A block only: This is due on Monday since you missed class yesterday and may miss tomorrow as well due to course selections. Here are some more sample list poems written and published by teens.
Discussed journal entries about article from NBC.com. Also discussed movie version vs. book version of "Flowers for Algernon." Worked in groups to analyze "The Truth about Why I Love Mashed Potatotes" by Makeel McBride, one possiblity to use as model for writing your own poem for multi genre paper. HW: Write a poem about your research topic modeled after a published poem. Possiblities include the potato poem which looks at a potato from 5 different perspectives. Another version of this is "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." You may also choose to write a list poem, such as the one attached here by Walt Whitman called "I Hear America Singing." Or, this list poem from Teen Ink called "I was raised by"
A block only: This is due on Monday since you missed class yesterday and may miss tomorrow as well due to course selections. Here are some more sample list poems written and published by teens. Compared movie with text in small groups. HW: Multigenre draft of poem postponed until Friday. In blue book write journal entry comparing attached article to story (3/4 page). If you don't know where to start, talk about what they are saying about superstition and religion in the story.
Reviewed FCA's fpr research papers. Peer edited papers. HW: Work on research papers. Link to OWL website for advice about parenthetical citations.
Began movie "Flowers for Algernon." HW: Draft of flash fiction 50-100 words on your research topic from Ms. Perrin's class. Remember we practiced writing these in class already. If you're stuck, try writing dialogue, but remember to include conflict and setting. We need to be able to picture a scene. Think about the sample I gave you where the kids were playing war games and then were called in to dinner. This is due whenever we return to school. Here are some samples from NPR.
Finished "Flowers for Algernon." Talked about fluid and crystallized intelligence. HW: Read and mark up the article you received in class, then write a journal in your blue book connecting article to "Flowers for Algernon." Honors article.
Non-honors article. Note: substitution of a journal entry for this assignment is not acceptable. You are only to be making this substitution when you have a problem with technology and never in the case when the original assignment is a journal entry. The assignments are always on the board. At this point in the year, you know whether you access to the internet is reliable, so copy the assignment down if it is not. Talked about FCA's for research paper. I will be looking at 3 areas: topic sentences, paragraph coherence, and application of comma rules. A detailed handout will be posted tomorrow. Continued reading "Flowers for Algernon." HW: 2 quotes from SSR book in blue journal and discuss using 2 column format.
Vocabulary quiz. Started journal entries in blue books in response to quotes from story. HW: Finish journal entries.
Worked on works cited page and title page HW: Study for vocab. quiz. Here are the words: absurd, hypothesis, impair, introspective, naivete, opportunist, proportional, regression, sensation, shrew, specialization, statistically, syndrome, tangible, vacuous.
Started/continued "Flowers for Algernon." HW: Practice sheet for vocabulary words. Do part A only. NOTE: If there's a snow day tomorrow, the poems in two voices (draft) for multigenre project are still due Thursday or the day we get back. Vocabulary quiz will also occur on Friday regardless of snow.
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