Period 1--AP 30
We had a fun class looking at John Donne's "The Flea." For the most part, we paraphrased the poem and looked at the structure of the poem to see how that was related to the tone. Of course, no discussion about John Donne is complete without talking about the conceit that is used throughout the poem. We just started in on "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" but the bell rang before we got too far into it. We'll finish it tomorrow.
Period 2--Pre-AP 20
For the first 40 minute of class, Mr. Sobkowicz came in to do some guidance work with the kids. They had a questionaire to fill out that will be coupled with other timed tests to see what some of the students' aptitudes are. Once they were all finished with this, we finished the Shakespearean sonnet we started yesterday and almost finished discussing the second one.
Period 3--ELA A 30
We did a listening activity today that had the students tuning into an old CBC interview of Canadian author and poet, Al Purdy. Before they listened, we looked at how to listen effectively as well as closely looked at the questions they were required to answer in conjunction with the listening. As the students listened, they filled in what questions they could and then they were allowed to listen to the interview one more time to catch what they missed. From there, we moved into a reading activity with one of Purdy's poems, "Homo Canadensis." I read it out loud to the kids and then required them to do a double entry journal. They had to read the poem individually and then respond to it by looking at what the section means, any literary devices they can identify, impressions they have of someone, etc. We will continue with this tomorrow.
Period 4--Pre-AP 10
We spent the first 15 minutes or so of class going over exactly what it means to edit. Then the students exchanged the ghost stories they wrote and edited each others' stories. From there, they had to fill out a green sheet that assesses and reflects on their editing experience and abilities. They should have given the newly edited copy back to the originial author and then discuss proposed changes and the reasons for them. We set the due date for the final copy of the ghost story as Wednesday February 15th.
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