Monday, October 3 - Thursday, October 6

Thursday

1. THIS WORK SHOULD BE IN YOUR FOLDER: Analysis of Metaphors: the contrast between her images and her tone.
2. THIS WORK SHOULD ALSO BE IN YOUR FOLDER: Mad Girls Love Song - research at least 6 different sources of on-line opinion/analysis in pairs - annotate your poem copies - move to a group of 4 to defend/discuss your found views of the poems - 3 MIPs about poem, 2 fig lang, message about life
3. Fill in the daily evidence of learning.
4. “Mirror” Working with clock partners on a close reading of the poem. Follow the hand-out, looking at diction, figurative language, sound, form, speaker, etc. with different partners in order to arrive at a better understanding of the poem.
5. Time to work on refining your Vermette response or your SloMo response. You have received credit for both; however, I am only taking in one for a grade /30 - you pick, but I don’t recommend handing in your first draft.

Wednesday

1. Mark poetry test. Two people have to leave the room because they haven’t written it yet.
2. Complete reading of Metaphors.

3. “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath

   I’m a riddle in nine syllables,
   An elephant, a ponderous house,
   A melon strolling on two tendrils.
   O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
   This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising.
   Money’s new-minted in this fat purse.
   I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
   I’ve eaten a bag of green apples,
   Boarded the train there’s no getting off.
4. Analysis of Metaphors: the contrast between her images and her tone… with your 3 o’clock partner...

Tuesday

1. Complete the peer editing of the SLOMO responses. Content editors! Don’t forget about the technique/technical elements of film making.
2. Clock partners!
3. Sylvia Plath - Trigger Warning - Plath’s poetry  discusses some very hard things – sex, depression, shame, missing relatives, loss and grief. I want you to make an emotional connections to the poems, but the very last thing I want is for students to have such an emotional reaction that they feel unsafe or re-live trauma. Let me know if you feel you would rather I provide you with some alternate poetry readings.
4. Using TODAY’s MEET - let’s find 10 things about Sylvia Plath that are quite interesting.
5. An introduction to the puzzling nature of poetry “Metaphor” by Sylvia Plath. If you have covered this poem before, please don’t “give away” the “answer” to the riddle. Have your “Close Reading of Poetry” sheet handy. We will do the 3 levels of reading of the poem together.

Monday

1. Reading banned books for a bit while I get those who missed the quiz on poetry sorted out.
2. Dont’ retell the story - start @1:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_6LvGqPOtk
3. SLOMO responses: co-operative peer editing. I will model how to do the editing quickly doing each of the jobs. Next, I will show you how to give the writer some feedback using compliments, suggestions and corrections. 
4. Next, it will be your turn to work in groups of 4 and deal with 4 responses. For each response, you only do your job. For example, if your job is to check content, forget about spelling, and structure issues. Focus only on content matters.
5. When you get your response back, start doing a new draft of it.
6. Tomorrow: would you rather do some poetry leading into one last (for now) stand alone response, or would you rather read a short story together, review essay structure and start working on writing a synthesis essay????

REMINDER for SLOMO responses...

Techniques (level 2 reading) of filmmaking:

narrative - the story

cinematography - how the camera shapes our perspective: framing, lighting, colour, pans, tilts, angles, tracking

sound - dialogue, sound effects, music

mise-en-scene - sets, locations, actors, props, costumes, light and shadow

editing - time and continuity, the cuts, time can be drawn out, or shortened, juxtaposition of shots, rapid cuts, long shots or short shorts, cutaways