--Pick up both your midterm examination and your "Data/Feedback Analysis and Self-Reflection" document from the front table. Spend the first chunk of class reading through and responding to Mr. Martin's questions/comments and finishing up completing the document.
--The following individuals need to re-quiz for another grammar rule ASAP:
- Mike (WUBAIS)
- Antwon Jenkins (WUBAIS)
--agenda/HW
Data/Feedback Analysis and Self-Reflection
--quiet/independent work time
--Mr. Martin continues meeting with students to go over documents one-on-one
Transition
--resubmit both your "Data/Feedback Analysis and Self-Reflection" and midterm examination at the front table
--take out both your index card from last class (or pick up a new card from the front table if necessary) and your copy of "Siren Song"
--take out both your index card from last class (or pick up a new card from the front table if necessary) and your copy of "Siren Song"
Mini-Lesson -- "Siren Song"
--read "Siren Song" aloud one more time to get the gist
--project text on front board--share initial thoughts/understandings from gist reading and begin marking up the poem
--Purpose, Rationale, Goals, etc. Moving Forward:
- pull maximum meaning out of the poem (bearing in mind, though, that there is no "key" that unlocks a poem)
- modeling/teaching poetry explication:
- When dealing with poetry, what should a reader have in his or her mind/be on the lookout for?
- continue recognizing the presence and importance of authorial purpose--when explicating, considering authorial purpose is key:
- as a reader, the more you practice gleaning authorial purpose, discussing authorial purpose, and noting common patterns/effects, the easier determining authorial purpose becomes!:
- during our grapple with "Siren Song," constantly address the why question (Why is that phrase repeated? Why that word as opposed to another with a similar meaning? Why are the stanzas short?)
- review tips for determining emergent themes/how to turn a theme word into a theme statement:
- What themes emerge from "Siren Song"?
- How do these themes emerge?
- What are some viable theme statements for "Siren Song"?
- consider the following question: If most of the techniques used by authors are indeed purposeful, how do these techniques help develop theme?
- review/learn the literature term "allusion":
- How is "Siren Song" an allusion to Homer's Odyssey?
- As a reader recognizing an allusion, what effect does the technique have on you?
- take learnings and understandings from today's mini-lesson and apply them to additional pieces of poetry and the final section of Odyssey, as we are constantly trying to get better at annotating
--independent explication
--work through bulleted list of notes above together using independent explications--add to annotations and take notes on back of "Siren Song" poem page
T-O-D -- "Today, I learned..."
--On your index card, write your name and specifically finish the sentence starter above.
--When class ends, leave your index card on your desk.
Transition/HW Time
--Pick up a copy of "Penelope" from the front table and get started on the homework assignment.
HW
--Explicate "Penelope" to the best of your ability based on your learnings and understandings from today's mini-lesson prior to the beginning of next class. Make sure to focus in on authorial purpose and theme. Be prepared for an assessment and/or a discussion about the poem next class.
