Trimester III
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Mar 4 | 5 No School MME Testing | 6 Hours 1, 2, and 1/2 of 3 rd MME Testing | 7 Hours 4, 5, and 1/2 3rd MME Testing Distribute notecards Introductions METAPHOR METAPHOR EXERCISES Tupac's ROSE THAT GREW FROM THE CONCRETE METAPHOR ASSIGNMENT MY EXAMPLE | 8 Write metaphor describing yourself. We will present them Monday Create WORDLE. ASSIGNMENT |
11 Present metaphors describing self WRITING PROCESS DIAGRAM View SHIHAB NYE on video Discuss SHIHAB NYE CHAPTER | 12 CLIP FROM DEAD POET'S SOCIETY WHERE DOES WRITING HIDE Notebook guidelines EXPECTATIONS FOR GROWTH | 13 Late Start 8:35 AUTHOR TERRY PRATCHETT GIVES YOUNG WRITERS ADVICE FLUENCY DEFINITION Explain STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS DEFINITION Two Stream-of-consciousness writes: (Bear/Bare, Lie/Lay) Begin pre-assessment poem. Turn in a copy, and put a copy on your web page. Pre Poetry Unit Poem: Write 10 lines of poetry on anything. Consider looking at your stream-of-consciousness writes for ideas (completion grade). | 14 3-2-1 Bridge WHAT IS POETRY Billy Collin's INTRODUCTION TO POETRY Warm-up: How does the speaker of "Introduction to Poetry" want readers to approach poetry? POETRY READING ASSIGNMENT Finish Pre Poetry Unit Poem: Write 10 lines of poetry on anything. Consider looking at your stream-of-consciousness writes for ideas (completion grade). | 15 POETRY READING ASSIGNMENT |
18 Introduce READING STRATEGY QUESTIONS Apply to A BAD DAY AT SCHOOL See EXAMPLE Another EXAMPLE Apply reading strategies to favorite poems from the poetry reading assignment GLOSSARY OF POETRY TERMS Finish POETRY READING ASSIGNMENT | 19 Notetook Check #1 UNPACKING A MENTOR TEXT. Optional: Make a movie short that illuminates what your poem is about. See examples: EXAMPLE ONE EXAMPLE TWO | 20 SHOW DON'T TELL The Elements of Craft: image | 2 Craft Lesson: SIMILE Lesson_2: SIMILE Go to POETRY 180 to find at least 5 examples of similes--copy into notebook--be sure to cite poem & author Assigned Write: SIMILE EXERCISE | 22 UNPACKING A MENTOR TEXT DUE Check to see if your NOTEBOOK is up to date. |
25 Notebook Check # 2 Warm-up # 2: Write about an event from memory in stream-of-consciousness fashion. AUTOBIOGRAPHY POEM | 26 Warm up: Rewrite the CLICHED POEM in your notebook. | 27 Craft Lesson:PERSONIFICATION COPYCHANGE "FOG" and complete PERSONIFICATION EXERCISE Notebook Write: From poetry books, copy down 3 examples of personification. Include bibliography info.
Craft a poem that includes personification | 28 List physically exhausting activities & write about one | 29 No School |
Spring Break (4/1 -4/5) | | | | |
8 Notebook check # 3 Writing Poetry from Paintings | 9 Mini-lesson & Craft Exercise REPETITION & ANAPHORA WE REAL COOL. Listen to Gwendolyn Brooks read Read and Discuss "ETHOPIA" by Kate Daniels
| 10 ELECTRIFY YOUR VERBS VERB RAP Verb Volts WARM-UP POEM AND INVITATION
| 11 GRADING THE PEER REVIEW AND REVISION PROCESS PROVIDING GOOD FEEDBACK Post a poem daft and respond to poems of the students assigned to your group. (Do not put your name on your poem. The process is anonymous.) Sign up, verify your account through your email, and copy (Control + C) and paste (Control + V) the poem into www.elireview.com. | 12 Mini-Lesson: TITLES ARE IMPORTANT Finish peer review process |
15 Notebook Check # 4 LINE BREAK WARM-UP POEMS AS THE POETS WROTE THEM VIEW SLAM POETRY TIPS AND GUIDELINES FOR WRITING SLAM POETRY MY SOUTHERN HERITAGE Generate a minimum of 250 words for slam poetry. Draft one slam poem | 16 Finish slam poetry Work on rough drafts (3 poem drafts that you want to take to completion)
| 17 NOTEBOOKS DUE FOR THE UNIT on Thursay Explain Experimenting process & INTRODUCE TRACK CHANGES Work on poetry EXPERIMENTS Today's Suggested Experiment: YARD SALE FOR EXTRA WORDS | 18 Work on Poetry EXPERIMENTS today: CRACKING OPEN WORDS | 19 Continue EXPERIMENTS NOTEBOOKS DUE FOR THE UNIT |
22 Writer's Groups WRITER'S GROUPS EXIT SLIP | 23 FINAL DRAFT RUBRIC DUE Put three final poems on webpage
| 24 3-2-1 BRIDGE: poetry WRITER'S GROUPS EXIT SLIP PUBLISHING DUE | 25 3-2-1 Bridge: short stories FICTION PRE-ASSESSMENT Fiction Unit Pre-fiction unit short story: Write 300-400 words of fiction. Hand in and clearly label on web page. | 26 FICTION PRE-ASSESSMENT |
29 Notebook Check #5 Poetry Celebration (Everyone reads one poem) 3-2-1 BRIDGE: short stories PODCAST ON IDEAS AND INSPIRATIONwith Keith Gray WRITING A FACE WHAT A CHARACTER WANTS | 30 DEVELOPING FICTIONAL CHARACTERS LISTEN TO CHARACTER PODCAST | May 1 Late Start 8:35 CHARACTER + SCENE | 2 DARK SECRET EXERCISE INTERNAL MONOLOGUE Write at least 250-300 words of internal monologue for the character you have created this far. | 3 WARM-UP INDEPENDENT READING ASSIGNMENT. |
6 Notebook Check # 6 INDEPENDENT READING ASSIGNMENT | 7 SALT DEFINITION Direct and Indirect CHARACTERIZATION CHARACTER COUNTS | 8 FIRST SENTENCE EXERCISE | 9 WARM-UP: SCENE THIS SITE (You can use Control+print screen and Control +V to put these in a Word document, so you can print out more than one at a time. You can even save them on your H: drive as Word Documents or as Pdf. files. Put your maps in your notebook. | 10 Discussion of POINT OF VIEW POINT OF VIEW EXERCISE Make sure that your NOTEBOOK is up to date. |
13 Notebook Check #7 "I'VE GOT GLORIA" DIALOGUE WRITING STRONG DIALOGUE Focus on DIALOGUE SPEAKER TAG VARIETY HOW TO PUNCTUATE DIALOGUE DIALOGUE PRACTICE Drafting final short story--focus on indirect characterization | 14 Drafting final short story--focus on indirect characterization NOTEBOOKS DUE FINAL SHORT STORY | 15 Late Start 8:35 REDRAFTING | 16 EXPERIMENTATION PROCESS | 17 Senior Exams FINAL SHORT STORY DUE Final Exam:Three parts: multiple choice (30%, reflection 30%, webpage 40%)Work on REFLECTION |
20 Work on reflection, web page, and final short story. | 21 Senior Exams/ Walks Multi-genre unit for sophomores and juniors | 22 Multi-genre unit for sophomores and juniors | 23 Multi-genre unit for sophomores and juniors | 24 No Students Developmental Day |
27 Memorial Day | 28 Multi-genre unit for sophomores and juniors | 29 Multi-genre unit for sophomores and juniors | 30 Multi-genre unit for sophomores and juniors | 31 Multi-genre unit for sophomores and juniors |
June 3 Multi-genre unit for sophomores and juniors | 4 Multi-genre unit for sophomores and juniors due. | 5 Exams
| 6 Exams | 7 Last Day 1/2 day students-exams 1/2 day Teacher Records Day |
