Do Now | Grab your perspectives journal. We will reflect on each of the questions and images below to inspire our final project this school year.
Final Project | You will publish your poetry from this semester into a finalized book. During this process, you may create new poems if necessary or recreate poems based on feedback from your peers and educator.
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Types of Poems
During GWT today, one of your goals should be to finish your BGD Theme Paper. We will be looking for three main components:
Here is an well-written example that includes these three requirements. STUDENT EXAMPLE In Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, Death is a theme that recurs and causes change in the characters and their lives. She mentions the real deaths of Uncle Odell and Aunt Kay and also the imaginary death of her father in her stories. Uncle Odell´s death breaks her mother when she gets the news. It changes her from having a normal fun day to being completely devastated. It makes ¨a hollowness where only minutes before she had been whole.¨ p.22. Aunt Kay´s death happens when the author is a little girl and she writes about her nice memories of her aunt and then finishes with ¨And here, my Aunt Kay memories end.¨ p.150 The tone is nostalgic, and sadly final. Another death she talks about is her father, who is not actually dead. She tells people he is dead since he is not around. ¨He died, I say, in a car wreck or He fell off a roof or maybe He´s coming soon.¨ p.170 It is a way to remove him from her world and be done with him. This fantasy death connects to the real deaths by being final, after the deaths, the people are no longer in Jacqueline´s life. Death is change and final. It can break people, make them nostalgic or make them glad to be rid of people. Death affects everyone it leaves behind and leaves a hole in their lives, even if it is imaginary. SPRING STAR TESTINGIf you are at home today, you have a choice of three options:
STAR TESTING AGENDA **If you have anything with you besides a Chromebook and Writing Utensil, please put it away now** DO NOW: Get out your Chromebook and a Writing Utensil. Go to the ELA website under daily agendas. DO NEXT: Click on the link here for STAR Testing. Slant your screen down so I know you are ready for further instruction! I will distribute paper during this time. Troubleshooting: If this does not work, please have students try logging in through clever. WHOLE GROUP INSTRUCTIONS: One step at a time, we will log on to the STAR Portal. Please follow my instructions and help others if needed. If you are stuck, please raise your hand and wait quietly for me to come around and help.
PURPOSE & EXPECTATIONS: We take the STAR360 Assessment three times each year. The test is used to measure growth in your reading abilities. It is important that you...
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION: While the test as a whole is not timed, each question is timed. If time is running out, a clock will appear. If you have an answer in mind, please click in at that time. If you do not answer a question in time, the system assumes you did not know the answer and counts the question as wrong. It is a good idea to take your best guess if you are unsure, rather than letting the question time out. Additional Information: The password for students to pause is admin. If the test is frozen, they can refresh. If this does not work, have them click the stop test, then re-login. It will save their progress but you will need to put in the password to have them finish. ADDITIONAL TIME: When you are done please notify me by raising your hand. I will let you know what to do with the remainder of the time after you have finished. Do Now | Open up your notes from yesterday (in your perspectives journal or through Mr. Neave's Google Doc).
Theme Analysis | The first sentence of the paper has been started for you. "In Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson" Now finish the analysis using your notes from yesterday:
Outline
Publication | Share your document with your teacher before the end of class, even if you are not completely finished. These are not due until next Wednesday. We will continue revising, editing, conferencing next Monday and Tuesday. Theme is defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly. DO NOW | Generate a list of the top 5 most prominent themes in Brown Girl Dreaming. Remember, a theme is a topic that keeps popping up throughout the book, not the subject of a singular poem or isolated event. Share out with the class and develop a comprehensive list of themes that everyone agrees BGD deals with.
CAROUSEL | Individually, choose and share the one theme you would like to explore in your BGD Theme Paper. (some themes we have talked about over the last few class periods have been religion/belief, death, friendship, becoming a writer, racism/activism, moving & searching for home, rural vs. city life, storytelling, etc) STUDIO TIME | Find 3 poems that relate in different ways your chosen theme. Remember we talked about how the tone of each poem might give us new information about the theme that is being discussed. Many of you put it very nicely with something like this: "Theme describes what is being said, but tone describes how the author says it." So try to find 3 poems that don't simply repeat the same idea about the theme you chose; find poems that widen or deepen what you think Jacqueline Woodson's relationship is to that overall theme. TICKET OUT | Fill out the form that is in Google Classroom. Do Now | How might Jacqueline's story be different if she had written it in some other way than using poetry?
Reading | Finish Part V. Reading Log + Exit Slip
Vocabulary | Jamboard Parts IV and V Quiz Parts IV and V of Brown Girl Dreaming Announcement | Monday and Tuesday of next week will be Star360 testing, please bring Brown Girl Dreaming to read silently when the test is finished. Do Now | In Part IV, Jacqueline reveals that she was too scared to write the letter 'q' in cursive, so she writes Jackie and allows her teacher to start calling her by that name.
Reading | Continue reading Part IV, if time remains start Part V. Reading Log + Exit Slip
Tuesday
Do Now | Timeline Sequence
Identify three key events that have happened in Jacqueline's life:
How have each of these events changed her? Her family? Reading | Student choice: read silently/individually, read as a group. If you read as a group, each student will read one full poem from Part III + IV (our goal is to finish the novel this week). Exit Slip | Reading Log (fill out form below) Monday
Do Now | Headlines Routine
Share a headline that reveals something about Jacqueline's life in New York. Reading | Student choice: read silently/individually, read as a group. If you read as a group, each student will read one full poem from Part III. Exit Slip | Reading Log |
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