Writing 12:
- Online Class: Choose a song that moves you, that you connect to, or that triggers a memory in you. Bring those lyrics to the next class (next Tuesday).
- ALSO, please revise the piece that you're reading at the public reading AND bring in a new draft of it. To get your new draft, choose to do one of the following: (1) add 50 more words, (2) cut 10 - 25% of the words, (3) re-write it from a different perspective. BRING BOTH DRAFTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- I have an about the authour blurb for the following people: Allie, Asya, Emma, Gemma, Giles, Glenn, Jocelyn, Kathryn, Laurel, Michelle, Taylor, Tiga, and Tim.
- IF YOU NAME IS NOT ON THIS LIST, then I need you to send me a realistic and respectful "About the Authour" blurb for your children story. ASAP.
English 11 Pre-AP:
- Terms to know for the Short Fiction Exam on Friday: active voice, alliteration, allusion, antagonist, antithesis, anti-climax, character tyeps, characterization types, cliche, climax, colloquial (a type of diction), conotation, contrast, denoument, dialogue, diction, dilemma, epiphany, falling action, figurative language, types of point of view, flashback, foil, foreshadowing, imagery, irony - all types, jargon, metaphor, monologue, mood, onomateopeia, oxymoron, paradox, parallelism, passive voice, pathos, plot points, slang, similie, symbolism, theme, thesis, tone
- hyperbole, personification, stereotypical character, dynamic character, a static character, flat character, euphemism
English 11
- Short Stories and Journal Responses continued. We will study the following stories:
- Cell One - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Forgiveness In Families - Alice Munro
- The Charmer - Budge Wilson
- Tentative due date for unit portfolio Monday, May 10th
- Instructions for short story journal responses:
- Your response does not need to be artistic, though I certainly encourage creativity.
- Your responses should, however, demonstrate originality of thought. I am not looking for a summarization of these stories; I am looking for an interpretation of these stories or an interpretation of some aspect of these stories. The interpretive medium you choose is at your discretion. However, if you choose a creative medium, you must provide written justification for why you have chosen to represent your work in this way. Because yours will be a subjective response, a piece of artwork, for example, alone, cannot support your interpretation. Your intention needs to be apparent to me, the objective observer.
- As always, there is usually information on the internet which will further explain these stories. I recommend "enotes". Please feel free to use my name and password to access the information provided by this site - user name: tessmwood password: surinder.
- I will allow you to omit two responses from your final portfolio. However, You will be given special consideration for submitting responses for all the assigned work.
- "An Upheaval" URL address:
- //www.online-literature.com/donne/1147/
- "The Terrible Old Man" URL address: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/theterribleoldman.htm
English 8
- Romeo and Juliet Act IV sc. i and i
English 11
- You will implement useful strategies in the reading of two versions of the story "The Luncheon".
- Reminder: Each short story should be followed by an entry to your Reflective Journal. The Reflective Journal will be explicitly discussed on Monday and Tuesday.
Writing 12
- Your memoir and all its drafts are due on Friday this week. You must hand in the following items on Friday - in a folder. Please do not put it in pretty little binders or coutangs. Please use a foler with your name on it. Please put your work into the folder in this order:
- Final Draft on top (size 12, TIMES NEW ROMAN, 1 inch margins, and DOUBLE SPACED)
- your Wordle
- then a series of your rough drafts from most recent to least recent
- any notes or doddling your did while trying to write your memoir
- Check the Archives on the blog to see if you have compelted each draft that I have assigned. You must include them ALL in your package. You can print the drafts out in small type, wide margins and single spaced if you want to save paper.
- As for the class today, if you did not finish the subtle scene assignment, please do so and then email it to me. The subtle scene assignments asks you to write a scene in which you use detail to show the scene rather than outright telling the reader how things are (showing versus telling). Your last line should be an ironic statement. Please email this to me BEFORE FRIDAY.
English 8
- Dramatic reading of Act 1, sc v. You, and your partner, will choose a portion of the scene for your reading. This portion should be no less than 25 lines and no more than 50. Props are encouraged. The reading rubric provided to you will be the assessment tool. Consider these criterion when you prepare and perform your reading.
English 11 Pre-AP
- Continue to work on your short fiction unit.
Grade 11
- Short Stories: topics, themes and reading strategies
- Monday/Tuesday - "The Black Cat", Edgar Allan Poe
- Wednesday/Thursday - "The Terrible Old Man", H.P. Lovecraft (Weird Fiction)
- Friday - "Death in the Schoolroom: (A Fact)", Walt Whitman
Grade 8
- Tuesday - Romeo and Juliet Act 1, sc v
- Thursday - Romeo and Juliet Act 2, sc i and ii
Grade 11Pre-AP
- Continue to work on your short fiction unit.
Writing 12
- We meet in class this week on Monday and Wednesday.
- Be sure to look in the archives for last week's online lessons if you haven't done them yet.
Writing 12
- This week during our online classes you should be working on your memoir revisions. Create a drafts folder and start collecting these drafts. Be sure to save a version of your memoir after each time you work it through. I'll ask you to hand in these revisions with your final memoir, SO MAKE SURE TO KEEP THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!! You should already have the highlighted version (from last week) in your drafts folder and labelled as Draft #1.
- Macro-revision #1: balance your setting, characterization, and dialogue according to the highlighting activity we did last week in class and save this new draft - print it and put it in your drafts folder. Label it Draft #2.
- Macro-revision #2: Do a wordle (http://www.wordle.net/create). Consider if the biggest words are really the words you want the most repeated. If not, do a CTL F in your memoir to find those words and revise them out. Print out your new draft, label it Draft #3 and print out your wordle and put both in your drafts folder.
English 11
- "Searching For Bobby Fischer" film study, assignment due date TBD.
- You will write a one page response to one of the following questions:
- Consider Josh's qualities and how they motivate the plot.
- After his initial cynicism, Bruce takes a great interest in Josh. Besides money, what motivates his mentorship? Why?
- Bruce and Vinnie are in opposition, though both act as mentors to Josh. What does this contrast suggest? (consider Josh, the theme, what each of these men represent).
- Write about a central theme in the story, and how it is relevant to the plot.
- "Play the man, not the board". What does Vinnie mean by this? Why is this significant to the theme of the movie?
- Fred Waitzkin changes the way he fathers Josh. Why? Explain with evidence.
English 11 Pre-AP
- Due on Tuesday: 3 of your best drafts with their rough drafts attached.
English 8
- We will be reading (and performing) "Romeo and Juliet", act 1, sc i - Monday
- Act 1, sc ii and iii - Wednesday
- Act 1, sc iv and v - Friday
- Homework assigned on Monday and due on Wednesday:
- "Romeo is a hopeless romantic and falls in love easily. Is this true? Is romanticism a good or bad quality?"
- Please keep all handouts (including discussion questions) provided to you. Put them in your binder immediately!
