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.

• 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) 

One quick glance at the Google Drive IN folders suggests that folks have some work left to do.  This work is important because it lets me know whether or not you are understanding the basics knowledge before you start trying to create and make.

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.

Humanities: Photo Essay / StoryCorps Poverty Product Rubric

Humanities: rubric workshop for photo essay and story corps

Madi Alex and Ryder did this

Humanities: Closing Arguments, Photo Essays, StoryCorps & Roots Quizzes

Yesterday, we did an activity around the closing arguments, helping determine to what extent various characters are responsible for the death of Lennie.  We worked big on sets of desks, sorting arguments into ethos, pathos and logos.

http://www.leaderthoughtship.com/2012/12/using-ethos-pathos-and-logos-for.html

Here's a video on ethos, pathos & logos that could help you when we aren't around to explain.

Here are some pictures of the work we did in class.

Today we begin with our Roots 5 quiz.

From there, we will look at examples of how to make 

a) StoryCorps

and 

b) Photo Essay

After going through the examples and the process of making each of those, you will have time to do one of the following:

a) Write your closing argument - Due Friday, December 5 (solo)

b) Plan your photo essay or story corps using storyboard materials (solo)

c) Start the design thinking process around our mobile Humanities booth project 

Use this video to help with your interview planning.  

As well interview techniques and guidelines at StoryCorps.

Homework

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Creative Post:
Get suited up.  Using a tool such a Polyvore.com or Pinterest or even just by finding images from various sources, design your "lawyer" wardrobe for yourself.  What would you wear in the trial of the death of Lennie and why?

Also, what would the person on trial wear?  Post images and explain your thinking there.

The idea is to consider the types of appeal (ethos, pathos, logos) and how what we wear can influence how audiences think.  Also, consider, what makes this extra challenging for people from poverty to tell their stories and be heard?

Closing Argument:
Write the closing argument in the death of Lennie
Due: Friday after Thanksgiving (December 6)

Photo Essay/Story Corps

Due: Tuesday, December 10

Roots 5 Quiz & Word Maps
Due: Today!

PACE: Figurative Language, Poetry & Music

Today, we continue looking at the poetic devices.  You started last class with diction.  Today we look at figurative language.  Miss Rumble has created a flipped lesson video to help you do your work.

We'll work with "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks and "Identity" by by Julio Noboa Polanco.

A graphic organizer for figurative language is in your Google Drive.  It has links to other resources to help as well.


We will also review your work from last class and get into our Ohana teams.

Homework

Blog: 3+ Posts 

Req'd Creative Post:  Illustrate a powerful line from a poem or song that speaks to you.  It may be a poem of your own creation, it may be a favorite song, it may be a poem that you stumble upon at www.poets.org or www.poetryfoundation.org, it may be one of the one's we've worked with in class.   Your illustration may be hand drawn, created digitally, or pulled together by finding images from Creative Commons.

Include a brief paragraph of explanation along with your illustration.  Post your illustrations by screenshot, laptop cam, phone pics, whatever it takes -- just them out there where other people can see them.  Think of this as a chance to explore whether this is one of the projects you'd like to take on for the unit in a greater sense.

Complete & Post: Marley Remix

Due: Monday, Nov 18

Complete: Poetic Devices: Diction

Graphic Organizer:  Complete the graphic organizer on diction.  Use the flipped lesson to help you.

Due:  TEACHER PACE Wednesday, Nov. 20th (TODAY)

Complete: Poetic Devices: Figurative Language

Graphic Organizer: Complete a graphic organizer on figurative language.  Use the flipped lesson to help you.

Due: TEACHER PACE Friday, November 22

Update: Weekly Work Plan & Due Dates Forms

Due: ASAP and As Needed

Humanities: Closing Arguments, Of Mice & Men, OJ Simpson, Ethos, Pathos & Logos

Today we'll be starting with some review of Roots #5 using Quizlet.  There's a quiz over Roots 1 - 5 on Thursday.  Word maps are due as well.

Then we'll dive into the closing arguments in the death of Lennie trial.  We will learn about the three types of appeal: ethos, pathos & logos

Ethos: Appeal based on the character of the speaker
"Mom, I'm a decent human being.  I treat people right.  I get my homework done.  Please, let me go to the movies."

Pathos: Appeal based on emotion

"Mom, everyone is going to be at the movies tonight and I just won't fit in any more if I'm the only one who hasn't seen Fast 19.  I'm just . . <snif>  . . so . . . upset right now."

Logos: Appeal based on reason

"Mom, if you let me go to the movies, you can call Aunt Laura and have a ladies night.  I won't be here.  I won't have any friends over.  And I won't be home until after 11.  When else will you get a chance to do what you want to do?"

It's not about using one of those strategies.  It's about using a equitable balance of those strategies depending on your goal and your audience.  You might want to use a little more ethos sometimes, and other times you will want some heavy logos.

We'll analyze the closing speech from the O.J. Simpson trial.  You can get a little background on the O.J. Simpson trial here and by watching the clip below.  Remember, this event happened in 1994.

We'll look at this closing argument from O.J. Simpson's defense attorney, Johnnie Cochran.



Use a coding strategy to help you find examples of Ethos, Pathos & Logos (E, P, L) and then questions you might have (?).

This is all to help you with your closing arguments in the death of Lennie trial.  Remember, you will be playing a lawyer, delivering either a closing argument in the trail of a character you choose to either defend or prosecute.  The big question: should that character be held accountable for the death of Lennie?


Homework

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Creative Post:
Get suited up.  Using a tool such a Polyvore.com or Pinterest or even just by finding images from various sources, design your "lawyer" wardrobe for yourself.  What would you wear in the trial of the death of Lennie and why?

Also, what would the person on trial wear?  Post images and explain your thinking there.

The idea is to consider the types of appeal (ethos, pathos, logos) and how what we wear can influence how audiences think.  Also, consider, what makes this extra challenging for people from poverty to tell their stories and be heard?

Closing Argument:
Write the closing argument in the death of Lennie
Due: TBA (after Thanksgiving)

Roots 5 Quiz & Word Maps
Due: Thursday!!!!!