What's Due AFTER the Break??

PowerPoint Project Presentation

You will need to have 10 slides in your PowerPoint. Slide 1 should have your name, and a title that explains your project. You may choose to put a picture or music on it. Slide 2 should cover the book you chose for your book report. (You may have photos from Amazon, from movies, etc.) Slide 3 should explain what you researched and what you learned. Your thesis should be clear. Slide 4 should cover any interesting pictures, sources, or extras that didn't fit into your paper. This might be music, video, pictures. Slide 5 should explain what you did and when you did it (you may have pictures here) Slide 6 shows explains where, how, and why of your project (you may have pictures here) Slide 7 shows pictures from your experience Slide 8 describes what you felt and saw during your project Slide 9 describes how your book, research paper, and project connected Slide 10 is your personal opinion on the book, research paper, and everything we did this quarter. What do you think about what you did over the entire quarter?

Wednesday, Extra Credit Book Reports

Today we did "It Snowed" sentences (IC)
... and extra credit book report presentations (the book reports were NOT extra credit, but presenting them early was).
Your homework is to turn your research paper next time. 
Extra Credit here

Book Report Directions

Oral Book Report Presentation Directions:

Students had to bring a gift (3 items)  for the subject of their book. Requirements:

• The gift needed to be thoughtful and meaningful to their subject.
• The gift needed to be wrapped previous to attending class. This indicated that they were thoughtful about the gift they intended to give their subject.
• Each element of the gift needed to be explained. Why were these items important or relevant about this subject?
• They also needed to answer questions 1-4 (see left)
• 1. Who is this person?
• 2. Why are they famous or infamous?
• 3. Why do they matter?
• 4. Have they really changed the world in some way?.
• They needed to rate/recommend the book (we used the Amazon.com system of 5 stars)

Recite Your Sonnets

Today you should have recited your sonnet...
Your homework is to write a free write using the thesis:
How is "classic" literature portrayed in pop culture? What has our unit taught you?
Please write 250 words in about 3 paragraphs.

We also did this "Here's Your Sign"

In B2 we did "George Wept" IC sentence construction.

Works Cited

OWL at Purdue wants to help you build your Works Cited page:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/

You can use citation machine, but it may not always be right...

Sample MLA paper here

Ozymandias

Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Today we discussed the 7 wonders of the ancient world. We looked the sphinx, discussed sonnet form,   and then we looked in detail at the Colossus at Rhodes. http://www.7wonders.info/colossus-of-rhodes.php

We read the sonnet by Emma Lazarus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Then we listened to Sting's "Mad About You" from Fields of Gold and Kimberly Locke's "8th World Wonder" for references to the Colossus and 7 wonders of the world.

Write a sonnet!!

Homework for Honors:
Write a sonnet... http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm
Sonnet help at flex on TUESDAY.
Extra credit flex on Wednesday (12 Days of Christmas)
Extra credit flex on Thursday ("Your Love is my Drug" Allusions)
Friday is a grade fix day (bring your grades).