Agendas

Week of 3/6

Agenda

• Mon: Reading Time/Paper Assigned: Final Paper Due 3/10/17

• Activity #3

• Tues Paper/Pfouts' Guide to Better Presentations

  • Informal Guidlines for Presentation

• Thurs--present in groups--or to the whole class. 

• Slamnation/Harrison Bergeron (2081) Greatest Man in the World

• Harrison Bergeron text

• Turn in Act #3, (log and #1, #2) and Final Paper in your Folder

• Hangman 

  • play code: hppgcgcrhdja

  • edit: hppgcgcrhdjata

2/2-3

Agenda

• Final project 

• What's an activity?

  • Check out these graphic organizers

• Reading and work time

• First Activity due in your folder by break

• Stuff Back/Check IC

2nd Half Thurs: 

• Go to Study Center

• End of class: update your log

Fri: 

• Collect Folders 

  • 2nd Activity 

• Mon: Reading Time/Paper Assigned

• Tues Paper/Presentation guide/Thurs--present in groups.

Mon-Tues 2/27-28

Agenda

• Venn Diagram: Tony, Leon & Jackson 

• Read  "Clevinger's Trial" in groups (start on Page 4--with the trial)

• Start Catch-22

• Mon finish movie & start final project

Thurs 2/23

• Choices?  Have you done 

  • Vonnegut/Joyce Carol Oates

  • O. Henry

  • Asimov

• Mini-Memoirs--write your own

• "Tony's Story" Leslie Marmon Silko

• Sheman Alexie "What you Pawn...

  • Venn Diagram: Tony, Leon & Jackson 

Tue 2/21

Content/Language Objectives: Students will continue their explorations of  new authors by Looking at O. Henry and his works.

• Vonnegut Choices/ O. Henry 

• Cop and the Anthem

  • • Movie (17 minutes)

• "The Last Question"

• • Audio

• Asimov Choices

• Design your own study

• • review what we've covered

• Leslie Marmon Silko/Sandra Cisneros/Catch-22

Fri 2/17

Content/Language Objectives: Students will continue their explorations of  new authors by Looking at O. Henry and his works.

Agenda:

• • Wrap up Vonnegut/Oates

  • Read aloud, "Retreived Reformation"

    • write a prediction

    • get the ending

• O. Henry Choices--choose one

• O Henry online

• Cop and the Anthem

  • • Movie (17 minutes)

• If you use your time and are all caught up, no homework this weekend.

Thurs 12/16

Content/Language Objectives: Students will explore some new authors and poets through listening, writing and reading.

Agenda:

• "Momento Mori"

  • • Background if you want

• Read Kurt Vonnegut "Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog"

• Extensions KV & JCO

• Movie  (on Prime 55 min)

• Create Activities for stories without them?

• Vonnegut online

Mon-Tue 2/13-14

Content/Language Objectives: Students will explore some new authors and poets through listening, writing and reading.

Agenda:

• Noah edit

• "Still I Rise"

  • Write your own

• "Momento Mori"

• "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" 

  • Activity

  • Share out

  • Discuss

• e.e.cummings (poem of the Day)

  • Text

  • Audio

• Homework:

• Read Kurt Vonnegut "Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog"

• Thursday: Extensions/Movie  (on Prime 55 min)

Agenda:

• S2LSs

• Favorite quotes 

• The ending

• "Babylon Revisited"

Friday 2/3

• Finished?  Read/Write

• Writing q's:

  • What did you think of the ending?

  • Give me a favorite quote--from The Great Gatsby.

  •  What questions do you have?

Start Movie

• • Alex plot spoiler? Today? Mon?

• jeopardy.rocks/gatsbygatsby

  • Maggie Kahoot?

  • Blaze/Brian Monday

Thurs 2/2

• Notes from the back of the book

• S2LSs

• Chapters 4-7 (2:15 Meeting)

Thurs: Natalie, Caroline, Brodi: Manhattan in the 20s

Thurs: Vienna, Maggie: drawing activity & Kahoot

Thurs: Colin: Hangman?

Friday: Zach, Will Ajah Jeopardy

Friday: Brian & Blaze: Are you Smarter than A. Pfouts

Fri:Alex--history/context

Adam:

Noah:

1/31

Mon: Gwen: Upper class/fashion in the 20's

Tues:Juniper, Zoey: Group Charades

Chapters 2-4 with Pfouts

1/26-7

• Reading time

• Bookmark

• First impressions

  • Chapter One

    • First Questions

    • Intro to the book context

    • Your Questions

    • Bookmark--schedule and overview

  • S2LS Planning

  • Mon: Sub

S2LS Groups:

Mon 2pm:Travis, Jake, Brooks: Kahoot

Mon: Gwen: Upper class/fashion in the 20's

Tues:Alex--history context

Tues:Juniper, Zoey: Group Charades

Thurs: Natalie, Caroline, Brodi: Manhattan in the 20s

Thurs: Vienna, Maggie: drawing activity & Kahoot

Thurs: Colin: Hangman

Friday: Zach, Will Ajah Jeopardy

Friday: Brian & Blaze: Are you Smarter than A. Pfouts

Fri:Alex--history/context

Adam:

Noah:

1/24

Content/Language Objectives: Students will wrap up the first unit through discussion and composing their "Ways of Living Paper."

Agenda:

• Finish Streetcar

  • questions/predictions

  • analysis

  • Simpsons

• Proofreading tricks--turn-in papers <andrew.pfouts@bvsd.org>

• Gatsby

• Cover

1/23 Monday: 

• Streetcar Named Desire

• Ways of Living Paper on Assignments Page Due Tuesday

Thurs-Fri 1/19-20

Content/Language Objectives: Students will wrap up the first unit through discussion and composing their "Ways of Living Paper."

Agenda:

• Grades posted

• "The Road Not Taken"

  • You're reading wrong

• Figure out computers

• Extensions

• Our Texts

• Saying Something

• Pre-writing

• Ways of Living Paper on Assignments Page Due Tuesday

Tues 1/17

• "Big Blonde" by Dorothy Parker  

  • Choose an Activity

• Extensions

  • Parker, Cather, Hemingway, Hurston, O'Connor, Vonnegut, E.B. White

Fri 1/13

• "John Redding goes to Sea"

• Homework: Read "Big Blonde" by Dorothy Parker

  • Two poems "Resume" and "One Perfect Rose" @poem hunter

• Upcoming: Dorothy Parker/Extensions/Paper/Gatsby

• Discuss "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (pg. 3 on this site) 

  • Characters so far prewriting

• Watch: Almos' a Man

• Pre-writing

  • Methods

  • Texts so far--connections, differences

• Tomorrow lunch: Poetry reading--early release on Friday.

• Read for tomorrow "John Redding goes to Sea"

• Upcoming: Dorothy Parker/Extensions/Paper

Tue 1/10

Agenda:

• "Neighbor Rosicky" 

  • Write & Discuss

• Read and finish for Thursday: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (pg. 3 on this site) We'll discuss Thursday.

1/6-9

Content/Language Objectives: Students will get an introduction to the class and dive into some readings.

Agenda:

• Info Sheet/Attendance

• Storytime "Next Door" pg. 124--Welcome to the Monkey House

• Syllabus

• Sampler: Poetry Packet.

• Read for Monday:

  • Finish Poetry Packet

  •  "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

• Monday:  Tell us your Favorite Poem, Talk Francis M

  • Homework: Read  "Neighbor Rosicky"

"Ballad of Birmingham Related Poem Content Details" by Dudley Randall

short fiction--spoken word?

Mon/Tue 5/21-22

Agenda:

• Rubric and Rules: "For my project I did,"  "That's about It...questions?"

• Thoughts on presentation movies? Anything to add?

• Present/Read/Watch/

  • Final Letters: 

  • Check Assignments Page

• Final Thoughts

Fri 5/17

Agenda:

Content/Language Objectives: Students will improve their presentation skills by watching some tutorials and preparing a short presentation of their own.  We will learn about what other people read through these presentations and hopefully make a summer reading list.

• Finish Catch-22.

• Papers/presentations work time w/two options

  • A presentation 5-6 slides about your author and reading

  •  A 1-2 page paper about your project

• Turn in folders

• Mon/Tues: Present/Read/Watch/final letters

Tue-Thurs 5/14-16

Content/Language Objectives: Students will continue their projects exploring their theme, author or genre.  We will look into Catch-22 as an example of 20th Century American Lit.

Agenda:

• Update logs for what you did yesterday

• Wrap project up by Friday.

• Review Handouts

• Do an activity/write-up

• Make up work?

• After Break: start Catch-22.

• Thursday movie

• Friday: papers/presentations work time

  • Turn in folders

• Mon/Tues: Present/Read/Watch/final letters

Thurs-Mon 5/9-13

Content/Language Objectives: Students will continue their projects exploring their theme, author or genre.

Agenda:

• Update logs for what you did since last time

• Do an activity or write up

• Read

• Make up work?

• Grades updated by Monday

• Gatsby Times

Tues 5/7

Content/Language Objectives: Students will have one final discussion on a story together and explore further options for the final project and decide what they intend to do.

Agenda:

• Turn in any work from last week or yesterday

• Omales Activities

• Final project handout

• Browse and decide

• Start reading

Mon 5/6

Content/Language Objectives: Students will explore some online writing in order to see what's available explore further options for the final project.

Agenda:

• Turn in any activities from Friday

• Online writing/Flash Fiction

• Go to Assignments Page

• Some stuff back

• Current grades

• "The Ones Who Walked Away from Omales" for tomorrow

Thurs-Fri 5/2

Content/Language Objectives: Students will explore some other authors and poets in order to be ready for the final project.

Agenda:

• "Who Am I this Time?" Question

• Papers? Get them back--work on them.

• Beat Poems back

• Poem of the Day: "Still I Rise"

  • Write your own

• Vonnegut/Oates Extensions/Choices

• Streetcar Parodies

• Friday:

  • E.B. White & Asimov Choices

  • Kool Moe Dee and Spoken Word

• Writing Question: 

  • What have you liked and what would you want to study?

Tues 4/30

Content/Language Objectives: Students will analyze Streetcar and discuss its major themes through writing and discussion. 

Agenda:

• Papers?

• Streetcar Named Desire

  • your notes & ideas

  • what the interwebs has to say

  • discussion

• Kurt Vonnegut's "Who Am I This Time?

• Thurs: Vonnegut and other extensions

Mon 4/29:

Agenda:

• Papers?

• Books Back?

• e.e. cummings "anyone lived in a pretty how town"

  • pairs

  • whole class

• "Momento Mori," cummings and confusion vs. nonsense

• Streetcar Named Desire

Fri 4/26:

Agenda:

• Papers?

• Books Back?

• Turn in Cisneros and Dillard

• What's coming: authors you should know to set up project--method vs theme

• "Momento Mori"

• Poem of the day: e.e. cummings

• Start Streetcar Named Desire--finish Monday. KV? Simpsons?

• Tues. Choices Oates, Vonnegut, Asimov

Thurs 4/25

Content/Language Objectives: Students will learn an important proofreading trick and apply it to their papers.  Students will look at how literature can reflect the human experience by reading memoirs and writing their own. 

Agenda:

• Papers:proof reading

• Books Back

• Sandra Cisneros

  • her stories

  • your stories

• "Momento Mori"

• Poems

Mon 4/22

Agenda:

• Some stuff back

• Grades

• Revisions on 1st Paper Include The Great Gatsby.

• Megan, Zoe and the Beats

• Homework: revise paper for Thursday.

Thurs 4/11

Agenda:

• More S2LS groups

• Chapters 4-7 Jigsaw

• Finish groups

• After break today--stuff back/apologies

• Tomorrow

  • Wrap up

  • 2nd half read/or do final writing

  • (readers have final write up due after Service Week) 

  • IC Updated--make to do list for Service Week

Tues 4/9

Agenda:

• Reading time/check in with S2LS groups

• Some groups go

• Chapters 4-7 Jigsaw

• Plan for other groups

• Finish for Thursday

Mon 4/8 (sub day) S2LS Planning/Trexler and Gatsby

Fri 4/5

Agenda:

• Your Questions: First Impressions Sheets

• 1-3 Activities (read and take the activities home)

• More discussion/check in

• Hand out S2LS

• Review Reading Schedule

• Make a Monday Plan (sub)

Thurs 4/4

Agenda:

• The Great Gatsby

  • Chapter One

    • First Questions

    • Intro to the book context

    • Your Questions

    • Bookmark--schedule and overview

  • S2LS tomorrow

  • Mon. S2lS Final planning & paper revisions

Tues 4/2:

Content/Language Objective: Students will get back into early 20th Century Lit. by exploring a few new authors and setting up a novel.

Agenda:

• Dorothy Parker/O Henry

  • Storytime

  • Extensions

• Get The Great Gatsby

  • start--read Chapter One for Thursday

• Thursday:

  • Intro to the book

  • Revisit "Ways of Living" Paper

Thurs-Fri 3/21-22:

Content/Language Objective: Students will wrap up their introduction to American Lit and the unit on "Ways of Living."

Agenda:

• Z.N. Hurston "John Redding"

  • Write your ending

  • Get the real ending

  • Hurston Extensions

• "Almos' a Man"

• Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man..."

Friday:

• "Saying Something" as a concept

• Say Something about "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

• Stuff back

• Paper Assignment & Pre-writing

• 2nd Half Lab: draft due at the end of class

3/19:

Content/Language Objective: Students will continue their initial explorations of 20th Century literature around the topic of ways of living and look deeper at Ernest Hemingway and Willa Cather.

Agenda:

• Willa Cather/Ernest Hemingway choices

• Z.N. Hurston John Redding

• Homework for Thursday:

  • "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Flannery O'Connor

3/18

Agenda:

• "Neighbor Rosicky"

  • Compare characters: F.M./Rosicky

  • Write/Pair/Group

• After break

• Finish poetry (Megan & Zoe take a group)

• Tomorrow: Cather and Hemingway extenstions

3/15

Agenda:

• Short Story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

  • Ticket: In writing: Who are the main characters an what do we know about them?

  • Seminar--how, do, critique, write-up

• Start "Neighbor Rosicky"

• Read for the weekend

Monday: Compare characters: F.M./Rosicky/Big Blonde/E.A. Robinson

after break

Finish poetry (Megan take a group)

3/14:

Content/Language Objective: Students will get an introduction to the course and sense of how we will operate throughout the quarter.

Agenda:

• Info Sheet/Attendance

• Storytime "Next Door"

• Syllabus

• Poetry

  • Some together

  • Some in groups

• Short Story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

  • Homework check

  • Seminar tomorrow