Monthly Archives: March 2024

Friday March 15th, 2024

Good Afternoon!

*Friday Writes:

1) The pursuit of freedom involves change.

2)  A good life does not have to be complex.

3)  Create your own topic and surprise me!

*Lyric Poetry:  We will go over this poem…

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*The Shakespearean Sonnet

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*Create a Venn Diagram comparing the two Shakespearean Sonnets

*Question:  Why do you think I get you to do so many Venn Diagrams? 🙂

 

Thursday March 14th, 2024

Good Afternoon,

*Poetry Terms Quiz

*Lyric Poetry:  We will go over this poem…

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*Create a Venn Diagram comparing/contrasting the two poems:  Caged Bird by Maya Angelou and Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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*The Shakespearean Sonnet

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*Create a Venn Diagram comparing the two Shakespearean Sonnets

*Question:  Why do you think I get you to do so many Venn Diagrams? 🙂

 

Wednesday March 13th, 2024

Good Morning!

*Unified Basketball:  Posters/signs –do we need to work on any?  Can we all go after school for 15 minutes or so to cheer on our Buddies?!!

*Best Buddies:  we will have Best Buddies on Friday:  Ella and Jaila

*Themed Lunches:  Are we ready to go?!  Announcements/canva/posters etc.

*Promotion Videos:  Do we need time?  This is not time to wander –it is time to either record/edit videos….

Wednesday March 13th, 2024

Good Afternoon!

*Reminder:  Poetry Terms Quiz Thursday March 14th.

*No Red Ink:  Connecting clauses with semicolons and colons, commas for clarity and parallel structure

https://create.kahoot.it/details/9a38559d-0f8c-452a-b60a-b4cbb2f347a3

https://create.kahoot.it/details/a0b4b0a1-bd04-4626-8aa9-664b327503a1

On Monday and Tuesday, we looked at “What do I Remember of the Evacuation”, “Walking on Both Sides of an Invisible Border”, and “Caged Bird”. Yesterday, you should have finished the analysis as well as the three way venn diagram.

*Gallery Walk…take a look at other groups venn diagrams…

*Discussion:  did other groups have the same things as you?

*Lyric Poetry:  We will start this poem…

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*Create a Venn Diagram comparing/contrasting the two poems:  Caged Bird by Maya Angelou and Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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*The Shakespearean Sonnet

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*Create a Venn Diagram comparing the two Shakespearean Sonnets

*Question:  Why do you think I get you to do so many Venn Diagrams? 🙂

 

Tuesday March 12th, 2024

Good Afternoon!

*Poetry Terms Quiz:  Thursday March 14th, 2024

Poetic devices Practice:  here is a worksheet to work on to practice identifying some of our devices.

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Poetry and Non Fiction:  In Context “Lenses”

* “What Do I Remember of the Evacuation”

http://www.joykogawa.ca/what-do-you-remember-of-the-evacuation.html

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https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/walking-both-sides-invisible-border

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*Analyzing Poems:  In groups, you will be going through the analyzing poetry resource and applying it to the three poems we studied:  “Walking on two Sides of the Border”, “What do I remember of the Evacuation”, and “Caged Bird”.  We will do this on larger paper so we can post/gallery walk

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http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/09/22/history-sept-22-1988-apology-to-japanese-canadians-of-wwii/

Monday March 11th, 2024

Good Afternoon!

*Poetry Terms Quiz:  Thursday March 14th, 2024

Poetic devices Practice:  here is a worksheet to work on to practice identifying some of our devices.

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Poetry and Non Fiction:  In Context “Lenses”

* “What Do I Remember of the Evacuation”

http://www.joykogawa.ca/what-do-you-remember-of-the-evacuation.html

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*After knowing more about that Japanese internment and the author, what meaning does this add to the poem itself?

*Go through the analyzing poetry resource for “What do I Remember of the Evacuation.”

*After knowing more about that Japanese internment and the author, what meaning does this add to the poem itself?

 

http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/09/22/history-sept-22-1988-apology-to-japanese-canadians-of-wwii/

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/rare-views-of-japanese-canadian-internment-19-images-remembering-one-of-canadas-darkest-hours

https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ePubFaShRacRedJap.pdf

https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/walking-both-sides-invisible-border

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*What did we learn about Residential Schools?

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*Analyzing Poems:  In groups, you will be going through the analyzing poetry resource and applying it to the three poems we studied:  “Walking on two Sides of the Border”, “What do I remember of the Evacuation”, and “Caged Bird”.  We will do this on larger paper so we can post/gallery walk

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Monday March 11th, 2024

Good Morning!

*Themed Lunches:   Do we need to hang your, post on instagram/school app?!

*Spirit Group:  Should we do anything for the last day of school? If so, do we need a poster/announcement/canva for the app/instagram?!

*Promotion Video Assignment:  How are we doing?  Do we need time?

*Room Clean out:  under the counter