Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Monday, May 11, 2015
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We are going to be reading a memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel.
A memoir is an act of
writing to recapture a moment in the past. It serves as a snapshot of life,
striving to illuminate a specific space of time and to capture it in history.
These recollections have strong impacts for both the writer and the reader.
Tomorrow:
Book Link Full Text Online
Book Link Full Text Online
Read p 3-22 in Night
Please print the packet, or fill out as your own google document
Tuesday, May 12
due: read pages 22-28 of Night and make progress on study guide
quiz on pages 22-28 of Night (4
points)
discuss style in Night
reading time
assign: read pages 29-46 of Night and make progress on study guide
Wednesday, May 13
due: read pages 29-46 of Night and make progress on study guide
film clip: Sophie’s Choice
discuss significance of “night” in Night
(Responses to all 5 points)
assign: read pages 47-54 of Night and make progress on study guide
Thursday, May 14
due: read pages 47-54 of Night and make progress on study guide
quiz on sections I-III (13 points)
assign: read pages 54-66 of Night and make progress on study guide
Friday, May 15
due: read pages 54-66 of Night and make progress on study guide
film clip: The Stanford Prison Experiment Documentary
viewing guide (5 points)
assign: read pages 66-89 of Night and make progress on study guide
Monday, May 18
due: read pages 66-89 of Night and make progress on study guide
assign: read pages 89-103 of Night and make progress
on study guide
Tuesday, May 19
due: read pages 89-103 of Night and make progress on study guide
discuss reading
read final pages in class
assign: arrive with any remaining notes from All Quiet on the
Western Front
Wednesday, May 20
due: arrive with any remaining notes from All Quiet on
the Western Front
review for final test on Night and All Quiet on the
Western Front
Thursday, May 21
final test on Night and All Quiet on the Western Front (50
points)
turn in all books and study guides (10 points for the study guide
max)
Friday, May 22
film clip: Oprah’s interview with Elie Wiesel
remediation for students in danger of not passing
Tuesday, May 26
community building with seniors
celebrations
Wednesday, May 27
flex day
count the hours
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
11th grade
Poem:
Alligator Poem
by
Mary Oliver
I knelt down
at the edge of the water,
and if the white birds
standing
in the tops of the trees
whistled any warning
I didn't understand,
I drank up to the very
moment it came
crashing toward me,
its tail flailing
like a bundle of swords,
slashing the grass,
and the inside of its
cradle-shaped mouth
gaping,
and rimmed with teeth—
and that's how I almost
died
of foolishness
in beautiful Florida.
But I didn't.
I leaped aside, and fell,
and it streamed past me,
crushing everything in its path
as it swept down to the
water
and threw itself in,
and, in the end,
this isn't a poem about
foolishness
but about how I rose from
the ground
and saw the world as if for
the second time,
the way it really is.
The water, that circle of
shattered glass,
healed itself with a slow
whisper
and lay back
with the back-lit light of
polished steel,
and the birds, in the
endless waterfalls of the trees,
shook open the snowy pleats
of their wings, and drifted away
while, for a keepsake, and
to steady myself,
I reached out,
I picked the wild flowers
from the grass around me—
blue stars
and blood-red trumpets
on long green stems—
for hours in my trembling
hands they glittered
like fire.
12th grade
Monday, May 4, 2015
11 Grade: And Still We Rise
Objectives:
- Use TP-CAST / PDIDLS to interpret the poem
- Essential question: What is the importance of syllable, meter, rhyme, rhythm in poetry?
- Examine look at the importance of imagery in conveying a message
- Create links between classic literature and pop culture
- Explore the emotion of a poem and to go beyond question-answer in their responses to it
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