Week 2: September
2-5
Poetry and SSR
Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014
• Pick up all handouts: Writing Territories, Notecard, Stamp book
• Just grab your nametag; no writing folders today.
• No attendance question today, your presentation will be the
attendance
• Book Check Tomorrow
Bathroom Passes
• Put your name on each square to prevent theft
Presentations
• Tell me about your six sides
• 1-2 minutes
• Questions on the notecards turned in at the end.
Journals: Take a picture. Set up
your journal.
• Writing Territories, Inside cover
• Title page/ Goals Page 1-2
• Unit One T.O.C. 3-4
• Number, title, and date each entry in your journal
• You can choose to number only the even pages in your journal or the odd
pages
• First Six Weeks Stamp Sheet 5
• Pocket 6
• Stick bathroom passes in there
Stamp Book
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014
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Pick Up:
Grab journals
Take out SSR Books
Attendance Question: What is your SSR Book?
While I’m taking attendance, answer question 3 on Hip- Hop Saved my
Life Handout.
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014
• Pick Up: “Cross” by Langston Hughes, “The Road Not Taken” by
Robert Frost
• Grab journals and folders
• Attendance Question: Favorite Cartoon
• While I’m taking attendance, write your warm-up in your journal.
• Page 7 in your Notebook
• Title: Moral Dilemma Warm-up
• Copy and Respond to the following scenario:Your best friends are dating
each other. If you saw one of your friends kissing someone else, would you
tell your other best friend?
• Write for 7 minutes explaining why you chose to do what you decide to
do.
Share your decision with a
partner
• People who tell to the left
• People who don’t tell to the right
Moral Dilemma
Ms. Andrews
WHAT IS A VALUES OR MORAL
DILEMMA?
We all face situations every day that require us to make choices or
decisions. Sometimes these are uncomfortable or awkward and demand
difficult decision‐making. Situations that generally require asking the
age‐old question, “What is the ethically right thing to do?” are called
values or moral dilemmas.
• Moral reasoning is a process that helps individuals think through
possible implications and consequences of actions in response to
values or moral dilemmas.
WHAT IS A VALUES OR MORAL
DILEMMA DISCUSSION?
After reviewing a dilemma of values or morality:
• Discuss possible action choices that the central character in the
dilemma has.
• Decide what you believe the character should do and consider why
you believe certain choices are right or wrong.
• Consider the implications of such actions on other characters.
• Review how personal opinions with the group may have changed
during the discussion.
Key Terms
• Morality‐‐‐Focus the discussion mainly on issues of right and wrong.
• Justification‐‐‐ Give and discuss reasons for your decisions and
reflect on the reasons given by others.
FIVE ESSENTIAL
INGREDIENTS OF A
GOOD VALUES/MORAL
DILEMMA DISCUSSION
FOCUS
A genuine situation that is possible in the lives of individuals,
contemporary society, or the curriculum content
CENTRAL CHARACTER
The character or group centrally involved in the dilemma. Students must
decide what the character(s) should do.
CHOICE
Each dilemma must have a conflict that causes the central character to
make an action choice. There are no right or wrong choices, but the
reasons given in support of choices can vary along a dimension from less
adequate/good to more adequate/better. Adequate or better reasons take
account of more aspects of the dilemma and have fewer negative and/or
more positive consequences and implications.
VALUES/MORAL ISSUE
Dilemmas revolve around values and moral issues such as social norms,
property, civil liberties, life, authority, personal conscience, punishment,
promises, truth, role responsibilities, and others. Each dilemma identifies
an issue, such as those just given.
A “SHOULD” QUESTION
A dilemma ends with a question that asks what the central character
should do in the situation. It is important to ask what the character
should, rather than would, do.
TP-CASTT
Poetry Strategy
TITLE
• Look at it
• What could it mean?
• Is it clear?
• Is it vague?
That should tell you something about what
to expect, too.
PARAPHRASE
• What is the literal meaning of the poem in
your own words?
5 complete thoughts
CONNOTATION
• What is the implied meaning, and how does the poet convey this
meaning?
• What kinds of literary things are going on in the poem? Think in terms
of diction, syntax (sentence structure), imagery, symbolism, etc. Any
literary device used in the poem fits under the connotation category.
ATTITUDE
• What is the tone of the poem? (see your
Tone list in your journal!)
SHIFT
• There is a shift of some sort in nearly
every poem written.
Some shift indicators:
Until
Then
But
Yet
Nevertheless
Punctuation (dashes, periods, etc)
Stanza divisions
Sharp contrasts in Word Choice/ Diction
THEME
• In a sentence, what is the theme? What
statement about life is the poet making? Be
careful, theme is difficult to nail down, and
it is easy to just write down subject matter
rather than theme.
TITLE
• Take another look at the title. What does it
mean to you now that you’ve analyzed the
poem?
Dilemma- Nelly
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc
TP-CASTT
Poetry Strategy
TITLE
• Look at it
• What could it mean?
• Is it clear?
• Is it vague?
That should tell you something about what
to expect, too.
PARAPHRASE
• What is the literal meaning of the poem in
your own words?
5 complete thoughts
CONNOTATION
• What is the implied meaning, and how does the poet convey this
meaning?
• What kinds of literary things are going on in the poem? Think in terms
of diction, syntax (sentence structure), imagery, symbolism, etc. Any
literary device used in the poem fits under the connotation category.
ATTITUDE
• What is the tone of the poem? (see your
Tone list in your journal!)
SHIFT
• There is a shift of some sort in nearly
every poem written.
Some shift indicators:
Until
Then
But
Yet
Nevertheless
Punctuation (dashes, periods, etc)
Stanza divisions
Sharp contrasts in Word Choice/ Diction
THEME
• In a sentence, what is the theme? What
statement about life is the poet making? Be
careful, theme is difficult to nail down, and
it is easy to just write down subject matter
rather than theme.
TITLE
• Take another look at the title. What does it
mean to you now that you’ve analyzed the
poem?
Friday, Sept. 5, 2014
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Pick Up: SSR Logs
Grab journals and folders
Attendance Question: Favorite Food
While I’m taking attendance, tape your SSR logs in your journal.
Tape your SSR logs on the next free (without writing) page in your
notebook
• Title: SSR Logs First Six Weeks
• Fill in the information for your book
Title:Writing Territories #1
(7 minutes)
• Choose three topics from the writing territories list to write about.
• Create relevant lists for your chosen topics.
• List as many examples as possible.
• Ex: Favorite movies
1. Drive Me Crazy
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. A Goofy Movie
4. The Temptations
5. Dreamgirls
6. The Green Mile
7. Forrest Gump
8. Cloud Atlas
9. Clue
SSR- No talking, but you may listen
to your music.
• 20-30 minutes Reading
• 10-20 minutes Responding/ Completing Reading Log
• Grades
• Grade for your reader’s response 100DG
• Grade for reading 100DG
• Grade for having your book 100HW
• Title next free page: Reader Response One
• Copy and respond to the following question (At least a page): What is a
moral dilemma you have seen, or you anticipate, in your SSR novel? How
do you know?
Reminders: Take a picture.