Friday, September 30, 2011

Lit terms: epithet fable

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Share in small group the incidents from yesterday's theme: Would some power give us the gift to see ourselves as others see us. Then we shared some of them with the class.

This was yesterday's assignment. Then we handed it in. P 180 “To a Louse” (843) “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as others see us!” Write an incident that starts with this line and then describes an incident, real or fiction, that proves the value of this line.

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Reminders:
Thursday 29 I will add one day to the Retakes or make-up of Beowulf
Friday 9-30 Reflective essay due google docs

thursday, September 29, 2011

 

Lit term  contrast, dialogue, epic

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gramma's lab: We did the proofreading exercises 1 and 2 which consisted of four sentences.

From green textbook we discussed Page 136-part of the Knight's description.

P 180 “To a Louse”  (843) “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as others see us!” Write an incident that starts with this line and then describes an incident, real or fiction, that proves the value of this line. 

Reminders:

Thursday 29   I will add one day to the Retakes or make-up of Beowulf

Friday 9-30 Reflective essay due google docs

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Lit term: Conflict, inner and outer (Internal and external).

Mark, discuss, hand in Ozymandias (page 803 of  green senior textbook). First paragraph is short summary, next paragraph can be about irony. Other ideas to fill out the page, use any lit terms or poet’s tools.  It does need to be a full page. 

Page 136-143 Canterbury Tales Use audio cd’s (disk 2) to hear middle english recitation. 

Ms. Kendall spoke to seniors about senior plans.

Reminders:

Thursday 29   I will add one day to the Retakes or make-up of Beowulf

Friday 9-30 Reflective essay due google docs

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Lit term:  Comic relief, coming of age

Look at possible answers from “Puedo Escribir”.

discuss, look at practice 180 Tyger, Tyger (721)

Ozymandias (803) for tomorrow. First paragraph is short summary, next paragraph can be about irony. Other ideas to fill out the page, use any lit terms or poet’s tools.  It does need to be a full page. 

Ozymandias     -Percy Bysshe Shelley  1792-1822
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Reminders:

Wednesday 9-28 Retakes or make-up of Beowulf test by today.

Friday 9-30 Reflective essay due google docs

Monday, September 26, 2011

In 422, the computer lab,  first half of class. Peer edits.

Lit term:

Comic relief, coming of age

 Make sure you include at least two lines of dialogue in your reflective essay.

Reminders:

Tuesday, 9-27 Rough draft complete on Reflective Essay- hard copy or on google.docs.

Wednesday 9-28 Retakes or make-up of Beowulf test by today.

Friday 9-30 Reflective essay due google docs

Friday, September 23, 2011

In 422 all class. We worked on our reflective essays. We also opened up google docs and created a collection named (your last name, first name, 3) for example dessert, joe, 3.      The three was for the period of the day.

We will hand in Friday assignments on Monday.

Reminders:

Tuesday, 9-27 Rough draft complete on Reflective Essay.

Wednesday 9-28 Retakes or make-up of Beowulf test by today.

Friday 9-30 Reflective essay due google docs

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Lit term:

Chronological order, cliche

 

P 180 Tyger, Tyger (721) Write a full page. First short paragraph should be a literal summary. Other paragraphs can include historical context, poetic skills, connections, discussion of difficult lines, or discussion of best lines. Make sure you make it to the bottom of the page.

THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience)

By William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

1794

Insert some dialogue into your reflective essay. Learn the rules on page  (37)

Dialogue work on a sheet handed out in class.

Check outside reading

Reminders:

Friday, 2-23 We meet in the computer lab by journalism at the beginning of class. 

Tuesday, 9-27 Rough draft complete on Reflective Essay.

Wednesday 9-28 Retakes or make-up of Beowulf test by today.

Thursday 9-29 Final on reflective essay needs to be turned in to google docs shared with me as editor.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Lit term:

characterization methods. We just reviewed them.

We discussed this poem. Some people got theirs back and the rest should tomorrow.  “Puedo Escribir” 

Essay, continue in book, (37)

Check outside reading

Reminders:

Tuesday, 9-27 Reflective Essay due.

Wednesday 9-28 Retakes or make-up of Beowulf test by today.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Lit term:

Connotation and denotation, see example of connotation in "Slowly I turn" Video at the bottom of this page.

 

Beo test

P 180 “Puedo Escribir” Write full page. First short paragraph is summary of what is literally going on. Start new paragraphs for new ideas. Poet’s skills, difficult lines, important lines, connections. Due Tuesday.

Essay, continue in book,

Check outside reading

Reminders:

Tuesday, 9-20 Beowulf final test: multiple choice.

Tuesday, 9-27 Reflective Essay due.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Lit term:  Characters: Flat, round, dynamic, static

Review characters and timeline of Beowulf (ppt)

“When You are Old (552) in class quiz. Score possible is ten. You could get a half point for each correction made.

Homework for tomorrow: P 180 “Puedo Escribir” Write full page. First short paragraph is summary of what is literally going on. Start new paragraphs for new ideas. Poet’s skills, difficult lines, important lines, connections. Due Tuesday.

"Tonight I Can Write"
By Pablo Neruda

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, "The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance."

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.

Essay, continue in book,

Reminders:

Tuesday, 9-20 Beowulf final test: multiple choice.

Tuesday, 9-27 Reflective Essay due.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Lit term:  Characters: Flat, round, dynamic, static We did not get to these today because we had a visit from Katie Hodges of Art Institute.

Review characters of Beowulf (ppt)

Check outside reading. Everyone seemed to have it. We had about 20 minutes to read in class.

Reminders:

Tuesday, 9-20 Beowulf final test: multiple choice.

Tuesday, 9-27 Reflective Essay due.

Thursday 9-15-2011

Lit term: aside, blank verse

P 180 Death Be Not Proud (p 348) See video above.
With this poem we studied the meaning, the sonnet structure, the rhyme scheme, and the iambic pentameter. We started this by reading the first time for unusual words. We defined them and then reread for meaning. Different people paraphrased different sentences. No written assignment due this time. This is a process for dealing with difficult text.


Reflective essay
Pages 33 - 36 of Elements of Language.


Bring outside reading every day. I will check tomorrow and I will give time to read in class.

Reminders:
Tuesday, 9-20 Beowulf final test: multiple choice.
Tuesday, 9-27 Reflective Essay due.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Parent Signatures turned in today.

Lit term: allusion, antagonist, protagonist

Sonnet 23 Labe- (321)

Sonnet 23 Loise Labe,1524-1566, translated by Willis Barnstone

What good is it to me if long ago
you eloquently praised my golden hair,
compared my eyes and beauty to the flare
of two suns where, you say, love bent the bow,
sending the darts that needles you with grief?
Where are your tears that faded in the ground?
Your death? by which your constant love is bound
in oaths and honor now beyond belief?
Your brutal goal was to make me a slave
beneath the ruse of being served by you.
Pardon me, friend, and for once hear me through:
I am outraged with anger and I rave.
Yet I am sure, wherever you have gone,
your martyrdom is hard as my black dawn.

With this poem we studied the meaning, the sonnet structure, the rhyme scheme, and the iambic pentameter. We started this by reading the first time for unusual words. We defined them and then reread for meaning. Different people paraphrased different sentences. No written assignment due this time.



Reflective essay We started reading about reflective essays. We used the Elements of Language book, page 17, including the "Your Turn" at the bottom of the page. We then went step by step through pages 28-31. Students wrote down ideas of whom they might use for a significant influence.


Reminders:
Wednesday, 9-14 Parent signature due

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Expectation quiz. If you get less than 14 out of 20, take it within 5 class days to get up to 14.

Mark, discuss, hand in  P 180 Like Lily Like Wilson: Summarize on paper what goes on here.

Beowulf: p 43-48: We finished Beowulf from the textbook.

Reminders:

Tuesday,9-13  Expectation quiz

Wednesday, 9-14 Parent signature due

Monday, September 12, 2012

Since "All Quiet On the Western Front" is required for your outside reading, we went to IMC today to check it out for those who wanted to do it now. 

Thane Game. Finished this game. The Lucky Penny was the mead-hall that won. Its Queen was Brecca (Tenley) and Queen Brecca's two great warriors were Lady Sigemund (Abby) and Lady Swerting (Mayra). Long will their deeds be remembered!

Beowulf: p 25 -38. We read all about Beowulf's encounters with Grendel and Grendel's mother. 

P 180 Like Lily Like Wilson: I assigned the poem by Taylor Mali. Your job for tomorrow is to Summarize your literal understanding of the main events of this poem. Don't include details, just the main ideas. Less than half a page should work. 

Like Lilly Like Wilson

 by Taylor Mali 

I'm writing the poem that will change the world,

and it's Lilly Wilson at my office door.

Lilly Wilson, the recovering like addict,

the worst I've ever seen.

So, like, bad the whole eighth grade

started calling her Like Lilly Like Wilson Like.

Until I declared my classroom a Like-Free Zone,

and she could not speak for days.

But when she finally did, it was to say,

Mr. Mali, this is . . . so hard.

Now I have to think before I . . . say anything.

Imagine that, Lilly.

It's for your own good.

Even if you don't like . . . 

it.

I'm writing the poem that will change the world,

and it's Lilly Wilson at my office door.

Lilly is writing a research paper for me 

about how homosexuals shouldn't be allowed 

to adopt children. 

I'm writing the poem that will change the world,

and it's Like Lilly Like Wilson at my office door.

She's having trouble finding sources,

which is to say, ones that back her up.

They all argue in favor of what I thought I was against.

And it took four years of college, 

three years of graduate school,

and every incidental teaching experience I have ever had 

to let out only, 

Well, that's a real interesting problem, Lilly.

But what do you propose to do about it?

That's what I want to know.

And the eighth-grade mind is a beautiful thing;

Like a new-born baby's face, you can often see it

change before your very eyes.

I can't believe I'm saying this, Mr. Mali,

but I think I'd like to switch sides.

And I want to tell her to do more than just believe it,

but to enjoy it! 

That changing your mind is one of the best ways

of finding out whether or not you still have one.

Or even that minds are like parachutes,

that it doesn't matter what you pack 

them with so long as they open

at the right time.

O God, Lilly, I want to say 

you make me feel like a teacher,

and who could ask to feel more than that?

I want to say all this but manage only,

Lilly, I am like so impressed with you!

So I finally taught somebody something,

namely, how to change her mind.

And learned in the process that if I ever change the world

it's going to be one student at a time.

If you would like to see Taylor Mali perform this, go to the following site

http://youtu.be/tshNfYWPlDg

Reflective essay will be assigned tomorrow.

Reminders:

Monday 9-12 Pick up All Quiet on the Western Front  for some of you.

Tuesday,9-13  Expectation quiz

Wednesday, 9-14 Parent signature due

Friday, September 9, 2011

Beowulf: continue the story

Lit terms: Kenning, epithet  from textbook on page 52

Thane Game: Goal is to understand the concept of thane-King relationship, concept of weirgild, and the warrior mentality from 800 A.D. in England and Denmark at the time of Beowulf.

I Know What You Read Last Summer- survey

Reminders:

Don’t see the cup half full, nor see it half empty. Drink it.

Monday 9-12 Pick up All Quiet on the Western Front  for some of you.

Tuesday,9-13  Expectation quiz

Wednesday, 9-14 Parent signature due