Good MOrning!

Objective:  The students will complete a simple yet complex poem by Gwen Brooks.

1.  Sample Annotated Bibliography page for research project.  If you were out yesterday due to giving blood please get the project packet for the book that you choose.  Join a group.

2.  New poem:  "kitchenette building"

3.  Poetry Packet 1 due tomorrow.  70 points.

If I don't see you tomorrow... I am THANKFUL for you all!  You are all a great group of kids.  Have a great holiday.  Give hugs to your family... eat... drink (non-alcohol) ... and READ!

 

Objective:  The students will discuss "Mirror" and pick groups and project topics after intro to both novels.

1.  AP Test Registration Info Sheet.

2.  "Mirror" TTSTCANDI

3.  Handmaid's Tale Intro:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TCCL8jGIfZ1jSeuSzGB1SdBS5DXrNkGi/view?usp=sharing

4.  Frankenstein Intro:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qeJIGl_oOi7qJgKSir2hFqV6jyMS-8TPrtNxcacV6bg/edit#slide=id.p7

5.  Groups and Topics

Handmaid's or Frankenstein

Objective:  The students will TTSTCANDI a poem by Sylvia Plath.

1.  I need to make copies of the project packets, so please indicate on the board which novel you have chosen to read and research.

2.  Perrine's Poetry Chapter 2 Discussion

3.  "Mirror" analysis.  Complete a close read of the poem and a TTSTCANDI on your own separate paper.

Objective:  The students will discuss their poem analysis.

1.  Get out "Out, out."

2.  Read it again with the speaker:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQBdxu9t-zs

3.  Discuss the elements of the poem that you saw.  Add details as we cover over it.

4.  Complete Perrine's Poetry Chapter 2 "Reading the Poem"

Have your book, either Handmaid's Tale or Frankenstein by Tuesday.

Crappy way to start the day.

Objective:  The students will discuss their first poem.

1.  Allusion Notes:  Macbeth

2.  Perrine's Poetry Chapter 1 Discussion

3.  "Out, Out" TTSTCANDI

Have you bought your book yet?  Monday we start.

Now for some peace while watching TV.... Election Day is over!

Objective:  The students will complete a chapter reading and outline.

1.  Make sure tone and lit terms are complete from Poetry 1 Unit.

2.  Complete Perrine's Poetry Chapter 1 Reading and Outline.  Due tomorrow.

Last Two Presentations

Objective:  The students will complete the last two presentations and begin the first poetry unit.

1.  Prentations

2.  Perrine's Poetry Unit:  Complete Tone and lit terms today.

I have been pretty impressed with most of your presentations.  I think that most of you have learned quite a bit in 12 weeks.  Keep moving forward.

Time to buy your book!

Objective:  The students will present their Hemingway stories.

1.  You need to have your book by next Monday.  Frankenstein is available in the library.  Handmaid's Tale is available on Amazon.  If you close read the book you will not have to do dialectic journals which is part of your project.

2.  Hemingway Presentations

Presentations Take Two

Objective:  To not piss Mr. Warren off.

OK let's try this again...

Presentations.  All listeners will take notes on each story.  If I see a phone looked at during a presentation, your GROUP loses 20 percent of your grade.  Is this legal?  YES.  That's participation points.  Don't try me.

Presentations and Packets

Objective:  The students will present their Nick Adams' story and turn in Prose 2 Packets.

Progress Reports are due already!!! 

1.  Turn in Prose 2 Packet:  There should be 10 things.  In order.  With cover sheet on top.

2.  Presentations.  All listeners will take notes on each story.  If I see a phone looked at during a presentation, your GROUP loses 20 percent of your grade.  Is this legal?  YES.  That's participation points.  Don't try me.

Grendel Essays Graded.... I was kinda happy.

Objective:  The students will complete the last TTSTCANDI of a Hemingway story for Prose Packet 2 complettion.

1.  Essays:  There were some bright spots.  And there were come that just frustrated me....  Like I have been talking to myself for the last 10 weeks.  Here is what I saw:
    a) Many of you still are writing EPIC intros.  How long should it be?  What should be in the most important part on a Q3 when the prompt asks, ""the meaning of the work as a whole"?
    b) How do we punctuate a title correctly?  You must know this.  It just makes you look bad in the first sentence of the essay.
    c)  Read the prompt.  What does it repeat?  If it repeats something (three times) you better focus on that!  Mention it several times in the paper.
    d)  STOP slapping in quotes.  Man I hate that.
    e)  Some of you wrote about how the author used devices.  This prompt didn't ask for that.  Your paragraphs should not have been limited to TTSTCANDI analysis.
    f)  Some of you have made it this far in High School on BS.  You are a good writer, so you think BS will be enough to pass.  But if you don't know the book, your essay grade will reflect your BS.

2.  Complete the last TTSTCANDI for Prose Packet 2.  "Three Day Blow"  The whole packet is due on Thursday.

3.  Tomorrow and Wednesday you will work on Hemingway Presentations.  They start Thursday.

Happy Friday

Objective:  Students will pick their Nick Adam's Story to present to the class.

1.  MC Practice:

2.  Project Discussion

Here is the link:

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GhGkKHgKN0ELOuSwpSYBiXNSjCU3hoyw/view?usp=sharing

3.  Pick story and get into groups to work.

4.  Albert.io sign up.  Come to the front computer and enter your email address to get the "Invitation" email to create your place in the "class."

Monday we will read the last story in Prose 2 Packet.

Softball game last night... I was steller! :)

Objective:  The students will read a Nick Adams story and analyze it using TTSTCANDI.

No MC Thursday today.  I forgot to do my homework.  We will do it tomorrow.

I have Letters of Rec to do, so work quietly and let me write nice things.

1.  Discuss "The Cat in the Rain" with a partner. 

2.  Read and TTSTCANDI "The End of Something"

Tomorrow MC Practice and Group Work

Cool Little Story...

Objective:  The students will discuss their analysis of Hills Like White Elephants.

1.  Discuss Hills Like White Elephants

2.  Complete your TTSTCANDI for Cat in the Rain.  This is due tomorrow.

Let's Not Talk About It!

Objective:  The students will read and analyze one of the simplest, yet complex stories by Hemingway.

1.  Close Read "Hills Like White Elephants"

2.  Complete a TTSTCANDI with a partner.  Discuss things you see and the overall meaning of the story.

3.  Look closely at the characters.  How does the American fit a typical male character in a Hemingway story (yesterday's notes).