Journal:
Bring it all together:
How have you changed in regard to feelings about school and your ability to be successful?
Agenda:
Hurston Test
Slideshows
Poetry--choose a poem that you like, search for secondary sources that will help you to understand the author, the time, and the subject.
Choose a poem to interpret--Click me
These are some Poet’s Cues:
Poetic form: Recognizable structures (e.g., sonnets, ballads, haiku, limericks) cue the
reader as to how the poem should be read. Poems written in “free verse” require the
reader to use their own language instincts to find rhythm and pace.
Poetic structure: The structure or placement of words on a page cue the reader as to
how the poem should be read.
Stanza: The space between stanzas is a cue to the reader to pause.
Rhythm: The poem’s sounds (e.g., ordered and predictable, conversational) cue the
reader as to how to pace the reading of the poem.
Rhyme: Lines ending in words that rhyme cue the reader to emphasize the rhyming
sound to create rhythm and connection.
Repetition: Repetition of words or lines cues the reader that these lines are important to
the meaning of the poem and should be given their own unique and predictable sound.
Punctuation: Punctuation cues the reader as to how long to pause or how to control the
voice.
Line breaks: The length of a line will affect the time and attention the line’s words are
given.
Enjambment: One line continuing into another is a cue to make the pause between
lines short.
Language: Formal language cues the reader to use an academic or historic voice.
Dialect: A poem in dialect provides important cues to the reader for rhythm, pace, and
sound.
Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words cue the reader for
rhythm.
Assonance: Repeated consonant sounds in a line or stanza cue the reader to soften
the sounds.
Consonance: Repeated consonant sounds in a line or stanza cue the reader to stress
the sounds.
Imagery: Words that together form an image cue the reader to read these words
together.
Onomatopoeia: Sound words cue the reader to read with animation.
White space: Blank spaces cue the reader to create significant silences.
Coming up:
Get ready for test practice
Mock test just around the corner
Monday, April 14, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
The Home Stretch!
Journal: Peanut Butter!
We have now covered study reading, reading as a process, outlining, and the composition process.
What are some of the things you now know about reading?
Agenda:
Inventories online:
Perceptions
Reading
Discuss Hurston:
Next Wednesday:
Write one page about how you feel about being tested on what you read?
We have now covered study reading, reading as a process, outlining, and the composition process.
What are some of the things you now know about reading?
Agenda:
Inventories online:
Perceptions
Reading
Discuss Hurston:
- Questions and guided reading
- How can questions help with the reading process?
- How can they help with outlining and essay writing?
- Discuss Paper
Next Wednesday:
Write one page about how you feel about being tested on what you read?
- Make this a Before and After style of paper.
- How you felt before, how you feel now about being tested.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Class 20
Sorry to have missed many of you, but I hope you are safe and at home, warm and away from the weather!
For the next class, please choose one of the following writing topics to develop. It should be at least a page in length and will be expected to have 5 paragraphs. It will be scored using the final exam rubric found on this blog site.
Writing Activity
PREPARATION:
In Hurston’s novel, her father and the store owner Joe Clark (from autobiography) have become Janie’s second husband—Jody Starks. Starks is an individual who would not let Janie participate with the common folk and the exciting life of the town. Joe makes Janie bind up her hair and stay away from the conversations on the porch. For Janie, this is a confining experience—something which causes her to keep her feelings hidden from others and to change in her feelings about her husband. She no longer loves him.
ACTIVITY:
Write about a significant being in your life and how this person’s structure and dictates of rules and thoughts about you have affected you. You can do this positively and negatively.
Writing Activity
OBJECTIVE:
To relate the feelings of love expressed for Tea Cake in the novel. The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is the story of the love between Janie and Tea Cake. In her autobiography, Hurston states that she actually ran away from a lover she had in New York to Haiti, to write and to try to live without him. “I wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God in Haiti. It was dammed up in me, and I wrote it under internal pressure in seven weeks.” (DT 212)
Autobiographical Writing Activity
PREPARATION:
Have you ever had a friendship or a loving relationship with someone, that everyone close to you criticized, found fault with and said that this person was not acceptable and was not on your level of society?
Janie’s relationship with Tea Cake was disapproved of by the townspeople, yet, Tea Cake was the most loving person she had ever met.
ACTIVITY:
Write about a memory of a situation or a relationship which was disapproved of by your peers of friends, yet something very good came out of it that was not apparent to everyone.
For Wednesday
we will be going over the questions from the reading (found on this blog). You will be randomly assigned your question set, so make sure you have them all done.
We will also be taking an exam--10 questions
Be ready!
For the next class, please choose one of the following writing topics to develop. It should be at least a page in length and will be expected to have 5 paragraphs. It will be scored using the final exam rubric found on this blog site.
Writing Activity
PREPARATION:
In Hurston’s novel, her father and the store owner Joe Clark (from autobiography) have become Janie’s second husband—Jody Starks. Starks is an individual who would not let Janie participate with the common folk and the exciting life of the town. Joe makes Janie bind up her hair and stay away from the conversations on the porch. For Janie, this is a confining experience—something which causes her to keep her feelings hidden from others and to change in her feelings about her husband. She no longer loves him.
ACTIVITY:
Write about a significant being in your life and how this person’s structure and dictates of rules and thoughts about you have affected you. You can do this positively and negatively.
Writing Activity
OBJECTIVE:
To relate the feelings of love expressed for Tea Cake in the novel. The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is the story of the love between Janie and Tea Cake. In her autobiography, Hurston states that she actually ran away from a lover she had in New York to Haiti, to write and to try to live without him. “I wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God in Haiti. It was dammed up in me, and I wrote it under internal pressure in seven weeks.” (DT 212)
Autobiographical Writing Activity
PREPARATION:
Have you ever had a friendship or a loving relationship with someone, that everyone close to you criticized, found fault with and said that this person was not acceptable and was not on your level of society?
Janie’s relationship with Tea Cake was disapproved of by the townspeople, yet, Tea Cake was the most loving person she had ever met.
ACTIVITY:
Write about a memory of a situation or a relationship which was disapproved of by your peers of friends, yet something very good came out of it that was not apparent to everyone.
For Wednesday
we will be going over the questions from the reading (found on this blog). You will be randomly assigned your question set, so make sure you have them all done.
We will also be taking an exam--10 questions
Be ready!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Class 16 Proposition, Outline, Chunking, Makign Notes
Journal:
How did your perspective change when you told story with your powerpoint? Did the pictures help? How about the chunking?
Agenda:
Journal
Discussion
The role of the powerpoint in chunking text to propositional levels.
These propositional levels tell the main idea, and these main ideas are what we are looking for in making an outline.
Connect to the outcomes of the the class -- essay, outline, and objective test question practice.
Review of what we have learned.
Project forward to the exam.
Review assignment for the break--
Read:
Zora Neale Hurston, "their eyes were watching god"
you can check this out at the library or buy it used.
It must be read when we meet next on March 31st.
Please answer the questions in the packet available here and on the shared drive.
Use full sentences and restate the question-- Why? Because that is how you get a "5" on the exam. Practice makes perfect.
Here are the questions for the reading. Make sure you answer them while you read. Look for secondary sources to help your understanding.
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
1.
When was Their Eyes Were Watching God published?
2.
What was significant about this time?
3.
Zora uses the small black town where she was born as the setting for her novels. Where is the town located?
4.
Who arranges Janie’s first marriage to whom and why?
5.
Does Janie love Logan Killicks?
6.
When the people in Town talked negatively of Janie, what did she do?
7.
Who is Pheoby Watson?
8.
What metaphor does Janie use to describe the experience of being out in the world?
9.
When the story opens is Tea-Cake still around?
Chapter 2
1.
Who raised Janie?
2.
Why was Janie called alphabet?
3.
Why did Nanny slap Janie?
4.
What did Nanny say about Negro women?
5.
Whom did Nanny want Janie to marry?
6.
What did Nanny do with her baby?
Chapter 3 and 4
1.
Describe the marriage dinner of Janie and Logan Killicks?
2.
When Janie wants to wonder and think about love, where does she go?
3.
Describe the way Janie criticized Logan Killicks.
4.
What happened to Nanny?
5.
What metaphor did Janie use to describe the world?
6.
Describe Joe Starks when Janie first saw him.
7.
What did Joe Starks speak for?
8.
What does Janie do when she becomes fed up with Logan Killicks?
Chapter 5
1.
What does Joe Starks plan to do in Eastonville?
2.
What does Hicks think about Joe Starks building a post-office and a store?
3.
What was one of the first conflicts Jane had with Joe?
4.
What took the bloom off Janie and Joe’s marriage?
5.
What did the townfolks do at the barbecue?
6.
What were the folks celebrating?
7.
Why didn’t Janie like being Mrs. Mayor?
8.
What did Joe Starks become in town?
9.
What did Joe Starks do to Henry Pitts and why?
Chapter 6
1.
What was the main topic of conversation on the porch of the store?
2.
Why didn’t Joe want Janie to talk with the people?
3.
Why didn’t Janie enjoy working in the store?
4.
Do you think Mayor Starks should have pressured Matt into selling the mule for 55.00?
5.
Describe Mrs. Bogle.
6.
What happened to the spirit of Joe Starks and Janie’s marriage?
7.
Why did Joe slap Janie?
Chapter 7
1.
Why is Janie feeling so stultified and unfulfilled at the opening of the chapter?
2.
What changes have overtaken Joe?
3.
Is Janie sympathetic to Joe’s feelings? Explain.
4.
Where does the omniscient narrator come in and what does it explain?
5.
Why did Joe Starks strike Janie?
Chapter 8
1.
What did Jody do after he felt that Janie had insulted him? He moved his things and slept downstairs.
2.
Do you think Jody was justified in being angry with Janie?
3.
What was one of the symptoms of Jody’s illness? He didn’t eat his meals.
4.
What is the cause of Joe’s illness? Kidney failure.
5.
How does Janie describe death? “Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West. The great one who lived in the straight house like a platform without sides to it.”
6.
Why was Janie disturbed with living with Janie? He wouldn’t allow her to be the way she wanted to be.
7.
What happened to Jodie?
8.
How did Janie feel about Jodie and what did she say after he died?
Chapter 9
1.
Describe Joe’s funeral.
2.
Explain the following expression: “She sent her face to Joe’s funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.”
3.
What did Janie say she felt about her grandmother?
4.
What does the following expression mean: “Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
5.
Why didn’t Janie enjoy working in the store and collecting rents after Joe died?
Chapter 10
1.
After many people go to Winter Park to see the game, who visits Janie in the store?
2.
What is your first impression of Tea Cake?
Chapter 11
1.
Describe the way Tea Cake came to visit Janie the second time?
2.
Why didn’t Hezekiah want Janie going around with Tea Cake?
3.
How did Janie describe Tea Cake? He looked like the love thoughts of woman. He could be a bee to a blossom a pear tree blossom in the spring. He crushed herbs with every step he took. He was a glance from God.
4.
How did Tea Cake visit Janie on the fourth day after no seeing her for three days?
5.
How does Tea Cake feel about Janie? No one can hold a candle to you. You got the keys to the kingdom, he said.
Chapter 12
1.
What did the townspeople think about Tea Cake’s and Janie’s relationship? Give specific examples.
2.
What does Janie mean by the following remark: “Ah done lived Grandma’s way, now Ah means to live mine.”
Chapter 13
1.
At the opening of the chapter, where is Janie going?
2.
When Janie went upstairs to dress at twelve o’clock, what did she discover?
3.
What story came to mind when she couldn’t find her money?
4.
What story did Tea Cake tell Janie, about where he had been?
5.
How does Tea Cake think he’ll get Janie’s money back?
Chapter 14
1.
Where are the Everglades located?
2.
What did Tea Cake and Janie plan to do in the Everglades?
3.
What does it mean to be “on the muck”?
4.
Why was Tea Cake’s house so attractive to others?
5.
What did Tea Cake and Janie do for entertainment?
Chapter 15
1.
How did Nunkie go about getting Tea Cake’s attention?
2.
How did Janie react when Nunkie made a play for Tea Cake?
Chapter 16
1.
Describe Mrs. Turner’s personality. Why did Tea Cake hate her?
2.
What did Janie mean by the following remark about Tea Cake: “He kin take most any lil thing and make summertime out of it when times is dull. Then we lives off a dat happiness he made till some mo’ happiness comes along.”
3.
Why did Mrs. Turner admire and visit Janie?
Chapter 17
1.
What did the workers do Saturday afternoon when their work tickets were exchanged for cash?
2.
How did the fight start in Mrs. Turner’s Restaurant?
3.
What happened to Mrs. Turner during the melee (confused fight) in the restaurant?
1.
When was Their Eyes Were Watching God published?
2.
What was significant about this time?
3.
Zora uses the small black town where she was born as the setting for her novels. Where is the town located?
4.
Who arranges Janie’s first marriage to whom and why?
5.
Does Janie love Logan Killicks?
6.
When the people in Town talked negatively of Janie, what did she do?
7.
Who is Pheoby Watson?
8.
What metaphor does Janie use to describe the experience of being out in the world?
9.
When the story opens is Tea-Cake still around?
Chapter 2
1.
Who raised Janie?
2.
Why was Janie called alphabet?
3.
Why did Nanny slap Janie?
4.
What did Nanny say about Negro women?
5.
Whom did Nanny want Janie to marry?
6.
What did Nanny do with her baby?
Chapter 3 and 4
1.
Describe the marriage dinner of Janie and Logan Killicks?
2.
When Janie wants to wonder and think about love, where does she go?
3.
Describe the way Janie criticized Logan Killicks.
4.
What happened to Nanny?
5.
What metaphor did Janie use to describe the world?
6.
Describe Joe Starks when Janie first saw him.
7.
What did Joe Starks speak for?
8.
What does Janie do when she becomes fed up with Logan Killicks?
Chapter 5
1.
What does Joe Starks plan to do in Eastonville?
2.
What does Hicks think about Joe Starks building a post-office and a store?
3.
What was one of the first conflicts Jane had with Joe?
4.
What took the bloom off Janie and Joe’s marriage?
5.
What did the townfolks do at the barbecue?
6.
What were the folks celebrating?
7.
Why didn’t Janie like being Mrs. Mayor?
8.
What did Joe Starks become in town?
9.
What did Joe Starks do to Henry Pitts and why?
Chapter 6
1.
What was the main topic of conversation on the porch of the store?
2.
Why didn’t Joe want Janie to talk with the people?
3.
Why didn’t Janie enjoy working in the store?
4.
Do you think Mayor Starks should have pressured Matt into selling the mule for 55.00?
5.
Describe Mrs. Bogle.
6.
What happened to the spirit of Joe Starks and Janie’s marriage?
7.
Why did Joe slap Janie?
Chapter 7
1.
Why is Janie feeling so stultified and unfulfilled at the opening of the chapter?
2.
What changes have overtaken Joe?
3.
Is Janie sympathetic to Joe’s feelings? Explain.
4.
Where does the omniscient narrator come in and what does it explain?
5.
Why did Joe Starks strike Janie?
Chapter 8
1.
What did Jody do after he felt that Janie had insulted him? He moved his things and slept downstairs.
2.
Do you think Jody was justified in being angry with Janie?
3.
What was one of the symptoms of Jody’s illness? He didn’t eat his meals.
4.
What is the cause of Joe’s illness? Kidney failure.
5.
How does Janie describe death? “Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West. The great one who lived in the straight house like a platform without sides to it.”
6.
Why was Janie disturbed with living with Janie? He wouldn’t allow her to be the way she wanted to be.
7.
What happened to Jodie?
8.
How did Janie feel about Jodie and what did she say after he died?
Chapter 9
1.
Describe Joe’s funeral.
2.
Explain the following expression: “She sent her face to Joe’s funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.”
3.
What did Janie say she felt about her grandmother?
4.
What does the following expression mean: “Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
5.
Why didn’t Janie enjoy working in the store and collecting rents after Joe died?
Chapter 10
1.
After many people go to Winter Park to see the game, who visits Janie in the store?
2.
What is your first impression of Tea Cake?
Chapter 11
1.
Describe the way Tea Cake came to visit Janie the second time?
2.
Why didn’t Hezekiah want Janie going around with Tea Cake?
3.
How did Janie describe Tea Cake? He looked like the love thoughts of woman. He could be a bee to a blossom a pear tree blossom in the spring. He crushed herbs with every step he took. He was a glance from God.
4.
How did Tea Cake visit Janie on the fourth day after no seeing her for three days?
5.
How does Tea Cake feel about Janie? No one can hold a candle to you. You got the keys to the kingdom, he said.
Chapter 12
1.
What did the townspeople think about Tea Cake’s and Janie’s relationship? Give specific examples.
2.
What does Janie mean by the following remark: “Ah done lived Grandma’s way, now Ah means to live mine.”
Chapter 13
1.
At the opening of the chapter, where is Janie going?
2.
When Janie went upstairs to dress at twelve o’clock, what did she discover?
3.
What story came to mind when she couldn’t find her money?
4.
What story did Tea Cake tell Janie, about where he had been?
5.
How does Tea Cake think he’ll get Janie’s money back?
Chapter 14
1.
Where are the Everglades located?
2.
What did Tea Cake and Janie plan to do in the Everglades?
3.
What does it mean to be “on the muck”?
4.
Why was Tea Cake’s house so attractive to others?
5.
What did Tea Cake and Janie do for entertainment?
Chapter 15
1.
How did Nunkie go about getting Tea Cake’s attention?
2.
How did Janie react when Nunkie made a play for Tea Cake?
Chapter 16
1.
Describe Mrs. Turner’s personality. Why did Tea Cake hate her?
2.
What did Janie mean by the following remark about Tea Cake: “He kin take most any lil thing and make summertime out of it when times is dull. Then we lives off a dat happiness he made till some mo’ happiness comes along.”
3.
Why did Mrs. Turner admire and visit Janie?
Chapter 17
1.
What did the workers do Saturday afternoon when their work tickets were exchanged for cash?
2.
How did the fight start in Mrs. Turner’s Restaurant?
3.
What happened to Mrs. Turner during the melee (confused fight) in the restaurant?
Monday, March 10, 2008
Class 15
This post was published to Reading Accelerator at 8:00:00 PM 3/10/2008
Class 15
Journal:
What is the difference between reading for performance (oral) as compared to reading silently? Describe strategies you would use to read a children’s story to make it interesting.
Agenda:
1. Journal discussion notes:
a. Style and expression
i. Rate/ pace
1. Emphasis
2. elongation
ii. Tone
1. Pitch
2. Volume
iii. Voice
1. Dialect
2. Pronunciation
iv. Word choice
v. Eye contact
vi. Non-verbal expression
1. Gesture
b. Slide Show
2. Create a slideshow of your Reading Autobiography or a children’s story
a. Create a script based upon chunking the phrasing
i. Remember to make chunks according to what you could say in a breath
ii. You can know this through pause and punctuation
1. This should help you know
a. when to breath
b. where to punctuate
c. how to express with voice
d. meaning
2. Use images to express what is happening in the text
3. Use animations and sounds if you want
4. Have fun
3. Remember—this is a strategy to help you with outlines and oral reading preparation.
a. What is important !here
For Wednesday:
We will try to go back to the computer lab
Be ready to read your autobiography, or Iowa 80.
Class 15
Journal:
What is the difference between reading for performance (oral) as compared to reading silently? Describe strategies you would use to read a children's story to make it interesting.
Agenda:
- Journal discussion notes:
- Style and expression
- Rate/ pace
- Emphasis
- elongation
- Emphasis
- Tone
- Pitch
- Volume
- Pitch
- Voice
- Dialect
- Pronunciation
- Dialect
- Word choice
- Eye contact
- Non-verbal expression
- Gesture
- Gesture
- Slide Show
- Create a slideshow of your Reading Autobiography or a children's story
- Create a script based upon chunking the phrasing
- Remember to make chunks according to what you could say in a breath
- You can know this through pause and punctuation
- This should help you know
- when to breath
- where to punctuate
- how to express with voice
- meaning
- when to breath
- Use images to express what is happening in the text
- Use animations and sounds if you want
- Have fun
- Remember to make chunks according to what you could say in a breath
- Remember—this is a strategy to help you with outlines and oral reading preparation.
- What is important !here
- What is important !here
For Wednesday:
We will try to go back to the computer lab
Be ready to read your autobiography, or Iowa 80.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Class 13
Journal Why is it important to make notes about school materials you are trying to learn? Give examples and specifically cite the process and exit exam rubric and explain the difference between:
note-making & note-taking.
Agenda:
Outlines due
Discuss journal
Making notes / taking notes
survey
Create slideshow
Choosing a children's story
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