2014-2015
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Warm ups will be timed. The class with the
shortest time at the end of the month will be
rewarded with a “warm-up party” at the end
of each month featuring snacks and wii.
For your daily oral language practice, rewrite
the sentence, making corrections. YOU DO
NOT NEED TO WRITE THE INCORRECT SENTENCE
FIRST.
For the Diction, Syntax, and Tone warm up,
answer the questions in complete sentences.
You do not need to write the questeions.
Do everything in the appropriate box. You do
not have to make up warm ups when you are
absent.
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9/8/14- Revise the following sentence: (4 skills required)
has you ever been to a audition for a play
9/10/14- Revise the following sentence: (5 skills required)
were glad that sammy is on hour team this year
9/12/14- Revise the following sentence
most of my friends like to play video games but rafik and me prefer chess
9/25/14- Revise the following sentence
them kids all choosed hatchet as theyre favorite literature book
9/30/14- Revise the following
sentence
we dont want nobody to here
our secret
Class
Pre Test Average
Post Test Average
1st Block
51.5
80
2nd Block
57.6
3rd Block
59.16
85
SHOUTOUTS!!!! Students with 80%!
Luke Wilkinson- 1st
Chyna Walker- 2nd
Abdu Ali- 3rd
Summer Carr-3rd
Kianna Teasley – 3rd
Anais Gonzalez- 2nd
85%!!!!
 1.
The story of my shirt…
 The bracelet I made…
 My favorite short story I read with my
favorite professor…
 The Powerpoints you are about to read
yourself…
 SO
WHAT IS THE DEFINTION OF MOTIF??
Because I say that word A LOT!
 Read
Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”
 Annotate using Post-It Notes
 Answer assessment questions.
 What
doesn’t get done today will be finished
on Monday in AVID!
 Warm
Up- Complete your UNIT ZERO
assessment. Bring it to the teacher and
return your book.
 Begin working on your LIFE GOALS ESSAY
BRAINSTORMING.
 CHECK THE HOMEWORK BOARD,
announcement board, and academic
vocabulary board. We have a lot of great
stuff coming up!
 Your
typical warm-up in cancelled. You will
have ten minutes to read this week’s
schedule, check out the new assignments,
and organize the following items:
1. Your Life Goals Essay with Brainstorming
2. Your Harrison Bergeron Assignment
3. Your Alchemist Study Guide
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Set up Cornell Notes with the following
Essential Question: What background
information is necessary to analyze The
Alchemist by Paulo Coelho?
My Favorite Quote
from Yesterday!
“It’s the possibility of
having a dream come
true that makes life
interesting.”
The most applicable quote
from yesterday…
“If you start out by promising what you
don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your
desire to work toward getting it.”
1.Warm Up- 15 minutes to wrap up yesterday’s
Alchemist Notes!
(Vocabulary will be passed back at this time!)
2. 5 minutes to create a BINGO board using the
Alchemist Vocabulary words: scabbard-infidel
3. Power Read with continued bullet points on
post it note.
4. Vocabulary Bingo!
Warm Up- 15 minutes
 Use your post it notes and main idea bullet points to
create a timeline of major events, characters, and
settings in “The Alchemist.”
 Draw a star next to any SHIFTS(changes) in character
or setting.
 ZOMG I have a Weebly!
During Reading Activity- Respond to the following
questions for a shot at tomorrow’s Socratic Seminar.
1.
What are some of the lessons the author wants the
readers to learn? Which characters/events/setting
does he use to help teach each lesson?
2.
Which lesson is most applicable to your life and
why?
3.
How can “The Alchemist” relate to AVID?
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3.
50 MINUTES OF READING!!!! STRAIGHT
READING!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!
8 Minutes- Socratic Seminar Set Up
Socratic Seminar!!!
Socratic Seminar Expectations:
Inner Circle- If I said to expand, add detail, or get
more specific, DO SO.
Do not read off of your paper. This is a
conversation. Agree/Disagree/Expand on each
other’s thoughts.
Outer Circle- Set up a notesheet that includes
student names. Take notes on the main idea of
what each student says for each question.
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Grand daughter of Immigrants
Family arrived in America in 1910
Daughter of parents who were not college educated
Was unable to go to her college of choice because of financial reasons, so she
applied for scholarships.
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Was the poorest kid at a “rich person college” and didn’t have a car and wasn’t able
to travel with her friends.
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Worked her way up from an accountant making $45,000 to the Vice President of the
Panera Bread corporation.
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She is a SAFE millionaire.
After reflecting upon yesterday’s Socratic
Seminar I’ve decided that:
1. First Block is thebomb.com. Their
Socratic Seminar was the best, by far.
#passion,yo
2. Third Block is getting too comfortable
turning in sub-par work, and as a result, the
Socratic Seminar wasn’t as good. Challenge
your minds, third block!!
3. Second block… your Socratic Seminar was
awesome, but I got a whole ‘nother slide for
you.
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FINISH “THE ALCHEMIST!!” Yaaaay!
Give the book a rating of 1-5 stars, and
write a one-paragraph book review. Discuss
characters, parts, quotes you
liked/disliked. Make sure you explain
WHY!!!
Others will be reading this, so you can
create a PEN NAME if you’d like.
Write with style, but keep it appropriate!
With any extra time, work on your Study
Guide.
I’m not talking to one of you. Not two of you, three of you, or even four of
you. I’m talking to six of you. Yes, SIX! All girls, too. So Malachi, Dorien, Vontavian,
and Nigel, y’all are GOOD!
I suck at Tardy Logs, because I’ve never had to do one before. And I was
talking to Ms. Sheffler yesterday about how I can get better, and she’s informed me
that she’s already had to write some of you up for being tardy to class.
I was all, “What?!”
When I told you guys all that stuff has to go on your college applications, I
wasn’t LYING!!! High school drama doesn’t follow you into college, but high school
PAPERWORK does. What is your paperwork advertising about you?
Also, I don’t like seeing you out and about during fourth block. It’s not that
YOU’RE being bad, necessarily. And really I should be yelling at your TEACHERS, not
you, but there are some bad seeds out there. Some bad seeds who feed off of the
pretty Honors girls. They know yall love a thug, and they know yall will do their
homework. And they can tell by your half shirts that all they have to do is give you
a little attention and you’re down for whatever. I’m totally going to tell your moms
this weekend. Don’t get mad at me. You’ll understand why someday.
Finally, don’t ask random teachers for passes if you’re late. If you do the
crime, take the time. I’m coming for them, next.
Thank you,
Kristen Lyn Karazsia, a
person who cares about you.
Not just your AVID teacher.
Unit Zero: Academic Arsenal--- COMPLETE
POWER READ: “The Alchemist”--- COMPLETE
Unit One: “The Rhetoric of Literature”
HOW authors build stories…
Conflict
Setting
Theme
Characters
Archetypes
Dialogues
Symbolism
Motifs
Imagery
Author’s Purpose and Perspective
WE HAVE SEVEN ENGLISH CLASSES TO MOVE THROUGH THIS UNIT!!! We will be done
around the end of October. Then on to…
“The Rhetoric of Non Fiction…” (dundundun)
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3.
Warm Up- Timed Flipped Instruction Quiz
Review and Add to Theme Notes
Practice Finding Theme: TLC’s “Waterfalls”
WITH ANY FREE TIME YOU HAVE TODAY,
FILL OUT YOUR SURVEY OR THE SHEET OF
PAPER ON YOUR DESK! BE SURE TO WORK
IN YOUR COLUMN!___
Check the Homework Board!!!
FILL OUT THE THIRD BLOCK COLUMN OF THE
UNIVERSAL THEME CHART.
This will be taped to the desk on Thursday, and
other students will be viewing this.
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10 Minutes of Binder Time. Review
returned papers and place them in the
ENGLISH section of your binder. You will
have a binder check tomorrow.
Individual Theme Practice with the poem
(15 Minutes)
Universal Theme Practice (5 minutes)
Intro to Project/ACTING TROOPS!!!
SHOUT OUT TIME FOR STUDENTS WITH As in Honors English
Miracle
Sequora
Madeline
Dolores
Lissa
Ayana
Taylor Mitchell
Anna Kierah
Shannon
Summer
Cassandra
Lauren McGee
Manika
Lauryn R
Karrington
Jasmine T
Taylor T.
Justice
Number of Fs per Honors English class:
Ist Block- 11
2nd block- 2
3RD Block- 0
Video Analysis- How well did the group do at
creating their archetypes, character traits, and
universal themes?
Cornell Notes: Essential Question: Compare
and contrast SYMBOLISM and ALLEGORIES
Read “How Much Land Does a Man Need” by
Leo Tolstoy. By the end of class on Wednesday,
you must complete:
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1. A Plot Chart, including bulleted notes about the
exposition, rising action, climax, and falling action
of the story
2. A Theme analysis chart, including bulleted notes
about character and conflict changes, setting and
symbolism, and direct statements. ALSO write 2-3
sentences explaining what you think the theme is,
backing up your answer with textual evidence.
3. A “homeboy” of all the MAIN CHARACTERS!
Create a “Table of Contents” of all of your
Honors English Notes from Quarter One.
This will be due Thursday, November 6,
2014
2. Answer questions 1-22 on pages 402-412.
3. You MUST ANNOTATE the passages (make
inferences about title and author, main
idea bullet points of what’s happening, etc)
and turn those in with your test.
1.
Warm Up- Twelve minutes of “Me Time” to
organize notes for upcoming Note Check!
2. Data Discussion/Cornell Notes on How to
Incorporate a Quotation
Essential Question- Based on Unit One test
results, what are my strengths and
weaknesses, and how can I better
incorporate quotations into my writing?
3. Test Corrections
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Number of Students in First Block who achieved mastery: 100%!!
Number of Students in Second Block who achieved mastery: 99%
Number of Students in Third Block who achieved mastery: 98%
Students who understood the importance of CONNECTIONS in #22:
Laurynn Rance
Shali!
DO NOT CUT CORNERS!!!!
*Use words from the question in your answer. RESTATE THE
QUESTION IN YOUR TOPIC SENTENCE!
*If you need two quotations to show a change, use two. If you run out of
room, get another sheet of paper.
*Explain what your quotes mean!
PROOFREAD!
CAPITALIZE NAMES AND TITLES! DUHHHHHH!
NEVER USE A COMMA IN PLACE OF A PERIOD!
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should never have a quotation standing
alone as a complete sentence, or, worse yet,
as an incomplete sentence, in your writing.
There are at least three ways to integrate
quotations.
 Example:
In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived
For," Thoreau states directly his purpose for
going into the woods: "I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately, to front
only the essential facts of life, and see if I
could not learn what it had to teach, and
not, when I came to die, discover that I had
not lived."
 Our Example:
Example: In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived
For," Thoreau states directly his purpose for
going into the woods when he says, "I went
to the woods because I wished to live
deliberately, to front only the essential facts
of life, and see if I could not learn what it
had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived."
Our Example:
Example: In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived
For," Thoreau states that his retreat to the
woods around Walden Pond was motivated by
his desire "to live deliberately" and to face
only "the essential facts of life."
Example: Thoreau argues that people blindly
accept "shams and delusions" as the
"soundest truths," while regarding reality as
"fabulous."
Our Example:
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2.
Warm Up: Discuss most commonly-missed
questions from Unit One Test
Partner Work: Literature/Fiction Passage
from last year’s EOC.
LET’S SEE IF WE CAN
STILL REACH
MASTERY!!!
1.
Warm Up- SPEED DEMON!!!
Identify the claims of five op-ed articles in
one minute or less
2. Writing Claims and their Objections
3. SERIAL!!!! Take Cornell Notes and develop
your C-E-R Chain
1. Warm Up: 30 MINUTES An argumentative essay uses reason
and evidence- not emotion- to take a definitive stand on a
controversial or debatable issue. The essay explores two
sides of a topic and proves why one side or position is the
best. For this essay you will argue for or against the
benefits using technology in class. You may use a
chromebook.
2. 20 MINUTES IN CLASS TO COLLECT ALL OF YOUR MATERIALS THAT ARE DUE
TODAY:
 The TRF that was due Friday
 The article you got when I had a substitute
 The annotated article that was due today (On Panthers or Pot)
PowerPoint- How to Organize and Argumentative
Essay
Essential Question: Aside from Claim, Evidence, and
Reasoning, what additional considerations need to be
made to organize an Argumentative Essay?
3.
Warm Up! Introduction Paragraph Writing Drills
Choose a claim and write it at the top of your notebook paper!
1.
Claim 1- Celebrities such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston,
Ray Lewis, Michael Vick, and Bill Cosby should be held MORE
accountable for their actions, because they are our role
models.
Claim 2- Celebrities such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston,
Ray Lewis, Michael Vick, and Bill Cosby should be held to the
same standards as everyday citizens when it comes to the law.
Claim 3- Celebrities such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston,
Ray Lewis, Michael Vick, and Bill Cosby should be granted a
little leeway when it comes to the law, because of the joy they
bring us.
2. Finish PowerPoint on Argumentative Essays
3. Annotate Article as a Class
4. Begin Homework
FRIDAY- C-E-R Test using Episode 3 of Serial
Philosophical Chair on Celebrity
Article
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4.
Warm Up- Create a claim
PPT- Faulty Logic
Practice- Faulty Logic with Class Claim
SERIAL!
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2.
Complete survey for Tykia’s Senior Exit
“Harmless Fun?” Review and Discussion
3. Serial KWL and Podcast 9!
Compose a 5 paragraph letter to either Sarah Koenig or
Adnan Syed discussing your views on the “Serial” Podcast. You can
either discuss why you like it, dislike it, or offer your input as to
who you think is innocent or guilty. TRY TO MAKE YOURSELF STAND
OUT!!! YOU COULD BECOME A PART OF HISTORY!!
Reference specific episodes (Put the title in quotation marks) and
specific facts taken from your notes.
Establish your credibility by discussing your role as an AVID student.
Also be sure to include an interesting hook, a clear claim, ethos,
pathos, logos, and an objection/refutation.
I will choose the top 25 letters, get them professionally polished, and
send them in a portfolio. You will not be chosen without proper
punctuation and specific evidence in your paragraphs.
IMPRESS YOUR AUDIENCE!
This is a FORMALLLLLLLL assignment, and I will check to make sure
it is completed during Monday’s Warm Up. You will turn it in for
100 FORRMAL points regardless of if you get chosen or not.
1.
Warm Up- On a separate sheet of
paper 15 Minutes + 10 Minute
Discussion
In your packet, complete the
exercise at the top of page 141
(1 a, b, e, f, )
Also, complete the exercise at the
top of page 143
(1,2,4)
2. Read Over Introduction Paragraph to Rhetorical Analysis
and Discuss (10 Minutes)
3. Continue Reading/Taking Notes (40 Minutes)
4. Choose Article and Begin (Remainder of Class)
1.
Warm Up: Review Rhetorical Analysis One
Pager Requirements and set up Cornell
Notes
Topic: Rhetorical Analysis
Essential Question: How do you create a
Rhetorical Analysis?
2. Group Read and Annotate- Rhetorical
Analysis Packet
3. Create “Chapter” Notes Independently,
based on packet and annotations
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6.
Nancy Dean Tone Warm Up
Review Tone Words
Grab Rhetorical Analysis One Pagers and
Display
Read article
Annotate for TONE
Rewrite first paragraph…
1.
Warm-Up: Semester 2 Grammar Preview
2.
Continue watching President Barack
Obama’s State of the Union address
3.
Work on questions/prepare speech
4.
2-minute speeches!
1.Warm Up: FIND your MIDTERM PACKET from
the front table and fill out the LEFT COLUMN
of today’s Cornell Note Sheet
I will pass back your answer sheet for you to view MOMENTARILY!
2. Video- Pranks
3. REVIEW, IN DETAIL, EVERY SINGLE QUESTION
AND ANSWER FROM THE MIDTERM
4. Review Upcoming Writing Competition and
Multimedia project
1.
Warm Up- YouTube Video- History of Black
History Month
Today’s Black History Month Focus:
From Slavery to Freedom and the
Original Dis’ Track
2.View YouTube Video- Overview of
Slavery in America
3. Read Emancipation Proclamation
Together
4. Intro to Frederick Douglass/Begin FD
Hmwk
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2.
Warm Up: On a sheet of paper, create a
data tracker for your grammar diagnostic
that looks like this:
Skill
Number Correct
Identifying
Sentences and
Fragments
_____/55
Identifying
Subjects and
Predicates
_____/20
Identifying RunOn Sentences
_____/20
Malcolm X Project Work! 
85% Mastery?
1.
Warm Up: Make corrections to your
presentation, based on your note card.
ALSO, create a notecard with “talking
points” from your slides, so you don’t READ
to us!
2.
Review Presentation Rubric + WHAT NOT TO
DO+ Practice Presentations
3.
Presentations + Notes in our Malcolm Mini
Notebook!
Warm Up: Take the Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
Quizzes on my WEEBLY!
www.mskhasbighair.weebly.com
You will have 25 minutes to complete both quizzes.
What you do not finish can be made up after
school.
1.
2. Discussion: Favorite lines and BIG MOMENTS from
Chapters 1 and 2 of “The Autobiography of Malcolm
X.”
AWESOME METAPHORS: Pg. 13: “The physical
downhill wasn’t as quick as the psychological.”
Pg. 17 “…they began to plant the seeds of
discontent.”
3. Practice with Common Core Standards R1 and R3:
Making Inferences and Characterization
When Joey entered the room, the all-too
familiar smell of my old dorm room floated past
my nose. Girls who formerly “beefed” huddled up
next to each other, not wanting to be at the table
with the extra chair. Even Liza, who had been
asleep for the last hour, rose from her slumber,
crinkled her nose, and let out a “Phewwwww.”
Joey scratched the back of his neck, brushed the
flakes off of his shoulders, and began his quiz.
“Please don’t have a question. Please don’t have a
question,” I repeated to myself until he turned in
his crinkled paper that now donned a weird green
streak at the top.
That student is gross.
You got to use your BRAIN and make an
INFERENCE about a CHARACTER!!!
If authors came out and told you everything,
we’d never read. And if we never read, we’d
be dumb. And if we’re dumb, then Santa will
be sad. And no one will live happily ever after.
So authors SHOW you characters by
what they say, what they do, what
OTHERS say, and what OTHERS
do.
1.
Review new HOMEWORK SCHEDULE for FIRST BLOCK!
Monday’s Homework: Chapters 6,7,8,9
Tuesday’s Homework: NONE! It’s a Half Day!
Wednesday- Read Chapter 10 in class, Homework: 11, 12
Thursday Read 13 in class, Homework: Chapter 14
Friday’s Homework: Read Chapter 15, 16, 17
Monday FUNDAY’s Homework: Read Chapter 18
Tuesday- Read chapter 19 in class, Homework: Read first ½ of Epilogue (up
to 3rd paragraph on page 450)
2. Win, Lose, or Draw! (Imagery in Chapter 5)
not a complete
sentence if I CANNOT TELL WHAT THE
QUESTION IS!
3. Finish Quizzes (Chapters 3 and 4, 5)
PS: It’s
LINDY HOP DIRECTIONS AND DANCE DUE
WEDNESDAY!!!
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2.
Warm Up: Huddle Up and CHAT!
Socratic Seminar- Chapters 6,7,8,9 Quiz!
Each group has a leader.
The leader reads the quiz question.
Every person offers his/her opinion on the question.
THE LEADER MUST GO AROUND THE CIRCLE AND ASK
EVERYONE FOR INPUT.
The group decides on an answer together or
individually, and writes it individually.
Two of your answers need to reflect 2 of the 3
grammar rules we discussed earlier in class.
3. Lindy Hop Performances!
Malcolm Little
Detroit Red
Malcolm X
El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
What do these words mean to
you? What predictions can
you make from them?
In the FIFTH paragraph on page
115, the author has some pretty
nifty sentences.
He utilized three grammar rules.
With your huddle, figure out what
they are…
They have to do with…
COMMAS
COLONS
SEMI-COLONS
COMMAS- Surround words you can take out of a sentence
with commas. Usually these words are adding
information about the subject.
Ms. K, who died her hair teal last night, is cool.
COLONS- Use a colon when you are about to give
information about the topic before the colon.
I have several things to get at the store: hair spray, flexi
rods, and mouse.
SEMI-COLONS- Use a semi colon to add another
independent clause about the independent clause
before the semi colon.
“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” is a complex read; I
highly recommend that my students use Spark Notes to
help with assignments.
“For four years, up to that point, I’d been
lucky enough, or slick enough, to escape
jail, or even getting arrested. Or any
serious trouble. But I knew that any
minute now something had to give.”
-Page 135 “Trapped”
Discuss the trouble that Detroit Red faced in
these chapters, how it all came closing in on
him, and what he did about it.
1. Warm Up- AVID
Fishbowl Speeches
Draw a term out of the bowl. If you can talk
about it eloquently for 45 seconds to a minute,
you’ll get a Jolly Rancher or a Starburst
Speaking eloquently means: you know what
you’re talking about, you don’t fumble over
your words, and you take it seriously.
You’ll have 30 seconds to think before you begin!
With your acting troop, reenact a scene from
the book so far, but it must be done SILENTLY.
You must:
Use Props
Use ALMOST everyone in the group. (One person can be in charge
of “backstage” AKA making the props)
Not talk, laugh, or make any kind of noise.
You can:
Use the classroom, the hallway QUIETLY, my classroom annex
QUIETLY, or outside.
You will:
Get 100/100 if the class can: guess who everyone is, the place,
and the scene
Get 80/100 if the class can guess who most people are and the
scene
Get 70/100 if the class can guess only parts of the movie.
THIS WILL BE FILMED IN BLACK AND WHITE!
Warm Up: Fill in the guided note sheet using
the Julius Caesar PowerPoint located on my
Weebly!
2. Intro to Shakespeare: Brief and Naughty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oPe7tG0vYs
1.
3. Finish ALL Malcolm X Quizzes ! Who is staying
for the Pizza Party after school?
1.
2.
Warm Up: Shakespeare Breakdown! What would
Brutus say today?
Finish Act I, scenes ii and iii with the MODERN
TEXT.
RESPOND TO MY BEEPS! WHY DO I STOP?
1.
2.
Read a scene from Act I in Elizabethan English
Work on Act I graphic organizer
1st Block Warm Up: Act I discussion only
2nd and 3rd: Interpret Brutus’ monologues
AND discuss Act I
2. “Cornell Up” Julius Caesar Information
Sheet (To be turned in at the end of class)
3. Create a six-frame COMIC STRIP depicting
one of the THEMES from “The Tragedy of
Julius Caesar.” Your comic MUST CONTAIN a
TRAGIC HERO!
REMEMBER! Themes are shown through changes
in character, changes in conflict,
symbolism, motif, and direct statements.
1.
1.
Daily Warm Up- Review Brutus’
plans for Antony, and WHY he
wants to kill Caesar
2.
Read sparknotes.com summary for Act II,
scene i
READ Act II, scene i
3.
1st ANNUAL AVID ROMAN
DECATHALON!
2.
Events
1.
Push Up Contest
Dramatic Reading- Antony’s reaction to seeing dead Caesar
(use your phone! Act iii, scene i, page 40 beginning with “O,
pardon me…)
3.
Wheelbarrow Race (2 People)
4.
Talent/Lip Sync Contest
5.
3 Legged Race (2 People)
6.
Volleyball contest
7.
Freestyle Battle (2 minutes with my music)
8.
Poem Performance (original or previously written)
9.
Plank Contest
10.
Shakespeare Speech (One minute to give a speech on
Shakespeare and his work)
Warm Up: Decide who is doing what! Everyone from the group must go at least once.
WE WILL CROWN A CAESAR AT THE END!
Warm Up: Translate Marc Antony’s aside to
dead Caesar
GIVE IT UP TO AVID’S CAESARS!
1st Block: Tanajah and Zyah
2nd Block: Summayah
3rd Block: Shali
2. View the stabbing of Caesar
3. Read Act III, scenes ii and iii
4. Begin review notes on Ethos, Pathos, and
Logos
1.
Mini Socratic Seminar! (Leader, read the
question first, then move through the circle
discussing it.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rouTCts26
8k
1. Read ACT V!! THE END!
2. Work on Act III, IV, and V Questions… Will it
be in Socratic Seminar Form or Nah?
1.
1. Please sit in assigned seat.
2. Please get your phones out and ready to
turn into me.
3. Please read Act V of “The Tragedy of Julius
Caesar” beginning on page 1274 in your text
book.
4. Complete your questions
ACT III and ACT IV Questions are due today in
complete sentences. Answers not in
complete sentences will not receive credit.
Warm Up: Create a Poetry Notebook!
Cover: Design it however you want!
Inside Cover: Leave empty
First Page: Create a table of contents. Please
go back and update this with page numbers,
assignment titles, and dates. This is
expected pllllease!
Begin numbering the pages on the back of the
Table of Contents. You’ll need at least 16
pages.
Found poems take existing texts and refashion
them, reorder them, and present them as
poems. The literary equivalent of a collage,
found poetry is often made from newspaper
articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches,
letters, or even other poems.
After spending 20 quiet minutes reading poetry
from the ID Book, create a FOUND POEM that
captures your IDENTITY!
1.
Warm Up: Jennifer Hudson video… Is this
the best job in the world?
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Warm Up: 10 Minutes
Create a Table of Contents on the first
WHITE PAGE of your Poetry Notebook.
2. Number the pages, starting with 1 on the
BACK of the Table of Contents
3. Glue your Cornell Notesheet onto pages 1
and 2 of your poetry notebook. Fill in the
essential question box with the following:
Poetry Essential Question: How are different
types of poems created and how are they
unique from one another?
1.
“Poetry and Prose” by John Beharry
Traditional poetry has rhyme and metre
Which determines the way it is composed
These features make it a simple matter
In distinguishing such poetry from prose
A lot of writing now is in free verse
Where the main focus is on the content
The thing that now really matters the most Is
true capture of the poet's intent
Some free verse strive for a sense of metre
By carefully managing line layout
Some focus on painting a word picture
For that's what their poetry is all about Prose
rich in sentiment and imagery
Can also be rewritten as free verse
Would it then be described as prose poetry
Or should it be labelled poetic prose
What new poetry forms will the future grow
It's time alone that will give the answer
For poets may come and poets may go
But poetry shall continue forever
“Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the wal
ls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find
out what it really means.
Definition: Poetry that
does not necessarily
follow a traditional
rhyme or rhythm, but
CAN, should the poet
desire
E. E. Cummings(1894 - 1962)
I Will Wade Out
i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning
flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
in the sleeping curves of my
body
Shall enter fingers of smooth mastery
with chasteness of sea-girls
Will i complete the
mystery
of my flesh
I will rise
After a thousand years
lipping
flowers
And set my teeth in the silver of the moon
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to
connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor
hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.

This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
“Nothing Can Come Between Us”
2Pac
Lets not talk of money
let us 4 get the world
4 a moment lets just reveal
in our eternal comadery
in my heart i know
there will never be a day
that i don't remember
the times we shared
u were a friend
when i was at my lowest
and being a friend to me
was not easy or fashionable
regardless of how popular
I became u remain
my unconditional friend
unconditional in it's truest sense
did u think i would forget
did u for 1 moment dream
that I would ignore u
if so remember this from here 2 forever
nothing can come between us
Analyze the given Free Verse poem and fill out
the CONCEPT BUNDLE by analyzing the poem
for diction, syntax, tone, images, etc.
After about a half an hour I’ll cut off the
lights, show you some clips, and hopefully
you’ll write a Free Verse poem of your own
on page 3 of your poetry notebook.
Feel free to model any of the poems we’ve
read today.
If you can’t write your own, you can research
and copy one, giving credit to the author.