SWIMMERS

Many of you have talked to me EARLY (way to plan ahead) and asked what you will miss on Friday.

1. You can turn in your LI05 assessment on the character(s) from the short stories on Monday. (The post below this one has the link to the digital short stories)

2. We will be covering an assignment to do over the weekend that you will need to have done for Monday AND I think the Swim Meet would be a great place to complete the assignment (if you want).

To get to the assignment:

Go to blog (you are here) --> unit resources --> short stories --> short/creative --> go to the slide for 1 march and look at ENTRY #3

OR

Click on THIS LINK and it will take you directly to the slide that covers the assignment.

GOOD LUCK! SWIM HARD! and HAVE FUN!

Ms. Edmonds

Link to Short Stories

For those of you that would like to reference Geraldine Moore the Poet or  Betty Anne you can go to either:

blog (you are here) --> Unit Resources --> Short Stories --> digital copies of short stories

OR

Go to THIS LINK by clicking and it will get you directly to the folder with the digital copies of the short stories

1 March 2013

HAPPY MARCH!

Standard:
I can...
LI06: identify theme statement with supports
LI09: identify literary devices
LI05: analyze characters
Oregon Writing Traits

Agenda:

finish li05 chunks

Assign entry #3

Look at entry #4

28 February 2013

Standard:
I can...
LI06: identify theme statement with supports
LI09: identify literary devices
LI05: analyze characters
Oregon Writing Traits

Agenda:

Last Day for Poetry Revise March 1

idiosyncrasies

Betty Anne or Geraldine Moore Read

Character Sheet

video on characterization

Also available in "Unit Resources" under Short Stories

27 February 2013

Standard:
I can...
LI06: identify theme statement with supports
LI09: identify literary devices
LI05: analyze characters
Oregon Writing Traits

Agenda:

5min- Create a Story from your object

Characters (Cornell Notes)

Entry #1- someone

Entry #2- you

Exit Ticket- what did you learn about yourself

26 February 2013

Standard:
I can...
LI06: identify theme with supports
LI09: identify literary devices
LI05: analyze characters
Oregon Writing Traits

Agenda:

3rd - Poetry Gallery

4th - Finish Poetry Gallery

Overview of Short Stories/Creative Writing

2-8 pages

What will we look at?

What can you expect?

"What's on your walls"?

"The Idea of Ancestry" by Eheridge Knight

Write what's on your walls

Pick One

Rubrics/"Good Jobs"

Last Day to turn in Poetry Unit

I will accept revisions and initial turned in assignments no later than:

FRIDAY MARCH 1, 2013

- Ms. Edmonds

25 February 2013

Happy Monday. Hope you all have a great weekend.

We will wrap up poetry presentations and others will share an excerpt from their portfolio.

Tomorrow we will dive into Short Stories and Creative Writing!

Standard:

LI.09- I can identify literary devices

LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts

I can learn from my peers and be an incredible audience member

Agenda:

Presentations

EXIT CARD: 1 thing learned + 1 atta boy

22 February 2013

Standard:
LI.09- I can identify literary devices
LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts
I can learn from my peers and be an incredible audience member
Complete and turn in a Poetry Dictionary and Poetry Portfolio (if applicable)

Agenda:
TURN IT ALL IN!
Presentations
EXIT CARD: 1 thing learned + 1 atta boy

Standard:
LI.09- I can identify literary devices
LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts
I can learn from my peers and be an incredible audience member
I know what a villanelle, and a Pantoum poem are


Agenda:
Rubrics
Presentations
Villanelle + pantoum
Exit Tickets: 1 thing learned + 1 atta boy
FINAL DAY TOMORROW

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE PRESENTERS

This email is only for those that have committed to doing MISSION IMPOSSIBLE.

After the presentations by the bold students who went first, I had received some very important questions from fellow classmates. The questions were:

"Don't we need to have a visual for our presentation?" 

" Don't we need to talk about poetic devices in the poem?"

" We need to email you any technical stuff we want to do, right?"

" Can we bring in our music from our music device and plug it in?"

" Our presentation needs to be 7 minutes or less?"

The answer to all these questions is YES.

I would encourage all of you that are presenting to look over the Poetry Packet and what is expected for Mission Impossible as well as look at the RUBRIC for presentation. Both of these items have been looked at and addressed in class as well as provided for you on the internet. 

Here is a link for the Poetry Packet detailing Mission Impossible:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0_lmWrcbpGcY3U4LUFXZW12ekE/edit

Here is a link to the Rubric that will be used to grade you:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArNanB6Pg_pQdHg2RkpyVWR0cThJZHMtSEhKNGRfalE#gid=1

Please prepare accordingly and with the excellence that I know you are all capable of as Honors Freshmen.

Ms. Edmonds

20 February 2013

Standard:
LI.09- I can identify literary devices
LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts
I can learn from my peers and be an incredible audience member
I know what a villanelle poem is
I know what a Pantoum poem is

Agenda:
DOL -- epitaph or Haiku
Presentations
Pantoum/Villanelle
Exit Card: 1 Thing learned + 1 "atta boy"

19 February 2013

Standard:
LI.09- I can identify literary devices
LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts
I can write a Cinquain poem
I know what is expected of me for my Poetry Projects

Agenda:
Cinquain/DOL (3rd)
"The Bells" - - - What were those words again?
Rubric
Who has committed?
Expectations

Poetry Rubrics

Poetry Rubrics

15 February 2013

no school Monday

Standard:
LI.09- I can identify literary devices/figurative language
LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts
I can write a short story/poem from selected words
I can figure out what is expected of me for the poetry turning in from a rubric

Agenda:
Cinquain
Short Story
"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
- Refrain
Rubrics for Poetry Unit

Cinquain
How To:
Name Corrie
2 Adjectives    Driven, Tired
3 Action Verbs           Reading, Laughing, Dancing
4 word phrase              look at her go
1 or 2 words about Advocate
 character

Phrases to Poem
1. To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

2. What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

3. What a gush of euphony volumino

4. Through the balmy air of night

5. From the molten - golden notes,

6. What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!

7. In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,

8. By the side of the pale - faced moon.

9. What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!

10 . A paean from the bells!

14 February 2013

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OREGON!

"She flies with her own wings"

Standard:
LI.09- I can identify literary devices/figurative language
LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts
Can you write a bad love poem?

Agenda:
Oregon Trivia
Haiku/Concrete Poem
Bad Love Poems
- What makes them so bad?
- Can you write a bad love poem?

1. If love is the ocean, I'm the Titantic.

2. Baby I burned my hand on

The frying pan of our love

But still it feels better

Than the bubble gum that hold us together

Which you stepped on

3. I need your love to keep me warm
Like the fires burning inside of us
Pushing us over the edge of insanity
Keeping us so close together in heart
And yet so far apart in miles

4.
I wish I could
Tell you what's
In my heart.
But I don't
Remember all
The names of the
Ventricles and stuff
5. When we're together
     I feel so alive

Then it occurs to

Me I can breathe

Other times too

13 February 2013

Standard:
LI.09- I can identify literary devices
LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts

Agenda:
DOL
- 3 letters
- Limerick or Clerihew
Share Epitaph
Metaphor Races
Haiku/Concrete (HW)

Olive Garden Pasta Tales

How would you help and end hunger in your community? Olive Garden wants to know....

write an essay! (50-250 words)

and win! 

Click this link to find out the details

12 February 2013

Standard:LI.09- I can identify literary devices
LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts


Agenda:
Epitaph

Beneath This Stone Rests My Love

Her Soul Long Ago Free As A Dove

When I Come To Visit This Special Place

I Shall Always Recall Her Smiling Face

*

Gone, But Not Forgotten

Free Verse and Stanza
"Traveling Through the Dark"

11 February 2013

Standard:
LI.09- I can identify literary devices
LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts

Agenda:
commit to what doing for option #1 or #2
- Packet #11-20
-- touch on Allusion, Imagery, Symbolism
- Ms. Edmonds' Mission Impossible - "Skinny Love" by Bon Iver
- What are you committing to?

08 February 2013

Standard:
LI.09- I can identify literary devices
LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts


Agenda:
Dictionary + Poem Packet
Limerick + Clerihew
"The Leap" by James Dickey
- What happens when Poetry doesn't obviously rhyme?
- Onomatopoeia

07 February 2013

Standard:
LI.09- I can identify literary devices
LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts

Agenda:
PARENT LETTER DUE
DOL : Three Letters (1 vowel 2 consonants)
- Brainstorm Words
- 3 Sentences: 1 FANBOY, 1 AAAWWUBBIS, 1 interruptor
"A Boy Named Sue" by Shel Silverstein

- Internal/Slant Rhyme

"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath
- Assonance, Alliteration, Consonance

6 February 2013

Standard:
LI.09- I can identify literary devices
LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts
Agenda:
like you know" by Taylor Mali

Options #2/#3 in Poetry Packet
"A Boy Named Sue" Slant Rhyme and End Rhyme
Exit Card: What option are you THINKING of doing?
Library?????

Apology- No more Calendar

Good Morning.
It was brought to my attention that the FORMER calendar app on the blog had displayed an inappropriate advertisement. I was aware that this widget had running advertisements, but was unaware of the lack of discretion. I am disappointed, yet was nothing a delete in the edit page could not fix.

Thank you to that person who took the time to contact me. I will be on the hunt for a new "ad free" calendar widget- if you know of one please do not hesitate to send me a link. Again, I apologize for any of you who were subject to such an inappropriate greeting when visiting the blog.

Have a lovely Thursday,

Ms. Edmonds

05 February 2013

Standard:

RE.22- I can identify the author's purpose of the poetry packet

LI.09- I can identify literary devices

LI.06- I can identify themes and provide support from texts

Agenda:

Parent Letter/Syllabus/Blog

Power Write à Free Write à Found Poem

Poetry Outloud Contest???  FEB 20

Poetry Packet

  - ALL DO DICTIONARY

        ---“Wood Chuck” 1 and 2

         ------ End Rhyme

  - Whole packet due ___February 22_______

04 February 2013

Great First Day....

Agenda:
Seats"Name card" Two Truths and a Lie
Exit Ticket:Seat Card

Mini-tutorial on how to navigate through blog