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| 1 Welcome back to school. Expectations and introductions. | 2 Begin partner profiles in class with short interviews. HW#1: Select one book of your choice on authors writing about the craft of writing. Make sure to have the title and author for Tuesday. | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 No school Labor Day | 6 Continue work on partner profiles in class. HW#2: Write up a first draft of your partner profiles based on the interview answers. Remember you are writing in your partner's voice. | 7 Continue work on partner profiles in class. Short lesson on tone and voice. HW#3: Make sure to have a finished hand written draft for the computer lab tomorrow. Save all prior drafts. | 8 Work on typing your first draft of your partner profile in the writing center and work on peer review in class. | 9 Work on typing your first draft of your partner profile in the writing center and work on peer review in class. Drafts will be collected for preliminary teacher comments and evaluation. HW#4:Write a short reflection on the process of gathering the partner profile. What was the experience like? Were they any difficulties faced? What did you like best? What was most valuable about the experience so far? | 10 |
| 11 | 12 continued EQ: What makes each of us writers? Revisions of partner profiles in computer. HW#5 Continue working on outside reading. lab. | 13 How do we tell our partner's story? Students will share partner profiles in class. HW#6 Take 1 piece of cool feedback received and discuss how you could change your profile to strengthen the weakness. | 14 EQ: What events help shape us as writers? Start the discussion of memoir HW#7 Finish timeline | 15 Memoir continued | 16 Memoir continued HW#8 Complete a first draft of your memoir - hand written to be taken to the computer lab on Monday. Continue reading outside work. | 17 |
| 18 | 19 Using figurative language in our writing in the computer lab | 20 Computer lab- memoir revisions | 21 Computer lab- memoir revisions HW#9 Complete a working typed draft. Continue outside reading. | 22 Sharing student memoirs | 23 no class - half day | 24 |
| 25 | 26 Sharing student memoirs HW#10 Talk about one strength and one weakness in your writing. What do you need to work on moving forward? This will be collected with your final draft of the memoir. | 27 Computer lab - revisions on leads HW#11 Write 3 possible leads for the beginning of your memoir. | 28 Computer lab- revisions on dramatic scenes HW#12 Change at least one scene where you tell the reader what is happening to a scene where you show the reader what is happening. | 29 Computer lab- revisions on sensory details HW#13 Complete the "Changing my work" survey from the packet. | 30 Complete final drafts in the computer lab HW#14 Complete final drafts to be handed in with all prior drafts. | |
| October 2005 | ||||||
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| 2 | 3 Writing reflections and self assessment HW#15 Finish reflection if not done in class. | 4 No School Rosh Hashanah | 5 No School Rosh Hashanah | 6 "Where I'm From" poems - copy change assignment HW#16 Find a poem that you like and bring a copy of it to class for Tuesday. Make sure to write a short reflection about why you like the poem. | 7 Complete "Where I'm From poems - in the computer lab | 8 |
| 9 | 10 No School Columbus Day | 11 *Outside reading on writing should be complete. bio-poems HW#17 Complete your bio-poem to hand in. | 12 EQ: How can we interpret poetry so it has personal meaning? Text-on-Text exercises | 13 No School Yom Kippur | 14 EQ: How can we interpret poetry so it has personal meaning? Text-on-Text exercises HW#18 Use one image from the poem to create a new poem of your own. | 15 |
| 16 | 17 What is the purpose of poetry? HW#19 Complete handouts at home if not completed in class |
18 Short 2-3 page reflection on your outside reading is due. What is poetry? Objective: To examine creative definitions of poetry To realize that poetry communicates experiences, feelings, and ideas. HW#20 Do part b of the handout for homework. |
19 What is poetry? Objective: To understand and appreciate a poem that communicates experience. HW#21 Complete a draft of their experience poem at home. Find a newspaper article that they thing would make a good story. Try to find a couple that would work. |
20 What is poetry? Objective: To appreciate the story telling aspects of poetry by examining narrative poems. |
21 What is poetry? Objective: To appreciate the story telling aspects of poetry by examining narrative poems. HW#22 Complete part c of the hand out for homework. |
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| 23 | 24 What is poetry? Objective: To use a current event or story as the subject of a ballad. To write a ballad using the ballads studied in class as a model |
25 What is poetry? Objective: To use a current event or story as the subject of a ballad. To write a ballad using the ballads studied in class as a model HW#23 Finish your ballad and type it perhaps even perform it for the class. |
26 Objective: To enjoy and appreciate poetry as a form of comic expression HW#24 Select a traditional story or legend and twist it in the manner of Raold Dahl. The new version should be humorous and should have a message, though not necessarily the same message as the original. You can write it as prose or poetry. |
27 Objective: To appreciate the value of sensory appeal in poems. (One of the most important elements of poetry is the image- the word or phrase that makes a sight, sound, taste, smell or feeling so compelling that the reader experiences it vicariously.) HW#25 Do the B section from either poem. Not both. |
28 Objective: To understand and appreciate poetry through a creative project. For students to demonstrate what they have learned so far. |
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| 30 | 31 To examine imagery as a tool in communicating ideas and experiences. To emphasize that imagery is a distinguishing aspect of many poems Poets use imagery- words and phrases that appeal to the senses to achieve intensity and to show rather than tell an experiment. To define and experiment with images To analyze how imagery functions in specific poems To create imagery in their own writing HW#26 Write your own imagery packed poem. Use a single event. |
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| November 2005 | ||||||
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 How can we better understand metaphor in poetry? HW#27 Collect samples of metaphor from advertisements, articles, and literature. We will share what they collect in class the next day. | 2 How can we better understand metaphor in poetry? | 3 How can we better understand simile in poetry? | 4 first marking period ends. How can we better understand simile in poetry? HW#1 Find a poem of your own that examines simile at length. Discuss how the similes work in the piece as we did in class. | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 Ms. Sackstein will be out on a field trip. Sub will have work for the class to do. Personification handout | 8 No classes | 9 Continued work on personification HW#2 Poetry project topics are due | 10 How can we better recognize and interpret symbols? | 11 No school - Veteran's Day | 12 |
| 13 | 14 How can we have sound recognition in poetry? | 15 What is the sonnet? HW#3 Find a sonnet that you would like to share with the class. What do you find moving about the poem you have chosen? | 16 Meeting in the writing center to work on holiday greeting cards. Students will create the district wide greetings |
17 What is the sonnet? HW#4 Write a sonnet of your own. | 18 Class time to work on poetry projects in the writing center Poetry Projects due on Monday | 19 |
| 20 | 21 Poetry party HW#5 Which project do you think was most creative? What did you enjoy most about sharing our work? Write a short reflection on doing your project. | 22 half day No class | 23 No School- Have a nice Thanksgiving | 24 No School- Have a nice Thanksgiving | 25 No School- Have a nice Thanksgiving | 26 |
| 27 | 28 How can we make concrete poems? HW#6 Complete your concrete poem at home with color be creative | 29 What is a definition poem? HW#7 Complete a definition poem. | 30 How can we use hyperbole and rhythm in poetry? HW#8 Write an "I Would Rather" poem using your most hated activity and the list of preferred activities. Imitate the style and cadence of Juliet's lines. | |||
| December 2005 | ||||||
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| 1 How can we understand and appreciate e.e. cummings' poetry? | 2 How can we understand and appreciate e.e. cummings' poetry? | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 Last day before going out on Maternity leave We will watch the Dead Poet's Society to end our unit on poetry. | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 work in the writing center |
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| 18 | 19 work in the writing center |
20 work in the writing center |
21 work in the writing center |
22 Holiday Break begins - No school | 23 Holiday Break - No school | 24 |
| 25 | 26 Holiday Break - No school | 27 Holiday Break - No school | 28 Holiday Break - No school | 29 Holiday Break - No school | 30 Holiday Break - No school | 31 |
| January 2006 | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 No School-Holiday break | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
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| 15 | 16 No School- MLK day | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 No Classes- Regents | 25 No Classes- Regents | 26 No Classes- Regents | 27 No Classes- Regents | 28 |
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