Happy Halloween!

Yesterday we worked on an Author Biography for Maya Angelou and then we moved into analyzing poems for What Do I Remember of the Evacuation, Walking on Both Sides of the Border and Caged Bird.

No Red Ink:  Phrases and Dependent Clauses

*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 Jig saw and post/gallery walk.

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Good Morning!

Yesterday we ended class by looking at Jim Crow Laws and the Civil Rights movement (Non-Fiction). Let go over the document:

*Head’s Up:  Spoken Word is coming up….you should be starting to think about what you will do yours on…

*Head’s Up:  I have started to navigate into some of your blogs and many of you have not posted work I have asked you to post with the proper tags.

-paragraph on Identities

-Synthesis Essay on “A Teacher’s Reward” and “Long Long After School”

-A photo of your Character multi venn diagram.

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Author Biography for Maya Angelou

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Today we will take a close look at the three poems we have been looking at…

*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 Jig saw and post/gallery walk.

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Good Morning!

On Friday we did a Friday write then worked on a new poem on residential schools.

*What did we learn about Residential Schools?

*Go over the sheet you worked on during Friday’s class

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*Author Biography:  learning more about Alatook Ipellie

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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.

Good Morning!

*Yesterday we read some non-fiction articles on the Japanese Internement and then we research “Joy Kogawa” more…

Friday Morning Write

1. The proudest moment of your life
2. A surprising turn of events

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

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Good Morning,

Yesterday, we worked on No Red Ink (parallel structure and prepositional phrases).  We then finished our song analysis –applying the steps in “Analyzing Poetry” toward a song of your choice.

We also read the poem “What Do I Remember of the Evacuation”.

*Complete the Japanese internment internet search

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*About the Author

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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

Good Morning!

*No Red Ink: Prepositional Phrase and Parallel Structure

*Song analysis:  where are we at?

* “What Do I Remember of the Evacuation”

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

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Good Morning!

*Good Will Hunting:  finish

*Poetry Terms:  How much do we remember?  Kahoot

*https://create.kahoot.it/details/poetry-terms/df55cd79-6dae-4d6d-92f3-d7d583c614be

*Analyzing Poetry:  Choose an appropriate song –one that you connect with.  You will analyze your song following the steps in the “Analyzing Poetry” resource.

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Head’s up: there will be an evacuation drill in Block A.  Remember to look for me on the field.  Teachers line up alphabetically with A near Reeve St. and Z being near the bathrooms….

Poetry Terms:  How much do we remember?  Kahoot

https://create.kahoot.it/details/poetry-terms/df55cd79-6dae-4d6d-92f3-d7d583c614be

*Good Will Hunting

Good Morning!

Poetry Terms:  How much do we remember?  Kahoot

https://create.kahoot.it/details/poetry-terms/df55cd79-6dae-4d6d-92f3-d7d583c614be

Good Morning!

Yesterday, we wrote a short story test…

*Time to finish paragraph

*Rubric of character multivenn diagram….self-assessment

*No Red Ink:  Semicolons and colons/Misplaced Modifiers

Poetry Terms:  How much do we remember?  Kahoot

https://create.kahoot.it/details/poetry-terms/df55cd79-6dae-4d6d-92f3-d7d583c614be

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