agenda Th/F Aug 17/18: BT, TRNTN

learning goal: how, and how often, will we use TURNITIN?

The Book Thief (BT) exercise: responses to marked passages–let me count the ways

Turnitin.com (TRNTN)  enrollment and submission; template

1718b / 15953613

1718d / 15953725

H block // Enrollment Key: 1718h / class ID: 15958631

due Th/F Aug 17/18: BT passages

Bring to class three passages marked in your copy of The Book Thief (BT).

Be ready to explain (in speech or writing) why you marked these passages.

 

agenda Tue/Wed Aug 15/16: names, questions, and navigation

learning goal: what are this course’s essential questions*

name tags

Poetry Day Table of Contents / Weekly Topics

Essential Questions

Canvas/blog (bookmark blog, and sign-up to follow by email)

assignment: The Book Thief

 

*EQs

Who am I? What are my primary responsibilities to myself and the communities in which I live?  What does wisdom look like?

 

 

May Exam 2017: FAQs

FAQs

What is the format? What’s on the exam?

The exam has three parts: ten short answer responses–i.e., 2-3-sentence responses (poems and poetic terms); one paragraph response (The Samurai’s Garden and basic elements fiction); essay response comparing two of the semester’s major works (The Kite Runner, Macbeth, The Samurai’s Garden).

Submit your exam–as one document–to TURNITIN (“May exam”).

What do I bring to the exam (Tue May 23)?

Bring your LAPTOP, and your own copy of THE SAMURAI’S GARDEN (with your bookmark/booklet). During the exam, you will not be allowed to share any of these materials with another person. As for The Kite Runner and Macbeth, the exam packet includes approved passages for both books.

If you want, also bring a book to read, in case you finish early because you will be asked to close your laptop after submitting your exam to TURNITIN.

How should I study?

Poetry: re-read the poems in your folder–ALOUD, either with someone or privately. Have a list of poetic terms nearby, so that you can identify examples in the poems you read. Or, take turns reading poems aloud with a partner, taking turns identifying poetic terms in the poem your partner reads aloud. As with other study techniques described here, I am suggesting methods that might prove helpful for some of you. By all means, be creative. Invent methods, games, practices that work for you and your study-buddies.

The Samurai’s Garden: review your booklet notes. Study those through the lens of individual elements of fiction–characterization or plot development, for example. Continue the mind-map exercise started in the first class of review week.  Compare your map(s) with classmates: talk to and question one another.

The play and two novels: Note overlapping subjects and themes among the three major works. With a study-buddy, anticipate and write down questions that could address some aspect of this overlap.   For example, how is courage represented in each work?  Also, imagine–and write down the results of your imagining–how any of the characters might answer our course’s essential questions: Who am I? What are my primary responsibilities to myself and to the communities in which I live? What does wisdom look like?

When are review sessions?

During regular classes Mon-Thu, May 15-18.  Also 1 o’clock Mon May 22, which is the day before our exam.

Anything else I should know?

In class during review week, I will preview the  revised exam preamble.  You will be asked to sign this preamble on Tuesday morning as a first step in the exam.

due Wed/Thur Mar 22/3: in-class paragraph to TRNTN by midnight of class day

agenda T/W Mar 14/5: Macbeth review and notes

learning goal: what questions do you have about scenes 4-7 in Act One?  How would answers to these questions help you “get a grip” on the opening of the play?

review scenes 1-3; make journal entry on this question–What do Banquo’s and Macbeth’s reactions to the wyrd sisters’ reveal about their individual (the men’s) characters?

in groups: question roundtable for matters of plot, character, setting, language

 

agenda Th/F Jan 26/7: read in KR (week’s goal is page 213)

learning goal: what if anything has happened to your impressions since your last email to Mr. Brown?

time to read towards this week’s goal of page 213

more individual writing conferences, as time allows

in last 10′ of class, respond to Mr. Brown’s most recent email–sent during the start of today’s class  (respond directly to his email, in order to preserve the ongoing exchange with him)

due Thu/Fri Dec 1/2: finish reading Act 1 of A Doll’s House

and please come with questions small or large, specific or general

thank you

ANNOUNCEMENT re Revisions

If you want to revise a TURNITIN assignment for a new score, averaged with the original one, please note the following protocol, which also appears in the Announcements section of the class page on Whipple Hill.  

If you have questions about the process or the rationale behind it, please leave a comment on this post, or contact me privately–by email or  in person. 

By: B Brown
YOU MAY USE THE FOLLOWING PROTOCOL ANYTIME DURING THIS SEMESTER, AS LONG AS YOU SUBMIT THE INITIAL ANNOTATED RUBRIC BEFORE THE START OF EXAM REVIEW WEEK.
If you have received below a 90% on a TURNITIN assignment and want to revise for an average of the two scores, download the corresponding rubric from the “Grading Rubric” section of our class page on the school site. On this rubric, identify the assignment you want to revise.
Check the same boxes of the rubric that I did on TURNITIN. On the BACK of the sheet, explain your specific plans for revision, based on the rubric and my marginal comments, both Quickmarks and other comments.
Hand the completed sheet to me, and wait for its return before you start revising.

Once you have submitted your revised assignment to TURNITIN, return the annotated rubric sheet to me, as a signal for me to assess the new version.

SPECIAL NOTE: YOU ARE ELIGIBLE TO REVISE A SECOND ASSIGNMENT ONLY AFTER HAVING COMPLETED THE FIRST REVISION. A REVISION IS COMPLETE, ONCE YOU HAVE RETURNED THE ANNOTATED RUBRIC.

 

 

due poetry day after next (Oct 25/6): original poem(s)

ENG10H World Literature

You have two cycles to consider and create an original poem, or set of poems.  Choose either the tanka form, or Tada Chimako’s “Calendar in Verse” as a model.

TANKA

This option means writing ten tanka.  Therefore, it makes sense for you to have more time than usual for this assignment.  Take the time to enjoy composing a set of such poems.  As you do, remember some of the tanka’s basic principles listed below.  Meeting these challenges requires patience, imagination and perseverance.

Basic Tanka Principles

1. A haiku + 2: in other words, five lines total.  The strict syllable count is 5-7-5-7-7.
2. Use concrete imagery, and watch for metaphorical possibilities in this imagery. (Remember that the term “imagery” denotes language appealing to any of our five senses.  It is not limited to the sense of sight.  Also, remember that concrete (specific) imagery is the most powerful kind.)
3. Ideally, the first three lines (the…

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