English 10 Honors--3/1/2019

Jump Off
--Please pick up a copy of the "Feedback Analysis: 'The Masque...'--Regents Part 3" sheet from the front table.

S. the C.
--agenda/HW

Writing Workshop -- "The Masque..."--Regents Part 3
--read the "Feedback Analysis: 'The Masque...'--Regents Part 3" sheet directions together

--writing pieces returned
--re-read writing piece/process feedback quietly and independently 
--share out/continue processing feedback in groups
--Closure 

• whole-group share-out (“I wrote…in the _____ category…” or “What exactly do you mean by…?”--items added under the appropriate categories on the front board and MODELING where appropriate--CONSIDER JOTTING DOWN ANY HELPFUL NOTES ON YOUR “FEEDBACK ANALYSIS” SHEET OR ON YOUR WRITING PIECE ITSELF

Transition

--Please take out your notebook and open back up to the section in which you are taking notes about The Lego Movie.

Application Activity/Writing Workshop -- Applying the Conventions of Literature to Animated Film
--Reminder: Following a purposeful viewing of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's The Lego Movie, you will write a two paragraph response in which you...

• show that one of the conventions of literature is being implemented within the film
• explain how the director used the convention to develop an emergent theme of the story.

--Continue purposefully viewing the film by jotting down notes:

• Which conventions of literature are being used?  How so?
• What meaningful and complex theme statements "work" for the film?
• How do the conventions used "feed in" to the theme statement(s)?
• Anything that might be useful when crafting your final argument of the course

Closure -- "I have noticed _____ because..."

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 3/7 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).

HW (Class Preparation)

--Be thinking about your upcoming literary analysis writing piece.

• About which convention of literature will you write?
• What is a strong theme statement for the film?
• What pieces of evidence from the film do you intend to use?

--Continue reviewing the conventions of literature, bearing in mind that you are expected to apply your knowledge and understanding (to Lord of the Flies, to your free reading books, to anything, really!) moving forward.
--Sometime within the next few weeks, you will be taking an examination that mirrors the New York State Regents Examination in English Language Arts (Common Core).  Please come prepared!
--Read at least 5-10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  Your book must be finished in just over a week.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!

• "A book is made from a tree.  It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called 'leaves') imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.  One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years.  Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you.  Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.  Books break the shackles of time--proof that humans can work magic" (Carl Sagan).

Miscellaneous

--Work toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal?!

--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)

On the Backburner

• "Poetry Assessment #1" back
• complete "cheat sheet" while going over
• literary conventions writing piece with The Lego Movie
• preparing to read LotF
• memoir of choice (could be An Ordinary Man!) as last free reading