Menu: Monday October 3, 2011 1. Read 15 mins 2. Oxymoron and Paradox: 3. Work on poetry assignment 12:45-1:05 (Period 4)   Homework: 1.) Continue Poetry Assignment (Due October 14) 2.) Read!!!!!!! 3.) Poetry Test on Friday: Figurative Language; Be able to annotate and express the meaning of the poems     The famous speaker who no one had heard of said: Ladies and jellyspoons, hobos and tramps, cross-eyed mosquitos and bow-legged ants, I stand before you to sit behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. Next Thursday, which is Good Friday, there's a Mother's Day meeting for fathers only; wear your best clothes if you haven't any. Please come if you can't; if you can, stay at home. Admission is free, pay at the door; pull up a chair and sit on the floor. It makes no difference where you sit, the man in the gallery's sure to spit. The show is over, but before you go, let me tell you a story I don't really know. One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. (The blind man went to see fair play; the mute man went to shout "hooray!") Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and came and killed the two dead boys. A paralysed donkey passing by kicked the blind man in the eye; knocked him through a nine-inch wall, into a dry ditch and drowned them all. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man; he saw it too, through a knothole in a wooden brick wall. And the man with no legs walked away.Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_famous_poem_with_an_oxymoron#ixzz1Zi...

Menu: Thursday, September 29, 2011 1. Read: 10 mins 2. Mini Lesson on comma splices and fused sentences (Grammar Bytes) 3. Writing Workshop: Work on personal narrative (Due Oct. 5th: 300-500 words: Draft due September 29th) Homework: 1.) Read!!!!!!! 2.) Work on draft of personal narrative due tomorrow 3.) Comma splices and fused sentences (quiz Friday)  

Menu: Monday, September 26, 2011 1. Read: 10 mins 2. Mini Lesson on comma splices and fused sentences(Grammar Bytes)  http://www.chompchomp.com/csfs01/csfs01.htm 3. Model Text: Too Short (Strategy for narrowing a topic) 3. Writing Workshop: Work on personal narrative (Due Oct. 5th: 300-500 words: Draft due September 29th) Homework: 1.) Read!!!!!!! 2.) Work on draft of personal narrative 3.) Sheet on comma splices and fused sentences (quiz Friday)  

Finish good copy of 9/11 piece   The feeling of disappointment still continues as I think of the 911 fire fighters not being invited to the Memorial Service. They will never forget what they experienced first hand. Although they may be called heroes,the price for this the suffering they still feel.

Menu: Monday, September 20, 2011 1. Read: 10 mins 2. Quick write: "I Know" by Carolyn Mamchur a). Someone's voice you know well (Mentor Text: "My Father's Voice") or b.) What comes to mind with the poem "I know" (10 min) 3. Writer's Technique in mentor text "I Know" 4. Mini-lesson: Sentence Combining (5 mins) 5. Writing Workshop: Work on personal narrative (30 mins)(Due Oct. 5th: 300-500 words) Homework: 1.) Read!!!!!!! 2.) Sentence Combining sheet 3.) Work on personal narrative

Menu: Friday September 16, 2011 1. Read: 15 mins 2. Dead Poet's Society: Why we read and write poetry 3. Quick write: Paragraph in notebook responding to John Keating's class on poetry. (10 mins) 4.) Poetry Assignment (Handout and discuss) Homework: 1.) Begin Poetry Assignment 2.) Read!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycLb6wJDieY (Clip from Dead Poet's Society)

Menu: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1. Read: 10 mins 2. Quick write: Helen Keller excerpt from The Story of My Life : Write down how Helen Keller uses the "show don't tell" in her memory of meeting her teacher. What words or images stand out in your mind. (10 mins) 3. Work with a partner and share your 2 paragraphs that were completed for homework. Allow your partner to offer suggestions where "showing" and not "telling" will go a long way in creating a better piece of writing.   Homework: 1.) "I Am From" due Friday 2.) Read!!!!!!!  3.) Draft paragraphs of snapshot moment with revisions done.  (I am checking)