28 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in agenda, assessment, poetry, submission
learning goal: which poem(s) of mine should I submit to the school and state poetry contests?
today’s Poetry Folder table of contents: Shakespeare; alliteration, end rhyme, stress/accent, metaphor, hyperbole, personification
TIME to:
work on poem(s): start, improve, re-arrange, refine, test, etc.
submit poem(s)
CONTESTS’ DETAILS
Lady Fortune
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27 Monday Feb 2017
By the start of class, please have written in your Macbeth journal, an 8-10-minute response to the following prompt:
Has there ever been a time in your life when someone told you that something improbable would happen and it did? Did the fact that the event was “predicted” cause you to behave differently than you would have otherwise and make it more likely for the event to occur? Or did the event simply seem to occur without any assistance from you?
Recall what happened and include your feelings when you heard the event predicted and when it occurred?
taken from Shakespeare Set Free (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC)
24 Friday Feb 2017
learning goal: essential differences between novels (The Kite Runner) and plays (Macbeth)
exercise TBA
SIB
study schedule
23 Thursday Feb 2017
the book, I mean
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22 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in agenda, feedback, The Kite Runner, writing
learning goal: what approaches work best for final proofreading of a formal letter? why these?
feedback for Mr. Brown’s letter
feedback from Mr. Brown on your draft #3: collective and individual
collective: remove header/footer, quotations (citing, giving context, etc.), headings, addressing envelopes
individual: see TRNTN
revise, print, and hand to classmate for hard-copy proofreading
if necessary, print new clean copy
if planning to send, fold letter into addressed envelope–leaving envelope unsealed
20 Monday Feb 2017
Posted in general information, poetry
contest details (deadline 03 March 2017)
17 Friday Feb 2017
learning goal: how do I start a poem?
your letter
my letter
revise & submit to TRNTN (Hosseini letter draft #3.mechanics)–if not submitted in class, do so before end of the day
Wm. C. Wms. exercise (submit)
poem work try starts for your own poem
16 Thursday Feb 2017
Posted in homework, poetry, submission
original, new-poem assignment: at least 15 lines, explore one poetic device you find in Thomas’s poem;
topic, speaker, line lengths, etc.–all are up to you (due next Poetry Day; submit to TRNTN before class)
15 Wednesday Feb 2017
learning goal: what is found in poems or novels that is not found in “the news”?
poems, novels, news; Thomas’s “Refusal to Mourn”
Williams exercise
one reading station
upcoming original, new-poem assignment: at least 15 lines, explore one poetic device you find in Thomas’s poem; topic, speaker, line lengths, etc.–all are up to you (due next Poetry Day)
13 Monday Feb 2017
Posted in agenda, assessment, feedback, listening
learning goal: how well does my letter attend to basic questions for writing in general, and for letter-writing in particular?
what am I writing, for whom? what is its central purpose? how can I best shape the writing for its audience and purpose?
what are basic principles of effective formal-letter writing?
time for feedback
time for revising, and re-submitting
