Agenda

For the remainder of the semester:

• Friday, January 10
  • Finish discussing the poems
  • review the instructions for the Scales assessment (in the Writing and Grammar tab) – I will provide you with the sticky notes
  • last scales – see the prompt; you might have to finish this along with the preparation for next week’s individual discussions with your Scales for homework. Be ready on Monday!
• Monday,  January 13
  
  • review of the poetry assignment
  • start work on the poetry assignment
  • be ready for the 5 minute discussion if your name is called
• Tuesday to Friday – January 14 – 17
  • work days for the poetry project
  • be ready for the 5 minute discussion when your name is called
  • project is due Friday night to TEAMS

Agenda

• Reminder – yesterday’s scales: have three poems written for your ‘Haiku Diary’
• Finish explicating ‘Mushrooms’
• move on to the next set of poems:
  • Fire and Ice poem… make sure you have the connotation and denotation work completed

Agenda

• Scales today – grab your journals! – prompt is in the WG tab
• re-visit the quotes on poetry and discuss
• look at the resources on the blog and the poems we will be reading

Agenda:

Welcome back! Happy New Year!

• Scales! Grab your journal – the prompt is in the Writing and Grammar Tab of the blog
• introduction to Poetry
• all materials are on the Poetry Tab of the blog

Agenda

Thursday, December 11

• finish reading Act V – watching the rest of the movie
• some time to work/discuss the remaining questions
• for homework: review the Dead Poet’s Society vocabulary and look up any words you do not know (at the bottom of the Shakespeare tab)

Friday, December 12

• Discuss vocab and start watching the film
• questions for the film will be handed out – just read and think on them; do not answer them

Monday, December 16

• finish the film and review the questions and the process for the seminar discussion

Tuesday, Wednesday – December 17, 18

• Seminar discussion in groups on each groups’ assigned questions

Thursday, December 19

• Multiple Choice test on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Short answer paragraph – mini composition on the parallels between the play and the movie

Friday, December 20

• maybe the paragraph this day because Thursday is STREAM schedule
• bring some snacks for a wee party before Christmas Break!

Last week Schedule

Agenda

Tuesday

• some time to finish up and prepare your answers for the discussion of Act III scene ii questions
• watch Act III in the movie
• Begin Act IV

Monday

• Discuss Act III, scene i – see the questions: take a few minutes to refresh your memories of the scene – visit some of the resources
• Finish Act III, scene ii, work on the questions – be ready to discuss them tomorrow (Tuesday)

Agenda

Friday

• discuss Act I, scene i
• finish reading/watching Act II

Thursday

• homework check of Act I, scene i and ii – discussion
• start reading Act II
  •  we got as far as the end of scene i – we will pick up with the rest of Act II on Friday after we discuss Act II, scene i questions

Agenda

0/X 7:36 – 8:55 AM
1 – 9:00 – 10:10 AM
STREAM 10:15 – 10:45 AM
2 –  10:50 – 12:00 AM
LUNCH 12:00 – 12:40 PM
3 – 12:45 – 1:55 PM
4  – 2:00 – 3:10 PM

• We will finish Act I, scene i with both the reading and the film – have the questions answered for tomorrow’s class

Agenda

• Introduction to Shakespeare – all materials are in the Shakespeare tab of the blog
  • Brainstorm the following:
    • everything you know about Shakespeare
    • Why do we still study his plays today? no Googling – just from what’s in your brain and picking other brains at your table 🙂
• Practice your Spoken Word
  • video your performance for timing, mannerisms, etc.
  • don’t forget to upload the Word Document of your work to TEAMS!
  • be ready to go tomorrow! 🙂

Agenda

Timeline:

• Friday, November 22 – have your idea and some of the process (brainstorming evident in your journal)
• Monday, November 25 – a few more delivery and Journal Writing Activities
• Tuesday and Wednesday – writing/practicing/ intro to the novel
• Thursday and Friday – November 28, 29 = In-class performances!!! Be ready to go 🙂

Monday, November 25

• tone, pacing and delivery practice/activity
• continue to write and practice your spoken word – Tuesday and Wednesday
• Sahn Kim has volunteered to go first; so it will proceed alphabetically from there; we will have around 15 go on Thursday and 15 people go on Friday:
• The order of the line-up unless someone wants to go in your place:
  • Thursday: Sahn, Alexandria, Amelia, Megan, Londyn, Kiera, Cate, Jayden, Ivan, Nika, Hannah, Alexander, Thomas, Maddie, Claire
  • Friday: Elizabeth, Antonio, William, Kara, Violet, Seannah, Maelle, Owen, Arielle, Taylor, Mona, Calia, Mia, Amina, Kara

Friday, November 22

• Make sure that you uploaded your favourite Abstract, Concrete poem to the Padlet – link in TEAMS
• Warm-up Activity  – share some of the poems
• Fourth Journal Entry (#5 on the Scales document) – Communication Poem – instructions in the WG tab of the Blog
  • while people are working on this writing activity, I will be calling people up with their journals for evidence of brainstorming around the following:
    • topic – what is your Spoken Word about?
    • purpose – what will you communicate to your audience? What might the take-away be?
    • tone – serious, poignant, funny, satirical?
    • format – a slam poem? a story? a mash-up of the two?
    • delivery – by yourself? or with another person?

Thursday

• Anyone willing to share their I Am From poem?
• One option for Spoken Word – a story! we will watch some and map how they fit the narrative steps outlined in the Plan, Perfect, Practice, Perform document
• Third Journal Entry – #3 on the Scales Journal document – recipe is on the blog:
  • Concrete Abstract Poem and Padlet link in the WG tab

Wednesday

• Another Master – take note of the devices first on the handout – then we will watch the performance
• In your journal, write down:
  • a thematic statement of purpose
  • your favourite line from the Sarah Kay’s Slam Poem
• Identity prompts: Second Journal Entry is #4 in the Spoken Word Scales – the ‘recipe’ for I Am From poem is in the Writing and Grammar tab of the blog

Tuesday

• view various ‘masters’ of Spoken Word – take note of: purpose, language and delivery manipulation
• first Journal Entry: #1 from the Spoken Word Scales English Honours 9

Timeline:

• Friday, November 22 – have your idea and some of the process (brainstorming evident in your journal)
• Monday, November 25 – a few more delivery and Journal Writing Activities
• Tuesday and Wednesday – writing/practicing/ intro to the novel
• Thursday and Friday – November 28, 29 = In-class performances!!! Be ready to go 🙂