Agendas Page

5/22

• Last Poem--full circle

  • Longfellow: "The Day is Done"

  • Audio--listen and last comments

• "Advice to Youth" by Twain?

• Final reflections & Advice to Pfouts

  • What will you take away? Will you read more 19th?

  • What should I keep/change?

• Final Toast

5/18

Last day of choice reading

• Exit Ticket: a response to today's reading

5/16

• Missing work & work from before Service Week

End Choices: Today & Friday--use your time=B

• Mini Seminar on "Since I Died"

• Explore your options: Check out the Links Page

• Exit Ticket: a response to today's reading

5/15

• Missing Work--work from before Service

• Grades updated tomorrow

• Frank Stockton:

  • "The Lady and the Tiger"

  • "The Discourager of Hesistancy"

End Choices: Today,Tomorrow, Friday--use your time=B

• Check out the Links Page

• Extensions and menu

Fri 5/4

Day of Silence

Make sure I've gotten the following responses

• 4/25 Response

• 5/1 Western Response

• Poe Paragraph

Today we'll look at

• "Miss Grief"  Read  Audio if you want to follow along

• Writing Questions--there's a sheet

  • Also consider why would this story would come to mind for me on GLSEN's Day of Silence.

• My Emily Dickinson Choices--read them

  • Tell me which one you liked best and explain why--email, doc or half sheet of paper

Optional

• More Emily Dickson--if you finish and want more.

• Complete Emily Dickinson

• Biographical Info--read at least the first three paragraphs

If we have time...

"Since I Died" Elizabeth Stuart Phelps get it from Pfouts

After Service Week:

• Reset/a look back/review

• Miss Grief--Dickinson

• A couple of more authors and then a bunch of choices:

• Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,

• Slave Narratives Previous class' project

• Menus and self designed projects

• Conferences on papers

• Final Letter Final Toast

Tues-Wed 5/1-2

• 4/25 Response is it in?

• 5/1 Western Response?

Wed. 

Ligeia Discussion:

Generating Questions

Poe Choices--find one story to read and choose from the following links

•  Classic Tales Assignment

  •  Post/Find others activities and previews here  

  • Choose stories from the list above and complete the activity

  • Put work in your Poe Folder

• Read Original Versions Online

• Find Audio on YouTube

• Read Modern Versions Online (a little different but works better for some people)

  • scroll down for audio

  • PDF of all the modern versions

Poe Stories.com

A place to find texts

Poe-try Index

Check out my Poe Class Webpage

10:30 end time: Exit Ticket: Poe Paragraph--what did you think of "Ligeia" and the other story you chose?

Tues

Western stories--choose one and write a review:

"Blue Hotel"

"Luck of Roaring Camp"

"Very short on Law and Order" (How to rotate the copy)

Homework for Wed. Read "Ligeia"

Wed 4/25 

• The Mini Paper  Graded draft posted by Wed 4/25 @ 6 pm

• Check IC

• I'll take Emersonian Rants

  • Emerson on line

• I'll take O Me! O Life!  (Write you own)

Fanny Fern

• My Favorite: "Look on this Picture and then on that"

  • write your own? as a make-up assignment

• Fern Leaves

  • First Series

  • Second Series

Twain:

Edward Mills and George Benton   (audio)

Bierce:

Owl Creek Bridge

Devil's Dictionary

Read something(s) new and tell write a review response call it  

"4/25 Response"

Wed. Done at 10:30

So yeah, Friday

Tues 4/24

• Writing Time

• Peer Draft due Tues 4/24 @ 11:30 am

• Graded draft posted by Wed 4/25 @ 6 pm

Friday April 20th

Content-Language Objectives: Students will look back over what we've covered and "Say Something" for their first papers.

Agenda: 

• Did you do your Emersonian Rant

• Warm-up Writing

• What You Wrote about the "Minister's Black Veil" did you"contribue a verse"?

Who read: Melville's "The Fiddler"?

Who Read: Whitman "Think of the Soul"?

Pre-writing for the Paper--your own Doc or on Paper

The Mini Paper  (notice quotes around short story and poem titles)

PeerDraft due Tues 4/24 @ 11:30 am

Graded draft posted by Wed 4/25 @ 6 pm

Tues-Wed 4/17-18

Content-Language Objectives: Students will wrap up their introduction to the class, the introductory texts and make sense of it all through writing and discussion.  

Agenda: 

• The Retort Transcendental

• Emerson

  • pick a quote or two, and do an Emersonian Rant

• Paper Pre-write

  • Paper Assigned Wednesday

• Discuss issues: spiritual vs secular/self vs community/freedom vs responsibility

• "Minister's Black Veil" for Wednesday

  • audio

  • Seminar Wednesday (Melville too)

  • What You Wrote

• Generating Questions

Herman Melville

Chapter 58 of Moby-Dick Read it online

Brit audio (scroll down)

Melville's "The Fiddler"

Whitman "Think of the Soul"

The Mini Paper

Tues. 4/10

Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

A story I tell when I teach Dante

A Video

Have you ever seen the moon? Leonard Pitts Jr.

What would Whitman do today?  

Hubble Gallery

Let two more questions complicate your thinking:

Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?"

Fredrick Douglass: "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?"

What to do about Emerson?

Choose one:

Self-Reliance--discuss with Pfouts

Over Soul--write on your own

Nature--write on your own

Emerson on line (explore--read more, do an extension)

If you did read, pick a quote or two, and do an Emersonian Rant

Paper Pre-write

Fri 4/6

• End of movie

• Write your own O me! O life!

• Mine

• Thoreau: Writing prompt

  • (On the same piece of paper)

  • Pick a favorite quote and rant about it--like a modern Thoreau.

Emerson for Tues:

Choose one:

Self-Reliance--discuss with Pfouts

Over Soul--write on your own

Nature--write on your own

Emerson on line (explore--read more, do an extension)

Tuesday

Emerson/Douglas/Truth/Anderson

Paper Pre-write

• Fredrick Douglass

  • What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?

  • Context

• Soujourner Truth

  • Ain't I a Woman?

4/4

• Stuff Back:  "Psalm of Life," 4 Poems, Whitman, "Two Friends"

• IC Info Sheet & "Sheriff's Children"

• Disclaimer/Finish Movie?

• For Friday: read Chapter 2

Thoreau

• Chapter 2: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For?"

• Walden--the book online

4/3

Welcome back:

• Review last week

• Stuff back tomorrow

• A couple of poems, the beginning of a movie, a chapter of a book

Whitman

• O Captain! My Captain!

  • audio

• O Me! O Life!

Dead Poet's Society 

(It's on Netflix--or find it online)

Thoreau

• Chapter 2: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For?"

• Walden--the book online

Wed-Fri 3/21-23

Content-Language Objectives: Students will continue their introduction to the class and one of the aspects we will explore--audio versions of literature.

Agenda: 

• Syllabus questions

• About the Website

• "The Sheriff's Children" (did you use the site)

  • A little about Charles Chesnutt

  • groups

  • whole class

  • Extension?

  • Chesnutt Archive

• Some shorter texts and poems

  • Sympathy read by Maya Angelou

  • "I never saw a Moor"

  • "The Soul selects her own Society"

    • From Whitman's "Song of Myself"

• Homework Read for Friday:

  • "Two Friends"

• Friday: 

• "Story of an Hour" (Storytime--write a prediction)

  • Draw how you visualize the house and the trees at the end.

  • Write: To what extent is this a sad story?

• Mary Wilkins Freeman Extensions

• After Spring Break: Talk about them.

  • Recommendations

Tues 3/20

Content-Language Objectives: Students will get an introduction to the class and one of the aspects we will explore--audio versions of literature.

Agenda: 

• Attendance/Info Sheet

• Poem--"Psalm of Life"

  • 1st Read (on your own)

  • Write:

    • How hard to understand (scale of 1-10)

    • What would you say to someone who hadn't read it

    • Vocab word

  • 2nd Read Listen 

    • Write again: Comment on how the audio worked for you

    • What do you notice about the structure?

  • 3rd Read (Metaphors/simile/important lines)

    • Talk about the poem

• "The Sheriff's Children"

  • Audio Version 

  • Start in class

  • Finish for tomorrow

Wed. 3/11 

• Last Day :-(

• Stuff back Grades Posted--I accept work until Exhibition Day.

• "Minister's Black Veil" Seminar--Literature and the Veil. 

  • Clarity, questions, important passages

  • Groups define the Veil

    • on your own or consensus

  • See what others wrote

  • Hawthorne's Poem

  • Dunbar's "We wear the Mask"

• Last Poem--full circle

  • Longfellow: "The Day is Done"

  • Audio--listen and last comments

• "Advice to Youth" by Twain?

• Final reflections & Advice to Pfouts

  • What will you take away? Will you read more 19th?

  • What should I keep/change?

• Final Thought go'round?

Tue 3/10

• Turn in Round Two Write-up/Activity--one is a B.

•  Get "Minister's Black Veil" 

• Finish Movie

• Wed: Seminar--Literature and the Veil. 

• Last Poem Final Letter/thoughts.

Fri-Tue 3/10

Was BIFF worthwhile?  What did you think? Will it make you go to the Youth Pavilion?

• Turn in Round Two Write-up/Activity--one is a B.

• Movie: High Noon

• Tues:

  •  Get "Minister's Black Veil" 

  • Finish Movie-time it to noon.

• Wed: Seminar--Literature. Final Letter/thoughts

Round two--read something from somewhere/one else

Tues-Wed 3/2-3

Content-Language Objectives: Students will present what they've read and begin to look at what others have read.

Agenda: 

Wed.

Grades updated--make up work

 Your choices--check out your posts here.

 Some choices from Pfouts

• Political

  • DuBois & Booker T (If you liked Fredrick Douglas)

  • Thoreau (Civil Disobedience)

• Western

  • "The Blue Hotel" (a stenger shows up and doesn't fit in--trouble ensues)

  • "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (a baby is born at a mining camp)

• Feminist ("If I were a Man" "The Story of an Hour")

• Other Kate Chopin?

• Washington Irving

  • "Rip Van Winkle" "Sleepy Hollow" "The Devil and Tom Walker"

• More Hawthorne?  "Minister's Black Veil" Hawthorne's Journal or others

Round Two Activities/Write ups--Turn them in written in the tray

Finish Books?

Tues.

• Fix our posts of our favorite passages or works 

  • planning lessons if we want

  • start reading others

  • Post Here

• Do your Screen cast and put it in your Folder

  • How to Screencast

  • Screencast in your folder

  • Grading

    • • does your presentation follow the guidelines?

• • • did you present to a small group?

    • did you make a screencast as a rehearsal?

    • Also see below--assignment sheet and rubric

Presentation Assignment

• • Rubric:  Page 1   Page 2

  • Work on presentation in your folder

  • My Example Slide Show

Fri 2/27

Content-Language Objectives: Students will present what they've read and begin to look at what others have read.

Agenda: 

• Print Speaker Notes?

• Present in small groups--my choosing

• Posting our favorite passages or works 

  • planning lessons if we want

  • start reading others.

  • Post Here

Tues-Wed 2/24-25

Content-Language Objectives: Students will wrap up their reading projects and prepare to present what they've read.

Agenda: 

• Wrapping up the projects

  • Final Activity-write-up

    • let me know if you didn't finish a book

  • Presenting

    • How to Screencast

    • Screencast in your folder

    • Grading

      • • does your presentation follow the guidelines?

• • • • did you present to a small group?

      • did you make a screencast as a rehearsal?

      • Also see below--assignment sheet and rubric

• Wednesday

  • Finish Presentations

    • Get a screencast in your folder

    • Nominate a favorite text or passage here

  • Friday:

    • present in small groups--my choosing

    •  finish posting our favorite passages or works, planning lessons if we want. Start reading others.

    • Nominate Here

Presentation Assignment

• • Rubric:  Page 1   Page 2

  • Work on presentation in your folder

  • My Example Slide Show

Fri 2/20

Content-Language Objectives: Students will continue their reading projects and get a sense of the final requirements and outcomes and 

Agenda: 

• Schedule: Presentation Assignment

  • Rubric:  Page 1   Page 2

  • Start a presentation in your folder

  • Use your activities and write ups as notes

  • Explain what you find interesting 

• Presentations Tuesday/Wednesday/sharing texts and passages

• Friday: sample texts

Tue-Wed 2/17-18

Content-Language Objectives: Students will continue their reading projects and get a sense of the final requirements and outcomes.

Agenda: 

• Folder updates

• Grade Check

• Pfouts' Guide to Better Presentations

• How to Screencast

• Sample Presentation

• Schedule

Thurs:

• Project Work Time

  • First write up 

  • Log entry at the end--include reasonable weekend plan.

  • Grading  (Class time only is a B-)

Wed 2/11

Content-Language Objectives: Students will look further into an author and then set up their reading projects.

Agenda: 

• Fern/Twain: -This/That-Mills/Benton: Why the two together?

• Folder set up

  • Log

• Bierce/Twain/Fern choices

  • Go to Links Page

  • First write up and log entry

• After Break: Project

Tue 2/10

Agenda: 

• Hangman

• Play code: htpgfafrfcja

• Discuss "Owl Creek"

• "Cannibalism in the Cars"

• Wed: 

  • Fern/Twain: -This/That-Mills/Benton: Why the two together?

  • Bierce/Twain/Fern choices

Fri 2/6

Content-Language Objectives: Students will wrap up  Hawthorne and Melville.  We will shift to some humorous and mysterious.

Agenda: 

• Melville and Hawthorne: "The Artist of the Beautiful" and "The Fiddler"

• Something Fun Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary

• "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

  • "Parker Anderson, Philospher" for those who know Owl Creek--or an extension

  • "Horseman in the Sky"

Tues Hangman--vocab and key terms from the story.

Play code: htpgfafrfcja

Bierce Extensions? 

Fanny Fern: "Look on this Picture and then on that"

    How could this  have anything to do with you?

Wed 2/4

Content-Language Objectives: Students will look into Hawthorne and Melville, their theories, relationship and relevance.

Agenda: 

• Have you shown me your paper? Peer Edit at end of class today?

• What relationship do you see between "The Artist of the Beautiful" and "The Fiddler"

• Something Fun Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary

• Peer edit

Tues 2/3

Content-Language Objectives: Students will look into Hawthorne and Melville, their theories, relationship and relevance.

Agenda: 

• Turn in Paper

• Let's talk Hawthorne

• Melville as homework

• Wednesday: Hawthorne and Melville

Fri. 2/30

• First Paper--Due Tues?

• Emily Dickinson

  • Poems

  • Audio

  • Survey

  • Favorite poem and why

  • Bio--Belle or Jerk? 

• Hawthorne: "Artist of the Beautiful"

Wed 1/28

Agenda: 

• Audio survey

• More stuff back--IC

• Catch up--To do list

• Saying Something

• First Paper

• "Artist of the Beautiful" for Friday.

Tues-Fri Jan 27-30

Content-Language Objectives: Students will consider recent texts and see what they can say about some of the themes we've covered and apply them to life today.

Agenda: 

• Whitman

  • Keating reads Whitman

  • "Think of the Soul"

  • Write a poem: my example

  • For those who like him: "Song of Myself"

• Make sense of all of the texts--Warm up Writing Paper about the Self

• Lab time: Chrome books Wed--Saying Something  

• Thoughts on audio--survey

• Grades updated--make up work 

Tues-Fri Jan 20-23

Content-Language Objectives: Students will look into certain writers and decide what they have to say about the self.

Agenda: 

• Turn in Poe activities

• Jordan Anderson 

  • "To my Old Master"

• Fredrick Douglass

  • What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?

  • Context

• Soujourner Truth

  • Ain't I a Woman?

Tuesday Homework:

• • Read: Where I Lived, What I lived for

  • Audio

  • Writing Prompt:

    • Pick two favorite quotes and rant on why they resonate with you--or why you disagree.

• Wed.  

  • Dead Poets: Keating

  • For Fri: Emerson choices

• Fri: 

  • Finish Movie

    • Debrief

  • Emerson & Thoreau

  • Whitman:

    • Some shorter texts

    • Write a poem: my example

    • For those who like him: "Song of Myself"

  • For Tues-Wed: Paper about the Self

    • (Tues--all the prewriting back, say something. Wed: first half chromebooks: drafting 1st paper)

Wed-Fri 1/14-16

Content-Language Objectives: Students will continue their introduction to 19th Century Lit. focusing on Edgar Allan Poe's contributions.

Agenda: 

• How many people listened to the rest using audio version?

• Grades and stuff back

• Poe "William Wilson" 

  • Pre-seminar group work

  • Seminar 

  • Poe Choices today and Friday (Due Tues)

Tues 1/13

Content-Language Objectives: Students will continue their introduction to 19th Century Lit.

Agenda: 

• Turn in Mary Wilkins Freeman Extensions

  • Talk about them

  • Recommendations

• Poe "William Wilson" 

  • Text

  • "William Wilson" Audio

  • Seminar tomorrow

  • Poe Choices tomorrow

Wed. 1/7

Agenda: 

• Syllabus questions

• About the Website

• "The Sheriff's Children"

  • groups

  • whole class

  • Extension?

  • Chesnutt Archive

• Read for Friday:

  • "Two Friends"

• Friday: 

  • Draw how you visualize the house and the trees at the end.

  • Write: To what extent is this a sad story?

• Mary Wilkins Freeman choices

Tues 1/6

Content-Language Objectives: Students will get an introduction to the class and one of the aspects we will explore--audio versions of literature.

Agenda: 

• Attendance/Info Sheet

• Poem--"Psalm of Life"

  • Read on your own

  • Write:

    • How hard to understand (scale of 1-10)

    • What would you say to someone who hadn't read it

  • Listen 

    • Write again: Comment on how the audio worked for you

  • Talk about the poem

• "The Sheriff's Children"

  • Start in class

  • Finish for tomorrow