Frankenstein PC

Today we had the pressure comp for Frankenstein followed by a very brief intro to Voltaire (the notes are at GC, especially for you second period folks who had a shorter period today).

HW Finish Candide and post at least 2x to the discussion form at GC by 1/4/2010.

Finally Frank

Today we spent the whole day discussing Frankenstein. Yeah! PC and SG tomorrow.

Fun with Highlighters

Today in second, we wrapped up the CRA assignment by highlighting the CRA revisions and examining a few after I collected them. We spent the rest of the period reading and scoring sample essays using the HSU rubric.
In sixth period, we did the first part of the CRA project (group highlighting, group sharing) and students will revise those paragraphs for HW. We spent the rest of the period scoring sample essays using the HSU rubric (we started this Friday). Students will have ten minutes to finish scoring essays tomorrow in class. Many took an essay home to score (especially those folks who were absent Friday).

New Due Dates:

Frankenstein PC and SG 12/18

Rushing Headlong into Break

In second period we finished our Romantic poetry presentations and spent the rest of the period on the CRA evaluation assignment. Students will do a quick revision of those paragraphs for homework.

Poetry Presentations and Frankenstein

Today we had the next two poetry presentations and went over the rest of the Frankenstein quiz.

Frankenstein CRA

1) Choose a Passage from the Novel: the passage should be in the neighborhood of 16 to 20 lines.
2) Annotate the Passage.

• You may do this in your book or you may print a copy of the passage (while looking at the online text, use the “find” command to locate your passage, copy and paste it into Word, and print).
• Note figurative and stylistic devices, theme, tone, etc.

3) Choose one aspect of your passage and write a CRA paragraph explaining how that aspect affects theme and/or tone. Be sure to quote the passage liberally.
4) Reread and Revise.
5) Revise (for HW if necessary) and bring in three, TYPED copies on Friday.

Ashland & Poetry

We started the day by finishing our discussion of the Ashland field trip. There are tentatively 14 spots and those will be given to the first 14 people who see me starting Wednesday morning.

Most of the period was spent on two poetry presentations, followed by a brief discussion of Frankenstein.

Back in the Saddle

Today we began with a quiz on the end of Frankenstein and spent much of the period in catch-up mode, talking about the state of things at the moment. At the end of the period we drew the order for poem presentations and started talking about the May Ashland trip.