2/3/2015 – B

First, we talked about the word pastoral and the related words naive, country, and provincial.

pastoral

provincial

We then watched the opening scene from Beauty and the Beast and compared/contrasted it with Beauty and the Beat, by Todrick Hall. We also talked a little about caricatures and whether or not the video was racist.

B&B

We then read and annotate the Passionate Shepherd and The Nymph’s Reply.

Here is poem 1.

Passionate Shepherd

I woo’d Louis with promises of love and nature. He volunteered!

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Walter Raleigh read that poem and thought it was ridiculous. Kinda like I thought when I first heard Bruno Mars’ “Grenade.” So he wrote a response:

nymph

Then, we partnered up with a buddy to do the Persuasion Partner Pre-Writing (Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4).

Here is my example that I did:

step 2

Here are my ideas for what a mother might say to a teacher to try and convince her/him to pass her failing child:

step 3

Here are my ideas as to how the teacher might respond to the parent:

step 4

Try to get as many ideas as possible so that writing the poem tomorrow will be easy!

11/6/14

Y’all, I am SO not feeling great today, but I love that you let me teach, so I am giving it my all!

First, we talked about the word pastoral and the related words naive, country, and provincial.

pastoral

provincial

We then watched the opening scene from Beauty and the Beast and compared/contrasted it with Beauty and the Beat, by Todrick Hall.

B&B

We then read and annotate the Passionate Shepherd and The Nymph’s Reply.

Here is poem 1.

Passionate Shepherd

We had a few students who I woo’d with promises of love and nature.

PICTURES GO HERE

Walter Raleigh read that poem and thought it was ridiculous. Kinda like I thought when I first heard Bruno Mars’ “Grenade.” So he wrote a response:

nymph

Then, we partnered up with a buddy to do the Persuasion Partner Pre-Writing (Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4).

Here is my example that I did:

step 2

Here are my ideas for what a mother might say to a teacher to try and convince her/him to pass her failing child:

step 3

Here are my ideas as to how the teacher might respond to the parent:

step 4

Try to get as many ideas as possible so that writing the poem tomorrow will be easy!

4/9/14

We then watched the opening scene from Beauty and the Beast and compared/contrasted it with Beauty and the Beat, by Todrick Hall.

B&B

Then, we talked about the word pastoral and the related words naive, country, and provincial.

provincial

We then read and annotate the Passionate Shepherd and The Nymph’s Reply.

Here is poem 1.

Passionate Shepherd

We had a few students who I woo’d with promises of love and nature.

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Walter Raleigh read that poem and thought it was ridiculous. Kinda like I thought when I first heard Bruno Mars’ “Grenade.” So he wrote a response:

nymph

Then, we partnered up with a buddy to do the Persuasion Partner Pre-Writing (Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4).

Here is my example that I did:

step 2Here are my ideas for what a mother might say to a teacher to try and convince her/him to pass her failing child:

step 3Here are my ideas as to how the teacher might respond to the parent:

 

step 4Try to get as many ideas as possible so that writing the poem tomorrow will be easy!

11/8/2013

Ahoy, landlubbers!

As promised, here are the written instructions for the Obituary Diorama.

First, go to Tagxedo and click create.

diorama1Before you do anything else, click Fonts.

Diorama Step 2From Fonts, Click USE LOCAL FONTS.

Diorama Step 3It should look something like this if you have done it correctly:

Diorama Step 4Exit out by hitting the X in the top right hand corner. You are now ready to add text.

Add text by hitting LOAD and then copying and pasting your ENTIRE obituary in the “Enter Text” location.

Diorama Step 5It will look really short. As long as you copied/pasted your entire text, it will be there. It’s just spread out horizontally. Make sure when you are done that you hit SUBMIT.

Diorama Step 6COLOR: This changes colors in your palette. If you don’t want all BLUES, then you’ll need to click on THEME.

THEME: This changes the theme of your colors. If you want, you can even create your own theme.

FONT: You can respin your fonts to find fonts that you like.

ORIENTATION and LAYOUT: This changes how the words appear on your word cloud.

ALL: This randomized all of those options.

SHAPE: This is where you can change the shape.

So this is what I made mine to look like:

Riley

Save as a 16 MP.

Then, download the Diorama template in the Obituary folder. Put your picture in the top section, and then answer the three questions in the bottom section. Make sure your name is on it, and make it pretty.

I will print these in color for you. 🙂

I do not expect these to be done by today, so I’m just making them due NEXT Friday, 11/15.

We then watched the opening scene from Beauty and the Beast and compared/contrasted it with Beauty and the Beat.

B&BThen, we did the following vocabulary exercise. We printed this picture to OneNote and completed this as a class over the word Pastoral.

Pastoral CubeSave this for the final exam!

We then read and annotate the Passionate Shepherd and The Nymph’s Reply.

Here is poem 1.

Passionate Shepherd

We had a few students who I woo’d with promises of love and nature.

Pics coming soon!

Walter Raleigh read that poem and thought it was ridiculous. Kinda like I thought when I first heard Bruno Mars’ “Grenade.” So her wrote a response:

nymphWe ended the day by doing the Venn Diagram Foldable. You can get the template in the Pastoral Section of BB. Print a copy for yourself and then drop off a digital copy to me in BB.

Have a good weekend!

We will have classes in the library on Monday because they are painting my room! 🙂