Monday, May 16, 2011
Honors Creating an Outline...
You should ALWAYS be using MLA Style to format your papers, and you should ALWAYS be using Schaffer to write your content. There are multiple outline formats on MY site at this link.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Lesson Plan Updates
Flex for Wednesday was "If Heaven" (Lesson Plan here)
Flex for Friday is "Glitter in the Air" (Lesson Plan here)
Students in honors English are finishing with Huckleberry Finn. They are following the honors English calendar located here HERE. They should read for homework to page 290 in their books by next Tuesday. Their last book write is due on Thursday (along with their study guide on chapters 31-36, available here)
Today in B4, we will be reading "Once More to the Lake" by E.B. White in class.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Flex, Tuesday 5/10 "Swing"
Today we talked about connotation/denotation (euphemism) and metaphor. We watched "Swing" by Trace Adkins and the lesson plan is located here. It links to Huckleberry Finn's understanding of people and Field of Dreams metaphor of baseball. Remember, there is no flex on Thursday. Thursday's flex "If Heaven" will move to Wednesday.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Flex, Friday 5/6 -- River of Dreams!
Today we discussed River of Dreams by Billy Joel. The lesson plan is here.
It goes along with both Huckleberry Finn AND "The Thrill of the Grass."
It goes along with both Huckleberry Finn AND "The Thrill of the Grass."
Is this Heaven? No, it's English.
Today in class, we started watching Field of Dreams as our introduction to "The Thrill of the Grass" by W.P Kinsella. We discussed this viewing guide which you may download if you have misplaced yours. (It is green).
You should have turned in your Book Write #3. Some of you also needed to turn in your study guide for "Piano" (D.H. Lawrence)/"Those Winter Sundays" (Robert Hayden). You may have turned that in during class last time.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Flex for Thursday, 5/5
This is in preparation for the unit in regular English 10 on "The Thrill of the Grass" and Field of Dreams.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Book Write #3 on PLOT (Regular English)
If you went through a magical portal, what would you do? Who would you be friends with? How would you interact with your characters?
Explain 3 differences between your book’s “reality” and the real world. How is it different in real life than the way your author portrays it? Use quotes and examples to support the “plot holes.”
In ______ (situation) how would your character react? If ______ were to happen, how would YOU react? If you were in the same situation as your character, how would you react? Do you agree with the way your characters have reacted?
If this were a play, how would you set it up? How would you direct this scene?
Explain 3 differences between your book’s “reality” and the real world. How is it different in real life than the way your author portrays it? Use quotes and examples to support the “plot holes.”
In ______ (situation) how would your character react? If ______ were to happen, how would YOU react? If you were in the same situation as your character, how would you react? Do you agree with the way your characters have reacted?
If this were a play, how would you set it up? How would you direct this scene?
Flex for Tuesday, 5/3
We discussed "Drive (For Daddy Gene)" by Alan Jackson. The lesson you should have learned was about simile, allusion, theme, and the concept of childhood/fathers/and nostalgia (and building family relationships).
The link to the lesson is here. There was a video for it (available at iTunes.) You can probably also view it on YouTube.
The link to the lesson is here. There was a video for it (available at iTunes.) You can probably also view it on YouTube.
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