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Head’s Up:  Literature Circles on Monday

Head’s Up:  Spoken Words on Tuesday

*Friday Writes:

1.  Acceptance
2. Graduation
3. My life experience in school
4. Senioritous/ Grade 12 apathy
5. Come up with your own topic…

*Background Info Infographs:

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*Silent Reading:  20 minutes

*Novel Study Role Sheets:  Please download and save each role sheet. (30 minutes)

1.  For Friday, please figure out a reading schedule with your group:  below (it does not have to be on this document –it can be on a shared word doc.
2. For Monday:  each person on each novel needs to prepare a different role sheet….

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*Spoken Words:  30 minutes

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*No Red Ink:  Active and Passive Voice, Vague Words, and Wordiness

*Novel Choices:  Hopefully you have chosen a novel…I will hand out novels and record #s.

*Spoken Words:  How are we making out?!

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*Reminder:  Today is the Remembrance Day Assembly so each class is only an hour.

*Reminder:  You should be working on your spoken words

*Friday Writes:

1) A good life does not have to be complex

2)  Uncertainty

3)  Acceptance

4) The pursuit of freedom involves change

5)  Certain experiences can mark the beginnings of maturity

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*Reminder:  Digital Inspiration Poems were due last night

*No Red Ink:  Counter arguments, Conclusion paragraphs, transition words and phrases, emphasis with voice.

*Spoken Words:

a)  We will look at a few more spoken words from Monday’s post

b) Start to plan and write your spoken word

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*Poetry Assignment:  Wednesday April 17th

poetry-slam-and-performing-poetry

spoken-word-rant-or-this-i-believe-worksheet

A Short History of Spoken Word

Become a slam poet in five easy steps

Flight of the Hummingbird

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:  Self Reflection Comments

November Report Card: Self Reflection

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