Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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"

Monday, October 12, 2009

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.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Honors
-presentation work day

CP
-pep rally

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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

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

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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"