Thank You and Congrats!

Thank you so much to all classes that attended today's slam poetry show!

AND A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TENTH GRADE FOR PRESENTING THEIR POEMS FLAWLESSLY FROM MEMORY!

Slam Poetry

Grade 10s! Get ready and dress the part. Whatever you have to do to amplify your presence during this rock-show-poetry-slam-a-thon...BRING IT.

(school rules apply)

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Monday! (1/16/2012)

9s: Continue writing poetry
Basic: Find out where Kyle traveled!
Brit Lit: Create Fakebook, read up to letter one
Film: We finally finished out color symbolism chart. Now we will move on to breaking down some Mise en Scene. Jeopardy on Wed.
10s: Slam Poetry
8s: Poetry Anthology

Basic

ORP: we read to page 198 today. HW assignment: who is Alice Cooper?

Class Assignment Update:

9s: Tomorrow we will continue to work in groups to explore our assigned poems to their fullest extent.

Basic: We will continue reading ORP - one day this week we will be taking a break to do a fun mini activity.

Brit: Arts and Crafts time! (Frankenstein trading cards)

Film: Last day to finish vocab flash cards

10s: We will take another look at the slam poems that we watched yesterday and take notes on why they are effective. Then we will practice reading them out loud....over....and over....and over.

8s: Tomorrow we discover the wonderful world of Metaphors.

Welcome Back!

Grades 8, 9, and 10:

We are finishing up poetry this week and the next. Then we will be moving on to novels!

Brit Lit:

We are starting Frankenstein. For the next few days we'll be working diligently on our trading cards. Gather up all the info necessary for your cards. Make them marketable to your classmates!

Film:

We'll be finishing up our vocab terms and then we'll breakdown the first film that we analyze.

Basic:

One Red Paperclip. If you're new to the course, you'll need to read up to page 138. We will review everything before each reading session.