WARM UP FOR 8/21/2015
In your journals, answer the question:
What do you want to learn
in high school Literature
this year?
UNITS OF STUDY
• Writing Boot Camp
• Classical Education
• Claim, Evidence, Commentary
• Grammar and Mechanics
• Archetypes
• Biblical Stories and
Figures
• Mythology
• Excerpts from Edith Hamilton’s
Mythology and Ovid’s
Metamorphoses
• Greek Tragedy
• Sophocles’ Oedipus the King
• William Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet
• Charles Dickens’ Great
Expectations
COURSE POLICIES
GRADING POLICY
This class follows the traditional grading scale:
A= 90-100 B = 80-89 C = 70-79 D = 60-69 F = 59 & Below
MISSING & LATE WORK POLICY
Each day an assignment is late, it drops 10%. After 5 days, no late work
will be accepted and it will be recorded as a zero.
MAKE-UP WORK POLICY
If you are absent, check my website to see what you missed. You must
stay up to date on readings and homework assignments. It is your
responsibility to find out what you missed, make up your work, and
advocate for yourself if you have any questions. You have two days
for each excused absence to make up your work for full credit.
FOR MISSING, LATE, OR MAKE-UP WORK YOU
MUST COMPLETE A PINK SUBMISSION SLIP.
COURSE POLICIES
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
This class requires you to do your own thinking. Any time you
use another source and claim it as your own, it is considered
academic dishonesty. Plagiarism is taking another’s work or
ideas and claiming them as your own—even if you change
some of the wording. Plagiarism is a serious offense and will
result in an automatic zero on the assignment.
SCHOOL SUPPLY LIST
Binder: You will be required to keep an organized binder!
Notebook: A college-ruled journal (spiral or bound)
Sticky Notes: You will need these to annotate.
Writing Utensils: pens, pencils, highlighters
Always bring the book we are reading to class!
COURSE POLICIES
HALL PASS
You must ask for permission to leave the room to
go to your locker or the bathroom.
If my hall pass is lost then all students lose the privilege to leave the
room. TAKE CARE OF MY HALL PASS.
TARDIES
If you are not in your seat when the bell rings, you
will be considered tardy and will have to sign the
tardy board. On the third tardy, you will be assigned
school detention.
COURSE POLICIES
HONORS COURSEWORK
The Honors coursework is not a separate book or
project, but rather a modification of the assignments
the entire class completes. Honors students will have a
higher level of analysis expected on assignments, tests,
and essays.
Separate essay prompts, tests, and projects
Facilitation of Socratic discussions
The Honors coursework is not intended to add more
work but instead require deeper critical thinking on
whole class assignments.
MY CLASS WEBSITE
http://www.skyviewacademy.k12.co.us/s
kyviewacademy
Whenever you are absent, check my
website PRIOR to coming to class!
WHAT IS THIS?
WHAT IS A MANDALA?
Mandalas are one of the oldest art forms known to humanity. They
are one of the oldest symbols in the world and one of the few
universal ones. Translated from Sanskrit, mandala means circle – a
symbol of completeness – the most perfect medium in which to
present a picture of yourself.
One type of mandala is called the sun-shadow mandala, and it
represents, in part, the contrasts between one’s sun qualities – what is
visible and projected – and the shadow qualities – what is interior and
inward.
SUN IMAGES
The first step in making a mandala is writing two sets of answers to the
questions below. One set represents the sun answers; the other set represents
the shadow answers.
Sun-Images: How do you appear on the surface to the world? This is the part of
you that is seen or projected to others.
1. What animal are you most like?
2. What plant are you most like?
3. What color are you most like?
4. What shape are you most like?
5. What number are you most like?
6. What mineral or gem are you most like?
7. What natural element are you most like?
SHADOW IMAGES
Shadow-Images: The part of you that is not shown. The shadow images can be
considered the direct opposites to the sun images.
1. What animal are you like internally?
2. What plant are you like internally?
3. What color are you like internally?
4. What shape are you like internally?
5. What number are you like internally?
6. What mineral or gem are you like internally?
7. What natural element are you like internally?
CREATE A SUN-SHADOW
MANDALA THAT
SYMBOLIZES YOU.
CHART INSTRUCTIONS
FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY
Complete the chart for each sun image (what is
projected to the world), descriptive word, antonym
(opposite), and a shadow image.
Write the word that best fits you in each box.
Class sets of questions are at your tables. Please do not write
on these or take them with you.
Do not overthink it and do not discuss it with your
neighbors. Go with your first instinct.
WRITE ANALOGIES
Once the charts are complete, the next step is to write a sentence for each of
your symbols. The most important part of your sentence is the “why” part.
Through your sentences you will share why you feel a certain symbol
represents you. In the end you will have a total of 14 sentences.
Here are some examples:
I am like a/the (sun image), because like the (sun image), I
__________________________________.
Ex: I am like poison oak, because like poison oak, I’m harmless until stepped
on.
I am like a/the (shadow image), because like the (shadow image), I
___________________________.
Ex: I am like a Venus flytrap, because like a Venus flytrap, I want to capture
you and make you a part of me.
HONORS: YOU MUST USE METAPHORS INSTEAD OF SIMILES.
HOMEWORK
Complete your chart and your
analogies sheet for Monday’s class.
Write this in your planner now.
TWO SINGLE SENTENCES
The next step is to write a single sentence containing all of your sun signs;
and, a single sentence containing all of your shadow signs. This requires you to
get creative. Consider it word play. You may add words necessary to complete your
sentence. These will go on the perimeter of your mandala.
EXAMPLES:
Sun Sentence: The playful kitten jumped up into the spider plant to stare up at the
sky blue heavens with round, amethyst eyes before pouncing back to earth,
scratching his claws in the dirt seven times.
Shadow Sentence: The fierce lion roared in agony as he stumbled into a diamond
shaped thorn bush, his eyes black with rage and his breath as hot as fire, as his
square jaw picked out thirteen painful needles.
CREATE YOUR MANDALA
Within the framework of a circle, using color and shape, but no words, draw
or symbolize all of your sun images and your shadow images. Arrange them in
any way that you like. Artistry is not important. You can use simple
drawings/symbols to depict your images.
Just be sure to put forth your best effort!
Do not put
anything
outside of
your circle!
Draw
inside the
circle!
COMPLETE THE BACKGROUND
1. Around the perimeter of your circle, write you two single
sentences for your sun images and your shadow images.
2. Write the fourteen sentences from your Sun/Shadow Image
Analogies in the background of the paper.
3. Complete any artistic preferences on your mandala.