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Thursday, Nov 30

11/30/2023

Learning Intentions

Pre-writing

Agenda

Invention and Brainstorming for Living a Good Life Essay Response (In Google Classroom)

Wednesday, Nov 29

11/29/2023

DO NOW

Daily Check-in
Emerson Word Choice and Key Terms Review

Learning Intentions

Writing Main Ideas

Agenda

Writing Workshop: Week 12 - Self-Reliance in 2023

Tuesday, Nov 28

11/28/2023

DO NOW

Daily Check-in
Check Powerschool for any missing evidence of skills. I'll be updating grades today.
- 1.1-1.4 = Unit 1 Exam: Language & Inference, Evidence
- 2.1-2.3 = Unit 2 Exam: Textual Development
- 3.1-3.4 = Pink Assessment sheets

Learning Intentions

Annotation and Main Idea

Agenda

Complete the Main Idea Author Chart in preparation to begin writing our Living a Good Life Response Essay.
- What does this author say about living well and why is that important (in the eyes of the author).
  - King - "I Have a Dream"
  - Douglass - "The Blessings and Liberty of Education"
  - Frost - "The Road Not Taken"
  - Whitman - "Song of Myself"
Draw a car. Seriously. Draw it.
Read and annotate "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (passed out in class) and respond to THESE QUESTIONS.

Monday, Nov 27

11/27/2023

DO NOW

Daily Check-in
Tone and context practice

Learning Intentions

Tone and Word Choice

Agenda

Identify tone and connect to meaning in "Song of Myself".
1. Identify main idea in poem (paraphrase stanzas, look up and define words)
2. Identify tone of poem
3. Identify word choice/explain why you think the tone is what it is
4. Complete the formula: (author)'s (adjective) tone (verb) (main idea) through (examples).
  EXAMPLE: Longfellow’s peaceful yet dark tone in his poem “The Tide Rises” emphasizes the inevitable, but almost peaceful, destruction by nature by using phrases such as the waves “effaced” footprints and darkness “settled” on the roofs.
Tone and Word Choice Assessment
When finished, start reading and annotating "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (passed out in class and posted on Google Classroom)

Tuesday, Nov 21

11/21/2023

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Daily Check-in

Learning Intentions

Tone and Word Choice

Agenda

Tone and Word Choice (slides, video)
The Tone Game Padlet,
- 155 words to describe author tone
Identify tone and connect to meaning in "Song of Myself".

Monday, Nov 20

11/20/2023

DO NOW

Daily Check-in
Tone Practice Warm up

Learning Intentions

Language in Context

Agenda

Tone and Word Choice
155 words to describe author tone
Identify tone and specific word choices that helped create that tone in the passages we've read.
- "I Have a Dream"
- "The Blessings and Liberty of Education"
- "The Road Not Taken"

Friday, Nov 17

11/17/2023

DO NOW

Daily Check-in

Learning Intentions

Language in Context

Agenda

Complete any skills with missing evidence
Complete the "Grade Improvement form" for any skill you want to improve your grade on.

Figurative Language Review

3 - The main idea of the paragraph is to show how her aunt is feeling as she goes to the concert. The auther uses figurative language to compare her aunt to a dirty miner whos in a five star hotel. This means that she feels out of place at this concert because of what she is wearing and she hasn't been to a concert in 25 years.
4 - The figurative language magnifies the obsurdity of the misjudgement of Cather upon her aunt. She had previously thought that her aunt would feel out of place for not dressing within the constraints of fashion of the times. Furthermore, she thought that her aunt would feel irrelevant and outdated, as she had not experienced a concert in 25 years, and the times had no doubt changed. However, rather than shrinking/hiding due to her being out of place, a quiet stoicism overtook her, like that of a museum statue. This stoic manner conveyed to others that she was ware of something, aware of herself and her own being more so than they were, and that she had dressed in such a manner to flaunt her knowledge.