Monday: Hamlet.
We will focus on energies on Hamlet. We will open with another little exercise to get us in the headspace and cause a little anxiety in the room. A little. Not a lot. Enough to be productive and useful.
Wednesday will be a big The Swimmer activity. Emphasis on big.
Friday, we will review design thinking, the process analysis product, and discussing all of the sonnet work you will be doing. As well as more with Hamlet. How will we ever fit in all in? Magic.
Homework
Blogs: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: Hamlet Writes a Sonnet
Choose any character from Hamlet and write a sonnet from that character's point of view. Pay particular attention to which sonnet form you choose. Be certain to include all elements of that sonnet form within your creation AND to make those choices with deliberate intention. How can the format and rhyme scheme reflect the character?
Due: Friday, December 6
Sonnet Work:
Read: "The Sonnet" chapter in "How to Read Lit" and annotate.
Read: you’ve got a pile of poetry to read and it’s gonna be great. We will be examining the sonnet form and discussing why it endures. I’ve put three links on Diigo — and highlighted the poems you need to read on the “Sonnet” page. There are two Shakespearean sonnets you need to read as well, ”Let Those Who Are in Favour”and “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”
Annotate three of the above sonnets. Your choice.
Due: Friday, December 6
Review & Annotate:
Cheever's The Swimmer (Check your AP Lit Out)
Due: Wednesday, December 4
Read Hamlet:
TBA
Due: Wednesday, December 4
Monday, December 2, 2013
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Humanities: Work, Work, Work
Monday and Tuesday prior to Thanksgiving break are all about the work. We've put a lot on the plate -- though in bite sized chunks -- and here are two class periods to accomplish goals.
Vocab.
Tuesday we introduced Roots 6. This is a big deal because it is a reset. You need only know these ten roots for the next quiz. That quiz will happen on Thursday, December 5.
Today we will do a couple of activities designed to help you come up with alternative ways of demonstrating understanding of roots other than word maps.
And here's pics of them!
Vocab.
Tuesday we introduced Roots 6. This is a big deal because it is a reset. You need only know these ten roots for the next quiz. That quiz will happen on Thursday, December 5.
Today we will do a couple of activities designed to help you come up with alternative ways of demonstrating understanding of roots other than word maps.
And here's pics of them!
Homework
Closing Argument: Due Friday, December 6
Photo Essay/Story Corps: Due Tuesday, December 10
Blogs: Get caught up! Should be 12 posts as of Nov 22; be sure to make connections to others and to do the req'd posts for each week.
AP Lit: Hamlet & More . . . ?
Today we start with a couple of key questions that will determine our next steps in the day.
Before lunch, though, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. We will read aloud and dissect and analyze and consider. It shall be glorious.
Post the time of the lunch eating, well, we shall see. We shall be spending some time in the inspiration corner, ideating and brainstorming. That's for certain. The rest of the time is largely dependent upon the answers to questions that yet to be asked as I write these lines.
Homework
Blog: NONE! Take the week to catch up on past entries or just plain chill. And if you want to blog, I will read it! Blogs continue to be a source of inspiration for me. So much good stuff. If you haven't read through your classmates' thoughts yet, do so post haste!
Synthesis Essay 2: Due Tuesday, November 26th. Google Drive that sucker.
Hamlet: We will pause until we have read in class up to where we have read outside of class. We will be calibrated when we are back from Turkey Day.
Before lunch, though, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. We will read aloud and dissect and analyze and consider. It shall be glorious.
Post the time of the lunch eating, well, we shall see. We shall be spending some time in the inspiration corner, ideating and brainstorming. That's for certain. The rest of the time is largely dependent upon the answers to questions that yet to be asked as I write these lines.
Homework
Blog: NONE! Take the week to catch up on past entries or just plain chill. And if you want to blog, I will read it! Blogs continue to be a source of inspiration for me. So much good stuff. If you haven't read through your classmates' thoughts yet, do so post haste!
Synthesis Essay 2: Due Tuesday, November 26th. Google Drive that sucker.
Hamlet: We will pause until we have read in class up to where we have read outside of class. We will be calibrated when we are back from Turkey Day.
PACE: Repetition Rhyme & Unpacking Standards
Here's some pics of what we did in class on Tuesday the 26th.
Monday, November 25, 2013
PACE: Poetry Is Music: Repetition & Rhyme
We have a Turkey Day ahead of us and then . . . we unleash the full fury of our project-based learning on the Poetry Is Music Is Poetry unit.
Today, we add our third -- and final -- building block so that we can move forward with creating.
Repetition and rhyme are very similar. Miss Rumble built this flipped lesson to help you.
We will take a look at how a couple of different poems use rhyme and repetition effectively and in different ways.
Before we move any further, we are going to craft "If I understand ______ then I can ______ " statements around these four poetic devices. This is all part of unpacking standards.
Or maybe . . .
Let's fill one of the marker boards with these statements so we can get ideas for how we might demonstrate our understanding through the projects.
You will have time to complete your graphic organizers.
If you've done all the work in the unit & quarter up to now, you will have . . .
Homework
Blog: No New Posts! Get caught up! Should have 12!
Graphic Organizers: Check your due dates doc. Have you kept up? Get them into your IN folder.
Today, we add our third -- and final -- building block so that we can move forward with creating.
Repetition and rhyme are very similar. Miss Rumble built this flipped lesson to help you.
We will take a look at how a couple of different poems use rhyme and repetition effectively and in different ways.
Before we move any further, we are going to craft "If I understand ______ then I can ______ " statements around these four poetic devices. This is all part of unpacking standards.
- For example, if I understand diction, then I can choose a better word than "good" to describe my feelings about my relationship with my wife.
Or maybe . . .
- If I understand repetition, then I can write a poem that uses the same phrase at the beginning of each line to help get my point across.
Let's fill one of the marker boards with these statements so we can get ideas for how we might demonstrate our understanding through the projects.
You will have time to complete your graphic organizers.
If you've done all the work in the unit & quarter up to now, you will have . . .
- 12 blog posts (including Oct. 28 - Nov 1)
- 4 graphic organizers (beat making lab, diction, figurative language, rhyme/repetition)
Homework
Blog: No New Posts! Get caught up! Should have 12!
Graphic Organizers: Check your due dates doc. Have you kept up? Get them into your IN folder.
AP Lit: 2B/3B A Mushy Day of Mush & An Apology
Monday had a plan. And . . . it did not play out as intended in either class. Here's what would have happened in a more perfect world.
Get inspired for 10 minutes by perusing the items on the inspiration shelf.
Go for a swim through the Mt. Blue Campus, taking in observations and then applying them to a reading of Cheever's "The Swimmer."
Read and discuss Hamlet.
Peer workshop synthesis essay #2 (3B only)
Instead . . . well . . . other things happened in each. And I set a rather crap tone to carry us into our Turkey Day break. This is a public apology for that. We have had a really great fall from my p.o.v. and a confluence of factors came along this morning to disrupt that greatness. My frustration cup runneth over and I looked for blame rather than solutions. NOT the best way to go.
One thing I love about these three classes is that each has its own identity. Today, I disrupted both classes with ill-considered min-rants. They came from a place of truth, but not a place of empathy and thus, they were unfair.
Moving forward. I will blog. Daily. And if the blog is not up when you come to class, you will have time to work, discuss, DO, while I get the blog up. No blog, no class. It's a reasonable expectation.
Moving forward. Please read. I try very hard not to overwhelm with too much work at a time. (Sometimes I fail at this.) And the penalties for lateness are minimal in AP Lit. As a result, I know that class work for other classes can sometimes take precedent. I'm asking everyone to be amplify the cognizance around this: If I can't be confident that the class has read, I can't be confident in planning meaningful experiences around the reading. And that means I make gross, lame, classes. We haven't had many of those I don't think -- at least it hasn't felt that way to me. So . . .
Putting this on the blog in hopes that it will increase my own accountability in these regards.
Mr. Ryder
Homework
Blog: NONE! Take the week to catch up on past entries or just plain chill. And if you want to blog, I will read it! Blogs continue to be a source of inspiration for me. So much good stuff. If you haven't read through your classmates' thoughts yet, do so post haste!
Synthesis Essay 2: Due Tuesday, November 26th. Google Drive that sucker.
Hamlet: We will pause until we have read in class up to where we have read outside of class. We will be calibrated when we are back from Turkey Day.
Get inspired for 10 minutes by perusing the items on the inspiration shelf.
Go for a swim through the Mt. Blue Campus, taking in observations and then applying them to a reading of Cheever's "The Swimmer."
Read and discuss Hamlet.
Peer workshop synthesis essay #2 (3B only)
Instead . . . well . . . other things happened in each. And I set a rather crap tone to carry us into our Turkey Day break. This is a public apology for that. We have had a really great fall from my p.o.v. and a confluence of factors came along this morning to disrupt that greatness. My frustration cup runneth over and I looked for blame rather than solutions. NOT the best way to go.
One thing I love about these three classes is that each has its own identity. Today, I disrupted both classes with ill-considered min-rants. They came from a place of truth, but not a place of empathy and thus, they were unfair.
Moving forward. I will blog. Daily. And if the blog is not up when you come to class, you will have time to work, discuss, DO, while I get the blog up. No blog, no class. It's a reasonable expectation.
Moving forward. Please read. I try very hard not to overwhelm with too much work at a time. (Sometimes I fail at this.) And the penalties for lateness are minimal in AP Lit. As a result, I know that class work for other classes can sometimes take precedent. I'm asking everyone to be amplify the cognizance around this: If I can't be confident that the class has read, I can't be confident in planning meaningful experiences around the reading. And that means I make gross, lame, classes. We haven't had many of those I don't think -- at least it hasn't felt that way to me. So . . .
Putting this on the blog in hopes that it will increase my own accountability in these regards.
Mr. Ryder
Homework
Blog: NONE! Take the week to catch up on past entries or just plain chill. And if you want to blog, I will read it! Blogs continue to be a source of inspiration for me. So much good stuff. If you haven't read through your classmates' thoughts yet, do so post haste!
Synthesis Essay 2: Due Tuesday, November 26th. Google Drive that sucker.
Hamlet: We will pause until we have read in class up to where we have read outside of class. We will be calibrated when we are back from Turkey Day.
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