Express your thoughts and opinions about the movie “Shakespeare in Love.”
February 4, 2010
Game Plan:
- SSR
- Finish Sonnet Activity
- Intro choral reading
- Work on reading
- Present MONDAY!!!!
HOMEWORK: BLOG # 2A AND STUDY CHORAL READING LINES!!!
Today, we began class with SSR. We continued working on our sonnet activity with our 7’o’clock buddy with only 27 minutes left! Then, we were introduced to choral reading and with our assigned sonnet are supposed to work with other groups with the same sonnet. On Monday we will present our lines to the class!
February 3, 2010
Game Plan:
- SSR
- Renaissance Intro Quiz
- Review the wheel & formula: T/S + D+C+R=Prompt
- Assign sonnet:
- Paraphrase.
- Identify at least 3 literary devices.
- Write 3 prompts
Today was a pretty ea-zee, pea-zee day. We began the class with SSR and sat next to our seven ‘o’clock buddy. Then, we had a group quiz, which involved the entire class. Unfortunately, for those who actually completed their homework, it wasn’t so fortunate. After, we reviewed the “wheel,” and the “formula” to write a prompt. Once we finished reviewing, we moved on to our assignment of the day….THE SONNET. Each pair was assigned one sonnet and had to paraphrase it, identify at least 3 literary devices, and write three prompts. We were only allowed forty minutes, so we had to rush it. Also, writing workshop has been officially “kicked to the curb.”
HOMEWORK: BLOG 2A
February 1, 2010
Game Plan:
- SSR & Welcome MEEEE!!!!!
- Collect literary terms worksheet.
- Introduction to Renaissance…
So today, we started off with SSR and read for twenty minutes, as usual. Then, we welcomed our scribe of the week. Once, we were done with that Katie was nice enough to go around and collect our literary terms worksheet. Afterwards, Mrs. Edwards introduced us to into our new period, the Renaissance! She talked very quickly so we could have the rest of the block to work on a worksheet; however, plenty of us were not fortunate enough to finish during class; so, she handed out a booklet and our homework was to complete the worksheet.
HOMEWORK: Finish the Renaissance worksheet!!
January 31, 2010
Shakespeare’s sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, is a collection of poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as time, love, beauty and mutability. They were probably written over a period of several years. All 154 poems appeared in a 1609 collection, entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS, comprising 152 previously unpublished sonnets and two (numbers 138 and 144) that had previously been published in a 1599 miscellany entitled The Passionate Pilgrim.
The first 17 sonnets are written to a young man, urging him to marry and have children, thereby passing down his beauty to the next generation. These are called the procreation sonnets. Most of them, however, 18-126, are addressed to a young man expressing the poet’s love for him. Sonnets 127-152 are written to the poet’s mistress expressing his strong love for her. The final two sonnets, 153-154, are allegorical. The final thirty or so sonnets are written about a number of issues, such as the young man’s infidelity with the poet’s mistress, self-resolution to control his own lust, beleaguered criticism of the world, etc.
Your assignment:
Choose one of Shakespeare’s sonnets from the link below. Read it, try to understand it, then post the following:
1. Title of sonnet
2. What do you think it means? Paraphrase the sonnet in your own words.
3. Do you agree or disagree with the sonnet’s message? Why or why not?
January 29, 2010
Game Plan
- Scribe Sign-up
- Harkness/clock budddies
In class today we only have 40 minutes so we did not start off with SSR. We did however have a discussion about the quiz we took yesterday. The majority of the class agreed that they liked it when it was a free for all, and they could use anything in the class. Mrs. Edwards said she observed students looking frustrated on round one, seemed to teach each other on round two, and gravitate towards their friends on round three. The purpose of this exercise was to find out how you best work, and to expose us to what students do in college. Once the discussion was over we did clock buddies. The inner circle rotated, and the outer stayed put. Every clock buddy we got Mrs. Edwards asked a question that we had to discuss with our clock buddy. We did that until the end of the block.
January 28, 2010
Game Plan
-SSR
-Literary Term Quiz
HW: do Blog Assignment 1A
Today in English class we started off with 20 minutes of SSR. Once that was completed Mrs. Edward proceeded to give us our quiz. We had 40 minutes to match 60 examples to 60 terms. At the end of the 40 minutes I think its safe to say no one had completed their quiz. Mrs. Edward had us flip over our answer sheet, and write about how we felt. When we had finished that she told us we could work with the person across from us. Relief flooded the room when the class learned we had more time. Once that time was up she had us write down how we felt being able to have more time, and work with a partner. Then for the rest of the block we had time to finish the quiz using anything in the classroom. It was a social experiment more then a quiz. Mrs. Edward said she was more interested in what you wrote on the back then the quiz itself. She also meantioned we will be going over all these terms during the semester.
January 27, 2010
Game Plan
-Sit in Alphaetical order
-SSR
-Literary terms assignment
HW: finish literary terms , blog assignment 1A, bring wheel to class
Today we started off with SSR for 20 minutes. After the 20 minutes Mrs. Edwards told us some announcements. One of them was grammer and puntuation would now be graded for blog assignments. She also told us when writing a blog to address all the parts of the blog. Another important announcement was that Friday is a four core roation, and we will be taking our group surveys that day. Once the announcements were done she gave us our class work, which is to define 60 literary terms. We will need to know these terms for writing acidemic papers. In addition, we will be having a quiz on them tomorrow with examples of each literary term. The rest of the block we worked on defining them.
January 25, 2010
It’s the beginning of the new semester and it’s a good time to reassess our strengths and weaknesses in the academic arena, specifically in English. For this week’s assignment, write a 5-10 sentence paragraph explaining what you think are your strengths in English. Then write a 5-10 sentence paragraph explaining your weaknesses – or areas in which you would like to improve – and how you intend or hope to better yourself in the coming semester.
January 21, 2010
January 21, 2010
The Game Plan
- SSR
- Announcements
- Career Day
- House Interviews
- Extra Credit
- Harkness
Homework:
Just study for Final
The day was like any other day. We started off with 2o min of SSR, and thought we were going to do the Harkness, but…Didnt. East house had the fortunate option of either watching the rest of the Canterbury Tales or Harkness, so in order to be fair, all the rest of the Houses were given that option as well. We all decided on watching the movie, but, before that Mrs. Edwards let us have a brief Q& A about the Final on Monday.
The final will basically be a review of everything that we have learned. So be sure to review the Anglo-Saxon chapter, and the plots for Beowolf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Also you should know the Sins of the People in the Canterbury Tales, and the plots of the Pardoner and Wife.
Some things to know about the Final:
- 84 multiple choice
- there will be a grammar portion
- Know your literary terms(irony, characterization, ect)
- you may use an 8.5×11 page of notes for the Final
