Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Yearbook Signing and J-Dawgs during lunch
All 8 periods in one day


Yearbook Signing


Modified Schedule for May 30th
8:15-9:00                          A1                    (45 Minutes) Pass out Yearbooks
9:05-9:40                          A2                    (35 Minutes)
9:45-10:20                        A3                    (35 Minutes)
10:25-11:00                      A4                    (35 Minutes)
11:00-11:45                      1st lunch           (45 Minutes)
11:50-12:45                      B5                    (55 Minutes)
11:05-12:00                      B5                    (55 Minutes)
12:00-1:25                       2nd Lunch         (45 Minutes)
12:50-1:25                       B6                     (35 Minutes)
1:30-2:05                        B7                      (35 Minutes)
2:10-2:45                        B8                      (35 Minutes)
Please post this list for lunches for Yearbook day.  Lunch is based on B1 class.
Lunch Schedule
1st Lunch                                                            2nd Lunch
Adams                                                            Anstead
Aiman                                                             Bates
Barson                                                            Behm
Bryson                                                            Biddulph
Carter                                                             Cotterell
Clayton                                                            Dean
Crawford                                                         Dibb
Dallon                                                             Dorsey
Earl                                                                Earling
Grow                                                              Eddington                                   
Hadlock                                                            Fugal
Hansen                                                            C Gadd
Lemon                                                            Heng
Major                                                              Karjala
McCleskey                                                     Lyde
Newton                                                            Macfarlane
Ormond                                                            Maucotel
Paulsen                                                            McNeil
Roth                                                                 Memmott
Schow                                                            Moon
Scott                                                                Morrey
Seminary                                                        Olson
W Smith                                                          Packer
Somers                                                            D. Smith
Steed                                                              Starker
Steffes                                                            Underwood
Thornton                                                          Ward
Way                                                                  Wicks
Welch                                                               Wright
Everybody needs to be in Class.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Mother's Day Poem by Catherine S.

Mother's Day Poem by Catherine S.

Six Ways to Look at Motherhood

Each new baby
as a beautiful
blessing

Dirty diapers
are not fun to change

She wants a bottle.
He's running through the sprinklers with clothes on.
He just brought an earwig in the house.
Where is my sanity when I need it?

Her dark hair falls in curls on the pillow
as she finally goes to sleep.

We're having chicken pot pie for dinner.
Sigh.
Fine.  Make yourself a sandwich.

Five little people
sit on either side of me.
I croon the story softly,
"Guess how much I love you?
To the moon and back."

Catherine S. 

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Bring treats if you wish.
Share plays and other stuff you're proud of!

Take home your notebooks. 


originally published 2012-05-07

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Self-Starter prompt:

Outdoor TV Picture Prompt

 Share

Work on finishing up any unfinished work.

and a play!  a bit of Sherlock today!

Originally published 2012-05-07

Friday, May 18, 2012

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Self-Starter:  Getting caught up --
  • Plays
  • Card for Mother  (Have poem approved before putting it on the card.)
  • Have you made a copy of your Inspired By poem to put up on the board?  Check it off with Ms. Dorsey before you put it up.
2.  Punctuation Mini-Lesson -- See below.

3.  Concrete Poetry


Facts about the History of Punctuation from Nancie Atwell's Lessons That Change Writers
 The period:  comes from the ancient Greek word peri which means "round." Writers inserted a small circle at the end of each sentence to show that they'd gone all around a subject, that the idea they expressed was now complete and well-rounded."

 The comma:  comes from the Greek word komma, which means "a little knife" or "to cut off."  Writers inserted the little curved blade of a knife -- that is, a comma -- whenever they wanted to show a clause or phrase: a group of words cut from the body of a sentence.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Friday, May 18, 2012

Self-Starter:  Write a "Down the Rabbit Hole" story or poem or description.
Books and stories put someone "down a rabbit hole" -- stories with portals:
Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
Gregor the Overlander
Beyonders
Narnia
Harry Potter   9 3/4, portkeys
(Wizard of Oz)
Leven Thumps
Seeing Red




Punctuation history -- We've already looked at quotation marks.  History of exclamation mark and question mark.

A little bit of The Hormone Jungle -- first poem


 Mother's Day Cards with Poems:  Ode, Tritina, or Six-Ways Poem.
Do not make your card until your poem is approved.

If you haven't yet, you still need to copy an "Inspired By" poem to go on the bulletin board. 

How about your play?  Do you have it? 

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Self-Starter:   Prompt: The Follower
Prompt:  Write about a time when you were the follower and did something stupid or disregarded mother’s advice or an admonition or command  -- or wish you would have disobeyed.


Listen to a story, then write more.

2.  Sharing time

3.  Mother's Day Cards with Poems:  Ode, Tritina, or Six-Ways Poem.
Do not make your card until your poem is approved.

If you haven't yet, you still need to copy an "Inspired By" poem to go on the bulletin board. 





Monday, May 14, 2012

Monday, May 14, 2012


Self-Starter:  The Slide   Concrete Poetry



 
2.  Outside -- Hooray!

If more time: 

3.  More Concrete Poetry


4.  Cards for Mom --  finish or write another poem
Finish up your poem for your mother-- either a tritina, a six-ways poem, or an ode, (or a really great concrete poem) and then write it ever so neatly on a card you create. 

Here are the links from last time:
tritina     November 30, 2010
ways of looking at   Thirteen Ways Poem
ode    February 29, 2008       Neruda Odes

Here is the handout packet from last time: Poem Forms for Mothers' Day.docx 

or  Poem Forms for Mothers' Day.doc

 


 

 





Originally published on 2012-05-07

Prompt: The Follower

Guys Write for Guys Read – "The Follower"  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4649807


See also the book by Gary Paulsen  Harris and Me  or his book Masters of Disaster.

Consider also the part of The Outsiders when Ponyboy and a friend see how long they can hold cigarettes on their hands.


Prompt:  Write about a time when you were the follower and did something stupid
or disregarded mother’s advice or an admonition or command
or wish you would have disobeyed.



A beginning for Ms. Dorsey's story -- 
            "Everybody did it – at least everybody from the farming community of Clover, Idaho who was old enough to have a drivers license (maybe some who weren't old enough, too) and too young to fear death and dismemberment.    We called it “Deadman’s Curve.”  The name should have been discouraging, but for teens it was enticing.   It was a sharp curve, following the curve in a large canal – large enough to swallow up a car or pickup. 
            The challenge was to see how fast you could go around the curve.  Disobeying laws wasn’t in character for me,  but at 16 I had been driving with a license for two years, felt so experienced, and had a need for speed."  


Concrete Poetry


"Concrete poetry or shape poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on.
It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry, a term that has evolved to have distinct meaning of its own, but which shares the distinction of being poetry in which the visual elements are as important as the text."  from
"Concrete poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, 9 May 2012. Web. 14 May 2012. .  











 Outside the lines: poetry at play by Brad Burg  See http://www.bradburg.com/













Concrete Poetry





Thursday, May 10, 2012

Mother's Day


Honku



http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1336382

Neruda Odes



Ode to Clothes
                             

Every morning you wait,
clothes, over a chair,
to fill yourself with
my vanity, my love,
my hope, my body.
Barely
risen from sleep,
I relinquish the water,
enter your sleeves,
my legs look for
the hollows of your legs,
and so embraced
by your indefatigable faithfulness
I rise, to tread the grass,
enter poetry,
consider through the windows,
the things,
the men, the women,
the deeds and the fights
go on forming me,
go on making me face things
working my hands,
opening my eyes,
using my mouth,
and so,
clothes,
I too go forming you,
extending your elbows,
snapping your threads,
and so your life expands
in the image of my life.
In the wind
you billow and snap
as if you were my soul,
at bad times
you cling
to my bones,
vacant, for the night,
darkness, sleep
populate with their phantoms
your wings and mine.
I wonder
if one day
a bullet
from the enemy
will leave you stained with my blood
and then
you will die with me
or one day
not quite
so dramatic
but simple,
you will fall ill,
clothes,
with me,
grow old
with me, with my body
and joined
we will enter
the earth.
Because of this
each day
I greet you
with reverence and then
you embrace me and I forget you,
because we are one
and we will go on
facing the wind, in the night,
the streets or the fight,
a single body,
one day, one day, some day, still.
 
 
- Pablo Neruda


Ode To The Lemon by Pablo Neruda

From blossoms
released
by the moonlight,
from an
aroma of exasperated
love,
steeped in fragrance,
yellowness
drifted from the lemon tree,
and from its plantarium
lemons descended to the earth.

Tender yield!
The coasts,
the markets glowed
with light, with
unrefined gold;
we opened
two halves
of a miracle,
congealed acid
trickled
from the hemispheres
of a star,
the most intense liqueur
of nature,
unique, vivid,
concentrated,
born of the cool, fresh
lemon,
of its fragrant house,
its acid, secret symmetry.

Knives
sliced a small
cathedral
in the lemon,
the concealed apse, opened,
revealed acid stained glass,
drops
oozed topaz,
altars,
cool architecture.

So, when you hold
the hemisphere
of a cut lemon
above your plate,
you spill
a universe of gold,
a
yellow goblet
of miracles,
. . . . . .
a ray of light that was made fruit,
the minute fire of a planet.
 

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Mother's Day Cards  with a special poem --

tritina     November 30, 2010


ways of looking at   Thirteen Ways Poem


ode    February 29, 2008

Neruda Odes

 

Here is the handout packet for today: 

Poem Forms for Mothers' Day.docx

or 

Poem Forms for Mothers' Day.doc

 

 

 

 

 

 





Originally published May 7, 2012.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Deliver books to Legacy Elementary!   We'll be about 15-20 minutes late for your B2 class again.  Check ahead with your teachers if you can.

More Love That Dog and writing "Inspired By" poems.  

Friday, May 4, 2012

Friday, May 4, 2012

Self-Starter:  a)  In your notebook, list every punctuation mark you can think of, and what it does.  http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/punctuation.aspx


b) Write an "I Am From" Poem 

December 6, 2010  I Am From

[or Outside?   54 degrees?]


Love That Dog
Monday, February 28, 2011  Love That Boy and More

February 25, 2008


Punctuation?  http://msmcclure.com/?page_id=6448

Student poems:

The following are from Branden P.  2012 

Love that horse
like tornadoes love to swirl.
I said I love that horse
like tornadoes love to swirl.
Love to call her in the summer
love to call her
"Hey there, Girl!"

Whose dog this is, I wish I'd know
Reminds me of the velvet rose.
Found me summer at the school,
So to my family, I'll show.

do much depends 
upon
the voodoo doll
on the shelf
beside the sewing kit

so much depends upon
the duck by the pond
who is 
very fond
of visitors 
_____________________________


Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Self-Starter:  "Write an If I Were in Charge of the World" Poem 

October 10, 2007 

Share

Love That Dog

Monday, February 28, 2011  Love That Boy and More

February 25, 2008

December 6, 2010  I Am From 

Punctuation?

_______________________

I  found a very cool site -- an online rhyming dictionary -- free!
http://www.rhymer.com/