Tuesday/Wednesday

1. Hand in papers
2. Read Fall of the House of Usher on page 208 of the red anthology
Here's an online text with hypertext definitions, if you'd like 
Fall of the House of Usher
3. Answer questions 8, 9, 10, 12 at the end
4. Share your poems, if you have not already shared

Enter your poem in this Google Doc
Poetry Anthology, 1st Period
Poetry Anthology, 7th Period

Thur/Friday

HOMEWORK: 2-3 page typed, double-spaced commentary on one of the three Huckleberry Finn passages assigned. When you read the "How to do Commentary" handout, I think that you will realize that it is exactly what we do in class when we discuss poems and passages. Be sure to elaborate extensively, explaining how the words of the passage lead you to your interpretation.
Due Tue/Wed
If you would like to work on it in class rather than brainstorming your video, feel free.

1.Share poems
Enter your poem in this Google Doc
Poetry Anthology, 1st Period
Poetry Anthology, 7th Period
2. Grammar exercise--#'s 1-5
3. 0 Brainstorm video. Plan sequence of shots
Final Exam
1. Thursday Jan 21/Friday Jan 22 Vocabulary--30 words, matching
2. Thursday Jan 21/Friday Jan 22  Huckleberry Finn multiple choice exam
3. Final Exam period: Movie project demonstrating understanding of a theme in Huckleberry Finn
Sign up for scene. Only one group per scene! You cannot claim a scene until you've brainstormed for at least 5 min. If two (or more!) groups want to do the same scene, you will present your ideas to me--tryouts--and I will decide who gets to do that scene.
Movies will be shown during the final exam period
Movie Project Directions and Grading Rubric
Vocabulary cartoons
Comma-splice
"If you could have a period you can't just have a comma."
Comma quiz
Movie requirements
Movie brainstorming
Storyboards
Movie Scene Sign-ups
1st Period:
Huck Runs Away-- sophia s. colin v. anna d. jade v.
I wouldn't forget i was a girl-- Serenity, Brooklyn, Kylee, Olivia
Boggs gets shot: Othman A.,  Sergio Thompson, Cody Hayward, Eric Ponce
Huck and Jim on the way to Kyro- Shae S. Scott L. Emma H. Srikar S.
7th Period:
McKenna
Saul, Leslie
Giovanna
Boggs: Austin Stacy, Isacc Sheets, Oliver Goodness, Ishaan Sethi, Cole Kesey, Ryan Bohl
I fool pap and get away: Taylor, Hannah, McKenna, Sophie M.
Huck Dresses up as a Girl: Cassie, Sorcha, Sophie B. Sami, Addi, Giovana
Thieving and Honor: Minhkim Bui, Jaqui Franco, Joanna Tan, Maddy Lawrence, Catherine Hu

Martes/mardi 12/1/16

Share poems
Enter your poem in this Google Doc
Poetry Anthology, 1st Period
Poetry Anthology, 7th Period
Final Exam
1. Thursday Jan 21/Friday Jan 22 Vocabulary--30 words, matching
2. Thursday Jan 21/Friday Jan 22  Huckleberry Finn multiple choice exam
3. Final Exam period: Movie project demonstrating understanding of a theme in Huckleberry Finn
Sign up for scene. Only one group per scene! You cannot claim a scene until you've brainstormed for at least 5 min. If two (or more!) groups want to do the same scene, you will present your ideas to me--tryouts--and I will decide who gets to do that scene.
Movies will be shown during the final exam period
Movie Project Directions and Grading Rubric

Vocabulary cartoons
Comma-splice
"If you could have a period you can't just have a comma."
Comma quiz
Movie requirements
Movie brainstorming
Storyboards
Movie Scene Sign-ups
1st Period:
Huck Runs Away-- sophia s. colin v. anna d. jade v.
I wouldn't forget i was a girl-- Serenity, Brooklyn, Kylee, Olivia
Boggs gets shot: Othman A.,  Sergio Thompson, Cody Hayward, Eric Ponce
Huck and Jim on the way to Kyro- Shae S. Scott L. Emma H. Srikar S.
7th Period:
McKenna
Saul, Leslie
Giovanna
Boggs: Austin Stacy, Isacc Sheets, Oliver Goodness, Ishaan Sethi, Cole Kesey, Ryan Bohl
I fool pap and get away: Taylor, Hannah, McKenna, Sophie M.
Huck Dresses up as a Girl: Cassie, Sorcha, Sophie B. Sami, Addi, Giovana
Thieving and Honor: Minhkim Bui, Jaqui Franco, Joanna Tan, Maddy Lawrence, Catherine Hu

Monday, January 11

Final Exam
1. Thursday Jan 21/Friday Jan 22 Vocabulary--30 words, matching
2. Thursday Jan 21/Friday Jan 22  Huckleberry Finn multiple choice exam
3. Final Exam period: Movie project demonstrating understanding of a theme in Huckleberry Finn
Sign up for scene. Only one group per scene! Nobody can claim a scene until after school today.
Movies will be shown during the final exam period
Movie Project Directions and Grading Rubric

Poetry Day!

How does Twain feel about Sherburn, the man who kills Boggs?
Examine specific word choice and imagery to defend your interpretation
Compare to Goya's painting Executions, May 3
As well as This Painting

Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

I ask them to take a poem   

and hold it up to the light   

like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem   

and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem’s room   

and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski   

across the surface of a poem

waving at the author’s name on the shore.

But all they want to do

is tie the poem to a chair with rope   

and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose   

to find out what it really means.

Bonne Année! Oh, wrong class

Happy New Year! Zut, ce n'est pas la classe de français

Poetry
Pablo Neruda's poem Poetry/Poesia

Dickinson
Is her work autobiographical?
Why does she use all of those dashes??
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed     Why?
Iwo Jima image

Huck Finn
Is Huck a Realist or a Romantic? Find examples
(213) The Romantic feels things that aren't true (that it's evil to "steal'" Miss Watson's "property")
(214) The Realist is a thinker and finds his own truth. He sees the evidence that Jim is good
Contemporary moral issues that all of us must think through to arrive at an informed position:
Euthanasia, abortion, LGBT, gun control legislation, pedophelia (it was considered "normal" in the 19th Century for 30 year-olds to marry 14 year-old girls)
HOMEWORK: Bring a poem of your own choosing to share with the class. You will explain what you like about the poem. I had the same assignment when I was a sophomore in Mrs. Lofgren's class in room 204! I chose The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. That's a tough poem!!
You may choose any poet you would like so long as he or she is a recognized poet (not you, not your friend).
You may even choose poets in Translation (Neruda, Rilke, Baudelaire (often popular with teens) are poets representing the three foreign languages at this school).
Poets studied in our anthology include:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert Lowell, John Whittier, Emily Dickinson, Chief Joseph, (uncle) Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters.
Poets from next semester (but it's ok to choose one of theirs now) include:
Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Crowe Ransom, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, E.E. Cumminigs, Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Theodore Roethke, Denise Levertov, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Robert Penn Warren, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich
Remember: you may choose any poet you would like.
TEST: Huck Finn Reading Comprehension Test Tuesday/Wednesday January 12/13