I doesn’t understand, why people think they can skip school and get a way with it. Misplaced comma Verb usage a way= away.

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Rules:

I doesn’t understand, why people think they can skip school and get a way with it.

Misplaced comma

Verb usage

a way= away

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I cant wait untill school gets out for the summer, I will be at the pool everyday.

Rules:

- Apostrophe- Spelling- Run-on sentence

May 3, 2010objectives: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2

1. MUG shots2. Journal 13. Journal 2

1. I have not graded the journals yet, so start a new section and then place them in a pile again for me to grade

4. With a partner, work on your handouts for FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

5. Complete exercise one in your vocabulary books and I will check tomorrow

MUG shotsRead a poemJournalFinish TPCASTT poems

May 4, 2010objectives: 1.1, 1.3. 2.1, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2

“Poetry has two outstanding characteristics. One is that it is indefinable. The other is that it is

eventually unmistakable,” - Arlington Robinson

“Untitled”…the world of poetry…

MUG shotsBy a 1924 act of Congress all Native

Americans received his United States citizenship.

Rules:

Pronoun-Antecendent agreement, comma to separate clauses and phrases

MUG shotsFood for Thought discussionJournal 4Check vocabulary exercises 1-3Check figurative language worksheetNotes

Figurative languageEOC poetry…that rhymes and it has a little rhythm…just

sayingGo over TPCASTT

“The Road Not Taken”“maggie and milly and molly and may”“Blackberry Eating”

May 5, 2010 objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2

Find an important word or line in the following poem by Stephen Crane.

Write it down in your journalReason for your choice

One/two statement reactionWe are going to discuss this as a class and

whyTake notes

Food for thought

War is KindStephen Crane Do not weep, maiden, for war

is kind,Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyAnd the affrighted steed ran on alone,Do not weep.War is kind.

Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment,Little souls who thirst for fight,These men were born to drill and die.The unexplained glory flies above them.Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom--A field where a thousand corpses lie.

Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.Because your father tumbles in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep.War is kind.

Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

Mother whose heart hung humble as a buttonOn the bright splendid shroud of your son,Do not weep.War is kind!

Home is behind, the world ahead.And there are many paths to treadThrough shadows to the edge of night,Until the stars are all alight.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Describe this pastel portrait of a “Woman Combing her Hair” by Edgar Degas as if you were hanging out with someone who was blind. (at least 5 sentences)

Rhythm:

Roses are red/violets are blue/sugar is sweet/and so are you.

Rhyme:

I went to the zoo/ Tommy went too/ I felt rather blue/ ‘cuz I didn’t see you

Alliteration:

Sad, sad sally sits by the seashore

Stanza:

How much wood/ would a woodchuck chuck/ if a woodchuck could chuck wood

A woodchuck would chuck wood/ as much as a woodchuck could/ if a woodchuck could chuck wood

(T) TITLE: Examine the title before reading the poem. Consider connotations. (P) PARAPHRASE: Translate the poem into your own words (literal/denotation). Resist the urge to jump into interpretation! Not understanding what happens literally inevitably leads to an interpretive misunderstanding. (C) CONNOTATION: Examine to poem for meaning beyond the literal. Focus on how the poetic devices contribute to the meaning or the effect of the poem. Look for:·        Figurative Language·        Symbolism·        Irony·        Allusions·        Effect of Sound Devices

(A) ATTITUDE: Tone- Examine the speaker’s attitudes. Remember, don’t confuse the poet with the speaker! Look for:

·        Speaker’s attitude towards self, other characters, the subject

(S) SHIFTS: Note any shifts in speaker and attitude

·        Occasion of the poem (time and place)

·        Key words (but, yet)

·        Punctuation (dashes, periods, colons, etc.)

·        Stanza divisions

·        Changes in line or stanza length

·        Effect of structure on meaning

(T) TITLE: Examine the title again, this time on an interpretive level.

(T) THEME: First, list what the poem is about, or, its subject or subjects. Then, determine what the poet is saying about that subject or subjects. This is the THEME. It is a general statement about life, not about the characters or speaker within the poem. IT IS WRITTEN AS A COMPLETE SENTENCE.

“The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, T:And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth. P:

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing there C:Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day! A:Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh S:Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, T:And that has made all the difference

I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched, many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry -- eating in late September.

Martin Luther King Jr was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1964.

Rules:

Comma, period, capitalization

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MUG shotsJournalCheck vocabulary homework exercise 5Finish TPCASTTDo your own TPCASTTMini-lesson: concrete poetry

Go over poetryShare poem from Monday

May 6, 2010objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2

WordsShaun Corleyyou say that I’m in love with your wordsthe hundreds of thousand have down are a

gateway to the millions more in your headswirling and fighting tooth and nail for the

right to be expressed“I have too many readers” you sayand when I read that kaleidoscopic swirling

incandescentmass of life hope longing sadness desire lust

loveI almost have to wonder why you don’t have

more.

Ernst, MaxBlind Swimmer (Effect of a Touch)1934Oil on canvas

What does this say to you? What is appealing about this painting?(at least 5 sentences)

Nature's first green is goldHer hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.

Concrete Poetryimportant in conveying the intended effect as

the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme

Also known as shape poetry or visual poetry

“l(a” By e.e. cummingsIl(aleaffa lls)onel iness

Concrete PoetryYou have the rest of the period to create a

concrete poem. You may use the magazines, construction paper, markers, crayons, etc. Get to work and make it good!

The first Nuclear reaction was triggered at the University of Chicago on December 2 nineteen forty-two.

Rules:

Commas for dates, capitalization, numbers

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MUG shotsPoem readingBrassai JournalTPCASTT own poem by Robert FrostJournal II for the dayMini-lesson: Found Poetry

What is found poetry?

May 7, 2010objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2

Stained GlassMike Vance

I see others in pain,

But I do nothing. For I am only concerned with image.

How will I be remembered?

It doesn’t matter really.

No one knows of me now.

I cannot take it for what it is.

I must make everything

Greater than its reality.

My fantasy of this large epic

Of which I am the hero.

But past the disillusionsAnd the gilded memories.All that exists is a tattered tapestryOf mistakes.Images of regret and selfishness.But I must live with it.The cross I createdIs mine alone to carry.One day I will learn.One day, I will be everything I believe I am.

One statement to Describe this photographBy Brassai

She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when the sunny summer

breeze Has dried the dew and all its ropes

relent, So that in guys it gently sways at ease, And its supporting central cedar pole, That is its pinnacle to heavenward And signifies the sureness of the soul, Seems to owe naught to any single

cord, But strictly held by none, is loosely

bound By countless silken ties of love and

thought To everything on earth the compass

round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware

How do you think Athens, Greece influenced this oil painting by Giorgio de’ Chirico? This is part of the Cubist Movement. He painted this after returning home from WW I. (at least 5 sentences)

Found PoetryLiterally anything you find in anything and

anywhereThe only rule is that you are NOT allowed to

add any words to what you find. You can, however, take out words and shift

around.

The Trek –Andrew TillmanBorge Ousland did what n one else had done

He skied to the North Pole by HimselfAnd

He skied to the South Pole by himself without anyAssistance

Then he tried to go across The White Wilderness theSaemway

But, alas, he failed.“No

matter”Says he.He says,

“Skiing alone for so long gives you a different Perspective

onLife, you

Really understand what a small piece you are inNature’s Greatness,”

His son painted his skis various colors so Ousland hadSomething

To Concentrate onWhile crossing a

White Wilderness.

Create a found poem from any word in this room, any picture in a magazine describing this class…room…subject…

You have the rest of the period. Go.

Found Poetry

During world war II, Pres. Roosevelt ordered 120,000 japanese americans locked up in internment camps in the U.S.

Rules:

Abbreviations and capitalization

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MUG shotsReading poemJournalTPCASTT poem

“Money” C.K. WilliamsMini-lesson: found poetry

Visual collage

May 10, 2010objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2

14Kate St. John

For tasting lipsWould be too muchFor now we just walk aroundTown in wonder.Naive mindsTurned towardsWindow displayed mannequins,Standing in silenceAs we grow older.Taking our time,Especially in the summerWhen our skin turned brownAnd all the boys turned their heads.

The Angel Standing in the Sun, 1846William Turner

This painting shows the Archangel Michael appearing on the Day of Judgment with his flaming sword. In the foreground are Old Testament scenes of murder and betrayal: Adam and Eve weeps over the body of Abel (left), and Judith stands over the headless body of Holofernes (right).

With this painting, create a found poem using words from the magazines on the table. You have 15 minutes.

Journal

Write a reaction to this poem after we read it and listen to it.

http://www.slate.com/id/2116754/

In groups, create a visual collage for the poem.

You have 15 minutes.

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How could the second doctor have knew what the 1st doctor prescribed if the patient did not tell him or her

Rules:

Verb usageSpell out numbers (first)End punctuation

Harlem HopscotchMaya Angelou

One foot down, then hop! It’s hot.Good things for the ones that’s got.

another jump, now to the left.Everybody for hisself.

In the air, now both feet down.Since you black, don’t stick around.

Food is gone, the rent is due,Curse and cry and then jump two.

All the people out of work,Hold for three, then twist and jerk.Cross the lone, they county you out.

That’s what hopping’s all about.Both feet flat, the game is done.They think I lost. I think I won.

Free VerseWhat is a free verse poem anyway?

Free verse (is just what it says it is)- poetry that is written without proper rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, meter, etc.

Fact: The greatest American writer of free verse is probably Walt Whitman. His great collection of free verse was titled Leaves of Grass and it was published in 1855.

In free verse the writer makes his/her own rules. The writer decides how the poem should look, feel, and sound.

Winter PoemNikki Giovanni once a snowflake fellon my brow and i lovedit so much and i kissedit and it was happy and called its cousinsand brothers and a webof snow engulfed me theni reached to love them alland i squeezed them and they becamea spring rain and i stood perfectlystill and was a flower

Journal

Describe your favorite season in a free poem.

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The girl’s eaten the cupcakes in the classroom they are good.

Apostrophe

Verb usage

fragment

Dusty and Chris came to the essay exam without __________ dictionaries. The disapproving look of Mrs. Mauzy, their teacher, haunted them for the entire test.

My dog Oreo loves to chase things, especially the lizards sunning themselves on the sidewalk; __________ not as dangerous as the two family cats who will stand their ground and swipe her with sharp claws.

Despite the complaints from his girlfriend Gloria, Frank continues to wear his old, dirty, smelly sneakers because __________ the most comfortable shoes that he owns.

Dallas and Kelly crammed until 4 a.m. for their final exam in accounting; __________ hoping for As on the test to bump their wretched averages up to Cs

They’re, their, there

On the following slide, describe “Green Wheatfield with Cypress” by Vincent van Gogh in a free verse poem

FishingAndrew DooleyI wrangle my prey to the surfaceGrilled victim raised from the waterTo flop on the floorStill reeling from the abduction

Gasping for oxygen in the salty airSimmering on a bed of iceI’ll remember our struggleBy the fish-oil smudge on my shirt

A Change Outside Our WindowElizabeth Gregg

it’s a subtle change so look closely

(it may be your last glimpse)

smeared shadows out the car window

or tiny manicured blocks of green floating below like

heaven

look close at the palms of the oak leaves that wave

along the highway

the singed curl of cancerous embers flaks away,

even in spring

they wave to get your attention

on your way from some parking lot or anotherthey don’t want air conditioningthey don’t want to sell you a new long distance planthey’re not raising money for Jerry’s kidsthey’re reaching in broken tendrils of fiber and sinewygracelike lepers on the roadsideto youin your caron your wayto some parking lot or another

Unhappy GirlKate St. JohnHiding behindPink painted lids.Delicate flowersSleeping the days away.A fading rose indeedWith fair white skin.Your words haveAll withered awayDiminishing with the setting sun.Loitering too long within yourself.A chamber of lost loves.Sadness is disguised inYour quiet eyes.Running colors blending into grayAs flooded fields show you the way.

An Ode to CheeseRobin Guillory

A mere woman cannotBy the strength of her pen aloneConvey the sheer sublimityOf cheese.

From the Singles of kindergartenTo the starving student artist’s VelveetaTo Brie and TriscuitsIn the twilight teatime of the soul

By its nature it unifies,Classifies and completes us.Sometimes it is good to be human And appreciate cheese.

If I am ever someone from Ohioin the water having troubleoff a continent’s west edgeand am translated to my elementby a sudden warm great animalwith sea-dark fur sleek shiningand the eyes of Shiva,I hope to sink my troubles like a stoneand all uneducated rideher inshore shouting with the foampraises of the freedom to be saved.

--Ursula K. LeGuin

Oedipus Rex IIThere once was a king that was wise,who conquered a sphinx of great size.He went on a date,And met the wrong mate,And ended up losing his eyes.

--Sally Wilson

There once was a king called RexUpon whom the gods laid a Hex.He did a bad thingWith mom had a flingAnd developed an awful complex.

-- Jonathan Milner

May 2, 2008

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Choosing the Right Word

Vocabulary Quiz

Journal

TPCASTT overview

Mini-lesson: Nonfiction

Activity

May 5, 2008

1. MUG shots2. Journal: “Anticipation Guide”3. Mini-lesson: Memoirs and speechesActivity with the two and tying in Sojourner Truth “Ain’t I A Woman” and Langston Hughes’ “Let America be America Again”

May 5, 2008

Objectives: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2

Journal

EOC review

Mini-lesson: Nonfiction

Activity

Anticipation Guide:A person can change the world by the force of his or her beliefs.People of all backgrounds will support a cause they believe in.Religion is an important motivation for fighting for justice.A powerful leader is necessary to make significant changes in the world. What challenges do Americans have to live up to with national ideals of equality and justice?

Journal “Anticipation Guide”Talk about Narrative Martin Luther King “I Have a

Dream”Mini-lesson: Memoirs vs. speechPoem by Langston HughesActivity with nonfiction

May 6, 2008

Incidents of a Slave Girl

“unusually fortunate circumstances” of her early childhood before she realized she was a slave. Linda’s father is a carpenter who is granted many of the privileges of a free man. who is sold at age ten. When Linda is six years old, her mother dies. When she is 12, her mistress dies is sold to the five-year-old daughter of her mistress’ sisterHer grandmother’s mistress had always promised grandmother would be granted her freedom. mistress dies, Dr. Flint reneges on this promise and puts Linda’s grandmother up for sale. sister of the deceased mistress purchases herher grandmother is granted her freedom.vivid accounts of the Flint’s cruelty and brutality—as well as that of neighboring slaveholders—toward their slaves.New Year’s Day with the New Year’s festivities enjoyed by whites. January 1 was hiring day.

a mother standing by helplessly as all seven of her children are soldtells about an owner who offers to sell an old woman who has served the family for 70 years to anyone who will give $20.Uncle Benjamin runs away after striking his master. caught, imprisoned, and sold, but escapes again. he escapes to New York, where he passes as white. manages to buy Phil’s freedomdigresses from her personal narrative to address some broader issues concerning the conditions of slaves and the institution of slavery. she focuses on the reasons that many slaves didn’t defy the slaveholders or attempt escape.discusses the lies and misinformation (about the Free States) that slaveholders communicated to slaves in order to discourage them from running away. For example, one slaveholder shares a story about a runaway facing death from starvation. She also holds Northerners accountable for their complicity in slavery, especially for enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law.

Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Born in Atlanta 1929Leader in Civil Rights MovementOrganized Nonviolent protests to bring equal rights for everyoneAssassinated April 4, 1968At 35 (youngest man and third black man) to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize

“Memoirs versus Speeches”A memoir is a piece of autobiographical writing, usually shorter in nature than a comprehensive autobiography. The memoir, especially as it is being used in publishing today, often tries to capture certain highlights or meaningful moments in one's past The memoir may be more emotional and concerned with capturing particular scenes, or a series of events, rather than documenting every fact of a person's life (Zuwiyya, N. 2000)

Dr. Beth Burch, a professor of education at Binghamton University. It is from her book, Writing For Your Portfolio (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999).

 Characteristics of the memoir form: another perspective  ... explores an event or series of related events that remain lodged in memory  ... describes the events and then shows, either directly or indirectly, why they are significant  ... is focused in time; doesn't cover a great span of years (that would be an autobiography)  ... centers on a problem or focuses on a conflict and its resolution and on the understanding          of why and how the resolution is significant in your life

 public speaking a whole lot easier for you. Build solid foundations for a successful speech by using your knowledge of the occasion, the audience, and their expectations.

Journal

What is the origin or source of most of your views toward members of other ethnic/racial/gender groups?

May 7, 2008

1.Journal2.MUG shots Quiz3.Finish groups from yesterday4.Go over as a class5.Look at Langston Hughes’ poem on America

Journal

Free write

Turn in.

May 9, 2008

1.MUG shots2.Journal and turn in…3.EOC review4.Turn in Literary Responses…5.Test review handout and talk about test6.TPCASTT another poem individually and

then as a class

Test Outline

Multiple Choice questions on elements of poetry and nonfiction and examples from poetry and nonfiction

TPCASTT two poems

TPCASTT format will be on the test so you don’t have to memorize it.

EOC format- excerpts of poetry and nonfiction

Extra credit due as well

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maid of leather.

Rules:

Using the right word, Plurals

Parachutes-- coldplay

In a haze, a stormy hazeI'll be round; I'll be loving you always, alwaysHere I am and I take my timeHere I am and I'll wait in line always, always

QuestionAfter you read and listen to this, what/who do you think this lyrical poem is about? How did you feel while reading or listening to the song?

Really.