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= Welcome to Room 503 = = Sophomore English Wikispace! =

June 12, 2010:
 * Final Study Guides**

The following are study guides that your colleagues have made for each of the essays we will examine in preparation for our final this semester. Remember, because these study guides are created by students to be used as a tool. Please make sure you double-check the information! You might find that you disagree with some of the answers given.

Best advice: Review each essay for yourself. See if you can answer SOAPSTone information for each story/essay.



May 18, 2010: //Sample Story//



May 13, 2010:
 * Short story rubrics!**

Thank you everyone for doing such a good job with co-constructing a rubric! I'm excited to see your final products. ROUGH DRAFTS DUE TOMORROW.

Period 2 rubric: Period 3 rubric: Period 7 rubric:

March 23, 2010

Homework:
1st draft of character analysis paper

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator. -Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)
 * A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:**

March 22. 2010

One cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
 * A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:**

If you need my email to send me your outline, wikimessage me with your email address. Thanks! miss s

March 16, 2010

Monday: No School Tuesday: CAHSEE Wednesday: CAHSEE Thursday: Computer Lab Friday: Computer Lab

March 9, 2010 ==Farewell to Manzanar Online (chapter 2 & 3)==

HOMEWORK:
 * CHOOSE ONE**
 * Create a map of Manzanar based on the text. The yellow worksheet should help you with this. Include a brief explanation of your map and what parts of the text guided your decisions.
 * Create a poster that might be seen in the camp based on the text. Include a brief explanation of your poster and what parts of the text guided your decisions.
 * Write a two paragraph journal entry about the first few days in the camp. Use the reading from today to help you.

March 8, 2010

Tonight's Homework:
Write a paragraph predicting what will happen next in the story. Use what you know to support your predictions.

March 1, 2010

Happy Month of March!
Here are some of the holidays celebrated this week in March.

March 1-7 National Cheerleading week National Ghostwriters week National Write a Letter of Appreciation week Newspaper in Education week National Procrastination week Return the Borrowed Books week Universal Human Beings week Yoyo and Skills Toys week No Cussing Week

February 24, 2010

Tonight's Homework: Write a paragraph responding to the photo from class today. Use your Object observation sheet to guide you. Include both objective and subjective observations. Do not just list observations this is a paragraph.



February 18, 2010

Poetry Magazine Due MONDAY Poetry Test Tuesday

Study Guide

February 17, 2010

Citation Machine link as promised //this is linked to the exact site you should use for your internet sources.//

PLEASE WIKI-MAIL ME if you need help/have any questions!

February 16, 2010: Tonight's Homework: Write a summary (1 paragraph) of the poem "After Apple-picking." Please use text to support your arguments.

February 10, 2010

Check out your class page, some of your colleagues have been "published" anonymously =)

Pick a love song (your choice), print or copy down the lyrics
 *  annotate the lyrics (words, phrases that speak to you or make you wonder, theme, tone, mark up the lyrics folks!)

February 9, 2010

=**YOU MUST HAVE YOUR POETRY PACKET IN CLASS TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) FOR A __GRADE__!!!** = = =


 * Pick //any// of the poems we have read as a class so far.
 *  Using the poem you selected write a **paragraph** discussing how the language (syntax, figurative language, organization, etc.) affects the tone (SPEAKERS ATTITUDE).
 *  Use the text to support your ideas.

//P.S. The following is a great link with THEME based poems. This is to help guide you and give you inspiration NOT as a free pass to just copy the site. If you are unclear about this ASK ME.// Poem for Every Occasion

February 3, 2010:


 * meter**: the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that give a line of poetry a rhythm or beats


 * rhythm**: gives poetry a musical quality, adds emphasis to certain words, and helps to reinforce meaning


 * foot**: basic unit of stressed ( ' ) and unstressed ( ˘ ) syllables used to describe rhythm

typical rhyme scheme of a sonnet: a b a b c d c d e f e f g g
 * rhyme scheme**: the pattern formed by end rhymes


 * couplet**: pair of lines, usually rhyme and have the same meter (g,g)

February 2, 2010:

Hello! Here are all the documents I passes out in class today.





[[file:Poetry Packet.pdf]]
I am going to be keeping a running list of "established" poets. The intention is that it will help you get thinking about whose poetry you might use in your magazine. In no particular order:

Walt Witman Robert Hayden Billy Collins William Shakespeare Jean Toomer Pablo Neruda Aleksander Solzhenitsyn N. Scott Momaday Matsuo Basho Emily Dickenson Theodore Roethke W.B. Yeats Robert Frost

I will continue to add to the list. Also, I encourage you to check out the following link: Famous Poets and Poems

February 1, 2010:

//Letter to Parents and Students// Remember this is due signed and returned by Wednesday, February 3.

//Poetry Packet// Please print the following and have it with you in class each day. We will be using this packet for the entire poetry unit.

January 22, 2010: Final Review

The following document is a list of terms and questions that will help you review for your coming final. We will go over the list together on Monday.

November 23, 2009 Thanksgiving Week!

A poem by Priscilla Z.:

Thanksgiving Poem

On this wonderful Thanksgiving Day A poor turkey, its life to pay. Which turkey would it be? So Danny the turkey, I hope it wouldn't flee Danny let out its cacophonous scream. He twisted and he turned, he was finally released. It was allayed and finally at ease. The cook was dexterous, Danny couldn't escape. Bereft were the other turkeys as they stared at the landscape. Thinking of their lost friend. Danny.

October 5, 2009 //Good Readers//

Hello Sophomores!

Can you believe it's already October?! Hopefully, you've been having some fun in our class. I've really appreciated how everyone has been working hard to make Room 503 a place of equity, where every voice counts and where every voice matters. Even though we come to the plate with different abilities, we work together to complete our learning experience, and I am proud of the way we have been conducting classes. Good job.

If you haven't already noticed, we've been working on several different tasks/objectives/concepts:

A. What do good readers do? Why is it important to think about how we think? B. "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence C. What does effective group work look like? What is your role? What is the team's role as a whole? D. Voice Lesson: What is diction? Each group started their own restaurant, and your first task was to come up with some interesting dishes. Mmm, delicious!
 * Good readers always PREDICT!
 * Good readers VISUALIZE!
 * Good readers TALK WITH THE TEXT!

For the coming week, we will continue to work on the concepts/tasks listed above. The number of customers who enter your restaurant will be dependent upon your individual work within each group! More explanations to come.

Thanks again for a great start to the new school year! Ms. P

September 8, 2009 //Letter from the Teacher//

Greetings Esteemed Colleagues! Welcome Parents!

I am so excited and pleased to introduce you to our new class website. Ours to update, change and develop, this website will prove to be a powerful, safe and academic way to extend the learning outside of the classroom and into the 21st century!

Here, students and parents will be able to: >
 * stay informed of class news (visit the "Home" page)
 * keep up to date with daily class activities (visit "Daily Notes")
 * download important handouts and documents (visit "Handouts")
 * participate in online discussion forums (click on the "Discussion" tab up above)
 * write a story with the rest of the class
 * edit essays with the assistance of other students
 * design webpages of your own (training sessions to come)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">contact the teacher and other students

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Starting this week, students will be creating their own wikispace accounts in order to become official Members of this site. (Note: Please hold off on creating an account until we go over it in class. I have very thorough and specific instructions in store.) If you're internet savvy, and would like to get notified of updates to the site, create an RSS feed by clicking on the "Notify Me" tab.

Looking forward to an exciting year as we step into our virtual classroom. To ensure we conduct ourselves in a safe, collegial and academic manner, all school and class rules & regulations will be upheld on this website. Moreover, only site administrator approved wikispace account holders will be able to participate in the site's discussion forums.


 * TODAY'S HOMEWORK**: Wikispace scavenger hunt. Check out the other pages of the site. You will find your homework on the "Daily Notes" page. Follow instructions.

Have any questions? Feel free to contact me at vpark@tcusd.net.

Cheers to a great year, Ms. P

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