Take Bean Trees test.
Prior to test, have two students name every character they can think of in the novel.
TEST (on table in folder)

Ricochet River
Reading time for the remainder of the period. When students finish the test, they should bring it up to the table and then start reading Ricochet River.

Tue

In Just by e.e.cummings
I thank you God for this amazing by e.e. cummings
A Passing Glimpse by Robert Frost

The Ghost House by Robert Frost
Bereft by Robert Frost
Similarities?

Journal: What do you think each of these poems is saying? Write 1/3 page
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
A Passing Glimpse by Robert Frost
In Just by e.e.cummings
HOMEWORK:
Learn all 20 of the following literary terms for your test on Thursday
Literary terms (you're already supposed to know most of them)

Thursday, May 5

The Pasture      Choral rendition
   Why is this poem listed at the first of the Robert Frost Complete Poems anthology?
   What is revealed about Frost's writing in the poem?
Read 922 in The American Experience (AKA "Big Red Book" in this classroom)
The Road Not Taken
Stopping By Woods on a Winter's Eve
Nothing Gold Can Stay
 http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/I_sit_beside_the_fire_and_think
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XInL2u0DP88 (Robert Frost presidential reading)

Quote of the day:
"Beauty is ephemeral--because if it was there all the time, it wouldn't be beautiful"
       --Taylor Leveck

End of the year countdown.
You only have to see my face: 16   more times!

I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.^[3]

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.
  

Tuesday, April 19

Finish District Writing Assessment
Read Bean Trees if you've already finished
Listen to The Fault in Our Stars
Thursday: Quiz over Bean Trees chapters 10-13 with a couple of questions from earlier chapters

Tuesday, April 5

Be sure to READ!
HOMEWORK: Read chapter 11, pages 203-214. Due at the first of the period next time.
Quiz Tuesday over chapters 8, 9, 10
Discuss.
Read Ismene. "What would  you do, Taylor?" "You live in that world."
Make list of problems we have in society that demand our attention

Problems that people tend to ignore--about ourselves, families, friends, community, state, world
1. Descrimination against women--jobs, jokes, stereotypes; girls can't do everything
2. Racism--yes, even in our school, yes, even you
3. School system--favors certain learning style; stamps out creativity; conformity
4.
Next time we will work in groups to try to help fight some local, personal, and worldwide problems
Amnesty International Site
The Guatemalan Civil War
Estevan and Esperanza had to come to the U.S. because they were in danger of being killed during the civil war because they were protesting what the government was doing. Many Central American and South American countries experienced Communist revolutions during the 60's and 70's. Estevan and Esperanza and their families fought for the rights of the common man, the peasants, the Communist side.

Sting wrote a song protesting the Chilean Civil War, which was virtually the same as theGuatemalan Civil War and is therefore his message also relates to this book. Here's his song:
They Dance Alone.
The idea in the song is that they only way that people could protest what was going on without getting killed was to all dance together without any men, showing that the men had been killed.

Here's some background information on the Guatemalan Civil War.

Monday April 4

Quiz Tuesday over chapters 8, 9, 10
Be sure to READ!

The Guatemalan Civil War
Estevan and Esperanza had to come to the U.S. because they were in danger of being killed during the civil war because they were protesting what the government was doing. Many Central American and South American countries experienced Communist revolutions during the 60's and 70's. Estevan and Esperanza and their families fought for the rights of the common man, the peasants, the Communist side.

Sting wrote a song protesting the Chilean Civil War, which was virtually the same as the Guatemalan Civil War and is therefore his message also relates to this book. Here's his song:
They Dance Alone.
The idea in the song is that they only way that people could protest what was going on without getting killed was to all dance together without any men, showing that the men had been killed.

Here's some background information on the Guatemalan Civil War.