All classes:

Today:

We reviewed foot and meter.

I collected any poetry video pieces for you project.  A reminder- these are due tonight by 8pm.  If you don't get an email confirmation, I did not get it.

We took a quiz on the poetry terms from your notes this week.

A + C Block watched the first part of the movie Dead Poets Society

B Block wrote from their unconscious mind and did some dream catching.  Please hold onto these sheets.  We will be basing poems off these on the Monday that we get back.

HW:  Have a restful vacation.  Please come back charged and ready to hit the last stretch with vigor.

all classes:

Today:

Journal Prompt #25:  Please explain in detail the connection to the poem that you selected for this project.  Please detail 3 lines that you connected to and WHY.  2/3 Page

We reviewed the project.

I broke you into small groups and had your film your 3 parts: 3-5 sent. as to who you are, 3-5 sent as to why you connected to your selected poem, a video of you reading your poem with feeling.

Please make sure that you label your folder and clips with your FULL name, and for the files, a brief identifier in the file title.

These can be sent together as a folder via dropbox
or
Submitted on Thursday on a flash drive/cd.

These are due Thurday by 8pm

Both Classes:

Today

We watched a short video explaining iambic pentameter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p226OX39OLs

We looked at previous examples of the poetry project:
https://vimeo.com/84856246

We went around the room and shared why you selected the poem that you brought in.

We defined the following terms:

Rhyme
End Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Consonance
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole

We wrote a who are you section in 3-5 sentences for your poetry project.

I explained the file structure and how to use dropbox to submit your project as a folder.
https://www.dropbox.com/

HW:  Please begin to study these definitions as well as the terms covered Monday.

Brit. Lit. + Comp. Lit II:

Today all of my classes did the same basic lesson plan:

Journal Prompt:  Write a 25 line poem on the topic of Spring and the glorious 75 degree weather today.

We took notes on Poetry:

We defined the different forms of metrical feet
We defined meter
We defined foot
We looked at the def. for different metrical lines.

I introduced America's favorite poem project.

I showed you examples from last term and from the project.

I gave you the assignment sheet:

Checklist:

Intro statement Recorded (3- 5 sentences.)

5 digital pictures sent, or 30 seconds of raw footage to have under your voice intro statement.  Please email them to me at cusicks@tantasqua.org by Thursday

 3-5 sent on why you picked the poem.  If this is on your own, I need the video by Thursday.

 

Video of you reading your poem.  Please list the title and poet before reading.

 These are all worth 20 points each.  The final assignment grade will be based on all parts combined and counted as a paper grade.  Effort is a major component of an assignment such as this.  Missing parts for Thursday will result in a deduction of your grade for the assignment.

 

We went outside b and C block and stomped around to Green Eggs and Ham looking at the sound of the metrical foot.

 

I broke you into small groups and asked you to make 4 lines of verse that follows the same trochaic foot.

 

HW:  Please bring in a poem or song lyric that you deeply connect to.  Please make sure you have a copy written or printed out.

 

 

 

 

John Martin’s Paradise Lost

Brit Lit:

Today:

Journal Prompt:  What are your thoughts on the afterlife?  Do we go to another place after death, or as Steve Jobs believed, are we like a light switch that just is turned off?  What has led you to you thoughts on life after death?     1 page

We read Paradise Lost to the spooky music of: Carl Orff - O Fortuna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxW2PLxjRwE

We looked paintings inspired by the poem  and made cartoon versions of the poem in small groups and shared these.

https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=879&q=paradise+lost&oq=paradise+lost&gs_l=img.3..0l10.1131.7229.0.7540.17.14.2.1.1.0.67.887.14.14.0....0...1ac.1.40.img..0.17.903.uL1qM1TRiSI

Comp. Lit. II:

Today:

We partnered up with another student that wrote the same essay prompt and conducted a peer edit.  Specifically, I asked you to read over the essay and look for:

Thesis
Examples
Transition sentences
The topic of each paragraph

You each filled out a peer edit interview form and offered feedback.

We went to the computer lab and finished your final draft of the essay.  This is 50% of your test grade.

C Block had the pleasure of Ms. Biggs helping out on the peer edit section.  Thank you.

Yale lecture on Milton for Brit Lit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0AcfjEGw_k

What is it like to go to Yale and be taught Milton- find out here and get wicked smart. :-)

Comp. Lit II:

Today:

We went over the requirements of your essay.

We went to the computer lab and wrote the 1st draft of your essay.

On Friday we will be working on a peer edit and working in those suggestions into your final copy.  This will be due at the end of class on Friday.

HW:  No official HW.  Please make sure that you have textual evidence for your paper if you have not done so already.

Brit Lit:

Today:

Journal Prompt:  Write a poem on the topic of LOVE.  20 lines min.

We looked at the poems that you read fro HW

We looked at the poetry of Robert Herrick.

We discussed George Herbert and landed on the basic idea of an Ode.  We read an Ode to Ben Jonson

I broke you up into groups of 2 and asked you to write an Ode to something or someone important to you.  It was interesting to see all of the things you wrote about- from the lunch lady to your Mom.

HW:  Please read the last two poem by Sir John Suckling- the poet with the worst last name of all time.

Brit. Lit:

Today:

We finished Dead Poets Society and looked at some of the poems from the movie.  We will finish that Thursday.

Journal prompt:  You have spent your entire lives in education.  What in your opinion makes a good teacher?  Who is the best teacher that you ever had and why?  If you could change modern education, what would you do different?   1/2 page