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Tuesday, October 1st

9/30/2019

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Goals:

I can define poetic elements.
I can collaborate to write a paragraph about a poem that includes a claim.

Announcements:

For Friday: Write your own poem and an analysis of the choices you made as a writer to make meaning.

1. WN # 9

Write beside a Poem (emotions)

2. Just Right Poem

With your partner, discuss which poems felt just right.
- What elements in the poem made some easier/harder than others to understand?

3. What to look for when you annotate a poem--3 column annotations (say, uses, matters)

Title/paraphrase--what is literally happening in the poem?
Circle words that stand out/seem significant. What is their connotation?
Look for shifts in the poem
Notice how the poem sounds
Notice how the poem is structured
Why did the author make these choices (analysis)?
- Tone/Theme

4. Pick one of the poems from your packet and meet with a group
Work through these annotations as a group.
Can you end up with a "true" statement about the poem at the end?

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Monday, September 30th

9/29/2019

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Goals:

I can define poetic elements.
I can collaborate to write a paragraph about a poem that includes a claim.

Announcements:

For Friday: Write your own poem and an analysis of the choices you made as a writer to make meaning.
Homework: Read the poetry packet for tomorrow and sort the decide which poem is "too easy" "too hard" and "just right"

1. WN # 7 (or 8)

Pick a picture and write a one sentence description of it.

2. What is poetry?

Class temp--how do we feel about poetry
- I love poetry
- I feel confident in my ability to read and understand poems.
- I have read a poem I have enjoyed in the past.
- Are these poems? Why? What elements do they have that make them a poem?
- Revisit your image description and make it a poem.

3. "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins or "Eating Poetry" Mark Strand.

First read--First impressions--using the sentence stems (or with images), write something about the poem.
- So I was sitting next to this poem waiting for the bus and it....
- In this poem's pockets are....
- This poem is hiding...
- If this poem were a burrito, it would...
Second read--questions that come up. Put them closer to the poem.
Third read (Zooming In)--Can you answer any of the previous questions, or do more questions come up? Write notes even closer to the poem.
- Is there one line or part that seems most important to you? Underline it!
Fourth Read--Select a person to read this poem how it should be read.
Finally: Each person at the table contribute one true sentence about this poem, and then work together to order the sentences into a "paragraph"
- Share our "paragraphs".

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Friday, September 27th

9/26/2019

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Goals:

Identify active/passive voice constructions and revise essays to utilize strong, specific verbs.
Give specific feedback to peers on college essays

Announcements:

Submit your revised college essay on Friday to Ms. Feliks with specific questions.
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.

1. Active Voice and Verbs

2. College Essays

Edit for language usage and passive voice
Revise/edit own essay

3. Reading

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Thursday, September 26th

9/25/2019

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CconGoals:

Identify and describe the specific qualities that make a college essay effective.
Give specific feedback to peers on college essays

Announcements:

Submit your revised college essay on Friday to Ms. Feliks with specific questions.
Quiz over non-essentials on Friday
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.

1. Language--adjective clause & absolute (notes & practice)

2. College Essays

Continue conversations in small groups
Work on revisions to your own essay

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Wednesday, September 25th

9/24/2019

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Goals:

Identify and describe the specific qualities that make a college essay effective.
Give specific feedback to peers on college essays

Announcements:

Submit your revised college essay on Friday to Ms. Feliks with specific questions.
Quiz over non-essentials on Friday
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.

1. College Essays

1st Hour--form groups
What do you need help with: write it on the bottom of your essay
- Writing groups--establish norms and procedures to review essays.

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Tuesday, September 24th

9/22/2019

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Goals:

Identify and describe the specific qualities that make a college essay effective.
Use appositive & participle rules to punctuate/combine sentences.
Set goals for the trimester.

Announcements:

Submit your revised college essay on Friday to Ms. Feliks with specific questions.
Quiz over non-essentials on Friday
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.

1st Half of Class: Rotations--pick at least 2 but up to 4 stations to attend. The goal setting station is a must-do.

1. WN # 7: My Three Solaces

2. ***Goal Setting for the rest of the Trimester

Look at feedback on timed writing, untimed writing (Reading Autobiography) and Multiple Choice
Assess where you are in terms of fast & slow reading, notebook, etc.
Select goals

3. Grammar: Sentence combining with appositives/participles.

4. College Essays

What makes a good college essay?
- Read an example & discuss
- Criteria for a good essay?

5. Whole Class: College Essays

- What do you need help with: write it on the bottom of your essay
- Fishbowl feedback to a peer
- Writing groups

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Monday, September 23rd

9/20/2019

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Goals:

Identify and describe the specific qualities that make a college essay effective.
Explain how to use an appositive and participle in a complex sentence.
Check comprehension of unit one with multiple choice questions.

Announcements:

Submit your revised college essay on Friday to Ms. Feliks with specific questions.
Quiz over non-essentials on Friday
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.

1. Unit check-in: Multiple Choice on college board website

2. Grammar

Two ways to use Conjunctive Adverb

I love The Office therefore I have watched the whole series several time.

I hear however the horrible news that it will soon be going off Netflix.

Non-essentials (appositives & participles)

3. College Essays

What makes a good college essay?
- Read an example & discuss
- Criteria for a good essay?
- What do you need help with?
- Fishbowl--who would let us workshop college essay tomorrow?
- Writing groups

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Friday, September 20th

9/18/2019

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Goals:

Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character's perspective and that character's motives.

Announcements:

Turn in Writer's Notebooks today
Please read your choice book this week--the goal of 100 pages a week.
Next week, we will have college essay week. Please bring the prompt and a draft (in any shape) with you to class on Monday.

1. Reading

2. Grammar Quiz

3. Writer's Notebook #6

Select one of the thesis statements that you wrote in this short story unit. Revise it to make it stronger, and select one piece of evidence you would use to help support that thesis.

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Thursday, September 19th

9/18/2019

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Goals:

Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character's perspective and that character's motives.

Announcements:

We will turn in Writer's Notebooks tomorrow.
Please read your choice book this week--the goal of 100 pages a week.
We will quiz tomorrow on Sentence Connectors on Friday
Next week, we will have college essay week. Please bring the prompt and a draft (in any shape) with you to class on Monday.

1. Grammar Practice-

With a partner, create a paragraph that uses all the sentence connector techniques: FANBOYS, Conjunctive Adverbs, Colon and Semi-colon.

2. Discuss "Cathedral"--Raymond Carver

What is interesting to talk about in this story?
Write a thesis statement for this story to the prompt, "Analyze how the author develops the complex character of the narrator"
Find a piece of evidence that helps you support your claim.
- Turn in your annotated text and your thesis/evidence.

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Wednesday, September 18th

9/17/2019

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Goals:

Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character's perspective and that character's motives.

Announcements:

We will turn in Writer's Notebooks on Friday.
Please read your choice book this week--the goal of 100 pages a week.
We will quiz this week on Sentence Connectors on Friday

1. Reading & annotating

2. WN # 6--
"An aged man is but a paltry thing
A tattered coat upon a stick."
--W.B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium

What are the connotations for the word tattered and what does that imply about speaker's attitude toward the aged man?
List three adjectives you could use to describe a pair of shoes, each giving a different feeling about the shoes.

3. Discuss "Cathedral"--Raymond Carver

What is interesting to talk about in this story?
Write a thesis statement for this story to the prompt, "Analyze how the author develops the complex character of the narrator"
Write a topic sentence for the first body paragraph
- Turn in your annotated text and your thesis/topic sentence.

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