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Journaling 10/4/18

Here's a Vocab Boost

Journaling 10/2/18

This Week in MzT's Classroom 10/1/18-10/5/18

This week classes are finishing presentations of alternative reading reports. How fun this is!

Our study of poetry will continue--Grades 12 and 11 will develop a Literary Analysis Essay. The students may choose between  "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, and "The Rainy Day," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Grades 8, 9, and 10 will write Compare/Contrast essays on those two poems. Quite a good challenge! Grade 7 will develop a graphic organizer comparing the two poems.

Monday 
Grades 10 and 11
               Metaphors
               
The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0edKgL9EgM

HW Summarize notes from the Elements of Poetry.

Grades 12, 9, 8, 7
Finish Alternative Reading Projects.

HW Summarize notes from the Elements of Poetry.

Tuesday
Grades 10 and 11
Alternative Book Reports
HW Develop Outline for Essay

Grade 12, 9, 8, 7
Review elements of poetry. Discuss metaphor
The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0edKgL9EgM

Develop graphic organization for Compare and Contrast Essay of Frost and Longfellow.

HW fill in graphic organizer.

Wednesday
Grades 11 and 10
Alternative Book Reports
Discussion of Metaphor

Grade 12, 9, 8, 7
Discussion of Metaphor
Development of a Graphic Organizer

Thursday
Grades 12, 11,
Collaborative Teams discuss Rough Drafts for Literary Analysis Essay on choice between  Frost and Longfellow.

HW Write Rough draft for Literary Analysis Essay.

Grades 10, 9, 8,and 7.

Collaborative Teams discuss Rough Drafts for Compare/Contrast Essay of Frost and Longfellow.

HW Grades 10, 9, and 8 Write Rough Draft for Compare/Contrast Essay of Frost and Longfellow.
HW Grade 7 has a choice to fill in a Graphic Organizer or a Rough Draft for an Essay.

Friday
Grades 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7
Grades 12 and 11 will write a Literary Analysis Essay on their choice between the poems of Frost and Longfellow.
Grades 10, 9, 8 will write a Compare/Contrast Essay on the two poems.
Grade 7 will have a choice of filling a Graphic organizer or writing a Compare/Contrast Essay.

Help for Writing Essays for College Applications

Popular College Application Essay Topics (and How to Answer Them)

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-advice/application-essay-topics

How to Write the Common Application Essays 2018-2019 (With Examples)

https://blog.collegevine.com/how-to-write-the-common-application-essays-2018-2019/

Crafting an Unforgettable College Essay

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-advice/college-essay

2018-2019 Common Application Essay Prompts

https://www.commonapp.org/whats-appening/application-updates/2018-2019-common-application-essay-prompts

Your Guide to the Common Application

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-advice/are-you-ready-for-the-common-app

How to Get Great College Letters of Recommendation

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-advice/letter-of-recommendation

How to Write a High School Resume for College Applications

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-advice/high-school-resume

METAPHORS BE WITH YOU

The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0edKgL9EgM

A Writing Strategy That Works For Every Student, Every Time

https://www.teachthought.com/literacy/pre-writing-strategy-works-every-student-every-time/

Journaling 9/27/18

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/