Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze Sylvia Plath's "Initiation" in order to explore how figurative language can reveal author's purpose.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Initiation," by Sylvia Plath
Click here to read this text online
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
What is the significance of the heather birds metaphor at the conclusion of this story? Post your comments in a BCR at the foot of this blog entry in a five-sentence BCR by the start of next class.
(BCRs must contain five complete sentences. No partial credit is awarded)
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Waiting for Godot
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze short dramatic texts in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Q3 Benchmark exam is Tuesday, March 27
Students will read and analyze short dramatic texts in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Q3 Benchmark exam is Tuesday, March 27
Monday, March 19, 2012
Brian's Song
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze short dramatic texts in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Q3 Benchmark exam is:
Thursday, March 22 and Monday, March 26 (A Days)
Students will read and analyze short dramatic texts in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Brian's Song" by William Blinn
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Q3 Benchmark exam is:
Thursday, March 22 and Monday, March 26 (A Days)
Friday, March 23 and Tuesday, March 27 (B Days)
Monday, March 12, 2012
The Holocaust: Day Eight
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
RESEARCH PAPERS and WORKS CITED PAGES are due next class!
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"I Have Lived a Thousand Years" by Livia Bitton- Jackson
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
RESEARCH PAPERS and WORKS CITED PAGES are due next class!
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Holocaust: Day Seven
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
RESEARCH PAPERS and WORKS CITED PAGES are due this week!
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"I Have Lived a Thousand Years" by Livia Bitton- Jackson
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
RESEARCH PAPERS and WORKS CITED PAGES are due this week!
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
The Holocaust: Day Six
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"I Have Lived a Thousand Years" by Livia Bitton- Jackson
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Oprah and Elie B.C.R. (on www.Edmodo.com)
Watch the video clips of Oprah's interview with Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz (the video is posted here in six parts -- we watched the first two segments in class, and you may watch as many parts of the video as you'd like. If the video does not load here, visit YouTube.com and search for "Oprah Auschwitz").
What information and feelings did you encounter when watching this interview?
TURN IN your answer as a five-sentence B.C.R. by the START of THURSDAY's CLASS.
What information and feelings did you encounter when watching this interview?
TURN IN your answer as a five-sentence B.C.R. by the START of THURSDAY's CLASS.
Friday, March 2, 2012
The Holocaust: Day Five
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"I Have Lived a Thousand Years" by Livia Bitton- Jackson
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Which Print Text Is Best? (on www.Edmodo.com)
Which of the books we are reading in class do you find to be the most interesting and informative? You MUST choose from the list of the following titles:
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
"Maus" by Art Spiegelman
"Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
"I Have Lived A Thousand Years" by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Explain your thinking in a five-sentence B.C.R., and TURN IN your assignment.
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
"Maus" by Art Spiegelman
"Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
"I Have Lived A Thousand Years" by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Explain your thinking in a five-sentence B.C.R., and TURN IN your assignment.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The Holocaust: Day Four
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Maus" by Art Spiegelman (chapter 4)
"The Diary of A Young Girl" by Anne Frank
"Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry (chapter 5)
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Summarize a Holocaust Video (on www.Edmodo.com)
1) Visit the website of the Anne Frank museum: http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/Enter-the-3D-house/#/house/20/
2) Click through the site to take an online "virtual tour" of the rooms in the secret hiding place.
3) TURN IN a five-sentence summary of what you saw, learned and felt after exploring the family's hiding place.
2) Click through the site to take an online "virtual tour" of the rooms in the secret hiding place.
3) TURN IN a five-sentence summary of what you saw, learned and felt after exploring the family's hiding place.
Monday, February 27, 2012
The Holocaust: Day Three
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
Tonight's Homework:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Night" by Elie Wiesel (pages 12-20)
Today's Lesson Notes:
"The Diary of A Young Girl" by Anne Frank (pages 38-40, 41-42)
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Summarize a Holocaust Video (on www.Edmodo.com)
1) Find a video clip of Holocaust-related footage online. You can browse YouTube or any other video-sharing website, or you can check out the online video archives of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_list.php?MediaType=fi
2) Watch the video.
3) POST THE LINK to the video when you turn in your assignment here, and write a five-sentence summary of what you found. In order to receive credit, your summary should include some indication of how REPUTABLE the source is.
2) Watch the video.
3) POST THE LINK to the video when you turn in your assignment here, and write a five-sentence summary of what you found. In order to receive credit, your summary should include some indication of how REPUTABLE the source is.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The Holocaust: Day Two
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
Tonight's Homework:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Night" by Elie Wiesel (pages 9-12)
Today's Lesson Notes:
"I Have Lived A Thousand Years" (chapter six) by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Summarize The Ghetto Story (on www.Edmodo.com)
1) Visit this website: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005059.
2) Read this brief article about life in the ghetto.
3) Click "TURN IN" to post your five-sentence summary of this article.
3) Click "TURN IN" to post your five-sentence summary of this article.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Holocaust: Day One
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Night" by Elie Wiesel (pages 2-4)
Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Night" by Elie Wiesel (pages 2-4)
"Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry (chapter one)
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Summarize a Holocaust Story (on www.Edmodo.com)
2) Pick a Holocaust victim with a last name that starts with the same letter as your own.
3) Read their biography, and click TURN IN to post a five-sentence summary of their life.
3) Read their biography, and click TURN IN to post a five-sentence summary of their life.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Slam Poetry
Today's Objective:
Students will read, write, and analyze slam poetry in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
"Wordplay" by Jason Mraz
"Comeback Kid (That's My Dog)" by Brett Dennen
"Invincible" by Machine Gun Kelly
"All of the Lights" by Kanye West
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Login to www.Edmodo.com.
Using the "TURN IN" button, please submit a link to video of a battle rap or slam freestyle poem.
Here's how to submit:
1) Find your videos on YouTube and copy the address to the video.
2) Click "TURN IN."
3) Click the "ATTACH LINK" icon to paste the link to the video.
4) Click "TURN IN ASSIGNMENT."
Students will read, write, and analyze slam poetry in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
"Wordplay" by Jason Mraz
"Comeback Kid (That's My Dog)" by Brett Dennen
"Invincible" by Machine Gun Kelly
"All of the Lights" by Kanye West
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Login to www.Edmodo.com.
Using the "TURN IN" button, please submit a link to video of a battle rap or slam freestyle poem.
Here's how to submit:
1) Find your videos on YouTube and copy the address to the video.
2) Click "TURN IN."
3) Click the "ATTACH LINK" icon to paste the link to the video.
4) Click "TURN IN ASSIGNMENT."
Friday, February 10, 2012
Poetry Portfolio
Today's Objective:
Students will write, edit, and revise original poems for inclusion in their poetry portfolios in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
"How To Save A Life" by The Fray
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Finish working on the poems that will be included in your poetry portfolios. Completed portfolios MUST contain each of the poems discussed in your guidelines. Portfolios are due on Tuesday, Feb. 14 ("B" Day) and Wednesday, February 15 ("A" Day).
Click here to download a digital copy of the poetry portfolio guidelines
Students will write, edit, and revise original poems for inclusion in their poetry portfolios in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
"How To Save A Life" by The Fray
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Finish working on the poems that will be included in your poetry portfolios. Completed portfolios MUST contain each of the poems discussed in your guidelines. Portfolios are due on Tuesday, Feb. 14 ("B" Day) and Wednesday, February 15 ("A" Day).
Click here to download a digital copy of the poetry portfolio guidelines
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Figurative Language
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of imagery poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
"Eye of The Hurricane" by David Wilcox
"The Flea" by John Donne
"The Railway Train" by Emily Dickinson
"Patrolling Barnegat" by Walt Whitman
"When I Dream of Michelangelo" by The Counting Crows
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Continue working on the poems that will be included in your poetry portfolios. Completed portfolios MUST contain each of the poems discussed in your guidelines. Portfolios are due on Tuesday, Feb. 14 ("B" Day) and Wednesday, February 15 ("A" Day).
Click here to download a digital copy of the poetry portfolio guidelines
Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of imagery poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
"Eye of The Hurricane" by David Wilcox
"The Flea" by John Donne
"The Railway Train" by Emily Dickinson
"Patrolling Barnegat" by Walt Whitman
"When I Dream of Michelangelo" by The Counting Crows
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Continue working on the poems that will be included in your poetry portfolios. Completed portfolios MUST contain each of the poems discussed in your guidelines. Portfolios are due on Tuesday, Feb. 14 ("B" Day) and Wednesday, February 15 ("A" Day).
Click here to download a digital copy of the poetry portfolio guidelines
Friday, February 3, 2012
Love Poetry
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of love poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
"Love Like" by Shihan
"Woman" by Nikki Giovanni
"Moon Rondeau" by Carl Sandburg
"Simile" by N. Scott Momaday
"Love Without Love" by Luis Lloréns Torres
"The Taxi" by Amy Lowell"Tonight I Can Write"by Pablo Neruda
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Continue working on the poems that will be included in your poetry portfolios. Completed portfolios MUST contain each of the poems discussed in your guidelines. Portfolios are due on Tuesday, Feb. 14 ("B" Day) and Wednesday, February 15 ("A" Day).
Click here to download a digital copy of the poetry portfolio guidelines
Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of love poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
"Love Like" by Shihan
"Woman" by Nikki Giovanni
"Moon Rondeau" by Carl Sandburg
"Simile" by N. Scott Momaday
"Love Without Love" by Luis Lloréns Torres
"The Taxi" by Amy Lowell"Tonight I Can Write"by Pablo Neruda
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Continue working on the poems that will be included in your poetry portfolios. Completed portfolios MUST contain each of the poems discussed in your guidelines. Portfolios are due on Tuesday, Feb. 14 ("B" Day) and Wednesday, February 15 ("A" Day).
Click here to download a digital copy of the poetry portfolio guidelines
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Black History Month Poems
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of poems by black authors in order to commemorate the start of Black History Month while reviewing target HSA indicators and preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
"Changes" by Tupac Shakur
"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
"Enslaved" by Claude McKay
"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Harlem (A Dream Deferred)" by Langston Hughes
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Continue working on the poems that will be included in your poetry portfolios. Completed portfolios MUST contain each of the poems discussed in your guidelines. Portfolios are due on Tuesday, Feb. 14 ("B" Day) and Wednesday, February 15 ("A" Day).
Click here to download a digital copy of the poetry portfolio guidelines
Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of poems by black authors in order to commemorate the start of Black History Month while reviewing target HSA indicators and preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
"Changes" by Tupac Shakur
"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
"Enslaved" by Claude McKay
"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Harlem (A Dream Deferred)" by Langston Hughes
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Continue working on the poems that will be included in your poetry portfolios. Completed portfolios MUST contain each of the poems discussed in your guidelines. Portfolios are due on Tuesday, Feb. 14 ("B" Day) and Wednesday, February 15 ("A" Day).
Click here to download a digital copy of the poetry portfolio guidelines
Monday, January 30, 2012
Structured Poems
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of structured poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
Poetry Portfolio Guidelines
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of structured poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
Poetry Portfolio Guidelines
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Family Poems
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of family poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
"Knock Knock" by Daniel Beaty
"Hey Mama" by Kanye West
"The Dreaded Spoon" by Bruce Hornsby
"Piano" by D.H. Lawrence
"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of family poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Works Studied in Today's Class:
"Knock Knock" by Daniel Beaty
"Hey Mama" by Kanye West
"The Dreaded Spoon" by Bruce Hornsby
"Piano" by D.H. Lawrence
"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Free Verse Persona Poetry
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of free verse poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Stan" by Eminem
"Send Somebody" by Colin Hay
"Free Fallin" by Tom Petty (performed by John Mayer)
"O What Is That Sound" by W.H. Auden
"The Cap and Bells" by William Butler Yeats
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Students will read and analyze author's use of tone and mood across a series of free verse poems in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for third quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"Stan" by Eminem
"Send Somebody" by Colin Hay
"Free Fallin" by Tom Petty (performed by John Mayer)
"O What Is That Sound" by W.H. Auden
"The Cap and Bells" by William Butler Yeats
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Benchmark Exam (ALL CLASSES)
Today's Objective:
Students will take the second quarter HSA benchmark exam in order to demonstrate mastery of second quarter target indicators.
Students will take the second quarter HSA benchmark exam in order to demonstrate mastery of second quarter target indicators.
Tonight's Homework:
None
Friday, January 6, 2012
Short Stories by O. Henry (ALL CLASSES)
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze O. Henry's "One Thousand Dollars" in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for second quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
A Harlem Tragedy
The Cop and the Anthem
After 20 Years
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Students will read and analyze O. Henry's "One Thousand Dollars" in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for second quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
A Harlem Tragedy
The Cop and the Anthem
After 20 Years
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Thursday, January 5, 2012
A Good Man is Hard to Find (ALL CLASSES)
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for second quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Students will read and analyze Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for second quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
One Thousand Dollars (ALL CLASSES)
Today's Objective:
Students will read and analyze O. Henry's "One Thousand Dollars" in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for second quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"One Thousand Dollars," by O. Henry
Click here to read this text online
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
Students will read and analyze O. Henry's "One Thousand Dollars" in order to review target HSA indicators and prepare for second quarter benchmark exam.
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:
"One Thousand Dollars," by O. Henry
Click here to read this text online
Today's Lesson Notes:
Tonight's Homework:
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