THURSDAY

We're in the final days, class!

Scholar Start:
How far would you have been willing to go to get extra credit? How do you feel about the fact our school hasn't really given you that option?

6/4 Wednesday

Scholar Start:

We are going to take a quick Survey in class today.  It is anonymous, so please be as honest as possible, and don't worry about any judgement.
Survey click here

When you have completed the survey, you will need to open your reflective writing piece, and get to work on it!

6/3 Tuesday

finish this story:

"You can't forget," he said in a raspy voice, "The key, the key, you have to keep up with it, or all is lost."  Though I couldn't see him through the darkness of the morning, I could feel a tiny brass key slip into my hand.

6.2 Monday

What was something you wish you had done last summer that you didn't get a chance to do?  Is it something that is still on your summer to-do list?

5.30 FRIDAY

FREE WRITE FRIDAY!

Please leave in a blog post.

Today we are going to keep working on our reflective essays.

5.29 Thursday

Please respond in a blog post.


Please go to this link and make a copy: REFLECTION. put your class period where the "X" is.

5.28 Wednesday

Scholar Start:
What do you think are good criteria for "good" student writing?

Agenda
-Scholar Start
-Glows/Grows
-Identifying criteria
-This year's writing
-Selecting 3 pieces of student writing

5/27 Tuesday

I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend (I know I sure did)! Now that we're back, let's get ready to hit the ground running as we start our last two weeks of school.

Agenda:

-Scholar Start-Independent reading

-Glows, Grows

-REAL paragraph

It will use this article from Friday.  

5/9 Friday!

You kiddos know the drill- Free Write Friday!  If you can't think of a prompt, write about the ghost that haunts Thomas Nelson High School

5/7 Wednesday

Today's scholar start:
Why is it important to actively listen to people who are speaking to us?

5/6 Tuesday

Yesterday we started with PRESENTATIONS.  These will continue throughout the week.

today we will be going upstairs for Achievement coaching.

May 2 FRIDAY

Scholar Start

Guess what time it is?  FREE WRITE FRIDAY!

If you can't think of what to write about, try this for a prompt:

What is your favorite thing about our school and why?

Today we are going to be working on our presentations.

5/1 Thursday

Scholar Start:
What are problems with group work? What do you think could be done to avoid these issues?

4.29.2014 Tuesday

Scholar Start:
Why are you wanting/ not wanting to take AP English next year? What do you think will be the hardest thing about this choice?
Yesterday we began IA analysis.

Today we are going to be breaking into groups to cover IA analysis. each group will be assigned a different standard.

Friday

Free-write Friday!

can't think of anything to write about? Describe your favorite article of clothing.  What makes it so special?

4/24/2014 Thursday

respond in a blog comment.


Today we are going to be discussing all quiet on the western front.

4/23/2013 Wednesday

Why do you feel it is important to maintain a formal tone in your writing? Please respond in a blog comment.

4.22.2014 Tuesday

respond in a comment.

Today we are going to read another excerpt from All quiet on the Western front:
In the shell hole.

4/21/2014 Monday

Today we are going to start class with independent reading.

We are also going to read an excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front.

4/18/2014 Free Write Friday

Schoalar start: Free write Friday!
If you can't think about anything to write about, write about your favorite thing about yourself.

4/16/2014 Wednesday

Scholar Start:
What do you think qualities of a model citizen are?

The Unknown Citizen

4/15/2014

Agenda:
Independent reading
2nd Period finishes "Beware of Dog"
ACT practice 2
The Unknown Citizen

4/14/2014 Monday

Practice ACT

4/11/2014

Scholar Start:  Free Write Friday!
Can't think of a prompt?
Take one item that you are wearing, and give it magical properties.  What can it do? Does it give the wearer special abilities? How would you use it?

Today we are going to finish reading "Beware of the Dog"

4/10/2014

Please respond in the comments.

4/9/2014 Wednesday

Respond in a blog comment.

Agenda: 

Scholar Start

Share

Glows/Grows

Parallel Structure practice (exercise 4)

Read Beware of the Dog

4/8/2014 Tuesday

Please leave your response in a comment.
excercise 3

4/7/ 2014

List for Operation Exploration

Model Letter

3.27(28).2014

VOTE FOR BARDSTOWN FOR BEST SOUTHERN TOWN<----Scholar start.

When you have, write why or why not should Bardstown win?

Alternative assignment for students who were absent

3/25/2014 Tuesday

Scholar Start: Drop a comment!

chomp chomp

3/24/2014 MONDAY

Scholar Start:

If you could change someone's mind about something, what would it be?

Grammar excecise 1

PROPAGANDA prompt

3/21/2014 Friday

Free write friday

3.20.2014 Thursday

Today is the VERNAL EQUINOX, meaning the first day of spring and (finally) 12 hours of light.  Please write a response in the blog about the VERNAL EQUINOX.  You can talk about it scientifically, write a poem, ect.
Please leave the response in a scholar start.

 "Over there"
Yesterday's Slides:


CHOMP CHOMP

3/19/2014

Please respond with a comment.

3/14/2014 ETHOS, LOGOS, PATHOS

Which of these two gentlemen would you trust to do your taxes? Or be your banker?
Please respond in a comment.

3/13/2014 Thursday

I want to say how incredibly pleased I was with everyone's responses on yesterday's scholar start. Quality,  Creative answers!

Due some last minute shuffling around, today will be free write THURSDAY.  My apologies.Can't think of anything to write about? Imagine that scientists discovered strawberries are actually the second smartest thing on the planet.  How would this change your life? How would this change the lives of humans?



Today we will be reading a poem by Rupert Brooke, a British Poet.  Like "Flanders Fields," this poem was written early on in the war.

V. The Soldier

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

3/12/2013

What is this dog doing? (KEEP POSTS APPROPRIATE) Leave in a blog comment.

MEAL

3/11 Tuesday

Scholar start: What kind of things come to mind when you see this image? Describe it in as much detail, using as many descriptions as possible.

2/28 Friday

Free-write Friday!

Can't think about anything to write about? Explain this fictional scenario:
Today, George Louis Sanderson was found dead in his Chicago apartment. Police suspect foul play.


1st Period:
Richard Cory

2nd Period:
Elanor Rigby

2/26 Thursday

Scholar Start:
How do you feel about snow? We've had a lot of snowdays lately, and people generally polarize on the issue  What are you thoughts?

"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Robert Frost

2/20/2014 Thursday

Scholar Start:
Leave a post (poem, sonnet, prose, your choice) that utilizes the following terms:
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
repetition
parallelism
allusion

remember, blog posts need to be written with correct grammar and spelling, if at all possible.
Agenda:

Literary Terms

Remember, we have a quiz on Friday!

2/18 Tuesday

Test on Poetry Terms Friday!

Scholar Start:

Please respond in a comment.

We will be working in groups today. Please do not go to any of the links today until I have told you to.

Poetry Terms

2/17 Monday

We took a look at the poem "The World is Too Much With Us"  And annotated.

2/14

Today we wrote poems for people that we loved.

2/13 Thursday

Scholar Start:
What happened here? Speculate.  Respond in a blog comment, then finish your TP-CASTT if nessisary

Agenda
Scholar Start
Poem Discussion




If time permits (it likely won't)
Sonnet 130

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damasked, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

   And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

   As any she belied with false compare.

2/12 Wednesday

SCHOLAR START:

Use one of these objects to make a metaphor.  Or, create a metaphor of your own.  I really, really want you to try and develop yours as fully as possible.

We are going to be doing a TP-CASTT (on our own today-GASP!) You can review the slides on Tuesday's post if you need to review. The following is a poem by Petrarch.  We will be discussing this poem as well, so please take your work seriously.  

Gli Occhi Di Ch' Io Parlai

Those eyes, 'neath which my passionate rapture rose,

The arms, hands, feet, the beauty that erewhile

Could my own soul from its own self beguile,

And in a separate world of dreams enclose,

The hair's bright tresses, full of golden glows,

And the soft lightning of the angelic smile

That changed this earth to some celestial isle,

Are now but dust, poor dust, that nothing knows.

And yet I live! Myself I grieve and scorn,

Left dark without the light I loved in vain,

Adrift in tempest on a bark forlorn;

Dead is the source of all my amorous strain,

Dry is the channel of my thoughts outworn,

And my sad harp can sound but notes of pain.

2/11 O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN

What do you think of this guy? What do you think his story is? (respond in a comment)



O CAPTAIN

2/7 FREE WRITE FRIDAY

FREE WRITE FRIDAY.
Please respond with a blog comment.

Zac, here are your words:
killer
pumpkin
giraffe
big
fast
apple
fun
hurry
awkward
alligator

Can't think of anything to write about?  Write this poem: "Ode to the lump that I found in my shoe"

2/5/2014

No school today kids! Please enjoy this extended break.  Your essays will be due on the next day we return to school. 

2.5 Tuesday

Respond to the quote listed above in a blog comment.  What does this quote mean to you?

1/31 IA

Free write friday!


Please make a copy of this document IA

replace the "1" with your class period, and the "First.last" with your first and last name.

1/29 Wednesday

please respond via blog post.

Today we will be starting our song analysis essays-see Monday's post for model and rubric.

1/28

Please respond via comment.

1/27 Library and Teacher Model

Welcome back, kids!

Today we went to the library, renewed books and Ms. Case had a lovely presentation regarding the KBA books (if you have questions regarding this, please stop by the library and ask her.

We also reviewed our essay we will be starting this week, a literary analysis essay on our song.
Rubric
Teacher Model

1/16/2014

Respond with a comment:

What types of things would you like to read more of in class? Things written by women? Things related to sports? Literature written by presidents?

Here are the slides from the past two days:

Today we will be looking at our SONG LYRICS again.

MLA Presentation

1/14 Tuesday "Jabberwocky"

Scholar Start: Please post a comment to the blog responding to the following question:
If you woke up tomorrow, and found out you were principal of the school, what would you change? What things would you DEFINATELY keep?

Jabberwocky

Monday