Tag Archives: poetry

3/9/2012

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We read Sonnet 29 today – if you need help with understanding this even after we talked about it in class, go check it out on NoFearShakespeare.

Riley gave each of us a copy of the poem, a TP-CASTT paper, and four colored sheets.

Take the four colored sheets and stagger them about an inch apart thusly:

 

Then, fold the bottom over so that you have about eight 1-inch flaps.

Staple the top and then title the foldable Sonnet 29: TP-CASTT.

Cut out the TP-CASTT bits and glue them under the flap. When you look at the section for ATTITUDE, you should see both the bit that you pasted about attitude and the bottom flap with the title.

Pretty easy! All you have to do now is analyze the poem!

At the very end, cut out the poem and glue it on the back of the foldable.

Remember – LMS and Gradespeed will be down over the break. You will not have your school laptops. If you are going to work on your Extra Credit, go print the instructions and look at the example in LMS. For every fifty points you find, you can convert that to 10 points for a major grade. DO IT!

1/24/2012

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Riley leveled us up yesterday! I’m now  Cabin Boy! Half the crew is still Landlubbers, so make sure that you are getting your work in. Once the ENTIRE crew gets to Level 1 (that’s ALL classes), we will be rewarded with booty!

The Cap’n started out by giving us each a page from Animalia and we had to do a Word Seach on our letter by finding all of the letters in our picture.

 

Then, with the letter that we were given, we wrote a sentence with AT LEAST ten words that start with your letter. For example, if you had the letter E, you have to use ten E words in your sentence. You can have words that start with other letters – you just need ten E words. Check the rubric to see how she is going to grade it.

Then, we listened to The Breaks and did a Magnet Card summary over caesuras.

WE also learned about kennings, which is a compound nickname. Go to the drop box and give a nickname to the five things there.

We also did a summary sentence over what we learned today: Why the bards talk funny. A hint: A, C, and K.

When you finish, play the Scrambled Dark Ages game – you will see these on the quiz tomorrow (and on the final exam in March)! Don’t worry – the quiz isn’t scrambled – it’s multiple choice! 🙂