02.26 - The Outlaws of Poker Flat (Part II)

We started today's class with fifteen minutes of reading from everyone's free choice books (or any class novels that are currently being read). During this time I conferenced individually with people about their books. At the end of this reading time, everyone recorded their progress on their reading sheets.

Next, we returned to reading the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flats". We are completing a story review for this story as we have in the past, but then we will look at how to use this story in activity, and then we will use the activity to set us up for a final product (some writing) on this topic.

Today in class, we finished the story and discussed the ending. For homework, everyone is completing the story review of the story. We will use information from these sheets in an activity next class.

Handouts:
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Story Review


Homework:

Complete the story review sheet.

Read for two hours from your free choice book and/or novel-style class texts.

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

 

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02.24 - The Outcasts of Poker Flat (part I)

We started today's class with fifteen minutes of reading from everyone's free choice books (or any class novels that are currently being read). During this time I conferenced individually with people about their books. At the end of this reading time, everyone recorded their progress on their reading sheets.

Next, we turned to reading the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flats". We are completing a story review for this story as we have in the past, but then we will look at how to use this story in activity, and then we will use the activity to set us up for a final product (some writing) on this topic.

Today in class, we read paragraphs 1 - 19 from the story. We will finish the story and look at the story review next class.

Handouts:
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Story Review


Homework:

Fill in the story review sheet for what we have read so far in the story.

Read for two hours from your free choice book and/or novel-style class texts.

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

 

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02/11 - Assignment Reviews and Revision

We started today's class with fifteen minutes of reading from everyone's free choice books (or any class novels that are currently being read). At the end of this reading time, everyone recorded their progress on their reading sheets.

Our focus was then on returning work and reviewing class performance on some of our most recent assignments (book reviews and found poems). I presented the class with data and feedback on trends with these assignments including went well (+s) and areas where we will be focusing on improving (deltas). See graphs below. Everyone also had the opportunity to expand on their thinking with the assignment by completing the 100 level option (when successfully completed the grade for the assignment goes in as a 100).

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In our review of performance on the found poems, we looked at examples of found poems from the original presentation of this topic:

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This poem was done tongue-in-cheek when I realized 

that my own name appeared on the sheet as part of the directions. 

Everyone had the remaining time in the period to work on their revisions.

Homework:

Revise/complete any work scoring below a 92.

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02.03 - Found Poems

We started today's class with fifteen minutes of reading from everyone's free choice books (or any class novels that are currently being read). At the end of this reading time, everyone recorded their progress on their reading sheets.

We then returned to looking at the found poems that everyone worked on last class with the substitute. This is something that had confused a variety of people so we went back over the found poem sheet that had been handed out in class.

In reviewing this sheet, we took time to have an in-depth discussion of the poem on the back of this sheet ("Found Poem" by Howard Nemerov). Our discussion focused on what the poem was about and what message that topic was supposed to communicate.

We then returned to the front of the sheet and looked at how to make a found poem from the material there. I showed everyone two poems that I had made from the words on the sheet (see below). Then, everyone had time to try and make their own poem.

 

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Handout:

Poetic Form: Found Poem

In class, I created another found poem from the sheet (this one is more tongue-in-cheek, see below).

Mr. Collins

Chosen by presidents and popes

Twentieth-century prominence

Significantly Shakesperian

Significantly Wagnerian

Mr. Collins is official

In Mr. Collins, the original meaning remains intact

His work

       is the graffiti mythology of bicycle wheels

       found on official documents and soup cans

Homework:

Complete or revise your found poems describing a character in your book and the setting of your book.
Character found poem
Setting found poem


Revise/complete any work scoring below a 92.

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