Time flies when you are having fun–and it sure flew once again today in Writing 1. You students are such a joy to teach! Here’s a recap of all we accomplished in class today:
We are kicking off one of my favorite parts of the year in CHAT Writing: Poetry! For our Quick Write today, we talked about the genre of poetry called “List Poetry.” Normally such a poem contains a few lines of explanation, followed by a list and ending with a few more lines of explanation. It can be musical, funny, rhyming or whatever tickles your fancy. After listening to “18 Flavors” and “Hector the Collector” by childhood favorite Shel Silverstein, students tried their hands at writing their own “list poetry.”
Today was our Peer Review day in Writing for the Analogy Essay. As usual, students chose a partner, traded papers and reviewed each other’s work. The completed Peer Review paper is due with the Final draft on 4/11.
For the Literature portion of our class, we finished our O. Henry short stories unit with a Jigsaw style discussion. Students became “experts” on one aspect of the three last stories: Plot, Theme, or Setting & Characters. After they had thoroughly discussed, they re-grouped and shared their information. They were also to come to a consensus on this question: What was your opinion on “The Ransom of Red Chief”? It was interesting to discuss because the story was both funny (about a boy so bad and mischievous that his family didn't want him back from the kidnappers) and sad (for the same reason).
After the discussion, I handed out their new books: Great Short Poems. This is an anthology of short verse that spans 400 years of English and American literary history. Students have the books, but I will also post the poems on Google Classroom.
We talked about how each week from here on out students will read all the assigned poems and respond to two of them.
Here are their options:
1. Fill out a Poetry Worksheet for one or both
2. Write a paragraph about the poem(s) that analyzes the poem; discuss what you think it means and why you like or don't like it.
3. Instead of writing a paragraph, record a video commentary about the poem. Youtube LiveStream or some other app on a device is OK as long as it can be seen by me.
4. Do a piece of art that connects with the content and meaning of the poem.
5. Make a video of your recitation of the poem. Our poetry unit will culminate in a Poetry Jam (poetry contest.) More details on that to come.
For our Grammar portion of the class, I gave three worksheets for continued practice in identifying sentence elements for the various sentence patterns that have been covered this semester. Make sure to correct your own work!
Have a blessed weekend!
Mrs. G
Assignments for Week 11 (March 28)
–Raleigh (p.1); Donne (p.); Quarels (p. 4); Milton (p. 5); Bradstreet (39)
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