Thursday, November 8, 2012

Revised Week 14 2012-13


Week 14 Class Work and Homework

Day
Class Work
Homework
Monday

Print this out and bring to beginning of class on Monday Morning for 100 Extra Credit points. (Due when bell rings. Make sure your name is on it, as it will be returned to you before end of period).  If you complete all the week’s assignments you will get 400 bonus points.

Ideas to explore:

What are the influences on a poet?

What view of the world do we see through the poet’s eyes?

How does the poet use figurative language such as metaphor, personification, and hyperbole?

What interpretations are there of the poem?

Veteran’s Day




Study Vocabulary

Study Vocabulary for quiz

 Mendicant
Infirmity
Visage
Obscure
Veracious
Massive
Infamous
Coquetry
Gentry
Crimson
Imbibe
Eccentricity
Cordially
 Exuberant
Buxom

Poignant
Effaced
Prismatic
Smartly
Presage
Gyration
Interminable
Ineffable
Malign
Martinet


Tuesday

Objectives/Goals
What are the influences on a poet?

What view of the world do we see through the poet’s eyes?

How does the poet use figurative language such as metaphor, personification, and hyperbole?

What interpretations are there of the poem?


What ideas or emotions might poets personify?

Vocabulary Exam


Emily Dickenson Handouts
 
New Vocabulary words


Immortality
Cornice
Surmise
Discerning
Demur

Objectives:

Consider themes of individuality, solitude, nature, and life and death
Recognize examples of personification
To explore a poet’s style
To understand sentence structure

Read pp. 350-357
A Changing Society (p. 350-351)
Emily Dickenson (353-357)

Do pp. 358 1-9

Wednesday


Walt Whitman

Objectives

To consider themes of work, life, learning, and self
To understand symbolism
To recognize linking verbs and their complements

Whitman Handouts

 Read Pp. 360-367
Do questions 1-7 Pp. 367

Study vocabulary for quiz

Disposition
Blithe
Robust
Fetch
Transpire
Thursday

Vocabulary



In class timed essay
On Walt Whitman and Emily Dickenson
Read We wear the Mask by Paul Dunbar Pp. 369-372

Study Vocabulary words for quiz

Chalice
Vile
Subtlety
Myriad
Guile




Friday

Poignant
Effaced
Prismatic
Smartly
Presage
Gyration
Interminable
Ineffable
Malign
Martinet

Vocabulary Exam


Mask Project Overview

Mask Yourself Project 

Draw a series of masks
that illustrate the faces you wear for different occasions.


If you cannot draw then you make a series of photo collages or a carefully edited 1 minute video( Manriquez students only) 

See Rubric for how projects will be graded.

CAA Project Based Learning  Foodways Project  Required for all CAA students only ( Language Arts, History, Culinary Arts). 

College Prep Extra Credit ( 1500) 

Final Exam Prep Extra Credit ( 1500) 
Cut and paste from blog into Word file, print out, write or type answers in neatly. Submit at beginning of class on 26th. 



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