See contest details here.
I encourage everyone to submit at least one poem. You can enter up to three.
27 Friday Feb 2015
Posted general information, poetry, writing
inSee contest details here.
I encourage everyone to submit at least one poem. You can enter up to three.
27 Friday Feb 2015
Posted Doll's House, homework
inIf you have not already, finish reading Act One of A Doll’s House.
As you finish, or review, your reading, ask yourself these questions: What are the most significant external and internal conflicts so far? How do you imagine the play will resolve them?
Feel free to annotate your PDF of the play, as you read or review Act One.
27 Friday Feb 2015
Posted agenda, direct instruction, listening, poetry
inlearning goal: who is Tomas Transtromer? when did he live? where?
warm-ups: give inanimate object life; who am I-true self in metaphors (wondering who I am is like . . . )
hearing Transtromer poems (and recording observations–on OCC sheet)
reading bio and critical info: double exposure, stones and windows, psychology, independent discovery, poetry as vaccination against manipulation
“The Name” “The Open Window” “Winter’s Formulae”
photo credit: cover of Tomas Transtromer: Twenty Poems. trans. Robert Bly (Seventies Press, Madison, MN: 1970)
26 Thursday Feb 2015
Posted Uncategorized
inPeriod A 10:00 am-10:30 am
Period B 10:35 am- 11:05 am
Period C 11:10 am-11:40 am
Period D 11:45 pm- 12:15 pm
Period E 12:20 pm-12:50 pm
Common Lunch 12:50 pm-1:35 pm
Period F 1:35 pm- 2:05 pm
Period G 2:10 pm- 2:40 pm
membean quiz moved to Monday
QM Tally sheet–complete new column for revised ghazal CORE
review KR draft feedback
read in A Doll’s House
25 Wednesday Feb 2015
Posted Doll's House, homework, reading
inDuring our SNOW VACATION (SNOWCATION), please start reading Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House. I would like everyone to have read Act One by the end of this Friday, Feb. 27.
You will find a link to a digital copy of the play on this blog’s page called “World Poets, Poems and Plays.” On the “JING” page of this blog, you will see brief instructions about downloading and navigating this digital copy. (The JING is not perfect. Some of its animation occurs outside the frame, but I hope to replace this JING with a more complete version. The basic instructions still work.)
While you read, I will be reviewing essay drafts about The Kite Runner. I will set the due date for revisions, after I have finished reviewing the drafts.
23 Monday Feb 2015
Posted agenda, assessment, direct instruction, feedback, teacher feedback, The Kite Runner, writing
inlearning goal: in the provided sample, find a reflection of one strength or weakness in your own KR essay
complete rubric for “Traveling with Innocents,” clearly explaining any scores to the right of “Advanced” (DEV starred, and “pro ref” in margin of SENT)
On the back of the rubric sheet, answer this question: in what general or specific way has reviewing this sample helped you consider your own? Use one or more of the rubric’s criteria to focus your response to this question.
brief public Q & A session about sample
watch remainder of The Kite Runner film
homework: complete a new column on your QM Tally sheet–for the revised ghazal CORE exercise
20 Friday Feb 2015
Posted Uncategorized
inlearning goal: what’s one way that run-on lines can provide meaningful surprises to a poem
in your Poetry Friday folder, copy the dictated poem, “To My Son Hasan, Sleeping,” by Rafey Habib’s book Shades of Islam: Poems for a New Century (Kube Publishing, 2010)
Finish watching The Kite Runner film (from Amir’s starting to read Hasan’s letter in the street cafe-1:24:20)
19 Thursday Feb 2015
Posted agenda, assessment, feedback, listening, submission, The Kite Runner
inlearning goal: how does an outside reader’s assessment of my essay draft compare to my own?
return completed rubric to the essay’s author
authors, respond to partner’s assessment by (a) making your own marks for each of the five criteria and (b) writing one to three sentences of response to the overall assessment–for example, by agreeing or disagreeing with marks, comments or other laments of feedback
authors, on your copy of the draft, acknowledge your reading partner and (briefly) the specific nature of the help provided
With remaining time, we will continue the film from the scene where Amir visits Soraya at there home, after the General has accepted Amir’s proposal to marry his daughter (1:08:00)
Period D 830 AM-915 AM
Period A 920 AM-1005 AM
Advisory 1005 AM-1020 AM
Period G 1020 AM-1105 AM
Period E 1110 AM-1155 AM
Period B 1200 PM-1245 PM
Lunch 1245 PM-130 PM
Period F 130 PM-215 PM
Period C 220 PM-305 PM
18 Wednesday Feb 2015
Posted assessment, feedback, homework, The Kite Runner, writing
inTo the start of class bring the completed rubric for your classmate’s essay.
18 Wednesday Feb 2015
Posted agenda, assessment, feedback, The Kite Runner
inlearning goal: what strategies and/or tactics for my own essay can I glean from reviewing a classmate’s draft?
complete a content writing rubric for a classmate’s KR draft, according to instructions; bring completed rubric to Thursday’s class
Ash Wednesday
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Period A 800 AM-845 AM
Period B 850 AM-935 AM
Period C 940 AM-1025 AM
Chapel 1030 AM-1130 AM
Period D 1130 AM-1215 PM
Period E 1220 PM-105 PM
Lunch 105 PM-1145 PM
Period F 145 PM-230 PM
Period G 235 PM-315 PM