Quiz day! Don’t worry – you’ll be fine. There are four things involved in this grade:
This forces you to really understand the concepts of Marxist Criticism and existentialism (rather than just rote memorization or copy/pasting answers).If you manage to make it to Summit 6, take a screen shot and send it to me for 25 Live School Points!
I am so happy to back at school. No, really. I love having a routine!
We previously talked about existentialism when we read Rhinosceros in 1301, but we are going to look at it a bit more with The Metamorphosis.
We are creating a collaborative group document where each person will answer one question so that we can use this document on the quiz tomorrow.
When you are done, you may finish yesterday’s activity if you still need to do that.
I am not here today, but I have left legitimate work for you to do. I want you watch this lecture over Marxist Criticism and revise/edit the transcript into fully accessible sentences and paragraphs (you can find this file in Schoology). You can either listen to the lecture or just simply read the lecture to find the the pauses and breaks.
Why are we doing this? Because just taking notes or answering questions is passive. I want you to actively manipulate the text and words because it forces you to read in a different way.
Everyone loves BINGO, right? Hooray! Get yourself a bingo card here: https://mfbc.us/m/za4sh6h. Using LSC library, create BINGO with a Works Cited page – with MLA formatting.
You don’t need to turn the bingo card in – all I will be seeing is a properly formatted Works Cited page with five entries.
LSC payment is due on Saturday the 6th! Remember, this is a college class. You paid for your first semester clas (1301), but now you need to pay for 1302. Make sure you log in my.lonestar.edu to make your payment.
The assignment today is Wheel, Poem, Dice in Schoology. Using the poems that we read yesterday as a model, we are going to write a poem to celebrate the new year! However, I am going to give you a few parameters. Thw two poems yesterday were centered around rain and fire. You will center your poem about a random nature element that you can get here. Write your nature element in the gray field.
See the red, white, and blue section? That’s where you are going to roll my dice and encorporate those words into your poem.
Happy New Year, Panthers! 🐾
Welcome to 1302, Comp and Rhetoric II.
Today, the BDTH involved creating a New Year’s Intention.
We talked a little about New Year’s tradition (grapes, cabbage, black eyed peas, jumping, fireworks, and money in cakes are some of the interesting things that I can remember at the end of the day).
We used those traditions to talk about the catharsis of purging, cleaning, and getting ready for the new year by reading two poems: “Rain, New Year’s Eve” by Maggie Smith and “Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shahib Nye.
Then, for each of the two poems, we did four squares over them on a sheet of paper.
And lastly, we listed out what we want to TAKE into the new year and what we want to LEAVE. I collected all of the leave it baggage and plan on burning them this weekend in my firepit.
I am not going to be here on Monday because I have a podiatrist appointment, so I’ll be leaving some kind of Gimkit as an assignment for you background on Kafka’s Metamorphosis.
It’s Grinch Day at Klein Oak. To be fair, it’s always Grinch Day in room 198! 😉
I am full of beans today, y’all! I am trying to clean up my desk area, so I kept the lights on, but I am working on our last two assignments: the One Pager (I don’t know if I am going to call it that – maybe a pirate flag?) and the Final Exam (the tattoo).
In class, we started Act 3 of Rhinosceros, Berenger’s apartment. We didn’t read the entire act: we read from page 71 to the point where Daisy shows up (87). I wanted to give y’all time to work on the Reader Responses in class, but remember, you can do this out of class, too. The pdf of the play is in Schoology, so you can work on this outside of my classroom.
Also, I am considering these “soft” due dates. I am flexible when they are turned in. If you turn it in on Tuesday, I’m fine with that. I just need to have a due date for Schoology and Skyward.
Make sure that you are battening down the hatches every day, especially since my room is all discombobulated from watching the movie.
If you miss a day, I have a link of the movie to YouTube in my Schoology page with a list of the time stamps of when we started and stopped each day. The time stamps are based on my video from Amazon, so it might be a little off from YouTube, but you should be able to figure it out.
Blue sheets for Spring Semester Dual Credit classes is due to Mrs. Shock by tomorrow. You can drop it off at her office or give it to me and I’ll deliver it to her.
When we get back from the break, we will take a deeper dive when we read the play.
Gobble, gobble!
Wow. It’s been awhile. I know. It’s really, really, really, hard for me to juggle multiple classes. I love the idea of a blog/summary to contain notes with links and pictures, so I am going to try and bring it back, especially if students run it.
I’m not sure if I am going to get this going this 9 weeks or not, but I’m just poking my head back to shake the dust off!
I received my 15-year service award from KISD today. This means I’ve been teaching for seventeen years.
17 years.
4 different schools.
6 different classrooms.
7 different grade levels.
At the end of every May, I get energized about the next August. I go through what worked, what didn’t work, and what I should do differently next year. I think because of this tendency, I struggle with recognizing my successes. I know I’m a progressive and always trying to push myself to be a better teacher, but I think I need to recognize what went well rather than just focusing on what I want to improve upon. So that’s what I’m going to do today.
