Honors
-Presentations

CP
-Halloween "Raven Simpsons"

Honors
-Turn in Edwards homework
-presentations

CP
-Use the following words in a writing prompt: wishbone, hollow, owl, blush, and playground

Share a few lines of what you wrote or are writing in your letter to Edwards regarding his sermon.

Honors
-Presentations
-Edwards homework due tomorrow

CP
-Listen to "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" 107-111
-Answer 1-3, 6, page 112
-Write a letter to Edwards

Honors
-Presentations
Homework: Please read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," on pages 104-111. Write a one page letter to Jonathan Edwards in response to his sermon. Due Thursday.

CP
-Read the play "Hole in my Life"

Honors
-Slaughterhouse-Five presentations
If you are absent from class, please make sure you see the presenter to get hand-outs. You will be assessed on all books.

CP
-Symbolic representation of "Harrison Bergeron" (Last time to work on it in class)

Book Review Example

New Zealand writer Helen Rickerby’s second book, My Iron Spine, is poignant, witty, tender, fun, and moving.

Rickerby has organized the book into three sections. The first section, Flashes of déjà vu, is compiled mostly of autobiographical pieces. A charming voice waltzes through the narrative, saying things like, I was playing hungry / hungry hippos / when my grandmother died or I wonder / if the Kingdom of Heaven / is like the Titanic- / not enough lifeboats.

A striking poem in this section is Eleven Fragments of God. Rickerby poetically meanders through questions, stories, and dialogue, pertaining not only to metaphysics, but also to personal grief. Corsets and comforts titles the second section of My Iron Spine. The poet writes in the persona of several women, including Artemisia Gentileschi, Mary Shelley, and Sylvia Plath.

In the third and final section, Laughing at Ophelia, the poet invents a world where she imaginatively spends time with an array of historical women. Check out a few of the titles: Burning with Joan of Arc, Swimming Lessons with Virginia Woolf, Housework with Linda and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Kate Sheppard and I go for a Ride. In the final poem, Rickerby hangs out with New Zealand born writer Katherine Mansfield. The poem, titled Partying with Katherine Mansfield starts out ‘Don’t be a bore,” says Katie / as she pulls me up by my arm / to the dance floor.

At times My Iron Spine is akin to Anne Carson’s The Glass Essay. Rickerby seamlessly layers her work with research, autobiography, and imagination. What more could a reader want from a book of poetry? Rickerby is a poet who celebrates women and their lives. Most of all, she celebrates their voices.

My Iron Spine is available at Amazon.com.

I had anticipated grading classroom notebooks tomorrow (Saturday) while I was proctoring the ACT in my classroom. Unfortunately, I had to rush home from school today and take Edith, my youngest dog, to the vet. She will be fine. However, I will be staying home with her tonight and tomorrow. Because I rushed home from school anticipating that I would be there tomorrow for the ACT, I did not bring home my gradebook or the notebooks. I do apologize, but I will update grades as as soon as possible next week.

Also, I would like to say that I am especially proud of my 7th period class for listening to me, respecting what I have to say, and working on becoming accountable young adults. Keep it up. You too, Kevin:)

Honors
-"Harrison Bergeron" Symbolic Representation

CP
-"Harrison Bergeron" study guide group work

Classroom Notebook

Are you a Harrison or a George/Hazel? Explain.

Honors
-"Harrison Bergeron" discussion

CP
-Read "Harrison Bergeron"
-Complete study guide with selected group

Classroom Notebook

1. What do you think O'Brien is attempting to accomplish in "Lives of the Dead?" Does this ending satisfy the book? Explain.

2. Discuss Kathleen's role in the novel.

3. Play editor. You must remove three sections/stories from the book. Which stories do you think could be removed without altering the integrity of the book? Explain.

4. Play editor some more. Choose five sections/parts of the book to create a novella. Which sections would you choose? Why? What would be the title of this novella?

Honors
-Work on presentation (last work day)
"Harrison Bergeron" is to be read, study guide completed...for tomorrow

CP
-work on book review & classroom notebook questions

Writer's Notebook

Write about a world where everyone is equal. How would you set up this world? Analyze the world you have created. What are the positives? Negatives?

Honors & CP
-Finish The Things They Carried
-Write a three paragraph informal book review. You may use first person. You must include a minimum of one quote. Remember, a good review includes what works and doesn't work in a book. This review should be written in your classroom notebook.

Honors homework-Read "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut and complete the study guide for Thursday.

Dear Tyler...We hope your surgery went well. We are thinking about you.

CLASSROOM NOTEBOOK

Which character are you most like and why?

Honors
-"Night Life" quiz
-"Lives of the Dead"
-Homework: active/passive hand-out

CP
-"The Lives of the Dead"

Honors
-Presentation work day

CP
-"Night Life" quiz

CLASSROOM NOTEBOOK

Active voice-subject of the sentence performs the action
Example: The teacher writes on the chalkboard

Passive voice-
Example: The chalkboard is written on by the teacher

Honors
-Continue reading "The Ghost Soldiers" & "Night Life"
-Pantoum or ghazal due tomorrow

CP
-Active/passive hand-out
-Read "Night Life"

HONORS
-Project presentation work day

CP
-Read "Good Form" 179-180
-Answer the following questions
1. What does O'Brien mean by the terms "story truth" and "happening truth?"
2.Did O'Brien kill a man? Explain.
3. Explain, in detail, why stories are important to O'Brien.
-Read "Field Trip"

Writer's Notebook

"Life is a growing expedition through the tangled unfilled-in parts. What happens after age nine? Because of the fear we don't trust our own life? Our story? Our colors? To be afraid and leap regardless- there is so much power in that. We must show up for our own life. Be brave. Be messy. Be loud. Be strong. Trust yourself."
-Sabrina Ward Harrison

HONORS & CP

Guided free write and discussion concerning the application of this quote to our own lives.

Honors
-presentation work day

CP
-pep rally

CLASSROOM NOTEBOOK

Sullivan's ghazal notes
1. pronounced guzzle
2. Persian form of poetry
3. written in couplets
4. often, the couplets can stand alone
5. the same word is used at the end of the 1st and 2nd line of the first couplet and then at the end of each 2nd line
6. poet signs his/her name in the last line

HONORS
-discuss ghazals & pantoums
-continue "The Ghost Soldiers"

CP
-read "In the Field"
-O'Brien's diary entry

Honors
-Discuss presentation guidelines
-Read "The Ghost Soldiers"

CP
-"Speaking of Courage" writing assessment
-Read "Notes"

All classes

Found poem share day (We will go from desk to desk and read each other's work)


MONDAY, OCTOBER 5

Classroom notebook

Pantoum
1. each stanza is four lines long
2. poem must begin and end with the same line
3. second and fourth quatrain become the first and third lines of the next, and so on with succeeding quatrains
4. the final quatrain changes this pattern
in the final quatrain the unrepeated first and third lines are used in reverse as second and fourth lines

Honors
-discuss "story truth" & "happening truth"
-O'Brien diary entry due tomorrow.

CP
-free write
-share writing

Honors
-Free write
-"I remember" work & share time
-"Style" & "Speaking of Courage" discussion
PRESENTATION PROPOSALS DUE TOMORROW

CP
-Work on found poem
-Read "Speaking of Courage"