Good Book Time!

Below is what we did on our first official book group day-- Tuesday, May 17th or Wednesday, May 18th. There is also a copy of the Literary Scrapbook project (final exam component) for this unit and a copy of the famous poem, "The Raven" and the questions we completed about it in class.
Lesson from Tuesday/Wednesdsay
Final Project
The Raven (full text)
The Raven Questions

Survival Story: Poetry explicated and tone discovered-- fruitcake, too.

Poetry is like fruitcake and ogres are like onions and tone is the way you say it which is just as important as what you say-- may more so.

Thurday/Friday assignment: Read and analyze a poem for craft in a very particular way (see handout)

DO THE ANALYSIS ALL FIRST-- WRITE THE SENTENCES (ON OTHER SIDE OF PAPER) LAST. CHOOSE ONE OF THESE POEMS:

1- MY Papa's Waltz
2- since feeling is first
3- Design

Tone analysis Handout

Tone in Music Wrap up!

We wrote about tone and began to explore other tools of the writer's CRAFT in class. Here are the various assignments and pieces that go with them:

Lesson that includes the analysis paragraph you must write about tone in music and how musicians achieve it.
Lesson instructions about what to do with Sonny's Blues excerpt.

May 10th: A longish lesson on revision: revise both the analysis paragraphs on tone and the Sonny's Blues narrative piece: DUE THURSDAY/FRIDAY.

We chose one of the books introduced in class to "test drive" for a choice of last required novel to read for this year. IF YOU MISSED CLASS TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY YOU NEED TO COME IN AND SEE MRS. EDDY ASAP.

Tone and Style and Teaching and Reading and Writing!

Here is what we are up to this week:
Groups are TEACHING about tone and style in music by comparing two covers of the same song: 10 minutes lesson happening Thursday (A day classes) and Monday (B day classes).

Be sure to follow the directions on this AGENDA to do the in-class assignment from Tuesday/Wednesday and to complete the homework. Below is the piece you need to read and mark up/ Please write your own story, by hand, on the back of this sheet. Sonny's Blues (excerpt).
Thanks!
Mrs. Eddy

SABAC Done! Time to think about READing and STYLE

This week we finished that crazy test-- back to reading a lot! Get ready to have your picture taken with your favorite BOOK!
READ Posters: a joint assignment with the digital photography classes
Tuesday/Wednesday, April 26/27: Bring your book to have your picture taken with it!
BEFORE THAT: Decide what kind of background you want in the picture (beach, desert, stadium, swimming pool, forest) to match the theme/setting of your favorite book from this semester-- one of the books that YOU chose to read.
NOTE: IF YOU WANT A PARTICULAR IMAGE-- IT MUST BE IN .JPG FORMAT AND OF HIGH RESOLUTION (1500 AND ABOVE IS BEST) AND IT MUST GET EMAILED TO MRS. EDDY BEFORE PICTURE DAY.

We also started talking about tone and style-- more next week.
Style Lessons: April 21 - 26
Images for Style Lesson

Lay on Macduff! Done with Macbeth!

Here is the final day of Macbeth agenda-
April 7/8 Lesson Plan
Memorize a Passage: handout
Book list for 2015-16

Done with Act III, almost done with Macbeth!

We finished Act III and took the quiz-- next week we finish the play!
Final for Macbeth: You must turn in a complete study guide and you will have an amazing opportunity to memorize and recite one of the great speeches form the amazing play: Macbeth.
 We also looked over our essays for the work sample in class this week and wrote a feedback paper that we handed in. If you were absent, here are the feedback questions, but you will not be able to write until you re-read your essay, which I have. Please come see me to make this up.
Feedback questions:

1-   Review the essays you wrote that were scored for state writing samples.

a.   Re-read your essay

b.   Look at your scores

c.    Write Feedback and hand in: ON a separate paper, answer these two questions in paragraph form:

                                                            i.      Compare/contrast: What you like the best about your essay and which aspect got the highest score. Same—different—why?

                                                         ii.      If you could change two things about this essay to REALLY polish it up for a college application, what would they be? (Be very specific—reorganize, okay, but how? Rewrite the opening, okay, but to include or exclude what, exactly?)

Please come in and make up any quizzes OR the essay, if you have not done so already.