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Anything Important 10 http://anythingimportant10.wordpress.com What did I miss? Anything important? Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:20:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png Anything Important 10 http://anythingimportant10.wordpress.com Thursday, June 4, 2009 http://anythingimportant10.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/thursday-june-4-2009/ http://anythingimportant10.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/thursday-june-4-2009/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:20:45 +0000 Ms. DeVries http://anythingimportant10.wordpress.com/?p=1016 ]]> Final Exam Schedule (2009 Final Exam Study Guide)

Tuesday: 2nd and 3rd
Wednesday: 4th and 5th
Thursday: 1st and 6th

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Tuesday: 2nd and 3rd
Wednesday: 4th and 5th
Thursday: 1st and 6th

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Tuesday: 2nd and 3rd
Wednesday: 4th and 5th
Thursday: 1st and 6th

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No Jumpstart

Missing book check

Return graded papers

2009 Final Exam Study Guide: Annotated poems due the day of the final exam. You will need two copies, but only one must be annotated. Remember that annotations include commentary. Why did you include that figure of speech? What did you intend with that imagery? What did you want that alliteration to suggest?

Final Exam Schedule

Tuesday: 2nd and 3rd
Wednesday: 4th and 5th
Thursday: 1st and 6th

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No Jumpstart: Turn in May Jumpstarts. Each stamp is worth 5 points. Entries that are five sentences long without a stamp are 3 points. Entries that are one sentence long are 1 point. Write the total on the sticky note, place the sticky note on the entry you want me to read, and turn in to the basket. Don’t forget to write your NAME!

Summer Reading

2009 Final Exam Study Guide

]]> http://anythingimportant10.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/friday-may-29-2009/feed/ 0 anythingimportant9 Thursday, May 28, 2009 http://anythingimportant10.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/thursday-may-28-2009/ http://anythingimportant10.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/thursday-may-28-2009/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 07:27:07 +0000 Ms. DeVries http://anythingimportant10.wordpress.com/?p=998 ]]> SWBAT describe and write a sonnet by reading, annotating, and prewriting.

Vocabulary: couplet, quatrain, sonnet, iambic pentameter, iamb

Essential Questions: What is a sonnet and how does it incorproate couplets and quatrains?

Homework Review/turn in homework (write 9 couplets and 1 quatrain)
Jumpstart: Author’s Choice
Sonnets
- Define the vocabulary words.
- Read the sonnet.
- Discuss and annotate the poem.
- Write your own sonnet.

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Vocabulary: couplet, quatrain, iambic pentameter

Essential Questions: What are couplets and quatrains? How do you write them?

Review haikus and odes.
Jumpstart: What is a haiku? What is an ode? What are some similarities and differences between the two forms of poetry?
Couplets, Quatrains, Sonnets
- Couplets: Definition, Reading and Annotating, Writing
- Quatrains: Definition, Reading and Annotating, Writing

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Vocabulary: ode, concrete detail, commentary

Essential Questions

Review homework about odes
Jumpstart: Listen to Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”. What is the mood of this piece of music? What emotions are conveyed through the music? At what occasions should (or is) this music played? Explain.
Odes by Pablo Neruda
- Definition: What is an ode?
- Read and annotate “Ode to a Sock”
- Independent annotating: Choose from “Ode to a Book” or “Ode to an Artichoke”.
- Write your own ode.

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Tuesday: 2nd and 3rd

Wednesday: 4th and 5th

Thursday: 1st and 6th

Tuesday: 2nd and 3rd

Wednesday: 4th and 5th

Thursday: 1st and 6th

Tuesday: 2nd and 3rd

Wednesday: 4th and 5th

Thursday: 1st and 6th

No Jumpstart

Missing book check

Return graded papers

Final Exam Schedule

Tuesday: 2nd and 3rd

Wednesday: 4th and 5th

Thursday: 1st and 6th

Summer Reading

2009 Summer Reading List

2008 Summer Reading Assignment

2009 Final Exam Study Guide

Vocabulary: couplet, quatrain, sonnet, iambic pentameter, iamb

Essential Questions: What is a sonnet and how does it incorproate couplets and quatrains?

Homework Review/turn in homework (write 9 couplets and 1 quatrain)

Jumpstart: Author’s Choice

Sonnets

Define the vocabulary words.

Read the sonnet.

Discuss and annotate the poem.

Write your own sonnet.

Vocabulary: couplet, quatrain, iambic pentameter

Essential Questions: What are couplets and quatrains? How do you write them?

Review haikus and odes.

Jumpstart: What is a haiku? What is an ode? What are some similarities and differences between the two forms of poetry?

Couplets, Quatrains, Sonnets

Couplets: Definition, Reading and Annotating, Writing

Quatrains: Definition, Reading and Annotating, Writing

Vocabulary: ode, concrete detail, commentary

Essential Questions

Review homework about odes

Jumpstart: Listen to Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”. What is the mood of this piece of music? What emotions are conveyed through the music? At what occasions should (or is) this music played? Explain.

Odes by Pablo Neruda

Definition: What is an ode?

Read and annotate “Ode to a Sock”

Independent annotating: Choose from “Ode to a Book” or “Ode to an Artichoke”.

Write your own ode.