Monthly Archives: November 2017

Tuesday November 14th, 2017

Hello!

*Report card marks are due in….if you did not hand something in or did not hand in a paper copy of  “The Metaphor”

-Silent Reading

-You will meet with your book group and you will organize your reading and role assignments

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-We will take a look at the different roles you will have in your Lit. Circles:

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Thursday November 9th, 2017

Lest we Forget….       poppies

We will be having a Remembrance Day Assembly so classes will be a little shorter today.  Please remember that the assembly is a formal assembly and we should act and behave accordingly.

*Reminder of the Poetry Unit Test next Wednesday November 15th, 2017

***If you did not hand in a paper copy of your essay on “The Metaphor” or are missing any assignment, you need to hand it in today…I will be doing report cards over the long weekend.

  1.  We will be looking at and choosing our novels for our Lit. Circles
  2. After this, you can work on either your spoken word or you can start to look through and read your novel.

 

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Wednesday November 8th, 2017

Hello,

*You will have a poetry test in approximately a week…Wednesday November 15th looks like the date so please start preparing.   Study the following:  Poetry terms, name the device (line of poetry and you figure out what device), know how to analyze a poem…and know the poems you have looked at in class so far…

*Inspiration Poems: If you have not yet done so, please post your Inspiration Poem to your blog with the following tag:

NelsoninspirationpoemA

NelsoninspirationpoemC

NelsoninspirationpoemD

Just a heads up…spoken word finals are on Friday December 1st.  Usually class finalists need to be chosen several days before this date.

-No Red Ink:  we will be working on “commas”.

 

-Spoken word:  yesterday, you worked on brainstorming for your topic for spoken word.  Today, you can start to work on actually writing your spoken word….

Tuesday November 7th, 2017

Hello,

*You will have a poetry test in approximately a week…Wednesday November 15th looks like the date so please start preparing.   Study the following:  Poetry terms, name the device (line of poetry and you figure out what device), know how to analyze a poem…and know the poems you have looked at in class so far…

*Inspiration Poems: If you have not yet done so, please post your Inspiration Poem to your blog with the following tag:

NelsoninspirationpoemA

NelsoninspirationpoemC

NelsoninspirationpoemD

Just a heads up…spoken word finals are on Friday December 1st.  Usually class finalists need to be chosen several days before this date.  If you are really ambitious you can start to give this some thought…we will be starting this next week…

-spoken word criteria

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

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

 

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

h. nature

i. home

j. gravity

 

If time, start to brainstorm topics for your own spoken word.

Friday November 3rd, 2017

Hello,

*You will have a poetry test in approximately a week…we can figure out the date…but I do want you to start preparing.   Study the following:  Poetry terms, name the device (line of poetry and you figure out what device), know how to analyze a poem…and know the poems you have looked at in class so far…

*Inspiration Poems:  you will be presenting these on Monday.  To make it go smoothly in class please post these to your Edublog.  If it is too large a file, you may not be able to do this depending on what program you used.  You can post to youtube and get a link for example (and then post link)….please make sure that you can present or have the appropriate dongle for the projector. Plan this out in advance!

Tag:

NelsoninspirationpoemA

NelsoninspirationpoemC

NelsoninspirationpoemD

Just a heads up…spoken word finals are on Friday December 1st.  Usually class finalists need to be chosen several days before this date.  If you are really ambitious you can start to give this some thought…we will be starting this next week…

-spoken word criteria

secondary-public-speaking

poetry-slam-and-performing-poetry

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

Examples of speeches and slams:

Sarah Key

“Jellyfish”

“Hands”

“When Love Arrives”

“Somewhere in America”

Taylor Mali “What do teachers make?”

Martin Luther King

*remainder of class can be used to complete finishing touches on your inspiration poem or starting to work on your spoken word…

Thursday November 2nd, 2017

Hello!

*Your poetry assignment can be due on Monday November 6th:)

*Head’s up:  Spoken word coming up….

-No Red Ink:  Active and Passive Voice….this has been set up for you to work on.

-Time to work on poetry assignment

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