Monday, March 13 - Thursday, March 16

Thursday

Today is Panda Day!

1. Mark the poetry quiz.
2. Sample Match?
3. Write your good copy of the reading response to a stand alone text (Vermette, Slomo, Log-Off/Steak) - place this version in your Assignment folder. Also, put your draft with the peer-feedback in your Assignment folder, but on a different page. If you don't know how to copy a page to another folder, just ask.


Wednesday

Today is World Consumer Rights Day!

1.       Poetry terms and devices quiz. The quiz has two parts: matching and a poem where you read and answer m/c questions.

2.       Complete all responses for Vermette, Slomo, Steak/Log-Off. Provide peer-feedback on 2 responses. Make sure your response is in the Collaboration space in Office 365. 

Tuesday

Happy Potato Chip Day!


QUIZ - poetry terms and devices - WEDNESDAY - the form of this quiz will be MATCHING -  term with its definition. Approximately 25 questions.

The essay about your novel [that was made into a film] is due on April 6th. You will have one class to work on it on March 30th. We will review essay structure and expectations after Spring Break.

Make sure that you have 1 response (Vermette, Slomo, Steak/Log-Off) in the collaboration space by midnight tonight. I will go over them tomorrow evening to give you feedback. If your's isn't there, I can't give you suggestions for improvement. Good copy is due, ideally Thursday at end of class, Friday at 1pm at the latest. 

We will be in the library using the laptops again today.

1.  Before the library - words that begin with "e"
    elegy, epigram, euphemism, epic, epitaph
2. Complete your responses.
3. Peer feedback on 2 responses for your classmates.

[Free at Last, Free at Last]
Thank God Almighty

I'm Free at Last.

***

     Sir, I admit your general rule,
     That every poet is a fool,
     But you yourself may serve to show it,

     That every fool is not a poet.     (Coleridge)

                                  ***

Passed away instead of died

Correctional facility instead of jail

Departed instead of died

Fell off the back of a truck instead of stolen

Ethnic cleansing instead of genocide

Negative patient outcome instead of dead

Relocation center instead of prison camp

Collateral damage instead of accidental deaths

Letting someone go instead of firing someone

Put to sleep instead of euthanize

                                  ***

1. Beowulf

2. The Illiad

3. The Odyssey

4. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

5, Dante’s Inferno

6. The Aeneid

7. Paradise Lost 

                                  ***

O Captain! My Captain!

Related Poem Content Details

BY WALT WHITMAN

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, 

The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, 

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, 

While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; 

                         But O heart! heart! heart! 

                            O the bleeding drops of red, 

                               Where on the deck my Captain lies, 

                                  Fallen cold and dead. 

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; 

Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, 

For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding, 

For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; 

                         Here Captain! dear father! 

                            This arm beneath your head! 

                               It is some dream that on the deck, 

                                 You’ve fallen cold and dead. 

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, 

My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, 

The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, 

From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; 

                         Exult O shores, and ring O bells! 

                            But I with mournful tread, 

                               Walk the deck my Captain lies, 

                                  Fallen cold and dead.

Monday



QUIZ - poetry terms and devices - WEDNESDAY
We will be in the library using the laptops

1. Hand-in your blending quotes sheet to me before you leave the classroom.
2. Please ensure that you have placed all the various versions of your memoir into Office 365/your notebook/assignments. I will be deleting the pages today in class.
3. Place one of your responses (Vermette, Slomo, Log-Off/Steak) - the one that you feel is the strongest -  into the collaboration space. Call it: Resp#student number. If you don't know what the criteria for a strong response are, check the peer feedback sheet first.
4. With a partner, read 2 responses in the collaboration space that are not you responses - either of them. Paste a copy of the document Stand alone text - peer feedback (in the Content library) beside the response. With your partner, complete the peer feedback form. Do not peer edit a response that has already received feedback unless there are no other responses  to look at.