Theme notes and work

We took notes on theme and then completed a worksheet on theme.

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Quiz, Poetry sweatshop

We did a quiz on ch. 14-16.

Then we did the poetry assignment below:

Poem on Poetry. 

After reading all the statements about poetry on the handout, begin thinking about your thoughts about poetry. (If you don't have the handout, just write a poem on how you feel about poetry)

Write a poem about your thoughts on poetry.  Begin on a lined piece of paper.  Transfer your good copy onto the sheet with all the poetry statements on them.  Give your sheet a splash of colour with illustrations and or drawings. Try to fill up most of the space on the page with your poem. 

Example

 

PBJ

Reading poetry

is like eating a peanut butter

sandwich with too much

                        peanut

                                    butter

It looks rich, like liquid chocolate, as the sweet

                                                                        oily

                                                                                    mess

                                                                                                glops

                                                                                                            out

                                                                                                                        the

                                                                                                                                    sides

But then when you take your first bite

Everything

S e I z e s u p

I n

Y o u r

F a c e

                                                            And then you look wistfully in the cupboard

                                                            At the Can of Tuna

                                                            That is mocking you

Setting notes, Woodtick, Jackson Katz TedTalk

Students handed in their character paragraphs.

We reviewed our notes on character and plot.
We examined setting notes and did some group work on setting in The Lovely Bones
We looked at the poem Woodtick by Joy Kogawa. http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/ltemplin/english11/stories/woodtick.htm We examined the change of setting in the poem as we annotated and wrote all over our copies of the poem.
Jackson Katz's TedTalk on Violence against women was viewed and a discussion about sexism ensued.
Students read quietly.

We'll do a quick quiz tomorrow on chapters 14 15 16

Plot notes, paragraph work.

Today we took some notes on Plot (Actually we just filled in the blanks on a sheet that I handed out). Then we worked on our character paragraph.
It is due on Thursday.
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