Friday, September 24, 2010

Day 13 (9.27.2010) A Day


Objective: Student will be able to:
explicate Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities:


  • Warm-up: Check your professional email.
  • Warm-up:When you have checked your email, please check your grades.
  • Teacher hands out new Vocabulary Lesson 2: Matching worksheet
  • Reminder: Vocabulary 6-10 sheets should be completed by Wednesday.
  • Poetry summatives returned
  • Allusion Presentations: Miguel, Joy, and Shelby
  • Hamlet
Homework:

  1. DUE on Wednesday (9.28.2010 A Day): Allusions
  2. DUE on Wednesday (9.29.10 A Day): Vocabulary Lesson 2 Words 6-10
  3. Due on Wednesday (9.29.10 A Day): Vocabulary Lesson 2 "Matching"

Work collected in class:

  1. Allusions
  2. First part of four-square paragraph -- Evidence and Commentary (email to tholmes@irvingisd.net)

Day 12 (9.24.10 B Day)


Objective: Student will be able to: demonstrate
mastery of vocabulary, poetic terms and meter; practice
writing varied sentences; explicate Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities:


  • Warm-up: Check your professional email.
  • Warm-up:When you have checked your email, please check your grades.
  • Reminder: Poetry test TODAY (SUMMATIVE GRADE) Please log on to Blackboard and wait for further instructions.)
  • Reminder: All poetry homework is due TODAY (including:
    Wyatt handout;
    What Does a Poem Do?;
    The Magic of Poetry; and
    The Dramatic Reading of a Poem).
  • Poetry: Diction
Homework:

  1. DUE on Tuesday (9.28.10 B Day): Allusions;
  2. DUE on Tuesday (9.28.10 B Day): First part of four-square paragraph -- Evidence and Commentary
  3. DUE on Thursday (9.30.10 B Day): Vocabulary Lesson 2 Words 6-10
  4. DUE on Thursday (9.30.10 B Day): Vocabulary Lesson 2 "Matching"

Work collected in class:

  1. Poetry Work
  2. Poetry Test
  3. "Poetry Form 3" Questions

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Day 12 (9.23.2010) A Day


Objective: Student will be able to: demonstrate
mastery of vocabulary, poetic terms and meter; practice
writing varied sentences; explicate Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities:


  • Warm-up: Check your professional email.
  • Warm-up:When you have checked your email, please check your grades.
  • Reminder: Poetry test TODAY (SUMMATIVE GRADE) Please log on to Blackboard and wait for further instructions.)
  • Reminder: All poetry homework is due TODAY (including:
    Wyatt handout;
    What Does a Poem Do?;
    The Magic of Poetry; and
    The Dramatic Reading of a Poem).
  • Poetry: Diction
Homework:

  1. DUE on Monday (9.27.10 A Day): Allusions;
  2. DUE on Monday (9.27.10 A Day): First part of four-square paragraph -- Evidence and Commentary

Work collected in class:

  1. Poetry Work
  2. Poetry Test
  3. "Poetry Form 3" Questions

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Day 11 (9.22.2010) B Day


Objective: Student will be able to: demonstrate
mastery of vocabulary, poetic terms and meter; practice
writing varied sentences; explicate Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities:

  • Warm-up:Please check your professional email.
  • Warm-up:When you have checked your email, please check your grades.
  • Warm-up: Go to Quizlet and download AP Lit Terms Group 1 to your account.
Search "tiffanyholmes"
Click on "Looking for Quizlet user tiffanyholmes?"
Find AP Lit. Terms Group 1
Click on "Export"
Click on "Reuse these terms"
Add them to your Quizlet Library
Title them "AP Lit. Terms Group 1"


  • Warm-up: Poetry drill
  • Reminder: Poetry test this Thursday, the 23rd
  • Reminder: All poetry homework is due on Thursday, the 24rd (including:
    Wyatt handout;
    What Does a Poem Do?;
    The Magic of Poetry; and
    The Dramatic Reading of a Poem).
  • Summer Reading Paragraphs (T. Holmes will review and hand out.)
  • Four-Square Writing: Paragraph One
  • Allusion presentations
  • Continue reading Hamlet
Homework:
  1. DUE on Thursday (9.23.10 A Day): Allusions;
  2. DUE on Thursday (9.23.10 A Day): All four poetry handouts: Sir Thomas Wyatt; What Does a Poem Do?; The Magic of Poetry; The Dramatic Reading of a Poem
Work collected in class:
  1. None

Monday, September 20, 2010

Day 11 (9.21.2010) A Day


Objective: Student will be able to: demonstrate
mastery of vocabulary, poetic terms and meter; practice
writing varied sentences; explicate Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities:

  • Warm-up:Please check your professional email.
  • Warm-up:When you have checked your email, please check your grades.
  • Warm-up: Go to Quizlet and download AP Lit Terms Group 1 to your account.
Search "tiffanyholmes"
Click on "Looking for Quizlet user tiffanyholmes?"
Find AP Lit. Terms Group 1
Click on "Export"
Click on "Reuse these terms"
Add them to your Quizlet Library
Title them "AP Lit. Terms Group 1"


  • Warm-up: Poetry drill
  • Reminder: Poetry test this Thursday, the 23rd
  • Reminder: All poetry homework is due on Thursday, the 24rd (including:
    Wyatt handout;
    What Does a Poem Do?;
    The Magic of Poetry; and
    The Dramatic Reading of a Poem).
  • Summer Reading Paragraphs (T. Holmes will review and hand out.)
  • Four-Square Writing: Paragraph One
  • Allusion presentations
  • Continue reading Hamlet
Homework:
  1. DUE on Thursday (9.23.10 A Day): Allusions;
  2. DUE on Thursday (9.23.10 A Day): All four poetry handouts: Sir Thomas Wyatt; What Does a Poem Do?; The Magic of Poetry; The Dramatic Reading of a Poem
Work collected in class:
  1. None

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Day 10 (9.20.2010) B Day


Objective: Student will be able to: demonstrate
mastery of vocabulary, poetic terms and meter; practice
writing varied sentences; explicate Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities:

  • Please check your email right now.
  • When you have checked your email, please check your grades.
  • Poetry drill
  • Reminder: Poetry test next Friday, the 24th
  • Reminder: All poetry homework is due on Friday, the 24th (including:
    Wyatt handout;
    What Does a Poem Do?;
    The Magic of Poetry; and
    The Dramatic Reading of a Poem).
  • Continue Lesson 1 vocabulary (exercise 3: sentence completion) with THolmes
  • Allusion presentations
  • Continue reading Hamlet
Homework:
  1. DUE on Wednesday (9.22.10 B Day): Allusions;
  2. DUE on Wednesday (9.22.2010 B Day): All four poetry handouts: Sir Thomas Wyatt; What Does a Poem Do?; The Magic of Poetry; The Dramatic Reading of a Poem
Work collected in class:
  1. Lesson 1 vocabulary (exercise 3: sentence completion)