We'll start by taking a look at MUGS and how NoRedInk.com can help you with practice sessions, in addition to your assignments and quizzes.
From there, we dig out the work we did on famous lines from Macbeth. We'll make a wall of predictions based on the analysis and connotation work we did. The big question?
Now that you've read a number of lines from the play, what do you think this play will be about? What will happen? What might be some of the themes? What might be some of messages Shakespeare wanted to get across?
We'll take some time to unpack the following standard by creating "I Can" statements.
Reading
Writing
Listening & Speaking
We'll put the results up on the board. We've got to do this to make sure we stay focused in the Macbeth unit and not let our projects take over -- creativity is awesome and we have to make sure we balance freedom with meeting the standards.
And if we have time after all of that, we can watch some more Macbeth. Important groundwork laid today. We're going to be doing intense work and we need to know where we are headed before we take off.
HOMEWORK
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Req'd Post: You work for a major multimedia corporation that has just decided to make a series of films, TV shows, video games and books based on Shakespeare's plays because they are royalty-free. The board of directors hired you to generate some ideas around Macbeth. Unfortunately, you've never read the whole play or even seen the whole film. Using any line or phrase from Macbeth as your inspiration and the title, and what little you know about the play, pitch one idea to the board of directors for a film, TV series, video game, or book.
Due: Friday, Feb 8
MUGS: Commonly Confused Words #2
Quiz: Friday, Feb 14
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Monday, February 3, 2014
AP Lit 3G: Gallery Walk & Feedback & Hamlet
Today, we'll start with a quick recalibrating -- this feels more like a start to a new quarter than last week did.
Let's climb on to NoRedInk.com for a couple of minutes, play with Apostrophes 3, explore the practice areas. We can do this while transitioning into our next work.
We'll review effective feedback. Take a look at all of these pictures from the way back machine when we were doling out feedback on our last round of projects. Let's see if we can increase our rate of meaningful, effective feedback for these.
Then it is time for the gallery walk for the latest round of book projects. Post-It Notes will abound.
From there, a few minutes with How to Read Lit Like a Professor and powerful takeaways worth putting up on the board.
We will end today with a Hamlet viewing, picking up where we left off just after "To be or not to be."
HOMEWORK
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Req'd Post: Create a visual 3x3 of the town (or county) where you live. What does that place mean to you? How can you capture your relationship with your town through pictures? Consider taking or drawing/painting your own. Give considerable thought to how you arrange them.
MUGS: Apostrophes 3 on NoRedInk.com
Quiz: Thursday/Friday Feb 6 & 7
Read: Read & and review Joyce's "The Dead" & all three other Joyce stories; be certain to 3x3 "The Dead"
Be Prepared: To work with all four 3x3s, Wed/Th/Fri
Read & Annotate: How to Read Lit Like a Professor "Geography Matters . . ."
Post: Annotations on the blog
Heads Up: Frankenstein is next! Will need to be read by Thursday AFTER Feb break. Let me know if you need a hard copy. Many, many, many places to get it free online including here.
Let's climb on to NoRedInk.com for a couple of minutes, play with Apostrophes 3, explore the practice areas. We can do this while transitioning into our next work.
We'll review effective feedback. Take a look at all of these pictures from the way back machine when we were doling out feedback on our last round of projects. Let's see if we can increase our rate of meaningful, effective feedback for these.
Then it is time for the gallery walk for the latest round of book projects. Post-It Notes will abound.
From there, a few minutes with How to Read Lit Like a Professor and powerful takeaways worth putting up on the board.
We will end today with a Hamlet viewing, picking up where we left off just after "To be or not to be."
HOMEWORK
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: Create a visual 3x3 of the town (or county) where you live. What does that place mean to you? How can you capture your relationship with your town through pictures? Consider taking or drawing/painting your own. Give considerable thought to how you arrange them.
MUGS: Apostrophes 3 on NoRedInk.com
Quiz: Thursday/Friday Feb 6 & 7
Read: Read & and review Joyce's "The Dead" & all three other Joyce stories; be certain to 3x3 "The Dead"
Be Prepared: To work with all four 3x3s, Wed/Th/Fri
Read & Annotate: How to Read Lit Like a Professor "Geography Matters . . ."
Post: Annotations on the blog
Heads Up: Frankenstein is next! Will need to be read by Thursday AFTER Feb break. Let me know if you need a hard copy. Many, many, many places to get it free online including here.
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