Packet due on Wednesday.

Daty 110

Objective:  The students will complete their first digital MC Practice.

Introduce:  Mr. Davis Posey:  CBU Graduate Student working on his teaching credential.  He will be here on Wednesdays and Fridays for about 50 hours observing you all.  Make him feel welcome and not regret his career choice!

1.  Get out "Perfectly Poised" and go over line by line analysis.

2.  Get out your computer and complete the MC Practice that I made for you on College Board.  This is worth 10 points to your grade. 

3.  Enjoy the Super Bowl with your family and friends (or at work at Buffalo Wild Wings).

Day 109

Objective:  The students will analyze a really cool poem.

Today I have to teach myself the new digital AP Multiple Choice part of the test so that I can assign some "tests" for you to get practice.

Tomorrow:  Bring Charged Computers.  You will take an MC Practice for real points on the computer.

1.   Notes:  Sonnets

2.  "Perfectly Poised" analysis.  This is a good poem, but tricky!

3.  Make sure that you can log on to College Board and are part of my AP class.

Day 108

Objective:  The students will know all literary terms for a quiz tomorrow.

Today I will give you a day off from analyzing a poem.

1.  Complete the Lit Terms from cover sheet. 

2.  You do not have to do the MC Terms.

3.  Make sure that you have everything done on cover sheet that we have covered so far.

Day 107

Objective:  The students will analyze a poem and then do a group MC Practice.

Get out "Mad Girl..."  Discuss...

1.  "One Time, One Night" analysis and discussion

2.  MC Practice:  "The Female Philosopher":  Last one before Friday we have one for points.

Day 106

 Objective:  The students will analyze another Plath poem.

 Today is ASB Election Day,  I would appreciate it if you would help me with letting the students vote during second period this morning.  

To vote please put this information on your board or google classroom.  They will need to login to mlk/voting4schools.com

Their ID is their login and their birthday is their password.  Their birthday will not have any zero in the password.

Congrats Honors Band Members:

 

1.  Write and intro paragraph for the following:

Li-Young Lee's poem, "The Weight of Sweetness, explores the complex relationship between pleasure and loss.  Explain how Lee uses literary devices to deepen his overall purpose.

2.  Go over your analysis.

3.  Analyze "Mad Girl's Love Song."

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tbbeJV0RaQoPRSBSpToWr1UwPVjqhU7N/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118430206095467405140&rtpof=true&sd=true

Day 105

Objective:  The students will analyze a new poem.

 1.  Get out "She Dwelt..." and discuss your analysis and what you would write about.  

2.  Analyze "The Weight of Sweetness" using your checklist.

Emotional Reading of poem by ex-student:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uSeqMpXhr4

Link below of the poem for all of you who decided to take today off:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ZhGGUzKJVsFhlveAGZVhrzCkoGP4uA58wetgr3wkCc/edit?usp=sharing

Day 104

Objective:  The students will analyze a great poem by Wordsworth.

1.  Get out two chapter outlines and tone terms for stamps.

2.  Go over my Chapter PPs.

3.  Analyze "She Dwelt...."

Ibrahim:  Hope your surgery went well.  Keep it clean...  you don't want an infection like I had after my knee replacement!

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k_q5lYpHdavA2HTypLCWyYUU_JKoA4hqufDkdLG9_B0/edit?usp=sharing

Be prepared to write on it in depth tomorrow.

Day 103

Objective:  The students will discuss figurative language.

1.  Get out the outline for stamp and discussion.

2.  Go over my chapter PP.

3.  Outline the next chapter and complete Tone Terms.

4.  Tomorrow stamp for the outline and terms.

Day 102

Objective:  The students will discuss imagery and figurative language.

1.  Get out the outlines for stamp and discussion.

2.  Go over my chapter PPs.

3.  Outline the next chapter.

4.  Tomorrow we will do the last one and the tone terms.

Day 101

Objective:  The students will begin Perrine's Poetry Unit 2.

1.  New Unit Cover Sheet:  Ibrahim, here is the link for you:  Hope your surgery goes well!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YYxcc-YWzhxFNT6LVLESVtMC6V5A3UtX/view?usp=sharing

2.  Complete outlines for the first two chapters.  Do them on separate sheets of paper.

Due tomorrow.

Day 100

Objective:  The students will complete and intro and one body paragraph for a Q1 Essay

Day 100 (by my count):  While other teachers sometimes complain about their students when we go out and socialize, I just smile because I am lucky to have all of you great kids in my class.  

1.  Q1 Prompt:  "The Man with the Saxophone"

Open up document in GC.  Break down the prompt and write intro and one body.

Print and add it to the Poetry 1 Packet.

Perrine’s Study Guide:  P o e t r y  1 (Warren from Herrera)

Q1 Prompt Practice:  Man with the Saxophone due: __________________

Chapter 1: What is Poetry, pp. 717-725 due: _________________
Chapter 2: Reading the Poem, pp. 737-747 due: _________________

Poems:
“Out, Out,- - -” by Robert Frost, Handout due____________________
“Mirror” by Sylvia Plath, Handout due ________________
“Kitchenette Building” by Gwendolyn Brooks, Handout due____________________

Tone Terms:
Blunt     Cynical      Desolate      Enraged       Fervent       Pithy
Sardonic      Solemn       Vitriolic       Wistful

Literary Terms:
Imagery        Metaphor        Symbol          Paradox         Irony         Allusion
Repetition             Rhythm            Pattern              Paraphrase           Enjambment
Inverted Syntax      Juxtaposition

Multiple Choice Terms:  I will add these as we go:

Idiosyncratic

Winnowing

Surcease

 

MC Practice:

To Autumn

The Frog

 

Allusions

Macbeth

Narcissus

 

Day 99

Objective:  The students will complete a MC Practice.

1.  Write an intro paragraph for the following Q1 Prompt:\

In a clear and thoughtful essay, discuss how Gwendolyn Brooks uses literary devices to convey themes about aspiration and survival.  How do the speaker's reflections on dreams reveal the poet's purpose?

2.  Go over your poem analysis.

3.  MC Practice:  The Frog

Day 98

Objective:  The students will analyze another poem.

Note:  Yesterday I saw three students using the internet for analysis of the poem.  As I have said before, I don't care what the internet says, I only care what you think (right or wrong).  As long as you try.  I don't want to see any more of this... it will not be pleasant if I do.

1.  Get out "Mirror" and write an intro paragraph for the following prompt:

In Sylvia Plath's poem "Mirror," the speaker reflects on identity, self-perception and the passage of time.  Analyze how the poet uses literature devices such as tone, imagery and structure to contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole.

2.  Go over what you found in the poem with me.

3.  Analyze ""kitchenette building."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yQ7hOjX9v0

 

Day 97

Objective:  The students will analyze their second poem:  "Mirror."

1.  Allusion Notes:  Narcissus and Echo

2.  Listen to the poem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZht4WMoMo

3.  Use your How to Analyze Poetry Checklist to analyze the poem:

 

Allusion Notes:  Greek Mythology:  Narcissus and Echo

·       Narcissus was a gorgeous male who admired himself enormously.

·       Echo loved him, but he ignored her.

·       Eventually she was cursed with not being able to voice her own thoughts but only repeat what others had said.

·       This bothered Narcissus and he taunted her because of it.

·       She eventually wasted away, with only her voice, repeating the words of others, remaining.

·       Narcissus became so enamored with himself that one day he admired his reflection in a pond.

·       He became stuck there, staring at his beauty.

·       He was stuck there so long that he became a flower that grows there.