SHORT AND SWEET

Be reading . . . by tomorrow the goal would be the end of Part I (p. 112)

Plan for tomorrow. . .some further talk based on today's questions. Some computer time on a site you need to know about.

Looking ahead to Monday: Vocab due, and a likely progress check quiz on TKAM.

Today in Class

We took Vocab 9, then had time to start Vocab 10 work (due Monday) or to continue reading TKAM.

Where you should be with the novel:
By yesterday you should have been done with 4-6 (p. 56); many were, some were not.
Hopefully you are well past that point by tonight--as far as you can get in the 7-9 range. By Friday, you are denifitely expected to have finished Chapter 11 (p. 112, the end of Part I).

Today in Class

Collected revised poem analysis together with original stamped version.
Discussion of theme for three poems in the packet.

Turning attention to TKAM--descriptive paragraph (surface and deeper meanings)

For today, you should have been done with Chapters 4-6. No new reading for tomorrow, but Chapters 7-8 should be done by Thursday.

Tomorrow: Unit 9 Vocabulary Quiz

BRIEFLY NOTED

Today in Class
Stamped and corrected Unit 9 vocabulary--Quiz will be on Wednesday

Took a short reading check quiz on To Kill a Mockingbird

For Tomorrow
Final poetry assignment: Due Tuesday, March 27

All I'm requiring is the typed, revised version of "Cracking the Poem" for your assigned poem from the Themes packet, turned in together with the orignal version that I marked and gave back to you.

I revised the "theme" work--instead of the paragraph from you,we will work together in class on about six of the poems. Be sure to have the packet with you in class tomorrow.

Chapters 4-6 of TKAM have been the reading assignment since last Thursday. These chapters should be completed by tomorrow, Tuesday.

Looking Ahead
Unit 9 Vocab Quiz on Wednesday

Read Chapters 7-8 (fairly short) by Thursday, 3/29
(so you might want to get slightly ahead of that curve)
Finish Part I (Chapters 9-11) by Friday, 3/30

FRIDAY'S THE DAY!!

Today in class--
Working with group members, students looked at the specific theme in the poems for each group. I'll give your theme statements back tomorrow, and I'll clarify the last step on this assignment (due Tuesday).

Tomorrow--
Your Poetry Portfolio is due! Follow all instructions carefully. Have it properly and creatively bound BEFORE you come to class--this is not the time for last-minute stapling. I'm really looking forward to enjoying your hard work.

During class time, I will be meeting briefly with each "themes" group. During this time, you need to be reading To Kill a Mockingbird or working on your Unit 9 vocabulary.

See yesterday's post for vocab and TKAM reading dates.

"Daffodils" (1804)

Read the poem,
then read the blog.


I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

Today in Class

There was a new hand-out detailing what to do for the Poetic Themes assignment.
Bottom line: re-do the "Cracking the Poem" you got back yesterday, write down the THEME of your poem for tomorrow (group work), and know that you will be writing a paragraph of theme analysis on your poem.

To recap:
Theme work tomorrow
Poetry Portfolio due on Friday
Vocab Unit 9 due on Monday
Poetic Themes work (typed, revised "Cracking" analysis plus theme paragraph)due on
Tuesday.

Then we turn full steam ahead to To Kill A Mockingbird starting on Tuesday. By then you should have read the first six chapters.

MONDAY, MONDAY. . .

If you're checking the blog tonight, you are at least thinking of tomorrow. Be sure you have finished the sound features packet that you began in class on Friday after finishing the vocab quiz.

No other homework for tomorrow. We aren't doing vocab this week, because too much else is going on.