Week of 9/10/12

9/13/12


Goal: Explore how metaphors and similes are built.

1st step: Write down a great adjective on one card and a great noun on the other. Keep it appropriate.

Note on Edmodo: A (very) few of you are having issues. There are glitches on occasion with Edmodo, but they are always temporary--if you can get on the internet, you should be able to get on it. If you are having problems day in and day out, it's likely your computer. You'll have to figure out a way to work around it, i.e. getting the assignment at school and working on it. You can always email me assignments if you're having problems turning work in on Edmodo. If you have more serious internet access issues, see me.

"Sweet Like a Crow" Reading and Reactions.

Sweet Like a Crow Lucidchart and Poem

• Go find a quote on the internet or come up with one on your own.

• Make a Lucid chart that breaks down your quote into themes. 

Step one: Use Google Chrome to get on the internet. Google Lucidchart or go to http://www.lucidchart.com

Step two: Make a flow chart on lucid chart that contains your quote, a major theme, five minor themes, and 20 GOOD images.

Step three: Turn your lucid chart into a poem that resembles "Sweet Like a Crow," with a title, an epigraph, and at least 20 separate images.




https://www.lucidchart.com/documents/edit#4422-4908-5050eac6-985e-7db90ad2361f?template=331&parent_id=&branch=f688b36d-5164-4f33-880d-3409a4e3771c

HW: Type your poem and submit it. Attach to Edmodo as a document. Please don't just cut/paste.




9/11/12

Goal: Begin to explore figurative language.

1st Step: Get a computer and post a gut-level response on Edmodo to the "Falling Man" clip. 

2nd Step. Go read some of the posts. Find one with which you connect and write a response.

3rd step: Short reading.

Falling Man - You Tube

HW: Read Sweet Like a Crow by Michael Ondaatje, print it, and do and "IB 5":

1. Write down 2 or 3 literal statements about the poem.
2. Ask one essential question about the poem.
3. Write down your interpretation of one of the images (what you think one of the image means on a "deeper" level).
4. Descrobe the "central tension" of the text. (might be irony--anything that seems out of the ordinary or makes you think.)
5. Make a central assertion about the entire poem. What do you think the author is trying to say?

Falling Man - You Tube
Sweet Like a Crow by Michael Ondaatje