Moon’s Day, March 24: Ketchup Day III
EQ: How can you profitably use your time today?
- Welcome! Gather pen/pencil, paper, wits!
- You Work Your Work …
- If Project Proposal has not yet been done – DO IT
- If have Expansion assignment and have not done it – DO IT
- If have done Expansion, or don’t have one assigned – GATHER QUOTATIONS
- …I’ll work mine – by end of period you’ll know grade
ELABLRL3: Student relates literature to historical and modern contexts
ELABLRL4: Student writes in various genres: essays, narratives, poems
ELABLRL5: Student acquires new vocabulary; uses correctly reading/writing
ELABLRC1: Student reads 25 books/one million words per year, all subject`s
ELABLRC4: Student establishes context for information acquired by reading
ELA12W1: Student produces writing that establishes organizational structure,
sets context, engages reader, keeps focus, gives closure
ELA12W2: Student showscompetence in many writing genres
ELA12W3: Student uses research and technology to support writing
ELA12W4: Student usestimed and process writing to develop, revise, evaluate
ELA12C1: Student demonstrates control of rules of English writing, speaking
ELA12C2: Student demonstrates understanding of manuscript formats
Today I am catching up my grades. By end of periodyou will know what your grade is as of this instant; until then, work on these:
- If haven’t done Project Proposal, DO IT TODAY.
- If you submitted Project Proposal on time, I gave you a “next step” Expansion assignment. If you have not done that, DO IT TODAY.
- If you HAVE DONE or DO NOT YET HAVEExpansion, GATHER QUOTATIONS for Project:
- Unit One: Beowulfor Canterbury Tales
- Unit Two: Shakespeare – Hamlet or Sonnets
- Unit Three: Milton or Swift
- Unit Four: (don’t need yet)
- Book you are reading if Reading Project
BritLitComp: Project Proposal
Freewritten Ten Point Major Grade due Friday, February 28
1. Personal Reading Project
- What specific book(s) by what author(s) do you intend to explore?
- Do you already have the book(s)? If not,get it NOW – this is your responsibility.
- 50 words: What interests you about the book(s) – especially, personal connection? How did you hear about this author and these books –friends, family, TV, a teacher, or what? Why did you want to read this stuff? Be as specific as you can.
- 50 words: Discuss a connection this book has to something read in Unit One.
- 50 words: Discuss a connection this book has to something we read from Shakespeare.
- 50 words: Discuss a connection this book has to something read in Unit Three.
- 50 words: Discuss a connection to this book that you find in something you’ve already written for this class – essay, freewrite, poem, presentation, journal entry, etc.
2. Class Reading Project
a.50 words: What specific topic– theme, idea, type of character or situation – will you explore, and why is it important in life as well as in literature?
b.50 words: Discuss a connection this book has to something read in Unit One.
c.50 words: Discuss a connection this book has to something we read from Shakespeare.
d.50 words: Discuss a connection this book has to something read in Unit Three.
e.50 words: Discuss a connection to this book that you find in something you’ve already written for this class – essay, freewrite, poem, presentation, journal entry, etc.
3. MeSearch Project
a.50 words: What specific topic, activity or interest from your own life do you intend to explore? What about this topic “reveals” you, fulfills you, defines you? We can’t really go any farther until you nail this.
b.50 words: Discuss a connection this book has to something read in Unit One.
c.50 words: Discuss a connection this book has to something we read from Shakespeare.
d.50 words: Discuss a connection this book has to something read in Unit Three.
e.50 words: Discuss a connection to this book that you find in something you’ve already written for this class – essay, freewrite, poem, presentation, journal entry, etc.
BritLitComp Makeup Work, March 2014
To earn 50% credit, Freewrite onone or more of the following topics. Each topic can be used to create several different freewrites.
100 intelligent words earns 50% credit for a Freewrite;
150 intelligent words earns 50% credit for a CLOZE;
250 intelligent words earns 50% credit for a Reading Guide;
600 intelligent words earns 50% credit for a Notebook;
800 intelligent words earns 50% credit for a Reading Journal.
Earn credit in any combination. For instance, getting 50% credit on an Reading Journal requires 800 words; do an800 word freewrite; or a 500and a 300; or eight 100s – any800 words.
- Write about a situation, fictional or real, in which someone faces a problem like Gulliver’s: how to find a place in a world of constantly shifting perspectives.
- Write a satirical story which makes fun of a real-life situation or behavior while seeking to “laugh us out of our follies and vices.”
- Write about a situation like that faced by Milton in Aeropagitica: a government wants to stop you from exploring the truth.
- Write about a character who, like Milton’s Satan, has no integrity – i.e., his thoughts do not connect to truth, his words do not connect to his thoughts, his acts connect to neither.
- Write about a low grade or zero – why you scored so low, why you did not make up the assignment, what you can do to avoid this in the future.
- Write about a situation, fictional or real, in which someone faces a problem like Beowulf’s: how to balance power and love (the lofdædumparadigm).
- Write about a situation, fictional or real, in which a great hero with good intentions actually cripples those he wants to help (the way Beowulf leaves the Geats helpless).
- Write about a situation, fictional or real, in which a character or real person who, like Shakespeare, is an innovator rather than an inventor.
- Write about a character, fictional or real, who like Hamlet struggles to deal with being unhappy when everyone else seems happy.
- Write about a character, fictional or real, who like Hamlet struggles with “to be or not to be,” or any other paradoxical dilemma.
- Write about a situation, fictional or real, which illustrates the differenceHamlet articulates between seems and is.
- Write about a character, fictional or real, who like Hamlet struggles to deal with parents.