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*Poetry Assignment:  Wednesday April 17th

poetry-slam-and-performing-poetry

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Sarah Key

“Jellyfish”

“Hands”

“When Love Arrives”

“Somewhere in America”

Taylor Mali “What do teachers make?”

Martin Luther King

-We will be working on Spoken word:  we will look at a few samples of Rants…

*Spoken Word:  Brainstorming activitiy

Warm up spoken word free write activity:  Practice writing with imagery that includes all five senses.  Students describe an abstract or intangible entity using all senses:  what do they look, sound, smell, taste and feel like?

Examples:  Choose 2 of the following examples and write for five minutes each using imagery/sensory language.

a. homesickness

b. grief

c. love

d. joy

e. emptiness

f.  time

g. envy

Spoken Word Activities:

*Techniques for Creating Word Play

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Report Card Reflection

Leadership April 2024 Reflection

1)Please remember to sign up for the student summit if you are interested.  See QR Code below

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2)  Themed Lunches:  Your group must do the following if you have not so yet.

a)  Create a write up for announcements.  Some of you may need to get this in ASAP

b)  Create a Canva to advertise your themed event.(both online and/or to post on bulletin boards.

 3)*Stream April 24th:  You should be working on your groups room(s) Each group will be responsible for a couple rooms –so don’t think you won’t have to do this!  As questions/riddles come in, I will post them to Teams.  Your group must claim a question/riddle but announce on Teams which one you will be doing so we do not have overlap

Instruction Videos for how to create an Escape Room:  We can watch these as a class or you can watch on your own –but these will help guide you on how to build the digital escape room

How to Create a Digital Escape Room

Bitmoji Escape Roo

*Spirit Assembly:  Groups have been assigned ‘transitional’ parts to the Spirit Assembly…work on these.

Good Morning!

1)Please remember to sign up for the student summit if you are interested.  See QR Code below

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2)  Themed Lunches:  Your group must do the following

a)  Create a write up for announcements.  Some of you may need to get this in ASAP

b)  Create a Canva to advertise your themed event.(both online and/or to post on bulletin boards.

3)  Spirit Week;  Please do the following:

a)  Complete posters and hang

b) post Canvas to media

c) create a write up for announcements.  This should probably be taken to the office today so that they can start reading it tomorrow morning

4) *Stream April 24th:  We are organizing this stream …we will start to build and play with the Escape Room.  Your group will start to build your rooms and hopefully we have a few more questions/riddles to work with 🙂  Your group can also come up with questions/riddles and hints!  Each group will be responsible for a couple rooms –so don’t think you won’t have to do this!  As questions/riddles come in, I will post them to Teams.  Your group must claim a question/riddle but announce on Teams which one you will be doing so we do not have overlap

Instruction Videos for how to create an Escape Room:  We can watch these as a class or you can watch on your own –but these will help guide you on how to build the digital escape room

How to Create a Digital Escape Room

Bitmoji Escape Roo

*Spirit Assembly: we will do this upon my return Brainstorm –can we add anything?  Division of Roles/Events

In groups of 2-3, you will be organizing various events and taking the ‘lead’ for these events.  Some events may take the entire class to execute, but you/your group will be in charge.  Your group must complete the document below as part of your preparation for the Spirit Assembly.  Some groups may have more than one activity that they are coordinating based on the scope of the activity.

Spirit Week:  we need to make posters/instagram for this.

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*Reminder:  Poetry Test:  Thursday April 11th, 2024

*No Red Ink:  Hyphens

*Rhythm and Meter:  Please review from yesterday

Assignment:  Writing Poetry

Good Afternoon,

*Reminder:  Poetry Test:  Thursday April 11th, 2024

*Rhythm and Meter:  Please review from yesterday

Assignment:  Writing Poetry

Good Afternoon,

*Reminder:  Poetry Test:  Thursday April 11th, 2024

*Rhythm and Meter

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Assignment:  Writing Poetry

Good Afternoon,

*Head’s Up:  nearing the end of our poetry unit…Test next week –Thursday April 11th, 2024

a) poetry terms

b)  application of terms to lines of poetry/poems

c) poems we studied

Friday Writes:

1.  Life Lesson
2. Forming meaningful connections may enrich lives
3. Our journey to the future begins in the past
4. The life-changing event in my life
5. The most dramatic decision I had to make

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*We are going to take some time to do a Mid Term Reflection….

Our starting point (from my course outline at the start of the semester):  Curricular Competencies:

• The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others and the world.
• People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.
• Texts are socially, culturally, geographically and historically constructed.
• Language shapes ideas and influences others.
• Use efficient strategies for locating, recording, and organizing research information from a variety of sources.
• Select and apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual and multimodal texts to guide inquiry and to extend thinking.
• Use acknowledge and citations to recognize intellectual property rights
• Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to analyze ideas within, between and beyond texts.
• Identify bias, contradictions, distortions and omissions.
• Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways.
• Express and support an opinion with evidence.
• Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences.
• Access and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact.
• Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context.

From our Curricular Competencies, “I Can Statements:

Reading and Developing Ideas

I can explore the text to deepen my understanding of complex ideas.

I can explore the text to deepen my understanding of diverse ideas.

I can use the text to deepen my understanding of identity, others and world.

I can understand other people’s perspectives.

I can develop strategies to research information from a variety of sources.

I can develop strategies to record information from a variety of sources.

I can develop strategies to organize information from a variety of sources.

I can identify bias and contradictions in texts and writing.

Writing Goals

I can plan my writing and come up with a purpose.

I can develop and design my writing that can come up with a purpose.

I can create a meaningful text for a variety of purpose and audience.

I can write a meaningful text for a variety of purpose and audience.

I can express my ideas with evidence.

I can support my opinions with evidence.

I can respond to a text in a personal way.

I can respond to a text in a critical way.

I can respond to a text in a creative way.

I can use spelling proficiently and appropriately to the context.

I can use grammar proficiently and appropriately to the context.

I can acknowledge and use citations to recognize intellectual property rights.

I can refine texts to improve their clarity in my writing.

MId Term Reflection Spring 2024

Core Competency

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Assignment:  Writing Poetry