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*A few changes over the next couple days
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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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*Remembrance Day Assembly: Set up
*Workshops: are any groups ready to go today?
*Calendar: in hall….
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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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*Volunteers for Winter Market
*Little Buddies: tomorrow –wear a jacket! We will be doing Poppies with our little buddies
*Workshops: Refer to assignment on Teams
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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
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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*Word Play Activity
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* Report Card: Self Reflection Comments
November Report Card: Self Reflection
Friday Writes:
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*Report Card Reflection
November Report Card: Self Reflection
*Personality Traits
1) Personality Types/traits
2) Personality Test
*Major Holidays Group: Do you need any support today/tomorrow to make your events run smoothly?
*Groups: we are meeting in groups at 11:10am.
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*Best Buddies:
1) Matching Up!
2) Calendar: who is taking the lead on the activity
*Little Buddies: Calendar
1) who will take the lead on the activity…
*Halloween Events:
1) Finish Decorating
2) Halloween Candy for Scavenger Hunt
*Room Clean Up
*Events: Planning
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