Samples of PDF reflection from previous year
submit this writing to TURNITIN before next Poetry Day (Oct 10 & 12)
Write this PDF about either your animal poem, or your refuge poem. You decide.
29 Friday Sep 2017
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inSamples of PDF reflection from previous year
submit this writing to TURNITIN before next Poetry Day (Oct 10 & 12)
Write this PDF about either your animal poem, or your refuge poem. You decide.
29 Friday Sep 2017
Posted general information, homework, vocabulary
inweekly membean expectations* begin for week of Mon Oct 2 – Sun Oct 8
Typically, a membean week runs Monday thru Sunday.
As recommended the membean staff, do a series of brief learning sessions over the course of the week. Let the learning sink in over time, rather than trying to cram at the last minute. The point of using membean is to build a more robust vocabulary, in order to become a more forceful and flexible writer. Once you find a weekly rhythm, stay with it. Exercise discipline.
The corresponding weekly grading scheme looks like this:
29 Friday Sep 2017
Posted agenda, assessment, reading, short stories
inlearning goal: how does Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story affect your thinking about angels?
read story (TBA)
write response (TBA)
weekly membean expectations* begin for week of Mon Oct 2 – Sun Oct 8
*Typically, a membean week runs monday thru sunday.
As recommended the membean staff, do a series of brief learning sessions over the course of the week. Let the learning sink in over time, rather than trying to cram at the last minute. The point of using membean is to build a more robust vocabulary, in order to become a more forceful and flexible writer. Once you find a weekly rhythm, stay with it. Exercise discipline.
The corresponding weekly grading scheme looks like this:
27 Wednesday Sep 2017
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inlearning goal: How do haiku use the elements of suspense and surprise? How does a tanka relate to a haiku?
Tada Chimako; haiku, tanka, metaphor, concrete imagery, turn, speaker
intro to PDF reflection (due by next Poetry Day, Oct 10 & 12) PDF instructions
windowsill haiku
Tada tanka
25 Monday Sep 2017
Posted agenda, direct instruction, feedback, vocabulary
inlearning goal: On which Quickmark(s) do I need to focus first? Do I understand the problem and various solutions?
Visit membean.com/enroll & Enter this code:
(B block 10HB1718) Class Code: H2SQEU3
(D block 10HD1718) Class Code: H2SQDQQ
(H block 10HH1718) Class Code: H2SQEEU
15 minutes this week; next week begins regular weekly expectations (TBA)
QM Tally Sheet: intro and completion
Refuge Poem: “shootin’ the breeze”–a mild refuge poem
camus acceptance speech exercise, if circumstances warrant
21 Thursday Sep 2017
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inlearning goal: In Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story, “In a Grove” (1922), which story-teller do you trust most? Why this person?
“In a Grove”
19 Tuesday Sep 2017
Posted homework, submission
insubmit new draft of Camus Paragraph to TURNITIN (Camus paragraph.revised) before next class (Th/F Sep 21/22), and be sure to update acknowledgment-footer to include most recent help from partners and any other sources
19 Tuesday Sep 2017
Posted agenda, assessment, feedback
inlearning goal: Which one of the five criteria from the “Content Writing Rubric” needs the most work in my current draft of the Camus Paragraph?
rushed early draft, confusing deadline for next draft, some struggle with story’s content, challenging nature of assigned question, first “minor grade” assignment, introduction to idea of “11-part paragraph,” etc.
therefore, need time to address these challenges–as whole class and with reading partners
and time to revise, and submit new draft to TURNITIN before next class (Th/F Sep 21/22), and to update acknowledgment-footer to include most recent help from partners and any other sources
18 Monday Sep 2017
Posted homework, poetry, submission
inRemember that your original refuge poem is due to TURNITIN before the next poetry day begins.
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As you compose your poem, consider this paragraph from Eavan Boland’s introduction to her book, After Every War: Twentieth Century Women Poets:
The problem with human catastrophe is that it can be remembered all too well. But it is much harder to re-imagine it. What brings it from the domain of fact to the realm of feeling is often just a detail. A cup, a shoe, an open window, a village roof with missing slates. Once we see it, we recognize it. That could have been me, we suddenly think. I could have been there. That moment of private truth, simply because it cuts history down to size, has a rare value. (3)
Although you are not necessarily writing about catastrophe, this passage suggests ways to bring alive the speaker or characters of your poem. Notice how much value Boland sees in “just a detail.”
Enjoy your writing. Start early enough that you have time to play with lines, ideas, and details. Give the poem time to simmer on the stove, rather than flash-frying it at the last minute.
15 Friday Sep 2017
learning goal: where do you find examples of the day’s terms in today’s poems by these African and Caribbean authors
Senghor, Awoonor, Walcott–Senegal, Ghana, St. Lucia;
review terms from previous poetry days: alliteration, run-on line, hyperbole, symbol, concrete imagery, metaphor, internal rhyme
read and enjoy today’s poems