Poem Work

We began the period watching a model poem recitation to inspire students to work on their poems over break. After some work time, we wrapped up the period with some ideas for working on their poems over the vacation.

TPCASTT Intro and Some Work Time

Today we talked about the TPCASTT analysis students will be doing on both their poems. After that, students had the remaining time to work.

Annotation & Poem Time

Today we practiced annotation and then spent more time searching for poems.

Poetry Out Loud Begins

Slides, the poem selection assignment, etc. are on our class page.

The First Real Timed Essay

Today we wrote the first full timed essay of the year, by hand no less.

Final Antigone Claims & IR

Antigone & Hegel

After wrapping up our monologue discussion with some claims, we did a bit of thinking and writing about German philosopher Hegel's (1770-1831) interpretation of the play, followed by an interesting round of philosophical chairs.

Claims & Monologues

Today we worked on making and revising claims, slides 12 through 19 in this slideshow.

Focus on Monologue

Irony & Independent Reading

Irony & Alanis

Today we reviewed irony with a slideshow (at Class Pages) and look at Alanis Morissette's "Ironic." We wrapped up with a bit of work on the homework (below).

More Metaphor

Today we did a bit more work with figurative language in the warm-up, and then split into groups for some general conversation about the play.

Antigone—Day 1

New Seats, Antigone Quiz, & Some Goal-Setting

After getting new seats, we had a quick quiz on Antigone and then spent most of the period thinking about Q1 grades and did some goal-setting for Q2.