Announcements
- CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
- Clean out old emails!
DO Now - Email Management
Mr. DeGrandis will demonstrate some cool tips to help you keep your Inbox junk-free!
Learning Target(s)
- I can create a narrative poem in the style of Inside Out and Back Again by Tahanhha Lai.
Mini-Lesson: None Today
- Begin working on your project! Remember tomorrow the first draft is due!
Work Time
- Work on your poem(s).
Assessment / Homework
- Your teacher will come around to check your progress to see that you are done. Remember - it doesn't have to be perfect! You will be revising it several times before the final copy is turned in.
TUESDAY 12-6 C-Day: Complete First Draft of Project & Enjambment
Announcements
- CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
- Clean out old emails!
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DO Now - Copy
Entry Title: Enjambment
- Line Without Enjambment:
Rolling through the field in the dead of winter.
Line With Enjambment:
Rolling through the field in the- dead
- of winter.
FIREWORKS (modified for lesson)by Katy Perry
Do you ever feel like a plastic bagdrifting through the wind wanting to start again?
Do you ever feel so paper thin like a house of cards?
You're just one blow from caving in?
You're just one blow from caving in?
Do you ever feel already
buried deep
six feet under screams but no one seems to hear a thing?
buried deep
six feet under screams but no one seems to hear a thing?
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Learning Target(s)
Mini-Lesson: End-Stops and Enjambment
Excerpt from BROTHER KHOI'S SECRET p.85
Learning Target(s)
- I can explain what enjambment is.
- I can identify enjambment in poetry.
- I can identify enjambment in my own poetry.
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Mini-Lesson: End-Stops and Enjambment
- Watch this video on ENJAMBMENT.
- Demonstration of how to identify enjambment in Inside Out and Back Again.
- Copy the all the PURPLE TEXT below into today's composition entry on ENJAMBMENT...
Brother Khoi stinks;
we can't ignore it.
He stews and sweats
in a jacket
he won't take off.
Forced to sponge-wipe
twice a day,
he wraps the jacket
around his waist.
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Excerpt from Last Respects p.83
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I don't know them,
so their pain seems unreal
next to Brother Khoi's,
whose eyes are as wild
as those of his broken chick.
I hold his hand:
Come with me.
He doesn't resist.
Alone at the back of the ship
I open Mother's white handkerchief.
Inside lies my mouse-bitten doll,
her arms wrapped around
the limp fuzzy body of his chick.
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Work Time
- Go through your poem(s) and fix the lines that should demonstrate enjambment and add end punctuation to those lines that don't.
- Highlight those lines you changes in yellow.
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Assessment / Homework
- Show your teacher your revised poetry.
WEDNESDAY 12-7 D-Day: Peer Review of Projects
Announcements
- CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
- Clean out old emails!
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DO Now - Copy
Copy the following into Vocabulary List III
9. conviction n. (convict, -ed, -s, -ing) a firmly held belief; a formal ruling that someone is guilty of a crime.
It is my firm conviction that all students have the ability to learn and be successful.10. monastery n. (-ed, -s, -ing) the place where a group of nuns or monks work and live either as a group or alone.
Brother Maurice lived in a beautiful monastery on Bolivia for most of his life.
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Learning Target(s)
- I can use the peer editing process to improve my poetry.
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Mini-Lesson: How to Peer Edit Using Google Docs
- Mr. DeGrandis will demonstrate how to...
- Use the rubrics to identify problems
- Share a document
- Make comments on a document.
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Work Time
- Peer edit one other person's poem(s)
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Assessment / Homework
- None
THURSDAY 12-8 A-Day: Complete Review and Make Edits
Announcements
- CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
- Clean out old emails!
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DO Now - None
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Learning Target(s)
- I can complete my project based on peer reviews and my own revisions.
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Mini-Lesson: None
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Work Time
- Complete your revisions and submit your final project for grading.
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Assessment / Homework
- Turn in your project.
FRIDAY 12-9 B-Day: DIRT Day
DIRT Day Expectations
- Do the following BEFORE the bell rings…
- Open your DIRT Day Assignment in Google Classroom.
- Be in your seat reading.
- Focus on your reading the entire period.
- Do not sub-vocalize during DIRT.
- Complete 10 thoughts using the Active Reading Model by the end of the period. Do more for extra credit.
If You Finish a Book…
In an email to Mr. DeGrandis, write a review about your book in 3-paragraph essay format.
Guidelines for the Essay:
- ¶ 1 - title, author and genre of the novel and your opinion of the book (controlling idea).
- ¶ 2 - short summary of the book and include at least two text-based examples from the book
that support your controlling idea in ¶ - ¶ 3 - explain why you would or would not recommend this book to a friend and where they might be able to find it or purchase it.
If You Forgot Your Book…
- Choose a book from the class library or Mr. DeGrandis will give you one.
- Be sure to bring your book next week.
If You Want to Switch Books…
In an email to Mr. DeGrandis, write an Abandon Book Essay.
Guidelines:
- ¶ 1 – title, author and genre of the novel you are abandoning and
three reasons you don’t like the book (controlling idea). - ¶ 2 through 4 - Develop each reason using text-based details from the book.
