Monday, May 2, 2016

Monday/Tuesday, May2/3, 2016

Extra credit for the first student who comes
to tell me what is missing (as to conventions) on this image.

Announcements and Reminders:
                                                                 
  • Put away kendamas and other toys BEFORE you come into the classroom.
  • Your book sign-ups were due on April 28/29. 
  • Your book projects are due by May 12/13.  See the "Required Reading" tab above. 
  • SAGE Testing will be on May 12, 13, 16, 17: reading (poetry and prose), listening, conventions (grammar, capitalization, punctuation)             

    Targets for Today:

    I  can compare a fictional account with a nonfiction account of a time, place, or character.
    Reading: Literature Standard 9 
    Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

    I can read, understand, and enjoy poetry and prose through recognizing SOLILOQUY AND SONNET.
    .
    Reading: Literature Standard 5 
    Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning

    form   --  Form, in poetry, can be understood as the physical structure of the poem: the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition. - See more at: http://www.poetryarchive.org/glossary/form#sthash.UnZ15YzY.dpuf
    structure 
    soliloquy
    sonnet


    Today’s  Agenda:

    1.  Independent Reading:  You will receive your points for reading
    an historical fiction book.  Be in your seat reading by the time the bell rings.
    2. Poetry

     Review and New:  Poetry terms, parts, and types.

    Couplets
    from Little Daddy Longlegs
    Little Daddy Longlegs played in the sun,
    Climbing up the front steps just for fun.
    from Turtle Trouble
    Tell me if you think you know
    How to make a turtle go.
    from Nature's Shows
    Nature puts on little shows
    Every time it rains or snows.
               -- Charles Ghigna.


     These come at the ends of sonnets:

    "So, till the judgement that yourself arise,
    You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes."

    "You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen,
    Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men."

    -- Shakespeare
    And this poet, Alexander Pope,  is famous for these sayings:

    "A little learning is a dangerous thing;
    Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

    "Good nature and good sense must ever join;/To err is human, to forgive, divine."
    -- Alexander Pope 
    Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/couplet-examples.html#te2oVbOYzmsVpTkF.99

    Soliloquy


    Hamlet
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjuZq-8PUw0



    Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country




    A1 began writing their soliloquys.
    B5  
    B6    Need to write soliloquys next time.
    B7:  Watched two soliloquys. Still need to watch Hamlet.


    Two Dogs Sonnet

    and just for fun -- NOT a soliloquy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFatVn1hP3o


    If You Were Absent:
    See above.

    You should be reading your historical fiction book and working on your book of the month project based on that book.

    Here is the PowerPoint:  7th grade Poetry PP.pptx
    A1 began writing their soliloquys.
    B5  
    B6    Need to write soliloquys next time. We will look at sonnets next time, too. 
    B7:  Watched two soliloquys. Still need to watch Hamlet.







    Teacher Notes:
    connotation/denotation
     (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
    "Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.”
    — Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
    Poetry and 

    Annotating

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