Thursday, February 28

WARM UP:
#6 obscure (adj) difficult to see, vague, mysterious
Adelina's story is somewhat obscure to the reader.

TODAY:
Free Write

Immigration Investigation check.

What's going on?
Read the following article from The New York Times and write a brief summary, and most importantly express your thoughts and opinions regarding what you have read. (1 page)

Read pgs. 57-64, and answer the following questions (J 11):
1. Dig deep. Why do you think the women in Juana's town seem to show so much cruelty towards Juana and Ama?
2. Making a prediction or a guess. What has happened to Apa? Where is he?
3. Getting to the truth. Why does Abuelita Elena show so much disdain for Ama?
4. What's your gut feeling? Why would Ama and Juana not eat the fresh tortillas that Dona Rosa gave them?
5. Something not so obvious. Why do you think Adelina has a difficult time looking at the bruises of the battered women she helps? After all she's been working with these women for many years. Shouldn't she be used to it?
6. Romance is in the air. For whom? How do you know?

HOMEWORK:
Finish What's going on?
Finish Journal 11.

Wednesday, February 27

WARM UP:
#5 lament (verb) to mourn or express sorrow
I began to lament when I heard the news about my 5th period class.

TODAY:
Read pgs. 46-56

HOMEWORK:
Immigration Investigation due tomorrow

Tuesday, February 26

WARM UP:
IXL

TODAY:
Check J 10
Read pgs. 30-45

HOMEWORK:
Finish reading through pg. 45
Immigration Investigation on Thursday

Monday, February 25

WARM UP:

#4 insipid (adj) boring or stupid
When you present, please do not be an insipid speaker who makes everyone fall asleep!

FYI: Immigration Investigation on Thursday.

TODAY:

Read pgs. 17-29
J 10 - Answer the following questions:


1. Why is that Juana was enfolded by her parents when Maria died, but not when Anita died? Is this fair? Do they have a good reason for making her feel as if she's not part of the family? Do you think they realize they have made her feel that way?

2.  Apa feels that the death of Anita is his fault. Why?

3. How did Maria die?

4. Who is Josefina? How did she die?

5. What seems to occupy Apa's every thought?

6. How old was Adelina when she arrived in LA?

7. What is the significance of the moon?

8. Who is Don Ernesto?

9. Why is Apa leaving the fam?

10. According to Apa, where is El Otro Lado? What should Juana do when she misses Apa?

HOMEWORK:
Finish J 10

Thursday, February 21

WARM UP:

#3 embellish (v) to heighten the attractiveness by adding decorative or fanciful details, enhance

Curt tried to embellish his account of what happened on the senior trip.

TODAY;

Free Write
Use two of your three vocab words in your writing. (altruistic, disdain, embellish)

Immigration Investigation

  • 15 minute meet up with your news group.
  • Discuss your investigation.
  • Choose someone to share your findings.
  • Be ready to present.
  • If you're not chosen, take in the details and be ready to question, further discuss and give your opinion. You do not have to agree.
  • Be respectful of each other's opinions.
Continue reading Across a Hundred Mountains.

HOMEWORK: No way! Enjoy your weekend!



Wednesday, February 20

WARM UP:

# 2 disdain (n)  intense dislike;  (v)  to treat with scorn or contempt

(n) Mrs. Witmer tries to hide her disdain for a certain class period.

(v) A certain class period is disdained by Mrs. Witmer.


TODAY:

Immigration Investigation

How to efficiently examine your source:
  1. Determine the message. Look for the writer's main idea.
  2. Look for supporting evidence. How does the writer support each main idea? (facts, stats, quotes, brief stories)
Continue reading.

Check J9 - Author Notes

HOMEWORK:
Immigration Investigation

Tuesday, February 19

WARM UP:

Vocab.

#1 - altruistic (adj) unselfishly concerned for the welfare of others, generous

He seemed to be driven by purely altruistic reasons when he organized the GoFundMe for starving college students.


TODAY:

Check J8

Immigration Investigation
  • You will be assigned to a "reliable" news source.
  • You will investigate what that source has to say about the current state of immigration.
  • List your source, along with the author and title of the article.
  • Give a brief summary of what was reported. (Answer the who, what and the why)
  • Also, at the end of your summary, state your thoughts and opinions about what you learned from the article.
  • Be ready to share with the rest of the class.

Image result for REYNA GRANDE
Meet our author, Reyna Grande
ACROSS A HUNDRED MOUNTAINS
  • Journal 9: Author Notes ~ Take half a page of bullet point notes on our author, Reyna Grande, while you watch this video. 


    • Begin reading!



    • HOMEWORK:


    • Immigration Investigation (I.I.) due Thursday.



Wednesday, February 13

TODAY:

Confused Words QUIZ

Finish movie

Begin reading Across a Hundred Mountains

Tuesday, February 12

FYI:
Confused Words QUIZ tomorrow
 Image result for dead poet society quotes
**Bring Across a Hundred Mountains tomorrow**

TODAY:




The continuation of Dead Poets Society

You must watch the movie and not your iPad. There is a lengthy journal for you to complete, so it behooves you to pay attention.
In order to help you out........all iPads must remain flat on the tables.
You may complete the journal on your iPad, and as always, paper works too.

We will begin our viewing of this Robin Williams classic today and finish it up on Monday.



Journal 8 - Dead Poet Society
Begin by jotting down a couple of notes to keep the characters straight. The main ones are...
Neil Perry
Todd Anderson
Charlie Dalton
Gerald Pitts
Richard Cameron
John Keating
Knox Overstreet
Steven Meeks
Dean Nolan




Answer the following questions in complete sentences:

1. What are the four pillars of Welton Academy?
2. Which pillars do the administration lean on and why?
3. Notice the short scene with the flock of birds. What might this symbolize?
4. What do the Latin words carpe diem mean?
5. What is the point of Mr. Keating's first class with the boys?
6. According to Mr. Keating, why read poetry? Why does he have them rip pages out of their books?
7. "You may contribute a verse." What does this mean?
8. What was the Dead Poets Society and what did they do?
9. What is the symbolism in the scene where the boys go to the cave?

10. Is Charlie too daring?  Why or why not?
11. Is Mr. Keating a bad influence?  Why or why not?
12. Would Neil still do what he did if Mr. Keating never came into his life? Why or why not?
13. Why didn’t Todd act the same way as Neil in the end?
14. Who was really the bravest of Keating's boys? Why?
15. In the initial screenplay, Todd specifically does not sign the paper at the end. In the movie, we are not told one way or the other. Did Todd sign it or not?  Why do you think this way?
16. Dead Poets Society: The Next Day... What happens next? What does the future hold for Keating and the boys?



Tuesday, February 5

WARM UP:
Its vs It's

TODAY:

Poetry  - The Sonnet Review

Terms to consider for ICE on Thursday:
  • iambic pentameter
  • volta 
  • rhyme scheme
  • sonnet
  • stanza
  • couplet
  • sestet
  • tercet 
  • refrain
  • quatrain
  • sonnet
  • villanelle

Review Practice

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud

BY JOHN DONNE
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

  • EQ: What is the difference between an Italian vs. a British sonnet? 
    We'll start with the Italian, sometimes called Petrarch sonnet...


Here are a couple of examples.... Notice the Iambic Pentameter.

Italian Sonnet:
























 British Sonnet

 Quatrain 1
     My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;  A
     Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;   B
     If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;   A
     If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.  B


Quatrain 2
     I have seen roses damasked, red and white,  C
     But no such roses see I in her cheeks;  D
     And in some perfumes is there more delight  C
     Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.  D



Quatrain 3
     I love to hear her speak, yet well I know  E
     That music hath a far more pleasing sound;  F
     I grant I never saw a goddess go;  E
     My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.  F



Couplet
     And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare  G
     As any she belied with false compare.  G




Journal 7 - Sonnet Analysis - 
*You will analyze a sonnet below. Choose a sonnet from the links below and write a 1/2 page analysis that includes:
1) Is this sonnet an Italian or British style sonnet?
2) What poetic devices are present (name at least five) and how do they affect the speed and rhythm of the poem?
3) Where is the volta (turn) and what is the conceptual relationship shown by the structure?


Choose (1) of the following to analyze for Journal 7:

Week of Feb.5-8 ~ Change of plans...

Dearest Students,

It looks like I'll be in Oklahoma for the week. Pray for my family if you think of me. Please show a sweet atmosphere of honor and kindness to any substitute you have. Represent us well!

Since I am not there to teach you the Villanelle form, we will have to "eat the desert first" in this case. We will resume the Villanelle business next week. For now, please help our sub to find a special movie on this poetic topic. It is called Dead Poets Society. Second period, you will have to help find it in the book case there in the back of the room. This one is a classic and beloved by all.

Over the next few days, make sure you begin with "If" for ten minutes or so and then view the movie.

We will test on the whole "If" poem on Wednesday of next week. Perhaps some of you can get creative in making up signs for the last stanza? Maybe some of you would like to take turns leading it in the front?

As you view the movie over the next three days, work through the questions below to make sure you catch everything. Journal 16 will be worth 20 points and is due on Monday, Feb. 11.

Journal 16
Begin by jotting down a couple of notes to keep the characters straight. The main ones are...
Neil Perry
Todd Anderson
Charlie Dalton
Gerald Pitts
Richard Cameron
John Keating
Knox Overstreet
Steven Meeks
Dean Nolan

1. What are the four pillars of Welton Academy?
2. Which pillars do the administration lean on and why?
3. Notice the short scene with the flock of birds. What might this symbolize?
4. What do the Latin words carpe diem mean?
5. What is the point of Mr. Keating's first class with the boys?
6. According to Mr. Keating, why read poetry? Why does he have them rip pages out of their books?
7. "You may contribute a verse." What does this mean?
8. What was the Dead Poets Society and what did they do?
9. What is the symbolism in the scene where the boys go to the cave?
10. Is Charlie too daring?  Why or why not?
11. Is Mr. Keating a bad influence?  Why or why not?
12. Would Neil still do what he did if Mr. Keating never came into his life? Why or why not?
13. Why didn’t Todd act the same way as Neil in the end?
14. Who was really the bravest of Keating's boys? Why?
15. In the initial screenplay, Todd specifically does not sign the paper at the end. In the movie, we are not told one way or the other. Did Todd sign it or not?  Why do you think this way?
16. Dead Poets Society: The Next Day... What happens next? What does the future hold for Keating and the boys?







Monday, February 4

TODAY:

Spoken Word

Here's an example ~
"G.O.S.P.E.L." by Propaganda (CLICK HERE)
1 It's the full story of life crushed into four minutes
2 the entirety of humanity in the palm of your hand,
3 crushed into one sentence listen it's intense right
4 God. Our. Sins. Paying. Everyone. Life.
5 The Greatest Story that’s hardly ever told: GOD. Yes. GOD.
6 The Maker and Giver of Life and by Life I mean any and all manner of substance.
7 Seen and Unseen. What Can and Can’t Be Touched
8 Thoughts, Image, Emotions, Love, Atoms and Oceans
9 GOD.
10 All of it His handiwork, one of which His Masterpiece,
11 made so uniquely that Angels look curiously.
12The one thing in Creation that was made in His imagery,
13 a concept so old, it’s the reason I stay bold
14 GOD breathed into man and he became a living soul,
15 Formed with the intent of being an infinitely, intimately fond
16 Creator and Creation held in eternal bond,
17 And it was placed in perfect paradise till something went wrong.
18 The species got deceived and started lusting for his job,
19 an odd list of complaints.Something ain’t working,
20 and used that same breath He graciously gave us to curse Him.
21 And that sin seed spread through our soul’s genome,
22 And by the nature of our nature, your species, you participated in the mutiny.
23 Our – yes, our sins separate us from GOD.
24 It’s nature inherited. Blacken the human heart.
25 It’s over before it started.
26 Deceived from Day One and led away by our own lust.
27 There’s not a religion in the world that doesn’t agree that something’s wrong with us.
28 The question is, what is it and how do we fix it?
29 Are we eternally separated from a GOD that may or may not have existed?
30 But that’s another subject.
31 Let’s keep grinding.
32 Besides, trying to prove GOD exists is like defending a lion hommie
33 He don’t need the help. Just unlock the cage.
34 Let’s move on, on how our debt can be paid.
35 Short and sweet: The problem is sin, yes sin.
39 It’s a cancer, an asthma, choking out our life force,
40 forcing separation from a perfect and Holy GOD.
41 The only way to get back is to get back to perfection but, silly us…
42 Trying to pass the course of life without referring to a syllabus…this is us.
43 Heap up your good deeds – chant, pray, meditate.
44 All of that, of course, is spraying cologne on a corpse.
45 Or you could choose to ignore it, as if something don’t stink.
46 It’s like stepping in dog poop and refusing to wipe your shoe,
47 But all of that ends with how good is good enough?
48 Take your silly list of good deeds and line them up with perfection – good luck!
49 That’s life past your pay grade.
50 The cost of your soul? You don’t got a big enough piggy bank,
51 but you can give it a shot.
52 But I suggest you throw away the list
53 because even your good acts are an extension of your selfishness,
54 But here’s where it gets interesting,
55 I hope your closely listening,
56 and don’t get it twisted. It’s what makes our faith unique.
57 Here’s what GOD says in Part A of the Gospel,
58 You can’t fix yourself. Quit trying. It’s impossible.
59 Sin brings death. Give GOD His breath back. You owe him.
60 Eternally separated and the only way to fix it is for someone to die in your place.
61 Someone got to be perfect, or the payment ain’t permanent,
62 So if and when you find a perfect person,
63 get him or her to willingly trade their perfection for your sin and indebtment.
64 Clearly, since the only one that can meet GOD’s criteria, is GOD.
65 GOD sent Himself as Jesus to pay the cost for us.
66 His righteousness, His debt functions as payment.Yes, payment.
67 He wrote a check with His Life but, at the Resurrection we all cheer,
68 because that means the check cleared
69 Pierced feet, pierced hands – blood-stained Son of Man,
70 Fullness, forgiveness, free passage into The Promised Land.
71 That same breath that GOD brings into us, GOD gave up to redeem us.
72 Anyone and everyone, and by everyone, I mean everyone
73 who puts faith and trust in Him and Him alone
74 can have full confidence of GOD’s forgiveness.
75 And here’s what the promise is:
76 That you are guaranteed full access to return to perfect unity
77 by simply believing in Christ and Christ alone.
78 You are receiving Life. Yes. Life.
79 This is the gospel...
80 God. Our. Sins. Paying. Everyone. Life.


Free Write
Try your hand at creating your own spoken word

FYI:

Fourth and final memorization QUIZ on Block.
Journal check any day now.