Happy Halloween!
We started out today with the most appropriate picture: Death and the Devil Surprising Two Maidens.
We talked a lot about the picture while we did the KWL chart that can be found in BB (Carpe Diem: Seize the Day).
Print to OneNote and fill in what you KNOW about the picture in the first column and fill in the second column: what you WANT TO LEARN (questions). We filled in the LEARNED column in class after a discussion, but if you missed, you won’t be able to fill in the LEARNED column. Publish this as a PDF or a single web page and drop it off in the drop box.
After that, we printed the lyrics to Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get in On”, listened to the song, and highlighted persuasive language in BLUE and highlighted references to TIME in yellow. Answer the three questions and drop off your highlighted lyrics (if you were absent so I can give you credit for highlighting).
We talked about the speaker and his audience (a girl) and analyzed that relationship. We highlighted evidence of carpe diem (time) in the poem, highlighted IRONY in the song, and highlighted references to LOVE in the song. We also specifically talked about how the song was contradictory and how it related to TIME (“stop beating ’round the bush”, and “this minute”).
Students then sat there puzzled as to why we listened to that song, so we read “To His Coy Mistress” to explain. It’s the original “Let’s Get It On”, just much creepier.
Lastly, we did the Syllogism Pyramid foldable. You can find the template in LMS.
For each triangle, create a text box and write the following:
- If… (1st stanza – lines 1-20) + image
- But… (2nd stanza – lines 21-32) + image
- So… (3rd stanza – lines 33-46) + image
You will need to ROTATE the text box. Grab the little green ball and turn it. Make sure that the text box faces the hypotenuse. Don’t worry about the text that is already on the pyramid – that will be hidden when you fold it up.
