HOMEWORK:
Period 1 English 9 - No Homework Assigned.
Period 2 English 9 - No Homework Assigned
Period 4 English 10 - Make sure your dialectical journal is complete through chapter 21.
Period 1 English 9 - No Homework Assigned.
- If you have work that is incomplete or any missing assignments this is your time to catch up.
Period 2 English 9 - No Homework Assigned
- If you have work that is incomplete or any missing assignments this is your time to catch up.
Period 4 English 10 - Make sure your dialectical journal is complete through chapter 21.
English 9
Both classes started with a warm up that proved to be very challenging. Here is the prompt:Write a poem or some lines of dialogue that compare some person you know to a thing. Who is like a river, like the moon, like a mountain, like a sturdy house? Who is like a migrating, singing, hunting, nesting, or baby bird? Who is like an eagle, like a swan, or like an owl? What specific details help you describe the person’s resemblance to what they are being compared to?
Many students were quick to write a simile or metaphor but the challenge was to extend the comparison by thinking about how the details of the person and the "thing" were similar.
In period 1, students turned in their ACT II Dialectical Journal for Romeo and Juliet. They also took the ACT II Literary Devices Quiz that period 2 took yesterday. Taking the quiz and correcting the quiz took up the remainder of the period.
In period 2, students began ACT III in Romeo and Juliet and finished their Dialectical Journals for Act III.i. Here is a copy of some examples we covered in class. At this point in the assignment, students are working independently and in their table groups to find examples and explain the significance; therefore, the passages provided here are not the only passages that will satisfy the prompts for this assignment.
Both classes started with a warm up that proved to be very challenging. Here is the prompt:Write a poem or some lines of dialogue that compare some person you know to a thing. Who is like a river, like the moon, like a mountain, like a sturdy house? Who is like a migrating, singing, hunting, nesting, or baby bird? Who is like an eagle, like a swan, or like an owl? What specific details help you describe the person’s resemblance to what they are being compared to?
Many students were quick to write a simile or metaphor but the challenge was to extend the comparison by thinking about how the details of the person and the "thing" were similar.
In period 1, students turned in their ACT II Dialectical Journal for Romeo and Juliet. They also took the ACT II Literary Devices Quiz that period 2 took yesterday. Taking the quiz and correcting the quiz took up the remainder of the period.
In period 2, students began ACT III in Romeo and Juliet and finished their Dialectical Journals for Act III.i. Here is a copy of some examples we covered in class. At this point in the assignment, students are working independently and in their table groups to find examples and explain the significance; therefore, the passages provided here are not the only passages that will satisfy the prompts for this assignment.
rj_act_iii.i_dialectical_journal_.pdf |
English 10
Period 4 continued rewriting student samples of lead-ins that integrate concrete details. Next week we will look at the body paragraphs in their entirety.
In class we listened to chapter 21 and half of chapter 22 of The Catcher in the Rye. We finished in the middle of chapter 22 when Holden and Phoebe are about to discuss a poem by Robert Burns. We will pick up class on Monday with a look at this poem and how it relates to this novel.
Students should have their dialectical journals complete through chapter 21.
Period 4 continued rewriting student samples of lead-ins that integrate concrete details. Next week we will look at the body paragraphs in their entirety.
In class we listened to chapter 21 and half of chapter 22 of The Catcher in the Rye. We finished in the middle of chapter 22 when Holden and Phoebe are about to discuss a poem by Robert Burns. We will pick up class on Monday with a look at this poem and how it relates to this novel.
Students should have their dialectical journals complete through chapter 21.