Interpretation and Scripting

It is important that you identify the voice of your narrator as you choose the most important sentences -- utterances-- from the poem.

After you have identified the sentences most important to you, come together as a group and begin to share you sentences and decide as a group which ones should be performed and how.

The key here is supporting your interpretation from the text or connecting to experiences outside of the poem to your life, or the lives of others to share or convey experience and ideas.

Once you have decided which lines you will perform, begin to script and choreograph each line.

1. decide how you will present it
2. who will present it
3. how it will be presented
4. with what props and movement
5. why it should be done this way -- what are you trying to convey/communicate? 

Tuesday gather and brainstorm

Barbell Factory
Create initial groups ( 4 to a group)
Cooperation and group scoring
Key vocabulary featuring voice
Girl Assignment -- choose, interpret, and perform the ten most important sentences.


Ten most important sentences--make sure you get this part.

Give evidence for your interpretation of connotative and denotative.  

There is no correct interpretation -- get your evidence from the poem and secondary sources. 

It is important to get background information ans secondary sources
Please visit Jamica Kincaid's biographical page and her wiki to see what you can learn about her and how these secondary sources might influence your literal and figurative interptretations of the poem "Girl".

Brainstorming
What really counts in making brainstorming sessions effective is your ability to ignite, encourage, synergize and extend your partner thoughts and ideas without ever spending useless energies in criticizing or vetoing this or that proposal.



All ideas are good, they are only limited by our own ability to connect them rapidly with other, relevant ones to create mental mashups or to jump to alternative solutions we wouldn't have considered otherwise.


Brainstorming from Johnson & Johnson 

Here are the roles you should take on: 

ENCOURAGER and SCRIBE
writes and reports groups ideas;
is not a gatekeeper

• Record all ideas
• Don’t block
• Seek clarification
• Report

ENCOURAGER and STORE KEEPER
locates, collects and distributes resources including informational resources like web pages and encyclopaedia entries

• Get all the materials for the entire group
• Collect worksheets from the teacher
• Sharpen pencils
• Tidy up

*Allowed to leave your place without teacher permission

ENCOURAGER and COP
reads instructions and directs participation

• Read the instructions
• Call for speakers
• Take turns
• Call for votes
• Count votes
• State agreed position

ENCOURAGER and SPY
summarises findings and trades ideas with other groups

• Check up on other groups
• Trade ideas with other groups
• Summarise findings

*Allowed to leave your place when directed by the teacher

"No task is too big when done by all"

If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle on Thursday, Dec.
14, 2005, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had
become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was
weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to
struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope
wrapped around her body - her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her
mouth.

A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farralone Islands (outside
the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a
few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad
off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her - a very
dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.

They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.
When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous
circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time,
and nudged them, pushed them gently around-she thanked them.

Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their
lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was
following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate----to be
surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things
that are binding you. And, may you always know the joy of giving and
receiving gratitude.

A'ohe hana nui ke alu'ia "No task is too big when done by all"
Proverb from 'Olelo No'eau

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Important Sundry Items

Sundry (yes, you should look it up).

Key themes and topics:
Voice & Oral traditions
Diversity and notions of text and media
Important vocabulary
Literary interpretation
Performance
Literal and Figurative
Connotative and Denotative
Cooperative work

Activities
Clapping Academy
Barbell Factory
Reading Friday
Literary Yoga & Self-care
Maori Mihi

Thursday: How you say it is just as important as what you say.

Guiding questions:
What is equity? What is voice? What is a text?

Key vocab

Voice --context and expression through:

syntax, meter, diction, word choice, themes, volume, pitch and emphasis.

Go over syllabus quiz
Clapping Academy -- equity
Image interpretation -- a text conveys information. Can be pictures, clothing, dance, words.

Class activity reflection (Journal 2):
What did you do? Was it fun? What was the point? Why? How will you use these ideas?
Full sentences / minimum 1 page/ skip every other line.

Friday
Reading Friday -- Bring a book!
Yes, a book of your choice.
10 points for bringing a book, 7 for borrowing.
10 points for 40 minutes of silent reading (-1 for each redirect).
10 points for journal entry
Literacy coaching

Monday -- No School

Tuesday
Barbell Factory
Create initial groups ( 4 to a group)
Key vocabulary featuring voice
Girl Assignment -- choose, interpret, and perform the ten most important sentences. 
Give evidence for your interpretation of connotative and denotative. 
It is important to get background information ans secondary sources
Please visit Jamica Kincaid's biographical page and her wiki to see what you can learn about her and how these secondary sources might influence your literal and figurative interptretations of the poem "Girl".

Wednesday
Girl cont'd

Thursday
Lab 148 finish Mihi

Friday
Reading Friday

Welcome and Bon Voyage

Welcome to Another Great Year!
Welcome from Superintendent Green

Today we will cover class organization

• An overview of topics and assignments
• Syllabus and classroom policies like grading etc.
• American Literature
• Black American Voices
  

• Connection to the gradebook called "classroom for success".
• Connection to classroom calendar
• Classroom activity -- World traveler
• Family letter -- home work 1
• Journal Template
• Tomorrow
  
• -- go to Mac Lab room 340 -- do syllabus quiz, bring parent letter signed with contact info.
• Create Maori Mihi -- Welcome presentation
  

Surveys for 9/2/09
These surveys are not a quiz like the syllabus quiz, but an inventory for you to share how you feel and what you know. This is not graded.
American Lit Hour 1
American Lit Hour 2
American Lit Hour 3
Black American Voices Hour 4
American Lit Hour 6