Due BEFORE Tuesday, 3/14/17
1) Make a new memory card for the other verse on the handout and begin to commit it to memory, too. You should be ready to recite the verse by next Thursday, 3/16/17. Continue reviewing the verse you've already memorized, keeping it in your memory through daily review (as we discussed in class). You will be required to be able to recite it at any time you're called on, for the rest of the year.
2) Search for and find the "easy poem" that you would like to memorize for your first poem recitation.
Guidelines:
* Your poem should have eight lines or more.
* Your poem must contain a discernible rhyme scheme.
* You must memorize the entire poem, not only eight lines of a longer poem.
* You must choose a poem where the title of the poem and the name of the author are given
* You must choose a "real" poem, not a song.
* Do not choose something you already have memorized. (And especially no nursery rhymes!)
* Choose something that is worth having in your memory, and worth going through the trouble of memorizing.
NOTE: Shorter poems are not always easier to memorize! Consider the following two examples:
~
Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face
by Jack Prelutsky
Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.
Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you'd be forced to smell your feet.
Your nose would be a source of dread
were it attached atop your head,
it soon would drive you to despair,
forever tickled by your hair.
Within your ear, your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the breeze.
Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,
not pasted on some other place--
be glad your nose is on your face!
~
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
by Emily Dickinson
Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
’Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you’re straightway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -
~
Once you have chosen your poem, type it up into a Word document exactly as it was originally written. (Make our usual header!) Give the title of the poem, the author, and each line of the poem organized in stanzas as the original was. (In other words, skip lines in the right places!) At the bottom, identify what you believe the rhyme scheme of the poem to be. Send the document to me as an attachment—to my regular email, not MarkUp—ASAP on Friday.
DO NOT BEGIN MEMORIZING YOUR POEM until you hear back from me via email that your poem choice has been approved! I will email it back to you as soon as I receive it and have a chance to look over it on Friday.
3) Continue working on your mystery story. Be sure you are continuing suspense, using descriptive language (including figurative language), and crafting a careful, satisfying ending. Don't rush the conclusion!
Procedure:
* Start by making all corrections and suggested revisions from the red-copy D2 I returned yesterday.
* Continue writing your story. Add at least 3-4 pages per day until you are done.
* Carefully proofread your story, and have someone else to proofread it for you as well.
* You are to email your story to me (as at attachment to my MarkUp address) when it is finished, iif it is shorter than 15 pages, or when you have 15 pages complete.
* DO NOT SEND IT UNTIL it has been carefully proofread by you and a parent and is as error-free as you can make it.
* Text me whenever you send a document to MarkUp so I can check and make sure it has been received.
4) Continue reading The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of Mark Rodriguez. Your goal is to finish reading the book as soon as possible. Please send me an email at my regular email address to let me know when you have finished the book.
Also, daily:
+ Read your (approved) reading log book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log calendar (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along.
+ Write in your gratitude journal, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for daily. When you have done so, place a small check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.
NOTE: The March Reading Log will be due, signed by a parent, on Thursday, 3/30/17.
1) Make a new memory card for the other verse on the handout and begin to commit it to memory, too. You should be ready to recite the verse by next Thursday, 3/16/17. Continue reviewing the verse you've already memorized, keeping it in your memory through daily review (as we discussed in class). You will be required to be able to recite it at any time you're called on, for the rest of the year.
2) Search for and find the "easy poem" that you would like to memorize for your first poem recitation.
Guidelines:
* Your poem should have eight lines or more.
* Your poem must contain a discernible rhyme scheme.
* You must memorize the entire poem, not only eight lines of a longer poem.
* You must choose a poem where the title of the poem and the name of the author are given
* You must choose a "real" poem, not a song.
* Do not choose something you already have memorized. (And especially no nursery rhymes!)
* Choose something that is worth having in your memory, and worth going through the trouble of memorizing.
NOTE: Shorter poems are not always easier to memorize! Consider the following two examples:
~
Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face
by Jack Prelutsky
Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.
Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you'd be forced to smell your feet.
Your nose would be a source of dread
were it attached atop your head,
it soon would drive you to despair,
forever tickled by your hair.
Within your ear, your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the breeze.
Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,
not pasted on some other place--
be glad your nose is on your face!
~
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
by Emily Dickinson
Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
’Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you’re straightway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -
~
Once you have chosen your poem, type it up into a Word document exactly as it was originally written. (Make our usual header!) Give the title of the poem, the author, and each line of the poem organized in stanzas as the original was. (In other words, skip lines in the right places!) At the bottom, identify what you believe the rhyme scheme of the poem to be. Send the document to me as an attachment—to my regular email, not MarkUp—ASAP on Friday.
DO NOT BEGIN MEMORIZING YOUR POEM until you hear back from me via email that your poem choice has been approved! I will email it back to you as soon as I receive it and have a chance to look over it on Friday.
3) Continue working on your mystery story. Be sure you are continuing suspense, using descriptive language (including figurative language), and crafting a careful, satisfying ending. Don't rush the conclusion!
Procedure:
* Start by making all corrections and suggested revisions from the red-copy D2 I returned yesterday.
* Continue writing your story. Add at least 3-4 pages per day until you are done.
* Carefully proofread your story, and have someone else to proofread it for you as well.
* You are to email your story to me (as at attachment to my MarkUp address) when it is finished, iif it is shorter than 15 pages, or when you have 15 pages complete.
* DO NOT SEND IT UNTIL it has been carefully proofread by you and a parent and is as error-free as you can make it.
* Text me whenever you send a document to MarkUp so I can check and make sure it has been received.
4) Continue reading The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of Mark Rodriguez. Your goal is to finish reading the book as soon as possible. Please send me an email at my regular email address to let me know when you have finished the book.
Also, daily:
+ Read your (approved) reading log book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log calendar (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along.
+ Write in your gratitude journal, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for daily. When you have done so, place a small check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.
NOTE: The March Reading Log will be due, signed by a parent, on Thursday, 3/30/17.
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