WE WILL RETURN BOOKS TOMORROW. BRING MOCKINGBIRD
Watch A Raisin in the Sun today to the part with Karl Lindner (about 7 pages from the end of Act 2)
Here's the online text of the play
A Raisin in the Sun
And here's the Sparknotes version for review. A Raisin in the Sun
You need to review this play! You've got a test at the end of the period tomorrow!
Monday, June 9, 2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
JUNE 4
TEST OVER MOCKINGBIRD FRIDAY. BE READY
TEST OVER MOCKINGBIRD FRIDAY. BE READY
TODAY we will start reading Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun. The movie version with Sidney Poitier playing the lead role of Walter Lee Younger. I like finishing up the year with this play because it focuses on the American dream, the primary focus of the American Literature curriculum. Enjoy!
If you'd like to watch another film version of the play, you can find it on YouTube.
1st period: movie: scene 5- ; reading to page 1061
2nd period: movie: ; reading to page 1061
3rd period: movie: Beneatha gets her fresh little jaw slapped; reading p. 1053 bottom
Your homework is to work on your end of year project. No more work days.
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
TEST OVER MOCKINGBIRD FRIDAY. BE READY
TODAY we will start reading Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun. The movie version with Sidney Poitier playing the lead role of Walter Lee Younger. I like finishing up the year with this play because it focuses on the American dream, the primary focus of the American Literature curriculum. Enjoy!
If you'd like to watch another film version of the play, you can find it on YouTube.
1st period: movie: scene 5- ; reading to page 1061
2nd period: movie: ; reading to page 1061
3rd period: movie: Beneatha gets her fresh little jaw slapped; reading p. 1053 bottom
Your homework is to work on your end of year project. No more work days.
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
May 29
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
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 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.
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