Lessons & HOmework
Monday, August 20th
1. Introduce ourselves and check-in
2. Introduce: Journals and folders, daily procedures, syllabus
3. I am Poetry:
Final Draft quality! Use color - it will be put on the wall
1. Introduce ourselves and check-in
2. Introduce: Journals and folders, daily procedures, syllabus
3. I am Poetry:
Final Draft quality! Use color - it will be put on the wall
- Self-Label
- Who are you at this moment in your life?
- Use euphony, rhythm, and create a self-expression
- Use symbolism (color, plant, time/place, gem/mineral, element, object, animal)
- Use figurative Language:
- alliteration, allusion, personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, litotes,
- imagery!!!
Wednesday, August 22nd
1. vocab: figurative vs. literal language
4. Collage Journals
5. I am Poetry:
Final Draft quality! Use color - it will be put on the wall
1. vocab: figurative vs. literal language
- alliteration, allusion, personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, litotes, imagery
- objective vs. subjective
- Late/Tardy/Absent/Make-up work
- Homework & Classwork points
- Independent Project
- Boom Points
4. Collage Journals
5. I am Poetry:
Final Draft quality! Use color - it will be put on the wall
- Self-Label
- Who are you at this moment in your life?
- Use euphony, rhythm, and create a self-expression
- Use symbolism (color, plant, time/place, gem/mineral, element, object, animal)
- Use figurative Language:
- alliteration, allusion, personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, litotes,
- imagery!!!
Friday, August 24th
1. vocab: anecdote, analogy, synonymous, embellish, connotation
2. journal: My Summer
4. Collage Journals
5. Read: "Me Talk Pretty One Day", by David Sedaris
6. Class Norms and Agreements
Homework: Read Syllabus online with a parent & have parents send me an email that says they have read and understood the syllabus & communicate any concerns prior to the start of the class.
1. vocab: anecdote, analogy, synonymous, embellish, connotation
2. journal: My Summer
- Write a page anecdote from summer
- Peer Edit - change 10 words (synonyms) for better diction
- Add 5 figurative language examples
4. Collage Journals
5. Read: "Me Talk Pretty One Day", by David Sedaris
6. Class Norms and Agreements
Homework: Read Syllabus online with a parent & have parents send me an email that says they have read and understood the syllabus & communicate any concerns prior to the start of the class.
Finish Monday, August 27th
1. vocab: eloquent, articulate, insightful, diligent, narrative, tone, mood
2. journal: What is Beauty?
3. Class Norms and Agreements
4. Read Short Stories
1. vocab: eloquent, articulate, insightful, diligent, narrative, tone, mood
2. journal: What is Beauty?
3. Class Norms and Agreements
4. Read Short Stories
- "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
- "Beauty" by Alice Walker
Wednesday, August 29th
1. vocab: context, theme, imagery, plot (plot chart), irony, juxtaposition
2. journal:
3. Go over: "Beauty"
4. Read: "Indian Education" by Sherman Alexie
5. Read Short Story: Homework: Write 1st Draft of Narrative
Monday, September 3rd - NO SCHOOL!
Wednesday, September 5th
1. Vocab: exposition, diction, suspense, foreshadowing, irony, dramatic irony, verbal irony
2. Poster activity: Synonyms for Boring Words
3. How to embellish your story -
--> Mexico trip
--> Honey
5. Rubric for Narrative
6. Writing Workshop:
Friday, September 7th
1. vocab: poignant, foreboding, ominous, temperament, disposition, syntax, characterization
--> 3-4 pages typed, double spaced, 12 pt font
Monday, September 10th
1. vocab: vehement, gesticulation, rhetoric, ethos, logos, pathos
2. journal: ethos, logos, pathos examples
5. Story
Homework: 1. Final Draft of Story - Edit, revise, embellish, add figuartive language
2. Rehearse story for friends/family
3. Ethos, Logos Pathos Analysis in a Commercial/Ad/etc...
Wednesday, September 12th
1. vocab: logical fallacies, deduction, dubious, fallicious
2. lesson: logical fallacies
3. Writing Workshop: What makes a story engaging? Believable?
Homework: 1. logical fallacies Slideshow -
- Choose 10 of the logical fallacies and give an example of each (ad, commercial, cartoon, TV clip, etc...)
Monday, September 17th
1. Present Stories
2. Present Logical Fallacies in Groups
3. Logical Fallacy worksheet
4. Pairwork: Ethos, Logos, Pathos in Advertisements
Homework:
1. Logical Fallacy Worksheet
2. Analyze Ethos, Logos, Pathos in an Advertisement
Wednesday, September 19th
1. Ethos, Logos, Pathos in Parks & Rec Episode
2. Share Logical Fallacy presentations and ethos, logos, pathos in advertisements
3. Logical Fallacy Worksheet
Homework: Logical Fallacy Worksheet
Friday, September 21st
1. Vocab: fallacious, dubious, indubitably, derivation,
2. Ethos, Logos, Pathos & Logical Fallacies in Commercials
3. Present Logical Fallacy Slideshows
4. Go over Logical Fallacy Worksheet
Homework:
Monday, September 24th
1. vocab QUIZ
2. Advertisements for the ultimate product
3. Independent Project Proposal
Homework:
Wednesday, September 26th
1. Vote on Advertisements
2. Logical Fallacy Presentations
3. Independent Project Proposal
1. vocab: context, theme, imagery, plot (plot chart), irony, juxtaposition
2. journal:
- A) Setting Imagery: Sit in a place and write everything you see, hear, touch, taste, feel, think, smell...use adjectives, figurative language, and describe so reader can SEE setting
- Mindmap ideas for your narrative
- PLOT CHART for your Narrative sequence
3. Go over: "Beauty"
4. Read: "Indian Education" by Sherman Alexie
5. Read Short Story: Homework: Write 1st Draft of Narrative
- (2-4 pages, double spaced, 12 pt font)
- Type first draft of Narrative - follow the plot chart
- Create a strong exposition - introducing setting & characters with vivid detail
- Introduce the conflict, foreshadow & build suspense
- Create complications as you build to the climax
- Add dialogue
- Add Sensory details, adjectives, imagery
- Add more details to draw out the action of the climax
- Resolve the conflict
- Leave the reader with something to think about (theme becomes clear; punchline is delivered
Monday, September 3rd - NO SCHOOL!
Wednesday, September 5th
1. Vocab: exposition, diction, suspense, foreshadowing, irony, dramatic irony, verbal irony
2. Poster activity: Synonyms for Boring Words
3. How to embellish your story -
- Plot Chart for "A Trip to the ER"
- Embellish the details with a partner
- Write your own story entitled: "A Trip to the ER"
--> Mexico trip
--> Honey
5. Rubric for Narrative
6. Writing Workshop:
- Self-Edit (FRONT SIDE of Revision Worksheet)
- Make suggested revisions
- Complete SELF-EDIT CHECKLIST
- Add Adjectives
- Enhance Verbs (use thesaurus)
- Fully develop round characters (5 characterization methods)
- Imagery of Setting & Characters ( 5 senses, descriptive words)
- Add Figurative Language
- Enhance Action - BUILD SUSPENSE - EMBELLISH ACTION
- SHARE WITH: [email protected]
Friday, September 7th
1. vocab: poignant, foreboding, ominous, temperament, disposition, syntax, characterization
- 5 types of indirect characterization: speech, thoughts, actions, others' reactions, appearance
- dynamic vs. static character, round vs. flat character, indirect characterization
- "A Trip to the ER": Embellish the details with a partner
- common errors
- semicolons worksheet
- syntax
- "The Night the Bed Fell" by James Thurber
- Good Website --> Story Examples
- Student Examples: Narrative
- Peer Edit (BACK SIDE of Revision Worksheet)
- Make suggested PEER revisions
- Conference with Ms Rankin
- Edit & Revise Final Draft -
- SHARE WITH: [email protected]
- *Rubric for Narrative
--> 3-4 pages typed, double spaced, 12 pt font
- Complete SELF-EDIT CHECKLIST (20 points)
- Exposition established: Imagery of Setting & Characters ( 5 senses, descriptive words)
- Character Development: Fully develop a round protagonist (5 characterization methods)
- *Protagonist changes ay climax (Dynamic)
- Other characters are well-established with imagery
- Foreshadowing: Plot is Suspenseful - EMBELLISH PLOT
- Plot: Enhance Action - BUILD SUSPENSE - EMBELLISH!!
- Diction: Add Adjectives & Enhance Verbs (use thesaurus)
- Add Figurative Language
- Change Syntax
- Reread ALOUD & POLISH!!!
- SHARE WITH: [email protected]
Monday, September 10th
1. vocab: vehement, gesticulation, rhetoric, ethos, logos, pathos
2. journal: ethos, logos, pathos examples
- Video Example: Olan Rogers
- Student Written Example: Moving the mattress
- What makes a story engaging? Believable?
- How to build suspense - add foreshadowing!
- Peer Edit (BACK SIDE of Revision Worksheet)
- Make suggested PEER revisions
- Conference with Ms Rankin
- Edit & Revise Final Draft -
- SHARE WITH: [email protected]
- *Rubric for Narrative
5. Story
Homework: 1. Final Draft of Story - Edit, revise, embellish, add figuartive language
2. Rehearse story for friends/family
3. Ethos, Logos Pathos Analysis in a Commercial/Ad/etc...
Wednesday, September 12th
1. vocab: logical fallacies, deduction, dubious, fallicious
2. lesson: logical fallacies
3. Writing Workshop: What makes a story engaging? Believable?
- Peer Edit (BACK SIDE of Revision Worksheet)
- Make suggested PEER revisions
- EDIT:
- Add SATIRE & FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
- Change SYNTAX
- Conference with Ms Rankin
- Edit & Revise Final Draft -
- SHARE WITH: [email protected]
- *Rubric for Narrative
Homework: 1. logical fallacies Slideshow -
- Choose 10 of the logical fallacies and give an example of each (ad, commercial, cartoon, TV clip, etc...)
Monday, September 17th
1. Present Stories
2. Present Logical Fallacies in Groups
3. Logical Fallacy worksheet
4. Pairwork: Ethos, Logos, Pathos in Advertisements
Homework:
1. Logical Fallacy Worksheet
2. Analyze Ethos, Logos, Pathos in an Advertisement
Wednesday, September 19th
1. Ethos, Logos, Pathos in Parks & Rec Episode
2. Share Logical Fallacy presentations and ethos, logos, pathos in advertisements
3. Logical Fallacy Worksheet
Homework: Logical Fallacy Worksheet
Friday, September 21st
1. Vocab: fallacious, dubious, indubitably, derivation,
2. Ethos, Logos, Pathos & Logical Fallacies in Commercials
3. Present Logical Fallacy Slideshows
4. Go over Logical Fallacy Worksheet
Homework:
- Create an Advertisement for the ultimate product
- Draw or design with collage or graphics, or video the advertisement for the ideal product.
- Use ethos, logos, pathos & logical fallacies
- think about loaded language, color, contrast, and visual design elements
- Study Daily Vocab & Logical Fallacies for a TEST
Monday, September 24th
1. vocab QUIZ
2. Advertisements for the ultimate product
3. Independent Project Proposal
Homework:
- Finish advertisement (use ethos, logos, pathos, logical fallacies, loaded language & color!!!)
- Work on: Independent Project Proposal
- Make a copy of the document
- Fill in the top set of questions up to the time card, including choosing content standards with the links provided
- You may copy and paste the content standards into your document
- Share it with me!
Wednesday, September 26th
1. Vote on Advertisements
2. Logical Fallacy Presentations
3. Independent Project Proposal
- Make a copy of the document
- Fill in the top set of questions up to the time card, including choosing content standards with the links provided
- You may copy and paste the content standards into your document
- Share it with me!
- Finish your Independent Project Proposal
- Start working on independent project and log your hours.