Monday AND Tuesday

If you haven’t completed your homework, shame on you. Here is my sample poem.  I will be presenting at LaCUE so you do have additional time to get it done.  Also, don’t forget that we have Student Led Conferences Tuesday night, hope to see you there.

ENGLISH I

Complete your Shakespeare / Romeo and Juliet packet: these questions regarding Shakespeare and the questions about Act I. Use these pages from the graphic novel to help you.

• Creating Shakespeare Insults and compliments (Love and Hate)
• We will be Tweeting out these insults using FakeTwitter .  You will be either a Montague or a Capulet. Use your insults and have a conversation between two or more characters. Here is a screencast video to show how to complete assignment,  Sample 1 and here are some more samples
• Scholars should be studying the Characters from play and the Key Facts about play .  Here is the plot diagram for the play.  Click here for a variety of Power Points

COMPOSITION

You will need to read and respond to 2 different reading passages.  You will be posting responses to your blog when I get back.

 

Thanksgiving Homework

I hope that you have had a chance to work on your assignments and have had a chance to:

1. Record a day in pictures by taking at least 10 pictures docmunenting 1 day of your life.  You should take notes on what is going on like I did here on my Tumblr.
2. Compose poetry for the Poetry Slam. You can string together the collection of 5 original poems that you have already written to create this poem.

 

Student Showcase Night

Don’t forget about Tuesday Night’s Student Led Conferences.

You have an opportunity to say “Look Ma, I did this….”  

Here is a copy of the work introduction that I prepared for you

Thank you for coming to the student led conferences with me.  I am going to tell you about my English class. Ms. Burton is my teacher.

So far this semester we have studied: Short stories, Nonfiction, Poetry and Drama.  I have:

• created an ePortfolio that houses my work
• worked on wikipages displaying responses to literature read in class
• created blog posts about literature read in class
• created blog posts about 10 self discovery questions about myself and my beliefs

Here is some of the work that I have done in this class:

Short Stories – We completed a digital story about the story of our choice. Here is mine (show parent your PhotoPeach video)

Nonfiction – We have completed blog posts about some of the articles/books we have read and pictures that we have analyzed.  (Show parent the posts written in response to gun control article, editorial pictures analyzed or work done for The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Project. )

Poetry – I have written several poems and analyzed a poem that we read in class. (Show parent your poems)

Drama – As part of our study of Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet, I have researched about Shakespearean times and written insults and compliments in Shakespearean language. (Show parents blog posts and handouts from these activities.)

I did a really good job on ________________________________________________.

I really liked ____________________________________________________________.

Do you have any questions for me? (Listen to your parent/guardian and answer any questions.)

Thank your parents for coming out to talk about your work in the English Class. 

 

 

 

Working on my presentation

Creating a post is really EZ

You can add pictures, change fount color, add hyperlinks and then spellcheck.

You can post immediately or schedule for a later time.

 

Friday

English I

1. I hope that you all have completed the survey

Survey results

2, You should be working on Shakespeare PreRead assignment

3. We will begin movie today (hopefully)

Coimposition

You have had a chance to answer 10 self discovery questions.  You will need to post responses for yesterday’s article to a new ePortfolio page World Discovery questions.