Carlos Barrera

English 2.0 Week of November 16-20

 

These are the quizzes to makeup in the Computer Lab from last week:

1.    Figurative Language Terms

2.    Weary Blues and Jazz Fantasia

3.    Hard Rock Returns to Prison

4.    SOAPStone-Meeting the Animal in Washington Square Park

5.    Theme for English B

Tuesday-Friday:

We will begin reading Sharon Draper’s novel Romiette and Julio

 

We will view a PBS Program on Gangs in Georgia:

 

http://www.gpb.org/pressroom/keeping-our-kids-safe

 

English 2.0 Weeks of Nov 2-Nov 13/Poetry and Hip-hop

Essential Question(s):

How do lyricists, songwriters and poets use language to express their point of view?

Key Questions:

-Where are the patterns of imagery and

symbolism in a text?

-How does one support an assertion of

theme with references to the text?

 

Essential Vocabulary:

1.        alliteration

2.        assonance

3.        connotation

4.        diction

5.        figurative language

6.        free verse

7.        imagery

8.        metaphor

9.        personification

10.     onomatopoeia

 

Last Week we read these poems:

 

 

Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg

http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/52075-Carl-Sandburg-Jazz-Fantasia

 

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

http://cai.ucdavis.edu/uccp/workingweary.html

 

Hard Rock Returns to Prison for the Hospital for the Criminally Insane by Etheridge Knight

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15411

 

Theme for English B by Langston Hughes

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/English_B.html

 

Meeting the Animal in Washingston Square Park by Luis Rodriguez

 

Download Meeting the Animal in Washington Square Park

 

We listened to an interview with RZA (Wu Tang Club) on:

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114115740

This week we will put together our Play List and take one song to play a clip and analyze. We will apply TPCASTT to the song lyrics:

Another method of analyzing poetry is the TP-CASTT method of analysis (a close cousin of the method we have been using.)  The following is a breakdown of this method:

Title:                             Ponder the title before reading the poem

Paraphrase:                 Translate the poem into your own words

Connotation:               Contemplate the poem for meaning beyond the literal level

Attitude:                      Observe both the speaker’s and the poet’s attitude (tone).

Shifts:                           Note shifts in speakers and attitudes

Title:                             Examine the title again, this time on an interpretive level

Theme:                         Determine what the poet is saying

We will begin watching The Hip Hop Project:

10 Steps for the Playlist Project:

 

Step 1-Create a 10 song+ playlist

 

Step 2-Pick one song (contact me if you can’t access song and I’ll get it for you)

 

Step 3- PG 13 the R rated words-pick out one song and play some of it.

 

Step 4(optional)-display images associated with song or video clip of song

 

Step 5- Project title of song and have class guess content of song based on title

 

Step 6-Project title of song and song lyrics( clean up R rated words and replace with PG 13 words)

 

Step 7-Breakdown song

 

Step 8-Discuss hidden meaning of the song

 

Step 9-note poet’s attitude/any shifts in song

 

Step 10-Revisit Title and the song artist’s purpose

English 2.0-Week of October 12-19

Today we begin a new unit of study:

Essential Question(s):

 

How can a negative personality trait bring down a driven, ambitious person?

Key Questions:

How does Shakespeare use language and dramatic terminology to help a reader understand the characters motivations and the universal themes of the play?

How can students communicate effectively with purpose in collaborative settings?

 

This week we begin our study of William Shakespeare's Othello.

Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday we will study Act I of Othello.

We are in the Computer Lab on Friday.

English 2.0 Weeks of September 28-October 9

We begin our new unit of study:

Essential Question(s):

How difficult is it to start all over again in a new place?

Key Questions:

How can students recognize, internalize and communicate the author’s purpose?

-What are ways students can synthesize print and non-print media to make an argument or reach a conclusion?

Essential Vocabulary:

1.        Latina/Latino

2.        loaded language

3.        migration/ immigration

4.        argument

5.        autobiography

6.        cause and effect

7.        graph, chart, diagram

8.        inference

9.        persuasion

10.     rhetorical devices

Today in the computer lab we will finish the assessments for the Birmingham 1963 Bombing Research Unit. There are two test assessments on www.mygradebook.com and two from last week.

1. English 2.0 Research Paper Questions Pretest

2. English 2.0-Reference and Research

3. research vocabulary
4. Birmingham Bombing 1963 vocabulary

Tomorrow We begin reading, viewing, discussing Josephina Lopez's play REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES.

Listen to the NPR interview with America Ferrera:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=826594

Listen to the NPR interview with Carlos Mencia

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5478147

Listen to the NPR interview with Lila Downs:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6444880

The Essay Prompt:

Persuasive: Persuasive Speech:

Think about a global issue-achieving world peace or eliminating hunger and poverty-on which you can take a stand. Write a persuasive essay in which you support your position with good reasons and examples.

You will submit this on www.pearsonsuccessnet.com

User Name: (John_Smith)

Password: Your Lunch I.D.

Product: Platinum Level.

Go to www.bubbl.us

Create a prewriting bubble cluster for your essay topic:

I put up a sample I am working on:

English 2.0 Weeks of September 14-25

 

Today in the computer lab you wil catch up on any missing assignments. Each group shoud have one person create an account on www.easybib.com

You will search for 10 photographs but you will document this photographs using easybib.com. I will assist you.

Tuesday-We have to take a 25 Question test given by Cobb County to 9th Grade students.

Wednesday through Friday we continue the research process. We continue viewing Spike Lee's documentary "Four Little Girls". To view the checklist of grades for the research paper, click here:

Download English 2.0 Research Project

 

Today in the computer lab you are working on the two Vocabulary assessment: One on the Birmingham Bombing 1963 and the other on Research voab.

You will also contine working on putting togther text, pictures, and narration for your movie.

English 2.0 Week of September 8-11

Today in class: We will finish typing the drafts of the Literary essay. We will work on creating PowerPoint Slides of text and create jpg. images of these to mix in with images of the story you chose to analyze from Arabian Nights. We will create Windows Movie Maker presentations.

We will submit our essay to the textbook website to earn a 1-6 assessment on the essay.

Go to www.pearsonsuccessnet.com

The user name is your name  (John_Smith)

The password is your lunch number.

You will go the the PHOnline Essay Scorer, click on Platinum Level, and choose the Literary Analysis Essay. You will post your essay into the box. I will assist you.

Also, there are two new assessments in www.mygradebook.com

Both are on ARABIAN NIGHTS.

Tomorrow in class we will display our Windows Movie Maker presentations.

We will begin our Research Unit on Spike Lee's "Four Little Girls" and the Birmingham Bombing of 1963.

The entire film is available for viewing and download at:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3302971953362876297#

 

Research Paper PPT

Download Research

This week in English 2.0 (9th Lit/10 Lit) 8/31-9/4 2009

Today- We will go to www.mygradebook.com to do an assessment on "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp". Make sure you completed last week's assessments. This week will finish "Arabian Nights" and hope to return to the computer lab on Friday to type an essay.

You will go www.bubbl.us

The essay prompt for this week's essay is: Think about a story that you have read recently. Write a review for your school newspaper that explains the most interesting aspect of the book, such as its character, theme, setting, or plot.

You will write about either "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves", "The Little Hunchback" or "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp".

In your bubbl.us you will create a circle with the name of your story and then branch out with circles for characters, lessons learned (theme), setting, or exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution (plot).

See how I set up my clusters on Bubbl.us below:

English 2.0 week of August 24-31

Monday-August 24th- Today we are in the computer lab. We will post last week's personal essays on a blog that on our class can read. To post click on the link below and the follow the directions. I will assist you.

http://osbornehighschool.typepad.com/barrera/english-20-personal-essays.html

Also, take your journal and use the information on your plot chart for "The HunchbacK" and use it to do your quiz on:

www.mygradebook.com

Today in class, you will be telling a joke. I will film you with the camera and we'll see it in class. To help you tell a joke, here are some resources:

(Knock-Knock jokes) http://www.azkidsnet.com/JSknockjoke.htm#top

http://www.kidsturncentral.com/jokes/knockjokes.htm

http://www.brownielocks.com/jokes.html

or put in "jokes" into Google search and surf for one.
 

Tuesday August 25th-Friday August 28th

We continue with Arabian Nights:

 

We will read/view "Aladdin"

We will read/view "The Beggar and the Sultan"

We will read/view "The Three Brothers"

We will listen to Flight vs. Invisibilty (from This American Life www.npr.org)

On Friday we will begin the prewriting for the next essay---Response to Literature

Welcome to English 2.0/Monday August 10, 2009

Welcome:

The Syllabus will be posted here:

Download 2009_barrera_expectations_osbourne_10th_grade

Monday 8/10/09- We will have introductions.

Computer Lab sign ups!

Icebreaker #1- Three truths and a lie

Icebreaker #2- Teamwork- Cup Towers  

Materials and supplies

Discuss activities and the course

Tuesday 8/11/09-

10 minute timed write

Making a Fist- Pictures and discussion

Read poem "Making a Fist"- Literary Elements

Watch the Flobots "Rise" video and make connections to the poem

Raising your fist- Artist representation- Draw a fist on a piece of paper.  Within the sillouette draw symbols, pictures, quotes, and items that inspire you, support you, and allow you to raise your fist in triumph.  You are alive.  Outside the sillouetter, write things that bring you down or that you can't control.  These are things in which you would make fist in anger or aggression.

HW- bring journal for tomorrow    

Wednesday 8/12/09-

• Journal Entry #1- Think of a time that you had to take a risk or overcome an obstacle. Write to explain what you did and how you felt as a result.  (1/2 page to a page)
• Review Assessment page 186 in blue workbook- "Making a Fist"  Reinforce imagery and theme
• Read aloud- "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing".  Listen for imagery, characterization, and theme. 

Thursday 8/13/09-

Journal Entry #2- Grammar

Listen to This I Believe www.npr.org

• Writing the Personal Essay. Down the PowerPoint we read in class:

Download Writing-a-personal-essay-fall-09

• HW- work on essay, get journal

Friday 8/14/09:

• Journal Entry #3 Grammar
• Syllabus- (3rd period received the syllabus on Friday) Writing the Personal Essay- continue with notes  First Period will start the notes today.  Third period will continue from "thesis".
• Technology-  Introduction to  mapping website www.bubbl.us
• Listen to/Read "This I Believe" Sample Personal Essays (Used with permission)
• Classwork- Determining topic, writing thesis, using mapping to brainstorm ideas, moving to the outline.  

 

Listen to This I Believe www.npr.org

• Writing the Personal Essay. Down the PowerPoint we read in class:

10th Literature-Thursday December 20, 2007

Final Exam test will be in four part to be taken in the computerlab. The first two parts are on "Cyrano de Bergerac". The third part is creating a SOAPStone for Luis Rodriguez's poem "Meeting the Animal in Washington Square Park" that we read a couple of weeks ago. Finally the last part of the exam is an old quizlab on Muhammad Ali.

We will all do well!