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Monday, September 16th

9/16/2019

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Goals:

I can explain what I notice about how a poem is written and develop some logical theories for WHY it is written that way.
I can identify correct and incorrect sentences and name and correct sentence errors.

Announcements:

Read your book everyday this week for at least 15 minutes.
Read, annotate and write a response to the Article of the Week
Have at least one more final draft poem finished by Friday.

1. Aeric's song--4th hour & Business

Article of the Week
Feedback on your poem
Retaking quizzes

2. Go over Grammar Quiz

Review FANBOYS
- Notes
- FANBOYS or not?

3. English 9 Pre-Test

4. Reading

5. Writer's Notebook #6: A Moment

Listen
What stories do you have that could be told as a poem?

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Friday, September 13th

9/13/2019

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Goals:

I can explain what I notice about how a poem is written and develop some logical theories for WHY it is written that way.
I can identify correct and incorrect sentences and name and correct sentence errors.

Announcements:

Read your book everyday this week for at least 15 minutes.
We will take a quiz on Friday over correct sentences and sentence errors.
We will turn in a final draft of a poem tomorrow to Google Classroom.

1. Aeric's song--4th hour

2. Grammar Quiz

3. Reading

Book Talk: The Things They Carried--Tim O'Brien

4. Writing Workshop

Let's Discuss Where we are going with our Unit: Creative Writing Portfolio
Create a final draft of a poem. If you have time, write more than one poem!
Pick at least ONE of the techniques from our anchor chart to try in your poem.
Label your technique by making a comment, and explain WHY you used the technique you did (how does it help the purpose of the poem?)

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Thursday, September 12th

9/11/2019

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Goals:

I can explain what I notice about how a poem is written and develop some logical theories for WHY it is written that way.
I can identify correct and incorrect sentences and name and correct sentence errors.

Announcements:

Read your book everyday this week for at least 15 minutes.
We will take a quiz on Friday over correct sentences and sentence errors.
We will turn in a final draft of a poem tomorrow to Google Classroom.

1. Aeric's song--4th hour

2. Reading

Book Talk--American Road Trip- Patrick Flores-Scott

3. Writer's Notebook #5: "Dear Basketball"-Kobe Bryant

What do you notice about the techniques that Bryant uses in his poem?
Write your own Dear_____ poem.

4. What techniques have we noticed in the poems that we have studied that that help make a poem interesting?

Create an anchor chart
Look back at the poems in your Writer's Notebook. Is there an idea (or ideas) here you could revise for a final draft poem?
- Pick at least ONE of the techniques from our anchor chart to try in your poem.

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Wednesday, September 11th

9/11/2019

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Goals:

I can explain what I notice about how a poem is written and develop some logical theories for WHY it is written that way.
I can identify correct and incorrect sentences and name and correct sentence errors.

Announcements:

Read your book everyday this week for at least 15 minutes.
We will take a quiz on Friday over correct sentences and sentence errors.

1. Reading

Book Talk--Beowolf--Translated Seamus Healy

2. Sentence or Not?

3. Writer's Notebook #4: Writing Territories

Ms. Feliks demo
Write your own Writing Territories and mark the page with a sticky note.
Share with a partner--see if you can add anything to your list.

4. Writer's Notebook #5: "Dear Basketball"-Kobe Bryant

What do you notice about the techniques that Bryant uses in his poem?
Write your own Dear_____ poem.

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Tuesday, September 10th

9/10/2019

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Goals:

I can explain what I notice about how a poem is written and develop some logical theories for WHY it is written that way.
I can identify correct and incorrect sentences and name and correct sentence errors.
I can create my own reading goals for the trimester.

Announcements:

Read your book everyday this week for at least 15 minutes.
We will take a quiz on Friday over correct sentences and sentence errors.

1. Reading

Book Talk--The Power--Naomi Alderman
Make a "read" and a "to-read" list on the last pages of your Writer's Notebook.
Make 2 reading goals for yourself for this trimester. You can use some from my list of options, or develop your own.
Do reading rate calculation and write it under your goals.

2. Sentence or Not?

Activity
Notes

3. Writer's Notebook #4: Writing Territories

Ms. Feliks demo
Write your own Writing Territories and mark the page with a sticky note.
Share with a partner--see if you can add anything to your list.

4. Writer's Notebook #5: "Dear Basketball"-Kobe Bryant

What do you notice about the techniques that Bryant uses in his poem?
Write your own Dear_____ poem.

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Monday, September 9th

9/9/2019

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Goals:

I can say all of my classmates' names.
I can explain what I notice about how a poem is written and develop some logical theories for WHY it is written that way.
I can collaborate with a group to create a list poem.

Announcements:

1. Writer's Notebook #3: My Honest Poem

Watch the poem
Revisit your draft of the poem from Friday
- Add to it
- Revise lines that you already have.
Share out "golden" lines

2. Reading

Take our reading temperature as a class
Make a "read" and a "to-read" list on the last pages of your Writer's Notebook.
Make 2 reading goals for yourself for this trimester. You can use some from my list of options, or develop your own.
Library to get books

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Friday, September 6th

9/6/2019

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Goals:

I can say all of my classmates' names.
I can explain what I notice about how a poem is written and develop some logical theories for WHY it is written that way.
I can collaborate with a group to create a list poem.

Announcements:

We will get books on Monday. If you have a book from home that you are reading, please bring it then.

1. Find Your Match:

Write two or three statements on a card, such as an interest, goal or dream vacation.
I will mix up the cards, and the goal is to find the person who matches your new card.

2. List Poems

Revise with this checklist and create a final draft.
Present to the class
- Feedback--one writing move we noticed or a line that we liked.

3. Writer's Notebook #3: My Honest Poem

Watch the poem
Reread it in your Writer's Notebook and mark two moves you notice the writer making.
Write your own "honest" poem in your Writer's Notebook. You can use the template, or deviate from the structure.

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Thursday, September 5th

9/5/2019

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Goals:

I can say all of my classmates' names.
I can explain what I notice how a poem is written and develop some logical theories for WHY it is written that way.
I can collaborate with a group to create a list poem.

1. Alliterative Introductions

My name is Ms. Feliks and I like my friends.

2. Writer's Notebook #2: "Fear"--Raymond Carver

What do you notice about how the poem is written?
“What is the essence of the poem?”

3. List Poems

Add your own more specific ideas to the list of emotions with sticky notes.
As a group, select one of the emotions.
- Review the things that your classmates wrote. Separate the ones you like to one side, and add things to the list that fit the themes or ideas that you see emerging.
- Add some new ideas to the list.
Write your own list poem
- Decide on a plan, a rationale for the organization of the poem.
- Work hard to choose just the right words because the poem is composed of so few words.
- Write, revise and present

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Wednesday, September 4th

9/3/2019

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Goals:

I can say at least 3 of my classmates' names.
I can explain what I notice how a poem is written and develop some logical theories for WHY it is written that way.
I can collaborate with a group to brainstorm for a list poem.

1. Your name, what school you went to last year and a fun fact about you..

I like...
I hate...
I once...
I have never...
I binged watched...
One thing I did this summer...
One word that describes you, why?
- Can you name different 3 classmates' names from yesterday?

2. Writer's Notebook #1: Night Fishing

Review the things we noticed about this poem
Write in Writer's Notebooks
- Leave the first "spread" blank
- Writer's Notebook #1: "Night Fishing"
- Think of a moment that you want to capture like a snapshot. Try to describe it, maybe using a technique that you noticed in "Night Fishing"
- Share golden lines

3. English 9 Syllabus

4. Lists

Why do we make lists?
What are the types of lists that we make?
How do we order things in a list?
Make a class list of “human emotions.”
Choose 8 emotions
- Add your own more specific ideas to the list of emotions with sticky notes.
As a group, select one of the emotions.
- Review the things that your classmates wrote. Separate the ones you like to one side, and add things to the list that fit the themes or ideas that you see emerging.
- Add some new ideas to the list.
"Fear"--Raymond Carver
- What do you notice about how the poem is written?
- “What is the essence of the poem?”
Write your own list poem
- Decide on a plan, a rationale for the organization of the poem.
- Work hard to choose just the right words because the poem is composed of so few words.

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