Hello Everyone!
Time flies when you are having fun–and it sure flew once again today in Writing 2. Read on for a recap of all we accomplished in class today!
Quick Write
Because we are coming up on Holy Week, I pivoted. We had another Quick Write responding to an allegorical animated short film that beautifully parallels the sacrifice, the death, and resurrection of Jesus and what that means for us. The best stories convey truth— I pray students will internalize the truth of God’s great love for us.
Literature
Today, we finished our short stories unit with an in-class quiz, then we started our next unit–poetry. Our poems come from a book titled 101 Great American Poems, and they will be reading a chronological collection of poems, starting with poetry from the early 1800s to that of the mid-1900s. 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.
Writing
Last week I introduced our last “from scratch” essay–the Formal Critique. The KWO for that was due today. I circulated around the room, checked in with each student and gave credit to those who met their deadline for this assignment. After that, we talked through some more helps for this essay. I passed out a two sided-sheet with a “thesaurus” for writing this type of essay and more helpful vocabulary for discussing topics like themes, character qualities and general analysis words. These are posted in the About the Formal Critique material on Google Classroom. Please avail yourself of these helps when writing your essays over the break. You’ll sound as smart as you are! The Formal Critique is due April 9th–when you get back from break.
To further support you as students write their critiques, today we watched a video on Story Types. We learned there are basically 4 types of stories: whole, healing, broken, and twisted. After generating a few more examples of each story type, we read through a famous short story by one of our featured short story writers Saki called “The Interlopers” WHAT an ending! Though we weren’t able to finish it in class, please read on over the break and see that it is a great example of a mostly broken story. It is a cautionary tale of what happens when we have unforgiveness–or we forgive too late. Familiarity with story types will be helpful as they write their critiques.
Grammar
Our topic today was parentheses, dashes, and ellipses. After reading some tips about using these, students can get to work practicing on their worksheets. Remember to grade and mark your own work!
That’s all for now, folks.
Blessings on you!
Mrs. G
Homework for this week
–Formal Critique Essay (due 4/9)
- Read Week 11 Poetry
- Poetry: Read Emerson (4-5); Longfellow (6-10); Holmes (21), Whitman (22-26),Dickinson (29 - 32)
-- Poetry Response (2 Poems)
Grammar
Grammar: Wk10 - Parentheses & Dashes
Grammar: Wk10 - Ellipsis
Links for this week
Foreverergreen–animated short film
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