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3/28/2016

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We started today out by doing a Google slide.

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We talked about how the phrase I was looking for was “life begins at 40.”

Then, we did group work where the class explained the graphs from the BBC’s “What’s the Prime of Your Life?“. We figured our from the graphs that there is no one best time of your life – there are perks to each age. While our memory is the best that is it ever going to be, we still have to look forward to a peak in creativity, happiness, and knowledge. The best is yet to come!

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We read To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time.

To The Virgins

While I “chopped and screwed” this poem, I explained why I found this so offensive and shared some personal stuff from my life. Remember – English is supposed to be about sharing life experiences and thoughts, not an EOC test or a grade. I want you to find connections in the literature to real life!

We also talked about peaking in high school. If you peak in high school, then the rest of your life will be pretty depressing.

Then we did Hexagonal Writing over the poem. I had different colored triangles and for each triangle, you answered a different question.
hexagonal trianglesThen we glued them together on the giant blue paper to create a hexagon.

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9/1/15 – B

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I gave you time to finish the PP from yesterday. Then weread To the Virgins to Make Much of Time.

If you want, ask me why I find this poem so offensive.

We also talked about peaking in high school. If you peak in high school, then the rest of your life will be pretty depressing.

We went To The Virgins Discussion board to answer four questions. The What Age is best is mandatory, but the other three are YOUR CHOICE. Make sure you that you have four completed so you can get full credit. If you do MORE than four questions, you are earn extra points!

If you had to remain a certain age for the rest of your life, which age would you choose and why? When doing so, you may want to consider what you want out of life. Do you want independence? A family? A well-paying job? Children? Retirement? Leisure? Each age has advantages and disadvantages, but your task is to identify the best and explain why you think that way.

Why do you think Herrick chose “rosebuds” rather than, say, tulip buds? Does it have anything to do with the fact that a rose has a thorn? Why doesn’t the speaker say anything about the rose’s thorn?

What does the sun have to do with carpe diem (“seize the day”)?

Does this poem make you want to go out and seize the day? If so, what about the speaker’s argument do you find convincing?

Do you think that the speaker of this poem is young or old? What lines make you think so?

Do people get married for the same reasons as they used to during Herrick’s time (the 1600s)?

1/23/2015 – B

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I realized that even though I feel like we are behind, we are the *only* English IVB class in session right now, so we don’t have to keep up with any other class!

So, today, we reviewed To the Virgins to Make Much of Time – we ran out of time yesterday.

If you want, ask me why I find this poem so offensive.

We also talked about peaking in high school. If you peak in high school, then the rest of your life will be pretty depressing.

We went back to the To The Virgins Discussion board to answer three more questions. YOUR CHOICE. Make sure you that you have four completed so you can get full credit. If you do MORE than four questions, you are earn extra points!

We read The Top Five Regrets of the Dying and talked about any regrets that we may *already* have.

And lastly, I gave you time to work on you BucketList. 🙂 Just copy/paste the URL into the discussion board so that other people can see your BucketList. What’s the point of the internet is you can’t share/network?

1/22/2015 – B

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We watched Mr. Keating creep his students out in a clip From Dead Poets Society and then we did the Carpe Diem Translation Tower.

You will read the four sentences, and then translate each sentence in your own thought. Add some clip art. Riley explained what it mean to strain the wine by showing a snippet from a video about pruno. She also serenaded the class to Doris Day’s song Que Sera Sera.

Make sure you have clip art! You may need to resize the font. Then cut thusly:

And then fold/glue.

In To The Virgins Discussion Board, we answered the required question: What Age is Best in Life” before we printed “To the Virgins” and “Coy Mistress” to OneNote.

We then read To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time. Make sure that you get the notes here:

If you want, ask me why I find this poem so offensive.

We also talked about peaking in high school. If you peak in high school, then the rest of your life will be pretty depressing.

Lastly, we went back to the To The Virgins Discussion board to answer three more questions. YOUR CHOICE. Make sure you that you have four completed so you can get full credit. If you do MORE than four questions, you are earn extra points!

10/29/14

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In the Carpe Diem section, click on the Seize the Day folder. Read the story for Lingerie and follow the directions. Pretty easy. All you have to do is find ONE WORD. That’s IT!

We watched Mr. Keating creep his students out in a clip From Dead Poets Society and then we did the Carpe Diem Translation Tower.

You will read the four sentences, and then translate each sentence in your own thought. Add some clip art. Riley explained what it mean to strain the wine by showing a snippet from a video about pruno. She also serenaded the class to Doris Day’s song Que Sera Sera.

Make sure you have clip art! You may need to resize the font. Then cut thusly:

And then fold/glue.

In To The Virgins Discussion Board, we answered the required question: What Age is Best in Life” before we printed “To the Virgins” and “Coy Mistress” to OneNote.

We then read To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time. Make sure that you get the notes here:

If you want, ask me why I find this poem so offensive.

We also talked about peaking in high school. If you peak in high school, then the rest of your life will be pretty depressing.

Lastly, we went back to the To The Virgins Discussion board to answer three more questions. YOUR CHOICE. Make sure you that you have four completed so you can get full credit. If you do MORE than four questions, you are earn extra points!

4/2/14

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Happy Wednesday!

Remember – for the next two weeks (or until we get done with this unit), we are working on Carpe Diem stuff.

Gradespeed is not working yet, and we have no idea WHEN it will be available for us to use. So far, these are the grades in my class:

  • Character Sheet
  • Creative Coloring Response
  • Bucket List Pre-Writing
  • Bucket List
  • Lingerie: One Word
  • Carpe Diem Translation
  • To the Virgins Discussion Board (do 4 topics)

Now, on to what we did in class today!

In the Carpe Diem section, click on the Seize the Day folder. Read the story for Lingerie and follow the directions. Pretty easy.

We watched Mr. Keating creep his students out in a clip From Dead Poets Society and then we did the Carpe Diem Translation Tower.

You will read the four sentences, and then translate each sentence in your own thought. Add some clip art. Riley explained what it mean to strain the wine and showed a few clips from this guy making a gross looking banana wine. She also serenaded the class to Doris Day’s song Que Sera Sera.

Make sure you have a clip art! You may need to resize the font. Then cut thusly:

And then fold/glue.

Make sure your name is on the foldable and leave it on my desk. Once I gre

In To The Virgins Discussion Board, we answered the required question: What Age is Best in Life” before we printed “To the Virgins” and “Coy Mistress” to OneNote.

We then read To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time. Make sure that you get the notes here:

If you want, ask me why I find this poem so offensive.

We also talked about peaking in high school. If you peak in high school, then the rest of your life will be pretty depressing.

Lastly, we went back to the To The Virgins Discussion board to answer three more questions. YOUR CHOICE. Make sure you that you have four completed so you can get full credit. If you do MORE than four questions, you are earn extra points!

10/30/13

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What a horrible, rainy day! Eeek!

First block, make sure that you are keeping up with your work since we have been losing time in first block each day because Vistas Visits are cutting into our class time.

Gradespeed is not working yet, and we have no idea WHEN it will be available for us to use. So far, these are the grades in my class:

  • Character Sheet
  • Creative Coloring
  • Bucket List Pre-Writing
  • Bucket List
  • Lingerie: One Word
  • Carpe Diem Translation
  • To the Virgins Discussion Board (do 4 topics)

No, on to what we did in class today!

In the Carpe Diem section, click on the Seize the Day Learning Module. Read the story for Lingerie and follow the directions. Pretty easy.

We watched Mr. Keating creep his students out in a clip From Dead Poets Society and then we did the Carpe Diem Translation Tower.

You will read the four sentences, and then translate each sentence in your own thought. Add some clip art.

Make sure you have a clip art! You may need to resize the font. Then cut thusly:

And then fold/glue.

You will keep the foldable in your folder in case you take the final. For the grade, drop the PowerPoint off in the dropbox. If you just keep the foldable in your folder, I won’t be able to grade it.

In To The Virgins Discussion Board, we answered the required question: What Age is Best in Life” before we printed “To the Virgins” and “Coy Mistress” to OneNote.

We then read To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time. Make sure that you get the notes here:

If you want, ask me why I find this poem so offensive.

Lastly, we went back to the To The Virgins Discussion board to answer three more questions. YOUR CHOICE. Make sure you that you have four completed so you can get full credit.

IV – 11/2/2012

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Today, Riley creeped us all out by playing Marvin Gaye’s “Let Get It On”. There is a Discussion Board in LMS with questions for you to answer. Make sure you answer all of them – just hit Post New Reply.

We then read “To His Coy Mistress” – get the annotations from someone else in class who write them all down.

We also read “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” – get the annotations from someone else in class who write them all down.

We finished the day by doing the syllogisim – there are instructions for that in LMS. I’ll give you a hint: Sentence #1 starts with IF… Sentence #2 starts with BUT, and sentence #3 starts with THEREFORE.

Make sure that you keep the paper product and you drop off the digital file.

3/29/2012

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We read To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time today and took notes. Get the notes from someone!

Riley talked about how it’s an insult if someone “peaked” in high school and then said that this poem made her mad because it reminded her when her parents were getting a divorce, her father told her mother that he was divorcing her now that she could find a second husband “before [she] got fat and ugly.” Harsh.

We then listened to the Kenny Chesney song, “Don’t Blink” and then did a Venn diagram of the two. The foldable template is in LMS – make sure you change the margins of the frame – otherwise your words will get cut off when you print. Four similarities and four differences are needed!

 

We then finished the day working on the Carpe Diem Analysis. Choose four poems/songs to read and write about. Instructions, rubric, and an example are all in LMS.