FINAL PROJECT
CHOOSE ONE OF THESE TWO OPTIONS:
1. Make a video of the book
Directions found here: Video Project
2. Make a comic book of the novel
Directions found here: Comic Book
RESOURCES;
5 Sites That Make Illustrated Movies
Example youtube video of the novel The Catcher in the Rye
(be sure to watch the ending of their video where they discuss why they filmed it the way they did)
SUMMARY OF THE BOOK CAN BE FOUND AT SPARKNOTES.COM
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
May 21
To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary for next tomorrow, Friday's quiz (it's only seven new words)
To Kill a Mockingbird is all about racism, hatred, and inequality. And in particular, the question of how we are going to respond to those issues. In 1963, 100 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeches ever delivered, the
I Have a Dream speech. In it, he talks of people being judged based on the content of their character. Ask yourself, what is Tom Robinson's character like?
I Have a Dream
Brown v. Board of Education--Success or Failure
Brown v. Board of Education
The key holding of the Court was that, even if segregated black and white schools were of equal quality in facilities and teachers, segregation by itself was harmful to black students and unconstitutional.
Still Separate, Still Unequal
Was Brown v. Board a Failure?
Georgia Segregated Proms in 2014
Prom Night in Georgia documentary, part 1
What is Title 1
45 years later senator Obama delivered this speech at the democratic national convention and some say that it is the speech that made it possible for him to win the national election and become president. (When I heard it, I said to my friends, "This man will one day be president.")
Convention speech
The entire speech from the Democratic National Convention
To Kill a Mockingbird is all about racism, hatred, and inequality. And in particular, the question of how we are going to respond to those issues. In 1963, 100 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeches ever delivered, the
I Have a Dream speech. In it, he talks of people being judged based on the content of their character. Ask yourself, what is Tom Robinson's character like?
I Have a Dream
Brown v. Board of Education--Success or Failure
Brown v. Board of Education
The key holding of the Court was that, even if segregated black and white schools were of equal quality in facilities and teachers, segregation by itself was harmful to black students and unconstitutional.
Still Separate, Still Unequal
Was Brown v. Board a Failure?
Georgia Segregated Proms in 2014
Prom Night in Georgia documentary, part 1
What is Title 1
45 years later senator Obama delivered this speech at the democratic national convention and some say that it is the speech that made it possible for him to win the national election and become president. (When I heard it, I said to my friends, "This man will one day be president.")
Convention speech
The entire speech from the Democratic National Convention
Thursday, May 15, 2014
May 16
To shelter kids, or not to shelter kids, that's the question.
Take 1/2 page notes:
List two things you should keep from kids (list the age of the kid and the issue to hide)
List two things you should tell kids
Write a sentence telling me how you feel about sheltering children from
unpleasant truths (death, disease, murder, financial struggles, mommy and daddy are thinking they might need to get a divorce, etc.)?
Is it right for an adult to lie to a child to shield him or her?
Reading schedule for To Kill a Mockingbird. You must have the novel finished when you come back from Memorial Day weekend (yay! Memorial Day! Do something super fun!)
The novel is 281 pages long. If you're on page 206 right now (you're supposed to be further than that), you have 15 pages per day to read.
Tonight 206-221; Tue night 221-236; Wed 236-251; Thur 251-266; Friday & weekend 266-281
If you're not on 206 yet, just do the math yourself. Read the extra pages while you're in the car heading to your camping site, or get up at the normal time on Saturday instead of sleeping in and read :)
The last 15 minutes of class we will write a found poem for To Kill a Mockingbird. Finish up as homework.
To do this, write down all sorts of words from the book.
Then, rearrange them in a way that makes a poem. Poems don't have to rhyme!
A poem needs to express an idea.
Your poem must have at least 20 words. You may add a maximum of six words not found in the actual text of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Example of found poem To Kill a Mockingbird
First word from each chapter: when Dill catching yes Jem for you Atticus when although after but it I Calpurnia Thomas she
morning
Isom's words at random: I told trash soul saved you'll get along better “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. real courage conscience
How to write a found poem
Take 1/2 page notes:
List two things you should keep from kids (list the age of the kid and the issue to hide)
List two things you should tell kids
Write a sentence telling me how you feel about sheltering children from
unpleasant truths (death, disease, murder, financial struggles, mommy and daddy are thinking they might need to get a divorce, etc.)?
Is it right for an adult to lie to a child to shield him or her?
Reading schedule for To Kill a Mockingbird. You must have the novel finished when you come back from Memorial Day weekend (yay! Memorial Day! Do something super fun!)
The novel is 281 pages long. If you're on page 206 right now (you're supposed to be further than that), you have 15 pages per day to read.
Tonight 206-221; Tue night 221-236; Wed 236-251; Thur 251-266; Friday & weekend 266-281
If you're not on 206 yet, just do the math yourself. Read the extra pages while you're in the car heading to your camping site, or get up at the normal time on Saturday instead of sleeping in and read :)
The last 15 minutes of class we will write a found poem for To Kill a Mockingbird. Finish up as homework.
To do this, write down all sorts of words from the book.
Then, rearrange them in a way that makes a poem. Poems don't have to rhyme!
A poem needs to express an idea.
Your poem must have at least 20 words. You may add a maximum of six words not found in the actual text of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Example of found poem To Kill a Mockingbird
First word from each chapter: when Dill catching yes Jem for you Atticus when although after but it I Calpurnia Thomas she
morning
Isom's words at random: I told trash soul saved you'll get along better “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. real courage conscience
How to write a found poem
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Tuesday, May 14
To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary for next Tuesday
Today:
1. Hand in poem. Share
2. Read Mockingbird to 178 minimum. If you're not that far, read Sparknotes for now
Summary, Chapters 12, 13
Chapters 14, 15
Chapters 16, 17
Chapters 18, 19
3.SAT Practice test, writing
Commas and introductory phrases, also known as adverbial phrases
Note: Hand in your poem if you haven't already. We spent an entire period on this, so I expect to see a decent poem for you to get a decent score (10 points possible)
Today:
1. Hand in poem. Share
2. Read Mockingbird to 178 minimum. If you're not that far, read Sparknotes for now
Summary, Chapters 12, 13
Chapters 14, 15
Chapters 16, 17
Chapters 18, 19
3.SAT Practice test, writing
Commas and introductory phrases, also known as adverbial phrases
Note: Hand in your poem if you haven't already. We spent an entire period on this, so I expect to see a decent poem for you to get a decent score (10 points possible)
Directions for assignment on blog from two days ago
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Tuesday, May 13
To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary for next Tuesday
Hand in your poem. We spent an entire period on this, so I expect to see a decent poem for you to get a decent score (10 points possible)
If you were absent, see the assignment below. If you didn't understand the assignment, just write a poem about some specific thing in nature.
Today:
1. Hand in poem. Share
2. Read Mockingbird to 178 minimum. If you're not that far, read Sparknotes for now
Summary, Chapters 12, 13
Chapters 14, 15
3.SAT Practice test, writing
Write your own nature poem today. Here's the process I'd like you to follow:
1. Either sit and look at the natural world or remember a time when you were in nature.
2. Then write a list of ten very specific things that you see.
The best way to do this is to focus on something like Mary Oliver's grasshopper and write down details. These details will not be confined to the object you are focusing on but will include your surroundings.
2. Think in terms of how you perceive it and then write five images describing that place or thing
(what you see, hear, smell, feel) Your descriptions of images might include wording similar to the following: "colorless and frail," "a watercolor painted peak," "like little devil horns"(simile) "behind hugging trees," (imagery; personification)"plastic imposter" (metaphor) "kids lightly, freely, innocently tossing the ball" "on a morning like this, even the trash is beautiful"
5.(optional: Write your thoughts concerning at least one of these things)
6. Rewrite everything, making it a poem.
Hand in your poem. We spent an entire period on this, so I expect to see a decent poem for you to get a decent score (10 points possible)
If you were absent, see the assignment below. If you didn't understand the assignment, just write a poem about some specific thing in nature.
Today:
1. Hand in poem. Share
2. Read Mockingbird to 178 minimum. If you're not that far, read Sparknotes for now
Summary, Chapters 12, 13
Chapters 14, 15
3.SAT Practice test, writing
- Slow down. First 8 min, do 6 problems. Last 2 min, try to do 1 more
- Use a comma after an introductory phrase (dependent clause)
- If they want to win, athletes must exercise every day.
- Because he kept barking insistently, we threw the ball for Smokey.
- A popular and well respected mayor, Bailey was the clear favorite in the campaign for governor.
Write your own nature poem today. Here's the process I'd like you to follow:
1. Either sit and look at the natural world or remember a time when you were in nature.
2. Then write a list of ten very specific things that you see.
The best way to do this is to focus on something like Mary Oliver's grasshopper and write down details. These details will not be confined to the object you are focusing on but will include your surroundings.
2. Think in terms of how you perceive it and then write five images describing that place or thing
(what you see, hear, smell, feel) Your descriptions of images might include wording similar to the following: "colorless and frail," "a watercolor painted peak," "like little devil horns"(simile) "behind hugging trees," (imagery; personification)"plastic imposter" (metaphor) "kids lightly, freely, innocently tossing the ball" "on a morning like this, even the trash is beautiful"
5.(optional: Write your thoughts concerning at least one of these things)
6. Rewrite everything, making it a poem.
Monday, May 12, 2014
A Near Summer Day
The Summer Day
We have a place on the Alce where your freedom is found,
A place of pure bliss. A place with the tall trees, that give you blankets of shade and spots of sun.
The trail of sand that leads down to the babbling brook and open rocks. Baking in the sun, you long for the cold water and give in to the desire. The awkward rock with ridges and holes, running out to jump, you meet the water, head first. Enclosed but free, looking up at the sparkling water, and wavy sun. For a second you wait at the height of pure bliss.
Examples of other nature poems
Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver reading her poem: Wild Geese
Text for Wild Geese
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down--
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver, The House Light Beacon Press Boston, 1990.
Write your own nature poem today. Here's the process I'd like you to follow:
1. Either sit and look at the natural world or remember a time when you were in nature.
2. Then write a list of ten very specific things that you see.
The best way to do this is to focus on something like Mary Oliver's grasshopper and write down details. These details will not be confined to the object you are focusing on but will include your surroundings.
2. Think in terms of how you perceive it and then write five images describing that place or thing
(what you see, hear, smell, feel) Your descriptions of images might include wording similar to the following: "colorless and frail," "a watercolor painted peak," "like little devil horns"(simile) "behind hugging trees," (imagery; personification)"plastic imposter" (metaphor) "kids lightly, freely, innocently tossing the ball" "on a morning like this, even the trash is beautiful"
5.(optional: Write your thoughts concerning at least one of these things)
6. Rewrite everything, making it a poem.
Riplee's poem--An example of how to write the poem
1. Write a list of ten very specific things that you love about nature. Riplee's example is her camping spot
2, 3 Describe five aspects of that place or thing
I feel free at the camping spot lies next to the water's edge
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down--
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver, The House Light Beacon Press Boston, 1990.
Write your own nature poem today. Here's the process I'd like you to follow:
1. Either sit and look at the natural world or remember a time when you were in nature.
2. Then write a list of ten very specific things that you see.
The best way to do this is to focus on something like Mary Oliver's grasshopper and write down details. These details will not be confined to the object you are focusing on but will include your surroundings.
2. Think in terms of how you perceive it and then write five images describing that place or thing
(what you see, hear, smell, feel) Your descriptions of images might include wording similar to the following: "colorless and frail," "a watercolor painted peak," "like little devil horns"(simile) "behind hugging trees," (imagery; personification)"plastic imposter" (metaphor) "kids lightly, freely, innocently tossing the ball" "on a morning like this, even the trash is beautiful"
5.(optional: Write your thoughts concerning at least one of these things)
6. Rewrite everything, making it a poem.
Riplee's poem--An example of how to write the poem
1. Write a list of ten very specific things that you love about nature. Riplee's example is her camping spot
- 1. Camping spot on the Alcea river
- 2. Our cabin
- 3. Path to the edge of the water
- 4. Bright reflection of light off the water
- 5. Warm sun on my skin
- 6. Cold water
- 7. The rock where we dove in
- 8. The smooth texture of the rock
- 9. Laughter
- 10. The feeling of the water making my hair float in the water
2, 3 Describe five aspects of that place or thing
- The camping spot lies next to the water's edge
- there are tall trees, that give you
- The trail of sand leads down to the babbling brook
- The light is beautiful with blankets of shade and spots of sun
- The water is cold
- There is a rock with ridges and holes
- I dive in head first into the sparkling water
- the water makes my hair float in the water
I feel free at the camping spot lies next to the water's edge
I'm at the height of pure bliss
I feel enclosed but free
Baking in the sun, you long for the cold water
and give in to the desire.
6. Rewrite everything, making it a poem.
6. Rewrite everything, making it a poem.
We have a place on the Alce where your freedom is found,
A place of pure bliss. A place with the tall trees, that give you blankets of shade and spots of sun.
The trail of sand that leads down to the babbling brook and open rocks. Baking in the sun, you long for the cold water and give in to the desire. The awkward rock with ridges and holes, running out to jump, you meet the water, head first. Enclosed but free, looking up at the sparkling water, and wavy sun. For a second you wait at the height of pure bliss.
Examples of other nature poems
Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver reading her poem: Wild Geese
Text for Wild Geese
Thursday, May 8, 2014
May 8
To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary for Tuesday--all the words after "acquit"
HOMEWORK: Finish page 155 in To Kill a Mockingbird
Finish page 178 over the weekend
Tomorrow I will take roll and then we will all head to the Rose auditorium to watch two one act plays performed by South students. It should be a very neat experience. A one act play is simply a very short play, approximately 15 minutes. You will need to pay close attention so that I can give you a fairly easy quiz on the play on Monday (10 points). If you talk with your neighbors, you will be removed from the theater, receive zero points on the quiz, and get a parent call.
HOMEWORK: Finish page 155 in To Kill a Mockingbird
Finish page 178 over the weekend
Tomorrow I will take roll and then we will all head to the Rose auditorium to watch two one act plays performed by South students. It should be a very neat experience. A one act play is simply a very short play, approximately 15 minutes. You will need to pay close attention so that I can give you a fairly easy quiz on the play on Monday (10 points). If you talk with your neighbors, you will be removed from the theater, receive zero points on the quiz, and get a parent call.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Cinco de Mayo
To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary for Tuesday--"subpoena" to "acquit"
HOMEWORK: Finish page 127 in To Kill a Mockingbird (you're supposed to be that far already)
Memorize vocabulary
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience" (105)
Answer the following questions on a sheet of paper:
1. What are Atticus and Scout talking about when he says this to her?
2. Write the quote in your own words
3. Give an example of a time when your conscience has disagreed with what other people believe. Are you glad that your conscience pulled you in a different direction?
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do" (112).
1. In your opinion, did Mrs. Dubose do the right thing by weaning herself from morphine before she died? Just because Atticus says she did do the right thing doesn't mean that you have to agree. One of my doctor friends would agree, and the other wouldn't, for example.
Explain why you agree or disagree. Write 1 paragraph (two is ok)
HOMEWORK: Finish page 127 in To Kill a Mockingbird (you're supposed to be that far already)
Memorize vocabulary
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience" (105)
Answer the following questions on a sheet of paper:
1. What are Atticus and Scout talking about when he says this to her?
2. Write the quote in your own words
3. Give an example of a time when your conscience has disagreed with what other people believe. Are you glad that your conscience pulled you in a different direction?
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do" (112).
1. In your opinion, did Mrs. Dubose do the right thing by weaning herself from morphine before she died? Just because Atticus says she did do the right thing doesn't mean that you have to agree. One of my doctor friends would agree, and the other wouldn't, for example.
Explain why you agree or disagree. Write 1 paragraph (two is ok)
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