A & P and the Elements of Fiction

1) Silent Reading

2) Finish Reading A & P

3) Elements of Fiction - notes... yes, notes! You need a pen/pencil and paper.

4) Group Work - Element of fiction presentation

Welcome to English 11 - A Day without Desks!

1) Welcome! Pick three words.

2) Meet the Creature - Tara Colborne and why she hates desks

3) You and Your Words

4) The Outline - it's epic!
And some tough questions around the circle...

5) Six Word Stories - possible homework.

If you ever lose your outline and really, really need to see it again you can view and print it here.

Macbeth Index and Act One Done

1) What is your Macbeth Index? An activity...

2) Read the last two scenes of Macbeth together.

3) Act One Review Notes - Group Worksheet and Vocabulary.

4) BBC Animation

5) Monday - Act 1 Quiz and Movie

Act One Macbeth - Class Reading

Change desks to circle for more open reading space.

1) Silly Shakespearean Warm Up - two groups line up on either side of class.

"Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair!"

"Out Damned Spot! Out, I say!"

2) Reading and annotating Act One, Scenes 2 - 5.

3) Terms: Iambic Pentameter and Rhyming Couplets

3) Check out the BBC Animation of Act One.

Lit Circle Day - 3/4 point

Today is our Literature Circle Day in the library. Many of the groups have lit up with discussions. PARTICIPATE. SHARE YOUR THINKING.

Take a look at the Rubric and the Discussion Starters for ideas. Remember that we will only check into our Lit. Circles one more time online. Then, the groups will close and you will have a final assignment to complete. By next week, you need to have finished reading the entire novel.

Today's Tasks:

All
Online discussion forums are more and more the way of the future of education. Colleges and universities, in particular, are heading towards more and more online work. Given this, take a look at your group participation so far. Think about how you could do more. Then, do it. Discuss more, say more, read more. If your group members are not participating, talk to them, email them...
Peruse your shared resources - find the best two quotes about the book or something related to the book. Put them in the Resources Discussion on the comment wall.

Discussion Director - Look at all of the discussions so far and post a discussion that will really shake your group up. You can be controversial, inflammatory... whatever works to spark some new ideas about the book you are reading.

Connection Maker - What are the connections we are missing? Your last task was to consider text to self connections. Yoday, you'll add in a new layer of connections - text to world connections. One possible way to do this is to consider stories that have been in the news of late...

Passage Picker - for the 1/2 - 3/4 check in on the novel, decide what quotes/scenes are most important to note. Explain why they are important.

Summarizer - summarize the novel from where you left off to 3/4 of the way through the novel.

Irony - review...

I'm too full of holiday treats to teach.

This guy is young and way funnier than me. Let him explain the three types of irony to you.

Compare and Contrast Assignment

This one is for all you cool kids who got to cut out of classes during the last week of school before Christmas:

Compare and contrast the speaker in any two of the poems that we read and studied.
- Multi-paragraph
- Supporting quotes
- Some mention of larger themes
- Pick one of the two outline approaches

Text by Text Outline (poem by poem):

1 - Introduction - catchy opening, background information, thesis statement
2 - First Poem - detailed analysis of the speaker of the one poem
3 - Second Poem - detailed analysis of the speaker of the other poem
3 - Conclusion - a fully developed conclusion that contrasts the two poems (should be long)

Point by Point Outline:
1 - Introductory Paragraph including catchy opening, background details, and a detailed thesis statement.
2 - Point #1 - discuss both poems
3 - Point #2 - discuss both poems
4 - Conclusion - come back to your thesis (can be brief)

Due Wednesday, January 5th, 2011.
2011? That sounds strange.
Happy new year!