Culver's English 11, Honors English 9, and Creative Writing

The table of contents is a few entries back. It hasn’t changed.

Test on poetry tomorrow.  Study poems and what they meant, study vocabulary at the front of each poem, study in particular page one of your folder, page two and page six of your folder…

Pronoun test will be at a later date. This will focus solely on poetry/poetry terms/vocab.

Parents, I gave the classes time today to make up a lot of work if they haven’t done it. Please ask them about it.  I gave them an early progress report and this helped them figure out what they were missing.

In class, I gave you a sample of a book letter.  Book Letter Example  (Here it is.) Please write to me and tell me about the book you are reading for fun. You can email it, hand write it, or type it.

10 pts. Due Tuesday when we come back.

A look ahead:

Wed test and notebook check has been moved to Friday, Jan. 25.

As of today, you should have the following on your table of contents:

1. Genre Focus: Poetry Notes

2. Analysis of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

3. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” questions and answers, pg 521 1-6

4.  Two Poems Handout/E.E. Cummings

5. Grammar book: Pronoun Case, pg 634 Exercise 2, 3, 4, 5

Answers only.

6.  Vocabulary for “Spider, “IWLaaC”, and “Peace of Wild Things”

7.  Frayer Model of word from vocabulary

8. Grammar book, Pronoun Case/Who Whom, pgs 637-639  Ex. 6, 7,8 answers only

1.  What was your reaction to the speaker’s description of the snake?

2. A. What does the speaker do with the snake?  B. What does this tell you about the speaker?

3. A. What image begins and ends the poem?  B. What does the repetition of this image suggest?

4. A. What is the “brighter fire, which the bones/have always preferred”?  B. Why is the fire brighter?

5. A. Identify words and phrases that describe circles.  B. Why does the author repeat the image of a circle?

6.  How does the idea of a “light at the center of every cell” tie in with the speaker’s thoughts?

7.  The speaker in a poem is the voice that communicates with the reader.  Why do you suppose Oliver wrote so little about the  speaker and so much about the snake?

Today we did the Daily Reading Practice for Week 17, Tuesday and Wednesday since many did not do Tuesday’s DRP when I was out sick.

We reviewed the Walt Whitman poem’s questions on page 535 1-7. “A Noiseless Patient Spider” and turned them in.

We did a Frayer Model of one of the vocabulary words from page six of your folder (you choose which of those words to use). 

We spent the rest of the period doing answers only from grammar book:  Pronouns Using THAN and AS, page 637 Ex. 6  and WHO/WHOM, pages 638-639, Exercise 7 and Exercise 8.  (This will be page eight in your folder.)

Homework:

Read this poem and answer the questions that are in the post above. These questions are also in your literature book.

Finish the questions on page 535 1-7 for Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider”

We recently took a trip to the school library to pick out books that they might like to read for fun.  For some, this seemed like torture, but for most of my students, I think it was a good experience.  They are to bring their chosen book with them to class every day to read when they are done with their work.

Here are some pics from the library.