This Week in MzT's Classroom 9/24-9/28 2018

Monday

Grades 12-7 Study of Poetry
Outside Reading Check
Introduction to Poetry

Poetry Terminology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_ZUw5rcKU

Notation: Elements of Poetry
Seniors: Intro. to Beowulf
HW: Learn Elements of Poetry

Tuesday
Grades 12-7
Journaling
Study of Poetry

POETRY TERMS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnPU8AOuQ_A

Quiz: Elements of Poetry
Outside Reading Check
Introduction to Poetry
Notation: Figurative Language
HW Grade 11 Survey of English Lit :
Packet
Olaudah Equiano
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15399/15399-h/15399-h.htm
HW: Learn Elements of Figurative Language

Wednesday
Grades 12-7 Study of Poetry

Quiz: Figurative Language
Outside Reading Check
Poetry
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken

Thursday
Grades 12-7 Journaling
Study of Poetry
Poetry
Longfellow
The Rainy Day
HW Compare 'The Road Not Taken' to 'The
The Rainy Day
Compare and Contrast Rough Draft

Friday
Grades 12-7 Study of Poetry
Poetry
Grades 7, 8, 9 10
Write Compare and Contrast Essay with collaboration
Grades

Grades 11 and 12
Write Literary Analysis Essay with collaboration
Edutopia Rubric Literary Analysis
https://backend.edutopia.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/stw/edutopia-stw-yesprep-rubric-literary-analysis.pdf

Journaling 9/25/18

Study of Poetry-Let's begin

Poetry is a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions. The poet does this by carefully choosing and arranging language for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

Figurative language is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation (actual words used), often to describe something by comparing it to something else or to create mental pictures with words.

Let's start with two poems everyone should be familiar with.

The Road Not Taken

By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

 Robert Frost 

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/192

The Rainy Day
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1842

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.



My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.



Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/henry-wadsworth-longfellow

Don't Like Poetry? Betcha do.

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2018/04/dont-like-poetry-betcha-do.html

National Novel Writing Month

NaNoWriMo Young Writer's Program
https://ywp.nanowrimo.org/

Journaling 9/20/18

Reviewing for the Usage Test

Thank you, Word Art  https://wordart.com/

Finishing out Grammar and V.ocabulary Week

In some cases, notice if you are examining the subject of the sentence or the object of the sentence.

Simply put- here are hints for the Usage Test:

ridden rode
We Us
drank drunk
rang rung
came come
was were
don't doesn't
I me
rang rung
was were
he him

Ideas for Outside Read-Book Report Alternatives

Testing Ideas-What Do You Think?

This Week in MzT's Class 9/16-9/20

This week we are concentrating on Grammar and Vocabulary with some Sentence Combining thrown in.

Grades 9. 10, 11, 12

Parts of Speech (Grammar Lesson) - Noun, Verb, Pronoun, Adjective, Adverb, Conjunction, and More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJ7lqxBBXo

M. English Grammar Guidebook Packet

Parts of Speech (Grammar Lesson) - Noun, Verb, Pronoun, Adjective, Adverb, Conjunction, and More

Section 1 Parts of Speech, Prepositional Phrases, Correct Usage Study Guide
HW pages 1-6.

T. Section 2 Usage Connected with Prepositions

    Section 3 Punctuation of Prepositional Phrases, Correct Usage
    Section 4 Developing Sentences by Adding Prepositional Phrases, Word Study
HW pages 7-12.

W.

Prepositional Phrases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS3bKw_cyowz

 Introduce Vocabulary Words.
1. incessant- continual
2. inevitable- unavoidable
3. catastrophe- disaster
4.  intricate- complicated
5. fascinating- captivating
6. turbulent- tumultuous
7. (to) discriminate- to differentiate
8.opportune- favorable
9. (to) contrive- to devise
10. (to) facilitate- to make easier
11. placid- calm


For Further Progress
1. enervating- stimulating
2. dilapidated- Partially ruined from neglect
3. ovation- acclamation of popularity
4. (to) extricate- to disentangle
5. casualty- accident
6. versatile- able to do many things well
7. reticence- reserve in speech
8. insipid- uninteresting

Th Station Rotation
Review Vocabulary list, using Thesaurus.com for synonyms
HW study for test

F Test
Usage
Vocabulary





Grades 7 and 8
Grammar Book and Words Introduced Into Early English

M.

Where did English come from? - Claire Bowern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEaSxhcns7Y

Review Section of Chapter One
Introduced Words from Early English Language Development
Wordlist
Celtic
Latin
Anglo-Saxon
Norman
HW Study Latin roots

T Review Words from Early English Language Development

HW Study French roots

W Practice matching words to appropriate source

Th Practice Test for Root Words

HW Study Root Words for Test


F Test on Words from Early English Language Development

Authors from Our Reading List: Marguerite Henry

Wesley Dennis (illustrator) and Marguerite Henry, author of Kind of the Wind--Newberry Award Winner.

Teachable Moment: Vote

Authors for Our Reading List: David McCullough

Notice the typewriter.

Enjoy reading history? Check out this author.

And so many more to choose from!

Sentence Combining

 

I have long been a fan of sentence combining activities as a meaningful and effective way of improving students’ writing skills. Since the 1960’s, research studies have shown that sentence combining is an effective way to teach grammar to students in elementary through college levels and improves student writing. This is especially so for students who struggle with writing. The Writing Next report (2007)  based on Graham and Perin’s meta-analysis of writing instruction research, identified sentence combining as one of the eleven most effective instructional practices for improving the writing of students in grades 4-12   Sentence Combining https://keystoliteracy.com/blog/sentence-combining/ 

How to Combine Sentences Effectively 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFAfeE8mGDU

Rules for Combining Sentences (includes grade levels)

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/sentences/rules-for-combining-sentences.html 

 Evaluating Sentence Combinations

After combining a set of sentences in a variety of ways, you should take the time to evaluate your work and decide which combinations you like and which ones you don't. You may do this evaluation on your own or in a group in which you will have a chance to compare your new sentences with those of others. In either case, read your sentences out loud as you evaluate them: how they sound to you can be just as revealing as for how they look.
Here are six basic qualities to consider when you evaluate your new sentences:

1. Meaning. As far as you can determine, have you conveyed the idea intended by the original author?
2. Clarity. Is the sentence clear? Can it be understood on the first reading?
3. Coherence. Do the various parts of the sentence fit together logically and smoothly?
4. Emphasis. Are keywords and phrases put in emphatic positions (usually at the very end or at the very beginning of the sentence)?
5. Conciseness. Does the sentence clearly express an idea without wasting words?
6. Rhythm. Does the sentence flow, or is it marked by awkward interruptions? Do the interruptions help to emphasize key points (an effective technique), or do they merely distract (an ineffective technique)?Introduction to Sentence Combining  https://www.thoughtco.com/an-introduction-to-sentence-combining-169242

  List of Subordinate conjunctions

Some Subordinating Conjunctions

after, although, as, as if, as long as, as much as, as soon as, as though, because, before, by the time, even if, even though, if, in order that, in case, in the event that, lest , now that, once, only, only if, provided that, since, so, supposing, that, than, though, till, unless, until, when, whenever, where, whereas, wherever, whether or not, while