Add this poem to your review for next week's short story/poetry tests.  All classes.


Gic to Har

by Kenneth Rexroth


It is late at night, cold and damp

The air is filled with tobacco smoke.

My brain is worried and tired.

I pick up the encyclopedia,

The volume GIC to HAR,

It seems I have read everything in it,

So many other nights like this.

I sit staring empty-headed at the article Grosbeak,

Listening to the long rattle and pound

Of freight cars and switch engines in the distance.

Suddenly I remember

Coming home from swimming

In Ten Mile Creek,

Over the long moraine in the early summer evening,

My hair wet, smelling of waterweeds and mud.

I remember a sycamore in front of a ruined farmhouse,

And instantly and clearly the revelation

Of a song of incredible purity and joy,

My first rose-breasted grosbeak,

Facing the low sun, his body

Suffused with light.

I was motionless and cold in the hot evening

Until he flew away, and I went on knowing

In my twelfth year one of the great things

Of my life had happened.

Thirty factories empty their refuse in the creek.

On the parched lawns are starlings, alien and aggressive.

And I am on the other side of the continent

Ten years in an unfriendly city.

Wed 9/27 and Thurs 9/28
Vocab/Essay #3

Tuesday 9/26
Full short story review.
Vocab test tomorrow/Thurs.
Short Story/Poetry Unit tests Tuesday of next week: Part 2 for Eng 10, Full Test for English 10H

Monday 9/25
I was absent, but most time was spent getting caught up on the short story/poetry unit in all classes

Friday reflection on G-Class for all classes.

10
Short Story Test Part 1 return and review.  All students have the ability to revise/rewrite short answer questions if turned in by next week.

10H
"Opportunity" poem used as model for next week's Teaching Groups prep for the upcoming Short Story/Poetry Test (probably going to be beginning of week after next)

 Write down every observation you can about the picture.  Focus on individual elements as well as the picture as a whole.

Vocabulary List 3

ambiguous

dissident

embellish

fritter

ambivalent

inane

juxtapose

lethargic

sporadic

subsidize

Friday's poem:

Opportunity

by Edward Rowland Sill

THIS I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:--

There spread a cloud of dust along a plain;

And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged

A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords

Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince's banner

Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes.

A craven hung along the battle's edge,

And thought, "Had I a sword of keener steel--

That blue blade that the king's son bears, -- but this

Blunt thing--!" he snapped and flung it from his hand,

And lowering crept away and left the field.

Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead,

And weaponless, and saw the broken sword,

Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand,

And ran and snatched it, and with battle shout

Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down,

And saved a great cause that heroic day.

Tuesday, 9/19

After expanding/finishing High Tide in Tucson discussion, time to read Into Thin Air in textbook and answer questions 2,4,6.  I have also included question extensions on G-Class.

All classes:

G-Class three part response on goals.
Discuss responses in connection to "Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?" text questions #9,10,11 and "High Tide in Tucson" text questions #9 and #11.
Next short read for each is "Into Thin Air" excerpt.

English 10
Short Story Test Part 2 date will be announced in next week.  SS Test Part 1 will be returned/reviewed prior

English 10H
Short Story Test date will be announced in next week.

All classes:
Response journal on G-Class.

Read High Tide in Tucson on pg. 498 in the textbook.  Eng 10--answer questions 9 and 11 on G-Class. 10H answer 9 and 11 in your notes.  Questions on pg. 503 in the textbook.  There was time to read and answer in class today.

If you are missing anything or have questions about anything, make sure you are checking in with me.  Have a good weekend.

Be on the lookout for cultural enrichment opportunities too.

Vocab Test/Essay #2 yesterday and today.  Sorry if you are a class with a delay getting grades in the book.  My Skyward account isn't working at the moment.  Going to try the magical turn it off/turn it on method.  Otherwise will update tomorrow.

Photo: Gordon Parks.  Check out more of his work by clicking on the page link on the right.  We'll be exploring some of Mr. Parks' writing and photography soon.

Tuesday 9/12
Need to have In the Shadow of Man and Where Have you Gone, Charming Billy read for the vocab essay source material
Continued work on the 5 step model from yesterday

Monday, 9/11

G-Class article on Speech/Pause Fillers.  Read and answer questions.
In class 5 step paragraph construction practice
Vocab Test/Essay 2 this week on Wed/Thurs

Upcoming cultural enrichment opportunities:

Remember, you need visual proof you were there, you need a write-up on your experience and why it matters to you, and you need a small poster to put on the wall.  See last year's examples for inspiration.

Read to a Dog  : Have a younger sibling/cousin/kid you babysit/etc?  Sign them up, take them, take pics, make your mini poster, and get your extra credit!

On Sunday @AFSP_KC will be holding a Candlelight Vigil to begin #SuicidePrevention week. It will take place at Berkely Riverfront Park @ 8pm.

Wed/Thurs:

Vocab List 2: collaborate, despondent, instigate, resilient, retrospect, rudimentary, scoff, squelch, venerate, zealot

English 10H
F451 final prep for Friday's test

Eng 10
No Red Ink Adjective Pre-Test
Short story lit term prep/discussion
Short story mini-test will be Friday, September 8th.



Tuesday 9/5
English 10
Literary elements for the first 3 short stories: The Pedestrian, By the Waters of Babylon, In the Shadow of Man.
Add Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?  to the story list.
Discuss universal connections for all stories

English 10H
G-Classroom:  F451 Big Picture reflection ?'s
F451 Focal Points covered:
Characters: Montag, Mildred, Clarisse, Beatty, Faber, Granger, the intellectual travelers, the hound
Symbols: blood, books, the river, the cobra/stomach pump, fire, the tv/viewing walls, "fake" Montag on the news

Assembly and half length classes soooooooo....have a nice weekend.  Honors classes, check out the final set of F451 questions below.  English 10, you have 3 short stories you should have read by now: The Pedestrian, By the Waters of Babylon, and the excerpt from In the Shadow of Man.  All guiding questions have been posted as well.

F451 Pg. 65-90ish

Why does Montag think of the old man in the park? (Faber)

What problem does Montag have regarding which book to turn in to Beatty?

What book does Montag decide to turn in to Beatty? What does he swear to do before he turns it in?

According to Faber, how has religion changed?

How does Faber see himself? Montag?

Why is Montag unafraid of the risk of stealing more books?

Describe the plan Montag and Faber come up with.

What approaching disaster is Faber counting on to give the intellectuals a chance to be heard?

What is the verse that Montag is reading on the subway about?

Fahrenheit 451

Study questions pgs. 93-154 (pages are approximate)

(93-110)How does what Mrs. Phelps say about her husband going off to war a perfect example of what is wrong with this society?

(93-110)State the different viewpoints on children based on Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles’ conversation.

(93-110)Reread the “Dover Beach” poem. Why does this poem make Mrs. Phelps cry? Base your answer on textual evidence and logical inferences.

(93-110)Describe the dream Beatty tells to Montag and use textual evidence to suggest why this upsets Montag so much.

(113-136)Why is it appropriate that war is finally declared at this point in the novel? How does this correlate with the inner Montag and his relationship to society?

(113-136)Using textual evidence for support, state how Montag acts differently at Faber’s house this time than he did during his last visit there.

(137-154)What does Montag’s own desperate flight remind him of?

(137-154)Using textual evidence, mention several things Montag thinks about as he drifts down the river.

(137-154)Who are the members of the group Montag meets in the woods? How do they think of themselves?

(137-154)Using textual evidence for support, discuss how the fire in the woods is different from the fires Montag was used to.