Category Archives: Reading What We Want to Read

Creative Writing Lesson Plans this week

Posted on November 9, 2015 by jculver

Monday, November 9, 2015 1. Journal #41: Write about a time you felt jealous. 2. Turn in your everyday object poem from Friday. 3. John Green’s short (11 minutes) video on Plath 4. Sylvia Plath video (to go with the dreary … Continue reading →

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MLA, Poetry, and Elephants…

Posted on April 20, 2011 by jculver

Here is the link to the MLA, Owl at Perdue site. 🙂 Be working on that portfolio project!  If you are in my sixth period, this is the powerpoint that wouldn’t work on my laptop today! Please view it tonight … Continue reading →

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“Sweaty Toothed Madman”

Posted on March 23, 2011 by jculver

Today we read our second poem of the poetry unit, “A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman.  Before we started, I showed the clip from Dead Poets’ Society, when a young Ethan Hawke was pushed into coming up with an … Continue reading →

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Wednesday, March 2

Posted on March 2, 2011 by jculver

Today we had another grad. exam practice test—-social studies.  After practice tests, we met for fourth period, first period, second period, and third period.  We went over Making Meanings and they got their Great Expectations Essay Topics if they didn’t get it … Continue reading →

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More HUNGER GAMES talk…

Posted on February 8, 2011 by jculver

Found this today, thought some of you might be interested.

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Hunger Games movie

Posted on February 4, 2011 by jculver

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2szX6ClpNrA[/youtube] I’m reading this right now (yes, I finally picked it back up). Loving it.

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Wednesday

Posted on November 17, 2010 by jculver

Vocab test taken…grades were either extremely high or extremely low. Few “in between” grades. Definitely shows me who studied! 🙂  Put vocab books up until January. The rest of November and the short time we have in December before Christmas … Continue reading →

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Monday, November 1

Posted on November 1, 2010 by jculver

Couple of things: 1. No homework—just work on that TKAM project that I moved to next Monday, Nov. 8th.  No projects will be taken late since you’ve had so much extra time. 2. Here is the link to the obituary … Continue reading →

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