Express your thoughts and opinions about the movie “Shakespeare in Love.”
February 3, 2010
Gameplan:
-SSR
-Renaissance Intro Quiz
-Review the wheel & formula
-Assign Sonnet
1.paraphrase
2. identify at least 3 literary devices
3. write 3 prompts
H.W.- Blog Assignmebt 2A
We first found our 7 o’ clock buddies and read for our usual 20 minutes. After that we took the Renaissance Intro Quiz, where everyone had one question to answer from the H.W. the night before. It was a 27 question quiz and if one person got a wrong answer everyone got that question wrong. Our class recieved 23 out of 27 so 85% so everyone recieved that grade for their first quiz of the semester. After that everyone took out their wheel and Edwards explained the formula T/S+D+C+R= Prompt. Thinking skill , Depth, Complexity, and Resource. After that Edwards told us she got rid of writing workshop, and replaced it with essays that are due in class that are based on certain prompts. After that we were assigned our sonnets in the new literature book and paraphrase it, identify 3 literary devices, and then write 3 prompts.
February 1, 2010
Game Plan:
-SSR + Welcome Scribes
-Collect Lit. Terms Worksheet
-Intro to Renaissance ?s (except west)
-H.W. Blog Assignment 2A and Intro to Renaissance ?s
Ok so today we started out with SSR that was followed by ASB announcements by Laura. Then yearbook came and we filled out best and most. After that Jazmine came in and said good bye to everyone gave everyone a hug, because she is leaving the school. Then after that Edwards talked about writing workshop and that she changed the dates, then she talked about the blog assignment and the Intro to Renaissance ?s due on Wednesday.
After going over the H.W. we did clock buddies the inner circle rotated. To get everyone to talk to their clock buddies Edwards asked a new question every time you rotated. She asked questions from the game Would You Rather. Once we finished that we had time left over so she passed out the Intro to Renaissance ?s for us to start.
January 31, 2010
Shakespeare’s sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, is a collection of poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as time, love, beauty and mutability. They were probably written over a period of several years. All 154 poems appeared in a 1609 collection, entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS, comprising 152 previously unpublished sonnets and two (numbers 138 and 144) that had previously been published in a 1599 miscellany entitled The Passionate Pilgrim.
The first 17 sonnets are written to a young man, urging him to marry and have children, thereby passing down his beauty to the next generation. These are called the procreation sonnets. Most of them, however, 18-126, are addressed to a young man expressing the poet’s love for him. Sonnets 127-152 are written to the poet’s mistress expressing his strong love for her. The final two sonnets, 153-154, are allegorical. The final thirty or so sonnets are written about a number of issues, such as the young man’s infidelity with the poet’s mistress, self-resolution to control his own lust, beleaguered criticism of the world, etc.
Your assignment:
Choose one of Shakespeare’s sonnets from the link below. Read it, try to understand it, then post the following:
1. Title of sonnet
2. What do you think it means? Paraphrase the sonnet in your own words.
3. Do you agree or disagree with the sonnet’s message? Why or why not?
January 29, 2010
Hello. Today was a short day we came in and harknessed about the impossible quiz that Mrs. Edwards had given us yesterday. It was an interesting harkness. That pretty much cover what we did in Edwards class today. We do have homework so don’t forget. The homework reminders will are posted below. Well that’s it for me as your scribe have a fantastical weekend everyone, although I doubt that anyone will be reading this.
Game Plan
- Scribe sign-ups
- Harkness/clock buddies
Homework reminders:
*Bring wheel completed on Monday you will need them
*Start working on your first draft for writing workshop due February 5
* Finish the paper with the list of 60 words that Mrs. Edwards gave us you know the “impossible quiz,” that’s to be completed by Monday
January 28, 2010
Game Plan
-SSR
-Literary terms quiz (40)
-The wheel revised
work on sonnet prompt
HW: Blog Assignment 1A
3 language of the discipline prompts
*Just as a reminder here is the writing workshop schedule
Draft #1 Febuary 5
Peer Review #2 February 8/9
Draft #2 February 19
Peer Review #2 February 22/23
Polished Piece due: February 26
January 26, 2010
Hello Jazmin here doing my duty as a scribe and informing you as much as I can. Today we came in and we did our “SSR” definition silent sustained reading , which in other words means we read silently and we sustain our silence. Yea Mrs. Edwards was nice enough to clarify that for us. So after our SSR Mrs. Edwards gave us “shut up and sit down work”, translation:we did work out of our literary book. Mrs. Edwards described our class work as monkey thinking which means if a monkey can do it well so can you!! After that inspirational message Mrs. Edwards gave us a math lesson. Here’s what we learned:
%Percentages
Mrs. Edwards example –>x/73=0.9234–>.92=92%
Yea..fun. Well that’s all that happened today at wonderful i-poly.
Game Plan
-SSR
-Literary Term assignment
HW: Finish literary terms due Thursday for us luckily.
Blog assignment 1A
*Bring wheel to class and if you don’t have it then make one and make sure you have all of the necessary information written on there because we will be using them on Thursday
Okay here is a more thorough explanation about the blog assignment 1A.
It asks you to write a prompt. There are only THREE things you must address/answer to have written a successful prompt.
That was all for today bye!!
January 26, 2010
Hello West house well today or should I say yesterday we came in and Mrs. Edwards clarified a couple of things then she wished us luck on our final. It was a fairly simple day.
Game Plan
-Finals-Good Luck!
-Sit in alphabetical order
-Collect any extra credit
Important Announcements
Scheduale
Monday- Regular rotation 1,2,3
Tuesday- We have no elective we have our second block instead 4,1,2
Wednesday- New core also last day of the semester!
Thursday- 2,3,4
Friday- No elective instead we have house and a Science Fair to attend to
*On Friday from 8-10am we have house and from 10-12pm both the junior & senior class will attend the science fair. From 12 to 12:52pm we will have house.
*There are new kids coming in for second semester so be nice!
that’s all for now!!
January 25, 2010
It’s the beginning of the new semester and it’s a good time to reassess our strengths and weaknesses in the academic arena, specifically in English. For this week’s assignment, write a 5-10 sentence paragraph explaining what you think are your strengths in English. Then write a 5-10 sentence paragraph explaining your weaknesses – or areas in which you would like to improve – and how you intend or hope to better yourself in the coming semester.
January 21, 2010
Gameplan
SSR
Harkness ?
Homework: Study for Tuesday’s Final Exam
So today we began as our usual SSR and after we were done, Mrs. Edwards gave us the option to Harkness or continue watching The Canterbury Tales. We then ended up continnuing watching The Canterbury Tales and called it a day.
Ms. Edward’s also announced three opportunities to gain extra credit.
1. Do freerice
2. (As writen on the board earlier today) Sam Lam needs articles on ANTYING RELEVANT to ipoly. -Under 1000 words
email her the article at S_lam92@yahoo.com by Jan 31
3. Write a five sentence summary based on one of the tales we watched in The Canterbury Tales. Then write a mini-esay (approx. one page) about why the character telling or giving the tale is guilty of their sin.
