Classroom Notebook
Copy the following format. We will be using this periodically throughout the year with a variety of characters.
Bio-poem
(first name)
Who is (four adjectives)
Mother/father/sister/brother/friend/husband/wife of ( )
Who loves (three things or people)
Who feels (three things...)
Who needs (three things)
Who gives (three things...)
Who fears (three things...)
Who would like to see (three things...)
Resident of (some place)
(last name)
Honors
-Time period notes
-Time period booklet instructions
-Character bio-poem
YOUR TWENTY QUESTIONS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE TOMORROW.
CP
-"Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle" study guide discussion
-Bio-poem
Monday, August 31, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE YOUR BINDER AND TWO NOTEBOOKS. THIS MONDAY YOU WILL HAVE A CLASSROOM NOTEBOOK ENTRY ON THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER OF THE BOARD.
Honors
-Study guide over "Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle"
-Discussion
HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY, September 1: After spending some time with Scala's chapbook, we are ready to write an outline for our own. Write twenty questions for _____________. Who or what are you going to write twenty questions for? Remember, your questions should be for someone or something that can't quite answer you back.
Today's discussions were incredible. I was impressed with your ability to analyze an entire chapbook of poetry. We talked about form, narrative, confession, repetition, intent, and theme (just to name a few things).
CP
-We started a study guide, but due to grade level meetings and the pep rally, class was cut short. We will finish the study guide on Monday and discuss the book.
Honors
-Study guide over "Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle"
-Discussion
HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY, September 1: After spending some time with Scala's chapbook, we are ready to write an outline for our own. Write twenty questions for _____________. Who or what are you going to write twenty questions for? Remember, your questions should be for someone or something that can't quite answer you back.
Today's discussions were incredible. I was impressed with your ability to analyze an entire chapbook of poetry. We talked about form, narrative, confession, repetition, intent, and theme (just to name a few things).
CP
-We started a study guide, but due to grade level meetings and the pep rally, class was cut short. We will finish the study guide on Monday and discuss the book.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27
Honors & CP
-Turn in surveys
-course description & classroom procedures
-"Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle" by J. Gabriel Scala
-Study Guide
Excerpted from the Wick Poetry Center website
J. Gabriel Scala's poems and reviews have appeared in Lullwater Review, Beacon Street Review, Poems & Plays, and Mid-American Review. "Inspired by the story of Secundus the Silent Philosopher and the twenty vital questions posed to him by Emperor Hadrian, J. Gabriel Scala's Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle moves swiftly and deftly into the essence of human existence—memory. Imbued with that ancient consideration, Robbie Dunkle emerges as a chance metaphor for the poet's own past, the dead past, which becomes our past, with all of its wonders and wastes, which only brilliant poetry can revive this powerfully."—Larissa Szporluk
-Turn in surveys
-course description & classroom procedures
-"Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle" by J. Gabriel Scala
-Study Guide
Excerpted from the Wick Poetry Center website
J. Gabriel Scala's poems and reviews have appeared in Lullwater Review, Beacon Street Review, Poems & Plays, and Mid-American Review. "Inspired by the story of Secundus the Silent Philosopher and the twenty vital questions posed to him by Emperor Hadrian, J. Gabriel Scala's Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle moves swiftly and deftly into the essence of human existence—memory. Imbued with that ancient consideration, Robbie Dunkle emerges as a chance metaphor for the poet's own past, the dead past, which becomes our past, with all of its wonders and wastes, which only brilliant poetry can revive this powerfully."—Larissa Szporluk
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26
Honors
-Essay Assessment over one summer reading book
-First day of class survey for Miss Sullivan
I collected your summer reading response notebooks and will have those back to you next week. Before class many of you were raving about one of the books you read for summer reading. It was refreshing to listen to your positive experiences. This was the first year that I allowed students to choose their books from a list. Hearing you share your excitement over your books is evidence that providing students with choice guarantees more students will be successful.
CP
-Introductions
-First day of class survey for Miss Sullivan
If you didn't finish your survey during class, please finish it at home and bring it back to me tomorrow.
-Essay Assessment over one summer reading book
-First day of class survey for Miss Sullivan
I collected your summer reading response notebooks and will have those back to you next week. Before class many of you were raving about one of the books you read for summer reading. It was refreshing to listen to your positive experiences. This was the first year that I allowed students to choose their books from a list. Hearing you share your excitement over your books is evidence that providing students with choice guarantees more students will be successful.
CP
-Introductions
-First day of class survey for Miss Sullivan
If you didn't finish your survey during class, please finish it at home and bring it back to me tomorrow.
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