You should be well into your books by now. The books you have selected are targeted to your Lexile scores. Please think about your reading process. How do you feel about targeted reading? Is your book challenging or do you find your book easy to read? If it is challenging, how is it challenging: is the vocabulary new? are the sentences long? is the time period (if you are reading a novel) different and difficult to imagine?
Protest poetry is the poetry of alienation. Choose one poem in your handout, Protest Poetry, and identify what condition or event the poet was alienated from. Be sure to use examples from the poem to support your claim.
Choose a female character from Othello and Once Were Warriors and compare and/or contrast them. Use examples from each piece to support your claim. Be sure to come to a conclusion (claim) as you investigate the two characters.
Write a response to the following: protest poetry is usually written by poets who feel alienated. Choose one of the poems in your Protest Poetry handout and discuss what issues were occuring that prompted the poet to express his protest. Use specific examples from the poem to support your response.
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Please post a well-developed paragraph expressing your thoughts about the universal element(s) discussed in class and reviewed on your copy of the powerpoint. Please refer to your powerpoint handout to get ideas. All responses must be posted by Wednesday 30, 2008.
1. Finish group PowerePoints — 60 minutes
2. Vocabulary words for today: insidious luster
3. Subordinating conjunctions: use Write for Collegeto identify the phrase and then post five examples of subordinating conjunctions on the September 18 Agenda blog. (Do not copy words from other blogs — use your capable mind to come up with your own words)
1. S.I.R. Share your favorite entry.
2. Ritual essay — forming a working thesis statement
3. Vocabulary words — inalienable lugurious
4. DLW — Review first DLW paragraph: Mark Twain and Technology.
5. Use the Purdue University Website and find five examples of subordinating conjunctions. Post to this website by Monday, September 24.
1. S.I.R. (20 minutes)
2. Vocab test (25 Minutes)
3. Pele and Hi’iaka (group work)
4. DLW review first paragraph
Please note: Magazine titles are underlined
1. Essay development — choosing idea(s) and expanding — turn in
2. Hero’s Journey Wheel — Pele and Hi’iaka — Work in groups, PowerPoint due September 26.
3. Blog website: http://blogs.ksbe.edu/solamber
4. Vocab test on Friday, 14 September on the following words:
disgorge
vehement
deference
lexicon
hierarchy
motif
facetious
gauche
apotheosis
apex
5. DLW — p. 16 — correct paragraph and turn in.
1. Essay writing– develop personal ritual paragraph — modeled for you in class. Come up with three possible ideas for development of the paragraph
2. Vocabulary words for the week of September 10–
evoke
epiphany
2. Complete Hero’s Journey Wheel for the Pele and Hiiaka Chapter 9 and 10
3. DLW, p.14, correct sentences 4 and 5
