Good Afternoon!
*Silent Reading
*Reminder: Background Information Infograph is due Friday January 15th.
*Reminder: Wednesday Write Portfolio and Best Write is due on Monday January 18th.
*Reminder: Poetry Test will be on Tuesday January 19th. Please study the following…
-poetry terms (this should be review)
-rhythm and meter
-Poems: Because I Could Not Stop for Death, My Mistress’ Eyes, Shall I Compare Thee, I Hear America Singing, I Too Sing America, This is America, What Do I Remember of the Evacuation, Caged Bird, Walking on Both Sides of an Invisible Border.
-The test is a mix of fill in the response, short answer, multiple choice, synthesis questions and a paragraph.
-There will be a ‘sight poem’ one that we have not studied in class. This poem will have multiple choice questions and a paragraph response (so you may want to look at the paragraph writing template as a refresher…)
Poetry:
*Kahoot: To Review our poetry terms
*Novels: Connections –How do our novels connect to other literature we have read this quarter. On an Orange piece of paper, write down the title of your novel on one half of the paper. On the other half of the paper, write down some of the titles of other literature we have studied. Draw a line connecting the novel title to each of the titles of the other literature. On the line, write how the two pieces of literature are connected.
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Novel Inquiry Project: This is an inquiry based project where you will be making connections between the novel you chose to read with other literature. Please Read the following document:
Planning Sheet: Please hand in your first task of this project by the end of class on Monday January 18th (you will have class time to work on/complete.) The first task is the document below…it is the English 12 Connections Based Inquiry Project Planning Sheet:
Literature and Document Part 1: Due Wednesday January 20th
Literature and Document Part 2: Due Friday January 22nd
Final Project Due: Tuesday January 26th
fingers crossed these dates work…