1/27

Agenda: To be prepped for Writing Workshops tomorrow on our Passage Analyses

*Game!

*Feedback review...
Be SPECIFIC-HELPFUL-KIND

*Peer Reviews of Passage Analysis--see Google Classroom.  SHARE your peer review on googledocs with your partner after discussing your feedback with them.

*Show passage analysis to Matt, discuss your ideas.  Make revisions as partner and Matt suggest if you see fit.

*Finish F451

*If done with F451, begin work on final written piece.  Can review assignment (see https://drive.google.com/a/animashighschool.com/file/d/0BxmnlXt_7UBONTNZMkRFRjUzRkE/view?usp=sharing)

1/26

Agenda:
*Headspace

*Passage Analysis--review student example as class, critique for the 3 levels of a close reading
a.  Does it explain what happens in the text?
b.  Does it explain HOW the text works? (metaphor, imagery, etc)
c.  Does it explain what the author thinks the text means?

*Group process--what worked well, what could be improved?

*Independent worktime on your own passage analysis.
--See rubric and guidelines of 3 steps of a close reading
--The assignment is on google classroom

--If done, read ahead in F451--goal is to finish book by FRIDAY

1/22

Agenda:

Ray Bradbury documentary: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=ray%20bradbury%20documentary

Independent work-time:
__ Finish answering the questions on the example writing piece that you've chosen and conference w/Matt by end of day

__ Begin Passage Analysis assignment (due by Tuesday Jan 26 start of class), 1 page.  See google classroom for assignment.

1/21

Agenda:
30 mins work-time:  Turn in to me the example and questions of the writing sample you will do for your final written piece--the choices are on google classroom.
(Shadows--you can read F451 and/or "Dover Beach" poem).

20 minutes group passage analysis of Dover Beach (the poem that is a main feature of F451)

Everyone read out Dover Beach poem and make one google comment on it about either...
a.  What you think the text is saying
b.  A metaphor you notice
c.  A beautiful phrase you notice

Click here: https://docs.google.com/a/animashighschool.com/document/d/1Uy_mNy6KbXH2vzkH7gYjdt3OG0rc1VTYIv-4ZjTUuGY/edit?usp=sharing

Large-group discussion and analysis of Dover Beach and our comments, to model what a passage analysis looks like.

Independent worktime on Passage Analysis and/or conferencing w/Matt about your final written product.

Passage Analysis is due Monday at 4pm.  The passage analysis can be about Dover Beach, or a passage from the poem.  See description below:

Choose an event or scene from the book, OR write about the poem Dover Beach.
Analyze at least three lines from the scene or the poem, explaining both

a.  What is happening
b. What tools the author is using (word choice, metaphor, imagery, etc)
c.  What you think the poem or scene  from F451 means...what idea is it giving to you?  How do you interpret it?

Use TEA paragraph formatting.

1/20

Seminar questions:  Choose 1-3 of the questions to respond to in paragraph format in your OWN google document:
https://docs.google.com/a/animashighschool.com/document/d/1aTtWm1_JL-4fGEnPXWh9HIASxLxcElXbFr9pN7wuFbE/edit?usp=sharing