Building Character Profiles & Delayed Adjectives

Root of the Week: Form 

Great work today thinking about Jake Moon's online footprint. For tomorrow, you will need to do this for you own RF character. Be thinking about the digital footprint you will create for your own character. 

No new H/W!

Write a realistic fiction scene...

• Write another realistic fiction scene that hints at a social issue for a different story. Use the ideas for stories that you had from Friday's class. The list of videos are still on my blog below. Students choose one of these ideas and write a scene. Your scene should incorporate 'some' of the advanced moves we have been modeling from  the Graduation of Jake Moon such as:
• using lists for specificity
• slow motion scene
• rehearsing a scene
• "count up and count down" technique
• figurative language
• continuum to show transition
• framing a scene - position, location, movement, and direction
• "down the garden path" technique

Any other craft moves you know

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H/W -

Spend 15 mins on your RF scene from today's class.

35min of Membean by Thursday

Sentence Clauses Test

Social Issues - Database

Quanda

Milk

Up the Yangtze

Only the Young

The Best Kept Secret

Food Inc

The Learning

Hearthbreak Hill

American Promise

Brooklyn Castle

Food Inc

Who's Got the Power?

Lesson Recap:

H/W (Optional but STRONGLY recommended)
Last minute test practice for Friday's test
Don't forget - You should also know the difference between comma splices and fused (run on) sentences

Grade 10 IXL   M.1 and M.2
(These exercises very similar to the ones you will get on the test.)

Compulsory - Finish your first scene. Can you comment on the craft moves you used?

Enjoy Gustav's and Aiden's Top 10

Writing a Scene

Finish your first scene for Friday

Remember - sentence fluency test Friday

Characteristics of RF

Recap,

We studied with the characteristics of realistic fiction stories today. Think about which of the characteristics we discussed that you seldom put into your stories. Tomorrow you will write your first scene. Which characteristics will you try to use?




No new H/W - Check back to Monday for tasks due later in the week.

READ!!!

Realistic Fiction

Make a copy

Digital Notebook: Realistic Fiction - Social Issues

Root of the Week: Dict

Social Issues Videos- ONLY CHOOSE TWO to watch... you may watch others in another class.

H/W - All classes

• Your 'poetry reflections' should be in this file by Wednesday.

C/D Poetry Reflections

E/F Poetry Reflections

G/H Poetry Reflections

• You should have approx. 10 facts about your social issue- Due Wed
• 45mins of Membean this week
• Sentence Fluency Test is Friday. As you work through the exercises, use this sheet to ask questions about any of the dances you do not understand. TEST PRACTICE: ASK the Teacher sheet

My Poetry Top 10

Poetry Unit:  My Top 10

Inspiring poets visit SAS - Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye. (Their books would make a fantastic 7th grade graduation gift for you!)

Next Week:
Realistic Fiction Reading and Writing Unit
Sentence Fluency Grammar Test - FRI - Do as many of the links in yesterday's post as possible.

Poscars... "O Captain My Captain..."

Congratulations on your excellent performances today in the Poscars....

A Closing Thought...
In the movie, Dead Poet's Society, Robin Williams challenged his students "...to dare to be different, to strive to find their own voices, to dare to strike out and find new ground..." For this, he was fired from his job.... This last scene shows how his students showed that they would not forget his lesson and embrace life as he had taught them. "...the powerful play of life goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will YOUR verse be?"

Hopefully, you will take what you have learned in poetry and follow the teachings of Robin Williams  Carpe Diem

No  H/W - 'Read'

Membean Test tomorrow

One day to the party...

Excellent work today on your poems. What will you do for tomorrow to make your performances even better?

If you can, please bring in food/ drinks to share with your class for the Poetry Party

Watch to learn more about poetry... Writing poetry to figure things out...

Sentence Fluency: Test Practice Exercises

Test is next Wed or Fri (will confirm next Mon.)

http://www.csus.edu/owl/index/sent/clause_quiz.htm

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g4c26/nadia.htm

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index_pre.html

http://itech.pjc.edu/writinglab/senpat.htm types of sentences

http://eslbee.com/cgi-bin/quiztest.cgi?helenkeller

http://webschool.wash.k12.ut.us/language/lessons/compoundsentences.html

http://www.quia.com/pop/37751.html

http://www.quia.com/quiz/242899.html?AP_rand=1383585617

http://www.quia.com/quiz/299540.html (ignore question 13 and 16)

http://www.quia.com/rr/126726.html

Some of the questions on this exercise, we have not covered yet...but we will. Try it for fun!

http://www.quia.com/quiz/815621.html?AP_rand=60951870

The Poscars

Will you receive one of these on Thursday?

Just think - fame - fortune - paparazzi! Will you be ready?

CAN YOU DISCUSS YOUR POETIC MOVES IN DEPTH?

P.I.P.E.S.

Grammar Recap

Video Review - Compound-complex sentences

Poetry Revision List

H/W
Make sure you watch this video
Make sure you are ready to perform your poem in class tomorrow. You must talk about you poetic moves before reciting your memorized poem. Remember - You will be graded on your PIPES
Membean



Champion of Champions - All class winners of the PIPE Off - will present to the C-Side meeting on Wed 11th March. - Who will be crowned - Champion of Champions?

The Poscars Award

The following 'Poscar Awards'  will be handed out at the end of the Poetry Party on Thursday.

• Best Visual Interpretation (Use of Body Language)
• Best Projection (Volume)
• Best Inflection and Pacing 
• Best Memorized Delivery
• Best Multiple Voice Poem
• Best Original Poem (Overall 'top' award for poem and performance)
• Best Props
• Best Group Poem
• Most Improved Poet

Awards will also be given to the PIPE off 

Class and Block champions

Will you raise your performance and be nominated for one of the awards?

Slam Poetry: Expecting

Lesson Recap:Enjambment

 

H/W
50 mins of Membean this week

Poetry H/W

• You must have at least one of your poems MEMORIZED by Wed. 
• You will need to recite the poem to me privately. 
• You must speak of the poetic moves in the poem. 
• You will receive SUMMATIVE craft grade for your poetic moves and a speaking and listening grade (PIPES) for this poem. This poem can be a group poem (paired)
• Rubrics are on left side of the blog.
• Most of Tuesday's class will be spent revising your poems and preparing for this.

Sentence Fluency Test - Next WED - Spend 5 mins each night doing some of these exercises

Sentence Fluency: Test Practice Exercises -

http://www.csus.edu/owl/index/sent/clause_quiz.htm

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g4c26/nadia.htm

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index_pre.html

http://itech.pjc.edu/writinglab/senpat.htm types of sentences

http://eslbee.com/cgi-bin/quiztest.cgi?helenkeller

http://webschool.wash.k12.ut.us/language/lessons/compoundsentences.html

http://www.quia.com/pop/37751.html

http://www.quia.com/quiz/242899.html?AP_rand=1383585617

http://www.quia.com/quiz/299540.html (ignore question 13 and 16)

http://www.quia.com/rr/126726.html

Some of the questions on this exercise, we have not covered yet...but we will. Try it for fun!

http://www.quia.com/quiz/815621.html?AP_rand=60951870

TEST PRACTICE: ASK the Teacher sheet

Reading Classes
Partner Book Talk: the argument book discussion is postponed until after the poetry party.

Next week:
Poetry party audition Wednesday
Poetry party Thursday (Read instructions from last week)
Membean test Friday

Root of the Week:  Man

Membean stats for February - Summative Assessments are in powerschool based on minutes practiced.

Making the Invisible -Visible

HB CHALLENGE  - Find out who these people are, meet them, and come next Friday telling the HB what you think we should do for them. If you need any HB time to work on this - Monday is available. Will you rise to the challenge?

Lesson Recap

No additional homework. READ

Recap: Complex Sentences

warm Up:  Do this link

Do you know all the characteristics of complex sentences?

H/W - You paragrah should be finished by tomorrow

C/D Compound and Complex Sentence Paragraph

E/F Compound and Complex Sentence Paragraph

G/H Compound and Complex Sentence Paragraph

Drop your final pieces in here - Final piece is due FRIDAY!
C/D Class Extended Metaphor
E/F Class Extended Metaphor
G/H Class Extended Metaphor

How's your extended metaphor coming? Remember THE STRUGGLE IS THE LEARNING

Extended Metaphor

Lesson Recap  Figurative Language A=B means C
To build an 'extended metaphor'
1) Start with an anchor metaphor - My life ain't no crystal stair
2) Brainstorm words, verbs, phrases, adjectives associated with A and B side of the metaphor
3) Build the lists into lines of poetry using one from the A and B side
4) Craft the lines into poetry using other poetic devices
5) Revise, edit, and publish into files below

See these examples from class today

Mentor Samples

H/W

• C/D -& E/F classes. Read your paired book club book. Be prepared to come to class on Thursday to argue about a topic that you both disagree with.
• All classes: Don't forget yesterday's poem - (Due Wed)

EXTENDED METAPHOR POEM
You must create an extended metaphor in your team and turn it into the slideshow: DUE FRI (You will work on this in class WED)

Turn your work in here Both names on the piece
C/D Class Extended Metaphor
E/F Class Extended Metaphor
G/H Class Extended Metaphor

Grading Criteria

• You poem uses a single 'anchor' metaphor and continues to 'extend' that metaphor throughout the poem
• Other metaphors that are linked to the anchor metaphor can be clearly identified in the poem
• Your poem communicates a message/idea. - e.g. My life ain't no crystal stair - the idea is that she has had a tough life, but never gave up and kept reaching other goals.
• Poetry format and structure with an effective title
• Minimum 16 lines

This assignment is simply testing whether you can write a poem that contains an extended metaphor. Remember, not every line needs to be a metaphor.



Mentor Poem:
Remember your last poem? Many of you still need to turn in your last poem that spoke about your poetic moves. Nicholas did a really impressive job here talking about the different moves he made in his poem.

Figurative Language

Finish for H/W (Spend no more than 15minutes) Take a screen to prove you completed the 2nd exercise. 


Lesson Recap

Go to socrative.com Log on: mrBuxtonM324

Follow the prompts and then answer this question.

Write a line of poetry that contains a metaphor

Poetry Competition and Student Samples

Enjoy Olivia's excellent poem , Elizabeth's, Regina's  Claire's

Poetry Competition: Round 2 - What will you do to amaze your the audience?

Performance?
PIPES?
Memorization?
Interpretation?
Level of Difficulty?

Use the links to the left of the blog to find ADVANCED poems to recite





Root Word of the Week

Poetry Revision Strategies

Turn in the link to your completed poem videos into the 3rd column in these files

C/D Videos

E/F Videos

Complex Sentences/Poetry Endings

Lesson Recap

Poetry Ending Strategies

H/W

• Make sure your book club is ready to present tomorrow if you haven't already presented
• Spend 15 minutes collecting your 'Found ideas for your poem.
• You will choose one of your poems to submit for a grade at the end of tomorrow's class
• Membean test tomorrow
• READ your partner book. 

Poetry Protocol

 Follow this protocol for any poem that you read

STEP 1 Read silently • The mood or emotion you feel
STEP 2 Read out loud The tone or emotion of the poem as a whole
STEP 3 Read 1st part again… • Images that seem particularly important
STEP 4  Read 2nd part… Images that are important (what changed?)
STEP 5 What stands out? Poetic devices? Repeating lines, phrases, or words that are worth thinking more about Confusing ideas Quotable sections
Synthesize your ideas: What do you think the poet wants you to know

H/W

Apology Poem: Due Wed

• Recite the poem into a youtube video

Root of the Week

Root of the Week - Cogn - Learn/Know

H/W

ALL CLASSES
Bring an article (or an link to an article) that you found on the web for Tuesday's class. You will need this to create you next poem.

C/D - E/F Classes
Membean - 30 minutes by Wed (50 word test is Wednesday)
IXL - 7th Grade O.3 (By Wednesday)

Enjoy this example of visualizating ideas in poems

Next Week

Book Club Presentations will begin Monday

Do not forget to have your poem visualization video in these links by Monday.

C/D Videos

E/F Videos

G/H Videos

Next week is just a 3 day week, but we will be covering some important concepts in poetry. Please let me know if you are traveling early.

Today's Tasks

Turn in your videos from today's class to these links - in the second column

C/D Videos

E/F Videos

G/H Videos

Homebase Slideshow

Visualizing: Using Poet's Eyes

Lesson Recap: Bite into your poems. Devour the ideas

When you visualize, you can go from use the literal images to reach a more abstract interpretation of the poems you read.

H/W

• Keep up to date with your reading
• Your book club presentations should be finished for Monday (You will have 30minutes in class tomorrow to work on them)
• Membean

Compound Sentences

H/W - Work on your contribution to your book club presentation. You do NOT need to be finished for Thursday, but you should have done something so that you can finish by the end of Thursday's class. (You will have about 40mins to work on this on Thursday. Book clubs will present Monday)

TEAMWORK - is also being assessed through this activity - Hint Hint E/F class couch group!

ASK - Practice  (Do this for more practice on compound sentences)

Lesson Recap:

In class practice

Comma Splice Practice

Run-ons Practice

Challenge game:

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

What is Poetry?

Files for Today: Reading and Writing Poetry Unit

Make a copy of this link for our next unit: How to Eat a Poem

Root of the Week: Sens/Sent - FEEL


Lesson RECAP




BIG REMINDER - What are the four rules for compound sentences and can you give an example of each one? HINT HINT - Assessment coming!

H/W
50 minutes of Membean by FRI (55 mins is above expectations). Some students should look VERY carfefully at the Membean stats for January and strive to do much better in FEB!


Finish your first youtube video about your noticing in the poem from today's class: (DUE WED) - This is a change from the due date I said in class.

READ - You will have your final meeting for your second book club tomorrow - Make sure you hae FINISHED your second book club book

This is Random Acts of Kindness Week around the world?  (Will you participate?)

https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/