Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Shoot! (I messed up my essay)




1.    MLA format check.

2.    Drafts and reading-  what to look for? Works Cited page?

Integrating quotes-  3 ways.

Al;sdkfjal;sdkjfal;dj, “………………….”
“……………………” alk;sdjrqweo;afja;dkl.
Ereaf “…………” alksdjfkl;ajs;af sdkl;ja.



No way words.   Pres tense.


Good
Great
Like
Show
Beautiful
Very
Really
Stuff
Things
I believe
I think
Can
Could
Would
Should
Get
Getting
Gotten
Nice
Like
Happy
was
Anything
Going
Most
Many
Pretty
Ugly
A lot
Often
Better
Feel
Be
Been
Being
Worst
Bad
Okay
Average
Same
So
Started
Best
Greatest
were
By
Amazing
Awesome
Cool
Lame
Had
Done
Doing
Worse
Everything
Something
Nothing
About
Gave
Make
Take
Took
Taken
Made
Making
Gone
Give


3.    Should we read the poem together?

4.    Intro to some art historically?

5.    When’s the art museum?

6.    Final Draft due Thursday.


Thursday, September 15, 2016

1.  Why'd you pick what you picked?

2.  Writing about art- and poetry, too.  Notes...'

3.  When's the essay due?-  Tuesday.  MLA format

4.  When's the real art museum?-  Sept 29th. 

5.  HW-  Essay about this poem? 

6.  My papa's waltz-  Rothke?

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

No Journal-

Names

TS test

Going over Plath

Notes-




Poetry Writing-

MLA FORMAT
5 paragraphs, thesis, write how we’ve been practicing.
Original analysis, original thought, backed up by copious references and quotes to the poem.


In “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath, the author employs metaphor to create the theme.

Metaphor, theme 3-5 quotes
Metaphor, theme 3-5
Metaphor, theme 3-5

Conclusion
Works Cited Page


HOME WORK!

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

What the theme?  Why is it the theme?

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Cont. Thinking.

Test,

Names,

3.5  Continuing analysis practice-  Grass is always greener on the other side.

4.  Hink Pink, if time.


5.  Poem-  Rothke Student.


6.  HW-  Daddy- Plath, and Lady Lazarus

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

TS, cont.

1.  Names and Test

2.  Journal-  Did you like the poem?  Why/not?  Is it a good poem?  Why/not?  What is the theme of the poem and why?

3.  Lateral TS cont.

3.5  Continuing analysis practice-  Grass is always greener on the other side.

4.  Hink Pink, if time.


Thursday, September 1, 2016

1.  Journal-  Connect yourself to a movie or book you've read....book preferred.

2.  Test

2.5 Poem-  Discussion.

3.  Thinking Skill Games, Cont. 

3.5 Proverb Writing... What it means, why it means what it means.

4.  HW-  Poem, again, Let Evening Come. 

5.  HW- Paragraph about the poem.  What it means, why it means what it means.