Showing posts with label topic and theme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label topic and theme. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2009
For B4
For 9-29-09 -- B4 bring a picture, a poem, or song lyrics with (written down) a topic and at least one theme.
September 25/28, 2009
September 25/28, 2009
Announcements:
Students who were not at Parent-Teacher Conference will receive a progress report to take home and have signed by a parent to be returned for 5 points required and 5 points extra credit.
If you did not finish your Book Assessment, or did not save it onto your own wiki page, please do that from home or during Cave Time in lab 223. Tape your user name and password into your planner if you haven't. If you lose it, you may see me to get it again. DO NOT CHANGE OR EDIT ANY PAGE EXCEPT YOUR OWN. MAKE SURE YOU ARE SEEING YOUR NAME IN LARGE LETTERS AT THE UPPER LEFT OF THE PAGE BEFORE YOU CHANGE ANYTHING ON A PAGE. You may make comments (in a comment box) on other pages, but please keep it appropriate and helpful.
For 9-29-09 -- B4 bring a picture, a poem, or song lyrics with (written down) a topic and at least one theme.
Today's class:
1. Writing time -- Self-starter:
a. Write today's date, then any questions you have for me about the class, or about practically anything. Write at least one question. (Under Writing in your composition book.)
b. Check your composition book to make sure you've done all you need to so far.
2. Review how to get to your own wiki page. We weren't able to do this with B1, but did with B2 and B4. We will do it with B1 on 9-29-09. Done!
B1 -- Go to caveman-b1.pbworks.com (other classes go to your own wiki), and go to the navigator box on the right hand side.
Click on Student Pages 2009-2010.
Click on your own name.
When you see your name in the upper left hand corner in large colored letters, you may edit the page.
Log in -- click on "Log In" at the upper right, and use your user name and password.
When you are back to your page, click on the Edit tab at the upper left (next to the View tab).
A tool bar will appear so you can edit your page.
Do any writing and editing you need to do.
Don't forget to save when you are finished by clicking on SAVE in the lower left hand corner.
Sign out in the upper right hand corner.
2. Confusing Words Presentations
3. About Topic and Theme -- with poems and with your Outsiders Anticipation Guides
Topic: what something is about, the subject
Theme: a big idea about life that is presented in a book, story, poem, etc.
4. The Outsiders
Reading The Outsiders -- Watch for themes.
B1 -- from page 31, page break (Ponyboy is telling about Johnny being beaten by the Socs.) to page 45 to "If you're looking for a fight. . . "
B2 -- from page 45 about 1/3 of the way down to page 51, halfway down.
B4 -- from the top of page 52 (not quite done with chapter 3) to page 60, 1/3 of the way down.
A1 -- from page 25, halfway down, to page 30, top to page 38 "She was coming through to me. . . "
A1 needs to do the anticipation guide/talk about themes.
A2 -- from page 33, 1/3 of the way down to page to page blue mustang pulls up Top of page 41 to the bottom of page 46.
"I thought I had plenty of time."
A4 --from page 28, top of page to page 37 (the beginning of chapter 3) to page 45 "pity the back seat."
Announcements:
Students who were not at Parent-Teacher Conference will receive a progress report to take home and have signed by a parent to be returned for 5 points required and 5 points extra credit.
If you did not finish your Book Assessment, or did not save it onto your own wiki page, please do that from home or during Cave Time in lab 223. Tape your user name and password into your planner if you haven't. If you lose it, you may see me to get it again. DO NOT CHANGE OR EDIT ANY PAGE EXCEPT YOUR OWN. MAKE SURE YOU ARE SEEING YOUR NAME IN LARGE LETTERS AT THE UPPER LEFT OF THE PAGE BEFORE YOU CHANGE ANYTHING ON A PAGE. You may make comments (in a comment box) on other pages, but please keep it appropriate and helpful.
For 9-29-09 -- B4 bring a picture, a poem, or song lyrics with (written down) a topic and at least one theme.
Today's class:
1. Writing time -- Self-starter:
a. Write today's date, then any questions you have for me about the class, or about practically anything. Write at least one question. (Under Writing in your composition book.)
b. Check your composition book to make sure you've done all you need to so far.
2. Review how to get to your own wiki page. We weren't able to do this with B1, but did with B2 and B4. We will do it with B1 on 9-29-09. Done!
B1 -- Go to caveman-b1.pbworks.com (other classes go to your own wiki), and go to the navigator box on the right hand side.
Click on Student Pages 2009-2010.
Click on your own name.
When you see your name in the upper left hand corner in large colored letters, you may edit the page.
Log in -- click on "Log In" at the upper right, and use your user name and password.
When you are back to your page, click on the Edit tab at the upper left (next to the View tab).
A tool bar will appear so you can edit your page.
Do any writing and editing you need to do.
Don't forget to save when you are finished by clicking on SAVE in the lower left hand corner.
Sign out in the upper right hand corner.
2. Confusing Words Presentations
3. About Topic and Theme -- with poems and with your Outsiders Anticipation Guides
Topic: what something is about, the subject
Theme: a big idea about life that is presented in a book, story, poem, etc.
4. The Outsiders
Reading The Outsiders -- Watch for themes.
B1 -- from page 31, page break (Ponyboy is telling about Johnny being beaten by the Socs.) to page 45 to "If you're looking for a fight. . . "
B2 -- from page 45 about 1/3 of the way down to page 51, halfway down.
B4 -- from the top of page 52 (not quite done with chapter 3) to page 60, 1/3 of the way down.
A1 -- from page 25, halfway down, to page 30, top to page 38 "She was coming through to me. . . "
A1 needs to do the anticipation guide/talk about themes.
A2 -- from page 33, 1/3 of the way down to page to page blue mustang pulls up Top of page 41 to the bottom of page 46.
"I thought I had plenty of time."
A4 --from page 28, top of page to page 37 (the beginning of chapter 3) to page 45 "pity the back seat."
Saturday, September 12, 2009
September 15/16, 2009
September 15/16, 2009
1. Presentations of confusing words.
2. More on colons and using specific details in our writing.
a) example of prose about candy (and related subjects)
b) examples of sentences about candy that use a colon to introduce a list.
c) Write your own piece about candy (and/or related subjects), filling up a whole page of your composition book with this piece of writing. Try using a colon in your piece to introduce a list.
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Here is a copy of the examples and information on the overhead:
Lists of Details (Including those introduced by colons)
We also enjoyed bragging about which of the penny candies we planned to snap up during our sweet-tooth runs to Suzy's tiendita. Inside the little store, in the presence of the tiny yet intimidating Suzy, we walked around in hushed reverence, debating the intrinsic value of candy cigarettes, wax bottles of sugary "soda water," and pastel necklaces made of sweet-tart gems.
No expert appraiser at Tiffany in New York matched the intense squint of our eyes as we pushed and shoved each other out of the way, gazing hungrily at the tasty jewels encased in round glass jars topped with "fiesta red" lids.
Our purchases safely stuffed into little brown paper bags, we exploded onto the dusty callecita of Alice, Texas. With our bare feet, we kicked up dusty clouds from the road as we walk to our Tia Elia's house, reverting to loud, boisterous "Tejano talk" we seemed to reserve only for members of our own family. Oh, the fights over who had made the best purchase. "Mira, mines is more sabroso than yours," a cousin would shout. Another would counter with, "I'm gonna wear this candy necklace all day and then eat it after we have Tia Elia's calabaza con pollo. Ay, it looks like real jewels, right?"
-- Mario Bosquez's The Chalupa Rules: A Latino Guide to Gringolandia (2005)
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Lists of Details (Including those introduced by colons)
A new sentence from Bosquez's story:
The tiendita was full of valuables: sweet-tart gem necklaces, candy cigarettes, wax bottles of sugary "soda water." (Anderson)
I couldn't wait to eat my favorite candies at the Sack-n-Pack: fire Jolly Rancher bars, pixie sticks, and grape Now or Laters. (Anderson)
When it was time to go to the candy store, the hunt for loose change began: under the couch, between the cushions, beneath Dad's La-Z-Boy (especially there). (Anderson)
Boxes of my favorite penny and nickel candies lined the low shelf: green apple bubble gum balls, Atomic Fireballs, candy cigarettes (which my mom wouldn’t let me have, but they tasted so good), root beer barrels, wax pop bottles, and Kits in four different flavors – banana, chocolate, strawberry, and peanut butter.
Assignment:
Now, in your composition book, write about candy – or anything related to it – anything that connects to you from the pieces we’ve just read. Write a whole page-worth.
Use lists to include specific details. You may choose whether or not to use a colon, but I’ll be especially happy if you do!
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3. Introduction to PowerSchool and our Class Blog. (If time)
4. Take or finish the SRI -- Some A1 students may need time to finish GMA test?
Any district tests still unfinished because of our technical difficulties must be finished today.
(If needed, work on your writing about candy, or quietly read your novel if you have extra time.)
5. (If time: Topic and Theme and
The Outsiders)
2) Click on the Powerschool button directly under the picture of the interior of Timpanogos Cave.
3) Fill in your user name and password.
Today we will look at some of the features of PowerSchool such as clicking on a score, clicking on the assignment name, clicking on Teacher Comments.
You should have received a letter in the mail with your user name and password to get into PowerSchool.
1. Presentations of confusing words.
2. More on colons and using specific details in our writing.
a) example of prose about candy (and related subjects)
b) examples of sentences about candy that use a colon to introduce a list.
c) Write your own piece about candy (and/or related subjects), filling up a whole page of your composition book with this piece of writing. Try using a colon in your piece to introduce a list.
----------------------------
Here is a copy of the examples and information on the overhead:
Lists of Details (Including those introduced by colons)
We also enjoyed bragging about which of the penny candies we planned to snap up during our sweet-tooth runs to Suzy's tiendita. Inside the little store, in the presence of the tiny yet intimidating Suzy, we walked around in hushed reverence, debating the intrinsic value of candy cigarettes, wax bottles of sugary "soda water," and pastel necklaces made of sweet-tart gems.
No expert appraiser at Tiffany in New York matched the intense squint of our eyes as we pushed and shoved each other out of the way, gazing hungrily at the tasty jewels encased in round glass jars topped with "fiesta red" lids.
Our purchases safely stuffed into little brown paper bags, we exploded onto the dusty callecita of Alice, Texas. With our bare feet, we kicked up dusty clouds from the road as we walk to our Tia Elia's house, reverting to loud, boisterous "Tejano talk" we seemed to reserve only for members of our own family. Oh, the fights over who had made the best purchase. "Mira, mines is more sabroso than yours," a cousin would shout. Another would counter with, "I'm gonna wear this candy necklace all day and then eat it after we have Tia Elia's calabaza con pollo. Ay, it looks like real jewels, right?"
-- Mario Bosquez's The Chalupa Rules: A Latino Guide to Gringolandia (2005)
-----------------------------------
Lists of Details (Including those introduced by colons)
A new sentence from Bosquez's story:
The tiendita was full of valuables: sweet-tart gem necklaces, candy cigarettes, wax bottles of sugary "soda water." (Anderson)
I couldn't wait to eat my favorite candies at the Sack-n-Pack: fire Jolly Rancher bars, pixie sticks, and grape Now or Laters. (Anderson)
When it was time to go to the candy store, the hunt for loose change began: under the couch, between the cushions, beneath Dad's La-Z-Boy (especially there). (Anderson)
Boxes of my favorite penny and nickel candies lined the low shelf: green apple bubble gum balls, Atomic Fireballs, candy cigarettes (which my mom wouldn’t let me have, but they tasted so good), root beer barrels, wax pop bottles, and Kits in four different flavors – banana, chocolate, strawberry, and peanut butter.
Assignment:
Now, in your composition book, write about candy – or anything related to it – anything that connects to you from the pieces we’ve just read. Write a whole page-worth.
Use lists to include specific details. You may choose whether or not to use a colon, but I’ll be especially happy if you do!
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3. Introduction to PowerSchool and our Class Blog. (If time)
4. Take or finish the SRI -- Some A1 students may need time to finish GMA test?
Any district tests still unfinished because of our technical difficulties must be finished today.
(If needed, work on your writing about candy, or quietly read your novel if you have extra time.)
5. (If time: Topic and Theme and
The Outsiders)
PowerSchool
1) Go to our school website at http://www.alpine.k12.ut.us/phpApps/genericPage.php?pdid=15622) Click on the Powerschool button directly under the picture of the interior of Timpanogos Cave.
3) Fill in your user name and password.
Today we will look at some of the features of PowerSchool such as clicking on a score, clicking on the assignment name, clicking on Teacher Comments.
Our Class Blog
You can go directly to cavemanenglish.blogspot.com or
go by way of our school website this way:
1) Click on "Faculty and Staff" under the picture of Timpanogos Cave.
2) Scroll down to Claudia Dorsey and click on Classroom Web Page.
3) Once you're there, scroll down through posts, or scroll down to the blog archive, or use the search box at the top of the page if you're looking for a particular topic. (If you use the search, notice the dates on the posts, since some it brings up may be from previous years.)
4) While you're there, also check out our calendar (in the right hand margin), and click on the illustration of the peanut butter sandwich to go our wiki where you'll find more information and printable handouts.
go by way of our school website this way:
1) Click on "Faculty and Staff" under the picture of Timpanogos Cave.
2) Scroll down to Claudia Dorsey and click on Classroom Web Page.
3) Once you're there, scroll down through posts, or scroll down to the blog archive, or use the search box at the top of the page if you're looking for a particular topic. (If you use the search, notice the dates on the posts, since some it brings up may be from previous years.)
4) While you're there, also check out our calendar (in the right hand margin), and click on the illustration of the peanut butter sandwich to go our wiki where you'll find more information and printable handouts.
You should have received a letter in the mail with your user name and password to get into PowerSchool.
Monday, December 8, 2008
December 8/9, 2008
December 8/9, 2008
Attention: Your book-of-the-month club genre for third term may be historical or multicultural fiction, biography, autobiography, or literary nonfiction.
A Song for Theme -- Write in your composition book (about 1/2 page) about the song shown -- "Something for Nothing."
Word Sort for Suffixes -- Don't forget to study these for the upcoming test.
(By the way, I did find some information on whether to use -er or -or when spelling a word. There isn't an easy, simple rule, but there are some general guidelines._
Quiz on Topic and Theme
Example of the Book Assessment Project --
Remember that your CD projects are due next time.
Assign families
Reading The Giver, from page 50
For absent students --
Exercise 1: Word Sort for Suffixes:
Sort these words into three categories.
farmer
artist
doctor
lawyer
physicist
specialist
teacher
author
dancer
chemist
dictator
banker
butcher
podiatrist
educator
What part of speech are all of these words?
Exercise 2:
Sort these words into two categories:
Category 1: Words that have a suffix that means ____________
Category 2: Words that have a suffix that means ____________
hopeful
worthless
careless
careful
hopeless
useful
beautiful
useless
fearless
frightful
What part of speech are all the words in Exercise 2? _____________
Quiz on Topic or Theme
Topic or Theme
Identify the following as topic, theme, or neither.
_________________ 1. We can more easily forgive others when we realize what they must be feeling.
_________________ 2. Forgiveness
_________________ 3. Lily is angry at the boy on the playground who doesn’t follow the rules.
_________________ 4. How can we forgive people who offend us?
_________________ 5. Ron risks his life to help Harry when he plays in the chess game.
_________________ 6. Friendship
_________________ 7. True friends will go to great lengths to help a friend.
_________________ 8. Helping a friend
_________________ 9. It’s fun to play chess.
_________________ 10. It is often our differences that make us helpful to each other.
Read the song lyrics below, and in your composition book write about 1/2 page about the whole song or about any part of it. Label this entry "Something for Nothing."
"Something For Nothing"
Rush -- Lyrics by Neil Peart
Waiting for the winds of change
To sweep the clouds away
Waiting for the rainbow's end
To cast its gold your way
Countless ways
You pass the days
Waiting for someone to call
And turn your world around
Looking for an answer to
The question you have found
Looking for
An open door
You don't get something for nothing
You don't get freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be
What you own is your own kingdom
What you do is your own glory
What you love is your own power
What you live is your own story
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your own song
[ Rush Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]
Attention: Your book-of-the-month club genre for third term may be historical or multicultural fiction, biography, autobiography, or literary nonfiction.
A Song for Theme -- Write in your composition book (about 1/2 page) about the song shown -- "Something for Nothing."
Word Sort for Suffixes -- Don't forget to study these for the upcoming test.
(By the way, I did find some information on whether to use -er or -or when spelling a word. There isn't an easy, simple rule, but there are some general guidelines._
Quiz on Topic and Theme
Example of the Book Assessment Project --
Remember that your CD projects are due next time.
Assign families
Reading The Giver, from page 50
For absent students --
Exercise 1: Word Sort for Suffixes:
Sort these words into three categories.
farmer
artist
doctor
lawyer
physicist
specialist
teacher
author
dancer
chemist
dictator
banker
butcher
podiatrist
educator
What part of speech are all of these words?
Exercise 2:
Sort these words into two categories:
Category 1: Words that have a suffix that means ____________
Category 2: Words that have a suffix that means ____________
hopeful
worthless
careless
careful
hopeless
useful
beautiful
useless
fearless
frightful
What part of speech are all the words in Exercise 2? _____________
Quiz on Topic or Theme
Topic or Theme
Identify the following as topic, theme, or neither.
_________________ 1. We can more easily forgive others when we realize what they must be feeling.
_________________ 2. Forgiveness
_________________ 3. Lily is angry at the boy on the playground who doesn’t follow the rules.
_________________ 4. How can we forgive people who offend us?
_________________ 5. Ron risks his life to help Harry when he plays in the chess game.
_________________ 6. Friendship
_________________ 7. True friends will go to great lengths to help a friend.
_________________ 8. Helping a friend
_________________ 9. It’s fun to play chess.
_________________ 10. It is often our differences that make us helpful to each other.
Read the song lyrics below, and in your composition book write about 1/2 page about the whole song or about any part of it. Label this entry "Something for Nothing."
"Something For Nothing"
Rush -- Lyrics by Neil Peart
Waiting for the winds of change
To sweep the clouds away
Waiting for the rainbow's end
To cast its gold your way
Countless ways
You pass the days
Waiting for someone to call
And turn your world around
Looking for an answer to
The question you have found
Looking for
An open door
You don't get something for nothing
You don't get freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be
What you own is your own kingdom
What you do is your own glory
What you love is your own power
What you live is your own story
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your own song
[ Rush Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Topic or Theme -- Extra Credit Quiz
Topic or Theme -- Extra Credit Quiz Available only through December 2008.
Copy and print this quiz. Then answer the questions and bring it to me for up to 20 points of extra credit. See the post titled "Topic and Theme" from November 13 for some hints.
Identify the following as topic, theme, or neither.
_________________ 1. Greed
_________________ 2. Love is the strongest force in the world.
_________________ 3. Catching Monkeys
_________________ 4. In this book, the main character is a teenage girl who falls in love with a vampire.
_________________ 5. Often the best sort of friend is someone who is very different from you.
_________________ 6. Friendship
_________________ 7. Is freedom or security more important?
_________________ 8. Freedom or Security in The Giver
_________________ 9. Forgiveness is good for the one forgiving as well as for the one being forgiven.
_________________ 10. Kendra found out that hard work pays off.
Copy and print this quiz. Then answer the questions and bring it to me for up to 20 points of extra credit. See the post titled "Topic and Theme" from November 13 for some hints.
Identify the following as topic, theme, or neither.
_________________ 1. Greed
_________________ 2. Love is the strongest force in the world.
_________________ 3. Catching Monkeys
_________________ 4. In this book, the main character is a teenage girl who falls in love with a vampire.
_________________ 5. Often the best sort of friend is someone who is very different from you.
_________________ 6. Friendship
_________________ 7. Is freedom or security more important?
_________________ 8. Freedom or Security in The Giver
_________________ 9. Forgiveness is good for the one forgiving as well as for the one being forgiven.
_________________ 10. Kendra found out that hard work pays off.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Topic and Theme
Topics for Themes
Often, literary themes are suggested by just one word or one phrase. However, the theme is not the same as the subject or topic. The theme is the idea that the writer wishes to convey about a particular subject, so to complete a theme, you would make a statement about a subject.
A theme will not be stated as a single word or phrase.
A theme will not be stated as a question.
A theme will be stated as a complete sentence.
A theme will use the topic word (or a synonym) in the sentence.
For example: "That which is most difficult is often the most worthwhile."
"It is easier to hate in general than it is to hate specifically."
"Those who try too hard to look good are more often laughed at than admired."
Following are the subjects/topics of some common themes in literature:
accomplishment,
anger,
attitude,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
charity, choices,
compassion,
community,
compromise,
curiosity,
courage,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
death,
determination,
dishonesty,
diversity,
duty,
equality,
endurance,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
example,
faith,
family,
fear,
forgiveness,
freedom,
friendship,
generosity,
good vs. evil,
greed,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
grief,
happiness,
hate,
honesty,
hope,
human rights,
humor,
identity,
imagination,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
innovation,
integrity,
a journey to
greater wisdom,
judging,
learning,
love,
loyalty,
nature,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
patience,
patriotism,
peace,
perseverance,
pioneering,
relationships,
responsibility,
revenge,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
self-esteem,
stewardship (e.g., over nature),
success,
survival,
teamwork,
trust,
understanding,
unity,
vanity,
worth
These are topics for themes, not themes.
Often, literary themes are suggested by just one word or one phrase. However, the theme is not the same as the subject or topic. The theme is the idea that the writer wishes to convey about a particular subject, so to complete a theme, you would make a statement about a subject.
A theme will not be stated as a single word or phrase.
A theme will not be stated as a question.
A theme will be stated as a complete sentence.
A theme will use the topic word (or a synonym) in the sentence.
For example: "That which is most difficult is often the most worthwhile."
"It is easier to hate in general than it is to hate specifically."
"Those who try too hard to look good are more often laughed at than admired."
The Theme or Message:
What does this book teach about how life could or should be lived?
--- about what is of value in life?
Following are the subjects/topics of some common themes in literature:
accomplishment,
anger,
attitude,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
charity, choices,
compassion,
community,
compromise,
curiosity,
courage,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
death,
determination,
dishonesty,
diversity,
duty,
equality,
endurance,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
example,
faith,
family,
fear,
forgiveness,
freedom,
friendship,
generosity,
good vs. evil,
greed,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
grief,
happiness,
hate,
honesty,
hope,
human rights,
humor,
identity,
imagination,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
innovation,
integrity,
a journey to
greater wisdom,
judging,
learning,
love,
loyalty,
nature,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
patience,
patriotism,
peace,
perseverance,
pioneering,
relationships,
responsibility,
revenge,
These are topics for themes, not themes.
self-esteem,
stewardship (e.g., over nature),
success,
survival,
teamwork,
trust,
understanding,
unity,
vanity,
worth
These are topics for themes, not themes.
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