PowerPoint Slides September 12-16th

1. PowerPoint Slides September 12-16th English III

2. New Opening Task • For the next few weeks, we will have do vocabulary words instead of Mug Shots. • Your task is once you have arrived to class you will do the following for your daily word in your word log: • Define the word. (Dictionaries are under the desks.) • Create a sentence. • Figure out part of speech. • Find a word opposite. • We will then go over the word as a class. • I will take volunteers to approach the board to give their examples. • There will be weekly checks, and biweekly quizzes.

3. September 12, 2011: I Can • I can find evidence within Section One of Song of Myself to support my analysis of what the text says and what I infer about the text.

4. The Task • For our time with Song of Myself, we will work in Whitman Work Groups. • Each day you will have a different task you will complete in your group and then present to the class. • Each day you will report to regular assigned seat for instructions, and then you will go to your groups.

5. Whitman Work Group Roles • Roles (People May Have Two Roles) • Scribe- Records group ideas. • Artist- Creates the presentation materials. • Speaker- Introduces the group. • Reader-Lines from poem and interpretation. • Leader-Keeps the group on task and focused. • During your group work times, I will walk around the room making sure you are working. You will receive daily discussion points if I walk by your group and you’re on task. If not, well you know what happens.

6. Before Meeting In Groups • Turn to page 400, follow along as I read Section One.

7. Today’s Task • Your groups will be responsible for interpreting a set of lines from Section One. • Your interpretation will include the following: • An interpretation of the lines deciding on a meaning of your portion. • Words or phrases that support your conclusions about your lines. • How do these lines relate to your life?

8. Before We Break • “I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume.” • What do these lines mean? • What words tell you their meaning? • How would these relate to your life?

9. Group Assignments • Group One: Line 3 • Group Two: Lines 4 and 5 • Group Three: Line 6 • Group Four: Line 7 • Group Five: Lines 8 and 9 • Group Six: Lines 10 and 11

10. Today’s Task • Your groups will be responsible for interpreting a set of lines from Section One. • Your group will present their interpretations. • Your interpretation presentations will include the following: • An interpretation their lines deciding on a meaning of your portion. • Words or phrases that support your conclusions. • How do these lines relate to your life?

11. Exit Slip • Interpret the following lines: “I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,/Nature without check with original energy.” • What is the meaning? • What words or phrases support your conclusion about the meaning?

12. September 13, 2011: I Can • I can find evidence within Section One of Song of Myself to support my analysis of what the text says and what I infer about the text.

13. Today • I want to review yesterday. • Go over a procedure. • Then see the presentations.

14. Yesterday’s Exit Slip • Interpret the following lines: “I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,/Nature without check with original energy.” • What is the meaning? • What words or phrases support your conclusion about the meaning?

15. Meaning for first part • A lot of you said, I speak about the good and the bad. • A lot of you used the words harbor, good, or bad.

16. Second part for those who attempted it. • That nature continues growing without our help. • Words I saw: original energy and without check.

17. Group Work Expectations • While working in groups, I expect the following: • On task conversations. • Everyone participating. • Quiet conversations. • Why is this last one so important.

18. Group Time • I want you to take 4 minutes and meet with your groups real quick to do some last minute things. • We will go in order.

19. September 14th, 2011: I Can • I can identify and explain the meaning of a metaphor used within Section Six of Song of Myself.

20. After School • I will be staying after to school today. • You can use this time to catch up on work or get help with a topic confusing you. • I will offer these services every Wednesday. • 3:15-4:00 or later if needed.

21. Friday • First word log check • Bring Independent Reading Books • If you have changed books meet with me about your new book.

22. H.U.S.H? • Hand • Up • Stop • and HUSH

23. Review: What is a Metaphor? • Metaphor is the comparison of two things that have something in common. • Example: “He was eager to help but his legs were rubber.” • What is being compared? • What is the effect of this comparison?

24. Before We Break • Turn to page 401, I will read and you will follow along as a I read.

25. Group Assignments • Group One: Lines 14-19 • Group Two: Lines 20-24 • Group Three Lines 25-30 • Group Four Lines 31-35 • Group Five Lines 36-39 • Group Six Lines 40-45

26. The Task • Today, your group is responsible for the following in your lines of Section Six: • Reading of the lines you are responsible for analyzing. • Identifying the metaphor in your section of Song of Myself. • Explaining what the metaphor says to the class and providing evidence from the text to support your explanation.

27. Exit Slip • What is a metaphor you could use to explain your life? • The metaphor • Why did you choose it?

28. My Metaphor • Mr. Jamison has the patience and wisdom of Yoda.

29. September 15th, 2011: I Can • I can draw a conclusion about the character of Walt Whitman based on the lines of Section Fifty-Two and support my conclusion with lines from the text.

30. Friday • First Word Log Check. • All five words are worth ten points. • Bring a no. 2 Pencil. • Bring your Independent Reading Book. • Check in with me about your book if you have changed.

31. Character Traits • What are character traits?

32. Based on what you see in this picture what are some character traits?

33. Before We Break • Turn to page 403, follow along as I read today’s section.

34. How would I find character traits? • The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. • What character trait are we seeing of Whitman? • What words or phrases show support our conclusions?

35. Group Assignments • Group One: Lines 47 and 48 • Group Two: Lines 49-51 • Group Three: Lines 52-53 • Group Four: Lines 54-55 • Group Five: Lines 56-58 • Group Six: Lines 59-61

36. The Task • Today your group will do the following for Section Fifty-Two: • Reading of the section you are responsible for analyzing. • Identifying the character trait of Whitman you concluded on based on your reading of your lines. • Sharing the words or phrases that helped you come to this conclusion about Whitman. • Draw a picture of Walt Whitman based on your lines.

37. Exit Slip • What character traits would you use to explain yourself to someone? • List of four character traits. • Why you choose those traits.

38. September 15th, 2011: I Can • I can write a poem about myself using telling details, sensory language, and vivid pictures to tell who I am and my experiences.

39. Song of Yourself • Review of group work with “Song of Myself.” • How does Whitman introduce his origin? • How does Whitman use Metaphor in “Song of Myself?” • What vivid pictures do we see in this poem? • Are there other devices we have not covered?

40. How would your song sound? • You will now write section similar to Whitman’s celebrating their self. • Daily Assignment 30 Points • 5 points: Section includes writer’s origins • 10 points: Section gives an idea of who the writer is now. • 15 points: Section utilizes two poetic devices common to Whitman: metaphor, repetition, parallelism, or imagery.

41. Exit • How did your song sound? • Students will share their songs.

42. September 16th, 2011: I Can • I can find and explain words, phrases, or lines that create a mood in Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night.”

43. What is mood? • Mood is the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. • This can be created with the following: • Connotation of words • Imagery • Figurative Language • Sound • Rhythm • Descriptive Details

44. Before We Break • Turn to page 1001, follow along as I read. Just absorb the words and think about how it makes you feel.

45. The Task • You will partner up with one to two people near you. • You will receive a mood card. In your groups you will look back at this poem and find lines that match your mood. • You will then approach the mood grid and explain how your mood was represented and why you choose those lines.

46. Exit Slip • Use your mood card and create a brief description of a time when you were in that particular mood.