Today's Menu ~ March 31

3B: I will not be there for most of your class.

BLOG Topics...so far:

1. St. Patrick's Day...or Spring Break
2. Recommendation of Anthem...or your "mask" poem.

So far, based on the "mask" poems that I have read thus far...VERY good job!

1. Please re-read your poem, now that this work of poetic art has gone "cold," and proof for punctuation, for, unfortunately, your teacher does not approve of Emily Dickinson style of writing.

While the teacher is away, please work, in groups, on the following...remember, as you work, to keep our theme in mind: Utopia vs. Dystopia:

1. TPCASTT "Emily and Elvis."
2. Explain the significance of these similes in Anthem.
3. Conduct a literary autopsy on Equality 72522.

Each of you must complete the three assignments above. You may either type them on the documents provided or fill out the provided hard copies.

Today's Menu ~ March 29

Welcome Back!

Early kick-off...April is National Poetry Month! I have accepted a challenge...want to be a part of the fun?


Utopia vs Dystopia Unit...continues.

Vocabulary

• Click here for online version of your vocabulary words for Anthem.
• Go to your Gmail, open the shared Google Presentation, and create an example sentence of your assigned word using Anthem as the topic for your sentence.
• Test on terms on Friday.

Anthem overview

• Please read/view this PowerPoint.

Today's poetic focus:

• Please read this biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar and then read his poem "We Wear the Mask"
• Terms to know...meter, rhyme scheme, paradox, alliteration, metaphor, apostrophe.
• Be creative with your mask...using only colors, create a Utopian and a Dystopian mask.
• Your turn...In a Google Doc, write a poem in response to today's discussion entitled either "I Wear the Mask" or "No Mask I Wear." Within the poem, create an appeal to pathos and use a minimum of one vocabulary word. Then share the document with me.

Homework:

• Complete your mask assignments: you via colors and your poem.
• Study your vocab words. Use at least one vocab word in your poem.
• Please finish Anthem...if you have not.
  
  

Today's Menu ~ March 8

New novel...Anthem....essay contest info here. Yes, we are entering the contest.

Review for test today! Test on clauses on Thursday.

• Know the three types of subordinate clauses.
• Know the difference between independent (sentence) and dependent (subordinate) clauses.
• Be ready to diagram the three types of subordinate clauses.

Work on essay. Email your outline/intros to mrsg.homework@gmail.com.

Essay due on Friday.

• Cover page.
• Outline
• Essay

Blogs are due by Saturday at 5:00.

HOMEWORK:

• Thursday: Claust Test
• Friday: Essay due.
• Saturday: Blog posts due.

Today's Menu ~ March 5

List of blog topics may be found here.

Continue complex clauses.

• Diagram!
• Today's online quiz. Assign...more diagramming.
• Test on next Thursday!

The Call of the Wild

• Quiz!
• Author background.
• Discuss essay. Creat outline. Draft introduction.
• Essay: include complex sentences!
• Essay draft due on Tuesday.

HOMEWORK:

• Diagram: 3B Sentences 1-5. 4B Sentences 1-5.
• Essay: 3B and 4B Create an outline and draft your introduction.
• Work on blog posts.
• Enjoy your weekend!

Today's Menu ~ March 3

In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday yesterday:

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter

and those who matter don't mind.”

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent.
~Dr. Seuss

What figurative language term in used within this quote?

Time to Diagram Clauses!

• First read this PowerPoint.
• Now take this quiz. May use any notes you have!
• Time to diagram: Click here for samples.
• Now complete this quiz and diagram the following sentences: 3B -sentences 1-5 and 4B - sentences 6-10.

Review NEW essay assignment.

• Discuss/define the word synthesis.
• Discuss embedding quotes.

Review examples of pathos.

Reading time....shhhh!

HOMEWORK:

• Complete Call of the Wild for Friday. Think...think, I say...about your upcoming essay!
• Are all your blog posts published?
• Diagramming: Sentences 6-10

Today's Menu ~ March 1

Today, the Student Council and I are attending the district meeting.

Please turn in your example of pathos.

Now, email your essay to me at mrs.homework@gmail.com ...if you have not done so already.

Then, read the remainder of this post and complete the following:

• Open this document and preview your next essay assignment.
• You may read "Belief" and "A Short Jack London Biography" until no later than 12:20 for 3B and 2:00 for 4B.
• Once you have read "Belief" and a biography of Jack London, log off and close your computer.
• Read Call of the Wild for the remainder of the class.

Homework:

• Might consider taking notes or annotating as you read for evidence to support your chosen thesis. Please have all three sources read by Friday.
• Continue to review your literary terms.

I Heard You, Crist!

Crist asked if I might place all your assignments together, and I responded it's all on the blog.

Then, I began to think and to re-scan today's blog post and saw that the assignments are throughout the post, as I am sure that is how they are on most of the daily blog posts.

SOOOOO: from this day forth, I will sum up each day's assignments/expectations at the conclusion of the post.

Great idea...right?

I really heard you, Crist! Thanks!

Assignments:

1. Essay due on Monday! Essay needs a cover page, a typed outline, and your essay...all formatted APA style.
2. An example of Pathos due on Monday.
3. Read Call of the Wild for next Friday.
4. Work on your blog posts.

Have a great weekend!