Day 10

Objective:  The students will know info about novel reading in class as well as the outside reading requirement.

 

Roll Quiz in G Class

1.  WP Number 5 Long Way Home

2.  Class Expectations:  Outside Reading Requirement:  This is Due the 2nd to last week of the semester.  Not sure what day yet!

3.  Outside Book Honors List:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u7qglI4jZekLoywXsPGlgs6u_jDA-yEMl48WxRua1Yo/edit?usp=sharing

4.  Lord of the Flies discussion:  Must have the book by next week.  If you want 100 Extra Credit points you can get the book and Close Read it.  Must be highlighted and annotated.  No Sticky Notes accepted for points.  Here is a link on Amazon:   https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Flies-William-Golding/dp/0399501487/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FPZBYFKIYDYM&dchild=1&keywords=lord+of+the+flies+paperback+book&qid=1598883151&sprefix=lord+of+the+flies%2Caps%2C205&sr=8-1

5.  Copy the rest of Chapter 1 Notes on sequence: 

Sequence:  The order in which all of the events take place. 

 

Chronological Order:  Most stories are told in chronological order which is in “time order.” 

 

Flashback:  A scene that interrupts the story to introduce an event from the past.  The flashback should help build upon the plot.

 

Flash-forward:  A scene that jumps ahead in time to narrate an event that happens (or could happen) in the future.

 

Foreshadowing:  Hints or clues in the story that something will happen later in the plot.

 6. Assync Time.  Read (Close Read if possible to print): "Long Way Home"

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/11AROcn8wJ9WdUaVwUAmNSWVnYqCGLGLD/view?usp=sharing

7.  Assync Time:  Look over the Honors Book List.  Look for that titles that may interest you.  Then look on Amazon and look at page numbers, price, and read the summary of it to be sure that it is something that you want to invest time and your parents' money to read.

Day 9

 Objective:  The students will discuss the first four questions from assignment and then complete.

1.  Roll Quiz in G. Class

2.  WP Number 4

3.  Discuss Questions 1-4 on assignment.

4.  Look at the first paragraph together for tone.

5.  Complete the assignment due today at end of Independent time.

Essay due by Friday at 3 pm.

Day 8

 Objective:  The students will complete The Pedestrian assignment for discussion tomorrow.

ESSAY NOTE:  You have until 3 pm on Friday to resubmit your essays for a better grade.  PLEASE do not delete the scores that I gave each paragraph.  I don't want to have to re-read a paragraph that has 20/20.  If you take off the score, I will have to read it again, and I might see something that I didn't the first time.  You don't want that!  :)

1.  Roll Quiz

2.  The Pedestrian Assignment.  Do not do the last question!!!!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lYnqJh6JmvMCDxMwkhoNQtCNZSPUfwDIUgu99iBqvFQ/edit?usp=sharing

Day 7

 Objective:  The students will discuss the notes for Chapter 1 on Plot and Setting, then read the first fiction story of the year.

Roll:  Using Google Classroom Assignments:  Roll Quiz.

1.  WP Number 3:  The Pedestrian II 

2.  Turn in The Pedestrian vocab to Google Classroom

3.  Discuss Essay Rewrites

 4.  Go over Chapter 1 Notes that you wrote out and put in note section of folder.

5.  Read "The Pedestrian" by Wednesday.  I would print it out and close read it for easy use.

 The Pedestrian full text:  http://www.riversidelocalschools.com/Downloads/pedestrian%20short%20story.pdf

 Chapter 1 Notes:

Chapter 1 Plot and Setting

Plot:  Plot is the most important part of any story.  It is the series of related events that happen in the story. 

Exposition:  The basic situation of the story.  It is the beginning of the story where the reader learns the character, conflict and setting.

Complications (Rising Action):  The events or problems that help develop the plot and build a reader’s interest.

Climax:  The most exciting part of the story.  It’s the turning point of the story usually toward the end.

Resolution:  The end of the story where the conflict is resolved.

Conflict:  The struggle between two forces.  It’s the problem that has to be solved in the story. 

      External:  Man v. man.  Man v. Nature.  Man v. Society, Man vs Tech

      Internal:  Within the main character’s mind or heart.

Setting:  The setting of a story affects the plot and the characters.  Setting includes the character’s customs- how they live, how they dress, eat and behave.  LOCAL COLOR

Setting will also reveal a time frame.

The most important function of setting is to contribute to the story’s emotional effect- its mood or atmosphere.  It helps set the tone.

How does an author create a specific tone?  With very specific words.  In other words, if an author wants the tone to be scary, he will use words (DICTION) that have SCARY Connotations.

 

 

Day 6

 Objective:  The students will know important vocabulary for our first story:  "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury.

 1.  WP Number 2:   The Pedestrian

2.  The Pedestrian Vocabulary:  Go to Google Classroom and I made a copy of the assignment for you to type right on if you prefer.  Or you can print it out and hand write.  Your decision.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-4HfqQIGPpTy2XvcgPc4yp_appq05U-V/view?usp=sharing

Here are the words:  

1) regressive (adj)

2) scrutinized (v)

3) enticing (adj)

4) ebbing (v)

5)  subjective (adj)

6) manifest (v)

7) pilgrimage (n)

8) intermittent (adj)

9)  riveted (v)

10) incandescence (n)

 

 3.  By Monday, copy by hand all of these notes into your folder.

 

Chapter 1 Plot and Setting

Plot:  Plot is the most important part of any story.  It is the series of related events that happen in the story. 

Exposition:  The basic situation of the story.  It is the beginning of the story where the reader learns the character, conflict and setting.

Complications (Rising Action):  The events or problems that help develop the plot and build a reader’s interest.

Climax:  The most exciting part of the story.  It’s the turning point of the story usually toward the end.

Resolution:  The end of the story where the conflict is resolved.

Conflict:  The struggle between two forces.  It’s the problem that has to be solved in the story. 

      External:  Man v. man.  Man v. Nature.  Man v. Society, Man vs Tech

      Internal:  Within the main character’s mind or heart.

Setting:  The setting of a story affects the plot and the characters.  Setting includes the character’s customs- how they live, how they dress, eat and behave.  LOCAL COLOR

Setting will also reveal a time frame.

The most important function of setting is to contribute to the story’s emotional effect- its mood or atmosphere.  It helps set the tone.

How does an author create a specific tone?  With very specific words.  In other words, if an author wants the tone to be scary, he will use words (DICTION) that have SCARY Connotations.

Day 5

 Objective:  The students will know expectations of a closing paragraph and how to properly set up a paper in MLA.

1.  MLA Heading:

 

Your Name                                                                                            Last Name 1

Mr. Warren

Honors Lit. P.1

19 August, 2020

                                                                    Title of Essay

     Start writing paper.  All in Double Space 12 pt font.

 

2.  What should you do in the Closing Paragraph?  The opposite of what you did in the inrto.  In other words, take my brain from your point and make it wide again.  Apply what you have proven to the bigger picture.  (About three sentences)

3.  Complete the essay and EDIT!!!  EDIT AGAIN.  Have a parent read it.  You need to catch esay errors and writing rules.

4.  Essay dues tomorrow.

Day 4

1.  Share some Intro and First Body Paragraphs

2.  How to properly use Integrated Quotes Power Point

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ILn6I4KwJnB9ftY5SMPkekY5uHS4ZDBl/view?usp=sharing

3.  Complete the rest of the paper (last three paragraphs) by Thursday/Friday

4.  Digital Citizenship Assignment (for independent work) for 100 points.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C67vmDMHMbNkRaNs1AdEzwbYyuS6VydqS1mRuJijQpY/edit#slide=id.g5e582e3f52_0_0

 After going through the lesson, complete the assignment on Google Classroom.

Day 3

 Objective:  The students will discuss the second piece and then begin their first essay with directions from the teacher.

 

Here is the link to the recording Lucas:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EC9P1G2YcXqX_jLgm5JeHWooPGUbrTNr/view?usp=sharing

1. Formal Writing Rules:  Copy into your Notes

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12RoIkTfu9KTnCwY0vTI01T4osTFCKTw2/view?usp=sharing

2.  WP #1

3.  Discuss Outliers

4.  Go over Essay 1 Writing Prompt:

5.  Discuss the essay.  What it will look like.  Do a quick outline.

5.  Intro Paragraph Notes:  What have you learned before?  What should you forget?

6.  Inverted triangle format:  My way to write a perfect intro in 3 minutes or less.

7.  Homework:  Have the first two paragraphs of your essay complete by Monday.  I will call on several of you to share with me.  And I will not be happy if it's not done.  

All the docs you need.

The Sports Gene
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z312CWT2r2AB5LVpsOw6OGBU8L7-pzwF/view?usp=sharing

The Outliers
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gkXcRfYIFq1PGe2CdYHgrxGOFnlt56ob/view?usp=sharing

Persuasive Writing PP
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w_bJMTL9et43NuUJgRJH9onm7e748DsB/view?usp=sharing

Essay 1 Prompt


 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AvM7gMBFz_9pvlXLiwTgPRXr3yblVcgX/view?usp=sharing

Day 2

Objective:  The students will discuss the first piece (The Sports Gene) and read the next piece (The Outliers) for upcoming essay.

1.  Roll and Office Hours

2.  Discuss "The Sports Gene"

3.  Close Read "The Outliers"

4.  Complete the questions for Outliers on the same document as The Sports Gene.  DUE TOMORROW.  Don't share yet.  I have to set up an assignment in Google Classroom.

Docs

Close Reading Req

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GiL5nn6dFv4nvNduk25OhoW44C8plKqBFGSLNzI-bdE/edit?usp=sharing


The Sports Gene
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z312CWT2r2AB5LVpsOw6OGBU8L7-pzwF/view?usp=sharing

The Outliers
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gkXcRfYIFq1PGe2CdYHgrxGOFnlt56ob/view?usp=sharing

Persuasive Writing PP
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w_bJMTL9et43NuUJgRJH9onm7e748DsB/view?usp=sharing

Essay 1 Prompt


 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AvM7gMBFz_9pvlXLiwTgPRXr3yblVcgX/view?usp=sharing

Day 1

 Objective:  The students will get a feel for this virtual thing and see how much of this we have a chance to get through.

1.  Roll and Intro to warrenmlk.com

2.  Expectations in this virtual world.  Patience is the key!

3.  Summer Work. Due September 5 for 25 Extra Credit Points.

4.  Supplies Needed:  Folder with dividers (Handouts, Notes, WPs, Assignments), Computer, Pens and Paper.

5. Close Reading Requirements Notes.  You will write out and keep.

6. Essay Number 1 Prompt

7.  Close Read "The Sports Gene"

Close Reading Requirements

Close Reading Req

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GiL5nn6dFv4nvNduk25OhoW44C8plKqBFGSLNzI-bdE/edit?usp=sharing


The Sports Gene
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z312CWT2r2AB5LVpsOw6OGBU8L7-pzwF/view?usp=sharing

The Outliers
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gkXcRfYIFq1PGe2CdYHgrxGOFnlt56ob/view?usp=sharing

Persuasive Writing PP
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w_bJMTL9et43NuUJgRJH9onm7e748DsB/view?usp=sharing

Essay 1 Prompt


 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AvM7gMBFz_9pvlXLiwTgPRXr3yblVcgX/view?usp=sharing

Test

Close Reading Requirements

Close Reading Req

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GiL5nn6dFv4nvNduk25OhoW44C8plKqBFGSLNzI-bdE/edit?usp=sharing


The Sports Gene
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z312CWT2r2AB5LVpsOw6OGBU8L7-pzwF/view?usp=sharing

The Outliers
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gkXcRfYIFq1PGe2CdYHgrxGOFnlt56ob/view?usp=sharing

Persuasive Writing PP
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w_bJMTL9et43NuUJgRJH9onm7e748DsB/view?usp=sharing

Essay 1 Prompt


 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AvM7gMBFz_9pvlXLiwTgPRXr3yblVcgX/view?usp=sharing

And we are done...

Hello all.

All grades are done and in the computer.

I enjoyed you all.  Please keep in touch a you go on to live your lives.

Warren

Last Assignment of the Year: LOTF Chapter 12

And just like that... we are on our last assignment.  I am proud of those of you who stuck with it all the way through.  If you have me in AP Lit your senior year, you will be better off than those who didn't read it because I mention it all of the time.

OK so before you finish the book, lets discuss Chapter 11.

Of course this chapter is most known for the death of Piggy.

With his death comes the destruction of two huge symbols:  the conch and Piggy's brain. 

If you look at the imagery of that scene, the author was definitely trying to make you see it.  The conch is shattered into 1000 pieces.  And Piggy's head literally smashed against the rocks below and opened up and pick stuff came out.  That would be his brain.

So now all three parts of a successful society are gone.  Nothing is left and only human's real nature is left:  Main is Basically Evil.

Ralph is alone.  Samneric have been taken captive. 

OK for Chapter 12.  No dialectic.  I am tired of those and I am sure that you are too.

So for the last chapter, just send me an email with a paragraph like the last part of the Book Report.  Just tell me what you thought of it.  The book as a whole.  And don't worry about writing rules.  Just be you, tell me your thoughts.

Miss ya!!  Warren

Digital Learning Assignment 11: LOTF Chapter 11

Hello all,

OK, Chapter 11 is kinda a transition chapter as I said.  Not a bunch to talk about for this one...  but just wait til Chapter 11...

1.  All the Biguns (the older boys) except for Samneric have joined Jack's tribe.  They have set up their camp at Castle Rock.

2.  Ralph talks about Simon's murder.  Although all the boys participated, they all also deny it.  Ralph, Piggy, Samneric.

3.  Ralph has trouble remembering his past life in civilization.  He has trouble really thinking about anything now.

4.  At night, Jack's tribe raids Ralph and his group.  They come for "fire" and end up taking Piggy's glasses.  Piggy is now totally useless, except for his brain...

5.  The comic relief that the author tried to instill in this chapter was the fight scene.  Ralph and Sam (I think it was Sam) thought that they were fighting the other boys.  But when they discuss the fight, you should realize that they were actually fighting each other.


OK, now to the book's climax.  Prepare yourselves!

Only two chapters left.  Miss ya!  Warren

Digital Learning Assignment 10: LOTF Chapter 10

Hey all,

Sorry this is one day late.  I had to wrap up the AP class after Wednesday's test.

We have three chapters to go.  I know the dialectics may be getting old to you, but it's all that I can do in this "place" in time.

So if you ever want to just go ahead without me... that's what we will do through Chapter 12.

OK Chapter 9...  My least favorite chapter.

Simon is dead.   My favorite character was literally beat, stabbed, clawed, bit and whatever else... to death. 

But we knew it was going to happen.  Simon himself foreshadowed it (just like Jesus foreshadowed his death) when he told Ralph that "you will get back" alright. 

Heck, even the Lord of the Flies told us that he was going to die (they will do you) in the last chapter.

So the keys to the last chapter:
1)  Simon went to the top of the mountain.  He found the best and confirmed that it was a man.
2)  He freed the beast from his tangled mess and the parachute was able to fill with wind and it takes the body off of the island and out to sea.  Thus, no more Beast.
3)  Simon comes down the mountain to reveal the "truth" to the others.
4)  The boys (all of them) were doing their chant/dance and he comes down the mountain in the dark.
5)  The boys mistake him for the beast and "do" him.
6)  Simon's body washed out to sea, but his body is circled by little shiny fish.  Forming a symbolic halo.

So if we go back to the first Power Point.  Golding believed that a successful society needs three equal parts to survive.  Intelligence (piggy), Rules and Laws (Ralph), and Spiritualism and Religion (Simon).  He believed society would collapse without ONE of them.

Well... get ready.  Chapter 10.  I call this a transition chapter.

What do many authors do when they find their work becoming overly dark and depressing?  See if you can find it.  Think Cinna the Poet!

Miss ya!

Online Assignment 9: LOTF Chapter 9

Hello everyone.  Hope you had a nice weekend.  The weather was awesome!!!

OK so LOTF Chapter 8.  The most important chapter.  This is actually my favorite discussion to have each year.

1.  Jack leaving to form his own group.  This is symbolic.  Remember I said that Jack represents Satan.  Well, in the Bible, originally Satan was God's number 1 angel.  But he challenged God for control and power, so he was cast out.  Just like Jack.

2.  The crazy part.  The killing of the sow.  I would love if you would all re-read that part where it begins with "The Pigs lay, bloated bags of fat."  This is the part that I read each year.  As you read it again, look at the word choice.  There are words in there that just don't belong with the description of boys hunting a pig.

So if you study it, you will realize that it is a symbol or metaphor.  Remember I told you that the author served in WWII.  He witnessed and heard of horrible things that made him believe that all men are evil.  Well, he had to show that here.  The horror that men are capable of doing. So what he did was he personified a female pig.  And the boys figuratively raped her and killed her in front of her children.  The worst thing (to the author) that a man can do.

3.  Pig's head on a stick.  You will notice from the time that the boys killed the sow, the author does not refer to them as boys anu more.  They are either the tribe or the savages.  So what do savages do?  They make sacrafices to their "god," which in this case, is the Beast.

4.   The Lord of the Flies:  Most of you noticed that the "rape" of the pig happened in Simon's secret spot.  They defiled his sanctuary.  Then put a pig's head on it.  Then Simon wakes up and talks to it.  He is hallucinating, but it is all symbolic.  Where did the author come up with the name for the book?  Well Simon is talking to the Lord of the Flies, but he is really talking to Satan.  In the Bible, Satan has many names.  One is Beelzebub.  Which translate to Lord of the Flies.

5.  Temptation Scene:  So Simon talking to the LOTF is an allusion to when Jesus was tempted by the Devil to become more like man.  He tells Simon to go down and play with the others...  go have fun.

6.  We will DO YOU.  And the LOTF says to him that if he doesn't join the rest of them, they will "do you."  Means kill him.  And look at the names that the LOTF throws out who will "do him."

Ok that was not as fun as talking about it.  Actually sucks!!!

I hate this.

Anyway, Chapter 9:  A View to a Kill...  :(

Online Assignment 8: LOTF Chapter 8

OK, I have to get this done.  Because for some reason I have 40 book reports, videos, pics, and oral text questions to deal with right now.

Thanks again to all of you who waited until the last day.  I was hoping that you would because I am sooooo bored.  It's my lucky day!

I will grade them today and tomorrow, but I will wait to put the grade into the computer until the very last day that they are required  to be in.  I think June 1st.

So anyway, Lord of the Flies.  I don't have any more of my own dialectics to share.  Because at this point in a normal year, we would be well into our Lord of the Flies game.  I would have divided you all into 6 groups of my choosing.  I would make the groups very diverse, trying to put "friends" into separate groups.  The groups would be made up of very different personalities, kinda like the boys on the island.

I then would assign a chapter to each group.  Six groups,  six chapters left.

And you all would teach the rest of the book.  I literally sit and watch and grade you.  If you missed something in your presentation and lesson, I would make sure I covered it for you.

So here are some brief insights into Chapter 7:

1)  Ralph wishes he wasn't so dirty and unkept.  He wants to look more civilized.
2)  The boys go on a search for the beast.  Along the way, they see a pig and Ralph throws a spear and hits it.  It does not die, but it bleeds.  The blood causes Ralph to get VERY excited.  THEME!!
3)  I think this may be a part where Simon walks into a tree and blood runs down his forehead.  This is symbolic of Jesus and the crown of thorns.
4)  Simon and Ralph talk about getting rescued.  Simon says the key words:  "Don't worry Ralph, you'll get back okay."  Look at the words that Simon uses.  Why doesn't he say, "We."
5)  The boys see the beast.  They run like heck away from it.  The beast is confirmed.  They just don't know that it's just a dead MAN.

OK Chapter 8.  This is the next chapter that has a scene that I read out loud.  It is my favorite part to discuss, although many kids look at me like I am crazy when I do.  See if you can figure it out.

Do a dialectic for 100 points.

Online Assignment 7: LOTF Chapter 7

It was nice talking yesterday to many of your parents.  Nice people!

OK let's talk about Chapter 6 first. 

There are three parts of the book that I actually sit down, have you all open your books to a page and I read OUT LOUD (in my monotone voice) a section.

Chapter 6 is the first.  Just the first three paragraphs where the "beast" comes to the island and Samneric see it.

Many kids don't see what is happening and it's an incredible "image" that the author creates.  So I will try to help you here.  You should re-read the first paragraphs to you "see" in your head what the twins wake up to see.

The beast comes from the world of adults.  It is a "man" (theme) that was a pilot that was shot down in a dog fight above the island (remember there is a fictional world war going on).

The pilot is dead.  You have to see the word choice that is used.  The "figure" with "dangling limbs" is just hanging from his parachute as it comes down.  So if you visualize.  He dead.  Probably bloody!

Then he lands at the base of the island and is dragged up the mountain over sharp rocks.  So, even though he has one of those leather helmets that they had back in the day, his face is  probably all screwed up now, torn up, bloody, missing teeth and eyes maybe.  Not pretty.  But that's not all.

He is tangled in his parachute strings,  He is sitting, head between his legs, and each time the wind blows, it fills the parachute and he lifts his bloody head and torso and the parachute behind him looks like wings or a huge body.

And Samneric wake up to this.  They hear the "plop" of the parachute fill with wind, and then see the "Beast" sit up and stare at them. 

Now picture two 11 year olds.  Already scared.  Already thinking about some creature on the island.  And they see that!!

Here is my Dialectic:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/0B3L_VvieQoSodzBqQ2lINXJMSnc/edit#slide=id.p5

Now on to Chapter 7.  It is kinda a transition chapter.  Then we get to read Chapter 8.  The most symbolic chapter.  I love talking about that chapter!!!!

OUTSIDE READING REQUIREMENT!!!!!!!!!

You guys are so lucky that we are not in school right now!!!!!!!!

Otherwise I would be yelling!!!!  And I never yell.

Only 26 of you have completed the Outside Reading. 

You have had almost 2 months off. 

You have known about this for 5 months.

The two kids that we transferred in at semester, Cherry and Amarah, have finished it already.

What is up with you!!!!

Is my anger coming through to your screen?????

You have 4 days.  May 6.  If it's late.  Your grade is what is says right now.

And to the 26 of you who have done it.  Thank you.