AP Lit 3G: Hamlet returns & Araby & Literary 3x3s

Start with Hamlet. Read Hamlet Act II, scene 1 aloud.  Follow my instructions in this video! (It'll involve recording and a little bit of directing from me!)

After completing the Hamlet work you will shift to Joyce's "Araby."  

Share your literary 3x3s of James Joyce's "Araby."  (Next week we will use these 3x3s to formulate thesis statements and propose structure of essays about Joyce's short story.  That's going to be more helpful with me around.) 

From there, we are going to try a little experiment connected to our "Poetry as Design" work.

We will transfer our literary 3x3s to index cards, one word per card.  Thus, every student will end up with a deck of nine cards.  We will start by rearranging our down decks.  What other configurations can we make of those nine words?  It's okay to mentally adjust tense and such to make it work.  

From there, we will continue the experiment by passing decks.  See if you can create a 3x3 with another deck.

And from there, things great really crazy.  We will take the decks.  Combine.  Shuffle.  Deal nine.

And then . . . design poems.  Design a companion poem to Joyce's "Araby" using the nine words (and others) and what you understand about design.

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Blog: 3+ posts
Req'd Post: Create a Literary 3x3 for one of these other two poems that reflect the contemporary African-American experience of the poets in their respective times (consider them as a collection alongside Clifton's "miss rosie")
Rita Dove's "Vacation"
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"
Due: Friday, Jan. 10
Read & Annotate: "Araby" by James Joyce (check your inbox)Due: Friday, Jan 10
Revise: Synthesis #2
Due: Friday, Jan 17 (if you want a 2nd revision)
Design & Create: Poetry as Design piecesDue: Monday, Jan 13Installation: Monday, Jan 20 (voluntary)
Read & Create:  Indie Book Project #3Due: Wednesday, Jan 29Note: We will be taking time Jan 28 - Feb 7 to explore our readings & share our products in depth 
Heads UpReading Hamlet in Class starting again MUGS quizzes & opt-in mini-lessons on the way

PACE: Getting Ready for the Next Chapter of PACE

Today, I'll be learning how to operate the new lighting arrays in the auditorium and forum.  These are exciting things but pull me away from you.

Here's the thing.  Last class?  I took most of those 40 minutes to lay out the work that needs to happen before we transition to our next work in PACE.  We'll be unpacking writing standards next week and starting out essay.

Today, you have time.  Time. Time. Time.  

• Time to blog.
• Time to put the finishing touches on projects.
• Time to finish the graphic organizers for the poetry unit.
• Time to write your project reflections -- that must be completed before I assess the project -- a paragraph on product, paragraph on process, and a paragraph on outcome.

Treat those paragraphs just like you have been your thinking about standards and authentic understanding.  If I just write three sentences because that's what makes a paragraph, have I truly reflected on what I've created? If you treat it like busy work, it becomes busy work.  If you  treat it like a meaningful look at your experience making and creating and understanding, it becomes helpful.

Ask yourself: 
Do I really understand figurative language now? How they convey meaning and ideas?  Can I identify specific types of figurative language (hyperbole,  metaphor, personification, etc.)

Do I really understand repetition & rhyme? How they add emphasis?  How they affect the language of a poem in important ways?  

Do I really understand diction and how choosing a particular word can affect a reader?  Can influence meaning?  Have I demonstrated this in my product and have I explained it?

You folks have come so far 2nd Quarter.  Really.  I've been so impressed with everyone these past two months in terms of investment in their thinking.  (Blogs... not so much.  AND... we're righting that ship!  Yes!)

Today is a big deal. Take advantage.  Tuesday we share projects, start MUGS work & unpack writing standards.

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ posts
Req'd Post: Create a "What If 2014" list for yourself.  Check out my model in the right sidebar.

Complete: Poetry/Music Projects.  Think about what we talked about the other day with design. Making a finished complete project.

Complete: Graphic organizers.

Complete: Three reflective paragraphs on your poetry/music project: product, process, outcome

Humanities: Knockout & Habits of Mind & Blogging

Today we'll start with an activity to help with vocab, in particular, Roots 8. Knock out.  Roots style. Boom.

From there we will consider the work we have done for the past couple of days and figure out which of the Habits of Mind we've been practicing.  Yup, we've been focused on metacognition, but which of the others as well?

Then we'll briefly review the article we read on metacognition from BrainFacts.org and we will blog.  We'll look at "What If" 2014 over in the right side bar, as well as the other tools under "blogging prompts & rubric" and you will be set up to do your own list on your blog.

That will lead to the survey on learning styles from Edutopia that we didn't take yesterday. Take screen shots. Posts your results.


HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ posts
Req'd Post: Create your own list of "What If's" for 2014.  Look at Mr Ryder's example in the right sidebar.  He's posted his huge list. 
Due: Friday, Jan 11

Study: Roots 8 (& 6, 7)
Quiz: Thursday, Jan 16
Complete: Word Map or Product for Roots 8 

Practice: MUGS your/you're
Quiz: No Red Ink, Wed Jan 15 

Submit: Missing closing arguments & story corps/photo essays;  self assessments
Put in Humanities IN folder on Google Drive

What We Did: Humanities Jan 8th

Pics of our work with metacognition and paired think alouds on Wednesday, Jan 8th.

Reading and thinking solo

Think alouding and annotating in pairs

Metacognition paint chips

Filling out a LNGview reflection form after going through the process

AP Lit 2B/3B: Literary 3x3 & "Araby," Close Reading to Powerful Writing

We'll start class with a sharing of literary 3x3s of James Joyce's "Araby."  We will use these 3x3s to formulate thesis statements and propose structure of essays about Joyce's short story.  

From there, we are going to try a little experiment connected to our "Poetry as Design" work.

We will transfer our literary 3x3s to index cards, one word per card.  Thus, every student will end up with a deck of nine cards.  We will start by rearranging our down decks.  What other configurations can we make of those nine words?  It's okay to mentally adjust tense and such to make it work.  

From there, we will continue the experiment by passing decks.  See if you can create a 3x3 with another deck.

And from there, things great really crazy.  We will take the decks.  Combine.  Shuffle.  Deal nine.

And then . . . design poems.  Design a companion poem to Joyce's "Araby" using the nine words (and others) and what you understand about design.

And then, we return to Hamlet.  Or maybe we start with Hamlet.  Yes.  Let's do that.

Blog: 3+ postsReq'd Post: Create a Literary 3x3 for one of these other two poems that reflect the contemporary African-American experience of the poets in their respective times (consider them as a collection alongside Clifton's "miss rosie")
Rita Dove's "Vacation"
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"
Due: Friday, Jan. 10
Read & Annotate: "Araby" by James Joyce (check your inbox)Due: Friday, Jan 10
Revise: Synthesis #2Due: Friday, Jan 17 (if you want a 2nd revision)
Design & Create: Poetry as Design piecesDue: Monday, Jan 13Installation: Monday, Jan 20 (voluntary)
Read & Create:  Indie Book Project #3Due: Wednesday, Jan 29Note: We will be taking time Jan 28 - Feb 7 to explore our readings & share our products in depth 
Heads UpReading Hamlet in Class starting again MUGS quizzes & opt-in mini-lessons on the way